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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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08BRASILIA229BRAZIL'S DEFORESTATION CYCLE (PART 2 of 3): FROM FORESTS,
[...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The massive clearing that has been taking place in the Amazon since the 1970's (REFTEL) has generally followed the pattern: conversion into cattle pastures and later either soybean productio [...]
2008-02-19 16:06:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAGR ENRG KSCA BR
08BRASILIA246BRAZIL'S DEFORESTATION CYCLE (PART 3 of 3): GOVERNMENT HAS
[...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil (GOB) has a limited ability to use "sticks," various law enforcement measures to control deforestation. Even if it could obtain the tools it currently lacks (suffic [...]
2008-02-24 13:03:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAGR ENRG KSCA BR
08BRASILIA247WIREC 2008: BRAZILIAN DELEGATION
[...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) The Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) has informed Post that the official delegation to the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) is as follows: Head of Dele [...]
2008-02-24 13:03:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ENRG SENV TRGY KSCA BR
08BRASILIA253BRAZIL: EXTENSION OF FRAMEWORK SPACE COOPERATION AGREEMENT;
[...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. EXTENSION OF FRAMEWORK SPACE COOPERATION AGREEMENT 2. (SBU) Per REFTEL, Post delivered a diplomatic note to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) regarding the extension of the Space Cooperation Ag [...]
2008-02-26 11:04:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA TSPA TSPL BR
08BRASILIA258HHS/CDC COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR
[...] Country clearance is requested for Dr. Aristides Barbosa Junior, Epidemiologist, GAP-Brazil, NCHSTP, HHS/CDC, to travel to Maputo, Mozambique from March 02-2008 to March 08-2008. 2. The purpose of this trip to Maputo: to discuss the South to South Collaboration between CDC-GAP-Mozambique, [...]
2008-02-26 19:53:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KSCA OTRA BR
08BRASILIA331NO ADVERSE FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS REGARDING NSF
[...] Reftel requested the Embassy to review a grant proposal for four training institutes from the National Science Foundation (NSF) titled "IAI Training Institute to Develop Capacity Building in Interdisciplinary Global Environmental Change Sciences," number OISE-07455732. The proposal would be u [...]
2008-03-10 14:13:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TPHY NSF US BR
08BRASILIA525BRAZIL: RECOVERY OF A FALLEN SPACE OBJECT
[...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On April 14, the Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Director of the Division for the Sea, Antarctica and Space, Counselor Bernardo Paranhos Velloso, informed the Embassy's Environment, Science and [...]
2008-04-18 18:30:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA SENV KSCA BR
08BRASILIA737 BRAZIL: AGREEMENT TO SUSPEND BRAZIL'S PARTICIPATION IN
[...] SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil has completed the exchange of diplomatic notes that suspends Brazil's particpation in the International Space Station. Per the two notes, the suspension took effect upon the receipt by Post of this second note, which occurred on May 29, 2008. END SUMMARY. [...]
2008-05-30 10:28:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDTSPA KSCA SENV BR
08BRASILIA779BRAZIL: AGREEMENT TO THE EXTENSION OF SPACE COOPERATION
[...] SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil agrees on the extension of the Cooperation Agreement in the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space signed in 1996. END SUMMARY. 2. In response to the diplomatic note from Embassy (per REFTEL) proposing the extension of Brazil's participation in the cooperation in [...]
2008-06-09 20:22:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDTSPA KSCA SENV BR
08BRASILIA967AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ENVIRONMENT MINISTER AND ENGAGES ON
[...] (U) Summary: On Wednesday, July 2, Ambassador Sobel met with new Minister of Environment, Carlos Minc. During a positive conversation that covered issues ranging from the development of ecotourism in the state of Amazonas to the impending visit to Brazil by USAID Administrator Fore, Ambassador [...]
2008-07-17 14:50:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TNGD TRGY KSCA EAGR BR
08BRATISLAVA283SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS U.S. PRIORITIES FOR IWC ANNUAL
[...] (U) Pol/Econoff conveyed reftel points to Katarina Slabeyova, CITES Management Authority, Department of Nature and Landscape Protection in the Ministry of Environment. Slabeyova will be a GoS representative at this year's annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in Santiago [...]
2008-06-13 15:19:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD LO
08BRIDGETOWN14 WIREC INVITATION DELIVERED
[...] Per reftel instructions, invitation letter from Secretary Rice was delivered by fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua #0020, Barbados #0021, St. Kitts #0022, and St. Lucia #0023) on January 08, 2008. The original Diplomatic Notes were also mailed on this date. 2. Post WIREC POC is [...]
2008-01-08 18:20:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO OPDC XL
08BRIDGETOWN72 POST CANNOT CONTRIBUTE FUNDS FOR WIREC DELEGATION
[...] In response to the Department's request (Reftel) for post funding for delegates to attend WIREC, post has determined that no discretionary funds are available for this purpose. Post has no reason to believe that funding presents an obstacle to Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevi [...]
2008-02-05 15:10:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XL
08BRIDGETOWN88 WIREC INVITATION DELIVERED
[...] Per reftel instructions, invitation letters under Ambassador Oursiman's signature were delivered to Foreign Ministers by fax under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Dominica #0120 and St. Vincent and the Grenadines #0121) on February 12, 2008. The original Diplomatic Notes were also mailed on this d [...]
2008-02-13 19:46:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY DO VC XL
08BRUSSELS1789BELGIUM: NO FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTION TO THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-26 10:56:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO TPHY US BE
08BRUSSELS983TRANSATLANTIC SECURITY SPACE COOPERATION WORKSHOP
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 17, The U.S. Air Force Academy's Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense Studies hosted the Transatlantic Security Space Cooperation workshop in Brussels. The workshop brought together policy makers from the U.S. and Europe, as well as academics and NGOs, to discuss the [...]
2008-06-27 14:50:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKSCA PARM PREL TPHY TSPA TSPL
08BUCHAREST481ROMANIAN RESPONSE ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR IWC MEETING
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points in writing and followed up by phone with Mihai MANOIU, the Biodiversity Division Director at the Ministry of Environment, on June 13, 2008. Manoiu admitted that the Government of Romania (GOR) has not given too much attention to whaling, having just joined [...]
2008-06-17 04:47:00Embassy BucharestUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD RO
08BUDAPEST715PRESIDENT OF HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
[...] (SBU) On July 18, Ambassador Foley used the occasion of her initial call on Jozsef Palinkas, the newly-elected President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA),as an opportunity to raise with him ISN's plans to host a workshop for former Iraqi WMD experts in Hungary. Palinkas expressed [...]
2008-07-21 13:12:00Embassy BudapestUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG TRGY PINR KSCA HU IQ
08BUDAPEST800DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON USG NOMINATION FOR CO-CHAIR
[...] On August 7, ESTH Hub Officer and ESTH FSN presented talking points in reftel to Tibor Farago, Head of the Ministry of Environment,s Strategy Department, who will represent Hungary at the 29th plenary meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Geneva in early September. [...]
2008-08-08 09:01:00Embassy BudapestUNCLASSIFIEDKGHG KSCA SENV AORC HU
08BUDAPEST812UN COMMITTEE ON THE PEACEFUL USE OF OUTER SPACE
[...] On July 28, Post received a note verbal in English dated July 17 announcing the candidacy of Mr. Elod Both for the chairmanship of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). Mr. Elod is a well-respected academic who is committed to making space science accessible to the g [...]
2008-08-12 14:48:00Embassy BudapestUNCLASSIFIEDTSPA UNPUOS UNGA PARM KSCA HU
08BUENOSAIRES1178ARGENTINE RESPONSE TO U.S. REQUEST FOR GREATER
[...] (C) On June 30, ESTOff met with the Executive Director of the National Commission on Aerospace Activities (CONAE),Dr. Conrado Varotto and CONAE Secretary General Felix Menicocci, to deliver Ref set of conditions regarding the Argentine space launch vehicle (SLV) program. Varotto took care [...]
2008-08-21 18:29:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL ETTC AR
08BUENOSAIRES1197ARGENTINE SPACE AGENCY DESIRE TO INCLUDE
[...] (C) On 01 August, Executive Director of the National Commission on Aerospace Activities (CONAE),Dr. Conrado Varotto and CONAE Secretary General Felix Menicocci, made a request to broaden the scope of an existing End-User request related to the Argentine SAOCOM satellite project. Per Var [...]
2008-08-26 18:14:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL ETTC
08BUENOSAIRES1282ARGENTINA'S RESPONSE TO REQUESTS FOR BRIEFINGS ON
[...] (C) Pursuant to reftel, ESTCouns and ESTOff met with Executive Director of the Argentine National Commission on Aerospace Activities (CONAE) Dr. Conrado Varotto and CONAE Secretary General Felix Menicocci on 10 September 2008, to firm up plans for bilateral discussions on the status of the [...]
2008-09-15 13:32:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL ETTC AR
08BUENOSAIRES170ARGENTINA'S SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE PROGRAM: THE
[...] (C) This cable provides the Embassy's recommendation for policy change regarding longstanding USG opposition toward Argentina's space launch vehicle (SLV) program. We believe that opposition, based on Argentina's 1992 assurances that it would not develop a space launch vehicle ""for the fo [...]
2008-02-13 12:11:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALMTCR KSCA PARM TSPL PREL MNUC AR
08CAIRO1524MEETING BETWEEN AMBASSADOR SCOBEY AND MINISTER OF HEALTH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Scobey paid an introductory call on Minister of Health and Population Hatem El Gabaly on June 29. Discussion centered on ongoing health sector reform, graduate level training for ministry staff in US and by U.S. universities in Egypt, pharmaceutical intellectual prope [...]
2008-07-17 13:19:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EAGR PGOV TBIO KIPR KSCA KFLU KWMN EG
08CAIRO2445BIRD FLU IN EGYPT: ALL QUIET ON THE MIDDLE EASTERN
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: In July 2008, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) declared the H5N1 avian influenza (AI) virus to be endemic in Egyptian poultry. Now, just four months later, some Egyptians are wondering why. Seven months have passed since the Ministry of Health and Popul [...]
2008-12-01 14:09:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
08CAIRO413EGYPT AVIAN INFLUENZA: FIRST CASE OF 2008
[...] (SBU) Summary: Egypt has confirmed its first Human Avian Influenza (AI) case in 2008: a four-year-old girl from the Minya governorate who is currently hospitalized in Cairo. Reacting rapidly and thoroughly, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) disp [...]
2008-03-02 07:56:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KSCA KFLU ECON EAGR PGOV EG
08CAIRO784BIRD FLU KILLS SECOND EGYPTIAN THIS MONTH
[...] (SBU/NF) Summary: On April 11, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) confirmed its sixth Human avian influenza (AI) case this year, the 49th overall, and the second in less than a week: a 30-year old woman from Al-Matarya in the Cairo Governorate. The woman's death, which made her the 2 [...]
2008-04-16 12:00:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KSCA KFLU ECON EAGR PGOV EG
08CANBERRA824MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME -- NEXT STEPS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-18 07:06:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALAS ETTC KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL
08CANBERRA892IMSO ASSEMBLY: AUSTRALIA WILL NOT ATTEND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-10 02:43:00Embassy CanberraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EWWT PBTS PHSA PREL KSCA AS
08CHENNAI33 HHS SECRETARY SWINGS THROUGH SOUTH INDIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS),visited three of South India's largest cities from January 7-9, 2008. The visit provided the Secretary an opportunity to promote the importance of assuring SIPDIS product safety in an increa [...]
2008-01-29 10:47:00Consulate ChennaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON TBIO SENV AMED KSCA PHUM KCRM SOCI IN
08CHENNAI356 INDIA SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES LUNAR ORBITER
[...] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully launched the Chandrayaan-1 (C-1) lunar orbiter on October 22 at 0622 hours local from its facility on Sriharikota Island in southern Andhra Pradesh, some 90 kilometers north of Chennai. All stages of the launch vehicle appeared to func [...]
2008-10-22 06:57:00Consulate ChennaiUNCLASSIFIEDTSPA PREL EIND SENV KSCA IN
08CHISINAU830MOLDOVA RECEIVES DEMARCHE REGARDING USG
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-18 08:16:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG KSCA SENV AORC MD
08COPENHAGEN348 DANES SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. IWC WHALING PROPOSALS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Danish government is supportive of the IWC Chair's recommendations and plan of action, and recommends incorporating a mix of geographic and 'ideological' balance in the small working group to develop a possible package of initiatives. The Danes also support procedural impro [...]
2008-06-16 11:36:00Embassy CopenhagenUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD DA
08COTONOU67(C) HCOC "INREACH" TO BENIN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-01 04:02:00Embassy CotonouCONFIDENTIALKSCA PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA BN
08DAKAR95EMBASSY DAKAR CANNOT FUND HOST COUNTRY ATTENDANCE
[...] The mission does not have any discretionary funds available to help defray the costs of the expected Senegalese delegation to the March 4-6 WIREC. We still expect that Senegal will send a delegation, headed by Minister of Renewable Energy, Christian Diatta (REF B) SMITH [...]
2008-01-23 16:06:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO KSCA EAID ENRG EPET OPDC SENV SOCI
08DHAKA103BANGLADESH DELEGATES TO WIREC 2008
[...] Post submits two names of representatives from Bangladesh for participation in the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) 2008. USAID will be funding the travel expenses for these two delegates. The two proposed participants are: Mr. Kaisar Ahmed, Director, Renewable Ener [...]
2008-01-22 07:09:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG KSCA BG
08DJIBOUTI649IPCC WORKING GROUP DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] Charge d'Affaires and A/Pol delivered reftel demarche August 7 to Mohamed Ali Hassan, Director of Bilateral Relations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. Hassan requested a formal note verbale, which the Embassy will deliver August 11. 2. COMMENT: The Embassy b [...]
2008-08-10 14:25:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIEDKGHG KSCA SENV AORC DJ
08DUBLIN167IRISH RESPONSE ON PLEDGES TO WIAP AND CHINA'S AND
[...] On March 28, ECONOFF met with Sara White, Deputy Secretary General (and most senior energy official) in the Irish Department of Communications, Energy, and Natural Resources, to deliver reftel demarches. Regarding additional pledges to the Washington International Action Plan (WIAP) (Ref A),[...]
2008-04-03 15:41:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG SENV ENRG EUN IEA TRGY KPAO KSCA EI
08DUBLIN40(S) FOLLOW UP ON INVESTIGATION INTO IRISH
[...] (S) The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment's Export Licensing Unit has denied Mac Aviation Group licensing for imports/exports into and out of Ireland, Desk Officer Michael Keaveney, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Department of Foreign Affairs, informed POLOFF on January 3. Kea [...]
2008-01-22 16:40:00Embassy DublinSECRETPARM ETTC MTCRE KSCA GM IR EI
08FREETOWN189EMBASSY/FREETOWN SCIENCE FELLOWS REQUEST
[...] Embassy Freetown greatly appreciates the opportunity to submit two proposals in response to reftel A, each addressing priority and urgent needs. With a small USAID/Sierra Leone budget, Post is limited in its ability to assist the new Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) in several key areas of nee [...]
2008-04-18 16:26:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TSPL SENV EAGR SL
08HANOI478 VIETNAM NOT READY TO SUBSCRIBE TO HCOC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-25 04:17:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA VM
08HARARE945ZIMBABWE GLOBAL FUND AUDIT
[...] (SBU) Late last year, the Global Fund (GF) deposited approximately USD 8 million in the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to fund HIV/AIDS programs through nongovernmental partners in Zimbabwe. Post became aware in the ensuing months that these funds were not being disbursed. In July, RBZ gove [...]
2008-10-21 10:44:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KHIV KSCA OSCI PGOV PREL TBIO TSPL ZI
08HELSINKI12FINLAND TO SEND A STRONG DELEGATION TO WIREC
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered the formal invitation for the Washington International Conference on Renewal Energy (WIREC) to Mr. Henri Backman, Senior Advisor to the Minister in Finland's newly-created super Ministry of Employment and the Economy. A strong advocate of renewable energy sources, Mini [...]
2008-01-10 13:06:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO
08HELSINKI132FINLAND PARTICIPATES IN EU WIREC PLEDGE
[...] (SBU) According to WIREC participant Henri Backman, Advisor to the Minister at the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Finland is participating in the EU's pledge to obtain 20 percent of its energy needs from renewable energy by 2020. Finland is not planning to make a separate WIR [...]
2008-03-27 12:24:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG TRGY KGHG KPAO KSCA FI
08HELSINKI179EMBASSY HELSINKI REQUESTS EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOW
[...] (U) Embassy Helsinki requests the opportunity to host an Embassy Science Fellow from the U.S. Forest Service, within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA),to research emerging wood-based biofuel technology in Finland. The Embassy Science Fellow will collaborate with leading Finnish scien [...]
2008-04-23 07:55:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDTSPL KSCA SENV EAGR AMGT OTRA APER FI
08JAKARTA1389COP9 BASEL CONVENTION ON HAZARDOUS WASTES, JUNE 23-27, 2008
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal was held June 23-27, 2008, in Bali, Indonesia. A major U.S. objective was achieved in the creation of a partnership t [...]
2008-07-21 05:25:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKGHG SENV KSCA KTIA PGOV ID
08JAKARTA2121INDONESIAN TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM LAUNCHED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-18 01:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTPSL AEMR TPHY KSCA ECON PREL ID
08JERUSALEM286WIREC 2008: INVITATION DELIVERED TO PA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-15 09:56:00Consulate JerusalemUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAL KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV
08KABUL464RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR POST FOLLOW-UP ON FORMAL
[...] As reported Ref (B),seven attendees from Afghanistan will attend WIREC. The Afghan delegation will be headed by the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in Washington D.C., the Honorable Said Tayab Jawad. Ambassador Jawad will be accompanied by six officials resident in Kabul, [...]
2008-02-25 06:10:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY
08KABUL769AFGHAN PLEDGE TO 2008 WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE
[...] (U) The Embassy EPA Environmental Advisor discussed WIREC 2008 (reftel) with Dad Mohammad Bahir, Deputy Executive Director General (Technical) of the Afghanistan National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) on March 23, 2008. Congratulating Afghanistan for making a WIREC pledge on renewabl [...]
2008-03-26 13:13:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG TRGY KGHG KPAO KSCA AF
08KATHMANDU484NEPAL: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON HCOC
[...] (SBU) On April 24, Emboff delivered reftel talking points to Rudra Nepal, Under Secretary for UN and International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, urging the Government of Nepal (GON) to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct (HCOC) Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation. T [...]
2008-05-01 08:34:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MTCR MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA CH IN NP
08KHARTOUM1008SUDAN PRESIDENT BASHIR STRIKES A STRANGELY POSITIVE NOTE IN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Speaking on the occasion of the 19th anniversary of the National Salvation Revolution, Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir spoke to the nation from Omdurman July 6. In what was widely seen as a inaugural campaign speech for the elections scheduled next year under the Comprehensive [...]
2008-07-08 05:25:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM1014NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FINALLY PASSES ELECTION LAW
[...] (U) SUMMARY: After weeks of delay, the Sudan National Assembly (NA) finally passed the electoral law July 7, capping a contentious special legislative session called specifically for the purpose of passing the law. The law provides the legal groundwork for holding nationwide elections in 200 [...]
2008-07-08 11:32:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM1036CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW COMMISSION CO-CHAIR OPTIMISTIC ABOUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prof. Abdullah Idris, co-chairman of Sudan's National Constitutional Review Commission (NCRC),believes the newly-passed election law (REFTEL) provides a sound basis for elections, and he is optimistic that free and fair elections will take place on time in 2009. However, he c [...]
2008-07-10 13:47:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM11AEC COORDINATORS MEET TO PLAN WORK IN THE NEW YEAR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AEC working group coordinators met January 3 at the behest of the Acting AEC Chairman (the Norwegian Ambassador) in advance of the first AEC plenary session for 2008. The Norwegian Ambassador said the NCP and the SPLM had agreed to brief the Commission on terms of the agreemen [...]
2008-01-03 14:18:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM1185AEC PLENARY OF AUGUST 5, 2008: MEMBERS STRESS NEED TO
[...] (U) SUMMARY: At the 34th Plenary Session of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held August 5, 2008, members unanimously stressed the need for the two CPA partners to finally agree on an interim administration for the Abyei area to build on the momentum of progress made on security [...]
2008-08-05 14:41:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM1198ANALYSIS OF SUDAN'S NEW ELECTION LAW REVEALS WELTER OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An analysis of Sudan's new election law reveals that the legislation contains many loose ends, some of which may be able to be repaired by the country's Ministry of Justice. However, the legislation's biggest shortcoming is probably the ambitious timeline it sets for the count [...]
2008-08-06 13:43:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM352AEC PLENARY: CONCERN ON ABYEI YIELDS VERIFICATION TEAM
[...] (U) Summary: Newly-appointed AEC Chair Ambassador (Sir) Derek Plumbly chaired his first plenary meeting March 4. The most significant agenda item was a discussion of drafting procedures for the AEC's Mid Term Evaluation (MTE) as mandated by the Comprehensive Peace Accord. The meeting also ad [...]
2008-03-10 14:24:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM353TRANSPARENCY AND ABYEI OIL ARE TOP AEC WEALTH SHARING
[...] (U) Summary: The Wealth Sharing Working Group (WSWG) coordinated by the US Embassy met March 5 to identify concerns to be addressed in the AEC's Mid Term Evaluation (MTE). The AEC Chairman must present the MTE to President Al-Bashir on or before July 8 according to a "Terms of Reference" doc [...]
2008-03-10 15:03:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM36FIRST AEC PLENARY OF 2008 UPBEAT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A briefing by the NCP and the SPLM on their recent political deal drew a large turnout to the first AEC Plenary session of 2008 on January 8. However the parties provided only vague details of their agreement. The international coordinators and other observers will have to wait [...]
2008-01-10 09:46:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM369AL BASHIR ENDORSES BETTER RELATIONS WITH U.S., BLAMES CHAD
[...] (U) SUMMARY: President Omar Al Bashir told reporters March 11 that Sudan needs better relations with the United States. In his remarks, he also criticized Chad, saying the country had not respected peace agreements with Sudan and that yet another peace agreement, negotiated by Senegal Preside [...]
2008-03-13 08:24:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM393AEC CHAIRMAN REQUESTS U.S. ASSISTANCE WITH STAFFING FOR
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Steering Committee of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) met March 16 to review a draft outline for the Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE) of the CPA. The MTE is due to be delivered to the Sudanese Presidency by July 9, requiring a robust series of meetings by the AEC's fo [...]
2008-03-17 05:12:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM411FISCAL MONITORING CHAIRMAN REPORTS PROGRESS WITH GNU AND
[...] (U) In contrast to his October 24, 2007 briefing for the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) (reftel),Fiscal and Financial Allocation and Monitoring Commission (FFAMC) Chairman Mohammed Osman Ibrahim told Poloff on March 13 that he is now optimistic on cooperation with the Ministry of [...]
2008-03-19 04:24:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM547AEC PLENARY: DISAGREEMENT OVER ABYEI AND CENSUS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) met in plenary session April 8. Highlights included disagreement by the two sides over an Administrator for the Abyei area, and over inclusion of questions on ethnicity and religion in the upcoming census. CDA Fernandez briefed on h [...]
2008-04-09 15:24:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM571FFAMC CHAIRMAN UPBEAT ON CPA IMPLEMENTATION AT AEC SESSION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Dr. Mohammed Osman Ibrahim, Chairman of the GOS's Fiscal and Financial Allocation and Monitoring Commission (FFAMC),spoke to a special plenary session of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) April 10, updating a report he presented last October (REFTEL). Most oil re [...]
2008-04-14 07:52:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM620GOSS OFFICIALS COMPLAIN OF LACK OF OIL REVENUE TRANSPARENCY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Organized by the US Embassy in its role as Coordinator, the AEC's Wealth Sharing Working Group (WSWG) traveled to the South Sudanese capital of Juba April 16 for a field visit. The purpose of the trip, besides the symbolism of holding a session in Juba, was to gather information [...]
2008-04-21 16:03:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM671AEC PLENARY OF MAY 1, 2008
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The 31st ordinary plenary session of the AEC was held May 1, 2008. The two sides (SPLM and NCP) sparred over recent incidents around Abyei, while CDA Fernandez stressed the need to grant UNMIS forces freedom of movement in the Abyei area to reduce tensions (an expression support [...]
2008-05-02 10:36:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM777AEC CHAIRMAN TO CONVENE AEC PLENARY IN JUBA TO ADDRESS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After consulting with AEC Coordinators May 20, AEC Chairman Derek Plumbly said he would convene a special plenary session of the Commission in Juba May 22 to address the recent outbreak of fighting in Abyei. A previously-planned trip by the AEC to the troubled region is not fea [...]
2008-05-20 13:32:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM8DIFFICULTIES PROVIDING EMBASSY SUPPORT FOR CODEL PAYNE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Even without the need for increased security in the wake of the January 1 attack on an Embassy Khartoum vehicle, resulting in the deaths of an FSN driver and an American USAID officer, post is facing enormous challenges in providing support for the visit of CoDel Payne. This is [...]
2008-01-02 16:46:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP ASEC AMGT PGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU KE
08KHARTOUM806AEC EXTRAORDINARY PLENARY ADDRESSES ABYEI: SPLM LEADERS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) held an extraordinary plenary session May 25 to address recent violence in Abyei, a situation that all agreed is a "crisis." Members of the international community joined AEC Chairman Derek Plumbly in pressing the two parties to exer [...]
2008-05-26 15:16:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM822AEC VISITS DEVASTATED ABYEI TOWN AND REFUGEES
[...] (U) Summary: An Assessment and Evaluation Committee (AEC) delegation visited Abyei and associated refugee sites May 28 to view the effects of recent fighting between Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) units in that town. Abyei is now completely under the contro [...]
2008-06-01 13:35:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KHARTOUM9GONU EXTENDS CONDOLENCES ON KILLING OF U.S. DIPLOMAT
[...] Post received a Diplomatic Note dated January 2, 2008 from the Presidency of the Republic of Sudan expressing condolences on the shooting death of USAID officer John Granville in Khartoum on New Year's morning. Below is a non-official translation of the text of the Note, the original of which [...]
2008-01-03 14:17:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL KSCA OTRA EAID CDC SU
08KIGALI273 EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM 2008
[...] Summary: In response to reftel, Post supports a request from the Government of Rwanda (GOR) to host Embassy Science Fellow Maxine Levine, USDA in 2008. The GOR has agreed to provide housing and office space for the proposed Science Fellow. Embassy point of contact is Alexander Sokoloff; ema [...]
2008-04-15 15:54:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TSPL SENV AMGT OTRA APER RW
08KINGSTON325JAMAICA: REQUEST FOR ENERGY SCIENCE FELLOW
[...] (SBU) Post would like to request a science fellow to assist in the emerging renewable energy sector in Jamaica. The scope of work is relatively broad as Jamaica is seeking to expand its efforts on renewable energy on several fronts. Post would like to select the fellow who will be best positi [...]
2008-04-17 16:35:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV ECON ETRD KSCA TSPL EAGR AMGT OTRA APER
08KOROR24KOROR: CONFIRMATION OF WIREC INVITATION DELIVERY
[...] Per para 1 of reftel post confirms delivery of WIREC invitation letter to host government. 2. Post's WIREC POC is POL/ECON Assistant Mona Carlson, contact info as follows: Tel: 680-488-2920, Fax: 680-488-2911, Email: HYPERLINK "mailto:CarlsonMM@state.gov"CarlsonMM@state.g ov BRENT [...]
2008-02-06 23:31:00Embassy KororUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY PS
08KUALALUMPUR39MTCR: MALAYSIA BRIEFED ON RESULTS OF 2007 ATHENS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-15 08:09:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPARM ETTC KSCA MTCRE TSPA MY
08KYIV333SUBJECT: UKRAINE: DELIVERY CONFIRMATION -- FORMAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-13 10:15:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI
08KYIV335UKRAINE: WIREC INVITATION DELIVERED
[...] Post delivered WIREC invitation letter on February 13 to Minister of Foreign Affairs Volodymyr Ohryzko, with copies to the Ministries of Fuel and Energy, Environmental Protection and Economy. 2. Econoff spoke with Dmitry Shevchenko of the MFA Americas Desk regarding the conference. Shev [...]
2008-02-13 12:43:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI
08LIMA133POST DOES NOT HAVE FUNDS TO SUPPORT GOP ATTENDANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-24 21:56:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EAID EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI
08LIMA47PERU: WIREC 2008 INVITE DELIVERED
[...] Per reftel, Embassy delivered Secretary Rice's invitation to attend the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) to Peruvian Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde under cover of a diplomatic note on January 9. Post also shared copies with the Mining and Energy Min [...]
2008-01-09 21:43:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO
08LISBON1373PORTUGAL NONCOMMITAL RE: INTERNATIONAL WHALING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-12 12:19:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD
08LISBON222PORTUGAL: ECONOMY MINISTER TO HEAD WIREC 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-25 17:43:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO
08LISBON2677PORTUGUESE DELEGATION TO MTCR MEETING AND DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-31 13:38:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA PARM PREL TSPA ETTC PO
08LJUBLJANA30GOS OFFICIALS DISCUSS CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES WITH
[...] (SBU) On January 18 OES Climate Negotiator Dr. Harlan Watson and CEQ-NSC Senior Coordinator for Energy Security and Climate Change Dr. Robert Dixon met with representatives from the Government of Slovenia (GOS) to discuss preparations for the various climate change meetings that will take place [...]
2008-01-23 14:06:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG SI
08LJUBLJANA47SLOVENIA GIVES POSITIVE READ-OUT OF MEM 2; PLANS
[...] (SBU) On February 5, the Undersecretary for the International Relations Department at the Slovenian Environmental Ministry, Andrej Kranjc, who also headed Slovenia's EU presidency delegation at the Major Economies Meeting (MEM) in Honolulu, told Emboff that the MEM meetings sparked a constru [...]
2008-02-05 13:28:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ECON TSPL KSCA KGHG EUN SI
08LJUBLJANA74SLOVENIA PROPOSES SEMINAR TO BRING DEVELOPING
[...] (SBU) On February 15, Emboff met with Andrej Kranjc, Undersecretary for International Relations at the Slovenian Ministry of the Environment to discuss Slovenia's preparations for the 18-19 February climate change meeting in Brussels between CEQ and France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, the UK, an [...]
2008-02-15 13:35:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG TSPL KSCA KGHG EUN SI
08LONDON2185UK RESPONSE TO MTCR SMALL GROUP PROPOSAL: AGREEMENT "IN PRINCIPLE" BUT SOME QUESTIONS REF: STATE 85940
[...] (U) This is an action request for State ISN/MTR. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary. Although the UK supports "in principle" the U.S. proposal for Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) outreach to non-MTCR countries, HMG has posed several questions regarding the implementation and potentia [...]
2008-08-22 16:28:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR GM JA UK
08MADRID1090DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ANTARCTIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-14 16:19:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC KSCA KTIA SENV AY TPHY
08MADRID215SPANISH GOVERNMENT DELEGATION CONFIRMED FOR WIREC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-27 08:39:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KPAO KSCA SENV SOCI TRGY KGHG
08MADRID858DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON USG NOMINATION OF IPCC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-04 10:53:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV AORC
08MANAGUA1030ORTEGA MEETS EPA/CDC TEAM
[...] (SBU) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) watershed and wastewater management experts and a Center for Disease Control (CDC) water sanitation expert visited Nicaragua July 21 ) 25 to assess Nicaraguan efforts to protect Lake Managua and Lake Nicaragua from contamination and provide advice on [...]
2008-08-12 14:51:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO KSCA EAID PREL NU
08MANAGUA1354NICARAGUA: SOLAR WOMEN OF TOTOGALPA WIN SEED AWARD
[...] (U) Summary: A Nicaraguan project to launch a cooperative business producing and marketing products such as solar cookers and photovoltaic panels made from recycled solar panels was one of five winning projects worldwide in the 2008 Supporting Entrepreneurs for Sustainable Development (SEED) c [...]
2008-11-05 17:10:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID ECON KSCA NU
08MANAGUA1521LETTER DELIVERED: U.S. CANDIDACY FOR THE WORLD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-22 17:37:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KSCA AORC OTRA NU
08MANAGUA485NICARAGUA: EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM
[...] (U) In response to reftel, Embassy Managua submits two proposals for the Embassy Science Fellows Program 2008: (i) The Nicaraguan National Autonomous University (UNAN) Biotechnology Laboratory, and (ii) UNAN Leptospirosis Epidemiology Research. Embassy Managua commits to providing one Science Fello [...]
2008-04-21 15:33:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR KSCA TSPL AMGT OTRA APER NU
08MANAGUA490NICARAGUA: WIREC WRAP-UP AND PLEDGE REMINDER
[...] (U) On April 2 the Nicaraguan Minister of Energy, Emilio Rappaccioli, wrote a letter to the Ambassador to inform us of Nicaragua's WIREC pledges for years 2008 to 2011. The pledges include expanding the percentage of electricity generated from renewable sources from a 2008 base of 27% to 38% b [...]
2008-04-21 21:36:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV TRGY KGHG KPAO KSCA NU
08MANAGUA760NICARAGUA: INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION (IWC) DEMARCHE
[...] (U) On June 11, Post delivered talking points on USG priorities for the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Meeting to INPESCA Executive President Stedman Fagoth. Fagoth was recently appointed the Nicaraguan Commissioner to the IWC and anticipates his attendance at the June 23 annual meetin [...]
2008-06-13 23:24:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS SENV ETRD PREL KSCA IWC NU
08MANAGUA949HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT'S VISIT TO NICARAGUA TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael O. Leavitt met with a calm and polite President Daniel Ortega on June 25 and 26 to discuss improving the water quality of Nicaragua's two "great" lakes. Secretary Leavitt blended the themes of his regional visit into a stron [...]
2008-07-24 20:57:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALTBIO KSCA OTRA EAID PREL XK MX NU
08MANAMA232HCOC: ENCOURAGING BAHRAIN TO SUBSCRIBE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-10 13:12:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA BA
08MANILA197MANILA HAS NO FUNDS TO SUPPORT DELEGATES TO ATTEND WIREC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-24 08:25:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO
08MANILA2423Philippines to Host Fourth Environmental Technology
[...] Summary: The Philippines will host the 4th Environmental Technology Verification International Forum November 11-13, 2009. Organizers expect approximately 50 international and 100 Filipino attendees from government, NGOs, academia, and industry. End Summary. 2. On October 15, 2008, the Phi [...]
2008-10-28 04:59:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA TSPL RP
08MANILA83MANILA: WIREC 2008 DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-10 09:33:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO
08MASERU104LESOTHO: DEMARCHES ON HCOC, UN RESOLUTIONS AND DECLARATIONS
[...] SUMMARY: On April 21, Poloff met with Europe and Americas Director P. P. Makosholo at Lesotho's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver demarches on Lesotho's ascension to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Missile Proliferation (HCOC, Ref A),the U.S.-EU sponsored UN Prisoners on Conscience de [...]
2008-04-21 13:53:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC KNNP PARM PHUM KSCA ETTC TPSA IR
08MINSK89HCOC "INREACH" DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-08 15:48:00Embassy MinskCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA BO
08MONTEVIDEO14URUGUAY'S RESPONSE TO FORMAL INVITATION FROM SECRETARY RICE
[...] (U) Ambassador Baxter delivered reftel invitation to Minister of Industry, Energy and Mining Jorge Lepra and Undersecretary for Industry, Energy and Mining Martin Ponce de Leon via e-mail, with hard copy following via embassy courier, on Tuesday, 8 January. 2. (U) On 9 January, embassy recei [...]
2008-01-10 13:43:00Embassy MontevideoUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA
08MOSCOW1171RUSSIA'S ROSATOM TO PREPARE ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR
[...] (SBU) In separate meetings April 23, we discussed the nuclear fuel fabrication transaction between Exelon Corporation and TVEL of Russia with Senior Counselor Aleksey Karpov and Second Secretary Aleksandr Trofimov from the MFA's Department for Security and Disarmament Affairs, and with Konstant [...]
2008-04-25 14:35:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC ENRG KNNP KSCA PARM TRGY RS
08MOSCOW1233RUSSIA PUSHES TO COMMERCIALIZE SPACE
[...] (SBU) Despite delays in the development of Russia's GLONASS satellite navigation system as an alternative to U.S. GPS, the GOR is pressing forward to make GLONASS global by 2010 and to develop Russia's commercial space industry. To achieve these goals, the GOR has granted Russia's Federal Spac [...]
2008-05-02 11:03:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA PREL PARM TSPA RS
08MOSCOW1493ROSATOM GIVES ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
[...] (SBU) On 28 May we received the requested (Ref A and B) official response from State Corporation Rosatom Deputy Director Kamenskikh providing assurances for the transfer of nuclear fuel fabrication technology between Exelon Corporation and TVEL of Russia. Embassy will email a scanned copy of [...]
2008-05-28 09:02:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC ENRG KNNP KSCA PARM TRGY RS
08MOSCOW1794MTCR CANBERRA PLENARY INVITATION PASSED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-23 14:56:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALETTC KSCA MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA
08MOSCOW1837NON-PAPER ON NASA - CNSA CIVIL SPACE COOPERATION
[...] (C) On June 27 we delivered reftel non-paper regarding the June 30 - July 1 initial meeting on Earth and space science between NASA and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) to Georgiy Barsegov, Space Affairs Officer, Department of Security Affairs and Disarmament, MFA. Barsegov sa [...]
2008-06-27 15:04:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL TPHY TSPA TSPL CH RS
08MOSCOW3097MTCR PAPER DELIVERED: U.S. REPORT ON CONTACTS WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-21 10:12:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL KSCA TSPA ETTC FR AS RS
08MOSCOW3614RUSSIA RESPONSE ON ANTARCTIC TREATY ANNIVERSARY AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-15 06:41:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KTIA SENV TPHY KSCA AY RS
08MOSCOW3648DELIVERY OF DRAFT MOU AND IA BETWEEN DHS AND
[...] (SBU) On December 9, ESToff delivered the reftel draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and Implementing Agreement (IA) between the Department of Homeland Security and the Russian Academy of Sciences in English and Russian to Oleg Rozhkov, Deputy Director of the MFA Department of Security a [...]
2008-12-16 13:40:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL GKGIC PTER KSCA KNNP RS
08MOSCOW638RUSSIA'S GLONASS: LOST IN SPACE
[...] (SBU) In late 2007, First Deputy Prime Minister Ivanov trumpeted the launch of three new satellites that were to complete the GLONASS system's coverage of Russia and challenge GPS in the commercial navigation market. Soon after, however, news reports revealed that the system had serious flaws, [...]
2008-03-06 14:55:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA PREL PARM TSPA RS
08MOSCOW64RUSSIA: WIREC INVITATION DELIVERED TO MINISTRY OF FOREIGN
[...] On January 9, 2008 post delivered reftel invitation from Secretary Rice for a Russian delegation to attend WIREC 2008 to the SIPDIS Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov. Invitation was sent through Mr. Igor Neverov, Director of the North America Department at the Ministry of Foreign A [...]
2008-01-14 10:10:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO RS
08MUMBAI189SARAN ASKS INDIAN INDUSTRY TO COMMIT TO A LOW CARBON ECONOMY
[...] Summary: In a tough speech to Indian industry in Mumbai, Special Envoy for Climate Change Shyam Saran stated that the Indian government would resist calls for uniform standards for carbon emission reductions. Any global deal would have to take into account a country's relative development, a [...]
2008-05-02 10:52:00Consulate MumbaiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
08MUMBAI340CARBON CREDITS SUFFICIENT BUT NOT NECESSARY FOR SUSTAINING
[...] Summary. (SBU) Despite the risk and uncertainty of qualifying for carbon credits (see ref A),Indian businesses have pumped USD 25 billion into unilaterally developing Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects to generate carbon credits. In discussions with ConGenoff and visiting analysts f [...]
2008-07-16 06:44:00Consulate MumbaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA IN
08MUSCAT283MUSCAT 2008 REQUEST FOR SCIENCE FELLOW
[...] To build on the past success of the Embassy Science Fellows Program in Muscat, Embassy requests a Science Fellow for FY 2009 in either medical sciences (with an emphasis on diabetes) or agricultural diseases ("dabas," date palm insect). Embassy will provide the Fellow with administrative sup [...]
2008-04-15 13:59:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT AMPR KSCA OTRA SENV EAGR TBIO MU
08MUSCAT358ENCOURAGING OMAN TO SUBSCRIBE TO HCOC
[...] (SBU) Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche, talking points and sample note verbale on April 22 to Abdullah al-Riaymi, Deputy Director of the International Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and strongly encouraged the Omani government to promptly subscribe to the Hague Code [...]
2008-05-14 10:33:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC MTCRE KSCA TSPA MU
08NASSAU406BAHAMAS ASKED TO SUBSCRIBE TO HCOC
[...] (U) PolOff conveyed reftel demarche points encouraging The Bahamas to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Permanent Secretary, and Head of Legal Division, Donna Knowles-Lowe, and Under Secretary, Internat [...]
2008-05-23 17:16:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIEDMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA BF
08NEWDELHI1017 S&T ADVISER TO SECSTATE DISCUSSES INDO-US SCIENTIFIC
[...] SUMMARY: Dr. Nina Fedoroff, S&T Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State and the AID Administrator, met with Dr. Thirumalachari Ramasami, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST),Ministry of S&T, Government of India (GOI) during her visit to India in February 2008 to assess the st [...]
2008-04-08 11:22:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
08NEWDELHI1224 UNDER SECRETARY DOBRIANSKY ENGAGES INDIA'S SPECIAL ENVOY
[...] SUMMARY: In a bilateral meeting on the margins of the Global Issues Forum held April 24, 2008 in New Delhi, Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky led a delegation consisting of OES Assistant Secretary Claudia McMurray and Dr. Robert Dixon, NSC-CEQ Senior Coordinato [...]
2008-05-05 12:02:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
08NEWDELHI1257NEW DELHI ESTH REPORT: MAY 2008 FIRST WEEK
[...] (U) Summary: This cable is the continuation of the Biweekly Reporting Cables from Mission India ESTH Office to be sent out the first and third week of every month. Inputs in this biweekly include the Indian Space Research Organization's launch of 10 satellites, the GOI's initiative to develop [...]
2008-05-08 08:05:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI1383NEW DELHI ESTH REPORT: MAY 2008 THIR@ WEEK
[...] (U) Summary: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH biweekly includes the Defense Research and Development Organization's successful testing of the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile - Agni-III, re-organization of defense research, possible visit of S&T Minister Kapil Sibal to the National Ignit [...]
2008-05-21 08:01:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI1599NEW DELHI ESTH REPORT: JUNE 2008 FIRST WEEK
[...] Summary: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH biweekly includes details about increased U.S. investment in India in High-tech ventures, demand for setting up 20 new Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIIT) and a successful trial of indigenously developed Tejas Light Combat Aircraft. T [...]
2008-06-11 10:21:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI1700NEW DELHI ESTH REPORT: JUNE 2008 THIRD WEEK
[...] SUMMARY: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH biweekly report includes a summary of the recent Asia Pacific Forum on Nuclear Technology, U.S.-India collaboration in accelerator technologies for the proposed International Linear Collider, a new launch date for India's first mission to the Moon, [...]
2008-06-20 09:34:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI1818INDIA UNVEILS ITS NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
[...] Summary. A week before the G-8 Summit in Japan, India's Prime Minister (PM) and Union Minister of Environment and Forests (MOEF) Dr. Manmohan Singh launched the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) on June 30, 2008 in New Delhi. The plan has been eagerly awaited by environmental act [...]
2008-07-01 11:45:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI1843NEW DELHI ESTH REPORT: JULY 2008 FIRST WEEK
[...] (U) Summary: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH biweekly includes information about establishment of research base in the Arctic region by India. The environment section covers information about the visit of U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) analysts to discuss Clean Development Mech [...]
2008-07-03 10:57:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI1935 GAO EXPLORES INDIA'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE CDM
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Analysts from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) visited New Delhi June 30 and July 1 to review India's experience with the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The GAO interviewed a wide range of public, private, and NGO stakeholders who were consistent i [...]
2008-07-11 12:39:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
08NEWDELHI195 DRS. WATSON AND DIXON ENGAGE GOI IN PREPARATION FOR SECOND
[...] SUMMARY: Drs. Harlan Watson and Robert Dixon met with representatives of the Government of India (GOI) to discuss preparations for the upcoming Second Major Economies Meeting (MEM2) scheduled for January 30-31 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The GOI was represented by officials from the Ministry of Ext [...]
2008-01-18 13:00:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
08NEWDELHI1976NEW DELHI BI-WEEKLY ESTH REPORT
[...] Summary: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH report includes an update on the die-off of a critically endangered crocodilian species; EmbOffs meeting with a company that provides Greenhouse Gas (GHG) monitoring solutions in the building sector; biofuels; a shortage of scientists in GOI researc [...]
2008-07-18 08:12:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV AMED KSCA ECON TSPL TRGY TNGD EIND ENRG
08NEWDELHI2166NEW DELHI BI-WEEKLY ESTH REPORT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH biweekly includes an S&T section update on the new Indian Institutes of Technology and a new Indian public-private partnership to assist small and medium scale entrepreneurs and the postponement of the launch of the Indian lunar mission "Chandra [...]
2008-08-08 08:24:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI22SCENESETTER PART III: THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: This is the third scenesetter cable, which provides information and analysis on government authorities that exist and are being created for regulation of drugs, food, medical devices, and biotechnology. This is a long cable and our intent is to provide "complete picture" for yo [...]
2008-01-03 11:54:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV AMED KSCA IN
08NEWDELHI2278 PROSPECTS FOR COLLABORATION ON SOLAR ENERGY
[...] (U) Summary. The recently announced National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) envisages solar energy as a key element to India's energy security and climate change strategy. It calls for the formation of a new National Solar Mission (NSM),which is expected to lead to more integrated Go [...]
2008-08-22 12:58:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG TRGY SENV KGHG TSPL TNGD EIND KSCA ECON
08NEWDELHI2295NEW DELHI BI-WEEKLY ESTH REPORT: AUGUST 2008 THIRD WEEK
[...] (U) SUMMARY: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH biweekly includes an S&T section update on the new Indo-US collaboration in Engineering Education, exploring opportunities for US-India collaboration in space and solar energy, India's plans to set up its largest solar telescope and a report on [...]
2008-08-26 12:13:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI2402 PLASTIC BAGS - A GROWING ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH CONCERN
[...] (U) Summary. The ubiquitous plastic bag, the common man's source of inexpensive and hygienic storage in India, is increasingly becoming a cause of grave concern to the environment and the health of both human beings and animals. The Government of India (GOI) and the state governments are real [...]
2008-09-08 02:16:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KGHG TSPL TNGD EIND ENRG TRGY KSCA ECON ETRD
08NEWDELHI2418NEW DELHI BI-WEEKLY ESTH REPORT: SEPTEMBER 2008 FIRST WEEK
[...] SUMMARY: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH biweekly includes updates on the University Grants Commission's plans to open 735 new universities, a report on a workshop on nanotechnology, and problems that India will likely face in land acquisitions for large-scale solar power projects. The se [...]
2008-09-09 10:28:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI2579CHINA TAINTED MILK RAISES CONCERN IN INDIA CLOSE TO FESTIVE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: While China's adulterated milk and milk products worries consumers and regulators, fanning fears across Asia, India's Food Safety and Standards Authority (FSSA) sought a three month ban on the import of dairy products from China. Incidentally, the Indian Ministry of Food Process [...]
2008-09-25 11:43:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI2587 KILLER IN THE INDIAN KITCHEN: INDOOR AIR POLLUTION
[...] SUMMARY. On September 5-6, 2008, the Indo-U.S. Collaboration on Environmental and Occupational Health Joint Working Group convened a workshop on indoor air pollution (IAP) and respiratory health in Chandigarh, India. IAP kills between 400,000 and 2 million Indians each year and is one of the [...]
2008-09-26 10:44:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TBIO SOCI KSCA IN
08NEWDELHI2599NEW DELHI BI-WEEKLY ESTH REPORT SEPTEMBER (II) 2008
[...] SUMMARY: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH biweekly includes an update on the new Biofuel policy released by the Government of India (GOI) on September 11, and the recent visit of senior US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) officials to explore areas of technical assistance. The report inc [...]
2008-09-29 07:22:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI2622INDIA'S SUPREME COURT APPROVES GO AHEAD FOR SMOKING BAN IN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: India's Supreme Court on September 29, 2008 refused to stay the Government of India notification to impose a ban on smoking in public places from October 2. With India's Supreme Court approval, the Center has got the go ahead to impose the Ministry of Health notification of 30 M [...]
2008-10-01 10:47:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI2641WITH THE UPCOMING LAUNCH OF "CHANDRAYAAN I" MOON MISSION,
[...] (U) Summary. The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is poised to take on many ambitious projects with the aim of establishing broader international collaborations, developing novel technologies to meet social and economic development needs, and attracting and harnessing India's young ta [...]
2008-10-03 10:50:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG TRGY SENV KGHG TSPL TNGD EIND KSCA ECON
08NEWDELHI2712 NEW DELHI BI-WEEKLY ESTH REPORT
[...] SUMMARY: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH biweekly includes a summary on the Medical Device Regulation and Medical Education discussions with the Ministry of Health Officials; Challenges in Urban Environment Management; and follow up meetings and action plan with National HV Reference Labs. [...]
2008-10-15 06:19:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV TSPL
08NEWDELHI2787NEW DELHI BI-WEEKLY ESTH REPORT OCTOBER 2008
[...] SUMMARY: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH biweekly includes an update on India's outlook towards wind energy technology; the successful launch of Chandrayaan-1, India's first moon spacecraft; a report on the solar resource assessment workshop held at Solar Energy Center (SEC),Gurgoan and va [...]
2008-10-24 10:32:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI2808 EYE INSTITUTE SEES FUTURE IN ADVANCED RESEARCH, EXPANSION,
[...] Summary. Hyderabad-based L. V. Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) showcases a successful model for high-quality screening and treatment that benefits underserved populations of Andhra Pradesh. International and national collaborations on ground breaking vision research result in effective bench-to- [...]
2008-10-30 06:54:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV AMED KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV TSPL KPAO
08NEWDELHI2936NEW DELHI BI-WEEKLY ESTH REPORT: NOVEMBER 2008 FIRST WEEK
[...] (U) SUMMARY: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH biweekly includes updates on the upcoming visit of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission delegation visit to India, the management of professional education in India and the opening of the UK Research Council's office in India and poaching incidents [...]
2008-11-18 08:25:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI3006TIGERS 40; HUMANS 1: PROTECTING BOTH SPECIES IN INDIA'S
[...] SUMMARY: India's Sundarbans National Park is famous for its man-eating tigers which on average kill approximately 40 people per year. The tables turn on the protected species when they stray into local villages or are targeted by poachers. ESTHOff visited the Sundarbans and met with forest [...]
2008-11-27 09:36:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TSPL KSCA IN
08NEWDELHI3076NEW DELHI BI-WEEKLY ESTH REPORT: NOVEMBER 2008 THIRD WEEK
[...] (U) Summary: This edition of the New Delhi ESTH biweekly report on science and technology includes an update on the recent Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman and delegation's visit to India, the commencing of the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) Chandrayaan I experiments, [...]
2008-12-08 04:22:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV PGOV
08NEWDELHI3104 INDIAN TSUNAMI EARLY WARNING SYSTEM TECHNICALLY
[...] SUMMARY: (SBU) In October 2008, SCIOFF and SCIFSN toured the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES)-affiliated National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) facilities in Chennai and the Indian National Center for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) in Hyderabad, and spoke with scientific staff abo [...]
2008-12-10 05:45:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGLB KICR KSCA TPHY EFIS EIND SENV TSPL TNGD IN
08NEWDELHI3128CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN
[...] (U) Summary: Technical education in India is expected to expand rapidly from its current level of 600,000 engineering graduates per year to about 800,000 in three years. It is also projected that India will experience shortage of skilled human resources to meet its developmental needs. Hence [...]
2008-12-12 05:04:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDENRG TRGY SENV KGHG TSPL TNGD EIND KSCA ECON ETRD
08NEWDELHI3184AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN ASSAM AND WEST BENGAL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of India has confirmed outbreaks of H5N1 Avian Influenza in the states of Assam and West Bengal. State and Central Government response has been quick and effective with culling operations underway in all locations. There are currently no confirmed cases of H5N1 i [...]
2008-12-18 12:58:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA ECON ETRD BEXP EINV TSPL
08NEWDELHI503 DELHI SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT FOCUSES ON CLIMATE
[...] SUMMARY: The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS),held February 7 - 9, 2008, attracted a wide range of world leaders but proved to be more of a coup for it's organizers, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) than for the theme of sustainable development and climate change with few [...]
2008-02-15 13:13:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
08NEWDELHI654 S&T ADVISOR DR. NINA FEDOROFF ENGAGES S&T MINISTER SIBAL
[...] SUMMARY: Dr. Fedoroff met with Minister of Science and Technology (MoST) Kapal Sibal on February 21 and discussed the scope of Indo - U.S. science and technology collaboration. Both agreed that greater collaboration would be beneficial to the relationship. In addition, Sibal noted the diffic [...]
2008-03-03 10:03:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
08NEWDELHI760INDIA CONTINUES TO PURSUE NICKUNJ GRAPHITE CASE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-13 10:06:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IR IN
08NEWDELHI8SCENESETTER PART II: THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: (SBU) Mr. Secretary, this is the second scenesetter cable, which provides information and analysis on U.S.-India collaborations in life sciences, health sciences, and public health. The third companion cable will provide information on the regulatory environment for drugs, vacc [...]
2008-01-02 12:59:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV AMED KSCA IN
08NEWDELHI942 CODEL PELOSI ENGAGES INDIAN ENERGY EXPERTS ON CLIMATE
[...] SUMMARY: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI),Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chairman Dr. R.K. Pachauri's powerful NGO, brought out its leading experts to brief CODEL Pelosi on climate change and answer questions in a roundtable meeting held at the TERI Gram Campus in [...]
2008-04-01 10:22:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
08NEWDELHI965 CODEL PELOSI ENGAGES INDIAN ENERGY EXPERTS ON CLIMATE
[...] SUMMARY: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI),Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chairman Dr. R.K. Pachauri's powerful NGO, brought out its leading experts to brief CODEL Pelosi on climate change and answer questions in a roundtable meeting held at the TERI Gram Campus in [...]
2008-04-02 09:59:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
08NEWDELHI967 S&T ADVISER TO SECSTATE ENGAGES PRINCIPAL SCIENTIFIC
[...] SUMMARY: Dr. Nina Fedoroff, S&T Adviser to the US Secretary of State and the AID Administrator, met with Dr. Rajagopala Chidambaram, Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Government of India (GOI) during her recent visit to India and discussed the scope and status of Indo - U.S. S&T colla [...]
2008-04-02 11:45:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
08NICOSIA40CYPRUS WILL SUBMIT HCOC ANNUAL DECLARATIONS BY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-17 14:35:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIEDMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA CY
08NICOSIA41CYPRUS INFORMED OF THE RESULTS OF THE 2007 ATHENS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-17 14:35:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA PARM ETTC TSPA CY
08NICOSIA745CYPRUS LIKLEY TO SUPPORT US PROPOSALS AT THE IMSO ASSEMBLY
[...] (SBU) Per reftel request, Post delivered on September 9 demarche on the upcoming Assembly of Parties Meeting for the International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO) in Valletta, Malta, from September 29 to October 3, 2008 to Nicholas Emiliou, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [...]
2008-09-17 13:04:00Embassy NicosiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EWWT IMO KSCA PBTS PHSA PREL CY
08OSLO441NORWAY "POSITIVE" ABOUT USG NOMINEE FOR CO-CHAIR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-07 13:06:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KSCA NO SENV
08OSLO461NORWAY IN FAVOR OF USG IPCC WG II NOMINEE AND ASKS
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Poloff spoke with Oyvind Christophersen and Marit Viktoria Pettersen, lead members of the Norwegian delegation to the next IPCC Plenary. GON affirmed that the US had contributed a lot to the IPCC and that its continued involvement would be a good idea. GON said it [...]
2008-08-15 13:46:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV AORC NO
08OSLO560NORWEGIANS REVIEW ANTARCTIC TREATY INVITE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-15 08:39:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAOREC AY KSCA KTIA SENV TPHY NO
08OSLO98NUCLEAR MATERIAL TRANSFER-HALDEN REACTOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-22 06:38:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP TRGY KSCA NO
08OTTAWA881NOTIFYING CANADA ON NASA-CNSA CIVIL SPACE
[...] (SBU) ESTH Counselor discussed and left copy of reftel non-paper with officials in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Office of Innovation, Science and Technology on June 27. Their immediate reaction was that the proposed discussions with CNSA seemed reasonable and to [...]
2008-06-27 20:57:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL TPHY TSPA TSPL CA CH
08PANAMA151PANAMA WIREC DELEGATION
[...] (U) On February 14, 2008, Post provided the GOP's Energy Secretariat, National Environmental Authority, and its OAS SIPDIS delegation with the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) registration information in reftel. 2. (U) On February 13, 2008, Post received a lett [...]
2008-02-20 22:33:00Embassy PanamaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY PM
08PARIS1225NOTIFICATION REGARDING NASA-CNSA CIVIL SPACE
[...] (C) Per instructions reftel, on June 27 at 0900 hrs Paris local time, NASA Europe Representative Barry presented Mr. Peter Hulsroj, Director Legal Affairs and External Relations, European Space Agency, with subject non-paper which Hulsroj appreciated receiving. He noted that ESA has some exper [...]
2008-06-27 16:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL TPHY TSPA TSPL
08PARIS1982HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT SEPTEMBER VISIT TO FRANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Michael O. Leavitt traveled to France from September 8, 2008 to September 10, 2008 to promote U.S. interests in the areas of food and drug safety, pandemic influenza preparedness, and the development of medical countermeasures. [...]
2008-10-29 17:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU ECON SENV AMED KSCA
08PARIS2129U.S./FDA ORPHAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GRANT AWARD FOR ECTOPIC
[...] ESTH Office has review the proposed research and Embassy Paris find no objection to the proposed research grant entitled "Ectopic Cushings Syndrome". STAPLETON [...]
2008-11-20 10:40:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO OTRA TPHY FR
08PARIS2130U.S./FDA ORPHAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GRANT AWARD FOR
[...] ESTH Office has review the proposed research and Embassy Paris find no objection to the proposed research grant entitled "Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy". STAPLETON [...]
2008-11-20 11:23:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO OTRA TPHY US UK PO FR SW AR BR
08PORTAUPRINCE1743HAITI LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDACY FOR WORLD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-19 17:27:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TBIO AORC OTRA KSCA HA
08PRETORIA1506 Anglo-American Targets Workers' Families to Tackle HIV in
[...] Summary: Anglo American Plc (Anglo) has approved a country-wide expansion of its employee HIV and anti-retroviral treatment program (ART) for AIDS to encompass the families of its 75,000 workers. South Africa's Business Times reported that this is the first time a major South African company ha [...]
2008-07-11 08:27:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI TBIO ECON EMIN EAID KHIV KSCA ZU SF
08PRETORIA1634 Donor Coordination on Health Issues
[...] (SBU) Summary: Health Minister Manto Tshabalala Msimang (Minister) at a recent high-level Annual Donor Consultation Meeting stressed that the national Department of Health (DOH) must coordinate donor efforts in the health arena in order to ensure equitable allocation of resources across provi [...]
2008-07-25 14:45:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI TBIO SENV EAID PGOV KHIV KSCA SF
08PRETORIA1745CLIMATE CHANGE: USG NOMIMATION FOR CO-CHAIR OF THE IPCC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-08 07:05:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDKGHG KSCA SENV AORC
08PRETORIA1772CLIMATE CHANGE: USG NOMIMATION FOR CO-CHAIR OF THE IPCC
[...] (U) Acting DCM Mary Deane Conners and EST FSN Martin Matlebyane met on Monday August 11 with Mr. Peter Lukey, Chief Director for Air Quality Management and Ms. Margo Richardson, Deputy Director, Atmospheric Pollution, at the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (DEAT),to deliver the [...]
2008-08-12 06:49:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDKGHG KSCA SENV AORC
08PRETORIA2643CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN SOUTH AFRICA
[...] Summary: An outbreak of cholera has been reported in South Africa. This is a result of cholera cases crossing the Zimbabwean border into the South African town of Musina in the Limpopo province and slowly spreading throughout the country. South African Government spokesperson Themba Maseko said [...]
2008-12-05 07:31:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO AMGT AMED KSTH KSCA SENV SF ZI
08PRETORIA756 Explosive Growth of Dual TB-HIV Infection in South Africa
[...] (U) Summary: South Africa (SA) is experiencing explosive twin epidemics of HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB). The HIV epidemic in SA is fuelling the rise of an exploding TB epidemic since individuals infected with HIV are much more susceptible to TB and other serious infections. Poor diagnosi [...]
2008-04-10 13:16:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI TBIO SENV EAID PGOV KHIV KSCA ZU SF
08PRETORIA998 Alarming AIDS Statistics, But Are They Valid?
[...] (U) Summary: South African media reported on Sunday May 4 that new HIV statistics attributed to the Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA) revealed that 2 million more South Africans are HIV-infected than present estimates show. The report also claimed that these statistics are more reliabl [...]
2008-05-09 15:11:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI TBIO SENV EAID PGOV KHIV KSCA ZU SF
08RABAT153MOROCCO ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT HCOC ANNUAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-19 17:01:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
08RANGOON315BURMA: CYCLONE NARGIS DECLARATION OF DISASTER
[...] This is an action cable. Please see paras 5 and 9. 2. As a result of Cyclone Nargis, which occurred on May 3, 2008 (Ref A),the Chief of Mission has determined that the disaster is beyond the capability of the host government to respond, is of sufficient magnitude to warrant U.S. Governme [...]
2008-05-05 12:04:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA TBIO EAID VM
08RANGOON409BURMA 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 11:15:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV KSCA TBIO BM PREF
08RANGOON526 BURMA CYCLONE: USAID/OFDA SITUATION REPORT #33
[...] According to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),initial analysis of the preliminary village tract assessment (VTA) data suggests that widespread destruction was caused by strong wind combined with storm surge and excessive rainfall, faulty early warning systems [...]
2008-07-01 06:53:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV KSCA TBIO VM EAGR PREF
08RANGOON528 BURMA CYCLONE: USAID/OFDA POST NARGIS JOINT ASSESSMENT
[...] Following the May 25 International Pledging Conference, the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) coordinating body initiated the Post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA) to produce a common assessment report that covers immediate humanitarian needs through the Village Tract Assessment (VTA) and reconstruc [...]
2008-07-02 04:21:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV KSCA TBIO VM EAGR PREF
08RANGOON534 BURMA CYCLONE: USAID/OFDA SITUATION REPORT #35
[...] On July 3, Post-Nargis Joint Assessment (PONJA) and Government of Burma (GOB) representatives attended a "sounding session" to consult on the Village Tract Assessment preliminary findings. As of June 30, the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) had completed phase I of the early recovery Basic Serv [...]
2008-07-07 08:01:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV KSCA TBIO VM EAGR PREF
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 08:27:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBM EAID SENV KSCA TBIO VM EAGR PREF
08RANGOON650 BURMA CYCLONE: USAID/OFDA ASSESSMENT CABLE #6
[...] On July 29 and 30, a USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) disaster specialist traveled to the Irrawaddy Delta on a U.N. Development Program (UNDP) sponsored assessment trip to highlight early recovery programs instituted by UNDP and the international non-governmental or [...]
2008-08-11 09:52:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV KSCA TBIO VM EAGR PREF
08REYKJAVIK10ICELAND POSITIVE ON WIREC, DELEGATION STILL UNDETERMINED
[...] Ambassador delivered WIREC invitation to Foreign Minister Ingibjorg Solrun Gisladottir and MFA Environmental Counselor Bjarni Sigtryggsson on January 24. Gisladottir agreed it would be good for Iceland, which utilizes geothermal and hydropower for virtually all its electricity and home heating [...]
2008-01-25 14:21:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG KGHG KSCA TRGY IC
08REYKJAVIK105ICELAND RESUMES COMMERCIAL WHALING AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On May 19, the Icelandic Minister of Fisheries Einar Gudfinsson (Independence Party) quietly issued a quota for commercially hunting 40 minke whales for the domestic market. The Icelandic Foreign Minister, along with the other ministers from the coalition Social Democratic party [...]
2008-06-10 11:48:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD IC
08REYKJAVIK110ICELAND IWC COMMISSIONER PESSIMISTIC ON PROGRESS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Iceland's Whaling Commissioner Stefan Asmundsson told post that he is pessimistic that any progress will be made in the upcoming International Whaling Commission meeting in Chile. Asmundsson was careful not to criticize the IWC Chairman Bill Hogarth but is worried that the focus [...]
2008-06-13 07:58:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD IC
08REYKJAVIK67REYKJAVIK REQUESTS EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOW FOR 2008 PROGRAM
[...] (U) Post requests an Embassy Science Fellow to help strengthen the bilateral science research ties between the U.S. and Iceland. Embassy Reykjavik has designated the expansion of bilateral science ties as a key priority in our FY2010 Mission Strategic Plan, devoting an entire goal paper to the [...]
2008-04-21 18:09:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIEDTSPL KSCA SENV EAGR AMGT OTRA APER IC
08REYKJAVIK9POST DOES NOT HAVE FUNDING FOR ICELANDIC WIREC DELEGATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-25 14:21:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG KGHG KSCA TRGY IC
08RIYADH1243CLIMATE CHANGE: USG NOMINATION FOR CO-CHAIR OF
[...] (SBU) Post passed reftel information on the U.S. nomination of Dr. Christopher Field to serve as co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to the Saudi foreign ministry on August 11 and will report septel on any substantive response to the information [...]
2008-08-13 08:44:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KGHG KSCA SENV AORC SA
08ROME1051CITES/CORAL: ITALY WILL SUPPORT WORKSHOP; ASKS IF CHINA
[...] (U) On August 6, Post met with Environment Ministry Nature Protection Directorate Director General Aldo Cosentino to discuss the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) proposal to convene an international workshop on corallium science, management and enforcement in Italy (ref b [...]
2008-08-18 12:55:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV CITES KSCA ETRD IT
08ROME1052ANTARCTIC TREATY: ITALY REQUESTS DIPLOMATIC NOTE CONFIRMING
[...] Summary and action request. Italian Foreign Ministry officials working on Antarctic issues are pushing for the measure creating the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat (Measure 1) to be approved, which can be done without Parliamentary review. Progress has been blocked by their need for an official [...]
2008-08-18 12:55:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY SENV AORC KSCA IT
08ROME1139POCS FOR MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AUTHORIZATIONS IN
[...] Per reftel, the POC for marine scientific research authorizations in Italy is: Ms. Jean Preston, Environment, Science and Technology Affairs Counselor (telephone: (+39) 06 4674-2691; e-mail: prestonj@state.gov). She will be in Italy until approximately August 2010. 2. The alternate POC i [...]
2008-09-11 07:24:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY KSCA KRVC EWWT IT
08ROME1580ANTARCTIC TREATY: ITALY APPROVES ATCM MEASURE 1,
[...] On 2 December, Foreign Ministry (MFA) Counselor Francesco Capponi told SCICouns that Italy has approved Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) Measure 1, creating the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. He said that Italy has transmitted its instrument of ratification of Measure 1 through the [...]
2008-12-29 09:43:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY SENV AORC KSCA IT
08ROME64ITALY ON HCOC ANNUAL DECLARATIONS OF SPACE AND
[...] (C) Poloff delivered Reftel demarche to Italian MFA Acting Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Emanuele Farruggia on January 15. Farruggia said that Italy should have no trouble submitting its Hague Code of Conduct Annual Declaration on space and ballistic missile policies by the M [...]
2008-01-16 11:42:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
08ROME802ITALY TO MAKE PRESENTATION AT CANBERRA MTCR PLENARY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-27 12:44:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALETTC IT KSCA MNUC PARM PREL TSPA
08ROME828ITALY WELCOMES NASA-CNSA TALKS, STRATEGIC SPACE
[...] (U) SCICOUNS delivered reftel non-paper to Giovanni Manfredi, Director for Energy, Space, High Technology and Aerospace and Defense Programs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on June 27, 2008. Manfredi,s successor, Counselor Roberto Liotto, also attended the meeting. Due to reorganizat [...]
2008-07-03 09:20:00Embassy RomeSECRETPARM PREL TSPA TPHY TSPL KSCA CH IT
08SANJOSE15COSTA RICA INVITATION TO WIREC CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-10 15:03:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDCS EAID ENRG EPET KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI
08SANJOSE72DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HCOC ANNUAL DECLARATION
[...] (SBU) On January 29, we delivered the "nil" form to MFA Carlos Cordero Madrigal, Director of the Disarmament, Terrorism, and Organized Crime Section of the MFA, as Costa Rica does not have a space launch vehicle/ballistic missile program. 2. (SBU) Cordero told us the GOCR would submit the H [...]
2008-01-30 16:46:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCS MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
08SANTIAGO73EMBASSY SANTIAGO'S RESPONSE REGARDING TRAVEL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-24 18:58:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI
08SEOUL1334ROKG TO PRESENT AT NOVEMBER MTCR PLEANRY IN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-02 07:29:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA KS
08SEOUL144ROKG PLANS TIMELY HCOC ANNUAL DECLARATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-24 04:36:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA KS
08SEOUL2072KOREA COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR JEAN SLUTSKY
[...] (U) Embassy Seoul welcomes and grants country clearance to Jean Slutsky, Director, Center for Outcomes and Evidence, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Public Health Service for her official visit to South Korea on the dates of November 8-13, 2008. The purpose of the visit is to partic [...]
2008-10-22 03:43:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBI KSCA OTRA KN KS
08SEOUL2137MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): "SBIG'S
[...] (S) On October 22, poloffs delivered reftels demarches (two cleared papers, one non-paper) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division's First Secretary Jae-woo Kim. Mr. Kim will forward the items to Ms. Sung-eun Kim (MCTR) who was out of the c [...]
2008-11-02 23:27:00Embassy SeoulSECRETKSCA ETTC MNUC PARM TSPA
08SEOUL2448SEOUL ESTH UPDATE - NOVEMBER 2008
[...] On December 7 last year, a crane-carrying barge, belonging to Samsung Group's shipbuilding arm, rammed into Heibei Spirit, a Hong Kong-registered oil tanker, causing some 10,500 tons of crude oil to gush into the western coastal waters - Korea's worst oil spill ever. A shore of soft white san [...]
2008-12-22 01:58:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ECON ELTN TBIO TNGD TRGY TSPA KGHG KSCA KS
08SKOPJE503MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR IPCC WG
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-05 11:41:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KGHG KSCA SENV AORC MK
08SKOPJE71MACEDONIA WILL SUBMIT ANNUAL DECLARATION ON SPACE
[...] (SBU) Poloff encouraged MFA State Counselor for Multilateral Affairs Svetlana Geleva to ensure Macedonia's timely submission of its Annual Declaration (AD) on space and ballistic missile policies under the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC),per reftel. Gelev [...]
2008-01-28 13:58:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MTCRE MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
08SOFIA537BULGARIA'S RESPONSE TO USG NOMINATION FOR CO-CHAIR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-06 10:26:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC KGHG BU
08SOFIA7BULGARIA: WIREC INVITES DELIVERED
[...] Per reftel, post delivered WIREC Invitations to Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivailo Kalfin with copies to Minister of Economy and Energy Petar Dimitrov, Minister of Agriculture and Food Supply Nihat Kabil, and Minister of Environment and Waters Dzhevdet Chakarov on January 7, 2008. Post will [...]
2008-01-07 14:59:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA BU
08STATE100138AIRCRAFT DIPLOMATIC CLEARANCE REQUEST: ISLA DE
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 12. 2. (U) The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) plans to operate a National Science Foundation (NSF) Gulfstream GV research aircraft, Tail Number and Call Sign N677F, in support of the HIPPO/GLOBAL project to study global distribution [...]
2008-09-18 21:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCI KRVC KSCA OTRA PE NSF TPHY
08STATE104822MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): THE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "The Perchlorate Family of Chemicals" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) f [...]
2008-10-01 15:28:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS
08STATE105029MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): NORTH
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "North Korea's Missile Program" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) for d [...]
2008-10-01 19:50:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS
08STATE105103MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): IRAN,S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (S) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Iran's Ballistic Missile Program" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) for [...]
2008-10-01 21:43:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS IR
08STATE105132MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): CHINA'S RECORD ON CONTROLLING MISSILE-RELATED EXPORTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-01 22:02:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS CH
08STATE105464MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): SYRIA'S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Syria's Ballistic Missile Program and Foreign Suppliers" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Po [...]
2008-10-02 17:12:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS
08STATE105997CHINESE ENTITY CONTINUES EFFORTS TO SUPPLY
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: In July 2008, the U.S. shared with China information indicating that the Chinese firm Polytechnologies Inc. had concluded contracts in February 2008 to supply a fiber coil winding machine and integ [...]
2008-10-03 15:55:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA CH PK
08STATE106288MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- U.S.
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: Request Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared "U.S. Proposal on Machine Tools" in paragraph 3 below and the interagency cleared "U.S. Proposal on Technical Outreach" in paragraph 4 below t [...]
2008-10-03 20:54:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC PREL PARM KSCA FR AU
08STATE107020MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Shipping and Proliferation: Industry Operations and Their Benefits to Proliferators" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technol [...]
2008-10-07 14:10:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS
08STATE107113MALAYSIA-BASED, IRANIAN-RUN PROCUREMENT FIRM
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: The U.S. has information indicating that a Malaysia-based entity with ties to Iran's ballistic missile program was working to procure goods manufactured by the German firm Hottinger Baldwin Messtechnik (HBM) on b [...]
2008-10-07 14:48:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA GM IR ML SN
08STATE109138MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): "RISK
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Risk (Uncontrolled) Technologies Useful to Ballistic Missile Programs" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Re [...]
2008-10-10 20:11:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS
08STATE109147IRANIAN UAV PROGRAM SEEKING JAPANESE-ORIGIN ITEMS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 6. 2. (S) Background: In mid September 2008, the U.S. shared with the GOJ information indicating that in June and July 2008, a procurement manager for the Iranian UAV entities Fan Pardazan and Qods Aviation (or Aeronauti [...]
2008-10-10 20:23:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR MY
08STATE109148MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Paris please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Guidance for use by the Embassy REP to the October 16, 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) meeting is provided in paragraph 3. 3. (C) BEGIN GUIDANCE: NOTE: Embassy REP [...]
2008-10-10 20:24:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC FR
08STATE109154MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Paris please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Guidance for use by the Embassy REP to the October 16, 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) meeting is provided in paragraph 3. 3. (C) BEGIN GUIDANCE: NOTE: Embassy REP [...]
2008-10-10 20:30:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC FR
08STATE109845MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): "BROKERING CONTROLS IN THE UNITED STATES ON DUAL-USE ITEMS" Classified By: ISN/MTR DIRECTOR PAM DURHAM FOR REASONS 1.4 (B),(D),AND (H).
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-14 20:03:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS NL
08STATE110013MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): U.S.
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Action request: The non-paper in paragraph 3 below provides a brief summary of Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)-related contacts between the U.S. and non-MTCR countries since the November 2007 Athens MTCR Plenary. As [...]
2008-10-15 12:05:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL KSCA TSPA ETTC FR AS
08STATE112053MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): U.S.
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "U.S. Paper on Dual Use Machine Tool Exports" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contac [...]
2008-10-21 18:25:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR NE AS
08STATE112061MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): "SBIG'S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "SBIG's Efforts to Procure Environmental Test Chambers: A Case Study" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regi [...]
2008-10-21 18:40:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS
08STATE112544MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) The following guidance is provided to the U.S. delegation participating in the November 3-7, 2008, Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Plenary in Canberra. OBJECTIVES ////////// 2. (C) The delegation should seek adoption during this Plenary of the U.S. proposal to modernize [...]
2008-10-22 17:59:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA AS
08STATE113639DIPLOMATIC NOTE REGARDING JAPAN'S CONTINENTAL
[...] Embassy Tokyo is requested to deliver a note verbale to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan using the text in Paragraph 2. 2. Begin text: The Embassy of the United States of America presents its compliments to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and has the honor to acknowledge recei [...]
2008-10-24 18:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA PBTS PHSA SENV TPHY JA
08STATE113768CHINESE FIRMS CONCLUDE CONTRACT TO SUPPLY A WIND
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: The U.S. has information that in December 2007, the China Precision Machinery Import/Export Corporation (CPMIEC) and China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA) concluded a contract to supply t [...]
2008-10-24 19:28:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA CH PK
08STATE114820DEMARCHE REQUEST: CHINESE LAUNCH OF VENEZUELAN
[...] (U) This is an action message, please see paragraph 6 below. 2. (SBU) Venezuela is planning to operate a satellite that may create significant interference problems for two U.S.-licensed satellite operators, SES Americom and Intelsat. The satellite, known both as Venesat-1 and Simon Boliva [...]
2008-10-28 19:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL TSPA KSCA CH
08STATE11870SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE
[...] Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested to deliver the text in paragraph 11 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the host government's Foreign minister or, if known, the host government's Designated Minister [...]
2008-02-06 15:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY AE
08STATE118936IRAN'S UAV PROGRAM SEEKING TEST EQUIPMENT,
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-07 17:44:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA GM IR
08STATE120153MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): 2008
[...] Paragraph 2 contains the text of the press statement issued at the conclusion of the November 2008 Canberra MTCR Plenary. Addressee and info addressee posts may share this statement with interested parties as appropriate. Further information on the results of the Plenary will be forthcoming [...]
2008-11-12 18:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDMTCRE PREL PARM KSCA TSPA ETTC
08STATE124520FOLLOW-UP ON IRANIAN BALLISTIC MISSILE PROGRAM'S
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-24 20:51:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR
08STATE126248FOLLOW-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 15:10:00Secretary of StateSECRETBM CH ETTC JA KACT KN KSCA MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL
08STATE1276702008 ESTH CONFERENCE, CAIRO
[...] From October 7-9, OES hosted a conference for Environment, Science and Technology, and Health (ESTH) officers and local hires from the Near East Affairs (NEA) and South and Central Asia (SCA) regions to discuss ways to advance U.S. foreign policy on such key issues as climate change, renewabl [...]
2008-12-04 13:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TBIO KSCA XD XF ZK
08STATE131705PAKISTANI PROCUREMENT FIRM SEEKS GERMAN-ORIGIN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: The U.S. has information indicating that as of September 2008, the Pakistani intermediary K.M. Enterprises was seeking calibration equipment from the German firm Feinmess-Suhl on behalf of two entities closely a [...]
2008-12-16 18:20:00Secretary of StateSECRETETTC GM KSCA MTCRE PARM PK PREL
08STATE134297IRAN'S UAV PROGRAM SEEKING GERMAN-ORIGIN ENGINES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) We want to inform French authorities that as of mid-November 2008, a procurement official affiliated with Iran's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program was seeking German-origin engines via the French intermediary Technical As [...]
2008-12-24 13:40:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IR FR GM
08STATE13442SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE
[...] Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested to deliver the text in paragraph 5 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the host government's Foreign minister or, if known, the host government's Designated Minister- [...]
2008-02-08 18:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY BH
08STATE14169SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE
[...] Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested to deliver the text in paragraph 5 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the host government's Foreign minister or, if known, the host government's Designated Minister- [...]
2008-02-11 20:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY BH
08STATE14252SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATION TO ATTEND THE
[...] Action Requests: Ambassador or appropriate senior officials at Embassy Kigali is requested to deliver the text in paragraph 5 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the host government's Foreign minister or, if known, the host government's Designated Minister-level head of offi [...]
2008-02-11 22:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY RW
08STATE14490SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE
[...] Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested to deliver the text in paragraph 11 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the host government's Foreign minister or, if known, the host government's Designated Minister [...]
2008-02-12 17:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY AJ
08STATE14563SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE
[...] Action Requests: Ambassador or appropriate senior embassy official is requested to deliver the text in paragraph 4 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the host government's Foreign minister or, if known, the host government's designated Minister-level head of official delega [...]
2008-02-12 19:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY TS
08STATE14866SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE
[...] Action Requests: Consul General or appropriate senior consulate official is requested to deliver the text in paragraph 5 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the Palestinian Authority Foreign minister or, if known, the PA's designated Minister-level head of official delegatio [...]
2008-02-13 17:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY KPAL
08STATE15220(S) FURTHER SCHEMING BY GERMAN FIRM TO EXPORT TEST CHAMBER TO IRANIAN BALLISTIC MISSILE PROGRAM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-14 14:33:00Secretary of StateSECRETETTC GM IR KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL
08STATE15502SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE
[...] Action Requests: OES apologizes for this short- fuse request. We have only just learned that the Maldives and Mauritania are interested in attending WIREC and given that the conference is now only two weeks away, and the delegates will need to make their travel arrangements urgently, we are [...]
2008-02-14 20:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY MR
08STATE15551SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR POST FOLLOW-UP ON FORMAL
[...] This is an action request. Action request in para 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. The U.S. State Department will host the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) in Washington on March 4-6, 2008 (refs I and J). Addressee posts have received formal inv [...]
2008-02-14 21:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XA
08STATE15566SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR POST FOLLOW-UP ON FORMAL
[...] This is an action request. Action request in para 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. The U.S. State Department will host the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) in Washington on March 4-6, 2008 (refs I and J). Addressee posts have received formal inv [...]
2008-02-14 21:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XB
08STATE15599SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR POST FOLLOW-UP ON FORMAL
[...] This is an action request. Action request in para 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. The U.S. State Department will host the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) in Washington on March 4-6, 2008 (refs I and J). Addressee posts have received formal inv [...]
2008-02-14 21:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XB
08STATE15608SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR POST FOLLOW-UP ON FORMAL
[...] This is an action request. Action request in para 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. The U.S. State Department will host the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) in Washington on March 4-6, 2008 (refs I and J). Addressee posts have received formal inv [...]
2008-02-14 22:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY MR
08STATE17307SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATION TO ATTEND THE
[...] Action Requests: OES apologizes for this short- fuse request. We have only just learned that Monaco is interested in attending WIREC and given that the conference is now less than two weeks away, and the delegates will need to make their travel arrangements urgently, we are asking post to [...]
2008-02-20 23:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY MN
08STATE18041SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATION TO ATTEND THE
[...] Action Requests: OES apologizes for this short- fuse request. We have only just learned that Mongolia is interested in attending WIREC and given that the conference is now less than two weeks away, and the delegates will need to make their travel arrangements urgently, we are asking post t [...]
2008-02-22 16:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY MG
08STATE2033VISAS FOR WIREC 2008 DELEGATES
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs six and seven. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. Summary: The Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) will be held in Washington DC March 4 - 6. (See reftels D and E for background on WIREC 2008). The participatio [...]
2008-01-08 20:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG
08STATE2034MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): RESULTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the November 5-9, 2007 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Plenary meeting in Athens, the 34 MTCR Partners reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening missile-related export controls and thereby discouraging missile activities and programs of concern. They discussed [...]
2008-01-08 20:42:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA FR GR
08STATE23763FOLLOWING-UP WITH INDIA ON THE XXXXXXXXXXXX GRAPHITE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (S) Background: In October 2007, we shared with Indian officials information indicating that India's XXXXXXXXXXXX had offered French-origin, MTCR-controlled graphite blocks to Iran's Ward Commercial Company (Ref A). Ward had previously bee [...]
2008-03-07 15:00:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IN IR
08STATE24222IMMINENT TRANSFER OF FILAMENT WINDING MACHINES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Ankara, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background and Purpose/Objective: Since 2006, the Turkish company Tet Makina Metal Sanayi Ve Ticaret has been working to supply four- and six-axis filament winding machines to Pakistan. Both of these machines [...]
2008-03-07 21:39:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA TU PK
08STATE24896(S) RESPONDING TO GOT QUESTIONS RE THE IMMINENT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Ankara, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Ref B relates March 10 delivery to Turkish MFA Deputy Director General for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Ahmet Gun of Ref A demarche, which describes the potentially imminent shipment by the Turkish company [...]
2008-03-10 23:08:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA TU PK
08STATE26870WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY
[...] Action requests in paras 12 and 13. SUMMARY ------- 2. Summary: The Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) and the co-located but separately managed side events, trade show, and business conference eclipsed expectations. Some 3,000 delegates from 118 count [...]
2008-03-14 14:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG TRGY KGHG KPAO KSCA XX
08STATE27211ANNUAL DECLARATION OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Background/Action Request: Request the Mission deliver the USG interagency-cleared paper in paragraph 3 to Hague Code of Conduct (HCOC) Immediate Central Contact (ICC) at earliest opportunity for distribution to all HCOC subs [...]
2008-03-14 20:33:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEC ETTC KSCA MTCRE PARM TSPA AORC
08STATE27694MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Paris please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND AND ACTION REQUEST: In keeping with established practice, we want to urge the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Partners to present proposed Information Exchange (IE) topics and try to come t [...]
2008-03-17 17:45:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA FR
08STATE29412(U) PROVIDING THE FRG WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (S) Background: In June 2007 we advised German officials that as of late April 2007, an entity affiliated with the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG - Iran's leading developer of liquid-propellant ballistic missiles) was seeki [...]
2008-03-20 20:41:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA GM IR AE
08STATE32719(S) RESPONSE TO GERMAN INQUIRY ON U.S. LICENSING
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) BACKGROUND: Per Reftel, German authorities are considering the export to China of technology used to produce carbon fiber and have requested information on USG licensing practices for such a transfer. In particular, the FRG ask [...]
2008-03-31 13:21:00Secretary of StateSECRETCH ETTC GM KNNP KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL
08STATE33089ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO HELP TURKEY PREVENT THE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Ankara, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background and Purpose/Objective: We recently alerted Turkish officials to efforts by the Turkish company Tet Makina Metal Sanayi Ve Ticaret to supply four- and six-axis filament winding machines to Pakistan ( [...]
2008-03-31 21:09:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA TU PK
08STATE34976MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) --
[...] (C) This message provides guidance for the U.S. delegation to the MTCR Reinforced Point of Contact (RPOC) meeting in Paris on April 10-11, 2008, and the small-group meeting on April 9. /////////////////// Small Group Meeting /////////////////// 2. (C) Per REF A, on April 9, France wil [...]
2008-04-04 00:45:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC TSPA KSCA FR
08STATE39672(S) FOLLOWING UP WITH THE GOT ON FILAMENT WINDING
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Ankara, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) On March 10, we provided Turkey information indicating that the Turkish company Tet Makina Metal Sanayi Ve Ticaret was working to supply four- and six- axis filament winding machines to Pakistan. We expressed [...]
2008-04-15 21:25:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA TU PK
08STATE40087(S) PROVIDING THE FRG CLARIFICATION ON ROLES OF
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: Since November 2005, we have worked with German authorities to prevent Iran's solid propellant missile developer - the Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group (SBIG) - from procuring environmental test chambers from the G [...]
2008-04-16 19:29:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA GM IR
08STATE40662(S) FOLLOWING UP WITH THE GOT ON FILAMENT WINDING
[...] (S) We followed up on this case April 17 with MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Deputy Director General (DAS-equivalent) Ahmet Muhtar Gun and Department Head Elif Ulgen, emphasizing our strong belief that Tet Makina Metal Sanayi ve Ticaret is seeking ways to evade export controls to sell filame [...]
2008-04-17 20:16:00Secretary of StateSECRETETTC KSCA PARM PREL PGOV MTCRE PK TU
08STATE41343(S) ADVISING THE GOT OF TET MAKINA'S PREPARATIONS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Ankara, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Since mid-March, we have been discussing with the Turkish government the potential transfer by the Turkish company Tet Makina Metal Sanayi Ve Ticaret of four- and six-axis filament winding machines to Pakistan [...]
2008-04-18 20:45:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA TU PK
08STATE42285HAGUE CODE OF CONDUCT AGAINST BALLISTIC MISSILE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Mission please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Guidance for use by the UNVIE Rep to the April 23, 2008 "Informal Meeting on the HCOC" is provided in paragraph 3. 3. (C) BEGIN GUIDANCE: The U.S. understands that the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic [...]
2008-04-22 15:56:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC AORC
08STATE44438MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR)
[...] (C) The Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) held a productive Reinforced Point of Contact (RPOC) meeting in Paris on April 10, 2008. French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Martin Briens chaired the meeting. RPOC discussion focused on r [...]
2008-04-28 11:52:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM KSCA ETTC MTCRE FR
08STATE49730FOLLOWING-UP WITH INDIA ON THE NICKUNJ GRAPHITE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (S) Background: In October 2007, we shared with Indian officials information indicating that India's Nickunj Eximp Enterprises had offered French-origin, MTCR-controlled graphite blocks to Iran's Ward Commercial Company (Ref A). [...]
2008-05-09 20:17:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IN IR
08STATE521FORMAL INVITATION FROM SECRETARY RICE
[...] Action Requests: Ambassador or appropriate senior embassy official is requested to deliver the text in paragraph eight as a letter from Secretary Rice to either the host government's SIPDIS foreign minister or, if known, the host government's designated Minister-level head of official de [...]
2008-01-03 17:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA
08STATE54671Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic
[...] (C) The following guidance is provided to the U.S. delegation participating in the HCOC Annual Meeting, in Vienna, on May 29-30, 2008. 2. (C) BEGIN GUIDANCE: In discussing HCOC Annual Meeting agenda items, the delegation should seek HCOC outcomes that are consistent with U.S. foreign [...]
2008-05-22 00:18:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC
08STATE559FORMAL INVITATION FROM SECRETARY RICE FOR NON-MEM
[...] Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested to deliver the text in paragraph 11 as a letter from Secretary Rice to either the host government's foreign SIPDIS minister or, if known, the host government's designated Minister- [...]
2008-01-03 18:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO
08STATE563FORMAL INVITATION FROM SECRETARY RICE FOR NON-MEM
[...] Action Requests: Ambassadors or appropriate senior embassy officials at action addressee posts are requested to deliver the text in paragraph 11 as a letter from Secretary Rice to either the host government's foreign SIPDIS minister or, if known, the host government's designated Minister- [...]
2008-01-03 18:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO
08STATE57679NASA LETTER TO CNSA ON POTENTIAL SPACE AND EARTH
[...] (SBU) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 3 BELOW. 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND A. FOLLOWING HIS VISIT TO THE PEOPLE,S REPUBLIC OF CHINA (PRC) IN SEPTEMBER 2006, THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA) ADVISED THE PRESIDENT OF NASA,S DESIRE TO ESTA [...]
2008-05-29 21:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA TPHY TSPA TSPL CH
08STATE5835DEPARTMENT REQUESTS POSTS CONSIDER SUPPORTING
[...] Department requests that country team determine whether post has program or discretionary funds which may be used to help defray travel costs, including per diem, for appropriate member(s) of host country,s official delegation, sub national government representatives, or civil society whose p [...]
2008-01-18 15:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XA
08STATE5837DEPARTMENT REQUESTS POSTS CONSIDER SUPPORTING
[...] Department requests that country team determine whether post has program or discretionary funds which may be used to help defray travel costs, including per diem, for appropriate member(s) of host country,s official delegation, sub national government representatives, or civil society whose p [...]
2008-01-18 15:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XM
08STATE5963DEPARTMENT REQUESTS POSTS CONSIDER SUPPORTING
[...] Department requests that country team determine whether post has program or discretionary funds which may be used to STATE 00005963 002 OF 006 SUBJECT: DEPARTMENT REQUESTS POSTS CONSIDER SUPPORTING HOST COUNTRY ATTENDANCE AT WASHINGTON INTERNATION help defray travel costs, including per [...]
2008-01-18 19:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XA
08STATE63666HAGUE CODE OF CONDUCT AGAINST BALLISTIC MISSILE
[...] (U) The Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC) held its Seventh Regular Meeting of Subscribing States on May 29-30, 2008, at the Vienna International Center (VIC),in Vienna, Austria. 75 of 130 Subscribing States registered for the meeting. Many Subscribing St [...]
2008-06-12 20:15:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC KNNP TSPA
08STATE67220IRANIAN BALLISTIC MISSILE PROGRAM'S INTEREST IN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background/Objectives: We have information indicating that in mid-December 2007, the Iranian firm Sazeh Morakab Company Ltd. provided information on two types of carbon fibers manufactured by the Japanese company Toray to an e [...]
2008-06-23 17:09:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR
08STATE67398MTCR: ARGENTINE SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE (SLV)
[...] (U) Classified by ISN/MTR Director Pam Durham. Reason: 1.5 (B),(D). 2. (U) This is an action request. Embassy Buenos Aires, please see paragraph 7. 3. (C) BACKGROUND: REF A reports the government of Argentina's (GOA's) initial reaction to the U.S. request for additiona [...]
2008-06-23 20:38:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA AR
08STATE67404PROVIDING THE GOF WITH NEW INFORMATION ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Helsinki, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) On several occasions since 2006, we have raised our concerns with the government of Finland regarding the Finnish firm Vaisala Oy acting as a supplier to Iranian entities of concern (Refs). In late 2007, we a [...]
2008-06-23 20:44:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IR FI
08STATE67437MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- NEXT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassies Berlin, Canberra, London, Paris, and Tokyo, please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: As follow-up to the April 9 small group meeting held on the margins of the April 10, 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Reinforced [...]
2008-06-23 21:23:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA AU FR GM JA UK
08STATE67989NOTIFICATION REGARDING NASA-CNSA CIVIL SPACE
[...] 1. (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. See paragraph 3 below. 2. BACKGROUND: A. (S) On January 6, 2008, the State Department instructed nine posts to deliver Washington's request to allied host governments for their continued assistance in applying diplomatic pressure on China concerning the [...]
2008-06-24 23:37:00Secretary of StateSECRETCH KSCA PARM PREL TPHY TSPA TSPL
08STATE69979NORTH KOREAN FIRM,S EFFORTS TO PROCURE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background/Objectives: We have information that as of April 2008, a North Korean weapons trading firm was working to procure a variety of electronics from Japan's Secolo Corporation for an end-user in Syria. Th [...]
2008-06-30 15:29:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA SY KN
08STATE70895MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Paris please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Guidance for use by the Embassy REP to the July 8, 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) meeting is provided in paragraph 3. 3. (C) BEGIN GUIDANCE: NOTE: Embassy REP shou [...]
2008-07-02 12:02:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC FR
08STATE71613CHINESE ENTITY TO SUPPLY PAKISTAN WITH
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: We have information indicating that as of February 2008, the Chinese firm Polytechnologies Inc. concluded contracts to supply a fiber coil winding machine and integrated optical chips to Pakistan's [...]
2008-07-03 13:02:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA CH PK
08STATE75161(S) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THE GOF ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Helsinki, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) On several occasions since 2006, we have raised our concerns with the government of Finland (GOF) regarding the Finnish firm Vaisala Oy acting as a supplier to Iranian entities of concern (Refs). In late 2007 [...]
2008-07-14 16:22:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IR FI
08STATE75612FOLLOWING UP WITH THE GOT ON THE STATUS OF THE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Ankara, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Since March 2008, we have provided information to Turkey concerning efforts by the Turkish company Tet Makina Metal Sanayi Ve Ticaret to supply four- and six-axis filament winding machines to Pakistan (Reftels) [...]
2008-07-15 13:00:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA TU PK
08STATE77660(S) RESPONDING TO GERMAN REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (S) Background: Since November 2005, we have worked with German authorities to prevent Iran's solid propellant missile developer - the Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group (SBIG) - from procuring environmental test chambers from the G [...]
2008-07-18 19:52:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA GM IR AEC
08STATE80034MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- NEXT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassies Berlin, Canberra, London, Paris, and Tokyo, please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: As follow-up to the April 9 small group meeting held on the margins of the April 10, 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Reinforced [...]
2008-07-24 20:17:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR GM JA UK
08STATE84719HAGUE CODE OF CONDUCT AGAINST BALLISTIC MISSILE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Per Reftel, at the 7th annual Regular Meeting of the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC) held in Vienna on May 29-30, 2008, the UK and the U.S. both strongly endorsed the idea of creating a hel [...]
2008-08-07 12:24:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC KNNP TSPA
08STATE85940MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- NEXT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassies Berlin, Canberra, London, Paris, and Tokyo, please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: Per Ref C, the U.S. circulated to MTCR small group members in June a suggested proposal on Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) outreach t [...]
2008-08-11 16:53:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR GM JA UK
08STATE88861MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): U.S. PRESENTATIONS AT THE CANBERRA LICENSING AND ENFORCEMENT EXPERTS MEETING (LEEM) (C)
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-19 12:54:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALETTC KSCA MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA
08STATE90515MALAYSIAN FIRM SUPPLYING GERMAN-ORIGIN TEST
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background/Objectives: The United States has information indicating that a Malaysian firm has been working to acquire German-origin test chambers on behalf of Amin Ravan, an Iranian procurement agent. The Malaysian entity, T [...]
2008-08-22 14:32:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA GM IR ML SN
08STATE92568FOLLOWING-UP WITH CHINA ON EFFORTS BY PAKISTAN'S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background and Purpose/Objective: On many occasions since March 2006, U.S. has provided Chinese officials with information regarding attempts by Pakistan's missile program to procure ring-rolling and flow form [...]
2008-08-28 16:28:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA CH PK
08STATE94059MTCR: ARGENTINE SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE (SLV)
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Buenos Aires, please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) BACKGROUND: REF D reports the government of Argentina's (GOA's) agreement to the U.S. request for transparency on Argentina's space launch vehicle (SLV) program (REF B and REF C) and request for [...]
2008-09-03 11:28:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA AR
08STATE9413REQUEST FOR EMBASSY TO ENCOURAGE HOST COUNTRY
[...] This is an action request. Action request in para 9. --------------- SUMMARY --------------- 2. Summary: This message provides background information on how national governments can make voluntary pledges to accelerate the deployment of renewable energy. These national pledges, as [...]
2008-01-30 14:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XL
08STATE9421REQUEST FOR EMBASSY TO ENCOURAGE HOST COUNTRY
[...] This is an action request. Action request in para 9. --------------- SUMMARY --------------- 2. Summary: This message provides background information on STATE 00009421 002 OF 006 SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR EMBASSY TO ENCOURAGE HOST COUNTRY PLEDGE TO ADVANCE THE UPTAKE OF RENEWABLE EN [...]
2008-01-30 14:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY XA
08STATE94499(S) FOLLOWING-UP WITH SWEDEN ON DEALINGS BETWEEN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: Since 2004, we have worked closely with Swedish officials in an effort to curtail assistance to Iran by the Swedish entity Mahaco. These efforts have resulted in subjecting Mahaco's activities to increased scrutiny [...]
2008-09-03 21:00:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA SW IR
08STATE97377CORRECTED TEXT - COMMERCIAL SATELLITE LICENSE
[...] (U) This is an action message. The Department requests that the Embassy approach appropriate Government of Japan officials at the earliest opportunity to seek certain written assurances, as per paragraphs 4 - 7 below. This cable contains proprietary information; please protect accordingly. [...]
2008-09-11 16:21:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALETTC JA KSCA KSTC PINR PREL TSPA
08STATE97993IRANIAN UAV PROGRAM SEEKING JAPANESE-ORIGIN ITEMS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) Background: The U.S. has information indicating that in June and July 2008, a procurement manager for the Iranian UAV entities Fan Pardazan and Qods Aviation (or Aeronautics) Industries sought servo motors manu [...]
2008-09-12 20:01:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR TW
08STATE99131MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) --
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassies Brasilia and Pretoria, please see paragraphs 3-6. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE: Paragraphs 5 and 6 below contain proposals on Outreach and Machine Tools that the U.S. plans to put forward for adoption at the November 2008 Missile Technol [...]
2008-09-16 20:35:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL
08STATE99612ATTEMPTS 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 20:09:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA BM
08TAIPEI1548FOOD SAFETY ASSUMES IMPORTANT ROLE IN CROSS-STRAIT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In advance of his November 3-7 visit to Taipei, the PRC's Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin made an October 27 written apology (ref a) and an October 30 verbal apology for the distress caused by exports of Chinese-manufactured taint [...]
2008-11-03 09:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI KSCA ETRD TW CH
08TALLINN57WIREC: ESTONIAN PARTICIPANTS
[...] (U) Per reftel A, on February 7, we sent the official WIREC invitation letters under the Charge's signature to Estonia's Minister of Economic Affairs and Communication Juhan Parts and the Minister of Agriculture's (MOA) Deputy Secretary General for Agriculture and Trade Policies, Andres Oopkau [...]
2008-02-08 12:11:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG
08TALLINN69UPDATE ON ESTONIAN PARTICIPANTS AT WIREC 2008
[...] (U) As of Tuesday, February 20, post has received the following information from the GOE regarding the composition of Estonia's delegation to WIREC 2008: - Minister of Economy Juhan Parts and Minister of Agriculture Helir-Valdur Seeder will not/not be able to participate in WIREC due to othe [...]
2008-02-21 10:26:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG
08TASHKENT1009UZBEKISTAN SUPPORTS USG NOMINATION FOR IPCC WG
[...] (U) We received MFA diplomatic note No. 11/22130 dated August 25 in which the GOU informs us that it will support the U.S. nominee, Dr. Christopher Field, to serve as co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2. (U) The following is an unofficial transla [...]
2008-08-28 12:01:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AORC KSCA UZ
08TASHKENT921UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON USG NOMINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-08 09:44:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AORC KSCA UZ
08THEHAGUE183NETHERLANDS/WIREC: TIMMERMANS TO LEAD DUTCH
[...] (U) In separate discussions February 20, Dutch officials Femke Smeets, Policy Officer, Directorate for Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Economic Affairs (MEA),and Femke Hoogeveen, Senior Policy Officer, Economic and Ecological Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),told Econ [...]
2008-02-26 15:26:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA KPAO ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KGHG
08THEHAGUE315MTCR: DUTCH RESPONSE ON PLENARY INFORMATION
[...] (C) Polmiloff delivered reftel paper on proposed Information Exchange (IE) agenda topics for the 2008 MTCR Plenary at the April 10-11 Reinforced Point of Contact Meeting to MFA Senior Advisor for Nuclear Affairs and Nonproliferation Ceta Noland on April 2. Noland appreciated the proposed IE a [...]
2008-04-03 14:19:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA NL
08THEHAGUE38NETHERLANDS/WIREC: DUTCH FORMING DELEGATION
[...] Post forwarded on January 7 ref A letter for the Dutch to attend WIREC to Minister of Economic Affairs Maria van der Hoeven. Post also received and delivered on January 8 ref B invitation for van der Hoeven to serve on WIREC's Bioenergy Feedstocks Panel. 2. On January 10, Econoff spoke w [...]
2008-01-14 15:51:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KPAO ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KGHG
08THEHAGUE679NETHERLANDS/IPCC: VOTING INTENTIONS FOR 29TH
[...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel demarche August 7 to Dr. Arie Kattenberg, head of the Dutch delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) plenary. Kattenberg, a scientist with the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, said that the Dutch were still deliberating internal [...]
2008-08-11 11:49:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDKGHG KSCA SENV AORC NL
08THEHAGUE68NETHERLANDS/HCOC: CONCERNS OVER PRE-LAUNCH
[...] (C) Summary: The GONL has nearly completed its Annual Declaration (AD) under the Hague Conduct of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC),and plans to submit the declaration prior to the March 31, 2008 deadline. The Dutch remain concerned, however, over USG noncompliance with [...]
2008-01-24 14:06:00Embassy The HagueCONFIDENTIALPREL MTCRE MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA NL
08TOKYO1338REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBERS 798 AND 799
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-15 23:00:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO1376NUCLEAR: REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBERS 797
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-20 07:57:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO1510REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBERS 800, 801 AND - 802
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-02 22:47:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO1709MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME: PROMOTING
[...] (CO) EconOff delivered demarche points (ref) to METI Export Controls Deputy Director Atsushi Tanizawa and to MOFA Nuclear Non-Proliferation Deputy Director Nakajima. Tanizawa understands METI currently has no particular issues it would like to present, but said he would check with other offici [...]
2008-06-20 08:41:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA JA
08TOKYO1736REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 796
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-25 02:16:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO1758WHALING: GREENPEACE JAPAN ACTIVISTS ARRESTED
[...] (U) Japanese police arrested two Greenpeace activists June 20 for trespassing and theft that occurred in connection with what the NGO claimed was an investigation of ongoing theft of whale meat by crew members of Japan's research whaling fleet. According to press reports, Junichi Sato and Tor [...]
2008-06-26 05:37:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA
08TOKYO1769NOTIFICATION OF JAPANESE GOVERNMENT REGARDING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-27 06:35:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALTSPA TSPL KSCA PARM CH JA
08TOKYO1806NORTH KOREAN FIRM'S EFFORTS TO PROCURE ELECTRONICS
[...] (S) EconOff delivered points in ref July 1 to METI Export Controls Deputy Director Nobuhiro Aibe. METI Export Controls Director Takao Shishikura offered EconOff the following nonpaper in English. The METI nonpaper is marked "Confidential." 2. (S) Begin text of GOJ English nonpaper: [...]
2008-07-01 08:59:00Embassy TokyoSECRETKSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC JA
08TOKYO1914REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 803
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-11 01:05:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO2128REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 803
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-04 07:23:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO234WHALING: GOJ FULL SPEED AHEAD
[...] (SBU) On January 25, Greenpeace's vessel "Esperanza" ended its shadowing of the Japanese research whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean due to lack of fuel, a Greenpeace official in Tokyo confirmed. She told EconFSN the NGO will continue its campaign against Japan's whaling activities, but for [...]
2008-01-29 22:49:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA
08TOKYO2407REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 805
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-03 05:00:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO2554DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRANIAN UAV PROGRAM SEEKING
[...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Second Middle East Division Principal Deputy Director Motosada Matano September 16 and left a copy of the Iran UAV non-paper (reftel). Matano accepted it without comment. Poloff explained that the Embassy would also b [...]
2008-09-17 08:22:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR TW
08TOKYO2618REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 805
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-23 06:09:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO2815REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 807
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-09 08:03:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO2836DIPLOMATIC NOTE REGARDING JAPAN'S CONTINENTAL
[...] Following is the text of Diplomatic Note 3938/E-O from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated October 9. The note was submitted following up on the July discussions between the U.S. and Japan regarding the extended continental shelf. The note was delivered to the Embassy in English. Embassy i [...]
2008-10-10 08:13:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDPBTS PHSA SENV TPHY KSCA JA
08TOKYO2886CITES: CHINESE SEEN AS WILLING TO PAY MORE AT IVORY AUCTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: A total of 108 tons of stockpiled ivory in four southern African states (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe) will be auctioned to Japan and China from late October to early November 2008. The auction was approved by the CITES Standing Committee in July 2008. Japan' [...]
2008-10-16 22:56:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA ETRD CITES JA
08TOKYO2893JAPAN'S ANNUAL REPORT ON HIV/AIDS FOR 2007
[...] Summary: Japan reported a record 1,082 new HIV-positive cases and 418 new AIDS cases during 2007, bringing the cumulative totals to 9,426 and 4,468 respectively at the end of 2007. As in previous years, Japanese males accounted for the majority of new HIV and AIDS cases in 2007 and sexual co [...]
2008-10-17 07:43:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SOCI KHIV AMED KSCA JA
08TOKYO2936NEW GOJ SPACE OFFICE CHIEF PROMOTES U.S.-JAPAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The newly appointed Secretary General of Japan's Strategic Headquarters for Space Policy, Masakazu Toyoda, told EMIN he intends to formulate and implement a national space strategy for Japan in less than two years. Going forward Japan will focus more on application of technolog [...]
2008-10-21 08:49:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALTSPA TSPL KSCA PGOV PREL MARR JA
08TOKYO3047REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 810
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-31 07:54:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO3078INTERNATIONAL POLAR YEAR MINISTERIAL DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-05 07:35:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC SENV TPHY KSCA KTIA AY JA
08TOKYO3114U.S. - JAPAN - KOREA TRILATERAL POLICY PLANNING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Trilateral Policy Planning talks were held in Tokyo October 28-29 by S/P Director David Gordon and his Japanese and South Korean counterparts, Deputy Vice Foreign Minister for Foreign Policy Koro Bessho, and Deputy Minister for Planning and Coordination Lim Dae-Hong. Main topics [...]
2008-11-10 06:08:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EFIN EAID SENV KGHG KSCA KDEM XE
08TOKYO3129REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 809
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-11 02:52:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO3158JAPAN GETS READY FOR POZNAN -- WORKING TO KEEP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Top Japanese bureaucrats dealing with environment and energy policy report unrealistic expectations among EU and other governments in the run-up to COP 14 in Poznan December 1-12. These officials all report trying to convince European Commission and EU member governments not to [...]
2008-11-15 23:02:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALSENV KGHG PREL ENRG KSCA JA
08TOKYO3199REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 806
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-19 07:45:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO3241DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRANIAN BALLISTIC MISSILE
[...] (S) Econoff delivered demarche points contained in ref A to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Science Department Official Mizuyo Kuwako and to Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Trade Control Department Deputy Director Atsushi Tanizawa November 25. Both [...]
2008-11-26 07:32:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR
08TOKYO3312REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 811
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-04 07:37:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO3368REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBERS - 812, EUR-J-2/2008 AND EUR-J-4, 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-11 06:23:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO3377WHALING: JAPAN RESUMES WHALE MEAT IMPORT FROM ICELAND,
[...] (SBU) Japan has officially resumed import of whale meat from Iceland for the first time since 1991. According to GOJ officials and industry insiders, Icelandic fin whale meat has been sold in the Japanese market since early November 2008 at a wholesale price of USD 43 per kilogram. Fin whale [...]
2008-12-12 06:24:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA
08TOKYO3397WHALING: JAPAN RESUMES WHALE MEAT IMPORT FROM ICELAND,
[...] (SBU) Japan has officially resumed import of whale meat from Iceland for the first time since 1991. According to GOJ officials and industry insiders, Icelandic fin whale meat has been sold in the Japanese market since early November 2008 at a wholesale price of USD 43 per kilogram. Fin whale [...]
2008-12-15 07:51:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA
08TOKYO3520GOJ AGREES TO LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Experts from the USG and GOJ agreed December 11 to continue their informal dialogue and to look at further steps to protect North Pacific loggerhead sea turtles. Representatives from the Fisheries Agency of Japan (FAJ),Ministry of the Environment (MOE),National Marine Fisheries [...]
2008-12-29 23:17:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALEFIS PHSA SENV KSCA JA MX
08TOKYO575REACTION TO RANCID BUTTER ATTACK ON JAPANESE
[...] (C) Summary: Japanese media reported widely on the attacks by the U.S. NGO Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on Japan's whaling fleet in waters near Antarctica on March 3. The GOJ strongly condemned the attacks and called in the Dutch and Australian Ambassadors to protest, according to press [...]
2008-03-04 22:44:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALSENV EFIS IWC KSCA JA
08TOKYO726NUCLEAR: REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBERS 791, 792 AND 790.
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-18 22:57:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO762NUCLEAR: REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBERS 788, 789 AND - 794.
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-21 00:07:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO83WIREC: FORMAL INVITATION DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) As requested in ref, EMIN met with MOFA Director-General for Economic Affairs Yoichi Otabe January 10 to deliver the Secretary's formal invitation to Foreign Minister Koumura to attend the March 2008 Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008). Otabe appreciated t [...]
2008-01-10 08:54:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO
08TOKYO878AMENDMENT COUNTRY-CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-01 06:48:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO OTRA OVIP
08TOKYO930NUCLEAR: REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTE EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 795
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-04 08:12:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
08TOKYO958WHALING: JAPANESE RESOLUTION CALLS ON U.S. TO ACT AGAINST
[...] Japan's House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries unanimously adopted a resolution (No.169-4) condemning the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and other anti-whaling NGOs' interference with Japan's research whaling April 2. The resolution, submitted to Foreign [...]
2008-04-08 07:41:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA
08TUNIS364EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOW PROGRAM REQUEST
[...] Embassy Tunis submits the following proposal for an Embassy Science Fellow (ESF). Our request for an ESF from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the field of engineering is a resubmission of our 2007 proposal (Ref B). Due to difficulties with timing, the ESF selected for Embassy Tunis w [...]
2008-04-14 09:52:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIEDTSPL SENV KSCA KPAO TS
08TUNIS91DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HCOC "INREACH"
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-30 08:52:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
08ULAANBAATAR283Mongolia Considers Abstaining on Major Votes at June IWC
[...] (SBU) Econoff met with Deputy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affair's Law & Treaty Department S. Gankhuyag on June 12 to deliver specified talking points listed in reftel on USG priorities for the International Whaling Commission's 2008 annual meeting (June 23-27; Santiago, Chile). Ganhuy [...]
2008-06-12 09:20:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD MG
08UNVIEVIENNA243READ-OUT OF APRIL 23 HCOC INFORMAL MEETING
[...] (C) Summary. Per reftel guidance, poloff attended the April 23, 2008, Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC) informal meeting in Vienna. Around forty representatives of subscribing states attended this meeting, with several countries represented by officials f [...]
2008-04-25 14:16:00UNVIECONFIDENTIALMNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC AORC
08UNVIEVIENNA627IIASA Council Selects New Deputy Director and Chairman
[...] The IIASA Council held its annual meeting on November 17-18 in Laxenburg, where it made some personnel decisions triggered by the selection of American Detlof von Winterfeldt as IIASA's ninth director, effective January 1, 2009. The Council, which consists of representatives of the 18 Nationa [...]
2008-11-28 16:39:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA NAS AORC PGOV AU
08USEUBRUSSELS980USG NON-PAPER ON NASA-CNSA CIVIL SPACE COOPERATION
[...] (C//NF) USEU EconOff on June 27 delivered USG non-paper to Paul Weissenberg, Director of the Aerospace, GMES, Security, and Defense Directorate in the European Commission,s Directorate General for Enterprise. Weissenberg was very appreciative of the notification, explaining that it is good to [...]
2008-06-27 10:31:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNCH KSCA PARM PREL TPHY TSPA TSPL
08VIENNA1132CLIMATE CHANGE: AUSTRIA TO SUPPORT USG NOMINATION FOR IPCC WG II CO-CHAIR
[...] (SBU) Austria intends to support the U.S. nomination of Dr. Christopher Field. 2. (SBU) Embassy rep delivered reftel demarche to the Austrian Ministry for European and International Affairs on August 1, which recently held a coordination meeting on IPCC with the Austrian Ministry for Agri [...]
2008-08-07 10:14:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC AU KGHG KSCA SENV
08VIENNA267WIREC 2008 - AUSTRIAN DELEGATION AND PLEDGE INFO
[...] On February 21, EmbOff contacted Elfriede More from the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, to discuss the Austrian delegation to the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC),March 4-6, 2008. More, who is Austria's inter-ministerial coordinator for WIREC, confirmed t [...]
2008-02-26 13:28:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET SENV EAID SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG KSCA AU
08VIENNA50WIREC 2008 - INVITATION DELIVERED
[...] On January 9, Post delivered reftel invitation to the WIREC conference to the Minister of Agriculture and Environment, and sent copies of the letter to the Chiefs of Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economics, Labor, and Energy. We understand from the discussions [...]
2008-01-11 13:36:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET SENV EAID SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG KSCA
08VIENNA520EMBASSYENGAGES GREENPEACE ON GMOS
[...] Emboffs and AgCounselor met on April 10 with reenpeace representatives to respond to a letter,which the organization had addressed to the Chare regarding the U.S.-EU WTO biotech dispute. Twomain points emerged from the meeting: Greenpeace amitted they must focus more on the environmentalaspect [...]
2008-04-15 10:17:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON SENV KSCA PGOV AU
08VIENNA576PROGRAM PROPOSALS FOR 2008 ESFP
[...] Embassy Vienna would welcome participation in the Embassy Science Fellows Program (ESFP). Post envisions two potential programs: 1) a climate change-related research program; or 2) a program focused on environmental regulatory policy. 2. Overview of Climate Change Program --------------- [...]
2008-04-25 14:10:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TSPL SENV EAGR AMGT OTRA APER AU
08VIENTIANE230HCOC - ENCOURAGING ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-17 04:51:00Embassy VientianeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KSCA LA MNUC PREL TSPA
08WARSAW909ANTARCTIC TREATY: POLAND MAKING PROGRESS ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-29 15:36:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC ECON KSCA KTIA SENV TPHY PL
08ZAGREB323Croatia Requests for Embassy Science Fellows 2008
[...] In response to reftel, post supports a request from the Government of Croatia to host Embassy Science Fellows. Post has received thirteen proposals. The Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport will provide housing and in-country transportation for any Embassy Science Fellow. Requestin [...]
2008-04-18 11:43:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TSPL SENV EAGR AMGT OTRA APER HR
08ZAGREB463US PRIORITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-20 14:24:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD
08ZAGREB472US PRIORITIES FOR INT'L WHALING COMMISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-24 10:23:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD HR
08ZAGREB52(C) DELIVERED: HCOC "INREACH" RE ANNUAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-24 15:04:00Embassy ZagrebCONFIDENTIALETTC KSCA MNUC MTCR PREL TSPA HR
092OF5CORRECTED TEXT: THE FIRST SCIENCE ENVOYS AND GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
[...] (SBU)Summary: The Secretary announced the U.S. Science Envoy Program on November 3. The Science Envoys will seek to identify new opportunities and build new partnerships in Science and Technology (S&T) cooperation. The first three envoys will begin travel in January and February, and posts are [...]
2009-12-11 03:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ISCON KISL KSCA OEXC OVIP PREL SCUL SENV SOCI
09ABUDHABI1166UAE SUPPORT - AND SUGGESTIONS - FOR CAIRO INITIATIVE,
[...] (SBU) Mission UAE looks forward to supporting the proposed visit of Science Envoy in first quarter of 2010. As first reported in Ref B, the opportunities for science and technology (S&T) cooperation with the UAE are enormous. UAE entities often enjoy strong financial resources and motivation, [...]
2009-12-17 12:49:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV ECON KISL KSCA KPAO AE
09ABUJA404 NIGERIA: FSN NOMINATION FOR THE 2009 ESTH COURSE
[...] U.S. Mission Nigeria is pleased to nominate FSN Taiwo Isijola for the 2009 Environment, Science, Technology, and Health (ESTH) course (PE 221) to be offered April 27 - May 8, 2009 at the Foreign Service Institute (FSI). Taiwo is a newly-hired member of post's State economic team whose portfoli [...]
2009-03-06 08:06:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AFSN TSPL ECON AFSI NI
09ADDISABABA2318ETHIOPIA SEEKS ENERGY SECTOR INVESTMENT
[...] (U) Charge d'Affairs (CDA) Meece met with Ethiopia's Minister of Mines and Energy, Mr. Alemayehu Tegenu, for a courtesy call on September 23, 2009. Accompanied by DCM Mushingi and the Regional Environment Officer, CDA requested a briefing on the GoE's energy sector development priorities. Ale [...]
2009-09-28 10:17:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV ENRG ETRD PGOV ECON ET
09ADDISABABA2843OCT-NOV REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT NEWSLETTER, EAST AFRICA
[...] (U) Summary: This Regional Environment Office (REO) eastern Africa newsletter combines reporting from October and November 2009, with an emphasis on energy developments, the latest USG and Africa climate change positions in the run up to Copenhagen, updates on the Nile Basin Initiative, and an [...]
2009-12-03 12:00:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV ENRG ETRD PGOV ECON ET
09ADDISABABA3026MELES IN COPENHAGEN: ETHIOPIA GIVES CAVEATED APPROVAL
[...] (SBU) In the aftermath of the December 2009 United Nations Framework Convention's Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP15) meeting in Copenhagen, Ethiopia has mixed reactions to the Accord. As Chair of the African Union (AU) Conference of African Heads of State and Governments on Climate Ch [...]
2009-12-29 11:41:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA SENV ETRD PGOV ET
09AITTAIPEI305AIT TAIPEI CONFIRMS FSN ATTENDANCE IN 2009 ESTH TRAINING
[...] AIT TAIPEI confirms ESTH Specialist Ms. Yun-ping Chang's participation in the Spring 2009 PE221 FSN Environment, Science, Technology, and Health (ESTH) course, April 27 -May 8, 2009. 2. The health insurance information for Ms. Chang is as follows: A. CHANG, YUN-PING B. Grade FN-10 C. [...]
2009-03-19 09:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV AFSI AFSN TSPL ECON AMGT ETRD
09AITTAIPEI404TAIWAN SATELLITE PROGRAM GOING NATIVE
[...] (C) This is an action cable. Please see para. 6 2. (C) SUMMARY. Taiwan's National Space Program Office Director Miau Jiun-jih told us April 1 that the NSPO's existing two satellite programs, the Formosat-2 and Formosat-3, are continuing to operate as scheduled and have exceeded expectat [...]
2009-04-06 05:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALTSPA ETTC KSCA PREL CH TW
09AMMAN771JORDAN INVESTIGATING SUBMISSION OF ITS ANNUAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-26 11:25:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MTCRE MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA JO
09ANKARA1572DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. REPORT ON CONTACTS WITH
[...] (C) We delivered reftel report to MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Section Head Mustafa Yurdakul on October 30. Yurdakul expressed appreciation for the report and took the opportunity to note that Turkey's position regarding MTCR outreach remains unchanged. He stated that Turkey will oppo [...]
2009-10-30 17:14:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALKSCA ETTC PARM PREL TSPA
09ANKARA400HCOC "INREACH" - TURKEY TO SUBMIT THEIR ANNUAL
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche, MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmamaent Section Head Mustafa Yurdakul confirmed that Turkey intends to submit its Annual Declaration on space and ballistic missile policies ahead of the March 31 deadline. Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at http://www.in [...]
2009-03-18 11:08:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA
09ANKARA455U.S. HCOC ANNUAL DECLARATION DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) We delivered the U.S. Annual Declaration under the Hague Code of Conduct (HCOC) on March 25 to MFA Nonproliferation and Disarmament Deputy DG Ahmet Gun. He expressed appreciation for the information and confirmed that the GOT had submitted its Annual Declaration during the week of March [...]
2009-03-25 15:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA ETTC PARM TSPA AORC
09ASTANA1330 KAZAKHSTAN: REQUEST FOR TWO SCIENCE FELLOWS
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Post requests the assistance of two Embassy Science Fellows for a two-week period from mid-August through September 2009. The Fellows will work in Astana, Kazakhstan, under the supervision of the Political-Econo [...]
2009-08-04 11:49:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON ETRD EAGR TSPL BEXP KSCA KZ
09ATHENS1081GREECE CONCURS WITH UAE IRENA HQ BID, FIELDS CANDIDATE FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-26 08:00:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG TRGY SENV KSCA IEA GR
09ATHENS350GREECE ALREADY SUBMITTED HCOC AD, URGES U.S. TO
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on boosting the number of HCOC Annual Declarations (ADs) received this year to Second Counselor Loukas Tsokos and Counselor-Expert on Disarmament Issues Pantelis Margaris at the MFA D1 Directorate for UN and International Organizations. In response, Margar [...]
2009-03-20 14:49:00Embassy AthensCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC ETTC TSPA KSCA GR
09BAGHDAD1961IRAQ'S NEW ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The Council of Ministers (CoM) signed an order in April 2009 establishing the Iraqi National Atomic Energy Commission, an inter-ministry commission mandated to provide coordination and advice regard [...]
2009-07-20 10:45:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALTPHY SENV TRGY TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA
09BAGHDAD238THE IRAQ MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT'S EVOLVING ROLE
[...] (SBU) The Ministry of Environment (MoEnv) lacks sufficient training and equipment to execute its main responsibilities of environmental monitoring and clean up, Minister Narmin Othman told EMIN on January 22. Demining is presently a MoEnv responsibility, but the Ministry of Defense continues [...]
2009-01-29 14:45:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EPET ECIN KHDP KSCA IZ
09BAGHDAD403UN REVIEW OF IRAQ SCIENCE AND TECHNOLGY OFF TO A
[...] (SBU) Minister of Science and Technology (MoST) Ra'id Fahmi Jahid told a visiting group of Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) representatives on February 11 that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) science, technology, and innovation policies (STIP [...]
2009-02-16 12:49:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY SENV TRGY TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA
09BAGHDAD419IRAQ MAKING ENCOURAGING PROGRESS ON NUCLEAR CLEAN-UP
[...] (SBU) The Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) took EconOffs, MNFI, and two visiting Texas Tech University (TTU) Professors on a walking tour of the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility (TNRF) February 9 to assess the progress of MoST's nuclear facility dismantlement and disposal project. T [...]
2009-02-18 07:40:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALTPHY SEVN TSPL PARM ENRG KGIT KNNP KSCA ENRG
09BAKU187ANTARCTICA DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Adil Suleymanov at the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Suleymanov received the demarche, responding Friday, February 27 to say that he would pass the message to his MFA colleagues who work on multilateral treaties. He did not offer any clarif [...]
2009-03-11 11:07:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIEDSENV PARM AORC AY KSCA KTIA TPHY AJ
09BANGKOK1437THAI BUREAUCRACY IMPEDES PROGRESS ON HCOC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-16 10:44:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA TH
09BEIJING11PRC VFM HE YAFEI IN PAKISTAN: SEEKING TO REDUCE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-05 09:37:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KSCA PTER PK IN CH
09BEIJING146CHINA-AFGHANISTAN RELATIONS
[...] (C) Afghan Embassy First Secretary Meerwais Nab told PolOffs January 14 that China and Afghanistan have good bilateral relations, but he noted Chinese concerns, including the presence of U.S. forces near the Sino-Afghan border, India's influence in Afghanistan, "elements" in Afghanistan assist [...]
2009-01-16 08:45:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KSCA PTER SNAR ETRD PK IN AF CH
09BEIJING174CHINA: VISA DELAYS SET BACK WESTINGHOUSE PROJECT, THREATEN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Westinghouse's execution of a multi-billion dollar contract to build nuclear power units in China -- a source of thousands of U.S. jobs -- continues to be hindered by visa processing delays, specifically the 9 weeks currently required for Visas Mantis Security Advisory Opinion ( [...]
2009-01-21 09:02:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT CVIS OEXC ECON ENRG EINV TRGY KNNP KSCA CH
09BEIJING2109PRC FEEDBACK ON PAST NONPRO CASES REQUESTED
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper requesting information on the status of investigations of past cases of missile-related nonproliferation concern to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical/Biological Division Deputy Director Yang Yi on July 23. Yang said she woul [...]
2009-07-23 09:43:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA CH SY IR PK
09BEIJING2173CHINA INFORMED OF CHINESE FIRM'S EFFORTS TO
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper notifying China of Beijing Jingda Zhiyuan Technologies Development Ltd. efforts to provide controlled carbon fiber to a Pakistani missile developer to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biological Division Deputy Director [...]
2009-07-30 09:23:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA CH PK
09BEIJING265CHINA INFORMED OF 2008 CANBERRA MTCR PLENARY
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel non-paper describing the results of the November 2008 Canberra Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Plenary to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Third Secretary Liu Wei on February 4, stressing the important contribution China could ma [...]
2009-02-04 09:10:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA TSPA CH
09BEIJING3123MIXED IMPACT AND INDUSTRY SKEPTICS FOR CHINA'S FOREST
[...] (U) On October 29, five Chinese central government agencies (State Forestry Administration (SFA),National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC),Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM),Ministry of Finance (MOF),and the State Administration of Taxation (SAT)jointly issued a "Forestry Industry Devel [...]
2009-11-16 10:12:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ETRD KSCA CH
09BEIJING3148CHINA INFORMED OF CHINESE FIRM'S PROVISION OF
[...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper notifying China of Xi'an Junyun Electronic and Mechanical Company's provision of controlled gyroscopes to an Iranian missile developer to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biological Division Deputy Director Yang Yi on No [...]
2009-11-20 07:13:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC CH IR
09BEIJING3269CHINA INFORMED OF CHINESE FIRM'S ACTIONS TO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-08 07:33:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL ETTC KSCA CH PK
09BEIJING3476CHINA INFORMED OF CHINESE FIRM'S ACTIONS TO
[...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper notifying China of Malaysian-based Iranian front company Electronic Component Limited's (ECL) efforts to buy controlled gyroscopes from the Beijing-based Vibtel Industrial Co. Inc to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Chemical and Biol [...]
2009-12-28 10:57:00Embassy BeijingSECRETPARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH MY
09BEIJING381Talking Points Delivered: CNSA Response to Satellite
[...] (SBU) On February 13, ESTHOFF conveyed points in REFTEL regarding the collision of a U.S. and Russian satellite and discussed the issue directly by phone with Mr. XU Yansong of the China National Space Agency's (CNSA) International Cooperation Department. Post also transmitted points in writin [...]
2009-02-13 10:28:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA TSPL TPHY PREL KSCA CH
09BEIJING606CHINA STANDING BY ON AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Chinese eyes are focused intently on U.S. plans for, and action in, Afghanistan and Pakistan, an area the Chinese see as a dangerously unstable, interconnected threat to Chinese security - but one that they are uncertain about how to address. China has mixed feelings about U.S. involvement [...]
2009-03-09 11:49:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KSCA PTER SNAR PARM ETRD PK IN AF CH
09BEIJING646COMMUNISTS AND ISLAMISTS MAKE FOR STRANGE
[...] (C//REL ACGU) Summary: Some Chinese academic and third-country diplomatic contacts believe the recent memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and major Pakistani Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) strengthens the Chinese position in Xinjiang Prov [...]
2009-03-12 10:55:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KSCA PTER PARM ETRD PK AF CH
09BEIJING68PRC VFM HE YAFEI IN INDIA: STILL SEEKING TO REDUCE
[...] (C) Summary: PRC Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei's January 5-6 trip to India focused on encouraging India to ease tensions with Pakistan, MFA Asian Affairs Department DDG Sun Weidong told PolMinCouns January 9. Given Pakistan's willingness to cooperate on counter-terrorism efforts, China hope [...]
2009-01-09 08:54:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL KSCA PTER AF PK IN CH
09BEIJING686Mantis 2008 (1 of 2): More Workload, More Waiting in
[...] Summary: This cable summarizes Beijing's 2008 Mantis Security Advisory Opinion (SAO) review. In 2008, overall SAO Mantis volume increased by 10 percent, and wait times quadrupled to 16 weeks for SAO clearance. End Summary. ------------------------------- 2008 in Review: By the Numbers - [...]
2009-03-17 09:02:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT CVIS ETTC OEXC ECON ENRG EINV TRGY KNNP KSCA
09BEIJING687Mantis 2009 (2 of 2): Unpredictable Delays Harm Business,
[...] (SBU) Summary: This cable draws preliminary conclusions on 2009 Mantis Security Advisory Opinion (SAO) processing trends, based on the first 5 months of the fiscal year. Current lengthy SAO processing delays undermine Consular Section public outreach efforts. Expediting 2009 student and scho [...]
2009-03-17 09:03:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT CVIS ETTC OEXC ECON ENRG EINV TRGY KNNP KSCA
09BEIJING817SAOs: U.S. Companies Highlight Harm to U.S. Exports; Jobs
[...] (SBU) Summary: Presidents and CEOs of U.S. high-tech exporters met with the CDA to express their concern that four-month-long waits for visa issuances are having a serious negative impact on American exports, and to discuss possible solutions. A delegation of former American Chamber of Commerc [...]
2009-03-27 06:50:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT CVIS ETTC OEXC ECON ENRG EINV TRGY KNNP KSCA
09BELGRADE269SERBIA INFORMED OF HCOC BALLISTIC MISSILE PROLIFERATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-27 14:56:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA SR
09BERLIN1034(S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AN IRANIAN PROCUREMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-25 15:47:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR SZ GM
09BERLIN1035(S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ADDITIONAL IRANIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-25 15:55:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA AE IR GM
09BERLIN1048ASSESSMENT OF FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF
[...] (U) Per reftel, we examined whether the work of the proposed National Science Foundation (NSF) grant would have adverse implications on U.S. foreign policy. From our review of the backgrounds and the work of the proposed organizations, we assess that there are no adverse implications for U.S. [...]
2009-08-27 15:48:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY KSCA OTRA NSF GM
09BERLIN1070US 2009 MTCR PLENARY PROPOSALS DELIVERED TO GERMANY
[...] (C) On September 1, EconOff delivered ref A non-paper to MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer, Nancy Reck, regarding US "small group" proposals for the 2009 MTCR Plenary in Rio de Janeiro. Reck thanked the USG for the non-paper and said she would deliver it to the appropriate authorities [...]
2009-09-03 13:05:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR JA UK GM
09BERLIN1114(C) GERMAN REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON A PENDING
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARA 4. 2. (C) On September 9, the German MFA Export Control Office (Division 412) provided EconOff with a German-language non-paper requesting information from the USG by September 18 regarding a pending German export of a low-pressure casting m [...]
2009-09-10 15:38:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IN GM
09BERLIN1156GERMAN FEDERAL PROSECUTORS REQUEST INFORMATION TO
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) During a meeting between German federal prosecutors, Econoffs and LES Legal Specialist, German federal prosecutor Wolfgang Siegmund raised two questions related to German export control cases. 3. (S) Siegmund stated th [...]
2009-09-18 10:26:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL CH GM
09BERLIN1161NONPAPER DELIVERED: USG INFORMATION ON A PENDING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-18 15:26:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IN GM
09BERLIN119(S) GERMANY INFORMED ON IRANIAN EFFORTS TO PROCURE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-30 14:07:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR MY GM
09BERLIN1275MTCR INFORMATION EXCHANGE PROPOSALS SHARED WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-13 16:05:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA BR FR GM
09BERLIN1294(S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRANIAN PROCUREMENT OF
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-16 13:37:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR MY GM
09BERLIN1362GERMANY REQUESTS GUIDANCE ON EXPORT WITH MTCR "NO
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARA 4. 2. (C) MFA Export Control Division Officer Dirk Haupt provided Global Affairs Officer on October 28 with non-paper requesting U.S. guidance by November 17 on a pending German export of extruded aluminum plates to India that may have been [...]
2009-10-29 10:18:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALETTC MTCRE PGOV PREL PINR TSPA KSCA IN GM
09BERLIN1372MTCR: U.S. REPORT ON CONTACTS WITH NON-PARTNERS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-30 16:25:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALKSCA ETTC MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA FR BR GM
09BERLIN14(S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONTINUED IRANIAN INTEREST
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-07 14:24:00Embassy BerlinSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IR FR GM
09BERLIN1430(S) GERMANY ALERTED TO PREVENT IRANIAN ACQUISITION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-12 13:09:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR MY GM
09BERLIN1431(S) GERMANY INFORMED OF IRANIAN MISSILE PROGRAM
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-12 13:14:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH GM
09BERLIN1463(C) GERMANY WELCOMES US GUIDANCE ON THE EXPORT OF
[...] (C) On November 17, EconOff delivered ref A non-paper to MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer, Dirk Roland Haupt, responding to a German information request on a pending German export of extruded aluminum plates to India. Haupt thanked the USG for delivering the response within the reque [...]
2009-11-17 15:39:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IN GM
09BERLIN1534(S) GERMANY INFORMED ON IRAN'S CONTINUED INTEREST
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-03 16:17:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR GM
09BERLIN1611(S) GERMANY WILL REVIEW CASE OF SYRIAN ATTEMPTS TO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-22 11:47:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MUNC ETTC KSCA SY GE
09BERLIN192GERMANY WELCOMES U.S. NONPROLIFERATION ASSURANCES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-13 17:27:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDETTC ENRG KNNP KSCA PARM TRGY FR GM
09BERLIN351GERMANY UNDERSTANDS CANCELLATION OF OAK RIDGE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-25 15:30:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC ENRG KNNP KSCA PARM TRGY FR GM
09BERLIN353(S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRANIAN MISSILE PROGRAM
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-25 16:36:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR GM
09BERLIN39(S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRANIAN FIRM SEEKS GERMAN
[...] (S) Germany appreciates Ref A information regarding Iranian efforts to procure German origin computer numeric control (CNC) controllers for use with a six-axis filament winding machine, but may not feel confident about their legal case to deny such an export. On January 13, we delivered ref [...]
2009-01-13 13:28:00Embassy BerlinSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IR GM
09BERLIN399(C) GERMANY INFORMED ON USG VIEWS REGARDING PARIS
[...] (C) On March 31, EconOff delivered ref nonpaper to German MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Nancy Reck. Reck said that the information in the ref nonpaper looks good and that she only had a few comments pertaining to the "Machine Tools" and "Interdiction" topics. 2. (C) Reck point [...]
2009-04-03 09:47:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA FR GM
09BERLIN45(S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UAE FRONT COMPANY FOR IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-14 06:45:00Embassy BerlinSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA FR IR AE GM
09BERLIN457GERMANY TO REVIEW PERMITS FOR RETURN OF LOW LEVEL
[...] (SBU) Econoff met with Joerg Polster, German MFA desk officer for International Nuclear Energy to discuss issues raised in Ref A. Polster stated he was not familiar with the issue, as it predated his tenure in his current position by several years. As the German MFA point of contact, per Ref [...]
2009-04-17 15:52:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ETTC KNNP KSCA TRGY GM
09BERLIN511(S) GERMAN RESPONSE TO IRANIAN UAV EQUIPMENT
[...] (S) On April 24, MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Wiebke Wacker provided EconOff with a German-language non-paper response to the Ref B non-paper addressing Iranian attempts to procure German-origin spectrum analyzers and motors in support of their unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) progra [...]
2009-05-04 13:32:00Embassy BerlinSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IR GM
09BERLIN522(S) GERMAN RESPONSE TO PAKISTANI EFFORTS TO
[...] (S) On April 24, MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Wiebke Wacker provided EconOff with a German-language non-paper response to the Ref B non-paper addressing Pakistani attempts to procure German-origin calibration equipment in support of their ballistic missile program. Wacker did not [...]
2009-05-06 15:32:00Embassy BerlinSECRETETTC KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL PK GM
09BERLIN560(S) GERMAN RESPONSE TO IRANIAN EFFORTS TO PROCURE
[...] (S) On April 24, MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Wiebke Wacker provided EconOff with a German-language non-paper response to the Ref B non-paper addressing Iranian attempts to procure German-origin servo motors in support of their unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program. Wacker did not [...]
2009-05-14 15:56:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR MY GM
09BERLIN805GERMAN RESPONSE TO IRANIAN ATTEMPTS TO PROCURE
[...] (S) On July 1, MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Iris Wilczoch provided EconOff with a German-language non-paper response to the ref B non-paper addressing Iranian attempts to procure German-origin environmental test chambers. Wilczoch did not have any further information to add. [...]
2009-07-02 15:35:00Embassy BerlinSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA PINR IR ML GM
09BERLIN829(S) GERMANY INFORMED OF IRANIAN INTEREST IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-09 15:43:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR MY GM
09BERLIN854(S) GERMANY INFORMED ON SYRIAN EFFORT TO PROCURE A
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-15 13:03:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA SY GM
09BERLIN921(S) GERMANY WARNS THE USG ABOUT A BRAZILIAN
[...] (S) On July 31, MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Nancy Reck provided EconOff with a German-language non-paper warning US export control authorities about a potential Brazilian procurement attempt of proliferation concern for "Automatic High-Precision Heavy-Duty Necking-In-Machines with [...]
2009-07-31 15:41:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PREL PINR MNUC ETTC KSCA KNNP IR BR GM
09BERLIN939(C) GERMANY LIKELY TO DELIVER ADDITIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-04 15:10:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA BR FR GM
09BERLIN986(S) GERMANY INFORMED OF IRANIAN INTEREST IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-11 17:15:00Embassy BerlinSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA AE IR GM
09BERN278(S) POSSIBLE EFFORT BY SYRIA'S MISSILE PROGRAM TO
[...] (S) On July 2, acting POLE counselor delivered the non-paper in reftel to Juergen Boehler, Head of the Export Control Licensing Division of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). Boehler expressed appreciation for the information. He said that he was not aware of a possible effor [...]
2009-07-02 19:27:00Embassy BernSECRETPARM MTCRE ETTC MNUC KSCA SZ SY
09BERN279(S) FURTHER INFORMATION ON POSSIBLE EFFORT BY \
[...] (S) On July 3, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs \ (SECO) Head of Export Control Licensing Division Juergen \ Boehler provided additional information in response to ref A \ non-paper. Boehler confirmed that the planned export of the \ high speed camera has been stopped. AOS Technologies had [...]
2009-07-06 07:31:00Embassy BernSECRETPARM MTCRE ETTC MNUC KSCA SZ SY
09BERN315POSSIBLE EFFORT BY SYRIA'S MISSILE PROGRAM TO
[...] (S) On July 27, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) Head of Export Control Licensing Division Juergen Boehler contacted acting POLE counselor to report additional information he thought potentially relevant to the recent possible effort by Syria's missile program to obtain a high-spe [...]
2009-07-27 13:41:00Embassy BernSECRETPARM MTCRE ETTC MNUC KSCA PINR SZ SY
09BERN316UPDATE: POSSIBLE EFFORT BY SYRIA'S MISSILE
[...] (S) On July 28, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) Head of Export Control Licensing Division Juergen Boehler contacted acting POLE counselor to report that he had decided upon further reflection that he would notify MTCR points-of-contact of this second "denial." (reftel A) Boehler [...]
2009-07-28 12:17:00Embassy BernSECRETPARM MTCRE ETTC MNUC KSCA PINR SZ SY
09BOGOTA809COLOMBIA: INVITATION TO ATTEND ANTARCTIC TREATY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-11 19:02:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDAORC SENV TPHY KSCA KTIA ECON CO
09BRASILIA1012MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (C) Post delivered the reftel points to Ministry of External Relations (MRE) Director for Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies Santiago Mourao. Mourao responded that Brazil was considering making a presentation at the plenary IE but had not yet decided on what subject. 2. (C) As the [...]
2009-08-14 19:55:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA
09BRASILIA1066BRAZIL: LAUNCH OF OES-FUNDED PROJECT CONCERNING LAND-BASED
[...] (SBU) Embassy Brasilia, in conjunction with the Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science (OES),has awarded a USD 75,000 grant to support the reduction of land-based sources of marine pollution in Brazil. The request for proposals was issued on February 20, 2009 and there were four responses [...]
2009-08-27 16:26:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EINV EAGR KSCA BR
09BRASILIA1105 BRAZIL: EMBASSY BRASILIA'S SUGGESTED THEMES FOR UPCOMING
[...] (SBU) In preparation for the November ministerial-level Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology (JCM) Embassy Brasilia has identified three potential areas that could be used to advance U.S. Government (USG) priority interests building on the robust and on-going science and technolo [...]
2009-09-04 10:16:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA BR
09BRASILIA1114BRAZIL: AMAZON DEFORESTATION RATE SET TO BE THE LOWEST IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The rate of deforestation of the Amazon Forest decreased 46% for the August 2008-July 2009 annual period compared to the previous 12-month period based on preliminary data released by the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE). The results of high-resolution satell [...]
2009-09-08 10:13:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG KSCA EAGR BR
09BRASILIA1120BRAZIL: POTENTIAL FOR WORKING CLOSER WITH BRAZIL ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Biotechnology and genetic resources are issues that have divided the Brazilian ministries, with the Agriculture Ministry vigorously supporting increased use of biotechnology and freer flow of genetic resources, and until recently, the Environment Ministry expressing skepticism [...]
2009-09-08 14:07:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR TBIO ECON KSCA KIPR EAID ETRD BR
09BRASILIA1149BRAZIL NO LONGER SEEKS TO SEND LOW LEVEL RADIOACTIVE
[...] (SBU) Per REFTEL A, on September 11 Science Counselor and Science Officer discussed with Brazil's Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Acting Director of the Division for Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies (DDS) Fabio Simao Alves the proposal to transfer of low-level radioactive items fro [...]
2009-09-15 18:54:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ETTC KNNP KSCA TRGY BR
09BRASILIA1156BRAZIL: PLANNING TO SEND ASSURANCES FOR EXPORT OF HEU
[...] (SBU) Per REFTEL A, on September 11 Science Counselor and Science Officer met with Brazil's Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Acting Director of the Division for Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies (DDS) Fabio Simao Alves to request written assurances from the Brazilian Government that [...]
2009-09-16 17:35:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP KSCA TRGY BR
09BRASILIA1174 BRAZIL FINALLY RATIFIES ANTARCTIC TREATY CONSULTATIVE
[...] (SBU) On September 17, 2009, Fabio Vaz Pitaluga, the Director of the Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Division of Oceans, Antarctica, and Space, informed Science Counselor and Science Officer that the Brazilian Senate finally had ratified Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) Measu [...]
2009-09-18 19:12:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC AY KSCA KTIA SENV TPHY BR
09BRASILIA1175 BRAZIL - GROWING RECOGNITION OF IMPORTANCE OF PROMOTING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil (GOB) and the private sector have identified promoting innovation as a key priority. Many of the Mission's governmental interlocutors view innovation as pivotal to accelerating Brazil's continued development and economic success. Working with the GOB [...]
2009-09-21 10:32:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON TSPL TPHY TNGD TINT KIPR KSCA NSF BR
09BRASILIA1224BRAZIL: EXTENDING THE U.S.-BRAZIL FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT ON
[...] (SBU) On September 17 Counselor Fabio Vaz Pitaluga, head of the Division of Oceans, Antarctica, and Space (DMAE) of the Ministry of External Relations (MRE),met with Science Counselor and Science Officer to discuss the options for the renewal of the U.S.-Brazil Framework Agreement on Cooperat [...]
2009-10-06 10:38:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA KSCA NASA BR
09BRASILIA123BRAZIL: INTERMINISTERIAL BATTLES LEAVE NEEDED REFORM OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A divided Brazilian cabinet was unable to resolve its differences in order to make urgently needed reforms of the Forest Code. First, Agriculture Minister Reinhold Stephanes and Environment Minister Carlos Minc could not agree on a common approach for legislation to replace th [...]
2009-01-30 16:33:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIN EAGR KSCA BR
09BRASILIA1254BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is productive and broad-based. There exists a solid foundation of scientific and technological (S&T) ties, which offers excellent opportunities for increasing bilateral - and possible trilateral - cooperation. The bilatera [...]
2009-10-22 18:57:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA EAGR EAID SENV TBIO BR
09BRASILIA1298 BRAZIL: MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AUTHORIZATIONS: UPDATED
[...] Per REFTEL, Post's officers responsible for handling requests for marine scientific research authorizations are as follows: - Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Counselor Richard J. Driscoll - tel. 55 61 3312-7401, email DriscollRJ@state.gov (through summer 2010) - ESTH [...]
2009-11-06 12:44:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY KRVC EWWT KSCA SENV BR
09BRASILIA1321SCENESETTER FOR THE U.S.-BRAZIL JOINT COMMISSION MEETING ON
[...] SUMMARY: Brazil - the giant of South America - has stepped on to the world stage as a major economic power and is a key player in regional and multilateral matters. What has been less noticeable is that Brazil has put itself on a track to eventually become a global scientific and technologic [...]
2009-11-16 14:28:00Embassy BrasiliaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKSCA EAGR EAID SENV TBIO NSF BR
09BRASILIA1322 BRAZIL AND FRANCE ANNOUNCE COMMON POSITION ON UN FRAMEWORK
[...] (SBU) During their meeting in Paris on November 14, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) and French President Nicholas Sarkozy issued a joint press release detailing their two governments' common position on the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotia [...]
2009-11-17 09:22:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA KGHG ENRG BR
09BRASILIA1384BRAZIL: ASSURANCES RECEIVED FOR EXPORT OF HEU SAMPLES TO
[...] (SBU) Per Ministry of External Relations Diplomatic Note DDS/105/ENER BRAS EUA, dated November 5, 2009, the Government of Brazil as requested (REFTEL A) provided the assurances to the U.S. Department of Energy regarding the handling of a small quantity of highly enriched uranium (HEU) material [...]
2009-12-01 11:27:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP KSCA TRGY BR
09BRASILIA1406SYMPOSIUM ON BIOSECURITY AND DUAL USE RESEARCH ENCOURAGES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The First International Symposium on Biosecurity and Dual Use Research held in Brazil brought together Latin American experts and policymakers dealing with biosecurity. The conference highlighted the national security threats emerging from the advances in the biological science [...]
2009-12-04 16:22:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KSCA BR
09BRASILIA1408BRAZIL ANNOUNCES LOWEST RATE OF DEFORESTATION OF AMAZON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On November 12, Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc announced Brazil's lowest ever Amazon deforestation rate since monitoring began in 1988. A total of 7,008 square kilometers of forest were cleared, which represents a 45 percent drop from the previous annual period. O [...]
2009-12-04 17:50:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG KSCA EAGR BR
09BRASILIA1414BRAZIL: STAS DR. NINA FEDOROFF PROMOTES SCIENCE AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Dr. Nina Fedoroff, Science and Technology Advisor for the Secretary of State and USAID (STAS) visited Brazil on October 25-30. In her meetings in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, and Rio de Janeiro with academics, private sector representatives, and government officials she promoted incre [...]
2009-12-07 13:48:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL TBIO TPHY EAGR KSCA EAID KGHG BR
09BRASILIA142ANTARCTIC TREATY: BRAZIL UNLIKELY TO APPROVE 2003 ATCM
[...] (SBU) On January 29 and again on February 3, ESTH Counselor met with key officials in the Ministry of External Relations (MRE) to press for Brazil to approve by early April the 2003 Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) Measure 1, which would create the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat (REF [...]
2009-02-04 13:48:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTPHY SENV AORC KSCA PREL BR
09BRASILIA1428USAID/Brazil and Brazil's Agency for Cooperation Visit Haiti
[...] SUMMARY: From November 22-26, USAID/Brazil, together with the Brazilian Agency for International Cooperation (ABC) visited Port-au-Prince to identify opportunities for trilateral cooperation in Haiti. Activities including project site visits and stakeholder meetings with Government of Haiti of [...]
2009-12-08 17:21:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EINV ETRD ENRG SOCI KSCA HA ECON
09BRASILIA143BRAZILIAN MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SEES GOOD
[...] (SBU) At a meeting on January 13, Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology (MCT) Sergio Rezende stressed to Ambassador Sobel that climate change and the related issue of energy are excellent areas for cooperation between the Brazil and the United States. Rezende said that although climate [...]
2009-02-04 13:48:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ENRG KSCA BR
09BRASILIA209BRAZIL: PRELIMINARY RESPONSE - NOT YET APPROVED HRSA/HHS
[...] The Embassy cannot yet sign off on the agreement proposed in REFTEL. Due to Brazilian sensitivities on health related issues, the Embassy's ESTH office is seeking more information from the Brazilian partner (REDOME) before it can provide a definitive response. 2. The Embassy POC for this [...]
2009-02-19 19:27:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KSCA OSCI BR
09BRASILIA222ANTARCTIC: INVITATION DELIVERED; GOB SEEKING APPROVAL OF
[...] (SBU) On February 18, Post delivered to the Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) the invitation letter (REFTEL E) to Minister Celso Amorim from Secretary Clinton to attend the ministerial-level event in Washington on April 6, 2009, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty and [...]
2009-02-20 19:46:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC KSCA KTIA PREL SENV TPHY AY BR
09BRASILIA244BRAZIL: TWO NEW PRAGMATIC STEPS TO ADDRESS ILLEGAL AMAZON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Brazil (GOB) plans to take two steps - each quite pragmatic - to address the serious problem of settlers illegally clearing the Amazon Forest and the challenge of settlers occupying public land in the Amazon: The first measure - currently a proposal - would r [...]
2009-02-27 18:36:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EINV EAGR KSCA BR
09BRASILIA265 ENVIRONMENT MINISTER MINC PRAISES APPOINTMENT OF S/E STERN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Minister of the Environment, Carlos Minc, sees the twin issues of climate and energy as an opportunity for increased USG and Government of Brazil (GOB) cooperation. He sees Brazil as playing the role of a bridge between the developed nations and the G-77 in upcoming climate n [...]
2009-03-06 20:10:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG KSCA ENRG TBIO BR
09BRASILIA270BRAZIL: ENORMOUS AMAZONAS STATE PLANS AMBITIOUS APPROACH ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. By December of this year, the State of Amazonas - which contains nearly half of the remaining Brazilian Amazon Forest - plans to announce its own climate change plan and state-wide target for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To accomplish this goal Governor Eduardo Bra [...]
2009-03-10 11:54:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG KSCA TSPL EAID ENRG NOAA NASA BR
09BRASILIA290BRAZIL: SPACE COOPERATION POTENTIAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) Technology Director Marco Antonio Chamon sees many opportunities for cooperation with the USG and with U.S. space businesses. Brazil is open to supplying for free the USG with the remote sensing information from the Brazil- [...]
2009-03-11 19:48:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA ETTC SENV ECON KSCA BR
09BRASILIA296BRAZIL: FALLEN SPACE OBJECT RECOVERED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 5, Post recovered from the Brazilian authorities the component of a U.S. space launch vehicle that fell in the State of Goias, Brazil, in late March 2008. The object, a composite overwrapped pressure vessel (COPV),is in remarkably good condition and is stored at the [...]
2009-03-12 11:02:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA SENV KSCA BR
09BRASILIA297 BRAZIL: REQUEST FOR USG HELP IN REPATRIATING TURTLES
[...] On March 6, 2009, Mr. Anderson Luis do Valle from the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Resources (IBAMA) contacted Post's Environment, Science and Technology, and Health (ESTH) office. Mr. Valle is the Coordinator of IBAMA's Center for Triage of Wild Animals. He explained tha [...]
2009-03-12 18:12:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA TBIO BR
09BRASILIA428BRAZIL: NO OBJECTION TO HRSA/HHS AGREEMENT BETWEEN
[...] Embassy Brasilia has no objection to the proposed agreement between the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP) and REDOME (Brazilian Volunteer Bone Marrow Donor Registry.) 2. The Embassy would like to stress that this agreement should not be seen as authorizing the transfer of genetic resour [...]
2009-04-07 10:58:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KSCA OSCI BR
09BRASILIA507BRAZIL ON THE MAJOR ECONOMIES FORUM
[...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Overcoming some earlier concerns, Brazil has embraced the Major Economies Forum (MEF) process. Brazil will send its chief negotiator, Ambassador Vera Machado, the Ministry of External Relat [...]
2009-04-24 19:43:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ENRG ECON KSCA BR
09BRASILIA526 U.S. FOREST SERVICE EXPLORES EXPANDED COLLABORATION WITH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A team of experts from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) identified and prioritized a range of areas for two-way cooperation with Brazilian counterparts during their April 14-17 visit to Brazil. Officials from the young Brazilian Forest Service, the Brazilian Agricultural Researc [...]
2009-04-29 19:19:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA EAID KGHG EAGR BR
09BRASILIA606 CONFERENCES HIGHLIGHT SUCCESSES AND REMAINING CHALLENGES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two recent conferences in Rio de Janeiro highlighted both the successes and obstacles remaining in health cooperation between the United States and Brazil. Current bilateral cooperation programs that have staff actually working within Government of Brazil (GOB) health agencies [...]
2009-05-13 13:28:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KSCA NIH CDC BR
09BRASILIA618BRAZIL: CONFERENCE ON FINANCE FOR REDUCING DEFORESTATION -
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An international conference, April 1-4, hosted by the Governor of Mato Grosso Blairo Maggi and the NGO Forest Trends, and co-funded by USAID, highlighted how far Brazil has come in recognizing its problem with massive, ongoing deforestation of the Amazon Forest. The conference [...]
2009-05-18 10:21:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG KSCA EAID EFIN ENRG BR
09BRASILIA714BRAZIL: RECOVERED SPACE-OBJECT SAFELY RETURNED TO U.S. AIR
[...] (SBU) On June 2, 2009, Post received from the U.S. Air Force confirmation that a piece of an Atlas rocket that had broken off and landed in Brazil had completed its journey and arrived safely on May 27 at the USAF's Aerospace Materials Laboratory in El Segundo, California, for scientific anal [...]
2009-06-05 15:50:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA SENV KSCA BR
09BRASILIA717BRAZIL LAUNCHES A TEST ROCKET AS A STEP TOWARD REVIVING ITS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 29, Brazil launched a research rocket from the Alcantara Launch Center (CLA) in the northeastern state of Maranhao. Brazilian officials are considering the launch a success for the Brazilian space program, and an important step toward putting a satellite into orbit. Bra [...]
2009-06-05 19:37:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA SENV KSCA BR
09BRASILIA743 BRAZIL EMBARKS ON PROGRAM TO IMPROVE MANAGEMENT OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The relatively new Brazilian Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio),the agency responsible for national parks and protected area system, has launched a program to improve its park management. It seeks to introduce public use plans for its parks, and the [...]
2009-06-10 20:13:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA EAID KGHG EAGR BR
09BRASILIA760 BRAZIL: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON INTERNATIONAL WHALING
[...] (SBU) On June 10, Environment, Science, Technology, and Health (ESTH) Officer delivered the points in REFTEL to Andre Mourao from the Ministry of Exterior Relations' Division of Oceans, Antarctica, and Space. 2. (SBU) Mr. Mourao received the demarche, but did not provide a substantive respo [...]
2009-06-16 19:43:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC BR
09BRASILIA872 BRAZIL: CALIFORNIA'S AND OTHERS' INITIATIVES TO REDUCE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. California is leading a group of states in the United States, Brazil and Indonesia, which are parties to a November 2008 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU),in developing the specifications for credit grade international offsets for avoiding deforestation under California's cap- [...]
2009-07-13 14:03:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ECON KSCA EAID ENRG BR
09BRASILIA880 NO ADVERSE FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS TO PROPOSED
[...] Embassy Brasilia sees no foreign adverse foreign policy implications in awarding the grant, GEO-0916462, detailed in REFTEL D. 2. Since REFTEL D paragraph 9 indicates that human subject are involved, we emphasize the importance of complying with Brazilian laws on the export of data and b [...]
2009-07-15 17:23:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY KSCA NSF OTRA BR
09BRASILIA893BRAZIL: CONTENTIOUS LAW ENACTED TO HELP CLARIFY MURKY LAND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 25, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed legislation (Law No. 11952) that addresses a key factor underlying Brazil's serious deforestation problem, i.e., the lack of clear title to land in the Amazon region. This new law provides farmers and ranchers oc [...]
2009-07-17 13:35:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EINV ECON EAGR KSCA BR
09BRASILIA947KEY BRAZILIAN NEGOTIATOR SEEKS MODEST, SHORT-TERM, CLIMATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) leads the Brazilian delegation to the ongoing climate change negotiations. The key MRE negotiator on the delegation is Luiz Figueiredo Machado, who is also a Vice-Chair of one of the working groups under the UN Framework Convention on C [...]
2009-07-31 13:25:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ECON KSCA BR
09BRASILIA963USG SPONSORED WORKSHOP ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLACIAL MELT
[...] SUMMARY. In July 2009, a USAID and NSF-sponsored workshop brought together U.S. and Peruvian experts on climate change impacts on highland mountain zones and they identified six major weaknesses impeding the development and implementation of adaptation strategies. These weaknesses included t [...]
2009-08-04 15:50:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID TBIO KSCA ECON SOCI XR BR
09BRASILIA99NO ADVERSE FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS REGARDING NSF
[...] REFTEL D requested the Embassy to review a National Science Foundation (NSF) proposed supplemental award (GEO-0907908) to the existing NSF research grant GEO-0745732 entitled "IAI Training Institute to Develop Capacity Building in Interdisciplinary Global Environmental Change Sciences." 2. [...]
2009-01-23 16:48:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TPHY NSF US BR
09BRAZZAVILLE141HCOC-DEMARCHE ENCOURAGE ROC TO SUBSCRIBE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-08 06:48:00Embassy BrazzavilleUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETTC MNUC TSPA KSCA CF
09BRAZZAVILLE178CONGO/BRAZZAVILLE - INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION 2009
[...] Ambassador met June 11 with J.A. Kolelas, Congo(B) representative to the International Whaling Commission. 2. Kolelas said that Congo was in agreement with the U.S. position. Regarding the chair and vice-chair, he said that he had recently attended a Japanese-organized "preparatory meeting" [...]
2009-06-11 10:01:00Embassy BrazzavilleUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS PREL SENV IWC KSCA
09BRUSSELS1676BELGIUM: REVIEW FOR PHASE 3 STUDY OF PTC124 IN
[...] (U) Post has determined that there are no concerns or objections regarding foreign policy implications in the awarding of this research grant with any of the four participating institutions in Belgium. GUTMAN . [...]
2009-12-15 11:57:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDABUD AFIN BR KSCA OSCI TBIO US
09BRUSSELS192BELGIUM: NO FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTION TO PROPOSED
[...] (U) The Embassy has no concerns or objections regarding any foreign policy implications in the awarding of this grant that involves patients in Belgium. BUSH . [...]
2009-02-11 10:12:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDOSCI ABUD AFIN KSCA TBIO BE
09BUDAPEST215HUNGARIAN ACTION ON HCOC "INREACH"
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-20 11:30:00Embassy BudapestCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA HU
09BUDAPEST310REQUEST: HUNGARIAN HCOC OUTREACH
[...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 4. 2. (C) MFA Security and Non-Proliferation Department Deputy Chief, Gabor Horvath, contacted PolOff April 20 to request USG concurrence for their proposed outreach to several countries under the aegis of Hungary's current Hague Code of Conduct [...]
2009-04-21 12:45:00Embassy BudapestCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA HU
09BUDAPEST578HUNGARIAN PLANS FOR THE MTCR RIO PLENARY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-07 15:25:00Embassy BudapestCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA HU
09BUENOSAIRES186ARGENTINE FM TAIANA ACCEPTS SECRETARY'S INVITATION FOR
[...] Post delivered Secretary Clinton's invitation to Argentina's Foreign Minister to attend the April 6 event in Washington commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Antarctic Treaty (reftel). FM Taiana told the Ambassador that he planned to attend the event. His office later confirmed that the F [...]
2009-02-23 13:42:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDAORC AY KSCA KTIA SENV TPHY AR
09CAIRO1004FIRST H1N1 FLU CASE CONFIRMED IN EGYPT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-03 06:30:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV KSCA EAGR EG
09CAIRO1046H1N1 OUTBREAK SHUTS DOWN AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-09 14:49:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV KSCA EAGR CASC PREL EG
09CAIRO138EGYPT ENTERS THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF HIGH
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Five Egyptian research organizations are planning to build Biosafety Level Three (BSL-3) laboratories in which they can work with indigenous or exotic agents like Rift Valley Fever and strains of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI). Three of the groups, VSVRI, th [...]
2009-01-27 09:03:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO PARM PGOV ECON KFLU KSTH KSCA EAGR EG
09CAIRO173EGYPT'S 53RD BIRD FLU VICTIM
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Egypt's 53rd human avian influenza (AI) victim-a two-year-old girl from Shebin El-Kom, the capital of the Menoufiya Governorate- has recovered. Twenty-four of the 25 Egyptian pre-teens struck with bird flu here have now survived, including all 22 of those under age t [...]
2009-02-01 13:55:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
09CAIRO210EGYPT'S 54th BIRD FLU VICTIM, 1st FROM SUEZ
[...] (SBU) On February 4, 2009, Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) announced the country's 54th human avian influenza (AI) victim: a two-year-old boy from the Ganian district in the Suez Governorate. 2. (SBU) The boy, the first AI victim in Suez, got sick February 2, was hospitaliz [...]
2009-02-05 13:20:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
09CAIRO211EGYPT'S 54th BIRD FLU VICTIM, 1st FROM SUEZ
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-05 13:21:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
09CAIRO226EGYPT'S 55th BIRD FLU VICTIM, ANOTHER CHILD
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-09 10:05:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
09CAIRO724EGYPT:LET'S KILL ALL THE PIGS
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: While Egyptian authorities have been responding to the virus formerly known as Swine Flu (and now known as H1N1) in measured ways -stepping up a mostly moribund program to move swine out of urban areas to the countryside, testing swine and swine workers for the H1N1 v [...]
2009-04-29 08:17:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR KISL KIRF USDA
09CAIRO74EGYPT'S CHILDREN CONTINUE TO SURVIVE BIRD FLU
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) has announced Egypt's 52nd human avian influenza (AI) case: a 21-month-old girl from Kerdasa in the Sixth of October Governorate. The girl is in stable condition at Manshia Al Bakry Hospital in Cairo. This case marks [...]
2009-01-15 11:55:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
09CAIRO743EGYPT'S PIG SLAUGHTER CONTINUES
[...] (SBU) We met April 30 with Dr. Mona Mehrez, director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation's (MALR's) Animal Health Research Institute today. Mehrez confirmed Egypt's mass pig slaughtering operation began in earnest April 30. MALR teams are doing the killing. The goal is no pig [...]
2009-04-30 14:01:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO EAGR PGOV ECON KFLU KSTH KSCA KISL EG
09CAIRO771EGYPT'S WAR ON FLUQPIG FARMERS CLASH WITH CULL TEAMS
[...] (SBU) Key Points: -- There have been reports of sporadic clashes between pig farmers and GOE culling team as the pig cull in Egypt enters its second week. There is a heavy police presence in the Mokkattum area on Cairo's east side, home to many of the country's backyard pig farms. -- D [...]
2009-05-06 11:13:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO EAGR PGOV ECON KFLU KSTH KSCA KISL KIRF EG
09CANBERRA187MTCR CHAIR COMMENTS ON INFORMAL BRAINSTORMING
[...] (C/NF) John Quinn, the Australian Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Chair, expressed appreciation for USG input to the informal brainstorming session planned following the Reinforced Point of Contact (RPOC) meeting in Paris on April 29-30, 2009 (reftel). Quinn observed that while the [...]
2009-02-25 07:11:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMTCRE PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC AS
09CANBERRA262HCOC: AUSTRALIA ON ANNUAL DECLARATION "INREACH",
[...] (SBU) We approached Gerry McGuire, Director, Counter-Proliferation Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on March 16 to solicit Australia's help in encouraging timely submission of annual declarations from Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferaton (HCOC) subscrib [...]
2009-03-17 06:50:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALMNUC TSPA PREL ETTC KSCA AS
09CANBERRA50SHORTAGE OF MEDICAL ISOTOPES - REQUEST FOR
[...] (SBU) Embassy Canberra contacted the Canadian Embassy in Canberra January 6 (following Canadian Embassy's reopening following its New Years holiday closure) to discuss reftel request for a joint approach to the GOA concerning the shortage of medical isotopes. The Canadian diplomat said she ha [...]
2009-01-16 02:03:00Embassy CanberraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KSCA AS
09CANBERRA530AUSTRALIA WHALING PREP FOR IWC61
[...] (SBU) Summary: Australia does not plan to seek a resolution at the International Whaling Commission meetings in Madeira June 22-26 outside of consensus. While generally concerned about the format and leadership of a future Small Working Group arrangement, the GOA has not yet reached an inter [...]
2009-06-05 07:07:00Embassy CanberraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA EFIS PREL SENV AS
09CANBERRA574WHALING: SMITH KEEPS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST JAPAN ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith reiterated on June 19 that Australia remained committed to international legal action against Japan if progress is not made on stopping lethal scientific whaling in the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Smith made his comments i [...]
2009-06-19 06:26:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKSCA EFIS SENV AS
09CANBERRA720AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL
[...] (C/NF) August 4, John Quinn, Assistant Secretary for Strategic Issues and Intelligence Branch of the International Security Division, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) readily agreed to pass on the request to add one further presentation, which was previously given in B [...]
2009-08-06 02:18:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA AS
09CANBERRA847AUSTRALIA CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTIVE OF MTCR PLENARY
[...] (C/NF) ) Australia agrees in principle with the four U.S. proposals (reftel) for the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) plenary, but has unsure about implementation. Australia is concerned that the Reinforced Point of Contact Meetings (RPOC) are under strain and appears reluctant to add [...]
2009-09-16 08:58:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALETTC PARM PREL KSCA
09CANBERRA879MTCR: AUSTRALIA REQUESTS COPY OF PAPER: INTANGIBLE
[...] (C) Embassy Canberra requests a copy of the interagency cleared paper "Intangible Technology Transfers: Foreign National Vetting" for delivery to Gerry McGuire, Director of the Counter-Proliferation Section of the Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch of Australia's Department of Forei [...]
2009-09-23 06:17:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR AS
09CANBERRA905MTCR: AUSTRALIA REQUESTS COPY OF PAPER: ENHANCING
[...] (S) Embassy Canberra requests a copy of the interagency cleared paper "Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Scud B Missile System" for delivery to Gerry McGuire, Director of the Counter-Proliferation Section of the Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch of Australia's Department of Foreig [...]
2009-10-01 07:01:00Embassy CanberraSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR AS
09CHISINAU125MOLDOVA RECEIVES DEMARCHE REGARDING USG NOMINATION FOR UN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-24 13:28:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG KSCA SENV AORC MD
09CHISINAU393HCOC INREACH - ENCOURAGING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-27 09:45:00Embassy ChisinauCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
09CONAKRY103CATERPILLAR INFESTATION HIGHLIGHTS WEAK AGRICULTURAL
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. SUMMARY. The rare plague of caterpillars that devastated farm land in north and central Liberia has spread into the southern Forest Region of Guinea destroying crops, polluting water sources, and forcing farmers and families to remain i [...]
2009-02-13 10:27:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ECON KSCA GV
09COPENHAGEN270 IWC 2009 MEETING: DENMARK/GREENLAND VIEWS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Denmark's IWC commissioner told us Denmark will again request an aboriginal whaling quota for Greenland, despite uncertainty regarding the whaling policies of the new Greenlandic Home Rule Government. Denmark supports continuation of the "Future of the IWC" small working group [...]
2009-06-11 10:06:00Embassy CopenhagenUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIWC SENV KSCA PREL PGOV EFIS DA
09COPENHAGEN335DANISH COMMENT ON EFFORTS BY FEDCO TO PROCURE
[...] (U) This message contains an action request in para 3. 2. (S) We discussed ref A July 30 with Danish MFA Coordinator for Iran Sanctions Nikolaj Harris. Harris told us that MFA had passed ref B non-paper to the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) as well as the Danish Construction [...]
2009-08-03 09:11:00Embassy CopenhagenSECRETETTC KSCA MNUC PARM PREL IR DA
09GABORONE445BOTSWANA: HCOC DEMARCHE REPLY
[...] (SBU) PolOff met with the Director of the Department of Multilateral Affairs in the Botswana Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mmamosadinyana Punkie Josephine Molefe May 22. PolOff discussed the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation ("HCOC") and [...]
2009-06-04 10:28:00Embassy GaboroneUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA BC
09GUANGZHOU688After Attempted Cover-Up, China Calls Cobalt-60 Incident a
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese officials took more than six weeks to resolve an incident at a food irradiation center where a quantity of Cobalt-60 could not be returned to its protective storage well. Ministry of Environmental Protection officials insist, probably correctly, that there was no danger d [...]
2009-12-18 09:08:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG PGOV SENV KSCA IAEA CH
09HANOI446VIETNAM "CONSIDERING" JOINING HAGUE CODE OF CONDUCT, BUT
[...] (SBU) On May 13, Deputy PolCouns met with the MFA International Organization Department's lead official on non-proliferation issues, Pham Hai Anh, to urge Vietnam to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Missile Proliferation (HCOC). Per reftel, he noted that 130 countries now subscr [...]
2009-05-13 10:07:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MTCRE MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA VM
09HELSINKI146FINLAND: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR)
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-23 11:24:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMTCRE PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC
09HELSINKI318FINLAND: MTCR PLENARY PARTICIPATION REQUEST
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-24 06:53:00Embassy HelsinkiCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA FI
09HOCHIMINHCITY686VIETNAM'S CENTRAL COAST PROVINCES REBOUND IN THE AFTERMATH
[...] (SBU) Subject: Officials in Khanh Hoa and Binh Dinh gave themselves high marks for their preparation and response to Typhoon Mirinae, which hit Vietnam's south central coast on November 2. Perhaps rightly so, because ConGen HCMC's December 9-11 visit to the region found life has effectively re [...]
2009-12-23 07:47:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA TBIO EAID VN
09HONGKONG1523(S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MALAYSIAN-BASED IRANIAN
[...] (S) On August 13, Econ/Pol Chief and EconOff delivered reftel points to Hong Kong Trade and Industry Department (TID),Strategic Trade Controls Principal Trade Officer Billy Au. Au pointed out that, although the items were not controlled by the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR),TID wo [...]
2009-08-14 01:08:00Consulate Hong KongSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA HK IR
09HONGKONG1595EXPORT CONTROL CASES: HONG KONG UPDATE
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (S) On August 20, Hong Kong Trade and Industry Department (TID),Strategic Trade Controls Principal Trade Officer Billy Au informed Consulate General that the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department (HKCED) had started reviewing trading do [...]
2009-08-24 07:48:00Consulate Hong KongSECRETPREL PARM ETTC MASS MNUC KSCA IR HK
09HONGKONG2204HONG KONG PREVIEWS OBJECTIVES FOR DC EXPORT
[...] (C) The Hong Kong Government's Billy Au (Head of Strategic Trade Controls, Trade and Industry Department) told us December 3 that Hong Kong had two principal objectives for the December 7-8 Interagency Meeting on Strategic Trade Controls in Washington: (1) to discuss the problem of illicit tra [...]
2009-12-03 10:25:00Consulate Hong KongSECRETPREL PARM ETTC MASS MNUC KSCA IR HK
09JAKARTA303FSN NOMINATION FOR THE 2009 ESTH COURSE
[...] (U) Embassy Jakarta would like to nominate Ms. Wahyuni Kamah to participate in the Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) course (PE 221) for FSNs. She supports ESTH duties full-time through her work with the Biosecurity Engagement Program, a State-run pathogen security program. T [...]
2009-02-23 06:02:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AFSI KSCA AFSN TSPL ECON
09JAKARTA329FSN NOMINATION FOR THE 2009 ESTH COURSE
[...] (U) Embassy Jakarta wouuld like to nominate Ms. ahyuni Kamah to participate in the Environment, cience, Technology and Health (ESTH) course (PE 21) for FSNs. She supports ESTH duties full-timethrough her work with the Biosecurity Engagement Pogram, a State-run pathoogen security program. Tis [...]
2009-02-26 02:22:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AFSI KSCA AFSN TSPL ECON
09KINSHASA368PRIVATE DRC COMPANY LAUNCHES 750KG ROCKET
[...] (U) A private Congolese company based in Lubumbashi, Developpement Tous Azimuts (DTA),successfully launched the fifth prototype of its "Troposphere" rocket from the Bateke plateau near Kinshasa on April 12. Local press reported the 5-meter long, 750 kilogram rocket reached an altitude of 36 [...]
2009-04-13 16:08:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA EAIR PREL KSCA
09KOLKATA335CLIMATE CHANGE HERE AND NOW FOR SUNDERBANS: NGO'S ADAPTATION
[...] (U) Summary: The famed Sunderbans, a deltaic region in the Bay of Bengal with more than one hundred islands and four million people, is one of India's most vulnerable areas to rising sea levels and extreme climatic events. On one of the islands, Mousuni, public and private actors have foc [...]
2009-12-23 12:00:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG ECON TSPL KSCA KGHG IN BG
09KUALALUMPUR57DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-30 06:59:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA MY
09KUWAIT436KUWAIT'S H1N1 FLU PREPARATIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Drawing on pre-existing avian influenza preparatory work, the GOK is proactively implementing measures to prepare Kuwait for a possible pandemic outbreak related to H1N1 influenza. Current measures include: passenger screening (for high temperature) at airports and seaports; pro [...]
2009-04-30 14:11:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA KU
09KUWAIT485DEMARCHE DELIVERED: KUWAIT AGREES "IN PRINCIPLE"
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-14 14:18:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA KU
09LIMA2722009 ESTH FSN COURSE - LIMA NOMINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-02 16:54:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AFSI KSCA AFSN TSPL ECON PE
09LISBON305PORTUGAL: NO COMMENT ON U.S. POINTS FOR IWC MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-09 09:19:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA EFIS PREL SENV PO
09LJUBLJANA80SLOVENIA: HCOC ANNUAL DECLARATIONS SUBMITTED IN
[...] Borut Valencic, advisor in the MFA's Security Policy Division, told emboff on March 20 that Slovenia had already submitted its annual declarations for the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC) in late February using the nil form (reftel). FREDEN [...]
2009-03-24 15:20:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KSCA MNUC ETTC TSPA SI
09LONDON1817(C) MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): HMG
[...] (C/NF) HMG agrees on the importance of encouraging Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) partners to make presentations at the MTCR Information Exchange (IE) session during the November plenary, Edward Evans, Missile Policy Desk Officer in the WMD Controls Policy Section of the Counterprol [...]
2009-08-07 14:30:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA UK RS
09LONDON2183(S/NF) SEPARATE UK DEMARCHE UNLIKELY ON GOL SCUDS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-21 07:21:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNKSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC LY UK MTCRE
09LONDON2184(S/NF) SEPARATE UK DEMARCHE UNLIKELY ON GOL SCUDS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-21 07:21:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNKSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC LY UK MTCRE
09MADRID1043SPAIN WILL BRIEF ON IRAN, AND POSSIBLY PAKISTAN,
[...] (C) POLOFF on October 16 delivered to Monica Colomer de Selva, Counselor for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in the MFA's DG for Strategic Affairs & Terrorism, Reftel A-E releasable papers and proposals that the USG will present at the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Plenary in Rio [...]
2009-10-23 15:35:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA PREL SP
09MADRID850SPAIN WEIGHS BRIEFING AT MTCR PLENARY INFORMATION
[...] (C) POLOFF on August 21 delivered Ref demarche to Carlos Torres, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in the MFA's DG for Strategic Affairs & Terrorism. Torres did not provide a definitive answer as to whether the GOS would be available to brief on any of the proposed topic [...]
2009-08-21 15:09:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA SP
09MANAGUA579NICARAGUA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON INTERNATIONAL
[...] (U) On June 9, Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Steadman Fagoth, Nicaragua's International Whaling Commission (IWC) Commissioner and Executive President of the National Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture (INPESCA). Fagoth has not decided if he will attend the IWC's 2009 annual meeting [...]
2009-06-11 21:07:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC NU
09MANILA1323PHILIPPINE WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER EDUCATES CHILDREN ON
[...] SUMMARY: Inspired by the Department-produced message by Jane Goodall to stem the illegal trade in wildlife and wildlife products, Mission Manila invited Filipino youth to the Wildlife Rescue Center to hear about the U.S. and Philippine anti-wildlife trafficking initiatives. To celebrate Worl [...]
2009-06-23 07:00:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO SENV KSCA TSPL EAID RP
09MANILA2108Manila Response: Marine Scientific Research Authorizations
[...] ESTH Officer Dovas A. Saulys, under the Economic Section, is the officer in Manila responsible for marine scientific research authorizations. His tour of duty in Manila ends August 2012. He is assisted by Maria Theresa N. Villa, Economic Specialist. 2. Philippine regulators require a lea [...]
2009-10-05 08:16:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY KSCA EAID RP
09MANILA214Geek Swaps Benefit U.S. and Philippines
[...] Summary: U.S. agencies and private institutions have active science partnerships in the Philippines that build goodwill and capacity in both nations and add to global knowledge. The synergy that results from USG active engagement in science in the Philippines is beneficial to the work of USG [...]
2009-02-02 08:54:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TSPL SENV ENRG TRGY TSPA EAGR RP
09MANILA294Request from Health and Human Services
[...] Post regularly relays equipment and supplies from U.S. agencies for use in the Philippines by U.S. and Philippine scientists, government agencies, and private institutions. This material enters duty and tax free. Post recommends against submitting a diplomatic note for the exclusion of dutie [...]
2009-02-10 08:45:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT AFIN TBIO KSCA RP
09MANILA384Nomination of FSN Maria Villa for 2009 Environment,
[...] Embassy Manila is pleased submit the following nomination for the 2009 ESTH course: a. Name: Maria Theresa "Bimbi" N. Villa, grade 10 b. Date of Birth: January 11, 1963 c. Nationality: Filipino d. Passport No.: pending application e. Agency: Department of State f. Position title: Economic [...]
2009-02-23 04:12:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AFSI KSCA AFSN TSPL RP
09MANILA643PHILIPPINES PLANS TO SUBMIT ITS HCOC ANNUAL
[...] (C) Post discussed reftel points with Director Leah Ruiz of the Office of United Nations and International Organizations (UNIO) of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),regarding the submission of the Annual Declaration (AD) on space and ballistic missile policies. Post underscored that th [...]
2009-03-24 08:18:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA RP
09MANILA913PHILIPPINES' INITIAL RESPONSE TO SWINE FLU THREAT
[...] (SBU) Summary: While no swine flu cases have been reported in the Philippines, the government is taking steps to increase protective measures and raise its alert level for possible outbreaks. On April 28, the Secretary of National Defense told the Ambassador the government viewed the situation [...]
2009-04-28 10:59:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO SENV KSCA AMGT RP
09MANILA965EMBASSY MANILA'S ENVIRONMENTAL OUTREACH
[...] SUMMARY: Mission Manila engaged in vigorous outreach efforts on an array of environmental issues during April 2009. Ambassador led the way with two provincial trips in April with an environmental focus and events in Manila on Earth Day, April 22. In addition, Embassy invited American scientis [...]
2009-05-06 08:22:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV ENRG TRGY TSPA EAGR RP
09MAPUTO341MOZAMBIQUE FSN NOMINATIONS FOR THE
[...] Summary: Embassy Maputo submits the following FSN nomination to be considered for the Environment, Science, Technology, and Health course (PE 221) to be Offered April 27 Q May 8, 2009 at the NFATC campus in Arlington. End summary. 2. a. Elizabeth Filipe b. May, 10, 1967 c. Portuguese [...]
2009-03-06 10:27:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AFSI KSCA AFSN TSPL ECON MZ
09MATAMOROS67MATAMOROS EAC CONVENES TO DISCUSS SWINE FLU OUTBREAK
[...] (SBU) On April 27, 2009, Consul General Cecilia Elizondo-Herrera convened post's Emergency Action Committee to discuss reftel and post's response to the swine flu outbreak. In attendance were CG, MGT, IPO, RSO, and CONS Chief. 2. (U) Local media are reporting that there has bee [...]
2009-04-28 00:08:00Consulate MatamorosUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1171SITREP 1 - SWINE FLU OUTBREAK IN MEXICO CITY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As a precaution, Mexican authorities closed schools and other public institutions in the Federal District and State of Mexico April 24, 2009 as officials announced an outbreak of the H1N1 strain of "swine flu". At the invitation of the GOM, two CDC officials will travel to Mex [...]
2009-04-25 02:45:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1172SITREP 2 - SWINE FLU OUTBREAK IN MEXICO CITY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: --------------- The GOM announced April 25 that schools will remain closed until May 6 in Federal District, State of Mexico and San Luis Potosi. The Ministry of Health reported that a total of 81 deaths (to date only 20 have been confirmed HINI related) and 1324 cases of suspe [...]
2009-04-27 01:10:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC CVIS ECON KSCA MX TBIO
09MEXICO1173SITREP 3 - SWINE FLU OUTBREAK IN MEXICO CITY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: --------------- In a nationwide address, President Calderon asked the public to remain calm, comply with government recommendations on public gatherings and suggested measures to prevent transmission of the virus. The GOM is still analyzing data and has not made an assessment on h [...]
2009-04-27 13:29:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC CVIS ECON KSCA MX TBIO
09MEXICO1185SITREP 4 - Swine Flu Outbreak in Mexico City
[...] (U) SUMMARY: --------------- The GOM announced that schools across Mexico will remain closed until May 6. Mission Mexico decided to suspend all non-essential public services at Embassy Mexico and the nine Consulates until May 6. The EACs decided on April 27 to defer all non-essential TDY [...]
2009-04-28 16:14:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KFLU KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1194SITREP 5 - H1N1 FLU OUTBREAK IN MEXICO CITY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: ------------------- April 28 estimates of confirmed H1N1 cases and deaths remain unchanged from April 27. On April 28, 2009, the Mayor of Mexico City ordered the closure of all establishments where large numbers of the public gather until May 6, including restaurants, bars, di [...]
2009-04-29 05:30:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1209 SITREP 6 - H1N1 FLU OUTBREAK IN MEXICO CITY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: --------------- April 29 GOM estimates of confirmed H1N1 cases rose to 99, with eight cases resulting in death. Additionally, Secretary of Health Cordova announced that non-critical federal government offices will close from May 1 thru May 5. Essential government services will [...]
2009-04-30 17:38:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1226SITREP 7 - H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico
[...] (U) SUMMARY: --------------- April 30 GOM estimates of confirmed H1N1 cases and deaths rose to 260 cases, including 12 deaths. On April 30, the Embassy issued an updated warden statement and announced that Mission operations will be closed on May 4, 2009. This closure complies with the GOM's [...]
2009-05-01 19:31:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1227 SITREP 7 - H1N1 FLU OUTBREAK IN MEXICO CITY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: --------------- April 30 GOM estimates of confirmed H1N1 cases and deaths rose to 260 cases, including 12 deaths. On April 30, the Embassy issued an updated warden statement and announced that Mission operations will be closed on May 4, 2009. This closure complies with the GOM' [...]
2009-05-01 19:51:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1228 SITREP 7 - H1N1 FLU OUTBREAK IN MEXICO CITY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: --------------- April 30 GOM estimates of confirmed H1N1 cases and deaths rose to 260 cases, including 12 deaths. On April 30, the Embassy issued an updated warden statement and announced that Mission operations will be closed on May 4, 2009. This closure complies with the GOM' [...]
2009-05-01 19:51:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1229SITREP 8 - H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico
[...] (U) SUMMARY: --------------- At a press conference on May 1, Secretary of Health Cordova announced that the GOM has confirmed 358 cases of H1N1 and 15 deaths. The GOM will process 500 additional cases in its labs today. Embassy Mexico will be open for normal business on May 6, but has sus [...]
2009-05-02 18:37:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1233SITREP 9 - H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico
[...] (U) SUMMARY -------------- Secretary of Health Cordova announced that the GOM had confirmed 443 cases of H1N1 and 16 fatalities as of the morning of 2 May. President Calderon and Mayor Ebrard registered encouragement at what they viewed as a positive turn in statistics. The U.S. and Mexican [...]
2009-05-03 18:56:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1234SITREP 9 - H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico
[...] (U) SUMMARY -------------- Secretary of Health Cordova announced that the GOM had confirmed 443 cases of H1N1 and 16 fatalities as of the morning of 2 May. President Calderon and Mayor Ebrard registered encouragement at what they viewed as a positive turn in statistics. The U.S. and Mexican [...]
2009-05-03 18:56:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1235SITREP 10 - H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico
[...] (U) SUMMARY -------------- On the morning of May 3, Secretary of Health Cordova announced that the GOM had confirmed 506 cases of H1N1 and 19 fatalities. He stressed that Mexico had not ignored warnings from the World Health Organization (WHO) of a possible outbreak, but had responded in a [...]
2009-05-03 22:53:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KFLU KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1236SITREP 11 - H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico
[...] (U) SUMMARY -------------- The Minister of Health announced May 4 that the number of new H1N1 cases has declined and that there have been no new deaths. However, as Mexico clears a backlog of older H1N1 samples, the total number of confirmed cases has risen to 727 and deaths to 26. Mexica [...]
2009-05-05 00:18:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KFLU KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1237SITREP 12 - H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico
[...] (U) SUMMARY -------------- Mexico aimed for a return to normalcy on 5 May, with many re-openings scheduled for 6 May. The Secretary of Health put total confirmed H1N1 cases at 866 and confirmed deaths at 26. A chorus of indignation at discrimination against Mexicans abroad continued. The [...]
2009-05-06 01:03:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KFLU KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1250SITREP 13 - H1N1 Outbreak in Mexico
[...] (U) SUMMARY -------------- The GOM announced that the number of confirmed H1N1 cases now stands at 1,112 including 42 fatalities. Most of the fatalities were registered in April as Mexico continues to clear a backlog of samples. Restaurants in Mexico City and throughout other parts of the c [...]
2009-05-07 02:42:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KFLU KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1269 SITREP 14 - H1N1 FLU OUTBREAK IN MEXICO CITY
[...] (U) SUMMARY -------------- The GOM announced that the number of confirmed H1N1 cases now stands at 1,204 including 44 fatalities. The two additional fatalities were from analysis of backlogged samples. Mexico City reduced its alert level from orange to yellow which means that normal busines [...]
2009-05-08 13:29:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1277SITREP 15 (FINAL) - H1N1 FLU OUTBREAK IN MEXICO
[...] (U) SUMMARY -------------- Health Secretary Cordova announced in a May 8 press conference that the number of confirmed cases now stands at 1319 including 45 fatalities. 2. (U) FEDERAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACTIONS -------------------------------------------- FEDERAL GOVERNMENT: Mexic [...]
2009-05-11 13:52:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MEXICO1666GENOMIC MEDICINE INSTITUTE PRESENTS MEXICAN GENOME MAP AND
[...] Summary: Mexico's National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN) presented the genomic map of the Mexican population last month. The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science under the title: "Analysis of Genomic Diversity in Mexico Mestizo Populations For the D [...]
2009-06-12 21:31:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KSCA MX
09MONTERREY178NUEVO LEON'S HEALTH SECRETARY BRIEFS ON H1N1 FLU
[...] Summary. On May 14, 2009 Monterrey Consul General, Econoff and ACS Deputy met with Nuevo Leon Secretary of Health Gilberto Montiel Amoroso to discuss the state's response to the H1N1 outbreak and its capacity to handle future pandemics. The capital of Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, is the third larg [...]
2009-05-18 14:29:00Consulate MonterreyUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CASC KSCA TBIO MX
09MOSCOW1492RUSSIA AGREES WITH U.S. POSITIONS ON INTERNATIONAL WHALING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One of Russia's two representatives to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) told Post that Russia fully supports U.S. positions for the upcoming IWC meeting in Madeira. Specifically, the government of Russia (GOR) favors continuing the "Future of the IWC" process to reach a [...]
2009-06-08 06:30:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC RS
09MOSCOW1858DEMARCHE DELIVERED: EFFORT BY RUSSIAN FIRM TO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-20 12:22:00Embassy MoscowSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS IR
09MOSCOW1989NONPAPER DELIVERED: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-03 15:01:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA RS
09MOSCOW2122(S) NONPAPER DELIVERED: RUSSIAN FIRM INVOLVED IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-19 11:33:00Embassy MoscowSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS IR CH
09MOSCOW2125(S) POST FOLLOW UP WITH RUSSIA ON CASE OF
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-19 13:57:00Embassy MoscowSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS CH PK
09MOSCOW2127(S) POST FOLLOW UP WITH RUSSIA ON CASE OF
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-19 14:03:00Embassy MoscowSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS CH PK
09MOSCOW2641MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) PAPER
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-23 12:22:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR BR
09MOSCOW2709NONPAPER DELIVERED: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-02 14:50:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALBR ETTC FR KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA
09MOSCOW2729PAPER DELIVERED: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-05 05:21:00Embassy MoscowSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR RS
09MOSCOW369RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES PROPOSES FSB AS BETTER
[...] (SBU) During a February 11 meeting with Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Nikolay Laverov, EST counselor and staff inquired about the proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and Implementing Agreement (IA) between the Department of Homeland Security and the RAS on coo [...]
2009-02-13 14:55:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL GKGIC PTER KSCA KNNP RS
09MOSCOW471RUSSIA RESPONSE ON EXTENSION OF RER AGREEMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 13, representatives of the MFA, Rosatom, and Russia's Federal Biomedical Agency (FMBA) told Embassy EST and DOE representatives that Russia is willing to sign an extension of the Agreement on Cooperation in Research on Radiation Effects (RER). However, most of the am [...]
2009-02-26 13:03:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP KSCA KTIA OTRA PARM TRGY EAID RS
09MOSCOW551NOMINATION OF LARISSA FILIMONOVA-KRIVTSOVA FOR ESTH COURSE
[...] (U) Post very much appreciates the opportunity to nominate FSN Larissa Filimonova-Krivtsova to attend to the two-week Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) course (PE 21) for FSNs from April 27-May 8 at NFATC. Post is prepared to fund her airfare, meals, and incidental expenses a [...]
2009-03-06 10:44:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV AFSI KSCA AFSN TSPL ECON RS
09MOSCOW842Engaging Russia on Climate Change - Untapped Opportunities
[...] In response to State, USAID, and DOE discussions over the future direction of the Global Climate Change (GCC) and Clean Energy Initiative programs in the Europe and Eurasia region, Post's Assistance Coordination Working Group has reviewed potential approaches to engage Russia. As the country w [...]
2009-04-02 12:07:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG KGHG KSCA OSCI RS SENV TSPL
09NAIROBI373TOURIST NUMBERS DEPRESSED WHILE POACHING OF WILDIFE,
[...] SUMMARY: Kenya Wildlife Service, Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, and Ministry of Tourism officials are concerned by a sudden spike in the numbers of elephants, especially in Amboseli and Tsavo East National Parks, apparently poached for their tusks. At the same time, they along with count [...]
2009-02-26 12:20:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ETRD KCRM KSCA ECON KE
09NAIROBI583DEMARCHE ON ANNUAL DECLARATIONS TO HAGUE CODE OF
[...] On March 19, Acting Pol Counselor delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Binsai Chepsongol, head of the Americas division at the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Chepsongol expressed surprise that Kenya was a signatory to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Mission Proliferation (H [...]
2009-03-24 15:00:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA KE
09NASSAU331BAHAMAS: ENCOURAGING HCOC DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (U) Post delivered reftel demarche points and documents encouraging the GCOB to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Permanent Secretary, and Head of Legal Division, Donna Knowles-Lowe May 21, pointing to the over [...]
2009-05-26 13:17:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA
09NEWDELHI1098NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 25 TO
[...] Below is a compilation of Environment and Science & Technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of May 25-29, 2009, including the following: -- Cyclone Aila Impacts Sundarbans Tiger Reserve -- Delhi Government Plans Climate Change Fund -- ISRO to Launch Second Space Capsule Rec [...]
2009-05-29 13:52:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI1294INDIA: EMPHASIS ON INCREASING U.S. S&T COLLABORATION
[...] (SBU) During a 19 June courtesy call, Mr. Prithviraj Chavan, newly appointed Minister for Science and Technology and Minister of Earth Sciences, and continuing Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office, told the Charge (CDA) that he wanted science and technology (S&T) collaboration betwe [...]
2009-06-23 04:31:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA SENV TSPL ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI1379NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 29 TO
[...] Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 29-July 2, 2009, including the following: -- World Bank: Don't Require Deep Emission Cuts from India -- India Against International Climate Change Monitoring, Carbon Tax -- [...]
2009-07-02 13:59:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO ENRG ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI1434NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 6 TO
[...] Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of July 06-July 10, 2009, including the following: -- A Plan for Cheetah Reintroduction? -- Insurgency Takes a Toll on Wildlife -- Forest Fires in Jammu and Kashmir -- India Increas [...]
2009-07-11 12:41:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TSPA ECPS SCUL EAGR IN
09NEWDELHI1637 SPECIAL ENVOY STERN ENGAGES INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND NGO
[...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern held a series of meetings July 20-21 in New Delhi with Government of India officials and NGO representatives to discuss the upcoming Copenhagen Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC as well as potential areas for U.S. - India bila [...]
2009-08-04 11:39:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI1657NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR JULY 27 TO AUGUST 07,
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for July 27 to August 07, 2009, including the following: -- Environment Minister Opposes Mining Project -- Arunachal Pradesh Civil Rights Group Opposes Hydro Power Projects -- National Dis [...]
2009-08-07 14:11:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO ENRG ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI1856NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 31,
[...] Below is a compilation of Environment, Science, and Technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of August 31 - September 04, 2009, including the following: -- Minister of Environment and Forests Ramesh visits China -- Valmiki Tiger Reserve Bounces Back -- Ministry of Human Reso [...]
2009-09-04 13:23:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO ENRG ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI1874INDIA: CELEBRATING WOMEN IN SCIENCE, NOT YET EQUAL
[...] SUMMARY: More than 60 attendees from a variety of backgrounds discussed India's climate for women scientists during an Embassy Environment, Science and Technology (EST) Office-hosted "Celebrating Women in Science" workshop. Women scientists in India are every bit as intelligent and hard workin [...]
2009-09-08 13:53:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KWMN KDEM TSPL SCUL PHUM ELAB PGOV IN
09NEWDELHI1952NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER
[...] Below is a compilation of Environment, Science, and Technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of September 14 to September 18, 2009, including the following: -- India Plans to Reduce Emissions through Legislation -- India Starts to Get Serious About Environmental Protection - [...]
2009-09-18 11:11:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO TSPA ENRG ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI2007India as Innovation and Technology Partner; Pondering S&T
[...] SUMMARY: Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Dr. T. Ramasami September 25 reaffirmed his interest in increasing U.S.-India collaboration in the areas of innovation and technology. He cited energy efficiency - especially fuel efficient transportation - security technolo [...]
2009-09-29 11:22:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV TSPL ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI2074NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 05
[...] Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of October 05-October 09, 2009, including the following: -- Cleaning the Ganga by 2020 -- Phasing out HCFCs by 2030 -- Dramatic rise in Indian Scientific Output -- US-India Joint [...]
2009-10-09 05:02:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI2116India Pursues Homeland Security Technologies
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a spirited discussion at an October 9 Federation of India Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)- hosted conference on Science and Technology (S&T) for Homeland Security, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) Secretary G.K. Pillai acknowledged the need for changes to make the [...]
2009-10-16 11:20:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA TSPL PGOV PRIL PTER ECON ECPS SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI2139 Antrix: The Commercial Door for India's Space Program
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-21 13:41:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA KSCA TSPL KBIO PREL TPHY EIND SENV IN
09NEWDELHI2140 Antrix: The Commercial Door for India's Space Program
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Antrix sells Indian space capabilities to the commercial market, including foreign governments and private companies, but the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is responsible for delivering those capabilities. Antrix's budget and income sources are not published and many [...]
2009-10-21 13:58:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA KSCA TSPL KBIO PREL TPHY EIND SENV IN
09NEWDELHI2192Disaster Management Capabilities and Engagement
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Disaster Management (DM) in India means preparing for both natural and man-made disasters, everything from avalanches to chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) incidents to terrorist attacks. India has chosen a tiered approach to DM in which states and districts ha [...]
2009-10-28 12:20:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL KSCA SENV EAID PGOV PTER ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI2334Secretary Chu Focuses on Clean Energy and Climate Change in
[...] (SBU) Summary: During November 13-14 meetings with Government of India (GOI) officials, scientists, students, NGO and industry representatives in New Delhi, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu stressed the vast scope for bilateral cooperation, noting that the world's current emphasis on clean energ [...]
2009-11-19 06:31:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV EFIN EINV PREL TSPL KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI2335Secretary Chu Focuses on Clean Energy and Climate Change in
[...] (SBU) Summary: During November 13-14 meetings with Government of India (GOI) officials, scientists, students, NGO and industry representatives in New Delhi, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu stressed the vast scope for bilateral cooperation, noting that the world's current emphasis on clean energ [...]
2009-11-19 06:41:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV EFIN EINV PREL TSPL KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI2344 U/S OTERO ENGAGES INDIAN MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the Global Issues Forum held November 5 (Reftel),Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Otero met with Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF)Secretary Sharma on November 6 to discuss areas for global cooperation on environmental issues including forestry [...]
2009-11-20 03:28:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PREL TSPL KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI2441 INDIAN DELEGATION HEADS TO COPENHAGEN WITH SOFT WORDS AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Armed with the Kyoto Protocol and the Bali Action Plan, India's delegation to COP-15 is planning a highly legalistic defense of the G-77 and the entitlement of developing countries to financial flows from the developed world. U.S. negotiators should expect more nit- [...]
2009-12-04 11:25:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ETRD TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI2550 ENVIRONMENT MINISTER DEFENDS COPENHAGEN ACCORD; LOCAL NGOS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh claimed victory for India's Copenhagen negotiating team in a parliamentary session December 22. Ramesh used his response to opposition attacks to sensitize the nation to the idea India needs to realize its responsibilities as a [...]
2009-12-22 13:54:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ETRD TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI270CLIMATE POSITIONS HARDEN AT 2009 DELHI SUSTAINABLE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, held February 5 - 7, 2009, focused solely on climate change and the road to the December 2009 UNFCCC climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark. DSDS 2009 attracted fewer current heads of state than in 2008 but more big names including [...]
2009-02-12 13:20:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI453OES ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY HARNISH ENGAGES GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Oceans, Environment and Sciences Bureau (OES) OES Acting Assistant Secretary Reno Harnish lead a multi-stakeholder delegation to New Delhi to engage GOI ministries on the lessons learned from the 2008 Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) in order to suppor [...]
2009-03-11 06:16:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG PREL TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG BEXP IN
09NEWDELHI775NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEKS OF APRIL 6 TO
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the weeks of April 06-17, 2009, including the following: -- New Protocols for Tiger Relocations in National Parks -- Poll Indicates Political Parties Unconcerned About the Environment -- [...]
2009-04-17 14:32:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TSPL TBIO KSCA TRGY IN
09NEWDELHI828NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 20 TO
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of April 20-24, 2009, including the following: -- Tiger Deaths in Madhya Pradesh - Poaching on the Rise -- EST Section Celebrates Earth Day -- Famous Tiger Gets Lifetime Achieve [...]
2009-04-24 20:20:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI KSCA KGHG IN
09OSLO381NORWAY'S INPUT ON INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-08 12:42:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALKSCA EFIS PREL SENV NO
09OSLO438NORWAY TEMPORARILY SUSPENDS WHALE HUNT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Norway's fishing and whaling industry announced that the 2009 whale hunt would be temporarily suspended due to cash flow concerns and the summer holiday. The hunt will be resumed after a short break. Norwegian whalers and the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs also criti [...]
2009-07-13 07:09:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD NO
09OTTAWA616MTCR: CANADA ON-BOARD FOR ONE OR MORE
[...] (C) Canada will pleased to offer "at least one but perhaps more presentations" at the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Rio Plenary Information Exchange in November, according to Phillip Baines, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Deputy Director for Missiles, Space Se [...]
2009-08-07 21:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC MTCRE ETTC KSCA TSPA CA
09OTTAWA700CANADA WELCOMES U.S. OUTREACH ON MISSILE TECHNOLOGY
[...] (C) Summary: Canadian nonproliferation and enforcement officers told visiting U.S. officials that Canada is in broad agreement with U.S. goals for the upcoming plenary session of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). Canadian political leaders are likely to support U.S. efforts to sin [...]
2009-09-09 20:19:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC MTCRE ETTC KSCA TSPA CA
09OUAGADOUGOU202DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HCOC "INREACH" - ENCOURAGING SUBSCRIBING STATES TO SUBMIT THEIR ANNUAL DECLARATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-19 17:03:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALKSCA PREL MNUC ETTC UG TSPA
09PARAMARIBO170SURINAME: THE ROAD AHEAD FOR THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] (SBU) As requested in Reftel, on June 8 Poloff met with Suriname's International Whaling Commission (IWC) Commissioner, Mr. Jaswant Sahtoe, a public servant at the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Fisheries. Mr. Sahtoe indicated that although he was not in a position to state his [...]
2009-06-08 19:29:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC NS
09PARIS1000GOF assures on nuclear tech transfer to AREVA from
[...] (U) On July 2, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided assurances concerning the transfer of nuclear technology from Washington Group International to AREVA including possible AREVA projects in the United Kingdom. In turn, the Ministry asks for similar assurances from the U.S. Governmen [...]
2009-07-24 14:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY ETTC KNNP KSCA PARM FR
09PARIS1006GOF HEU Assurances for Nuclear Exercise
[...] (U) On July 3 the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided the assurances requested in a letter from the U.S. Department of Energy to the French Embassy's Counselor for Nuclear Affairs concerning the transfer of highly enriched uranium (HEU) to the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) for [...]
2009-07-24 15:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY ETTC KNNP KSCA PARM FR
09PARIS1292FRENCH RESPONSE TO U.S. MTCR PLENARY PROPOSALS
[...] (C) French Missile Technology Control Regime Point of Contact (MTCR POC) Florent Aydalot responded on September 22 to the proposals contained in reftel, as follows: - Information Exchange and Technical Experts Meeting (IE-TEM) Working Group: Aydalot said he wondered whether introducing a new [...]
2009-09-22 15:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL FR
09PARIS235 OECD REPORTING: REPORT OF THE NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY
[...] (U) This is an information cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Workshop on the Security of Supply of Medical Isotopes convened in Paris on January 29-30, 2009 and was well attended by representatives of government, industry, the health industry, intergo [...]
2009-02-13 14:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KNNP TRGY KSCA OECD UNVIE
09PHNOMPENH373DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION AND US
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche and talking points June 5 to NAO Thouk, IWC Alternate Commissioner for Cambodia and Delegate of the Royal Government of Cambodia in Charge of Fisheries Administration, Ministry of Agriculture, Forests, and Fisheries. Mr. Nao praised Commissioner Dr. Hogar [...]
2009-06-05 06:28:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC CB
09PORTAUPRINCE304HAITI WILL SUBMIT "NIL FORM" ON BALLISTIC MISSILE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-20 11:58:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA HA
09PRAGUE179CZECH REPUBLIC: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON HCOC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-31 13:10:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALKSCA PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA EZ
09PRAGUE335CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON US PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on June 8 to Pavla Hycova, a Czech Environment Ministry official working in the Department for the International Protection of Biodiversity. Hycova, who represents the Czech Republic in the IWC small working groups, had no immediate substantive response. Hyco [...]
2009-06-16 09:34:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC EZ
09PRAGUE463CZECHS PLAN TO ATTEND MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-12 12:41:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL MTCR PARM MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA EZ EUN
09PRETORIA1519 AMBASSADOR ERIC GOOSBY'S MEETING WITH THE SOUTH AFRICAN
[...] Summary: On July 19, Office of Global AIDS Coordinator, Ambassador Eric Goosby met with recently appointed South African Minister of Health Aaron Motsoaledi. Minister Motsoaledi was accompanied by Department of Health Deputy Director General Yogan Pillay. The meeting took place on the margin [...]
2009-07-28 08:39:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PGOV AMED KSTH KSCA KHIV SENV SF
09PRETORIA1573SAG CONFIRMS TRANSFERRED NUCLEAR MATERIAL SUBJECT
[...] The South African Government (SAG) Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DICO) confirmed that two shipments of U.S. obligated nuclear material transferred from EURATOM will be subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement for Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, responding [...]
2009-08-03 15:41:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KNNP KSCA SF
09QUITO185EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOW (ECUADOR)
[...] (U) Post seeks an Embassy Science Fellow (ESF) to assist USAID, USDA, and ECON with the development of projects for a viable biofuels sector in Ecuador. The ESF will perform studies on the viability of certain crops for use in biofuel production from both agricultural and industrial standpoin [...]
2009-03-13 20:34:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA TSPL AMGT OTRA APER SENV ECON EC
09QUITO207ECUADOR DEMARCHE RESPONSE - HCOC ANNUAL
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel points to MFA Multilateral Affairs Director General Lourdes Puma on March 19. Puma said that the GOE had submitted its Annual Declaration during the week of March 2. She noted that the GOE submitted a simplified "nil form" as Ecuador does not have a space launch [...]
2009-03-25 12:19:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA EC
09REYKJAVIK104ICELANDIC PRIORITIES REVEALED FOR INTERNATIONAL WHALING
[...] (U) Emboff met with Iceland's Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Tomas Heidar and Director of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs' Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs Department Jon Egill Egilsson on June 9 to relay reftel points and elicit Iceland's priorities for [...]
2009-06-10 15:23:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD IC
09REYKJAVIK122ICELANDIC WHALING IN FULL SWING WITH 24 FIN WHALES HUNTED
[...] (SBU) Icelandic whalers are taking full advantage of the expanded whaling quotas issued by the former Fisheries Minister Einar K. Gudfinsson and have killed 24 fin whales and 20 minkes to date. (Note: The last time fins were hunted in Iceland was in 2006 when seven were killed. About 40 minkes [...]
2009-07-09 16:53:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD IC
09REYKJAVIK36ICELANDIC FISHERIES MINISTER PESSIMISTIC ON REVERSING
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the head of a delegation of seven ambassadors, the Ambassador urged the new Minister of Fisheries February 7 to rescind the quota established by his predecessor last month that would allow a large commercial hunt for fin and minke whales over the next five years. The Ministe [...]
2009-02-18 15:40:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD PGOV IC
09REYKJAVIK37ICELANDIC MINISTER CONFIRMS COMMERCIAL WHALING DECISION
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) Minister of Fisheries Steingrimur J. SigfuQon announced on February 18 that his predecessor's controversial increase in whaling quotas for fin and minke whales will stand at least for this year (reftels). Ministry of Fisheries [...]
2009-02-20 15:45:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD IC
09RIGA45LATVIA SEEKS MEMBERSHIP IN MTCR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-22 08:50:00Embassy RigaCONFIDENTIALPARM KSCA PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA LG
09RIYADH1258SAUDI ARABIA RATIFIES SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) In a recent meeting with EconCouns, Prince Turki al-Saud, Vice President of the King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) said he is very pleased with the level of U.S.-Saudi science and technology collaboration. He [...]
2009-09-27 15:34:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON TSPL KTIA KSCA PREL SA
09RIYADH1278KING CHARTS NEW VISION FOR SAUDI ARABIA WITH
[...] (SBU) After only three short years of preparation, Saudi Arabia inaugurated the King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST) in an elaborate ceremony on September 23, coinciding with Saudi National Day. The massive scale and luxury of the amenities are physical reminders of the [...]
2009-09-29 06:40:00Embassy RiyadhCONFIDENTIALECON PREL SOCI EINV KSCA SCUL SA
09RIYADH659First U.S.-Saudi Joint Commission Meeting on Science and
[...] SUMMARY: Delegates from U.S. and Saudi technical agencies met in Riyadh May 11-12, 2009, to attend the first Joint Commission Meeting under the auspices of the United States-Saudi Arabia Agreement on Science and Technology Cooperation, signed in December, 2008. The primary result of this me [...]
2009-05-13 14:27:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TSPL KTIA KSCA ECON SA
09ROME1141Climate Change - Italy Supportive on MEF and Emerging
[...] (SBU) Summary: Italian officials involved in international climate negotiations feel the September Major Economies Forum (MEF) meeting went well, and recommend close U.S.-EU coordination before the October 18-19 MEF meeting. They confirmed that Italian Environment Minister Prestigiacomo had p [...]
2009-10-08 11:51:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ENRG TRGY KSCA UN IT
09ROME1173POCS FOR MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AUTHORIZATIONS IN
[...] Per ref B, the POC for marine scientific research authorizations in Italy is: Ms. Jean Preston, Environment, Science and Technology Affairs Counselor (telephone: (+39) 06 4674-2691; e-mail: prestonj@state.gov). She will be in Italy until approximately August 2010. 2. The alternate POC is [...]
2009-10-21 14:04:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY KSCA KRVC EWWT IT
09ROME1231ITALY: MTCR REPORT ON CONTACTS WITH NON-PARTNERS
[...] (C) On November 5, ECONOFF delivered the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) report on contacts with non-MTCR members (reftel) to Counselor Roberto Liotto, Director of Office VI in the Directorate General for Multilateral Economic Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Of [...]
2009-11-06 09:20:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALETTC KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA IT
09ROME1232ITALY/EXPORT CONTROL: GOI INFORMED THAT TWO CMS
[...] (S) On November 5, ECONOFF met with Counselor Roberto Liotto, Director of Office VI in the Directorate General for Multilateral Economic Cooperation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Office VI is responsible for space, technology, defense, nuclear and non-proliferation issues. Post i [...]
2009-11-06 09:25:00Embassy RomeSECRETETTC IR IT KSCA MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL TU
09ROME298ANTARCTIC/ARCTIC EVENT: MFA U/S SCOTTI TO ATTEND FOR ITALY;
[...] Summary and action request. Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Under Secretary Vincenzo Scotti will represent Italy at the April 6 ministerial event on Antarctic and Arctic affairs at the Department. Senior working-level MFA Antarctic and Arctic officials are available for consultation by the [...]
2009-03-13 15:56:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY SENV AORC KSCA PHSA EWWT PBTS IT
09ROME472DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ITALY AWARE OF IRANIAN
[...] (C) On 15 and 16 April Econoff delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of International Trade and to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, respectively, concerning Iranian efforts to procure sensitive items for use in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) via an Italian intermediary. Econoff prese [...]
2009-04-28 15:28:00Embassy RomeCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR IT
09ROME647INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION: ITALIAN VIEWS
[...] Summary. Italian International Whaling Commissioner Giuseppe Ambrosio responded on June 8 to our inquiries regarding the upcoming International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting (reftel). Among the key points: Italy supports keeping the Small Working Group (SWG) closed to observers, and belie [...]
2009-06-09 06:41:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS SENV PREL KSCA IWC IT
09ROME653ITALY PROPOSES LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGY COLLABORATION WITH
[...] Summary. At a May 26 low-carbon technology conference organized by the Embassy and Italian co-sponsors, Environment Director General Corrado Clini called for Italy-U.S. collaboration in developing and deploying clean energy technology in China and other countries. He highlighted three sector [...]
2009-06-09 13:31:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG KGHG TRGY KSCA KPAO CH IT
09ROME661U.S./ITALY/CHINA: OPPORTUNITIES FOR CLIMATE AND
[...] (SBU) Italian Environment Director General Corrado Clini, a pillar of Italy's climate negotiations for over 15 years, in recent months has strongly called, both in private and publicly, for Italy-U.S. collaboration in developing and deploying clean energy technology in China and other countrie [...]
2009-06-11 06:03:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG TRGY KSCA CH IT
09ROME736ITALY LEANING TOWARD UAE FOR IRENA HEADQUARTERS, STILL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Italian Foreign Ministry officials said Italy is leaning toward the choice of the United Arab Emirates as the headquarters for the new International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA),but the Italian position could still change if there are "important advances" in the case for Bo [...]
2009-06-25 06:31:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG TRGY SENV KSCA IEA IT
09ROME812Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern's Meeting with
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 9 meeting with U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern on the margins of the G8 Summit, United Nations Secretary General (UNSYG) Ban Ki Moon thanked the U.S., and President Obama in particular, for leadership on the issue of climate change. Ban asked that th [...]
2009-07-16 08:06:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG TRGY KSCA UN IT
09ROME932ITALY DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY
[...] (SBU) Post delivered Reftel points to Counselor Pierfrancesco De Cerchio of the Italian MFA office which handles Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) matters. De Cerchio said it was too early to confirm Italian participation at the MTCR Plenary in Rio. He advised that we follow-up on this [...]
2009-08-13 12:43:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KSCA MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA
09ROME962NO DEFINITIVE INFORMATION ON ITALIAN CMS
[...] (S) Per Ref A, Post requested that Italian officials provide an up-date on Italian machine tool manufacturer CMS Industries proposed export of NSG and Wassenaar Arrangement controlled machines tools to Iran. The export would have been through a Turkish company called Ark Makina. On August 5, [...]
2009-08-20 14:14:00Embassy RomeSECRETETTC IR IT KSCA MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL
09ROME989ITALIAN SURVEILLANCE SHOWS NO EVIDENCE OF EXPORTS
[...] (S) Summary: In response to Post's inquiry about the GOI's investigation of the suspected export of restricted Japanese-origin items by an Italian firm to Iran, the GOI advised that it had put the suspected Italian firm under surveillance for the 3 months ending on July 28. The surveillance u [...]
2009-08-27 13:54:00Embassy RomeSECRETETTC IR IT JA KSCA MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL
09SANAA901HCOC DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-12 12:38:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIEDMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA YM
09SANJOSE149GOCR PROPOSES EXCHANGE OF SUPPORT FOR WHO AND IOM
[...] In response to reftel demarche, the GOCR sent a diplomatic note, dated January 19, proposing an exchange of support for the U.S. candidacy to the World Health Organization's (WHO's) Executive Board and the Costa Rican candidate for Deputy Director General of the International Organization for [...]
2009-03-05 18:25:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO OTRA AORC CS
09SANJOSE198COSTA RICA WILL SUBMIT HCOC ANNUAL DECLARATIONS
[...] (SBU) On March 16, we spoke with Carlos Cordero of the MFA's Department for Disarmament, Terrorism, and Crime regarding Costa Rica's submission of their Annual Declaration (AD) for the Hague Code of Conduct (HCOC) Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation. Cordero told us that they will work wi [...]
2009-03-18 20:06:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA KSCA
09SANSALVADOR250DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING HCOC ANNUAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-23 15:06:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA ES
09SEOUL1483RESPONSE TO US/FDA ORPHAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-17 00:27:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDOSCI ABUD AFIN KSCA TBIO US KS
09SEOUL432HCOC "INREACH": ROK RESPONSE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-19 07:53:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KSCA MNUC MTCRE PREL TSPA
09SOFIA439BULGARIA: POSITIVE RESPONSE TO MTCR REQUEST
[...] (C) We delivered reftel to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),urging Bulgarian support, including a presentation, at the upcoming Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Plenary in Rio de Janero, November 9-13th, 2009. Bulgarian MFA Senior Expert for NATO and International Security Directo [...]
2009-08-10 08:59:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA BU
09SOFIA93EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM 2009 (BULGARIA)
[...] (U) Summary: Ambassador strongly endorses post request for an Embassy Science Fellow (ESF) from the Smithsonian Institute to assist the American Research Center in Sofia (ARCS) in conservation and preservation of archaeological sites in Bulgaria. This position would address a pressing need i [...]
2009-03-05 14:19:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KSCA TSPL SENV AMGT OTRA APER BU
09SOFIA96BULGARIA - FSN NOMINATION FOR THE 2009 ENVIRONMENT,
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, Post nominates Mr. Danko Tonev for the 2009 environment, science, technology, and health (ESTH) course, April 27-May 8, 2009. Information about Mr. Tonev follows, keyed to terms in reftel: a. Danko Tonev; FSN - 10; b. April 7, 1973; c. Bulgarian; d. 354525522; issued 02/ [...]
2009-03-06 14:47:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV AFSI KSCA AFSN TSPL ECON BU
09STATE101150MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Maritime Shipping Trends Of Controlled Materials 2008-2009" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) [...]
2009-09-29 13:28:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR BR
09STATE101892UPDATE CONCERNING CONVERSION OF SPACE LAUNCH
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Update Concerning Conversion of Space Launch Vehicles to Ballistic Missiles" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Contro [...]
2009-09-30 19:38:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR BR
09STATE101912ENHANCING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE SCUD B MISSILE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Scud B Missile System" to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) [...]
2009-09-30 19:58:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR
09STATE102919IRANIAN SHIPPING IN A POST-UNSCR 1803 ENVIRONMENT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Iranian Shipping in a Post-UNSCR 1803 Environment" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point o [...]
2009-10-02 18:11:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR BR
09STATE103755MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): NORTH
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "North Korea,s Missile Program" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) for [...]
2009-10-06 13:14:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR BR
09STATE103767MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- U.S.
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: Request Embassy Paris provide the four separate interagency-cleared proposals in paragraphs 3-6 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) for distribution [...]
2009-10-06 13:27:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL FR
09STATE106740IRANIAN-CONTROLLED, MALAYSIAN-BASED PROCUREMENT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Berlin, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background/Objective: The United States has information indicating that in mid-August 2009, Malaysia's Electronics Component Limited (ECL) ordered $270,000 worth of AC/DC converter modules from the German firm S [...]
2009-10-14 19:15:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA GM IR MY
09STATE108901MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Brokering Controls in the United States" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (PO [...]
2009-10-21 18:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR BR
09STATE10941PROVIDING ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO FRENCH
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) In late December 2008, we informed French officials that as of mid-November 2008, a procurement official affiliated with Iran's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program was seeking German-origin engines via the French intermedia [...]
2009-02-06 13:51:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IR FR
09STATE111693MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): U.S.
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Action request: The non-paper in paragraph 3 below provides a brief summary of Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)-related contacts between the U.S. and non-MTCR countries since the November 2008 Canberra MTCR Plenary. [...]
2009-10-29 15:42:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALBR ETTC FR KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA
09STATE112291MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Emerging Technologies for MTCR Consideration" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contac [...]
2009-10-30 17:37:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR
09STATE113696IRAN'S SOLID-FUELED BALLISTIC MISSILE PROGRAM SEEKING GERMAN EQUIPMENT VIA CHINESE ENTITIES (S)
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-04 13:33:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH GM
09STATE115166MALAYSIA-BASED PROCUREMENT ENTITY CONTINUES TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Berlin, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) In July 2009, we shared with German officials information indicating that the Malaysian-based, Iranian- controlled entity, Skylife Worldwide Sdn Bhd, was working to acquire a model R5-4 rotary swaging machine fro [...]
2009-11-06 21:36:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA GE IR MY
09STATE115194SWISS FIRM PREVIOUSLY CONDUCTING BUSINESS WITH
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Bern, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: On several occasions in 2008 and 2009, we discussed with Swiss officials efforts directed by the Iranian procurement entity FEDCO to procure crystal oscillators from the Swiss firm Quartzcom (Refs). [...]
2009-11-06 22:07:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA SZ SY
09STATE117709WHALING: REQUEST FOR POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT
[...] (C/NF) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. Post is requested to discuss with State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Tetsuro Fukuyama the potential for reaching a political agreement regarding Japan's whaling practices. Background: 2. (C) Department of Commerce Principal Deputy Undersecretar [...]
2009-11-14 00:05:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIS PREL SENV KSCA IWC JA
09STATE117929RESPONSE TO GERMANY'S REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARA 4. 2. (C) On October 28, Germany's MFA Export Control Division provided Embassy Berlin with a non-paper requesting U.S. guidance by November 17 on a pending German export of extruded aluminum plates to India that may be similar to an export [...]
2009-11-16 14:51:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA GE IN
09STATE118993CHINESE FIRM SUPPLYING MTCR-CONTROLLED GYROSCOPES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background/Objective: The United States has information indicating that since at least 2008, the Chinese firm Xian Junyun Electronic and Mechanical Company Ltd (Xianco) has been supplying ballistic missile-capa [...]
2009-11-18 15:37:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH
09STATE122950IRAN'S SHIG USING INTERMEDIARIES IN EFFORT TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Berlin, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background and Objective: We want to advise German officials of information indicating that as of June 2009, two Iranian intermediary firms offered test equipment manufactured by the German firms Rohde & Schwarz [...]
2009-12-01 17:24:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA GE IR
09STATE124834THE FIRST SCIENCE ENVOYS AND GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-07 06:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ISCON KISL KSCA OEXC OVIP PREL SCUL SENV SOCI
09STATE126780CORRECTED TEXT: THE FIRST SCIENCE ENVOYS AND
[...] (SBU)Summary: The Secretary announced the U.S. Science Envoy Program on November 3. The Science Envoys will seek to identify new opportunities and build new partnerships in Science and Technology (S&T) cooperation. The first three envoys will begin travel in January and February, and posts are [...]
2009-12-11 03:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ISCON KISL KSCA OEXC OVIP PREL SCUL SENV SOCI
09STATE129599SYRIA'S BUSINESS LAB SEEKING UAV COMPONENTS FROM
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Berlin, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background and Objective: We want to advise German officials of information indicating that as of November 2009, the Syrian entity Business Lab was seeking a variety of items, including small engines, servo actu [...]
2009-12-18 21:11:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA GE SY
09STATE130917MALAYSIAN-BASED IRANIAN FRONT COMPANY SEEKS TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background/Objective: The United States has information indicating that in late November 2009, the Malaysian firm Electronic Component Limited (ECL) attempted to buy five TRS-500 gyroscopes from the Chinese fir [...]
2009-12-24 15:02:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH MY
09STATE15844MALAYSIA-BASED IRANIAN PROCUREMENT ENTITY SEEKS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Berlin, please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) Since mid-2008, the U.S. has on several occasions shared with Berlin information related to the efforts of Malaysian-based entities to acquire German- origin items on behalf of Iranian entities of proliferation [...]
2009-02-20 15:28:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA GE IR MY
09STATE17183MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassies Canberra and Paris please see paragraph 4. 2. (C/REL MTCR) BACKGROUND: At the 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Plenary in Canberra, the MTCR Partners agreed &to the idea of an informal brainstorming process in 2009, initially with [...]
2009-02-24 21:58:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC
09STATE1759MTCR: ARGENTINE SPACE LAUNCH VEHICLE (SLV)
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Buenos Aires, please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) BACKGROUND: Per REF A, the United States and the government of Argentina (GOA) have agreed that Argentina will provide a one-time "state of play" briefing in Washington, D.C., in January-February 2009, [...]
2009-01-08 16:20:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA AR
09STATE18520EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE,
[...] This is an action cable (please see para 10.) 2. Summary: The Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science (OES),in cooperation with the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP),Embassy Jakarta, and the Regional Environmental Offices (REO) in Bangkok and Suva, announces its biennial co [...]
2009-02-27 15:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAGR EAID EFIS ENRG KGCC KSCA TBIO TPHY TSPL XB
09STATE24053HCOC "INREACH" - ENCOURAGING SUBSCRIBING STATES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Summary: At the May 29-30, 2008 annual meeting of the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC),the Immediate Central Contact (ICC) reported that as of the meeting's opening, 72 of the 126 subscr [...]
2009-03-13 14:35:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
09STATE24054HCOC "INREACH" - ENCOURAGING SUBSCRIBING STATES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Summary: At the May 29-30, 2008 annual meeting of the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC),the Immediate Central Contact (ICC) reported that as of the meeting's opening, 72 of the 126 subscr [...]
2009-03-13 14:35:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
09STATE2425UAE-BASED FRONT COMPANY FOR IRANIAN PROCUREMENT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) The United States has information indicating that in November 2008, the United Arab Emirates-based entity Alkaen Equipment and Industrial Supplies LLC placed an order with Germany's MPS Electronic Vertriebs GmbH for a quantit [...]
2009-01-09 20:13:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA GM FR IR AE
09STATE2430IRANIAN FIRM SEEKING COMPUTER NUMERICAL CONTROLLER FOR USE WITH FILAMENT WINDING MACHINE (S)
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-09 20:22:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA GM IR
09STATE26295SUBJECT: BELGIUM REQUESTS URGENT INFORMATION ON
[...] (S) This is an action request (see paragraphs 2 and 3) in response to a question from Werner Bauwens, Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, on GOB request (reftel) for USG views regarding a pending Belgian export license application for Iran. 2. (S) Although Bauwens did not [...]
2009-03-19 13:22:00Secretary of StateSECRETENRG ETTC KNNP KSCA MNUC PARM TRGY BE IR
09STATE27296IRANIAN BALLISTIC MISSILE PROGRAM SEEKS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-20 21:12:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA GE IR
09STATE27822ANNUAL DECLARATION OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER THE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Background/Action Request: Request the Mission deliver the USG interagency-cleared "Annual Declaration of the U.S. under the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation" in paragraph 3 to HCOC Immediate Cent [...]
2009-03-23 21:22:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEC ETTC KSCA MTCRE PARM TSPA AORC
09STATE32269IRANIAN UAV PROGRAM SEEKING JAPANESE-ORIGIN ITEMS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: Since the summer of 2007, we have discussed with Japanese officials the efforts of entities acting on behalf of Iran's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program to acquire SSPS105 and PS050 servo-actuat [...]
2009-04-02 21:32:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR IT
09STATE32920INDIAN FIRM PROVIDING MTCR-CONTROLLED ALUMINUM
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information indicating that as of February 2009, the Indian firm Sri Kaliswari Metal Powders Ltd. and Iran's SARA Company had negotiated the sale of fifty metric tons of aluminum powder on b [...]
2009-04-03 20:24:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA IN IR
09STATE34798IRANIAN PROCUREMENT ENTITY USES ITALIAN FIRM AS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Rome, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information indicating that in mid-February 2009, Iran's Farazeh Equipment Distributor Company (FEDCO) sought servo-actuators manufactured by the Japanese firm Tonegawa-Seiko via [...]
2009-04-09 13:34:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR IT
09STATE3691RESPONDING TO UKRAINIAN QUESTIONS CONCERNING USG
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Brasilia, please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) BACKGROUND: REF A reports that the Ukrainian Embassy in Brasilia is urging the U.S. to reconsider its position on support for the Ukrainian-Brazilian Tsyklon Space Launch Project and allow the launch of U. [...]
2009-01-14 16:16:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA UP BR
09STATE39730HCOC - RESPONDING TO HUNGARY'S REQUEST FOR INPUT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paras 3 and 4. 2. (SBU) Background: Ref reports Hungary's plans - as chair of the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC) - to reach out to a number of countries, including Iran, China, India, Pakistan, and Brazil i [...]
2009-04-21 20:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
09STATE40824HCOC - ENCOURAGING INDIA TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE HCOC
[...] (C) Summary: Department requests Embassy to encourage India to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC). This overture is consistent with India's positive efforts related to preventing the spread of ballistic missiles via harmonization and adherenc [...]
2009-04-23 16:49:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
09STATE42999SHIPMENT OF JAPANESE-ORIGIN CHEMICAL USED IN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background/Objectives: The United States has information that as of late April 2009, a consignment of over 210 metric tons of toluene diisocyanate (TDI) was scheduled to be loaded on the Islamic Republic of Ira [...]
2009-04-28 20:49:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR
09STATE44624RESPONDING TO GOJ QUESTIONS ABOUT IRANIAN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: Since the summer of 2007, we have discussed with Japanese officials the efforts of entities acting on behalf of Iran's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program to acquire SSPS105 and PS050 servo-actuat [...]
2009-05-01 18:55:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR IT
09STATE44996HCOC - ENCOURAGING ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Background: Per reftels, the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC; also known as the International Code of Conduct, or ICOC; text at para 5) was formally brought into effect on November 25, 2002 at [...]
2009-05-04 15:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
09STATE44998HCOC - ENCOURAGING ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Background: Per reftels, the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC; also known as the International Code of Conduct, or ICOC; text at para 5) was formally brought into effect on November 25, 2002 at [...]
2009-05-04 15:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
09STATE4638WESTERN AND CENTRAL PACIFIC FISHERIES COMMISSION
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The fifth meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission was held in Busan, Korea from 8 ) 12 December 2008. The meeting focused on conservation and management measures for the region,s two major fish stocks - yellowfin and bigeye tuna, adopting a suite of measur [...]
2009-01-16 16:57:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS PHSA SENV KSCA XB XV ZN AQ AS CA CH CW FM FJ
09STATE4690MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: In keeping with our efforts to provide key non-members with information about the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) and its activities, we want to brief on the results of the November 2008 Canberra M [...]
2009-01-16 18:59:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA
09STATE48359ANTARCTICA: THE THIRTY-SECOND ANTARCTIC TREATY
[...] Begin Summary and Comment: The 32nd Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting (ATCM) met in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 6-17, 2009, to discuss a range of issues related to Antarctica. The Meeting was convened initially at the Department of State in Washington as part of the first-ever joint mee [...]
2009-05-12 18:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAORC AY KSCA KTIA SENV TPHY
09STATE52206PROVIDING ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK TO THE GOJ ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: Since the summer of 2007, we have discussed with Japanese officials the efforts of entities acting on behalf of Iran's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program to acquire SSPS105 and PS050 servo-actuat [...]
2009-05-21 16:36:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR CH
09STATE53356INDIAN GRAPHITE SUPPLIER AGAIN DOING BUSINESS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) Background: In October 2007, we shared with the government of India information related to the supply by the Indian firm XXXXXXXXXXXX of high-density MTCR-controlled graphite to Iran's Ward Company (Refs A & B). We later advised the G [...]
2009-05-26 14:23:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA IN IR
09STATE54436HAGUE CODE OF CONDUCT AGAINST BALLISTIC MISSILE
[...] (C) The following guidance is provided to the U.S. delegation participating in the HCOC Annual Meeting, in Vienna, on May 28-29, 2009. 2. (C) BEGIN GUIDANCE: In discussing HCOC Annual Meeting agenda items, the delegation should seek HCOC outcomes that are consistent with U.S. foreign [...]
2009-05-28 00:58:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC
09STATE6399MALAYSIAN BROKER SEEKING JAPANESE-ORIGIN SERVO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background/Purpose/Objective: Since August 2007, the U.S. has discussed with Japan efforts by Iran's unmanned aerial vehicle program (UAV) to procure equipment produced by the Japanese firm Tonegawa-Seiko using [...]
2009-01-23 21:18:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR
09STATE65286(S) POSSIBLE PAYMENT TO JAPANESE FIRM FROM
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Tokyo, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information indicating that, as of September 2008, the Myanmar branch of the Korea Mining Development General Trading Corporation (KOMID) was arranging a payment of $1 million t [...]
2009-06-24 12:41:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA KN
09STATE68231(S) POSSIBLE EFFORT BY SYRIA,S MISSILE PROGRAM TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Bern, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information that Syria is seeking to obtain a high-speed camera -- such as the X-VIT LS produced by Swiss company AOS Technologies -- to support Syria's indigenous missile develo [...]
2009-07-01 16:00:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA SZ SY
09STATE70157(S) ARMENIAN ARMS TRANSFERS TO IRAN LINKED TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Yerevan, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: In 2003, the Armenian Ministry of Defense facilitated an Iranian purchase of 1,000 Bulgarian-made RPG-22 anti-tank rockets and machine guns. Some of these RPG-22s were used in at least two 2008 att [...]
2009-07-07 19:21:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR AM
09STATE72753SUBJECT: (S) POSSIBLE EFFORT BY SYRIA,S MISSILE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Berlin, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information that Syria is seeking to obtain a high-speed camera )- such as the Motion BLITZ EoSens Cube system produced by the German company Mikrotron )- to support its indige [...]
2009-07-14 12:44:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA GM SY
09STATE74349EFFORT BY RUSSIAN FIRM TO PROCURE TURNTABLE ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Moscow, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information that as of February 2009, the Russian firm Crystaltechno Ltd. was working to procure a German-origin, single-axis turntable on behalf of Iran's Malek-Ashtar Universi [...]
2009-07-16 20:53:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS IR
09STATE75910(S) FOLLOWING UP WITH ITALY ON MACHINE TOOL SALE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-21 15:43:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IT IR
09STATE75985(S) FOLLOWING UP WITH ITALY REGARDING EFFORTS BY
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Rome, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: In April 2009, the U.S. provided Italian authorities with information regarding attempts by Farazeh Equipment Distributor Company (FEDCO) to acquire Japanese-origin servo actuators from the Italian f [...]
2009-07-21 17:52:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IT IR
09STATE75993(S) FOLLOWING UP WITH RUSSIA ON CASE OF
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Moscow, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: In October 2008, the U.S. provided the GOR information indicating that the Russian firm Optolink was facilitating the sale of integrated optical ships to Pakistan's Advanced Engineering and Research [...]
2009-07-21 18:04:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS CH PK
09STATE76155(S) FOLLOWING UP WITH CHINA ON CASES OF
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Since March 2008, the U.S. has provided Chinese officials with information regarding a number of cases of missile-related proliferation concern (Refs). In the cases described below, we have received little or [...]
2009-07-21 22:30:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA CH IR PK
09STATE77088(S) FOLLOWING UP WITH TAIWAN ON SALES OFFER OF
[...] (U) This is an action request. AIT Taipei, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: In March 2009, the U.S. provided Taiwan officials with information indicating that the Taiwan-based company Fair Friend Enterprises offered to sell computer numerically controlled (CNC) machining centers [...]
2009-07-23 18:07:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TW PK
09STATE77645FOLLOWING UP WITH FINLAND ON EFFORTS BY IRANIAN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Helsinki, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: In February 2009, the U.S. provided Finnish officials with information that Chinese company Shanghai Technical By-Products International Corp. Co. (STBPI) was working to procure an ultrasonic clean [...]
2009-07-24 19:52:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA FI IR CM
09STATE77656FOLLOWING UP WITH DENMARK ON EFFORTS BY FEDCO TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Copenhagen, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: In March 2009, the U.S. provided information to Danish officials regarding efforts by Farazeh Equipment Distributor Company (FEDCO) and its Singapore-based subsidiary Microsun Electronics Pte Ltd [...]
2009-07-24 20:06:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA DA IR
09STATE77663FOLLOWING UP WITH UKRAINE ON EFFORTS BY UKRAINIAN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Kyiv, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: On many occasions since November 2007, the U.S. has provided Ukrainian officials with information regarding efforts by Ukrainian firm Arsenal Design Bureau to export gyrotheodolites to entities associ [...]
2009-07-24 20:14:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA UP CH
09STATE78998(S) EFFORT BY CHINESE FIRM TO PROVIDE CARBON
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information that in June 2009, the Chinese firm Beijing Jingda Zhiyuan Technologies Development Ltd. was working to provide carbon fiber to a Pakistani missile developer. The [...]
2009-07-29 15:32:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA CH PK
09STATE80505(S) SHIPMENT BY TAIWAN FIRM OF CARBON FIBERS TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. AIT Taipei, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information that in August 2007, the Taiwan firm Jinsor-Tech Industrial Corporation had exported several types of carbon fabric to the Syrian company Industrial Solutions. Upon le [...]
2009-08-03 15:16:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TW SY
09STATE82240(S) EFFORTS BY UAE-BASED FIRM TO PROVIDE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Abu Dhabi, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information that in June 2009, the UAE-based firm Eliya General Trading was working to provide specialty alloys produced by the German firm NMT GmbH to Iran's Kian Metals Com [...]
2009-08-07 12:15:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA AE GM IR
09STATE82250MALAYSIAN-BASED IRANIAN PROCUREMENT ENTITY
[...] (U) This is an action request. Consulate Hong Kong, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information that throughout the first half of 2009, the Malaysia-based firm Elite Advanced Solutions sought crystal filters and crystal oscillators from the Hong Kong firm [...]
2009-08-07 12:45:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA HK IR
09STATE82271(S) EFFORTS BY UAE-BASED FIRM TO PROVIDE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Berlin, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information that in June 2009, the UAE-based firm Eliya General Trading was working to provide specialty alloys produced by the German firm NMT GmbH to Iran's Kian Metals Compan [...]
2009-08-07 13:30:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA GM AE IR
09STATE82997(S) RUSSIAN FIRM INVOLVED IN TRANSFER OF GNC
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Moscow, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information indicating that as of early June 2009, Russia's Polyus Research and Development Institute was planning to ship two consignments of laser rangefinder components to an [...]
2009-08-10 20:11:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS IR CH
09STATE86381TAIWAN FIRM TO EXPORT SPINNING/WINDING MACHINE TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. AIT Taipei, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: The United States has information that in June 2009, the Taiwan firm Gain Best was working to supply a spring spinning/winding machine to Syria's Industrial Solutions. In addition, Gain Best was working [...]
2009-08-19 15:26:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TW SY
09STATE87148ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON IRANIAN EFFORTS TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Berlin, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background and objectives: In May 2009, the United States shared with Germany information that Iran's Shiraz Electronics Industries (SEI) and subsidiaries were engaged in efforts to procure Swiss-origin digital [...]
2009-08-21 12:34:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA GM IR SZ
09STATE87162IRAN'S FEDCO CONTINUES EFFORTS TO PROCURE FRENCH
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Berlin, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background: In January 2009, the United States shared information with Germany that the UAE-based firm Alkaen Equipment and Industrial Supplies LLC placed an order with Germany's MPS Electronic Vertriebs GmbH fo [...]
2009-08-21 12:54:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA GM AE IR
09STATE97233MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): CHINA'S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "China's Ballistic Missile-Related Export Control Record" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) P [...]
2009-09-18 17:47:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR BR
09STATE98271SUBJECT: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Intangible Technology Transfers: Foreign National Vetting" to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC [...]
2009-09-22 16:20:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR
09STATE98667MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): SYRIA,S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Syria,s Ballistic Missile Program" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) for [...]
2009-09-23 14:05:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR BR
09STATE98727MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): IRAN'S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Iran,s Ballistic Missile Program" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) for [...]
2009-09-23 15:10:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR BR
09STATE98749MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): MISSILE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Missile Proliferation Trends" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) for d [...]
2009-09-23 15:41:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR BR
09STATE99410RESPONDING TO GOI QUESTIONS ON IRANIAN EFFORTS TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Rome, please see paragraph 6. 2. (S) Background: On April 2, 2009, we shared with the government of Japan information indicating that in mid- February 2009, Iran's Farazeh Equipment Distributor Company (FEDCO) sought servo-actuators manufactured by [...]
2009-09-24 15:52:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR IT
09STATE99783US PARTICIPATION IN JOINT DEMARCHE TO ICELAND ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This is an action request. Post is requested TO participate in a joint demarche to the Government of Iceland concerning their recent decisions regarding whaling activities. The text of the demarche is contained in paragraph 5. The United Kingdom has agreed to lead the demarc [...]
2009-09-24 21:22:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEFIS IC KSCA PGOV SENV IWC
09STOCKHOLM491SWEDEN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MTCR RIO PLENARY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-05 12:28:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA SW
09STOCKHOLM769SWEDEN'S RESPONSE TO CYSTIC FIBROSIS STUDY PROPOSAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-11 07:54:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA OSCI ABUD AFIN TBIO SW
09TAIPEI67H5N2 OUTBREAK TESTS TAIWAN'S PREPAREDNESS TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A low-pathogenic H5N2 virus outbreak, discovered on a Kaohsiung chicken farm in October 2008, but not reported for two months, underscores the need for transparency at the Council of Agriculture (COA) regarding virus outbreaks among poultry and animals. The authorities' slow re [...]
2009-01-16 09:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI KSCA ETRD PGOV TW
09TBILISI621GEORGIA: ENCOURAGING GEORGIA TO SUBMIT ANNUAL
[...] (SBU) On 27 March, Poloff met with Vasil Rubashvili of the Georgian MFA Security Policy and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department to discuss ref points regarding the submission of Georgia's Annual Declaration on its space and ballistic missile policies as required by the Hague Code of Conduct [...]
2009-03-27 12:29:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA GG
09TOKYO1002REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 827
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-30 03:42:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1007REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 830
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-30 07:53:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1033ACTION REQUEST: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON SHIPMENT
[...] (S) Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) , Office of International Affairs for Security Export Control Director Takao Shishikura and METI Deputy Director, Security Export Control Policy Division Atsushi Tanizawa, delivered the following non-paper in English May 1 in response to ref [...]
2009-05-07 04:39:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR
09TOKYO1034DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SHIPMENT OF JAPANESE-ORIGIN
[...] (S) Emboff delivered nonpaper contained in ref A to Takao Shishikura, Director, Office of International Affairs for Security Export Control, and Atsushi Tanizawa, Deputy Director, Security Export Control Policy Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) May 1. Shishikura said hi [...]
2009-05-07 05:37:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA IR
09TOKYO1216WHALING: JAPAN UNLIKELY TO COMPROMISE IN UPCOMING
[...] (SBU) While the Japanese public does not oppose whaling - in fact most support continued whaling - interest groups here are divided over whether to accept a compromise in the International Whaling Commission (IWC) that would allow Japan limited coastal whaling in exchange for a reduction/elim [...]
2009-05-29 07:49:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA
09TOKYO1286WHALING: JAPAN SUPPORTS ANOTHER YEAR FOR FUTURE OF
[...] (C) Summary: Japan supports continuing the Future of the International Whaling Commission process until the 2010 IWC Annual Meeting, Fisheries Agency of Japan Deputy Director General Jun Yamashita told Emboffs June 8. However, Japan is concerned the "starting point" for the Small Working Grou [...]
2009-06-09 03:22:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALEFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC JA
09TOKYO1292REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 832
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-09 23:54:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1295REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 833
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-10 00:49:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1298REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 834
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-10 05:41:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO136REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 810
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-22 22:53:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO138REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 810
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-23 03:05:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO140REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 821
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-23 05:48:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1430REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 835
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-25 04:17:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1432METI RESPONSE TO POSSIBLE EFFORT BY SYRIA'S
[...] (S) Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Security Export Control International Affairs Office Director Takao Shishikura provided emboff the following non-paper June 23 in response to points delivered as per reftel. The non-paper, in English, bears the GOJ classification "SECRET." [...]
2009-06-25 04:43:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA JA SY
09TOKYO1433REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 837
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-25 05:44:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO170REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 819
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-26 07:48:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO171REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCES FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBERS 813 AND 815
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-26 07:48:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1775DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MTCR: PROMOTING PARTICIPATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-04 02:06:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL MTCRE PARM MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA JA
09TOKYO1778REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 838
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-04 03:50:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1779REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 839
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-04 03:50:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1780REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 840
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-04 03:50:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1804REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 841
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-07 04:49:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1805REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 842
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-07 04:49:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1806REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 843
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-07 04:49:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1807REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 844
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-07 04:49:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO1950METI HALTS JAPANESE FIRM'S SHIPMENT OF SERVO-MOTORS
[...] (S) Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI),Office of International Affairs for Security Export Control Director Masaaki Takabatake and METI Deputy Director, Security Export Control Policy Division Hiroaki Machii, gave emboffs the following lightly-edited, English-language document Au [...]
2009-08-24 05:55:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPARM MTCRE ETTC PREL MNUC KSCA JA IR
09TOKYO2042DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL
[...] (C) Emboff delivered non-paper contained in ref A to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA),Non-Prolferation, Science and Nuclear Energy Division official Mizuyo Kuwako September 2. Kuwako said her office would review the proposals and would respond to ISN through the Japanese Embassy in Washin [...]
2009-09-03 22:30:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL MTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM JA
09TOKYO2283INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEM: JAPAN POSTPONES
[...] (C) Officials at the Japan Cabinet Satellite Intelligence Center (CSIC) informed Post late Monday, September 28 that the Government of Japan would need to postpone signing the amendment extending the 1999 Memorandum of Understanding for the Information Gathering System (reftel). Chief Cabinet [...]
2009-09-30 06:28:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALKSCA KSTC ETTC PINR PREL TSPA JA
09TOKYO2529DCM URGES GOJ TO SHOW FLEXIBILITY IN WHALING TALKS
[...] (C) Following up on an October 22 letter from the Ambassador to Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu, the DCM met with MAFF Vice Minister for International Affairs Shuji Yamada November 2 to convey U.S. commitment to build upon progress at recently-concluded talks i [...]
2009-11-02 07:09:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALEFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC JA
09TOKYO2588JAPAN RECEPTIVE TO FURTHER ENGAGEMENT ON WHALING
[...] (C/NF) Summary: U.S. representative to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Monica Medina met with senior officials from the Fisheries Agency of Japan (FAJ) November 4 to discuss progress in negotiations under the Future of the IWC process. The FAJ Director General described the results of re [...]
2009-11-09 06:28:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC JA
09TOKYO2592WHALING: MOFA WORKING LEVEL THOUGHTS
[...] (C/NF) Ministry of Foreign Affairs working level officials would prefer to postpone any public announcement of a U.S.-Japan commitment to conclude an agreement on whaling by a date certain, and keep our bilateral negotiations confidential until we are closer to an agreement, MOFA Fisheries Di [...]
2009-11-09 08:39:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC JA
09TOKYO2839REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 850
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-11 02:21:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO2840REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 851
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-11 02:21:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO2847REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 854
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-11 06:54:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO2848REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 853
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-11 06:55:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO306DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRANIAN UAV PROGRAM SEEKING
[...] (S) Emboff delivered talking points contained in ref A to Takao Shishikura, Director, and Atsushi Tanizawa, Deputy Director, Security Export Control Office, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Shishikura said Japanese authorities are investigating Tonegawa-Seiko, but he did not have any [...]
2009-02-09 08:21:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPARM ETTC KSCA JA IR
09TOKYO368REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTE EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 814
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 22:48:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO369REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTE EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 816
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 22:48:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO370REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTE EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 817
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 23:34:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO371REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTESEXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 818
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 23:34:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO372REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTESEXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 822
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 23:34:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO376REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTESEXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 823
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-19 02:16:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO422JAPAN DEFENDS POSITION ON CONSERVATION OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: EST Chief and LES Environment Specialist delivered demarche in ref to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fisheries Division Officer Daisuke Kiryu and Fisheries Agency of Japan International Affairs Division Officer Wataru Tanoue February 5. In response, Kiryu said Japan sees no reason [...]
2009-02-24 12:38:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS SENV KSCA JA
09TOKYO479REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTE EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 820
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-03 01:54:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO575REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 824
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-16 06:52:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO576REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 825
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-16 07:29:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO844REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 829
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-14 02:33:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO858REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 831
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-15 05:41:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO97REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER - EUR-J-5/2008
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-16 07:49:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO989REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 826
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-29 04:33:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09TOKYO997REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 828
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-29 22:14:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
09UNVIEVIENNA157IIASA Council Accelerates Strategic Planning
[...] (U) The IIASA Council, governing body of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA),met on March 27 to discuss the new strategic plan and agreed to core principles that will guide the process toward the June Council meeting. The Council reached consensus on the need for [...]
2009-04-09 12:30:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA NAS AORC PGOV AU
09UNVIEVIENNA335HCOC: EU WORKSHOP ON STRENGTHENING THE HAGUE CODE
[...] Summary: In its role as European Union (EU) President, the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a workshop in Prague on June 26 to promote further enhancement and improved functioning of the Hague Code of Conduct (HCOC) against ballistic missile proliferation. The informal workshop broug [...]
2009-07-15 08:18:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIEDPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC KNNP TSPA
09UNVIEVIENNA518HCOC: TWO REMINDERS TO PROVIDE REVIEW OF POSITION
[...] (C) Summary. At two different meetings, diplomatic interlocutors recently inquired when the USG would complete the interagency review of its position on Hague Code of Conduct (HCOC) reporting commitments (reftel, para 26). On both occasions, we replied that the review was still ongoing. Cont [...]
2009-11-13 09:11:00UNVIECONFIDENTIALPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC KNNP TSPA
09VIENNA998AUSTRIA UNLIKELY TO MAKE PRESENTATION AT MTCR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-05 13:47:00Embassy ViennaCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA AU
09WARSAW144POLAND APPROVES ANTARCTIC TREATY MEASURES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-10 13:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KSCA KTIA AORC SENV TPHY PL
09WARSAW798POLAND: MTCR PLENARY PARTICIPATION UNCERTAIN
[...] (C) Monika Lipert, First Secretary in the MFA's Nonproliferation and Disarmament Division told us it was uncertain whether the GOP would send a representative from Warsaw to participate in the November 9-13 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) plenary in Rio. Due to increasingly tight bud [...]
2009-08-05 12:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA PINR PL
09WELLINGTON255NEW ZEALAND CONSIDERS PRESENTING AT RIO MTCR PLENARY
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Jillian Dempster, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's International Security and Disarmament Division and urged GNZ to participate in the Information Exchange during the upcoming MTCR Plenary in Rio. 2. (C) Dempster [...]
2009-08-11 03:46:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA
09WINDHOEK162NAMIBIA: DEMARCHE ON HCOC DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche on the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC) to the Deputy Director of Multilateral Affairs, Julius Zaya Shiweva, at the Namibian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on May 6. The deputy director was unfamiliar with the HCOC. Asked i [...]
2009-05-12 14:22:00Embassy WindhoekUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA WA
09YEREVAN634RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT
[...] Post has received the following diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to reftel request: 2. Begin Text: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia 13/11712 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia presents its compliments to th [...]
2009-09-11 13:00:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDETTC ENRG KNNP KSCA PARM TRGY AM
09ZAGREB125Embassy Science Fellows 2009 CROATIA
[...] In response to reftel, post supports a request from the Government of Croatia to host Embassy Science Fellows. Post has received one proposal. The Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sport will provide housing and in-country transportation for any Embassy Science Fellow. The requesting [...]
2009-03-06 15:06:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TSPL SENV EAGR AMGT OTRA APER HR
10ADDISABABA114DECEMBER REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT NEWSLETTER, EAST AFRICA
[...] (U) Summary: The December 2009 Regional Environment Office (REO) eastern Africa newsletter reports on a variety of environment, science, technology and health events that took place in Addis Ababa this month. From two U.S. university sponsored science and technology workshops and a Peace C [...]
2010-01-25 12:32:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV ENRG ETRD PGOV ECON ET
10ADDISABABA203ETHIOPIA - INSCRIBER AND ASSOCIATER, ENCOURAGES
[...] (U) Pol/econ efforts to secure a meeting with high level MFA contacts to deliver the referenced demarche in advance of the January 31, 2010 deadline were complicated by the onset of the African Union (AU) Summit. Not only were officials unavailable because of their AU Summit- related duties, [...]
2010-02-04 12:03:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV PGOV ET KGHG ENRG
10ADDISABABA272ETHIOPIA AND CLIMATE CHANGE, POST AU SUMMIT
[...] (U) The Regional Environment Officer (REO) for eastern Africa met with Dessalegne Mesfin, Deputy Director General of the Ethiopian Environment Protection Agency on February 9, 2010 to discuss climate change decisions taken at the 14th African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Mesfin [...]
2010-02-10 04:55:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV PGOV ET KGHG ENRG
10ADDISABABA297JANUARY REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT NEWSLETTER, EAST AFRICA
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Regional Environment Officer (REO) spent much of January 2010 on the road. Thanks to Dovie Holland in Madagascar for a busy 10-day orientation visit complete with informative meetings and field visits. REO and the Regional Environment Assistant (REA) also travelled to C [...]
2010-02-13 07:37:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA SENV ENRG ETRD PGOV ECON ET
10ANKARA200TURKEY: CITES COP15 OUTREACH ON U.S. SPECIES
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-05 15:48:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP TU
10ANKARA293CITES COP15 OUTREACH: TURKEY SUPPORTS All US-PROPOSED
[...] (SBU) On January 27, we delivered reftel A points to the MFA, which shared the information with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (MEF) (reftel B). Having sought and received comments from all relevant GOT agencies on the U.S. proposals for CITES COP15, MEF informed us on February 23 th [...]
2010-02-23 15:13:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP TU
10BANDARSERIBEGAWAN38BRUNEI CIRCLING WITH INTEREST USG SHARK PROPOSAL FOR CITES
[...] (SBU) Per Reftel, DCM delivered demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of International Organizations, Ms. Florence Chong. Ms. Chong indicated that the Government of Brunei is interested in attending COP 15 but has not yet determined which GoB officials will attend. Ms. Chong stated [...]
2010-02-25 00:02:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP BX
10BEIJING349CHINA ON U.S. PROPOSALS AT CITES COP 15
[...] (U) Post relayed on February 2 the background information and points regarding U.S. proposals at the March 13-25 Conference of Parties (COP) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) contained in REF A to the CITES Management Authority Office of the China State Fore [...]
2010-02-10 04:48:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ETRD KSCA CITES AORC UNEP CH
10BEIJING427CHINA PROVIDED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE
[...] (S) PolOff passed ref A nonpaper providing additional information about attempts by the Malaysia-based firm Electronics Component Limited (ECL) to buy TRS-500 gyroscopes from the Chinese firm VibTel Industrial Co. Inc. to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy Dire [...]
2010-02-23 09:28:00Embassy BeijingSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH MY
10BEIJING428CHINA ALERTED TO POSSIBLE MISSILE-RELATED EXPORT
[...] (S) PolOff passed reftel nonpaper providing information about a December 2009 offer by Chinese company Hong Kong 4 Star Electronics Ltd. to sell gyroscopes produced by a Russian company to Iran's Isfahan Optics Industries to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Missile Division Deputy [...]
2010-02-23 09:28:00Embassy BeijingSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH
10BEIJING430CHINA ALERTED TO POSSIBLE MISSILE-RELATED EXPORT TO IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-23 09:50:00Embassy BeijingSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH
10BEIJING431CHINA PROVIDED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE
[...] (S) PolOff passed ref A nonpaper providing additional information about attempts by the Malaysia-based firm Electronics Component Limited (ECL) to buy TRS-500 gyroscopes from the Chinese firm VibTel Industrial Co. Inc. to MFA Arms Control and Disarmament Department Nuclear Division Deputy Dire [...]
2010-02-23 09:51:00Embassy BeijingSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH MY
10BERLIN102GERMANY WELCOMES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-25 16:34:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ETTC KNNP KSCA TRGY GM
10BERLIN162GERMAN RESPONSE TO CITES COP15 DEMARCHE
[...] This is an action request, please see paragraph 10. 2. (U) Summary. On January 27, Econoff conveyed reftel points and non-paper on U.S. proposals for the upcoming CITES COP15 to Gerhard Adams and Karoline Hess in the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuc [...]
2010-02-05 14:34:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP GM
10BERN21SWISS FIRM QUARTZCOM COLLUDING WITH IRANIAN FRONT
[...] Pol-Econ Couns. was called in by Swiss Economics Department Industrial Export Control chief Juergen Boehler on January 15 to discuss reftel case. (Reftel points were previously provided to the Economics Department.) Boehler stated that Swiss authorities are grateful for the U.S. information [...]
2010-01-19 16:31:00Embassy BernSECRETSZ IR KSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC
10BOGOTA119DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. CITES PROPOSALS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Econoff delivered reftel demarche to representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Environment, and the INCODER - the Ministry of Agriculture's fisheries management agency on January 29. Colombia will support the U.S. proposals on sharks but it has not finalized it [...]
2010-02-01 19:25:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP CO
10BOGOTA343GOC SUPPORTS ALL U.S. CITES PROPOSALS EXCEPT BOBCATS
[...] (U) The GOC has consolidated its response to the U.S. CITES proposals in ref A. They will likely support all the proposals with the exception of the proposal to delist the lynx rufus from Appendix II. They are still considering the proposal due to concerns over how it would affect a rare Colo [...]
2010-02-25 15:18:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP CO
10BRASILIA104BRAZIL: NEGOTIATIONS BRING TROPICAL FOREST CONSERVATION ACT AGREEMENT CLOSE TO CONCLUSION
[...] (SBU) On January 29 negotiators from the Brazilian Finance (Fazenda),Ministry of External Relations (MRE),and the Ministry of the Environment (MMA) met via digital videoconference with representatives from the U.S. Department of State, Treasury Department and USAID to finalize the text of the Tro [...]
2010-02-02 19:25:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA BR
10BRASILIA108PER COPENHAGEN ACCORD, BRAZIL INFORMS THE UNFCCC OF ITS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In accordance with the Copenhagen Accord, the Government of Brazil (GOB) on January 29 notified the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) of Brazil's nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs). These NAMAs were released prior to the [...]
2010-02-03 12:32:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG KSCA BR
10BRASILIA136BRAZILIAN PRELIMINARY RESPONSE TO CITES COP-15 DEMARCHE -
[...] (SBU) Per REFTEL, Science Counselor briefed Brazilian Ministry of External Relations'(MRE) Environment Division Director Paulino Carvalho (who has replaced Fernando Coimbra) and Officer Renato Leonardi about the U.S. proposals to the March 13-25 Fifteenth Conference of the Parties (COP-15) for [...]
2010-02-05 18:47:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA AORC UNEP BR
10BRASILIA140BRAZIL: INCORPORATING CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY INTO DOMESTIC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At the Copenhagen Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),the Government of Brazil (GOB) announced the mitigation actions it plans to take to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 36.1 percent to 38.9 percent by 2020 compared with " [...]
2010-02-09 15:46:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG EFIN KSCA BR
10BRASILIA156BRAZIL: FOREST CODE PROVOKES HEATED DEBATE BETWEEN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Brazilian Forest Code's requirement that a rural landowner in the Amazon maintain 80 percent of the native forest as a legal reserve has produced a heated dispute between the agriculture and environmental communities. Environmentalists see it as a potentially powerful tool [...]
2010-02-10 19:01:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAGR KGHG KSCA BR
10BRASILIA198BRAZILIAN NATIONAL WATER AGENCY SEEKS TO DEEPEN COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Brazilian National Water Agency (ANA) seeks to deepen its cooperation with the USG on environmental issues related to water resources. ANA consistently highlights its history of cooperation with U.S. agencies, as well as on-going negotiations with the Brazilian Ministry of [...]
2010-02-26 17:19:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA EAID EWWT EINV BR
10BRASILIA34BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT AGREES TO TWO YEAR RENEWAL OF FRAMEWORK
[...] On January 7, 2010, Embassy Brasilia received diplomatic note number MRE/DMAE/DAI/CGEUC/01/MESP BRAS EUA, dated January 5 2010. 2. The note is a response to Embassy Brasilia's diplomatic note 443, dated December 10, 2009, proposing a two-year extension of the U.S.-Brazil Framework Agreem [...]
2010-01-12 11:16:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDTPHY KSCA BR
10BRATISLAVA61SLOVAK RESPONSE TO U.S. CITES PROPOSALS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to Slovakia's lead CITES negotiator, Dana Kmecova, the Slovaks will almost certainly follow consensus EU positions on U.S. proposals being made at the upcoming conference. She told us that the EU positions will not be finalized until a March 3 meeting, but that she exp [...]
2010-02-11 14:40:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP LO
10BRUSSELS159BELGIUM: RESPONSE TO CITES COP-15 OUTREACH ON U.S. SPECIES
[...] Economic officers delivered reftel points on February 5 to Georges Evrard, Amelie Knapp and Miet van Looy, Belgium's Animal Welfare and CITES Team at the Belgian Federal Public Service Department of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment. Evrard will lead the Belgian delegation of experts [...]
2010-02-09 18:14:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP BE
10BUCHAREST55 CITES DEMARCHE TALKING POINTS DELIVERED
[...] Post delivered reftel points to the office of Mr. Silviu Megan, Romania's National CITES Representative in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, on January 29. However, the Ministry informs us that Mr. Megan is traveling extensively and is unavailable to meet before the February 5 deadlin [...]
2010-02-02 09:52:00Embassy BucharestUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP RO
10BUCHAREST79 ROMANIAN RESPONSE TO CITES DEMARCHE TALKING POINTS
[...] This is an Action Request for the Department; please see paragraph 6. This is a follow-on cable to post's original response on this issue (ref B). 2. Econoff met with Mr. Silviu Megan, Romania's National CITES Representative in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, on February 10 to [...]
2010-02-12 07:51:00Embassy BucharestUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP RO
10BUDAPEST47 HUNGARIAN RESPONSE TO CITES COP15 DEMARCHE ON U.S. SPECIES
[...] On January 25, post conveyed reftel points and non-paper on U.S. proposals for the upcoming CITES COP-15 to Zoltan Czirak, Counselor at the Ministry of Environment's Department of Biodiversity. On January 27, Mr. Czirak provided a written response, as well as information on Hungary's delegati [...]
2010-01-28 15:23:00Embassy BudapestUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP
10BUDAPEST75U.S. AND HUNGARY SIGN NEW BILATERAL SCIENCE AND
[...] On February 4, the United States and Hungary signed a new bilateral Science and Technology (S&T) agreement, superseding the existing S&T agreement of March 2000. Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis signed for the U.S. and Minister for National Development and Economy, Istvan Varga, signed [...]
2010-02-05 15:11:00Embassy BudapestUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TSPL PREL KSCA HU
10BUENOSAIRES184ARGENTINA'S RESPONSE TO CITES COP 15 DEMARCHE
[...] On February 16, ESTCouns delivered reftel demarche to the Environment Secretariat's CITES representative Guillermo Lingua and CITES experts Maria Tonelli and Luis Arenas. All three will be part of Argentina's delegation at COP 15. While Lingua did not expect any Argentine objections to the US [...]
2010-02-17 18:44:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP AR
10CAIRO310EGYPTIAN RESPOND TO CITES COP DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-17 15:34:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP EG
10CANBERRA108AUSTRALIA TO REVIEW CITES COP15 POSITIONS IN DVC
[...] (U) Australian officials will discuss U.S. proposals and views on CoP15 decisions with appropriate U.S. counterparts in a preparatory digital video conference on February 24. Post passed information in ref A to Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) and the Foreign Aff [...]
2010-02-17 05:26:00Embassy CanberraUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AS
10CHENNAI10 VIEWS ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE AMONG SOUTH INDIA'S CIVIL
[...] Summary. Civil society leaders report that ignorance about climate change pervades South India, with politicians, government officials, and business leaders focused on development at all costs. Despite widespread ignorance about the issue, civil society leaders still look to the government t [...]
2010-01-20 11:09:00Consulate ChennaiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG EAID EAGR PREL TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
10CHISINAU78MOLDOVA DOES NOT SUPPORT BOBCAT PROPOSAL;
[...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Officer delivered REFTEL points to Octavian Calmac, Deputy Minister of Economy, and to Inga Podoroghin and Ala Rotaru in the International Cooperation and European Integration Division Policy Analysis, Monitoring and Evaluation Department in the Ministry of Environment. 2. [...]
2010-02-12 05:30:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC MD
10COLOMBO99SRI LANKA SUPPORTIVE ON CITES SHARK PROTECTION
[...] EconOff delivered reftel points to Mr. G. Piyasena, Secretary of Sri Lanka's Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, on February 2, and followed up on February 8. Piyasena noted that a representative from the Sri Lankan Embassy in Manilla would attend the CITES meeting, although he could [...]
2010-02-08 11:17:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP CE
10COPENHAGEN70 CITES: DANES SUPPORT SHARKS, SNAKES, CORAL; AGAINST LYNX
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to demarche points in reftel, Denmark's likely head of delegation to the CITES COP-15 meeting in Doha indicated - pending final EU positions - that her government is likely to support the USG positions on sharks, coral and snakes, but oppose the USG on polar bears a [...]
2010-02-08 12:50:00Embassy CopenhagenUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP DA
10DARESSALAAM97 CITES: TANZANIA PUSHES FOR IVORY SALES
[...] (U) SUMMARY. In a January 28 meeting with Econoff, Tanzania Director of Wildlife Erasmus Tarimo sought U.S. support for Tanzania's proposal to "downlist" the African elephant at the upcoming CITES meeting, so as to permit Tanzania to sell its ivory stockpile. Tarimo expressed mild interest in [...]
2010-02-02 12:38:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID KSCA CITES AORC UNEP TZ KE
10DHAKA112BANGLADESH ENDORSES U.S. PROPOSALS FOR CITES COP15
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-08 07:00:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV AORC
10GUATEMALA242Guatemala Demarche on CITES for COP15
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to the Sub-Secretary and Fauna Expert at the National Council for Protected Areas (CONAP). Officials speculated, but could not confirm, that the GoG would support the U.S. proposals on coral, the polar bear, the bobcat and the Asian snake study. Likewise, r [...]
2010-02-05 19:00:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP GT
10HANOI104VIETNAM CONSIDERING US SPECIES PROPOSALS FOR CITES COP 15
[...] (SBU) Summary: The head of the Vietnamese CITES Management Office stated that the Government of Vietnam (GVN) had not yet met to review the U.S. proposals (reftel),but thought they looked good in principle, particularly as he felt they had little relationship to Vietnam. The GVN will hol [...]
2010-01-28 07:58:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA AORC UNEP VM
10HARARE64DEMARCHE TO GOZ ON CITES COP 15
[...] The Ambassador delivered the Demarche (Ref) and talking points to Zimbabwe Minister of Environment Frances Nhema on January 29. 2. Nhema responded that in principle he had no objections to any of the U.S. proposals. He said that customarily, with regard to CITES, the GOZ canvasses the Af [...]
2010-02-01 15:02:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP ZI
10KATHMANDU104NEPAL ASSOCIATES WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORDS
[...] (SBU) Following a "lively" internal debate, on February 1 the Government of Nepal (GON) announced that it had sent notification to the Secretariat of the Convention on Climate Change confirming Nepal's association with the Copenhagen Accord (copy of letter sent to SCA/INS). According to the M [...]
2010-02-04 08:27:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG KSCA NP
10KATHMANDU114NEPAL DISCUSSING U.S. CITES PROPOSALS
[...] Post delivered reftel talking points to the CITES Authority of Nepal, Mr. Gopal Prasad Upadyaya, Director General of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation. Upadyaya said he will convey Nepal's position after discussions in the Ministry. 2. On corals, Upadyay said it i [...]
2010-02-08 02:46:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP XD NP
10KINSHASA158DRC RESPONSE TO CITES COP15 OUTREACH ON U.S. SPECIES
[...] (U) In response to ref A, Econoff delivered demarche talking points to DRC Minister of Environment, Conservation of Nature and Tourism Jose Endundo on February 1. 2. (U) Endundo applauded the USG's commitment to save endangered species, and for its commitment to conservation of nature [...]
2010-02-08 13:16:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP CG
10KUWAIT103GOK TO ATTEND MARCH CITES CONFERENCE IN DOHA
[...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel points about the U.S. initiatives for the 15th meeting of the CITES Conference of the Parties (COP15) taking place March 13-25 in Doha to Captain Ali Al-Haider, Deputy Director General for Kuwait's Environmental Public Authority on January 31st. Al-Haider affirmed [...]
2010-02-04 12:12:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDECON KU SENV ENRC KSCA CITES AORC UNEP
10KYIV198UKRAINE: RESPONSE TO CITES COP-15 DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points to Volodymyr Domashlinets, Ukraine's CITES representative at the Ministry of Environmental Protection, on February 1. Domashlinets said Ukraine will support the U.S. proposals on sharks, corals, polar bears, and a snake trade. The Ministry of Environmental P [...]
2010-02-05 14:24:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP UP
10LIBREVILLE45GABON: PLEASED WITH PROGRESS ON CLIMATE CHANGE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Gabon was one of the 28 countries that participated in the intensive negotiating sessions at the U.N. Conference on Climate Change and will associate with the Copenhagen Accord. Lee White, the Director of Gabon's National Parks and President Ali Bongo Ondimba's special advisor on [...]
2010-02-02 10:59:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALEAID SENV PGOV KSCA PREL UNEP GB
10LILONGWE176MALAWI: RESPONSE TO US CITES PROPOSALS
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-24 11:16:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP MI
10LIMA256Peru to Consider USG Cites Proposals
[...] SUMMARY: EconOff and REO Hub Officers met with officials from the Ministry of External Relations, Ministry of Environment, Vice Ministry of Fisheries of the Ministry of Production and Export, and the Peru Ocean Institute (IMARPE) regarding reftel CITES proposals. Visiting OES Marine Science O [...]
2010-02-09 13:26:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP PE
10LISBON45PORTUGAL ON CITES COP15 U.S. SPECIES PROPOSALS
[...] Poleconoff and Economic Assistant delivered reftel talking points to Ana Zuquete, Joao Loureiro, and Paulo Carmo of the Portuguese Institute for Conservation of Nature and Biodiversity, who will be the Portuguese delegation to CoP15 and share issue responsibilities. Loureiro will lead the de [...]
2010-01-29 11:57:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV AORC ECON PO
10LUXEMBOURG49LUXEMBOURG RESPONSE TO CITES COP15 OUTREACH ON U.S. SPECIES
[...] (U) Eric Muller, MFA desk officer for the Americas delivered GOL response concerning reftel points to Pol/Econ Chief Feb. 22. Muller explained that he had coordinated the GOL response with Luxembourg's Ministry for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure, which covers the environment. [...]
2010-02-25 09:42:00Embassy LuxembourgUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA AORC UNEP LU
10MADRID140SPAIN PROVIDES EU RESPONSE TO CITES PROPOSALS
[...] Econoff delivered reftel demarche talking points to Manuel Calderon, Head of the Scientific Evaluation Section for CITES of Spain's Office of Biodiversity in the Ministry of Environment and Rural and Marine Affairs on January 25. On February 3, Calderon responded to the US proposals, explaini [...]
2010-02-05 09:15:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP SP
10MASERU37LESOTHO'S RESPONSE TO CITES DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-05 06:23:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP LT
10MEXICO210NOTICE OF EXPORT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE, DGGIMAR. 710/000156
[...] Embassy received the above-referenced Diplomatic Note dated January 14, 2010 from the Mexican government relative to the exportation of hazardous waste to the U.S. This notification was sent to EPA/OECA for processing. 2. The Mexican company and export notification numbers are: Recicla [...]
2010-01-22 19:30:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EPA KSCA MX
10MEXICO220NOTICE OF EXPORT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE, DGGIMAR. 710/000162
[...] Post ESTH office received on behalf of EPA, a letter dated 14 January, 2010 from Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT),concerning the exportation of hazardous waste from the following United States companies to Mexico: - Arcelor Mittal La Place, LLC. 2. The [...]
2010-01-22 22:17:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EPA KSCA MX
10MEXICO256NOTICE OF EXPORT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE, DGGIMAR. 710/000245
[...] Embassy received the above-referenced Diplomatic Note dated January 20, 2010 from the Mexican government relative to the exportation of hazardous waste to the U.S. This notification was sent to EPA/OECA for processing. 2. The Mexican company and export notification numbers are: Arterva Spe [...]
2010-01-25 22:54:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EPA KSCA MX
10MEXICO332NOTICE OF EXPORT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE, DGGIMAR. 710/ 000358
[...] Embassy received the above-referenced Diplomatic Note dated January 22, 2010 from the Mexican government relative to the exportation of hazardous waste to the U.S. This notification was sent to EPA/OECA for processing. 2. The Mexican company and export notification numbers are: Metallu [...]
2010-02-02 20:22:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EPA KSCA MX
10MEXICO334NOTICE OF EXPORT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE, DGGIMAR. 710/ 000488
[...] Embassy received the above-referenced Diplomatic Note dated January 27, 2010 from the Mexican government relative to the transportation of hazardous waste through the U.S for exportation to France. This notification was sent to EPA/OECA for processing. 2. The Mexican company and export [...]
2010-02-02 20:24:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EPA KSCA MX
10MEXICO618NOTICE OF EXPORT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE, DGGIMAR. 710/000787
[...] Post ESTH office received on behalf of EPA, a letter dated 10 February, 2010 from Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT),concerning the exportation of hazardous waste from the following United States companies to Mexico: - Source-Loyalty Recycling. 2. The ba [...]
2010-02-19 18:05:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EPA KSCA MX
10MEXICO620NOTICE OF EXPORT OF HAZARDOUS WASTE, DGGIMAR. 710/000786
[...] Post ESTH office received on behalf of EPA, a letter dated 10 February, 2010 from Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT),concerning the exportation of hazardous waste from the following United States companies to Mexico: - Technologies Displays Americas, LLC. [...]
2010-02-19 18:08:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EPA KSCA MX
10MOSCOW268NO RUSSIAN RESPONSE YET TO U.S. CITES PROPOSALS
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-05 13:48:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP RS
10NAIROBI246KENYA SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR ELEPHANTS; COP-15 DEMARCHE
[...] Summary: In a February 1 meeting, the GOK sought U.S. support for its proposal to extend the ivory trade ban. The GOK said it has broad African support for the proposal. In the same meeting, econoff delivered reftel talking points on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Speci [...]
2010-02-08 08:25:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP KE
10NASSAU122The Bahamas: CITES COP15 Outreach on U.S. Species Proposals
[...] (U) PolCouns delivered reftel points to Philip Weech, director of the Bahamas Science, Environment and Technology Commission at the Ministry of Environment and Eric Carey, Director of the Bahamas National Trust. Mr. Weech noted that a formal response on the position of the GCOB with respect t [...]
2010-02-08 19:52:00Embassy NassauUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP BF
10NDJAMENA78 CHAD LIKELY TO SUPPORT USG AT CITES-COP15
[...] (SBU) Ministry of Environment Director of Fauna and National Parks M. Daboulaye Man Ymary Djaingue provided GOC feedback February 4 on reftel demarche. Daboulaye stated that Chad would attend the March 13-25 COP-15 and noted his professional recommendation that the GOC support the USG proposa [...]
2010-02-08 08:08:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP CD
10NEWDELHI17NEW STEWARDS OF INDIAN DEFENSE RESEARCH MAY BE GOOD NEWS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent changes in Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) leadership may herald opportunities for increased productivity in defense research and collaboration with India. Dr. Vijay Kumar Saraswat was appointed on 1 September to the post of Scientific Advisor to the [...]
2010-01-06 14:18:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL KSCA MCAP PGOV IN
10NEWDELHI242INDIAN RESPONSE TO ONWARD PROLIFERATION CASES,
[...] (S) SUMMARY. Two officials in the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Office of Disarmament and International Security Affairs (DISA) gave us a verbal response February 3 to the outstanding onward proliferation cases (reftel) raised during the November 2009 Strategic Security Dialogue (SSD). Wh [...]
2010-02-05 10:03:00Embassy New DelhiSECRETPGOV PARM PREL MCTRE KSCA ETTC IN IR SY
10NEWDELHI285CLIMATE CONFUSION: 10TH DELHI SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, held February 5 - 7, 2010, was notable for the overwhelming support for Dr. R.K. Pachauri, the recently embattled chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),and also for a distinct lack of ideas, bordering on outri [...]
2010-02-11 12:34:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
10NOUAKCHOTT81MAURITANIA'S RESPONSE TO USG CITES COP15 PROPOSALS
[...] (U) Embassy Nouakchott's ECON/EST Officer met with the Director and Deputy Director of the Mauritanian Office of Nature Conservation to discuss the USG proposals for the upcoming CITES summit to be held in Doha, Qatar. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (GIRM) intends to se [...]
2010-02-09 07:27:00Embassy NouakchottUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA SENV UNEP CITES AORL MR
10OSLO70Norway's view on U.S. CITES Proposal
[...] (U) Ministry of Environment and Development Senior Advisor Mette Svenningsen told PolOff February 3 that Norway would not be prepared to comment on reftel until the end of February. She said the GoN would host a discussion February 15 with Norwegian NGO's to encourage their input for the u [...]
2010-02-04 16:09:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP NO
10PARAMARIBO114Government of Suriname delayed in preliminary response to
[...] (SBU) On February 11, Post delivered the talking points (reftel) via diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) requesting that they be forwarded to the Ministry of Physical Planning, Land, and Forestry Management; Ministry of Labor, Technology, and Environment; Ministry of Transp [...]
2010-02-18 21:21:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA AORC UNEP NS
10PARIS115Request for Guidance on USG Bluefin Tuna Policy in CITES
[...] (SBU) Since January 2009 when the USG listed France as a country that tolerates Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, French public attention to the depletion of Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks has grown. More importantly, Prince Albert of Monaco has asked m [...]
2010-02-02 17:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP
10PARIS146French Response to US CITES COP 15 PROPOSALS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 4, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs told us that France agrees with the U.S. proposal on coral and shark, opposes the proposal on bobcat (because of look-alike concerns) and is still considering its position on polar bears. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On February [...]
2010-02-08 14:54:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP
10PARIS218MTCR POINT OF CONTACT MEETING FURTHERS U.S. PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU/NF) The following issues were discussed at the February 23 Point of Contact (POC) meeting co-hosted by the Brazilian Embassy in Paris and the French MFA, in its role as MTCR Point of Contact: 2. (C/REL MTCR) Brazilian Chair: Representing Brazil as current MTCR Chair, the Brazilian Emb [...]
2010-02-24 09:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC FR
10PHNOMPENH81CAMBODIA RESPONSE TO CITES COP-15 DEMARCHE
[...] ESTHOff delivered Reftel materials to Suon Phalla, Deputy Director of the Cambodian CITES Management Authority, who distributed the U.S. proposals to relevant officials in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) and Ministry of Environment (MOE) for comment. Suon said that [...]
2010-02-03 06:11:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP CB
10PRAGUE48CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON CITES COP15
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on January 25 to Czech Environment Ministry Head of CITES Management Authority Jan Kucera. Mr. Kucera told us that the EU Council will present joint EU positions for the CITES meeting. Since the Council has yet to present its position, Mr. Kucera offered the [...]
2010-01-28 14:02:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA SENV AORC EZ
10PRETORIA339SOUTH AFRICA'S RESPONSE TO U.S. CITES PROPOSALS
[...] (U) Environment, Science and Technology Officer delivered reftel points on U.S. CITES proposals to Elise Haber, Deputy Director for Conservation in the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) and Sonja Meintjes, Deputy Director for Biodiversity Compliance in the Departme [...]
2010-02-18 14:11:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV AORC CITES KSCA UNEP
10QUITO61Ecuador agrees to support U.S. CITES shark proposal and
[...] (Summary) Ecuador's head delegate to the March CITES COP-15 in Doha, Qatar, told the Embassy January 29 that the GoE will support both U.S. CITES proposals on sharks and sent a letter confirming Ecuador's support. In discussions January 27 the Vice-Minister of the Environment told emboff [...]
2010-02-04 17:16:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP EC
10RABAT97MOROCCO UNDECIDED ON CITES PROPOSALS, WILL NOT
[...] (SBU) EconOff delivered Ref A demarche to Hayat Mesbah, Head of the Service of Conservation of Wild Flora and Fauna of Morocco's High Commission for Water and Forests and Combating Desertification on January 28, inviting Morocco's comments on the U.S. proposals for the Convention on Internatio [...]
2010-02-05 16:08:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS ETRD AORC KSCA CITES MO
10RIGA62LATVIA WILL CONSIDER US CITES PROPOSAL; MAY NOT ATTEND
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-05 15:42:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP LG
10ROME142CITES: ITALY STILL FIGHTING ON CORAL, SAYS EU LIKELY TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. Italy is still fighting a losing battle within the European Union (EU) on corals. The GOI has asked the EU Council to reconsider its decision to co-sponsor the U.S. proposal listing Corallium under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Appendix II, [...]
2010-02-05 16:10:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV CITES EFIS AORC KSCA UNEP IT
10ROME94Italy Supports Copenhagen Accord; Waiting for BASIC
[...] (SBU) Summary: Italian FonMin Frattini confirmed to the Ambassador that Italy supports the Copenhagen Accord on climate change. Through the EU, Italy will associate itself with and inscribe a target in the accord. Frattini dismissed the idea that Tunisia would listen to Italian urging to sig [...]
2010-01-26 12:41:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ENRG TRGY KSCA UN IT
10SANSALVADOR248EL SALVADOR STILL CONSIDERING CITES COP 15 DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-26 17:49:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP ES
10SANTIAGO160CHILE: MAY HAVE CONCERNS WITH CITES COP-15 PROPOSALS;
[...] (SBU) ESTHoff delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Environment Directorate (MFA/DIMA) CITES Coordinator Nancy Cespedes on January 27. Cespedes informed ESTHoff that Chile may have some concerns with the proposals, e.g., Chile trades in coral and is concerned with identifying [...]
2010-02-05 16:48:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA AORC UNEP CI
10SANTODOMINGO296Dominican Republic Response to CITES COP-15 Demarche
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-24 19:36:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP DR
10SARAJEVO131BOSNIA: CONSIDERING U.S. PROPOSALS FOR CITES
[...] (U) On February 3, Post delivered reftel demarche to Senad Oprasic, Head of the Department for the Protection of the Environment and Natural Resources at the BiH Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations (MOFTER). We requested Bosnia and Herzegovina's support for U.S. proposals for cha [...]
2010-02-08 15:29:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES BK
10STATE10900(S) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR CHINA ON THE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background/Objective: In December 2009, the United States shared with China information regarding attempts by the Malaysia-based firm Electronics Component Limited (ECL) to buy TRS-500 gyroscopes from the Chine [...]
2010-02-03 15:49:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH MY
10STATE12889BUREAU AUTHORIZED FUND CITE FOR U.S. SCIENCE
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE. SEE PARA 3. 2. PER REFTELS, WE ARE PROVIDING OES FISCAL DATA FOR U.S. SCIENCE ENVOY DR. ELIAS ZERHOUNI AND HIS DELEGATION'S FEBRUARY 13 TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND MAGREB, IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,950. DR. ZERHOUNI PLANS TO ARRIVE IN DOHA FEBRUARY 13 DEPARTING FEB 15, AR [...]
2010-02-12 20:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN KISL KSCA OEXC OVIP SCUL SENV TSPL XF KFSC
10STATE16134(S) EFFORTS BY IRAN'S SBIG TO PROCURE CARBON FIBER FROM A SOUTH KOREAN COMPANY BASED IN CHINA
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-22 22:45:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH KS
10STATE16555HCOC - ENCOURAGING SINGAPORE TO SUBSCRIBE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. OBJECTIVE AND ACTION REQUEST ---------------------------- 2. (U) Objective: We want Singapore to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC). 3. (SBU) Action Request: Drawing on the ta [...]
2010-02-23 19:26:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA SN
10STATE16932(S) EFFORTS BY IRAN,S SBIG TO PROCURE CARBON
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background/Objective: The United States has information that in December 2009, an Iranian company was seeking to procure five tons of carbon fiber from Yoon Networks Shanghai Company. We understand this compan [...]
2010-02-24 15:07:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH KS
10STATE17152AMENDED BUREAU AUTHORIZED FUND CITE FOR U.S.
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE. SEE PARA 3. 2. PER REFTELS, WE ARE PROVIDING AMENDED OES FISCAL DATA FOR U.S. SCIENCE ENVOY DR. ELIAS ZERHOUNI AND HIS DELEGATION'S FEBRUARY 13-21 TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND MARCH 3-15 TRIP TO THE MAGREB, IN THE AMENDED AMOUNT OF $6,350. DR. ZERHOUNI WILL BE TRAVEL [...]
2010-02-24 19:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN KISL KSCA OEXC OVIP SCUL SENV TSPL XF KFSC EAID
10STATE2086BUREAU AUTHORIZED FUND CITE FOR U.S. SCIENCE
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE. SEE PARA 3. 2. PER REFTELS, WE ARE PROVIDING OES FISCAL DATA FOR THE FIRST U.S. SCIENCE ENVOY DR. AHMED ZEWAIL AND HIS DELEGATION'S JANUARY 8 TRIP TO THE MIDDLE EAST, IN THE AMOUNT OF $7500. DR. ZEWAIL PLANS TO ARRIVE IN CAIRO JANUARY 9 AND DEPART CAIRO FEBRUARY 1 [...]
2010-01-09 02:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN KISL KSCA OEXC OVIP SCUL SENV TSPL XF KFSC
10STATE9939(S) ALERTING CHINA TO POSSIBLE MISSILE-RELATED
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Beijing, please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Background/Objective: The U.S. has information indicating that in December 2009, the Chinese company Hong Kong 4 Star Electronics Ltd. offered to sell gyroscopes produced by a Russian company to Iran's Isfahan [...]
2010-02-01 16:05:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA IR CH
10STATE996SWISS FIRM QUARTZCOM COLLUDING WITH IRANIAN FRONT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Bern, please see paragraph 4. 2. (S) Background: On several occasions in 2008 and 2009, we discussed with Swiss officials efforts directed by the Iranian procurement entity FEDCO to procure crystal oscillators from the Swiss firm Quartzcom (Refs A-G [...]
2010-01-06 16:34:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA SZ IR
10STOCKHOLM43SWEDES RECEIVE DEMARCHE ON CITES COP15 OUTREACH ON
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-29 09:35:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV AORC ECON SW
10STOCKHOLM58SWEDES UNWILLING TO PRESENT POSITION ON CITES
[...] (SBU) Marie Dahlstrom, Desk Officer, Division for Natural Resources, the Swedish Ministry of the Environment, told Emboff on February 11 that Sweden would not reveal its position on any of the U.S. species proposals prior to the CITES COP15 meeting, citing EU membership as the reason. Dahlstro [...]
2010-02-12 06:37:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA SENV AORC ECON SW
10TALLINN56ESTONIA DISAGREES WITH U.S. ON STATUS OF LYNX; SUPPORTS
[...] Econ Specialist delivered REFTEL points to Kadri Alasi, Chief Expert of the Nature Conservation Department of the Ministry of the Environment and Jaan Salulaid, U.S. Desk Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Alasi informed that she will represent Estonia at the March 13-25 Conference of [...]
2010-01-29 12:59:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA AORC UNEP EN
10TIRANA87ALBANIA: CITES DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] Embassy contacted the CITES representative for Albania, the Director of Nature Protection Policies in the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Water Administration before February 5th demarche deadline. Post was informed that Albania may send a representative to the meeting in Qatar but had no [...]
2010-02-16 05:49:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES AORC AL
10TOKYO13REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 858
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-04 23:18:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
10TOKYO171WHALING: GOJ NONCOMMITAL ON ENCOURAGING ICELAND TO
[...] (C/NF) Summary: EMIN urged MOFA State Secretary Fukuyama and Fisheries Agency Deputy Director General Yamashita to press Iceland to lower its proposed quota for whaling in order to facilitate an overall agreement on whaling. Both Fukuyama and Yamashita said the GOJ is reluctant to take such action. [...]
2010-01-27 08:45:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC JA
10TOKYO280JAPAN'S RESPONSE TO U.S. CITES PROPOSALS
[...] Econoff delivered points on terrestrial proposals contained in ref to Ministry of Environment Nature Conservation Bureau Senior Assistant Director Keiji Nakashima February 2 and points on marine proposals to Fisheries Agency of Japan Ecosystems Conservation Office Assistant Director Hideki Mo [...]
2010-02-10 07:43:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP JP
10TOKYO29REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 852
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-06 08:13:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
10TOKYO345REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTE EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 855
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-23 00:06:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
10TOKYO346REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTE EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 857
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-23 00:07:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
10TOKYO347REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTE EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 860
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-23 00:08:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
10TOKYO348REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTE EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 862
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-23 00:09:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
10TOKYO356REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTE EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 863
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-23 07:12:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
10TOKYO64REQUEST FOR GOJ ASSURANCE FOR NUCLEAR COOPERATION: - DIP. NOTES EXCHANGED FOR CASE NUMBER 856
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-12 00:10:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA KNNP ENRG JA
10TRIPOLI115LIBYA INSISTS BALL IN U.S. COURT ON SCUD B ALTERNATIVE
[...] (U) This is an action request; see para 8. 2. (S) Summary: In a February 9 meeting with the Ambassador, the head of Libya's Scud B destruction program, General Ahmed Azwai, insisted that the USG was mostly responsible for Libya's delayed fulfillment of Scud B destruction commitments. Azwai blamed [...]
2010-02-11 15:54:00Embassy TripoliSECRET//NOFORNMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA LY
10VIENNA106New Science Minister Faces Student Unrest
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 25, the GoA appointed Beatrix Karl as its new science minister. Like her predecessor Johannes Hahn -- who left to become European Commissioner for Regional Policy (reftel) -- Karl is a university law professor and a member of the conservative People's Party (OeVP). [...]
2010-01-28 12:12:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL TNGD PINR KSCA TBIO TPHY AU EUN
10VIENNA126CITES COP15: AUSTRIA AGAINST BOBCAT PROPOSAL
[...] (U) On February 1, Post met with Max Abensperg-Traun, the Austrian expert for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment who will be the Austrian representative at COP15 in March. We made sure to h [...]
2010-02-03 07:04:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP AU
10WINDHOEK116Demarche Delivered: U.S. Proposals for CITES
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Emboff met with representatives from the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) and the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR),who will be delegates to the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP-15) for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species [...]
2010-02-05 11:16:00Embassy WindhoekUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV FWS WA KSCA AORC UNEP
10YAOUNDE87Cameroon: Forestry and Wildlife Minister Discusses CITES,
[...] (U) Summary: On February 3, Ambassador met with Minister of Forests and Wildlife Elvis Ngolle Ngolle for a wide-ranging discussion of developments in his ministry, CITES and the Copenhagen Accord. The Minister was pleased with the outcome of Copenhagen and noted that COMIFAC has yet t [...]
2010-02-09 15:24:00Embassy YaoundeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PGOV EFIN KSCA AORC UNEP CM
10ZAGREB76CROATIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON CITIES COP-15
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-02 14:51:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KSCA CITES HR AORC UNEP
86MOSCOW2889 OBSERVATIONS ON SOVIET "MIR" SPACE STATION
[...] DEPARTMENT HAS NO DOUBT SEEN MASSIVE PRESS COVERAGE OF LAUNCH FEBRUARY 20 OF SOVIET "MIR" (PEACE) SPACE STATION. PROUD OF THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENT, THE SOVIETS HAVE BEEN MUCH MORE OPEN IN THEIR COVERAGE OF THE EVENT IN LINE WITH A TREND WE HAVE OBSERVED IN RECENT MONTHS. FEBRUARY 20 VREMYA NEW [...]
1986-02-21 14:10:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TSPA UR
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