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09DAKAR774	GUINEA-BISSAU KILLINGS UDPATE, IMPACT ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the June 5 killings of Minister of Territorial Administration Baciro Dabo, National Assembly Deputy Helder Proenca and others (reftel),the government of Guinea-Bissau sought to convince skeptical diplomats that those killed were participating in a coup attempt. The gov [...]	2009-06-22 18:29:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PU XY

09DAKAR787	GUINEA-BISSAU: AMBASSADORS TENTATIVELY AGREE TO SUPPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a June 19 informal meeting of representatives of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) members and other representatives of the international community, participants agreed that that the UNSC should support the creation of a "hybrid" commission of inquiry for Guinea-Bissau (G [...]	2009-06-23 17:23:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM SG
09DAKAR792	DEADLOCK OVER HIGH STATE COUNCIL THREATENS TO [...] (C) Summary: Implementation of the June 4 Dakar Accord calling for the formation of a National Unity Government, President Abdallahi's resignation, and the organization of elections on July 18 has come to a standstill due to disagreements over the future of the extra-constitutional military [...]	2009-06-23 18:20:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MR SL KDEM
09DAKAR793	DAKAR ACCORD: THINGS MAY FALL APART [...] (C) Summary: The Mauritanians claim they are still committed to the Dakar Accord. Nevertheless, after four days of intense negotiations, consensus over the wording of the High State Council (HSC) communiqueQ remains elusive. Sharp divisions are emerging within the International Contact Gro [...]	2009-06-23 18:25:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MR SL KDEM
09DAKAR870	Senegal: Opposition and civil society try to chart the [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 24, Senegalese opposition and civil society leaders concluded the Assises Nationales, a year-long national introspection to chart Senegal's future. This National Dialogue involved one hundred and seven organizations including thirty political parties. It was a successful [...]	2009-07-09 15:56:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINS PINR KDEM ECON SG
09DAKAR871	Challenges within Senegal's Public Tertiary Educational [...] (SBU) Summary: Universit Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) is generally billed as Senegal's premier institution of higher learning. However, recent student strikes have illustrated some of the glaring problems evident within the public education system. Overcrowding and mismanagement have left the Unive [...]	2009-07-09 16:04:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS KDEM SOCI PHUM SG
09DAKAR890	Animism in Senegal [...] SUMMARY: During a trip to the Kedougou Region of southern Senegal, Poloff visited the Bedik village of Ewol whose people still practice a nature based form of animism and who have long resisted conversion to Islam or Christianity. While it is difficult to estimate how many true animists remain [...]	2009-07-14 10:39:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINS KISL SG
09DAKAR901	GOLD IN SENEGAL; BUT THIS IS NO ELDORADO [...] (C) Summary. In an effort to verify claims of alleged child labor and to get a first-hand look at Senegal's up-and-coming gold mining sector, Poloff conducted an unannounced visit to an artisanal gold mining village near Kedougou. Reports of child exploitation could not be fully corroborated [...]	2009-07-15 11:40:00	Embassy Dakar	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI ECON PINR KDEM KTIP SG
09DAMASCUS114	IRAQI KURDS REBUFF SYRIAN KURDISH ACTIVIST'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: We met with a Damascus-based Kurdish activist on February 3 who had smuggled herself from Syria into Kurdistan, Iraq on November 22, 2008 to solicit support from a range of Kurdish parties, including the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK),[...]	2009-02-08 15:48:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM IZ SY
09DAMASCUS185	MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT SEEKING TO [...] (C) Summary: In an effort to assess the current activities of MJD in Syria and XXXXXXXXXXXX, we met XXXXXXXXXXXX with XXXXXXXXXXXX has connections to the Movement for Justice and Development (MJD). XXXXXXXXXXXX reported on the MJD's effort to expand in Syria and the current coordination between the [...]	2009-03-11 08:34:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV PREL SY
09DAMASCUS224	QAMISHLI KURDS CELEBRATE NOWRUZ WITHOUT SARG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Qamishli's Kurds celebrated evening and daytime Nowruz events with only minor SARG harassment, as observed by PolEconoffs. Police and military presence was significant, but unlike last year, when three Kurds were killed and many others detained, there have been no reports of arr [...]	2009-03-25 13:39:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL SY
09DAMASCUS434	THE STRUGGLE OF DAILY LIFE FOR IRAQI-PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Summary: For the first time in over two years an Embassy officer visited the Iraqi-Palestinian refugees camp in Al-Tanf, established in the "no-man's-land" between the Syrian and Iraqi borders. Conditions remain hostile despite the UN's best efforts to provide basic food, non-food, medic [...]	2009-06-23 09:30:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV KPAL IZ SY
09DAMASCUS554	EMBASSY DAMASCUS OPENS DIALOGUE WITH MFA ON TIP [...] (C) Summary: MFA International Organizations Chief Mr. Milad Attiyeh hosted Emboffs on August 5 to discuss SARG progress on combating trafficking in persons (TIP). The Embassy had requested the meeting to explain the philosophy behind, and function of, the Department's annual TIP report. Embo [...]	2009-08-06 11:50:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREF PREL KTIP KWMN SCUL SCOI ID
09DAMASCUS641	IRAQI REFUGEES EXPRESS CONCERN OVER DETERIORATING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi refugees serving as community outreach organizers for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed concerns about the recent deterioration in Syrian-Iraqi relations and the withdrawal of the countries' respective ambassadors from Baghdad and Damascus [...]	2009-09-02 13:12:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	KHUM PREL PGOV SY IZ
09DAMASCUS74	SARG: "TIGHTENING THE SCREWS" ON INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: During recent meetings U.S. representatives from Mercy Corps Country and International Medical Corps (IMC) reported their operations have come under greater scrutiny following the September 27 bombing outside Damascus and the alleged October 26 U.S. incursion at Abu Kamal. This s [...]	2009-01-22 15:33:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PGOV IZ SY
09DAMASCUS747	MICHEL KILO: FREED DISSIDENT ANALYZES US-SYRIAN [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs met with the prominent dissident Michel Kilo at his home on October 21 for a wide-ranging discussion on the state of Syria's political opposition and its view of U.S.-Syrian rapproachment. Kilo, who was released from prison in May of this year, generally supported U.S. en [...]	2009-10-22 11:53:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI SY TU
09DAMASCUS791	HUMAN RIGHTS PRESSURE PROMPTS NEW THREATS AND [...] (C) Summary: Citing the pressure that international condemnation over the arrests of human rights lawyers Muhanad al-Hasani and Haitham al-Maleh had produced, Catherine al-Tali (strictly protect) told us state security services had employed a mixture of legal action and direct threats of impr [...]	2009-11-16 14:39:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI SY
09DAMASCUS92	SYRIAN DONATIONS FOR GAZA FILL UNRWA-SYRIA AND [...] (C) Summary: UNRWA Director for Syria reported on recent fundraising activity by his organization aimed at providing critical humanitarian relief to the people of Gaza. UNRWA's creative fundraising efforts, a telethon among them, coupled with generous donations from ordinary Syrians and corp [...]	2009-01-29 14:45:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PTER SY
09DARESSALAAM104	KOSOVO RECOGNITION: TANZANIA REMAINS NONCOMMITTAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-13 10:18:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC ICJ KV TZ
09DARESSALAAM120	APR ENERGY: TANZANIAN GOVERNMENT READY TO SETTLE? [...] (SBU) Minister of Energy and Minerals William Ngeleja called in Charge Feb. 25 to discuss the latest GOT discussions on the ongoing tax dispute with Florida-based APR Energy, LLC (background in ref a). Ngeleja told CDA and Poloff that he is paying attention to the issue. He said that at the l [...]	2009-02-26 02:42:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV ETRD TZ
09DARESSALAAM122	TANZANIA: ISPS CODE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) A/DCM and Poloff delivered ref demarche to MFA Europe and Americas Director Radhia Msuya Feb. 10 and explained the 90 day deadline for Tanzanian ports to comply with the ISPS code. Msuya did not have a substantive response, but remarked that if the U.S. were to provide funding, the GOT w [...]	2009-02-26 11:22:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT ECON ETRD KHLS PTER PREL TZ
09DARESSALAAM132	UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL NOMINATION: TANZANIA UNRESPONSIVE [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-27 09:36:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA
09DARESSALAAM134	TANZANIA MILDLY POSITIVE ON ZIMBABWE [...] (SBU) MFA Africa Division Deputy Director Zuhura Bandala told Poloff Mar. 3 that Tanzania was trying its best to ensure that the situation in Zimbabwe was resolved. She emphasized the GOT's policy of working through SADC (per AU directive) to be supportive as Zimbabwe returned to peace and eco [...]	2009-03-03 11:57:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EFIN PHUM EAID ETRD ZI TZ
09DARESSALAAM168	BHM CELEBRATIONS DRAW HUNDREDS OF TANZANIANS [...] SUMMARY: In celebration of Black History Month (BHM),Dar es Salaam's Public Affairs Section organized activities around "Nonviolent Civil Rights Movements in the United States" (Ref B). We selected this theme to advance our MSP goal of "Governing Justly and Democratically." Tanzania will ho [...]	2009-03-13 12:51:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO SCUL SENV OIIP OPRC TZ
09DARESSALAAM251	TANZANIA: DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO IMF/WB MEMBERSHIP [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-17 10:08:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL TZ KV
09DARESSALAAM252	TANZANIA SUPPORTS USG CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN [...] (SBU) MFA Director of Multilateral Cooperation Begum Taj told Poloff April 17 that Tanzania welcomed and would support the US candidacy for the UNHRC. She was pleased to learn that there would likely be a "clean slate" for the election. Taj commented on the importance of working from within an [...]	2009-04-17 10:16:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL TZ
09DARESSALAAM253	TANZANIA'S LINE ON MADAGASCAR UNCHANGED [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-17 10:34:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC EAID MA TZ
09DARESSALAAM265	TANZANIA ANNOUNCES CANDIDATE FOR UNESCO DIRECTOR [...] (U) MFA Director of Multilateral Cooperation Begum Taj advised Poloff April 17 that Tanzania had just announced its candidate for Director General of UNESCO and sought US support. The diplomatic note formally introducing the candidate, Professor Sospeter Muhongo, has been forwarded to AF/E. [...]	2009-04-24 07:59:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNESCO TZ
09DARESSALAAM299	TANZANIA TO NATURALIZE 170,000 BURUNDIAN REFUGEES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Tanzania (GOT) is expected to grant approximately 170,000 Burundian refugees full citizenship status later this year, in an effort to bring to a close a refugee situation dating back to 1972. High Commissioner for UNHCR Antonio Guterres called President Kikwete's [...]	2009-05-08 04:09:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PHUM PREF TZ
09DARESSALAAM31	BY-ELECTION DEEPENS OPPOSITION RIFT [...] (U) SUMMARY. An upcoming parliamentary by-election in southwestern Mbeya Rural district has exposed a sharpening rivalry between Tanzania's two main opposition parties, CUF and CHADEMA. Although ruling CCM is expected to retain the seat by a large margin, the opposition's inability to agree on [...]	2009-01-20 13:44:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM TZ
09DARESSALAAM399	TANZANIA TO SIGN ON FOR THE INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-22 15:16:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	KGHG ENRG SENV TZ
09DARESSALAAM40	RELIGION AND POLITICS IN TANZANIA: DEBATE ON OIC MEMBERSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary. During the latter half of 2008, debate simmered between Christian and Muslim Tanzanians regarding membership in the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). Foreign Minister Membe sparked the recent round of discussion by indicating that Tanzania would seek membership, a p [...]	2009-01-22 07:10:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM KISL TZ
09DARESSALAAM413	TANZANIA PROMISES HUMANE APPROACH ON REFUGEE CAMP [...] (SBU) RefCord and PolOff delivered reftel demarche on June 18 to Director of Refugees Judy Mtawali at the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA),in the absence from Dar es Salaam of both the Minister and Deputy Minister of Home Affairs. In response to encouragement of a humane approach to the upcomi [...]	2009-06-30 05:08:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BY CG CVIS PGOV PHUM PINR PREF RW TZ
09DARESSALAAM470	PROSECUTING TIP IN TANZANIA: USG SUPPORT [...] Summary: USG support to Tanzania's Department of Public Prosecution (DPP) has helped prepare Tanzania to implement its new anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) legislation, which came into effect in February 2009. Through a Department of Justice program, U.S. prosecutors provided training to more [...]	2009-07-20 08:00:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG TZ
09DARESSALAAM473	ISPS CODE: TANZANIA COMPLIANT BUT NEEDS FOLLOW-UP [...] Visiting Coast Guard (CG) International Port Security Program Inspectors will recommend that Tanzania be considered compliant with the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code. The GOT has responded to most of the recommendations (reftels) arising from previous inspections, although [...]	2009-07-21 06:22:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT ECON ETRD KHLS PTER PREL TZ
09DARESSALAAM505	AN INCIDENT ON PEMBA: 2010 ZANZIBAR ELECTION [...] (U) Zanzibar Electoral Commission (ZEC) suspended its Pemba voter registration activities August 4, following a boycott organized by opposition CUF and an incident in which Zanzibar government special forces fired weapons into the air and beat and arrested CUF supporters. 2. (SBU) Zanzibar [...]	2009-08-05 11:38:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PHUM PGOV SOCI TZ
09DARESSALAAM525	REFUGEE UPDATE: TANZANIA BEGINS NATURALIZING 1972 BURUNDI [...] (U) Minister of Home Affairs Laurence Masha signed an order August 4 granting Tanzanian citizenship to 3,568 Burundian refugees. These are the first of some 160,000 refugees from the 1972 population who have applied for naturalization (ref a). UNHCR expects thousands more naturalizations in t [...]	2009-08-11 12:44:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PHUM PREF TZ
09DARESSALAAM573	TANZANIA POSITIVE ON U.S. NOMINEE FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-01 06:18:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA TZ
09DARESSALAAM60	TANZANIA AND IRAN SIGN DEFENSE MOU [...] (C) Summary. Tanzania and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding on military cooperation and technology transfer during Tanzanian Minister of Defense Hussein Mwinyi's visit to Tehran in late January. The announcement of the MOU in the Iranian press came as a surprise to many in Tanzania, [...]	2009-01-29 14:36:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL PGOV UNSC TZ IR
09DARESSALAAM607	REFUGEE UPDATE: MEETING GOT'S 2010 DEADLINES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on August 31, UNHCR and IOM updated Poloff and Refcoord on the progress of refugee resettlement and camp closure. While camp closure continues, UNHCR Representative, Yacoub El Hillo, expressed concern about a group of young Burundian refugees in the Mtabila c [...]	2009-09-15 05:10:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PHUM PREF RW CG TZ
09DARESSALAAM621	TANZANIA: POC FOR REGIONAL BIOSECURITY MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-22 15:08:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AORC PREL PTER TZ
09DARESSALAAM622	TANZANIA: FAO IMPORTANT, AS IS PRUDENT USE OF FUNDS [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-22 15:08:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	FAO EFIN AORC EAGR EAID KUNR UN TZ
09DARESSALAAM643	ICTR PREPARES FOR CLOSURE, SIGNIFICANT WORK REMAINS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Officials of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) briefed Dar es Salaam-based diplomats September 25 on the status of the tribunal's work. ICTR officials expected to meet the planned 2010 deadline for closure of the tribunal, despite some case delays. However, [...]	2009-09-30 14:57:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNGA ICTR RW TZ
09DARESSALAAM649	TANZANIA POSITIVE ON U.S. CANDIDACY FOR IMO [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-05 12:18:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IMO EWWT PHSA TZ
09DARESSALAAM676	PIRACY PROSECUTION IN TANZANIA A DISTANT PROSPECT [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Although MFA is cautiously positive about eventually accepting captured pirates for prosecution, the EU's experience in frustration with the GOT over the issue suggests progress towards legislative changes and a memorandum of understanding will be slow at best [...]	2009-10-19 08:48:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS MP PBTS PHSA PGOV TZ
09DARESSALAAM71	TANZANIAN GOVERNMENT SEIZES U.S-BASED APR ENERGY'S POWER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On January 27, the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) seized a 40 megawatt power generation plant owned by APR Energy, LLC, a Florida-based firm. TRA's action follows extensive efforts by APR to resolve a tax dispute related to a 2006 contract to provide power on an emergency basi [...]	2009-02-02 14:02:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV ETRD TZ
09DARESSALAAM748	GOLDSTONE REPORT: TANZANIA LIKELY TO ABSTAIN [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-03 14:59:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER KPAL TZ
09DARESSALAAM758	REFUGEE UPDATES: GOT ACKNOWLEDGES OBLIGATIONS, BUT STILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Due to security and domestic political concerns, GOT continues to push for the repatriation of the Burundian refugees in the Mtabila camp. While initial steps towards invoking the cessation clause have been taken, UNHCR hopes to avoid a scenario where the refugees are forced to [...]	2009-11-06 03:45:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PHUM PREF CG BY TZ
09DARESSALAAM786	TANZANIA: NON-COMMITTAL ON THIRD COUNTRY [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-17 09:28:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNGA TZ
09DARESSALAAM794	TANZANIA: "WE TYPICALLY ABSTAIN" [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-19 14:01:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAL PREL TZ
09DARESSALAAM814	IRAN/IAEA: TANZANIA AGREES WITH U.S. POSITION [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-24 15:19:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR TZ
09DARESSALAAM834	"DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS": INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-03 12:55:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA TZ
09DARESSALAAM882	REFUGEE UPDATE: MTABILA BURUNDI RESIST RETURN; UNHCR ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite UNHCR's increased efforts to encourage refugees in the Mtabila camp to return to Burundi, there has been little movement. UNHCR suspects camp leaders are conducting intimidation campaigns to discourage repatriation. Following UNHCR's protest of the Tanzania's return of [...]	2009-12-21 13:37:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF TZ
09DARESSALAAM890	TANZANIA/TIP: FIRST ARREST UNDER NEW ANTI-TIP LAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 13, Tanzanian police arrested and charged their first suspect under the 2008 Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act. Although Tanzania has otherwise made little progress in implementing the law, in part due to poor inter-ministerial coordination, the recent arrest is a posi [...]	2009-12-23 10:51:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KTIP TZ
09DARESSALAAM905	HOMOSEXUALS STIGMATIZED, MARGINALIZED IN TANZANIA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Homosexuality has long been prohibited in Tanzania, but anti-homosexual laws have rarely if ever been used in recent years. Homosexuals in Tanzania face occasional police harassment and routine societal discrimination, which affects employment opportunities as well as access to m [...]	2009-12-30 13:39:00	Embassy Dar Es Salaam	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM TZ
09DHAHRAN116	SAUDI CENTRAL BANK FREEZES ASSETS OF THE KINGDOM'S SECOND [...] KEY POINTS: -- (C) The Saudi central bank froze assets of Ma'an al-Sanea, Saudi Arabia's second wealthiest citizen on May 30. -- (C) It appears the order was issued pursuant to a lawsuit the al-Gosaibi family has filed against al-Sanea for unpaid loans. -- (C) Al-Sanea is widely "known" [...]	2009-06-01 09:15:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN SA
09DHAHRAN145	ARAMCO SKEPTICAL OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION [...] KEY POINTS: -- (S/NF) Saudi Aramco's Executive Management is skeptical of the presence of Ministry of Interior (MOI) critical infrastructure protection (CIP) forces near their oil and gas facilities. -- (S/NF) Aramco is currently undergoing a major upgrade to their perimeter surveillance [...]	2009-06-17 13:43:00	Consulate Dhahran	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV EPET ENRG SA
09DHAHRAN150	PUSHING WATER UPHILL - - SAUDI WATER SECTOR CHALLENGES [...] (U) SUMMARY. Saudi Arabia's per capita fresh water consumption is nearly double that of the European Union average. These high consumption rates stem from low water tariffs, leaking water distribution infrastructure, and agricultural subsidies. Water sector reforms have begun, though a long [...]	2009-06-23 06:44:00	Consulate Dhahran	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SENV ENRG PGOV SA
09DHAHRAN210	SAUDI SHI'A CELEBRATE IMAM AL-MAHDI'S BIRTHDAY [...] (C/NF) The Shi'a of Qatif openly celebrated the birthday of Imam al-Mahdi -- who is recognized by most Shi'a as the twelfth and final (hidden) Imam -- on August 6 with impromptu public plays, free food, and candy for the children. PolOff and two EmbOffs from Riyadh visited Qatif during the fes [...]	2009-08-10 16:02:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SA
09DHAHRAN217	SAUDI PROVINCIAL AUTHORITIES CLOSE SHIA MOSQUES IN [...] (C/NF) During the past year the provincial government in the Eastern Province (EP) has closed five Shia mosques (four Twelver Shia and one Ismaili Shia) in the commercial city of al-Khobar, with the last two being closed in the past two weeks. The provincial government reportedly carried out t [...]	2009-08-15 11:25:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SA
09DHAHRAN219	SHIA BUSINESS LEADERS MAKE A STRONG SHOWING IN AL-AHSA [...] (SBU) In the July 25 al-Ahsa Chamber of Commerce elections, Shia candidates won five of the eight eligible board positions, with the remaining three going to Sunnis. In the previous elections in 2005, the ratio was the reverse in favor of Sunni candidates. One of the Shia victors attributed t [...]	2009-08-19 11:40:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON KIRF KISL KDEM SA
09DHAHRAN222	BANNED SAUDI WEBSITE LAUNCHES ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION [...] (C/NF) Rasid.com, the popular Arabic-language news website run by a small group of Saudi Shia political activists, launched an English-language version on August 1. The managing editor of Rasid explained that they hope to reach a larger audience with the English-language version. Both the Ara [...]	2009-08-19 15:38:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KIRF KISL PHUM SA
09DHAHRAN246	SAUDI AUTHORITIES CRACK DOWN ON SHIA IN AL-AHSA [...] (C) Saudi authorities have stepped up discriminatory actions against Shia citizens in the Eastern Province (EP) oasis of al-Ahsa over the past year. Contacts point to the governor of al-Ahsa, HH Prince Badr bin Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Saud, as the main force behind the most recent uptick in s [...]	2009-09-16 13:30:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SA
09DHAHRAN258	NAJRAN'S NEW GOVERNOR OFF TO GOOD START BUT CHALLENGED BY [...] (C) The new governor of Najran province on the border with Yemen is viewed as being a serious, business-oriented leader looking to downplay the sectarian differences between the officially recognized Sunni interpretation of Islam and that of the province's majority Ismaili (specifically Sulaima [...]	2009-10-14 07:45:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KIRF PHUM SA YM
09DHAHRAN265	ARAMCO: KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE CENTER PROGRESSES DESPITE [...] (U) Development of the King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture (KACKC) continues. The Center aims to honor Arab heritage, connect Saudis to their culture, and bring world cultures to the Kingdom, all in the service of social progress and intellectual achievement. Nabih A. Al-Ibrahim ( [...]	2009-10-31 12:22:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET SA SCUL ENRG PGOV
09DHAHRAN266	EASTERN PROVINCE SHIA FRUSTRATED [...] (C) Three prominent local Shia report that economic marginalization, combined with religious discrimination, are generating increased frustration in the Eastern Province (EP). This is compounded by a growing generation gap in the Shia community with an impatient younger generation inclined to [...]	2009-11-01 07:34:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KIRF KREL PHUM SA
09DHAHRAN275	WOMEN CANDIDATES TRY AGAIN IN EASTERN PROVINCE CHAMBER OF [...] (U) For the second time in the history of the Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EPCCI),the Government (SAG) will allow women to run for membership on the board of the EPCCI. Their previous attempt to obtain a seat on the board in 2005 was unsuccessful. This time around, wome [...]	2009-11-21 05:56:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SA
09DHAHRAN295	SAUDI BORDER CONFLICT WITH YEMEN RAISES FEAR OF SECTARIAN [...] (C) Prominent members of the Eastern Province (EP) Shia community are growing increasingly worried that the conflict in Yemen will spur a backlash against their community. The attitude is prevalent among Shia youth as well. Statements by a Yemeni official, as well as a recent circular issued b [...]	2009-12-19 12:06:00	Consulate Dhahran	SECRET	PGOV KIRF PREL SA YM PINR PHUM
09DHAHRAN40	SAUDI HEZBOLLAH LEADER WARNS OF SECTARIAN VIOLENCE [...] (C/NF) Key Points: --------------------- -- XXXXXXXXXXXX (strictly protect),a popular Shi'a cleric and alleged leader of Saudi Hezbollah, met with PolOff after years of refusing to meet with USG officials (ref A). -- XXXXXXXXXXXX declared that the USG could persuade the SAG to adopt se [...]	2009-03-22 08:19:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SA LE IR PGOV PTER PHUM KIRF KISL KDEM
09DHAHRAN45	SAUDIS DISCUSS LOCALIZING MANUFACTURING, TRANSFERRING [...] (U) KEY POINTS: -- The Eastern Province Chamber of Commerce and Industry (EPCCI) held its first-ever Local Content Forum on March 23, which discussed transferring foreign technology and manufacturing capabilities to Saudi Arabia. -- Training and educating Saudis was cited often as [...]	2009-03-24 14:35:00	Consulate Dhahran	UNCLASSIFIED	SA PGOV ECON ELAB
09DHAHRAN46	SHI'A PROTESTS LEAD TO ARRESTS, INCLUDING TWO AMERICANS [...] (C/NF) Key Points: --------------------- -- On Thursday, March 19 Shi'a from the Awamiyya village in the Qatif oasis conducted a sit-in to protest the SAG's intention of arresting the radical Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, who has been in hiding since calling for possible secession from Saudi Arabia [...]	2009-03-25 11:51:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SA KU PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF KISL KDEM
09DHAHRAN8	SHI'A UNREST CONTINUES TO BUILD AFTER THE MEDINA INCIDENT [...] (C) Key Points: ----------------- -- The Shi'a clashes with Saudi security forces in Medina in February have set off a wave of demonstrations, protests, and calls on the government for justice. -- Members of the Shi'a communities from the Eastern Province were involved in the Baqi'a cemet [...]	2009-03-02 16:22:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER SA IR LE
09DHAHRAN99	KING ABDULLAH MAKES AN UNSCHEDULED VISIT TO THE EASTERN [...] (C) KEY POINTS: -- King Abdullah made a last minute, unscheduled visit to the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia from April 26 to May 1. -- During his visit he launched $14.4 billion worth of projects in Jubail, including the world's largest desalination plant. -- The King met [...]	2009-05-11 07:57:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL	SA PGOV ECON ENRG
09DHAKA1029	BANGLADESH NATIONALIST PARTY TO HOLD IT'S NATIONAL [...] (C) The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will elect the party's leadership, vote on amendments to the BNP constitution, and select the Central Committee at its National Council, scheduled for December 8. BNP sources expect Khaleda Zia, Leader of the Opposition and head of the BNP, to appoi [...]	2009-11-10 09:14:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS BG
09DHAKA1056	RAB DISCIPLINES OFFICER FOR BEATING JOURNALIST [...] (C) A Military Board of Inquiry found that a Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) officer "overreacted" and used excessive force against an individual, later identified as a journalist for the daily newspaper, New Age. The Board barred the officer, a captain in the Air Force, from further promotions, [...]	2009-11-23 10:06:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS PGOV MCAP BG
09DHAKA120	PARLIAMENT VOTES FOR BANGLADESH WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL [...] (C) The new government must immediately take steps to try those suspected of committing war crimes during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence, said a resolution the Awami League-dominated parliament passed unanimously January 29. Those pushing for the establishment of a war crimes tribunal a [...]	2009-02-02 10:17:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER KDEM PHUM KAWC KISL BD
09DHAKA122	GOB'S CHIEF IMAM APPOINTMENT RUFFLES FEATHERS [...] (SBU) An early challenge to the Awami League government from its religio-cultural as well as political opposition led to a security force crack-down at Dhaka's central mosque January 30. The move came after protesters objecting to the January 1 appointment of a new khatib (chief imam) at the n [...]	2009-02-03 09:56:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PTER KDEM KISL BD
09DHAKA128	THE AWAMI LEAGUE'S FIRST THIRTY DAYS: GREAT [...] (C) The newly elected Awami League-dominated Parliament's initial sessions have been bogged down by petty issues rather than focused on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina,s campaign promises to create a more civil political climate and to ratify Caretaker Government ordinances to improve governance. [...]	2009-02-04 11:48:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	BG EAID PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SENV
09DHAKA174	BANGLADESH, INDIA TALK SECURITY AND TRADE BUT [...] (C) Indian External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's one-day visit to Bangladesh on 2/9 generated neighborly goodwill but not much progress in the two key areas of cross-border security and trade. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's proposed regional security task force was discussed but details [...]	2009-02-18 10:53:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ETRD EWWT IN BG
09DHAKA184	WEEKEND ARRESTS IN BANGLADESH RAISE QUESTIONS [...] (C) Weekend arrests of 14 suspected members of Bangladesh's leading domestic terrorist group grabbed headlines when one captive detonated a live grenade during a news conference announcing his capture. While the incident embarrassed the police, the arrests raised broader questions about the po [...]	2009-02-23 10:48:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC BG
09DHAKA195	BANGLADESH'S BNP: RESTRUCTURING, BUT IN NEED OF A [...] (C) The BNP is at a crossroads: still stinging from its electoral defeat and after boycotting most of the inaugural session of Parliament, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has shown few signs that it understands the need to embrace reform and define its role as the opposition in parliamen [...]	2009-02-25 12:23:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EAID KDEM BG
09DHAKA203	AS HIS CASE DRAGS ON, SHOHAIB CHOUDHURY REMAINS A [...] (C) Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shohaib Choudhury ) on trial for sedition, treason and blasphemy ) related to his advocacy of ties between Bangladesh and Israel ) appeared in court on February 19. The hearing was brief as the prosecution,s witness, a police officer, was unable to atten [...]	2009-02-26 12:09:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR BG
09DHAKA233	BANGLADESH: SOME UNREGULATED MADRASSAS OPEN TO [...] (SBU) PolOff visited three madrassa religious schools not regulated by the government on 2/24 and found educators willing to accept some official oversight. They all expressed deep concern that without adopting government-approved curricula their students would continue to fail to qualify for [...]	2009-03-04 10:54:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS PTER EDU BG
09DHAKA241	BANGLADESH MUTINY AFTERMATH: TIME FOR USG [...] (C) One week after the bloody border guard mutiny, Bangladesh's immediate crisis appears to have passed, but the resulting political situation remains perilous. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina herself warns of more attacks to undermine democracy. Three competing Government of Bangladesh investiga [...]	2009-03-05 10:41:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER ASEC KDEM BG
09DHAKA280	FBI WORKS TO HELP CORRECT FLAWS IN BANGLADESH [...] (C) Ambassador Moriarty and the head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation team helping Bangladesh investigate its border guard mutiny urged the minister in charge to strengthen the probe. PolEcon Counselor reiterated the message to two senior Cabinet officials with responsibility for se [...]	2009-03-22 08:42:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER ASEC KDEM BG
09DHAKA31	BANGLADESH CIVIL SOCIETY AWARE AND ACTIVELY [...] (U) Over the past several weeks has PolOff met with heads of several human rights NGOs in Bangladesh to gauge awareness of and participation in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) for Human Rights, per reftel request. Bangladesh is slated for review in February 2009. By all accounts, civil s [...]	2009-01-08 09:43:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM UNHRC
09DHAKA345	GOVT SAYS WAR CRIMES TRIAL PROCESS BEGINS APRIL 8. [...] (C) The GOB intends to prosecute war crimes committed during the country's 1971 war of independence (reftel) on the basis of legislation passed in 1973, which may not provide a current internationally-acceptable basis for war crimes prosecution. The Law Minister announced the process would beg [...]	2009-04-06 09:28:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER KDEM ASEC KISL KAWC PHUM
09DHAKA346	BANGLADESH NON-COMMITAL ON USG CANDIDACY FOR HUMAN [...] (U) On April 6, PolOff spoke with M. Mahbubul Alam in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) UN and Human Rights Wing, to convey reftel points and urge the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) to support the USG,s candidacy for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). We emphasized that the U [...]	2009-04-07 03:53:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	BG PGOV PHUM PREL
09DHAKA419	WHAT DO BANGLADESH'S DEOBANDI QAWMI MADRASAS WANT? [...] (SBU) Addressing problems related to the country's privately-funded unregulated Islamic education system (qawmi madrasas - QMs) has emerged as one of the Awami League government's top priorities. The government seeks more control over qawmi madrasas and fears failure to equip students with ski [...]	2009-04-28 04:16:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER KDEM KISL SOCI BG
09DHAKA431	THE GOB SAYS IT IS SERIOUS ABOUT QAWMI MADRASA [...] (C) After a rocky start, the Awami League government and Bangladesh's qawmi madrasa (QM) community appear to have laid the necessary groundwork for much-needed dialogue aimed at addressing problems related to the country's privately-funded unregulated Islamic education system. That said, the so [...]	2009-04-30 03:34:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER KDEM KISL SOCI BG
09DHAKA443	ISLAMIC PARTIES AND THE QAWMI MADRASA COMMUNITY (3 [...] (C) Addressing problems related to the country's privately-funded unregulated Islamic education system (qawmi madrasas - QMs) has emerged as one of the Awami League government's top priorities. A proportion of Bangladesh's Deobandi qawmi madrasa (DQM) community has strong ties to small Islamic [...]	2009-05-04 10:01:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER KDEM KISL SOCI BG
09DHAKA446	BANGLADESHI'S APPLY FULL-COURT PRESS FOR PRIME [...] (C) Senior Bangladeshi officials have been eagerly following up on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's request for a meeting with President Obama during the second half of May. (Reftel) At a meeting with Ambassador Moriarty on May 4, Minister of Foreign Affairs Dipu Moni reiterated the Government o [...]	2009-05-04 10:41:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BG
09DHAKA449	ENGAGING OIC STATES ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (SBU) The Ambassador raised reftel points with Foreign Minister Dipu Moni May 4, following a demarche by Poloff to Samina Naz, Director of the Americas Wing of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on April 29. According to Naz, the GOB was still considering its policy vis-a-vis Kosovo, including ho [...]	2009-05-04 11:31:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KV BG
09DHAKA475	BANGLADESH'S AHLE HADITH QAWMI MADRASAS: FEW AND [...] (SBU) Bangladesh's Ahle Hadith qawmi madrasas (AHQM) would not object to coming under government oversight, according to a senior Ahle Hadith (AH) representative, who told post there were approximately 200 AHQMs in Bangladesh, mostly concentrated in the northwest. He said attempts were underway [...]	2009-05-12 10:15:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PTER KDEM KISL SOCI BG
09DHAKA578	BANGLADESH NON-COMMITTAL ON SUDAN AND THE HUMAN [...] (SBU) On June 4, PolOff spoke with Sanchita Haque, Senior Assistant Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) UN and Human Rights Wing, to convey reftel points, urging the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) to support the extension of the Special Rapporteur,s term by one year and a strong [...]	2009-06-08 11:41:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BG SU PGOV PHUM PREL
09DHAKA620	DHAKA UNDECIDED ON SUPPORT FOR IRENA [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-21 09:26:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	BG EINV ENRG SENV KGHG
09DHAKA655	BANGLADESH WORKING ON UNSCR 1874 PROVISIONS [...] (U) PolOff conveyed reftel points and the Treasury advisory to Sanchita Haque, Senior Assistant Secretary in Bangladesh's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) UN and Human Rights Wing. Haque said the Government of Bangladesh appreciated the USG's position on this important issue and pledged to [...]	2009-07-01 07:36:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EFIN ECON PARM KNNP BG
09DHAKA747	ONE STEP FORWARD: BANGLADESH PARLIAMENT PASSES [...] (C) On July 9, 2009 the Bangladesh Parliament passed legislation establishing a long-awaited National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). The new law includes significant changes to the composition of the commission first created by the then-Caretaker Government in an ordinance in 2007. While r [...]	2009-07-30 08:43:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	BG KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL
09DHAKA763	BANGLADESH CONCERNED BY POSSIBLE BURMESE MILITARY [...] (S) Bangladesh's armed forces assess that Burma is considering military action to coincide with the November anniversary of the maritime confrontation between the two countries in the disputed zone of the Bay of Bengal. To prepare for this contingency, the Bangladeshi military is redeploying [...]	2009-08-03 10:50:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET	PREL PINR MARR MASS PGOV BG BM

09DHAKA775	APPEALS OF 1975 MURDER/COUP CONVICTIONS MOVE [...] (C) Government prosecutors are finalizing arguments against five former military officers appealing death sentences for their leadership of the August 15, 1975 coup that killed then-President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, senior members of his government and their families. With the coup anniversa [...]	2009-08-06 09:21:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KJUS PHUM PREL CJAN PGOV PINR PINS BG
09DHAKA843	BANGLADESH ATTENDING ARF DISASTER MANAGEMENT [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed the upcoming ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Disaster Relief Meeting with Samina Naz, Americas Division Director at the Foreign Ministry (MFA). Samina said the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) was very interested in attending. She informed us that the GOB intended to send th [...]	2009-08-27 09:41:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ARF EAID MARR
09DHAKA86	LOCAL GOVERNMENT MINISTER LIKELY TO BE KEY PLAYER [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-21 11:33:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID PINR PINS KDEM BG
09DHAKA897	WORK STOPPAGE AGAINST FOREIGN ENERGY COMPANIES [...] (C) A fringe group opposing the development of Bangladesh's natural resources failed to garner widespread support for its September 14 work stoppage, or hartal. The National Committee to Protect Oil, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports called the hartal to protest a Government of Bangladesh ( [...]	2009-09-15 08:55:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV ENRG EPET EINV BG
09DHAKA908	RAB CHIEF COMMITTED TO IMPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Director General Hassan Mahmood Khandker outlined to Poloff RAB procedures for reviewing incidents involving the use of deadly force, discussed the recently completed U.S. Marshals visit, and asked for USG sponsored training. The DG also discussed the Gover [...]	2009-09-17 10:56:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET	PINS PGOV PINR PTER BG
09DHAKA919	BANGLADESH DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT [...] (SBU) Mission Dhaka welcomes reftel initiative and opportunities for further connections with the Bangladeshi diaspora in the United States. We already engage with Bangladeshi-Americans in a number of areas, but there is wide scope for expanded interaction. Our experience is that the Banglad [...]	2009-09-24 09:22:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OEXC BEXP BG BTIO EAID ECON EINV OIIP PGOV PREL SCUL SMIG
09DHAKA977	MINISTER'S COMMENTS ON EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS [...] (C) Human Rights Groups and supporters reacted strongly after Bangladesh's Shipping Minister sought to defend extrajudicial killings while a panelist on a BBC produced talk show that aired October 4. Local human rights groups demanded clarification of the Government of Bangladesh (GOB) posit [...]	2009-10-15 08:36:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINS PGOV BG
09DHAKA988	BANGLADESH BORDER RIFLES CHIEF DISCUSSES BURMA, [...] (S) Major General Md. Mainul Islam, Director General of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR),highlighted his commitment to reform and improving the professionalism of the BDR to Embassy officers on October 12. MG Islam outlined the current deployment of border observation posts (BOP) and the limitat [...]	2009-10-20 03:33:00	Embassy Dhaka	SECRET	PBTS PINS PINR PREL PGOV PTER MARR MOPS MCAP
09DILI316	TIMOR-LESTE TO AGAIN ABSTAIN ON DEFAMATION OF RELIGION [...] Political Officer delivered reftel demarche on "defamation of religion" to the MFA's Director of Bilateral Affairs, Abel Guterres, on December 3. Poloff informed Guterres that the United States would again vote no when the resolution went before the UNGA plenary session for a final vote. [...]	2009-12-03 05:22:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA PHUM PGOV TT
09DILI5	EMBASSY DILI ADVOCATES IMPORT OF U.S. BEEF AND POULTRY IN [...] (U) On December 12, Poloff met with Secretary of State for Livestock Valentino Varela from the Ministry of Agriculture to request lifting of a current ban on U.S. beef and poultry products into Timor-Leste. The ban came to our attention through two Dili supermarket retailers, who reported that [...]	2009-01-06 09:42:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD RP TT
09DILI79	TIMOR-LESTE'S LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL ELECTION LAWS MOVE [...] (SBU) Summary. On Monday, March 2, Timor-Leste's Council of Ministers submitted two draft laws for Municipal and Suco (Village) elections to the National Parliament's Commission A (Constitutional Issues, Justice, Public Administration, Local Power and Government Legislation). The Commission w [...]	2009-03-12 11:34:00	Embassy Dili	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM TT
09DJIBOUTI10	NADR-FUNDED PROPOSAL TO SUPPORT THE REGIONAL STRATEGIC [...] SUMMARY. Per guidance in reftel, Embassy Djibouti submits the following proposal for $500,000 to establish a "Djibouti-Somalia Counter-Terrorism Border Post" (DSCBP) at Loyada, along the currently porous border between Djibouti and Somalia. Implementation of this proposal would enable the USG [...]	2009-01-06 12:01:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINS ASEC DJ SO
09DJIBOUTI101	PRESIDENT GUELLEH PRAISES PARTNERSHIP WITH USG, AFRICOM [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 5 meeting with AFRICOM Commander General Ward, President Guelleh accepted thanks for Djibouti's hosting of the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA),reiterated the GODJ's interest in maintaining a strong partnership with the USG, and praised AFRICOM' [...]	2009-02-08 14:11:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHSA MASS SO ER IR DJ
09DJIBOUTI1031	DJIBOUTI/SOMALIA: TFG FORCES BEGIN WEAPONS TRAINING; FRENCH [...] (C) SUMMARY. Military recruits for Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG),undergoing training by Djibouti's armed forces (FAD),have nearly reached the midpoint of their anticipated three-month program of instruction, which includes a human rights component as well as collective trai [...]	2009-08-06 20:42:00	Embassy Djibouti	SECRET//NOFORN	MASS MOPS KPKO PREL SO DJ UG FR
09DJIBOUTI1107	DJIBOUTI: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) PolOff discussed reftel points September 13 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Multilateral Relations Mariam Ahmed Goumaneh. Goumaneh welcomed U.S. re-engagement with the Human Rights Council (HRC). She agreed that it was helpful for the U.S. to be back at the table, com [...]	2009-09-13 14:22:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN UNHRC DJ
09DJIBOUTI1173	DJIBOUTI ON GOLDSTONE REPORT AND HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) PolOff discussed reftel points with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Legal and Consular Affairs Marie Natalis on October 1. Natalis serves as the MFA's representative on Djibouti's newly-formed National Human Rights Commission, and acts as the MFA's de facto Djibouti-based f [...]	2009-10-01 13:13:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KWMN KISL SOCI KPAL IS DJ
09DJIBOUTI1261	DJIBOUTI PRISON VISIT: AS CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO IMPROVE, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During an October 22 visit to Djibouti's Gabode Prison, EmbOffs noted that conditions continued to improve. A new prison guard force was fully operational, and had created a noticeably calmer and more orderly atmosphere. Aging and inadequate physical infrastructure contribute [...]	2009-11-01 15:29:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM CASC PGOV EAID KJUS SOCI DJ
09DJIBOUTI1303	DJIBOUTI: PROGRESS ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During an October 17-21 visit, G/TIP Program Officer discussed Djibouti's progress on combating trafficking in persons (TIP) with GODJ officials, resident United Nations agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. Since the passage of a comprehensive anti-TIP law in late 2007 [...]	2009-11-15 12:51:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SMIG KTIP KCRM PREF ECON SO ET ER YM DJ
09DJIBOUTI137	SECURITY CHIEF CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR MEGAPORTS IN DJIBOUTI [...] (SBU) Following the December 11 signature of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Department of Energy (DOE) and the GODJ, Djibouti is on track to be the first African port to participate in the DOE's "Megaports Initiative," which aims to detect and deter the illegal transport of spe [...]	2009-02-19 14:13:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EWWT MNUC PINS PINR DJ
09DJIBOUTI1413	DJIBOUTI: RIVAL UNION FACTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Djibouti has a history of rocky government-labor relations. Despite recent modest progress on labor issues-including reported success in moving forward on long overdue collective bargaining agreements-one union has recently lodged a formal protest over the GODJ's alleged disband [...]	2009-12-22 08:34:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM PGOV ECON ILO DJ
09DJIBOUTI1419	OPPOSITION FIGURES PREPARE FOR 2011 ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two minor political figures have now declared their intention to run as candidates in 2011 presidential elections: Aden Robleh Awaleh of the National Democratic Party (PND),nominally an ally of the ruling party (ref A),and Mohamed Daoud Chehem of the unaffiliated Djiboutian Part [...]	2009-12-23 09:52:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR DJ
09DJIBOUTI217	"DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel points to GODJ Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Multilateral Relations Mariam Ahmed Goumaneh March 23. 2. (SBU) Goumaneh said that although Djibouti customarily voted with the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) on similar issues, and was very lik [...]	2009-03-23 10:51:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF DJ
09DJIBOUTI257	DJIBOUTI OPPOSITION ROUNDUP: ???PARALYZED??? AND LACKING [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a series of recent meetings, Djibouti's small opposition political parties reiterated their longstanding critiques of President Guelleh's ruling coalition, Djibouti's electoral system, and overall lack of political space and dialogue. (Djibouti's most prominent historic opposit [...]	2009-03-30 09:11:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM ET DJ
09DJIBOUTI307	CONGRESSMAN PAYNE DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES WITH GODJ [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During an April 11-13 visit in Djibouti, CODEL Payne discussed regional challenges with Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh and other top GODJ officials. After speaking with President Guelleh about the ongoing Eritrea-Djibouti border dispute, Representative Payne traveled [...]	2009-04-15 05:39:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	OREP PGOV PREL PBTS PHSA PTER PHUM PREF ECON EAID ET
09DJIBOUTI545	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DESIGNATION OF DPRK ENTITIES [...] (SBU) PolOff discussed reftel points with GODJ Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Multilateral Relations Mariam Ahmed Goumaneh May 20. 2. (C) Goumaneh had no immediate response, but promised to convey the information to appropriate GODJ authorities such as the Djibouti [...]	2009-05-20 09:28:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KNNP PREL PARM XE ZO KN DJ
09DJIBOUTI677	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. CANDIDATE FOR ICSC ELECTION [...] (U) DCM and PolOff delivered reftel points to GODJ Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Bilateral Relations Mohamed Ali Hassan June 11. 2. (SBU) Hassan said that the GODJ had not yet taken a position on this election; however, he promised to convey the points on the U.S. candidacy to [...]	2009-06-11 13:44:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC APER KUNR DJ
09DJIBOUTI679	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RENEWING THE SUDAN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR [...] (SBU) DCM and PolOff discussed reftel points with GODJ Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Bilateral Relations Mohamed Ali Hassan June 11. 2. (C) Hassan said that the GODJ had not yet taken a position on the issue. In general, he noted, the GODJ often tended not to "take a clear-cu [...]	2009-06-11 13:52:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SU DJ
09DJIBOUTI683	DJIBOUTI: NO POSITION YET ON INTERNATIONAL PIRACY COURT [...] (SBU) DCM and PolOff delivered nonpaper and discussed reftel points with GODJ Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Bilateral Relations Mohamed Ali Hassan June 11. 2. (C) Hassan said that the GODJ had not yet taken a position on the question of an international piracy court [...]	2009-06-11 15:00:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT PHSA PGOV PREL MARR DJ
09DOHA117	HUMAN RIGHTS CHAIR: QATAR WILL "POSTPONE" GAZA [...] (SBU) In a February 10 conversation with Poloff Caudill, National Human Rights Committee Chairman Dr. Ali Said Al-Marri stated that Qatar would "postpone" the Gaza war crimes conference scheduled to take place February 22-24 in Doha. 2. (SBU) The postponement came after a February 4 conver [...]	2009-02-11 13:44:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KPAL WEBZ QA IS
09DOHA188	LONG-WINDED CHAVEZ EXPECTED AT MARCH 31 ARAB-SOUTH [...] (SBU) On March 31, Qatar will host in Doha the Second Arab-South American Summit. The timing of the Summit aims to take advantage of the presence in Doha of Arab League heads of state, who will be meeting here March 29-30. MFA Assistant Minister for Follow-Up Affairs Mohamed Al-Rumaihi told [...]	2009-03-17 12:37:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL WGG AL XR UY QA
09DOHA199	QATAR ENACTS IMPORTANT NEW LAW CRIMINALIZING [...] (SBU) On February 28, Crown Prince Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani signed the long-awaited Sponsorship Law. The law makes DOHA 00000199 002 OF 002 changes to entry, exit, residence, and sponsorship procedures, though administrative regulations must still be adopted before the law can be enfor [...]	2009-03-19 15:37:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB KTIP QA
09DOHA214	QATAR: 2009 CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (C) Qatar shares with Iran the largest non-associated gas field in the world. Qatar's portion contains an estimated 900 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, giving it the third-largest reserves of natural gas in the world. Qatar is believed to have an agreement with Iran providing a set extract [...]	2009-03-26 13:41:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC EAGR EAID ECON EFIN ENRG ETTC KCIP PGOV PREL PTER QA
09DOHA22	NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN MID-2010? [...] (U) According to the January 12 English-language daily Gulf Times, Lieutenant Colonel Abdul Rahman Majid al-Sulaiti, Assistant Director of Elections at the Ministry of Interior (MOI),has announced that elections for the Advisory Council may be held "as early as mid-2010." Elections were pr [...]	2009-01-12 12:19:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM QA
09DOHA255	QATAR SIGNS BINDING INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT TO [...] (C) In an April 15 conversation with Poloff Caudill, National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) Chairman Dr. Ali bin Samikh Al-Marri reviewed the status of Qatar's draft law criminalizing all forms of trafficking in persons (TIP). 2. (C) Al-Marri pointed out that in response to a recommendation [...]	2009-04-15 13:34:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KTIP ELAB QA
09DOHA28	AL-JAZEERA IMAM BLASTS JEWS, U.S., AND ARAB [...] (U) In a Friday, January 9, sermon broadcast on Al Jazeera Arabic, Imam Yousef Al-Qaradawi condemned Jews for spreading "corruption in the land," and for victimizing the Muslim people. He cited the Babylonian Captivity and the Roman conquest as historical examples of God's punishment of Israe [...]	2009-01-13 13:22:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF KISL QA
09DOHA352	QATAR - DEPORTATIONS DROPPED FOR 31 US CITIZENS [...] (C) Ambassador LeBaron and Consular Section Chief Timothy Ponce called May 28th on Minister of State for Interior Affairs Abdullah Khalid Al Thani at his office at the Ministry of Interior (MOI). 2. (C) Ambassador told Al Thani that all of the Americans involved informed U.S. Embassy staf [...]	2009-05-28 13:29:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF CASC QA
09DOHA386	GOQ SQUEAMISH AFTER HELPING OPEN UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On May 27, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay and MFA Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ahmed bin Abdulla Al Mahmoud opened the Human Rights Training and Documentation Centre for South-West Asia and the Arab Region at a ceremony in Doha. Senior human rights profe [...]	2009-06-10 12:18:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UN QA
09DOHA417	MFA MINSTATE TO A/AS FELTMAN: IRAN WILL NOT [...] (C) On June 16, accompanied by Ambassador, Staff Assistant, and Poloff, AA/S Jeffrey Feltman met with Qatari MFA Minstate for Foreign Affairs Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud. Also present in the meeting on the Qatari side were the Foreign Minister's Assistant for Follow-Up Affairs Mohammad Al-R [...]	2009-06-25 07:52:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR SU QA
09DOHA547	QATAR'S 10 MILLION USD DONATION TO GAZAN WORKERS [...] (U) In a September 1 press statement, the Vice Chairman of Qatar Charity, Abdullah Hussain Al-Nameh, revealed that his organization and Qatar's Red Crescent Society were selected by Amir Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani to administer the 10 million USD donation to Gazan fishermen and workers announc [...]	2009-09-01 11:49:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG QA
09DOHA548	SOLIDARITY CENTER HEAD HITS THE GROUND RUNNING [...] (SBU) At an August 20 meeting with Poloff Caudill, Solidarity Center representative Boyko Atanasov reported that the National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) had been very helpful in assisting with his work in Qatar. He said that NHRC staff had assisted him in acquiring the necessary work permi [...]	2009-09-02 12:40:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KTIP IN NE QA
09DOHA554	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche and talking points by diplomatic note on September 2. Post has requested a meeting with the MFA official in charge of international organizations and UN affairs to follow up, but no meeting had been scheduled by the reply deadline set by Department. 2. [...]	2009-09-07 08:51:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IR QA
09DOHA561	QATAR TO SEEK ANOTHER TERM ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) MFA Director for International Organization and UN Affairs Abdulaziz Al-Sowaidi told P/E Chief Rice and Poloff Caudill on September 8 that Qatar will seek another term on the UN Human Rights Council. He asked that the U.S. support Qatar's efforts to retain its seat. 2. (C) Asked wheth [...]	2009-09-09 13:29:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IR QA
09DOHA572	QATAR CONFIRMS SECOND H1N1 DEATH: VICTIM ACTIVE IN [...] (C) The Supreme Council for Health (SCH) announced on September 12 that a second death had occurred as the result of the H1N1 virus. Dr. Husam Rezeq, Head of Communicable Disease Control and Vaccination at the Ministry of Health, told Emboff on September 15 that the victim, a 40 year-old Nepal [...]	2009-09-15 11:49:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KFLU AEMR AMED ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO
09DOHA620	SKEPTICISM GREETS IRANIAN STATEMENT ON GAS PRICING [...] (C) Media reported 21 September that Iran,s representative to the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF),Mohammed Ali Khatibi, announced Iranian government plans to seek consensus among GECF members over a pricing formula for gas supplies to world markets. However, the expatriate country manag [...]	2009-10-15 12:02:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON QA IR RS
09DOHA651	VIETNAMESE CONSUL: LABOR AGREEMENTS WITH QATAR [...] (C) At an October 28 meeting with Poloff Caudill, Vietnamese consul Mau Tien Dong called the labor agreement between his country and the GOQ "just paper". He said that the February agreement under which the GOQ agreed to accept 25,000 Vietnamese workers (Ref A) was merely a gesture of goodwil [...]	2009-11-03 10:52:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ELAB KTIP VM QA
09DOHA667	2010 FORUM FOR THE FUTURE: DEMOCRACY LEADER LOOKS [...] (SBU) Ambassador met on November 12 with Dr. Marzen Marzouk, Director of the Arab Democracy Foundation (ADF). The meeting was held at Marzouk's request. Also present in the meeting were ADF Deputy Director for Programs Wafa'a Omar and Poloff Caudill. The discussion covered a variety of topic [...]	2009-11-16 10:23:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CA MO QA
09DOHA668	ARAB DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION HEAD PREVIEWS [...] (SBU) Ambassador met November 12 with Marzen Marzouk, Director of the Arab Democracy Foundation (ADF). The meeting was held at Dr. Marzouk's request to discuss his organization's involvement in the Darfur talks to take place in Doha later in November. Also present in the meeting were ADF Dep [...]	2009-11-16 10:29:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU QA
09DOHA676	ARAB DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION HEAD RELATES DRAFT PLAN [...] (SBU) At a November 12 meeting with Ambassador, Arab Democracy Foundation (ADF) Director Marzen Marzouk unveiled a three part draft plan for how his organization plans to engage the parties to the conflict in Somalia with the aim of formulating a blueprint for a peace process. The meeting was [...]	2009-11-19 05:43:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHSA SOCI QA
09DOHA678	DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION TO OPEN CONFLICT RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Ambassador met November 12 with Arab Democracy Foundation (ADF) Director Mohsen Marzouk. The meeting was held at Dr. Marzouk's request. Also present at the meeting were ADF Deputy Director of Programs Wafa'a Omar and Poloff Caudill. At the meeting, Marzouk revealed that the ADF would [...]	2009-11-22 13:04:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM QA
09DOHA691	QATAR INVESTMENT AUTHORITY'S 2010 INVESTMENT [...] (C) At a November 24 meeting with Ambassador, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) Executive Board Member Dr. Hussain Al-Abdulla outlined Qatar's investment strategy for 2010. Also present at the meeting were FCS Chief Le and Poloff Caudill. In response to Ambassador Dr. Al-Abdulla said that for [...]	2009-11-25 11:44:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN EINV AR BR CH
09DOHA723	MFA HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICER PRAISES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (SBU) P/E Chief Rice, accompanied by PolOff Caudill, met with MFA Human Rights Officer Shaykha Sumaya Al Thani on December 15 to discuss the 2009 International Religious Freedom Report for Qatar. Also present on the Qatari side were MFA Human Rights Department Legal Counsel Dr. Mohammad Saee [...]	2009-12-16 10:35:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KIRF QA
09DOHA727	2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR QATAR [...] (SBU) Post presents the following update in response to reftelrequest for a summary of GOQ progress on selected anti-trafficking issues. 2. (SBU) Q: Please summarize the progress, or lack thereof, the Government of Qatar has made in enacting the draft comprehensive anti-trafficking legis [...]	2009-12-20 12:11:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KTIP ELAB QA
09DOHA96	PROPOSED GAZA RECONSTRUCTION CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) Turkish political counselor in Qatar Cevat Ok confirmed to Poloff Zebley on February 8 that PM Erdogan received a personal invitation from PM Al Thani to attend a conference on Gaza aid "in the near future", but stated that no date had been set. He also noted that while the Turkish PM wel [...]	2009-02-08 13:41:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPAL EAID KWBG QA EG
09DOHA98	LEBANESE MAN SENTENCED TO THREE-YEAR PRISON TERM [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-09 14:10:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM QA
09DOHA99	GOQ TAKES STEP TOWARD BROADER ENGAGEMENT IN IRAQ [...] On February 8 the GOQ signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) paving the way for cooperation on infrastructure development, agriculture, and aviation. The agreement was signed during a visit by the president of Iraq's Kurdish region, Mass [...]	2009-02-09 14:17:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KREL QA IZ
09DUBAI275	STATUS OF DP WORLD IN THE CURRENT ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary: Like most multinational companies, Dubai Ports World (DP World) has not been immune to the current financial crisis. While some business plans are unchanged, DP World has revised other plans based on declining demand and trade volumes at Dubai's mammoth Jebel Ali port and abroad. [...]	2009-07-07 10:29:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EFIN ECON PREL AE
09DUBAI300	DUBAI: AFGHANISTAN'S PRIVATE SECTOR IN EXILE [...] (C) Summary: Acting Consul General, accompanied by PolOff, met with Afghan Business Council Chairman Haji Obaidullah Sader Khail on July 15. The Afghan Business Council in Dubai was established in April 2005 and its 160 members serve as Afghanistan's private sector in exile. About 1000 of Af [...]	2009-07-23 12:48:00	Consulate Dubai	SECRET	ETRD EFIN ECON PREL AF AE
09DUBAI330	DUBAI SEEKS TO IMPROVE FOOD SAFETY STANDARDS [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent press reports about a spate of food poisoning cases in Dubai, including high-profile deaths of several children, have resulted in growing concern about food safety standards in the emirate. The Director of the Food Control Department (FCD) at Dubai Municipality attributes [...]	2009-08-12 11:36:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PGOV AE
09DUBAI41	EMIRATES AIRLINE AND DNATA TRANSFER TO INVESTMENT [...] (C) On January 20, poloff met with Faisal Mikou, Executive Vice President of Mergers and Acquisitions at the Investment Corporation of Dubai (ICD),to discuss recent media coverage of the transfer of Dubai-based Emirates Airlines and air travel services firm Dnata to ICD. Mikou was puzzled by [...]	2009-01-29 14:16:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EAIR ECON PGOV AE
09DUBAI449	UAE: SHARJAH'S POWER PROBLEMS [...] (C) Summary: Sharjah, the UAE's third most populous Emirate, has been suffering since early August ongoing power outages ranging from several hours to several days at a time. The Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (SEWA) attributes the outages to high summer demand, but gas shortages and [...]	2009-10-18 10:49:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON ENRG PREL AE
09DUBAI451	BLUE LANTERN BROKER INQUIRY-- CASE NO. K-2350 (BROKER SAID [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Said Kiwan, Director MVP Tech on October 15 as requested in reftel Blue Lantern broker inquiry. MVP Tech was established in 2003 and is a security contractor specializing in systems integration for prominent Dubai companies and hotels such as Al Tayer, Arabtec, World Trade [...]	2009-10-21 08:47:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC AE
09DUBAI452	BLUE LANTERN BROKER INQUIRY-- CASE NO. K-2007 (BROKER JAKE [...] (SBU) Summary: Per reftel request for Blue Lantern broker inquiry, Poloff and PolEcon Specialist met with Axsys Technologies' Senior Vice President for Coporate Strategy and Development Jake Soujah and Director of Operations Kinda Assouad, on October 7, 2009. Axsys mainly deals with equipment [...]	2009-10-21 08:52:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC AE
09DUBAI454	BLUE LANTERN BROKER INQUIRY-- CASE NO. K-2339 (BROKER KAREEM [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-22 05:44:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC AE
09DUBLIN105	INFORMING ISAF PARTNERS OF POTENTIAL CHANGES TO [...] (C) POLOFF delivered demarche on March 3 to Isolde Moylan, Director, Asia and Oceania Division, Department of Foreign Affairs. Moylan reiterated the full support of the Government of Ireland for the USG policy review on Afghanistan and expressed appreciation for the briefing on SOF plans. ( [...]	2009-03-04 16:19:00	Embassy Dublin	SECRET	MARR MOPS NATO PREL EI
09DUBLIN114	IRISH GOVERNMENT CONDEMNS ATTACK ON BRITISH [...] (C) The government of Ireland has condemned the attacks in Northern Ireland on March 7 that killed two British soldiers. Irish government officials say that the Northern Ireland Assembly, the British government and the Irish government are coordinating their responses closely. Dublin also s [...]	2009-03-09 15:03:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MOPS EI
09DUBLIN129	IRELAND NOT ATTENDING SEOUL GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-20 14:08:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC EI KS
09DUBLIN137	LATEST BUDGET FIGURES FORCE IRISH GOVERNMENT TO [...] (C) Summary: In light of greater than expected budget deficits and falling tax revenue, the Government of Ireland is investigating a number of unorthodox solutions to the financial crisis. While these proposals mark a dramatic departure from traditional methods, it is unlikely that they will [...]	2009-04-01 07:50:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL ECON EI
09DUBLIN148	REQUESTING SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) POLOFF delivered demarches (Refs A and B) on April 3 and March 31 respectively to Isolde Moylan, Regional Director, Office of Asia and Oceania, Department of Foreign Affairs. Moylan responded that the government of Ireland is "strongly appreciative and supportive" of both the Afghanistan [...]	2009-04-06 13:50:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS MARR EI
09DUBLIN21	IRISH RATIFICATION OF US-EU EXTRADITION AND MUTUAL [...] POLOFF spoke on January 13 with Louise Hartigan, EU Division, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),who is shepherding the extradition and legal mutual assistance agreements through the final administrative processes required prior to the signing of instruments. According to Hartigan, DFA has [...]	2009-01-13 15:38:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KTIA CJAN PGOV PREL EI
09DUBLIN213	IRELAND'S JUNE 5 ELECTIONS: BAD TIDINGS FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: Irish voters are expected to show up in significant numbers for the June 5 local and European Parliament elections, but to register dissatisfaction with the Irish government's performance rather than as a reflection of increased interest in who represents them in Brussels. We exp [...]	2009-06-03 08:30:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EI
09DUBLIN298	IRELAND'S LISBON II CAMPAIGN - OFF AND RUNNING [...] (C) With just under two months to go before the second Lisbon Treaty referendum (Lisbon II) both the "yes" and "no" campaigns have kicked off. All major parties, unions, and business groups are expected to be firmly in the "yes" camp, and early polls have projected that Lisbon II will pass wit [...]	2009-08-09 10:43:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN EI
09DUBLIN304	MUSLIMS IN IRELAND - A CHANGING COMMUNITY [...] (U) Summary: The Irish Muslim community is one of the fastest growing minority communities in Ireland and is one of the major contributors to Ireland,s shift from an overwhelmingly homogeneous society to a multi-cultural one. The Irish Government has made some attempts at reaching out to the M [...]	2009-08-14 10:37:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER KISL EI
09DUBLIN348	IRELAND ON SEPTEMBER 4-5 EU FMS' GYMNICH [...] (U) On September 1, Poloff delivered ref A non-paper for the September 4-5 EU Foreign Ministers, Gymnich meeting to Peter Ryan, European Correspondent in the Department of Foreign Affairs. Ryan had just taken up his position on August 31 and was starting to prepare for Gymnich. Ryan said he [...]	2009-09-02 13:52:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EI
09DUBLIN351	IRISH UNGA PRIORITIES FIT WITH U.S. GOALS [...] (C) Summary: The Irish goals taking shape for UNGA appear to dovetail quite well with U.S. priorities (reftel). Nonproliferation is a top Irish objective, with strengthening the NPT singled out especially. On human rights, the Irish are focusing on Iran, DPRK, Burma and Sudan. The Irish appr [...]	2009-09-03 12:27:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNGA EI
09DUBLIN357	ICJ HEARINGS ON KOSOVO: IRELAND RELUCTANT TO [...] (SBU) On September 9, Poloff spoke about the International Court of Justice (ICJ) hearings on Kosovo with James Hennessy and Marianne Bolger of the Western Europe and Western Balkans Section of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). Deputy Director Hennessy said that Ireland remains a s [...]	2009-09-10 14:10:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREL ICJ KV EI
09DUBLIN358	IRELAND ON GYMNICH, GAERC [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 9, Poloff spoke with Peter Ryan, European Correspondent in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) about the September 4-5 EU FMs, Gymnich meeting and their upcoming GAERC meeting on September 14-15. According to Ryan, EU FMs, concerned by developments in Afg [...]	2009-09-10 14:26:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EI EUN
09DUBLIN362	IRISH REFERENDUM ON LISBON TREATY: THE ISSUES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: After deciding against the EU Lisbon Treaty in a first referendum on June 12, 2008, the Irish will vote on Lisbon again on October 2. With the campaign in full swing, a recent poll gives the "yes" side 46 percent with 29 percent opposed and 25 percent undecided. This represents a [...]	2009-09-11 16:28:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EI EUN
09DUBLIN37	IRISH SUPPORT EU-SYRIA ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche on January 12, 2009 to Pat Kelly, Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and his deputy, Stephen Dawson, DFA's Iran/Syria expert. Dawson indicated that the EU intends to continue preparations for the Agreement [...]	2009-01-22 11:37:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EI
09DUBLIN39	IRISH VIEWS ON THE JANUARY 26-27 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) On January 22, PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Brian Glynn, European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs. Glynn stated that in light of the current situation in the Middle East, the agenda has been pared back dramatically and will include only the Middle East, Russia-Ukraine [...]	2009-01-23 11:01:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PGOV IS RS UP EI
09DUBLIN412	IRISH LISBON TREATY REFERENDUM: "YES" VOTE LIKELY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Today, October 2, the Irish will vote in the long-awaited second referendum on the EU Lisbon Treaty. The polls throughout September, while fluctuating, have all given the "yes" side a large advantage, with the most recent poll, published on September 27, showing 55 percent for "ye [...]	2009-10-02 12:46:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EI EUN
09DUBLIN422	A GREEN THREAT TO THE GOVERNMENT? [...] (C) Summary: The Green Party, the Irish government's junior coalition partner, will hold a special convention on October 10 to vote on a revised Program for Government and draft legislation setting up the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA). John Gormley, Minister for Environment, Heritag [...]	2009-10-07 16:13:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EI
09DUBLIN449	IRELAND ON OCTOBER GAERC [...] (U) On October 22 Poloff spoke with Peter Ryan, European Correspondent in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) about the EU FMs, GAERC meeting on October 26-27. Ryan had the following comments: 2. (C) Afghanistan/Pakistan: The draft conclusions for the EU FMs further underscore the [...]	2009-10-23 10:30:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EI EUN
09DUBLIN453	SINN FEIN REP: ROBINSON WANTS DEVOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: The Dublin-based Sinn Fein Representative to the United States told us that Sinn Fein believed that Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson wanted to move on devolution, especially since the Secretary's visit, but that fear of rival unionists was holding him back. Sinn Fein [...]	2009-10-30 09:24:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EI XT UK
09DUBLIN476	IRELAND: NOVEMBER GAERC, BELARUS, OSCE [...] (U) On November 10 Poloff spoke with Peter Ryan, European Correspondent in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) about the EU FMs, GAERC meeting on November 16-17. Separately, Poloff delivered ref C demarche on Belarus to Michael Forbes, DFA Director for Russia, Eastern Europe and Cent [...]	2009-11-12 16:28:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BO RS AF OSCE EI EUN
09DUBLIN477	IRELAND: UPDATE ON EX-GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ex-Guantanamo detainees in Ireland are performing most daily tasks on their own, but will require "long-term" assistance before being able to integrate into Irish society. The Irish have requested the help of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in arranging for [...]	2009-11-12 16:38:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM MARR EI
09DUBLIN502	IRELAND'S NOMINEE FOR EU COMMISSIONER [...] (C) SUMMARY: A highly placed official (PROTECT) in the Prime Minister's office told us that Ireland's nominee for the first post-Lisbon European Commission, Maire Geoghegan-Quinn, was tapped not only for her qualifications but also for domestic and EU-wide political reasons. Ireland hopes for [...]	2009-11-25 13:03:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON EUN EI
09DUBLIN510	IRELAND ON ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: On November 27, Charge discussed the possibility of additional Irish contributions in Afghanistan with David Donoghue, Political Director in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). This underscored a November 25 meeting of Poloff with Isolde Moylan, Director of the Asia an [...]	2009-11-27 14:43:00	Embassy Dublin	SECRET	NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF EI
09DUBLIN511	IRELAND ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM, IAEA'S SYRIA [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-30 13:50:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM IAEA KNNP SYR IR EI
09DUBLIN513	IRELAND "FAVORS" SETTING DATE FOR EU-MACEDONIA [...] (C) On November 25, Poloff discussed reftel points with John McCullagh, Counselor for EU Enlargement in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),and his Deputy Mark Daryl Erickson. On setting a start date for formal EU accession negotiations with Macedonia, our interlocutors referred to [...]	2009-11-30 15:03:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GR MK EI EUN
09DUBLIN522	IRELAND ON DPRK UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW SESSION [...] (C) On December 2, Poloff discussed reftel points with Isolde Moylan, Director of the Asia and Oceania Bureau in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),and Peter McIvor, the Bureau's Deputy Director. They said DPRK was one of their Bureau's priorities, and expressed their appreciation [...]	2009-12-03 16:33:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SOCI UNGA EI
09DUBLIN523	IRELAND ON PRESSING FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-03 16:42:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM EI
09DUBLIN538	IRELAND: PREDICTABLE BUDGET/UNPREDICTABLE FINANCE [...] (C) Summary: On December 9, the Irish government delivered its 2010 budget. Looking to save at least four billion Euro (USD 6 billion),the government had signaled for months that public sector pay and social welfare would make up a large chunk of the spending cuts and there were no great surp [...]	2009-12-10 16:37:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV EFIN EI
09DUBLIN545	IRISH POLICY DIRECTOR ON AFGHANISTAN, NATO PFP [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 15 Ciaran Murphy (STRICTLY PROTECT),Assistant Secretary General and Policy Director in the Irish Department of Defense, told Poloff there was a slight possibility Ireland would send two military trainers to Afghanistan to help train Afghan security forces. Ireland ho [...]	2009-12-16 14:45:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EI AF
09DUBLIN59	IRELAND'S COMMENTS ON THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION [...] (C) Summary: On February 6, PolOff met with Derek Hannon, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Non-Proliferation section of the DFA. Hannon noted that Ireland did not, at present, have detailed "informed views" on the NPT, but he did share Ireland's views on the issues submitted in reftel. [...]	2009-02-09 17:07:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09DUBLIN93	IRELAND: JUDGE PAINTER STILL UNDER CONSIDERATION [...] (SBU) On February 27, PolOff spoke with Bobby Smyth, desk officer for UN Coordination at the Department of Foreign Affairs. Smyth stated that he did not expect a final decision would be reached before close of business, but that Judge Painter was "very much still in consideration." FAUCHER [...]	2009-02-27 15:12:00	Embassy Dublin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA
09DURBAN11	DA LEADERS CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS DESPITE HURDLES AT NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Democratic Alliance (DA) leaders are interested to see how the newly formed Congress of the People (COPE) performs in the next election, but are unconvinced the party will threaten the DA's own prospects at the polls. Senior KwaZulu Natal DA representatives related that [...]	2009-01-20 15:29:00	Consulate Durban	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SF
09DURBAN6	ZUMA, STATE PONDER NEXT STEPS AFTER COURT RULING [...] (U) Summary: The Supreme Court of Appeal on January 12 reinstated the corruption case against African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma, overturning an earlier verdict that had tossed out the charges related to the controversial 1998 arms deal on a technicality. (Note: The state [...]	2009-01-13 15:28:00	Consulate Durban	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ZA
09DURBAN7	IFP YOUTH PRESIDENT HOPEFUL ABOUT PARTY'S CHANCES, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) Youth Brigade President Pat Lebenya-Ntanzi believes her party can take back the Kwa-Zulu Natal provincial government and keep the African National Congress (ANC) from winning a two-thirds majority nationally. She asserted that the formation of the Con [...]	2009-01-15 15:56:00	Consulate Durban	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SF
09DURBAN8	LACK OF CLEAR STRATEGY MAY DASH IFP LEADERS' CONFIDENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leaders provided insight into the party's campaign strategy and prospects during a meeting with the Consul General, Poloff, and Pon-Econ Assistant on January 13. Provincial Secretary Bonginkosi Buthelezi and Provincial Treasurer Narend Singh [...]	2009-01-15 16:19:00	Consulate Durban	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SF
09DURBAN9	STEEP CHALLENGES AHEAD WEIGH ON NEWLY ANNOUNCED COPE LEADER [...] (SBU) Summary. Congress of the People (COPE) political leader Lucky Gabela discussed why he left the African National Congress (ANC) and his new party's campaign strategy and prospects during a meeting with the Consul General, visiting Pretoria Poloff, and Pol-Econ Assistant on January 15. Gab [...]	2009-01-16 15:51:00	Consulate Durban	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SF

09DUSHANBE1211	THE SUGHD REGION: HOUSE-TO-HOUSE SEARCHES FOR ISLAMISTS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A raid by government security forces on a house in Isfara on November 18 was the latest in a string of violent incidents in Sughd Oblast. Though Tajikistan's second largest city, Khujand, considered by many Tajiks to be the center of Tajikistan's intelligentsia, is in Sughd, [...]	2009-11-09 13:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON TI
09DUSHANBE1212	TAJIKISTAN - AMBASSADOR VISITS THE RASHT VALLEY, WHERE FOOD [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 3-4 visit to the Rasht valley, an opposition stronghold during the civil war, Ambassador Gross met with local government officials, NGO and international organization representatives, and residents of a village which benefits from USG Food for Peace funding. De [...]	2009-11-09 13:57:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID PREL PGOV PHUM EAGR KPAO TI
09DUSHANBE1241	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Komron Komilov in the General Section at the MFA on 13 November 2009. Komron agreed to deliver the demarche to the appropriate office though provided no substantive response, as the office responsible was, for the time being, short-staffed and unavaila [...]	2009-11-16 06:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA PHUM TI
09DUSHANBE1319	TAJIK TIP COMMISSION: EVOLVING DESPITE A SOVIET DINOSAUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent meetings on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) highlighted progress the Government of Tajikistan (GOTI) is making in fighting TIP, and the barriers -- mainly organizational and intellectual -- that impede progress. The GOTI's Inter-Ministerial Commission on Combating TIP is de [...]	2009-11-24 10:50:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV SMIG TI
09DUSHANBE1321	LET MY PEOPLE GO! POLITICAL PRISONERS LEFT OUT OF AMNESTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Though the impetus for President Rahmon's November 6 announcement of a 10,000-prisoner amnesty was the dangerous overcrowding of the country's prisons, the amnesty was also the government's latest effort to bolster its populist credentials in advance of winter electricity shortages [...]	2009-11-25 05:22:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR TI
09DUSHANBE1329	CULTURE CLASH AT ROUNDTABLE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a UN-sponsored roundtable to discuss the endemic problem of violence against women in Tajikistan, representatives of NGOs and the international community forcefully argued for passage of a comprehensive, national law against domestic violence. An American Bar Association (ABA [...]	2009-11-27 06:17:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV SMIG TI
09DUSHANBE1335	TAJIKISTAN ELECTION COUNTDOWN - OPPOSITION PARTY SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In advance of February, 2010 Parliamentary elections, Tajik opposition parties are initiating hopeful campaigns despite systemic obstacles and their own disorganization. The Islamic Renaissance Party plans to run an active, national campaign with appeal beyond its religious base [...]	2009-12-01 04:54:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TI
09DUSHANBE1349	TAJIKISTAN - DECEMBER VOTE ON "DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS" [...] (U) On December 3, poloff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper on defamation of religions resolution to Idibek Kalandarov, Deputy Chief of the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Office of International Organizations. Kalandarov said he would advise the Minister of Foreign Affairs on USG vie [...]	2009-12-03 11:50:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UNGA UN TI
09DUSHANBE1350	G/TIP VISIT: COMBATTING TIP ON A HALF TANK OF GAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a November 30 - December 1 visit, G/TIP Tajikistan desk officer Megan Hall and emboffs met government officials and representatives of NGOs and IOs to discuss Tajikistan's progress in addressing trafficking in persons and forced labor during the cotton harvest. Government [...]	2009-12-03 12:03:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV SMIG TI
09DUSHANBE1362	G/TIP VISIT: COMBATTING TIP ON A HALF TANK OF GAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a November 30 - December 1 visit, G/TIP Tajikistan desk officer Megan Hall and emboffs met government officials and representatives of NGOs and IOs to discuss Tajikistan's progress in addressing trafficking in persons and forced labor during the cotton harvest. Government [...]	2009-12-04 06:32:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN PGOV SMIG TI
09DUSHANBE2	PARLIAMENTARIAN VOICES DOUBTS ABOUT TAJIKISTAN'S [...] (C) Summary: On 20 December, Yusufjon Akhmedov, a deputy in the lower house of Parliament, candidly discussed with Poloff a number of issues, including the extent to which President Rahmon personally benefitted from the Tajik Aluminum Company (Talco). Akhmedov speculated about a possible decl [...]	2009-01-02 09:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV TI
09DUSHANBE346	THREE FACES OF TAJIKISTAN'S SUNNI LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: EmbOffs have reached out to more of Tajikistan's imams to get their impressions of religious life in Tajikistan and perceptions of the United States. The dissatisfaction voiced by Tajikistan's increasingly popular independent imams, as described in reftel, appears to be shared by [...]	2009-03-19 11:32:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KISL TI
09DUSHANBE401	THREE FACES OF TAJIKISTAN'S SUNNI LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: EmbOffs have reached out to more of Tajikistan's imams to get their impressions of religious life in Tajikistan and perceptions of the United States. The dissatisfaction voiced by Tajikistan's increasingly popular independent imams, as described in reftel, appears to be shared by [...]	2009-03-30 13:11:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KISL TI
09DUSHANBE406	IF I WERE A RICH MAN - HASSAN ASADULLOZODA DONATES A [...] (SBU) Summary: The local and international press have reported that presidential brother in law - and purported mensch - Hassan Asadullozoda donated a building to Tajikistan's Jewish Community for use as a synagogue. The reports have painted the donation as an attempt to atone for destroying t [...]	2009-04-01 12:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF TI
09DUSHANBE423	IS TAJIKISTAN'S ISLAMIC PARTY AT A CROSSROADS? [...] (C) Summary: Tajikistan's new religion law puts Tajikistan's Islamic Revival Party in a difficult position. The party's inability to influence either the legislative process or the government's religious policy, calls into question its reason for being. The party's silence on major issues cha [...]	2009-04-08 13:37:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TI
09DUSHANBE466	DEMARCHE ON AFGHANISTAN CONTRIBUTIONS DELIVERED [...] (C) On April 6, PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Husrav Noziri, the Head of the Americas and Europe Division of Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Noziri could not provide specific feedback on reftel requests, but he forwarded them to the individuals. It is unclear how and when the [...]	2009-04-15 09:19:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MOPS MARR AF TI
09DUSHANBE467	RUSSIAN FOREIGN ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS LOOK BETTER ON PAPER [...] (C) Summary: According to the Russian embassy, Russia plans and implements its assistance to Tajikistan in a basic manner that is politically driven, does not take account of development needs, and relies excessively on the Tajik government for distribution. Russian diplomats share our frustra [...]	2009-04-15 09:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ECON RU TI
09DUSHANBE478	TAJIKISTAN - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) On April 16, PolOff delivered reftel demarche and supporting documents to Muzafar Khuseinov, Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of International Organizations. Khuseinov said that the government was still considering our request for support. He said that Tajikistan had [...]	2009-04-16 12:03:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNGA
09DUSHANBE485	TAJIKISTAN: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS [...] (U) Post has assigned Poloff William von Zagorski as Primary Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) and Econoff Daniel Kronenfeld as Alternate TFCO. Both officers are PCS at Post through the summer of 2010. 2. (SBU) Contact Information: Primary TFCO [...]	2009-04-23 11:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN ETTC PTER TI
09DUSHANBE51	TAJIKISTAN'S - ABILITY TO RESEARCH OR FREEZE ASSETS OF SUSPECT TERRORIST ENTITIES [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-13 07:31:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KCRM TI
09DUSHANBE6	PARLIAMENTARIAN VOICES DOUBTS ABOUT TAJIKISTAN'S [...] (C) Summary: On 20 December, Yusufjon Akhmedov, a deputy in the lower house of Parliament, candidly discussed with Poloff a number of issues, including the extent to which President Rahmon personally benefitted from the Tajik Aluminum Company (Talco). Akhmedov speculated about a possible decl [...]	2009-01-05 07:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV TI
09DUSHANBE688	TAJIK IMAMS RETURN FROM UNITED STATES WITH NEW OUTLOOK ON [...] (U) Summary: On June 1 CAO and PolOffs met with Domullo Numonkhon and Mullo Abdurahim, two of the five independent Tajik imams who traveled to the United States on the International Visitor Leadership Program. Numonkhon and Abdurahim are both conservative, and both had criticized U.S. foreign [...]	2009-06-04 12:38:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KPAO KIRF KISL PINR TI
09DUSHANBE7	PARLIAMENTARIAN VOICES DOUBTS ABOUT TAJIKISTAN'S [...] (C) Summary: On 20 December, Yusufjon Akhmedov, a deputy in the lower house of Parliament, candidly discussed with Poloff a number of issues, including the extent to which President Rahmon personally benefitted from the Tajik Aluminum Company (Talco). Akhmedov speculated about a possible decl [...]	2009-01-05 07:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV TI
09DUSHANBE703	MORE INDICATIONS THAT TAJIKISTAN'S ISLAMIC PARTY IS AT A [...] (C) Summary: Mahmadali Hait and Vohidkhoni Qosiddin, Deputy Chairmen of the Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan (IRPT),maintain that their party ranks continue to grow because of the government's unpopularity, but there are still questions about their ability to lead an effective opposition pa [...]	2009-06-05 12:08:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TI
09DUSHANBE741	TAJIKISTANI GOVERNMENT INFORMED REGARDING UPCOMING [...] (C) On June 1, Poloff delivered points in reftel, concerning negotiations with Moscow about potential transport of materiel via Russia to Afghanistan, to Khusrav Nosiri, head of the Department of European and American affairs at the Tajik Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nosiri clearly appreciated [...]	2009-06-16 12:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV EFIN TI
09DUSHANBE957	PROMINENT FORMER OPPOSITION LEADER TURAJONZODA SHARES VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: On July 30, Embassy PolOffs and two DRL representatives met with Hoji Akbar Turajonzoda, a charismatic religious leader who was among the top leaders of the United Tajik Opposition during Tajikistan's civil war. Despite his continued harsh criticism of President Rahmon, Turajonzod [...]	2009-08-07 12:04:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL TI
09DUSSELDORF19	LEADERSHIP CHANGES IN GERMAN MUSLIM COUNCIL; LITTLE PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Concluding his six-month rotating leadership of Germany's Muslim Coordination Council (KRM),spokesman Erol Puerlue called for patience in judging its work. He said it was a challenge to deliver tangible results, partly because of differences within the KRM but also because the [...]	2009-05-08 15:19:00	Consulate Dusseldorf	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KISL GM
09DUSSELDORF29	NEW EDITION OF ANTI-EXTREMISM COMIC BOOK "ANDI 3" EXPECTED [...] (U) Continuing their series of comic books designed to combat extremism amongst German youth in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW),the state's Office for the Protection of the Constitution (OPC) is expecting to release a third volume of the Andi series, Andi 3 (see reftel),by the end of the [...]	2009-08-07 14:45:00	Consulate Dusseldorf	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KISL PTER KPAO GM
09DUSSELDORF37	DECREASE IN REPORTED TIP CASES IN NRW COULD HIDE ADDITIONAL [...] (U) Summary: The number of human trafficking perpetrators and known victims in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) decreased significantly from last year, but the statistics likely do not capture the full numbers of trafficking perpetrators and victims. Most victims are non-German with many coming [...]	2009-09-25 10:46:00	Consulate Dusseldorf	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GM
09EFTOLONDON2187	DELIVERY OF AGENDA FOR P-3 MEETING ON NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-21 13:22:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA UK
09EFTOLONDON2211	UK RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REGARDING U.S.INVITATION [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-23 15:12:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM KTBT KNNP UK
09EFTOLONDON2468	TAMIL EXPATRIATES CALL FOR RESETTLEMENT OF IDPS [...] (SBU/NF) Summary. In an October 21 meeting with four UK citizen Tamils from "Expatriate Tamils," a UK-based diaspora advocacy group, requested that the USG "prevail upon the Sri Lankan government" to allow for timely resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs),including 250,000 plus [...]	2009-11-02 16:37:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM XD CE UK PREF
09EFTOLONDON2521	UK RESPONSE: REQUEST FOR UK PRESENCE AT JANUARY [...] (SBU/NF) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Sharon McDonald, CBRN Terrorism Desk Officer in the Counter-Proliferation Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),on November 3. McDonald said she had already discussed the GICNT EPG Meeting with her supervisors, but that no decisi [...]	2009-11-06 17:30:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL PTER KGIC UK
09EFTOLONDON2618	UK RESPONSE: FMCT POSITIONS FOR P-3 DISCUSSION IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-20 17:08:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL TRGY MNUC UK
09EFTOLONDON2688	UK INITIAL RESPONSE: PROMOTING SUPPORT FOR UNSCR [...] (SBU/NF) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Philip Richards, Nuclear and Radiological Security Desk Officer at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),on December 2. Richards said he would closely review the Voluntary Fund explanation, objectives, and potential projects as left in non-pape [...]	2009-12-02 17:08:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER AORC UNSC KPAO UK
09EFTOLONDON2858	UK RESPONSE: APPROACH TO 2010 NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Nick Low, Head of the Nuclear Issues Section in the Counter-Proliferation Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO),on December 14. In a follow-up meeting on December 17, Low told Poloff that he had passed the reftel talking points to c [...]	2009-12-18 11:00:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL ENRG IAEA MNUC KNNP UK
09EFTOLONDON2884	P3 DISCUSS UNSCR 1540 WAY AHEAD [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 15, representatives of the P3 (France, the UK, and the U.S.) who handle UNSCR 1540 implementation met in London for an agreed update on the Comprehensive Review outcome, the USG proposal for a 1540 Voluntary Fund, and to identify objectives for the 2010 Program of Wo [...]	2009-12-23 13:39:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL PTER AORC UNSC KPAO RS CH FR UK
09EFTOLONDON2905	UK RESPONSE: U.S. NON-PAPER ON DISSUADING ABUSE OF [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-30 11:56:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM AORC ENRG MNUC PGOV PREL UNGA CDG
09FREETOWN102	PUJEHUN BYE-ELECTIONS POSTPONED DUE TO ALLEGED [...] The National Electoral Commission (NEC) postponed the planned March 14 bye-election in Pujehun District, based on allegations of politically-motivated violence and their subsequent inability to adequately prepare for the election on-site. National Election Watch (NEW) released a statement on M [...]	2009-03-17 17:42:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM SL
09FREETOWN13	DECEMBER POLITICAL ROUND-UP - FREETOWN [...] (U) Summary: December was a quiet month in Sierra Leone, with most government and private offices closing for extended holidays. This month President Koroma hosted the 66th Mano River Union Summit, including a Heads of State Conference. This took place less than two weeks before the death of L [...]	2009-01-08 17:45:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SL
09FREETOWN134	ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN: INFLUENCE IN STATE HOUSE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Perry recently met with two of the President's closest advisors: Emmanuel Osho Coker, Secretary to the President, and Joseph Koroma, newly-appointed Minister of Presidential Affairs. Both are highly experienced technocrats, having served in the Foreign and Civil services [...]	2009-04-09 17:21:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SL
09FREETOWN135	MARIJUANA CULTIVATION SEEN AS NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (S/NF) Summary: On April 11, a highly-placed security sector source provided Poloff with a classified assessment from the Office of National Security (ONS) on the proliferation of cannabis cultivation. Drafted for the President, the assessment states that Sierra Leone is "gradually emerging as [...]	2009-04-14 15:41:00	Embassy Freetown	SECRET	SNAR PGOV PREL ASEC SL
09FREETOWN152	LANDMARK NARCOTICS CASE ENDS: DEFENDANTS NOT GOING [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Sierra Leone's judicial system completed its landmark narcotics case (reftel A) on April 20, finding all defendants guilty. The first case tried using the national Narcotics Control Act of 2008, this creates valuable legal precedent, while also sending a message to na [...]	2009-04-22 15:44:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV PREL SL
09FREETOWN192	CONVICTS' PRISON LOCATION STILL A CONCERN FOR [...] (SBU) Ambassador met with Herman von Hebel, Registrar of the Special Court, as well as Binta Mansaray, his Deputy, on 21 May to discuss his two main concerns regarding Court operations and proceedings. Mr von Hebel, who is leaving his post in Sierra Leone as of 22 May, also thanked the Ambassa [...]	2009-05-22 12:14:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KAWC SL
09FREETOWN209	FOREIGN MINISTER ON GUINEA'S "GIFT FROM HEAVEN" [...] (C) On June 5, CDA and Poloff took advantage of a routine meeting with Foreign Minister Zainab Bangura to discuss her views on two key issues impacting Sierra Leone's security: drugs, and Guinea. FoMin expressed some alarm over the threat posed by marijuana cultivation, and then stated her can [...]	2009-06-08 18:32:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR SL GV
09FREETOWN217	MAY POLITICAL ROUND-UP - FREETOWN [...] (U) Summary: President Koroma continued to focus in May towards reconciling the country's two major political parties, urging them to implement the communiquQ signed following the unrest in March. On the heels of the Cabinet reshuffle, Ministers have signed new performance contracts. The disin [...]	2009-06-12 11:00:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SL
09FREETOWN249	WORKING DAY AND NIGHT: SL CORRUPTION FIGHT [...] Summary: Sierra Leone continues to struggle against pervasive corruption, particularly in the public sector, despite the strength of the Anti-Corruption Act amendment passed in 2008. As investigative reporting organizations such as Transparency International begin to include Sierra Leone in th [...]	2009-06-30 17:43:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KCRM KJUS SL
09FREETOWN266	CORRUPT MINISTRY OF DEFENSE ARMS DEAL THREATENS SL [...] (S/NF) On July 7, CDA and PolOff met with a high-level, reliable source with access to intelligence across civilian and military agencies. Source informed emboffs of an attempted arms deal brokered by Minister of Defense Palo Conteh, in collaboration with Chief of Defense Staff Major-General A [...]	2009-07-08 17:45:00	Embassy Freetown	SECRET	PGOV PREL MASS PINS PINR SL
09FREETOWN270	COKE, TOKES, AND INEPT FOLKS: CAN SL STAY TOUGH ON DRUGS? [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-13 15:12:00	Embassy Freetown	SECRET	PGOV PREL SL SNAR
09FREETOWN323	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PMDC PARTY LEADER [...] (C) Summary: Charles Margai, leader of the PMDC party, at his request, called on Ambassador Perry August 13 (Poloff participated in the meeting). He discussed his views on a variety of topics, including political tolerance, corruption, and the role of the international community in Sierra Leone [...]	2009-08-17 15:29:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SL
09FREETOWN327	U.S. PLANE DETAINED IN SIERRA LEONE AFTER ILLEGAL [...] (S) At approximately 1800 GMT on August 19, a U.S.-registered plane (N-748AA) illegally landed at Lungi Airport. The airport crew told the aircraft, reportedly a "Kruman 154," that they would have to identify an alternate landing site, since they did not have a landing permit. The plane eventu [...]	2009-08-20 14:55:00	Embassy Freetown	SECRET	ASEC CASC PGOV PREL PINR PBTS SNAR EG UK SL
09FREETOWN328	UPDATE ON PLANE LANDING: CONTINUED DETENTION [...] (S) Summary: Embassy learned at 1930 GMT on August 20 that the eight detained individuals connected to the reftel plane were released by the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) following brief interviews. However, the individuals were then re-detained at 1000 GMT at the orders of the Vice President, and [...]	2009-08-21 12:05:00	Embassy Freetown	SECRET	ASEC CASC PGOV PREL PBTS SNAR EG UK SL
09FREETOWN383	GUINEA CLAIMS SL "MERCENARIES" SEEK TO OVERTHROW [...] (S/NF) Poloff received information from a highly-placed security contact that the Guinean junta suspects an army of Sierra Leonean "mercenaries" will attempt to overthrow their regime. A letter sent from the junta to the Sierra Leonean Office of National Security (ONS) during the week of Septe [...]	2009-09-25 12:03:00	Embassy Freetown	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR PINS GV SL
09FREETOWN385	SIERRA LEONE'S INITIAL REACTIONS TO GUINEA TROUBLE [...] (S//NF) Poloff spoke with a high-level intelligence contact on September 29 to gauge the Government of Sierra Leone's response to recent events in Guinea. Source reported that President Koroma, as expected, is very concerned. The Office of National Security (ONS) requested that border posts re [...]	2009-09-29 10:37:00	Embassy Freetown	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PINS PREL GV SL
09FREETOWN389	SIERRA LEONE RAISES ALARM OVER GUINEAN [...] (S/NF) CDA and Poloff met with a highly-placed intelligence contact on September 30, who stated concerns that narcotics traffickers are exploiting the current instability in Guinea for their own ends. Source said that he had received information that two known Colombian drug traffickers, "CiCi [...]	2009-09-30 16:20:00	Embassy Freetown	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV SNAR PINR GV SL
09FREETOWN390	INTELLIGENCE SUGGESTS ASSASSINATION PLOT AGAINST [...] (S/NF) On September 30, CDA and Poloff met with a highly-placed intelligence source who reported that warlords aligned with Charles Taylor are planning a destabilizing campaign in Liberia. The apex of this campaign, allegedly, is an assassination attempt against President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf [...]	2009-09-30 17:09:00	Embassy Freetown	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR SL
09FREETOWN393	POLICE-MILITARY RELATIONSHIP STRAINED [...] (C) Summary: Though a rivalry has always existed between the civilian and military branches of the security apparatus, the relationship between the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) and the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) is starting to show increased strain. Small-scale incidents that oc [...]	2009-10-06 12:02:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR ASEC SL
09FREETOWN400	KOROMA SHOWS PARANOIA IN RESPONDING TO CRIME SPIKE [...] (C) President Koroma called a National Security Council (NSC) meeting on October 6 to discuss the recent increase in violent armed robberies in the Freetown area. Home invasions, illegal vehicular checkpoints, and muggings are on the rise, targeting those with known wealth or the appearance of [...]	2009-10-14 17:49:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL PINR SL
09FREETOWN408	SIERRA LEONE RESPONSE ON GUINEAN DEMARCHES [...] (S/NF) CDA and Poloff delivered reftel demarche points to President Koroma on October 16, prior to his departure for the emergency ECOWAS summit in Abuja. Koroma stated that the Guinean situation is deteriorating, and that if it is "not arrested now...the tragedy might worsen beyond that which [...]	2009-10-16 13:34:00	Embassy Freetown	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINS PHUM KDEM GV SL
09FREETOWN410	MILITARY MANIPULATING KOROMA? [...] (C/NF) Poloff was informed by a high-level security contact on October 15 that the civilian security sector blames the Minister of Defense and his inner-circle for influencing the President to call a premature Military Assistance to the Civil Power (MACP) in response to the recent spate of arm [...]	2009-10-19 14:24:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ASEC SL
09FREETOWN462	SIERRA LEONE NARCOTICS WRAP-UP, 2009 [...] (C) Summary: Sierra Leone continues to stay invested in the narcotics issue, and attempting to become more pro-active operationally despite resource constraints. International actors, including post, UK/SOCA, and the UN remain sources of support and encouragement, while also advancing our own [...]	2009-11-30 19:05:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SNAR PGOV PREL SL
09FREETOWN466	SIERRA LEONE STABILITY, PART II: ECONOMY [...] (C) Summary: This is the second in a series of four cables that highlights risks to Sierra Leone's security (reftel A). The national economy continues to be in a state of woe, built on the precarious foundation of a weakening currency, decreasing imports and exports, reduced food security, and [...]	2009-12-01 17:31:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID PGOV PREL SL
09FREETOWN53	SIERRA LEONE RESPONSE TO CARTAGENA PROTOCOL [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-17 14:46:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD SL
09FREETOWN65	SL PRESIDENT SAYS THIS IS RIGHT TIME TO NAB GK [...] (C) On February 27, Ambassador met with President Ernest Bai Koroma to discuss pending bilateral issues and relay the new administration's domestic and foreign policy priorities. She was accompanied by DCM and Poloff, and Koroma by Foreign Minister Zainab Bangura. Key bilateral and multilateral [...]	2009-02-27 13:10:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR KCRM SL
09FREETOWN78	KOROMA MAKES PROGRESS ON DRUGS; WE URGE SWIFTER [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with President Koroma on February 27 to discuss the new administration's policy goals and pending bilateral issues, underlining the President's importance in the region as a bulwark of stability. The meeting was also attended by Foreign Minister Zainab Bangura, DCM, [...]	2009-03-03 17:12:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PHUM MASS SNAR PINR SL
09FREETOWN97	DESPERATELY SEEKING THE SOFA: INCREMENTAL PROGRESS [...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Rosaline Turay met with DCM and Poloff on March 11 to discuss the pending Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). While the need for a SOFA has been discussed by Ambassador and others many times with Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) officials, [...]	2009-03-16 17:41:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS SL
09GABORONE189	Botswana Political Briefs February 2009 [...] (U) The following is a compilation of February 2009 political highlights from Botswana. This cable covers: - University of Botswana Re-Opens - First Cholera Death Reported in Botswana - Red Cross Completes Refugee Fund Project - BDP May Change Party Leadership Rules - BDP Wants to Improve [...]	2009-03-10 13:30:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREF SCUL SOCI BC
09GABORONE235	WESTERN BOTSWANA: STILL STRUGGLING DESPITE GOB [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-20 09:16:00	Embassy Gaborone	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON SENV PHUM PINR BC
09GABORONE240	MOST SAN CHOOSE ASSISTANCE OVER TRADITION [...] (SBU) Summary. PolOff traveled with a San guide to the ghost town of Xade, a former San settlement within the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR) as well as the village of New Xade, a new San community near but outside the reserve. New Xade's population is almost entirely dependent on GOB a [...]	2009-03-24 12:36:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON SENV PHUM PINR BC
09GABORONE310	BOTSWANA: NONCOMMITTAL ON KOSOVO IFI MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche April 15 to Mr. Nkoloi Nkoloi, Director of the Europe and the Americas Division at Botswana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nkoloi said that Botswana has not yet decided whether or not to recognize Kosovo and made no indication of whether or not Bo [...]	2009-04-15 14:34:00	Embassy Gaborone	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN BC KV
09GABORONE315	BOTSWANA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Embassy Gaborone delivered the message in Ref A to the Government of Botswana via diplomatic note on April 16. Pol/Econ Chief also discussed the USG's candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council with Mr. Nkoloi Nkoloi, Director for Europe and the Americas at the Botswana Ministry of Foreign Aff [...]	2009-04-17 10:56:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL BC
09GABORONE444	GOB TO RESPECT DESIGNATION OF ABU HAQ AKA [...] (SBU) PolOff met with the Director of the Department of Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mmamosadinyana Punkie Josephine Molefe May 22. PolOff discussed the UN Security Council 1267 Sanctions Committee approval to add Pakistan-based Chinese [...]	2009-06-04 10:22:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR UNSC BA QT
09GABORONE445	BOTSWANA: 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 10:28:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA BC
09GABORONE460	BOTSWANA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN ICSC CANDIDATE [...] Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche June 9 to Mr. Nkoloi Nkoloi, Director of the Department of Europe and the Americas at the Botswana Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Poloff stressed Ms. Myers long experience in personnel matters, including her exemplary service on the ICSC. She also noted [...]	2009-06-09 08:23:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR UNGA BC
09GABORONE563	BOTSWANA: ZIMBABWE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) This is a response to an action request contained in State 70664. 2. (U) A/DCM and PolOff met July 15 with Nkoloi Nkoloi, the Director of Europe and the Americas in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and the Assistant Director of Europe and the Americas, L [...]	2009-07-17 12:47:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SADC BC ZI
09GABORONE847	MFA'S THOUGHTS ON ZIMBABWE SITUATION [...] (C) Summary: From Botswana's point of view, Zimbabwe's Global Political Agreement (GPA) is deeply flawed and unlikely to lead to any meaningul power sharing in the foreseeable future, accoding to Ambassador Zibane Ntakhwana, Africa and Asia Department Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affair [...]	2009-10-27 11:14:00	Embassy Gaborone	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM BC ZI
09GABORONE850	ZIMBABWE'S COLLAPSE A MIXED ECONOMIC BAG FOR [...] Summary: Zimbabwean migration has had both negative and positive impact on neighboring Botswana. On the downside, Zimbabweans are widely blamed for increased crime; they are accused of taking jobs from Batswana; and the government has been forced to spend its limited resources on both the dep [...]	2009-10-27 15:05:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL PGOV ZI BC
09GENEVA864	GOLDSTONE REPORT BACKLASH - SPECIAL SESSION AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fallout from the Goldstone report and the possibility of a Human Rights Council (HRC) special session on the matter (as early as next week) has led to a hardening of positions by both the Palestinian and the Israeli Missions in Geneva, leaving even less room than before for a cons [...]	2009-10-09 12:49:00	Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNCTAD UNHRC
09GEORGETOWN157	JAGDEO UNREPENTANT AFTER LATEST ANTI-US OUTBURST, [...] (C) Summary: A day after another set of searing public criticisms of the U.S. Government and its "condescending lectures" on fighting drug trafficking and other issues through its annual reports, an entirely unrepentant President Jagdeo asserted to the Ambassador on March 19 that the tone of t [...]	2009-03-20 19:16:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR GY
09GEORGETOWN454	RULE OF LAW IN GUYANA: MORE LIKE A GUIDELINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent actions by the Government of Guyana, illustrated by the case of detained missionaries (REFTEL A) and the pursuit of suspects in the Ministry of Health fire (REFTEL B),paint a picture of a state where opposition is marginalized and rule of law is selectively applied. Diplo [...]	2009-09-11 20:56:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GY
09GUANGZHOU510	Uighur Departure a Loss for Guangdong Shoe Factory [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A short-lived experiment by a Nike supplier in Guangdong to employ 1,200 Uighur workers will end the last week in August when the 193 remaining Uighurs return to Xinjiang at the end of their year-long contract. Though some Uighur workers had considered extending for another year [...]	2009-08-24 09:18:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KTIP PGOV SOCI CH
09GUANGZHOU519	No Bad News: South China Media Guidance for [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Brian L. Goldbeck for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: In Guangdong, propaganda officers have begun preparations for the 60-year anniversary of the People's Republic of China by instructing local news outlets not to reprint articles from four Guangzh [...]	2009-08-28 08:47:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KPAO ECPS PROP PGOV CH
09GUANGZHOU645	CHINESE BLOGGERS CONFERENCE MORE DIFFICULT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: It can be tough being a blogger in China. But try gathering dozens of bloggers from all around the country for a conference and then you'll face some challenges. The 5th Annual China Blogger Conference faced numerous obstacles from the initial planning stages right up to the last [...]	2009-11-20 09:15:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SCUL KWWW SOCI EINT KEMS CH
09GUATEMALA1029	Ambassador Brokered Historic First Step in Dialogue Between [...] (C) SUMMARY: Guatemalan MOD officials exchanged views, November 23, during a first of its kind breakfast the Ambassador hosted in honor of visiting SouthCom Military Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. Ken Keen. The meeting, designed to stimulate dialogue between the mutually distrustful groups [...]	2009-12-18 17:51:00	Embassy Guatemala	SECRET	PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM GT
09GUATEMALA1031	SOUTHCOM Visit Provides Opportunity to Showcase USG [...] (C) Summary: USSOUTHCOM's Military Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Ken Keen's visit provided an opportunity to highlight USG assistance in Guatemala while noting areas where the Guatemalans need to improve. The USG-trained Guatemalan military/police joint unit boasts some successfu [...]	2009-12-23 19:06:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV KCRM PHUM KDEM GT
09GUATEMALA1174	Candidacy of Lucretia Myers for ICSC Seat [...] (SBU) In an October 26 meeting with Leila Villatoro, the MFA's Deputy Director for Multilateral Policy (United Nations),poloff delivered reftel demarche, urging the GoG to support U.S. candidate Lucretia Myers in the November 6 election of the International Civil Service Commission. 2 [...]	2009-10-29 23:52:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC APER UNGA PREL KUNR GT
09GUATEMALA1176	Demarche on 64th UNGA Third Commitee Prorities [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-29 23:52:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UN GT
09GUATEMALA1210	Guatemala's Response to Demarche on Goldstone Report [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-04 16:24:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER IS KPAL GT
09GUATEMALA1292	GUATEMALA RESPONSE FOR 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (U) Below is Post's response to Ref. A request for an interim TIP assessment. IMPLEMENTING AND ENFORCING THE NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW 2.(SBU) Since the passage of the Law against Sexual Violence, Exploitation and Trafficking in Persons in March 2009, the GoG has done little to implement or [...]	2009-11-18 17:07:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KTIP SMIG KCRM KWMN GT
09GUATEMALA140	NEW DEATH THREATS AGAINST UNION LEADERS UNDERSCORE [...] (U) Summary: The December 23 murder of a union legal advisor in Quetzaltenango and new death threats against two union leaders in Izabal have prompted the Guatemalan labor movement to reiterate its demands for justice and increased security. The threats may have been a response to a CAFTA la [...]	2009-02-16 18:24:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM KJUS KDEM PGOV GT
09GUATEMALA142	INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY INCREASING [...] (U) Summary: Guatemala's climate of impunity and violence is affecting not only the country's urban, concentrated areas, but also rural indigenous areas where public lynchings are a common form of social justice and deterrence. Human rights activist Manuel Calel Morales, leader of an indigeno [...]	2009-02-17 09:17:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM SOCI KJUS KDEM PHUM PGOV GT
09GUATEMALA1452	Guatemala Confirms Participation in Americas Energy and [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-17 15:43:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ENRG KGHG KSUM SENV GT
09GUATEMALA172	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NOBEL LAUREATE RIGOBERTA [...] (U) Summary: During a February 19 meeting with the Ambassador, Nobel laureate and former presidential candidate Rigoberta Menchu highlighted the work of her foundation, which supports educational centers and programs promoting peace and multiculturalism. Menchu also discussed the political a [...]	2009-02-24 17:11:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI KDEM KJUS PHUM KCRM PGOV GT
09GUATEMALA192	KILLINGS OF GARMENT BUSINESSMEN RECALL DISPUTE [...] (SBU) Summary: Although there are no indications of union involvement, the January 21 killings of two representatives of a garment factory (Industria Textil Choishin, S.A.) highlighted tension between management and a workers union (SitraChoi). Through November of last year, Choishin and Sitr [...]	2009-03-03 09:20:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KCRM ETRD PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV GT
09GUATEMALA197	GUATEMALA'S INPUT FOR 2009 TIP REPORT [...] Below is post input (keyed to ref B) on anti-trafficking efforts undertaken by the Guatemalan government between April 2008 and February 2009 in the areas of prevention, protection of and assistance to trafficked victims, and investigation and prosecution of traffickers. While challenges remai [...]	2009-03-03 17:15:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC GT
09GUATEMALA199	GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON US-CANADA-OAS BORDER [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche, invitation letter, and draft agenda to Luis Carranza, Director for Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),urging Guatemala's participation in the upcoming US-Canada-OAS Border Security Seminar in Vancouver. Carranza said he would advise [...]	2009-03-04 13:45:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM ETTC PREL PBTS EWWT OAS GT
09GUATEMALA222	MINISTER OF DEFENSE UNDER PRESSURE TO TURN OVER [...] (U) Summary: On March 6, the Ministry of Defense presented to a judge certified copies of two of the four 1980s-era military counterinsurgency plans -- Victoria 82 and Firmeza 83 -- ordered by the Constitutional Court to be turned over to the Public Ministry. The two other plans -- Plan Sofi [...]	2009-03-11 14:34:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PHUM MOPS KDEM KCRM KJUS PGOV GT
09GUATEMALA253	WORKERS' RIGHTS CENTER ASSISTS INDIGENOUS WORKERS [...] Summary: On February 25, Embassy officers made a site visit to a USG-funded Workers Rights Center in Chimaltenango. Poloffs met with the project coordinator and an indigenous staff lawyer who discussed the project's achievements and challenges during the first three months of its operation. [...]	2009-03-18 16:20:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ECON GT
09GUATEMALA269	CRONYISM TRUMPS PUBLIC WELFARE IN VACCINE PURCHASE [...] (C) After 25 years of purchasing vaccines through the Pan-American Health Organization's (PAHO) Revolving Fund (RF),the GOG recently awarded a contract to purchase seven types of vaccines and many high costs drugs from a local pharmaceutical company (J.I. Cohen) that was a major donor to the [...]	2009-03-20 07:40:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI TBIO PREL GT
09GUATEMALA334	DEMARCHE ON USG CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-07 18:53:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS GT

09GUATEMALA367	DEMARCHE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTION [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-17 16:59:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS GT
09GUATEMALA406	GUATEMALA'S NEW LEFT: THE NEW REPUBLIC MOVEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Amid growing insecurity, narco-related violence, and an economic crisis, independent Congressman Anibal Garcia has announced the formation of a new leftist movement to promote reform and to represent traditionally under-represented sectors of the population. Garcia hopes to turn [...]	2009-04-29 03:18:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI ELAB ECON PHUM PREL KJUS KDEM GT
09GUATEMALA427	GUATEMALA'S MARGINALIZED WORKERS: PROSTITUTES AND [...] (U) Summary: Driven by economic hardship into prostitution, women loiter in the doorways of dozens of brothels lining the street in the seedy red-light district of Chimaltenango. Driven by the same economic forces, children, some as young as ten, toil alongside their parents in a municipal l [...]	2009-05-05 23:02:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON SOCI PHUM KDEM GT
09GUATEMALA478	THE ROSENBERG CASE: THOUSANDS TAKE TO THE STREETS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: More than a week after his death, the accusations made by attorney Rodrigo Rosenberg against President Colom, the First Lady, and Colom's inner circle continue to reverberate in Guatemala. On May 17 thousands took to the streets in two very large yet peaceful demonstrations bo [...]	2009-05-19 23:44:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI KDEM KJUS KCRM GT
09GUATEMALA582	UPDATE ON SITRABI CASE OF THE CAFTA-DR LABOR [...] (C) Summary: On May 29 Poloff met with AFL-CIO Solidarity Center Central America Representative Rob Wayss and Banana Workers' Union of Izabal (SITRABI) representative Cesar Humberto Guerra Lopez. Guerra updated Poloff on the outcome of SITRABI's most recent meetings with the GOG. The first m [...]	2009-06-19 01:10:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL KJUS GT
09GUATEMALA623	GUATEMALA KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT UNSCR 1874 [...] (U) On June 25, poloff passed reftel points to Luis Carranza, Minister Counselor for Multilateral Policy at the Guatemalan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Carranza was aware of the resolution and stated that the ports had been briefed on the enforcement mechanisms necessary for implementation of [...]	2009-06-29 22:54:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL MNUC MTCRE ECON EFIN KNNP GT
09GUATEMALA642	GUATEMALA INFORMED OF US REQUEST TO SUPPORT NGO [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-06 23:31:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM
09GUATEMALA703	PUTTING OUT FIRES: THE OAS OFFICE IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. A recent trip by PolOff to the Organization of American States (OAS) office in the Belize-Guatemala Adjacency Zone (AZ) found an effective team performing difficult tasks under often arduous conditions. By resolving territorial disputes early in the process and at a local level, [...]	2009-07-21 22:24:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	OAS PBTS PREL PGOV PINR PNAT GT
09GUATEMALA79	PRIME SUSPECT IN PEDRO ZAMORA MURDER CASE ARRESTED [...] (U) On January 10, Guatemalan authorities arrested Wilfredo Waldemar Valiente Garcia, the prime suspect in the January 2007 murder of port union leader Pedro Zamora (reftel). The arrest concluded a one-and-a-half year search for the fugitive, who had eluded authorities since July 2007. Accor [...]	2009-01-28 14:31:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KCRM PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV GT
09GUATEMALA85	HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST CLEARED OF ACCUSATION OF [...] (U) Summary: At a January 23 pre-trial hearing, a Guatemalan court found insufficient evidence to charge human rights activist Jorge Luis Lopez Sologaistoa of attempted murder for the July 2008 armed assault of a sex worker. Peace Brigades International had requested Embassy intervention on t [...]	2009-01-29 15:19:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KJUS KDEM PHUM PGOV GT
09GUATEMALA884	WITH ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE AMBASSADOR AND CICIG, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 2, Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom signed into law two important pieces of criminal legislation that had been supported by the international community. The two laws, one for plea-bargaining and one for &high-impact8 courts with additional security measures, would [...]	2009-09-16 18:01:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR KCRM GT
09GUATEMALA899	Despite Retaliation Attempts, Guatemalan Prosecutors Put [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 10, 2009, the wife of Guatemalan organized crime prosecutor Rony Lopez became the victim of a possible assassination attempt. The Ambassador immediately met with the Attorney General (MP) following the attack and discussed ways to assist the MP in improving security [...]	2009-09-21 21:31:00	Embassy Guatemala	SECRET	SNAR PGOV KCRM GT
09GUATEMALA925	CICIG Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary with Compounding [...] (S) SUMMARY: On September 4, the UN-led International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) celebrated its two-year anniversary and the approval of another two-year mandate. CICIG Commissioner Carlos Castresana summarized CICIG's successes, including numerous CICIG-led investigati [...]	2009-10-05 23:23:00	Embassy Guatemala	SECRET	SNAR PGOV KCRM KJUS KDEM GT
09GUATEMALA931	Guatemala Shares U.S. Concerns About Covert Uranium [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-09 15:10:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC PARM KNNP IR GT
09GUATEMALA937	PROTESTERS MARCH ON CITY; DEMAND DIALOGUE WITH GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Approximately 20,000 rural and indigenous protesters marched on Guatemala City on Monday, October 12. The protesters blocked major thoroughfares to demand the resolution of issues, including agrarian reform, mining restrictions, hydroelectric power, and environmental protections, amongst o [...]	2009-10-16 14:47:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON GT
09GUATEMALA961	Leftists Moderate Tone and Strategy, but Maintain Radical [...] (U) Summary: President Colom linked Guatemala's violence to extreme social and economic inequality during a two day conference entitled, "Political Change in Latin America: the State, Democracy and Social Policy." Public officials, including President Colom, academics, journalists and fore [...]	2009-11-04 18:29:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PINR GT
09GUAYAQUIL125	EVANGELICALS CLAIM NEW LAW THREATENS FREEDOM OF [...] (C) Summary: Ecuador's growing evangelical movement is concerned that a 2008 presidential decree requiring churches to register with the government and identify their parishioners is a move to squelch the outspoken movement and could have implications for freedom of religion. The decree gro [...]	2009-05-28 21:02:00	Consulate Guayaquil	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EC
09GUAYAQUIL52	ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: HUTCHISON PORT [...] (C) Summary. Hong Kong-based Hutchison Port Holdings, which won the concession to operate the Port of Manta in February 2007, terminated its presence in Ecuador on February 27. The departure capped six weeks of turmoil over the concession?s future, after President Rafael Correa threatened du [...]	2009-03-06 17:35:00	Consulate Guayaquil	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD PGOV ECON EC
09HAMBURG9	BEST PRACTICES LEAD TO SUCCESSFUL TIP PROSECUTIONS IN LOWER [...] (SBU) Summary. Combating trafficking in persons (TIP) is a priority for officials in the northern German state of Lower Saxony. In 2008, state officials amended a decree regulating cooperation among the various agencies in order to improve victim assistance programs and cooperation between go [...]	2009-03-26 15:35:00	Consulate Hamburg	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GM
09HANOI1	Repatriated Vietnamese Workers Face Debt and Bureaucratic [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a series of interviews conducted in November and December, ten Vietnamese workers repatriated from Jordan in March 2008 shared stories of their recruitment, treatment in Jordan, and the February 2008 strike that ultimately led to their return to Vietnam, as well as their exp [...]	2009-01-02 02:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV TIP KWMN KCRM VM
09HANOI1024	Demarche Delivered: U.S. CANDIDACY FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-30 03:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IMO PREL EWWT PHSA VM
09HANOI1070	Request for Leahy Vetting for candidates from the Vietnam [...] (SBU) Embassy Hanoi requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Vietnam Ministry of Public Security nominated to attend a two-week course at ILEA Bangkok. The training will be conducted in Bangkok, Thailand on November 9-20, 2009. Initial vetting done [...]	2009-10-08 10:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR PREL KTIP VM
09HANOI1084	Nine Dissidents Convicted for "Anti-State Propaganda" [...] (SBU) SUMMMARY: In four separate trials October 6-9, nine dissidents affiliated with the banned political movement Bloc 8406 were sentenced to jail terms ranging from two to six years for "conducting propaganda against the State." Seven of the nine had displayed banners in Hanoi, Haiphong and [...]	2009-10-14 10:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HANOI1092	GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-15 09:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNSC UNHRC KPAL IS VM
09HANOI1098	Ambassador Visits Father Ly in Prison [...] (SBU) SUMMMARY: Meeting with the Ambassador October 14, jailed political dissident Father Nguyen Van Ly reported that that he was "95 percent recovered" from his July 12 stroke. Ly said he remains isolated from other inmates but receives daily medical check-ups from prison physicians and main [...]	2009-10-16 07:48:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HANOI1100	Government of Vietnam Responds to November and December [...] (SBU) This is an Action Request. See Paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) During a working lunch with the DCM on October 15, MFA/Americas Department Director General Ba Hung said that PM Dung was "positively considering" the President's invitation to attend the April summit meeting in Washington. However [...]	2009-10-16 10:07:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC ENRG PREL PTER TRGY IAEA PINR KNNP VM
09HANOI1206	IMET: Positive Results, Tiny Impact [...] (SBU) Summary: The International Military Education and Training (IMET) program continues to be an integral component of U.S. engagement with Vietnam, providing opportunities to improve the professionalism of the Vietnamese military, as well as to expose a young generation of officers to the [...]	2009-11-09 07:26:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS PREL PGOV VM
09HANOI1298	Embassy Hanoi Delivers Iran Demarche [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-03 10:01:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MNUC KNNP PARM IR VM
09HANOI1314	(Vodka) Shots Reported Across the China-Vietnam Border [...] (SBU) On November 18, Vietnam and China signed a series of accords to implement the historic 2008 agreement demarcating Vietnam's 1,400-kilometer land border with China (ref A). According to contacts familiar with the negotiations, the agreement was hastily concluded December 31, 2008 to meet [...]	2009-12-08 04:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON PBTS ECIN CH VM
09HANOI1316	Vietnam Likely to Support Defamation of Religion Resolution [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-08 08:49:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA UN VM
09HANOI1360	Embassy Monitoring of Montagnard Returnees in Gia Lai [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 10, Poloff visited three recent Montagnard returnees in Gia Lai province. All three affirmed that they traveled to Cambodia for economic reasons with the long-term goal of resettlement in the U.S. None reported harassment by local officials prior to fleeing Cambodi [...]	2009-12-15 12:27:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF UNHCR CB VM
09HANOI1398	Government to evict Plum Village monks again by the end of [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnamese officials in Hanoi and the Central Highlands continue to assert that Plum Village monks and nuns must return to their home provinces and seek residence at local Vietnamese Buddhist Sangha (VBS)-affiliated temples despite our latest round of protests. The head of the [...]	2009-12-18 09:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI142	Vietnam Shelves Local Elections for Other Local Government [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although a long-stated goal of the Communist Party of Vietnam is to move toward direct election of local officials, the National Assembly and the Politburo have decided to shelve this goal indefinitely in favor of other changes designed to streamline local government. These new [...]	2009-02-23 02:53:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL VM
09HANOI1436	National Standing Committee on TIP Reflects on 2009 and [...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 10 meeting with the Political Counselor, Colonel Le Van Chuong, the chair of Vietnam's coordinating agency on trafficking, National Committee 130, reviewed his country's efforts over the past year to combat human trafficking. The Ministry of Public Security report [...]	2009-12-30 05:29:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN SOCI VM
09HANOI160	Vatican Discuses Normalizing Relations, Raises Papal Visit [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Monsignor Pietro Parolin, Holy See Under-Secretary for Relations with States, travelled to Vietnam February 15-22 at the invitation of the GVN to begin bilateral discussions on normalization of relations under the rubric of a Joint Working Group. During the visit, P [...]	2009-02-24 10:09:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL VM
09HANOI185	Vietnam Supportive but Cautious on GPOI [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting with Ministry of Defense and Foreign Affairs counterparts February 12, U.S. Pacific Command officials encouraged Vietnam to participate more actively in international peacekeeping operations through the GPOI program and reiterated the invitation for Vietnam to participat [...]	2009-03-02 09:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO MARR MASS VM
09HANOI363	UNHCR on Montagnards, Naturalization of Khmer Rouge Era [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNHCR continues to have an extremely active presence in the Central Highlands, conducting regular trips to the region to meet with Montagnard returnees from Cambodia. In the past month, UNHCR traveled to Gia Lai province and met with 78 returnees one-on-one and without accompan [...]	2009-04-20 08:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV VM
09HANOI367	UPDATE ON BLOC 8406 DETAINEES ARRESTED LAST FALL [...] (C) The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has provided additional information about thirteen political dissidents arrested since September 2008. The update comes in response to a joint letter to VFM Pham Binh Minh from the Ambassador, the Group of Four (Canada, New Zealand, Norway and Switzer [...]	2009-04-21 03:37:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HANOI500	USCIRF Meets Imprisoned Dissidents Father Nguyen Van Ly and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom delegation led by Vice Chairman Cromartie, accompanied by PolOff, met with two of Vietnam's most prominent political prisoners, dissident attorney Nguyen Van Dai and Father Nguyen Van Ly, on May 13 at Nam Ha Prison. Both ap [...]	2009-06-02 02:50:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI51	Vietnam's Tet Amnesty is Largest Ever [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a well attended press conference on January 16, President Triet's office announced Vietnam's largest Tet amnesty ever for 15,140 convicts currently serving prison sentences. The list includes 36 foreigners, but no American citizens. The only three individuals actually named [...]	2009-01-20 04:04:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HANOI520	A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT VIETNAM'S UPR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam's recent Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva was a lesson in the manipulation of process, according to the Canadian lead for the "troika" that coordinated Vietnam's UPR. The GVN clearly understood that only 60 countries would be ab [...]	2009-06-05 03:07:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HANOI559	Vietnam TIP Report Delivered to GVN [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 16, poloff delivered copies of the Vietnam 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report to Mr. Le Van Chuong, Head of the Central Coordination Office of the National Steering Committee Against Trafficking and Mr. Doan The Vinh, Deputy Head of Anti-Women and Children Trafficking Dep [...]	2009-06-18 03:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KCRM PHUM PREL ELAB VM
09HANOI595	USCIRF Visits Vietnam Again [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In their fourth visit to Vietnam since 2002, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) repeated familiar criticisms of Vietnam's protections of religious freedom. In official meetings with high-ranking GVN officials, including Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign M [...]	2009-06-26 09:50:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI609	USCIRF's Travels in Northwest Vietnam [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three USCIRF staff and PolOff traveled to Son La and Dien Bien provinces from May 18-21 to meet with Catholic and Protestant congregations in two provinces that are well-known for difficulties in implementing the national law on belief and religion. In Son La province, while no [...]	2009-06-30 11:18:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI698	Vietnam's Police Discuss TIP and Child Sex Crimes [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 23, the Deputy Director of the Criminal Police Department in the Ministry of Public Security (MPS),Colonel Ho Sy Tien, discussed trends in human trafficking, including labor exploitation of men and the manipulation of tourist visas and fraudulent marriages for cross-bor [...]	2009-07-28 08:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KCRM PHUM PREL ELAB VM
09HANOI784	Khmer Krom Religious Freedom in Mekong Delta [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Vietnam's leadership continues to pay close attention to the country's Khmer Krom community, and has spent considerable resources to build new Theravada Buddhist pagodas, a Pali-language high school, and a university-level Theravada Buddhist Institute. Contrary to reports from [...]	2009-08-17 08:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HANOI805	Hanoi Blogger Arrested [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prominent dissident blogger Bui Thanh Hieu -- better known by his pen name "Nguoi Buon Gio" ("Wind Trader") -- was formally arrested August 30 after three days of pretrial detention. Well known for views sharply critical of Vietnam's policies toward China, Hieu's arrest was preci [...]	2009-08-31 10:43:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV
09HANOI820	MPS NOTCHES UP CRITICISM OF U.S. "THREAT" ON NATIONAL TV [...] (SBU) SUMMMARY: On August 19, as part of its nightly national newscast, Vietnam National Television (VTV) aired a 20-minute segment outlining how local activists, overseas Vietnamese and "external hostile forces" had conspired to overthrow the government. The segment -- the fourth in a broadcast [...]	2009-08-21 07:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HANOI829	North Korean Asylum Seekers Enter Danish Embassy [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-24 09:43:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF VM KN
09HANOI861	Vietnam's "Track II" Engagement with Burma - U.S. Urged to [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam sees 2010 as a promising year to engage with Burma but is nervous that election-related unrest there could derail efforts to host a successful ASEAN summit, according to Dang Dinh Quy, Vice President of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV). Quy, who recently met with [...]	2009-10-07 09:59:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ECON ASEAN BM VM
09HANOI877	PM DUNG TO ATTEND NUCLEAR SUMMIT MEETING IN APRIL 2010 [...] (SBU) MFA Director General for International Organizations Trung told the DCM October 20 that PM Dung would attend the Summit meeting in Washington in April 2010 because he recognizes the importance of the issue internationally and the potential it holds for future U.S.-Vietnamese cooperation. [...]	2009-10-21 08:04:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KNNP PGOV VM
09HANOI880	Blue Lantern Response: Application 050183563 [...] (SBU) Summary: Per reftel, the Embassy made inquiries to assess the end use of items stated on the license request and conducted a site visit to Electronics Informatics Chemical Company (ELINCO) to assess its business operations, on-site security, and general reliability as a recipient of Unit [...]	2009-08-31 08:00:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC VM MASS
09HANOI919	Father Ly Health Update [...] (C) Dissident priest Father Nguyen Van Ly continues to recuperate in a Ministry of Public Security (MPS) Hospital in Hanoi following his recent stroke on November 14 (reftel). Father Ly's health continues to improve, according to family members who have been visiting him daily since they arri [...]	2009-12-03 11:14:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV VM
09HANOI94	VISIT OF JAPAN,S CROWN PRINCE TO VIETNAM - [...] (C) Summary: In considering the resumption of new assistance to Vietnam, which was suspended last August due to a bribery scandal, Japan seems to be lowering its expectations for "meaningful" steps by the GVN from prosecution of the well-connected Vietnamese official who accepted the bribes to [...]	2009-02-06 08:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	JA PGOV PREL VM
09HARARE106	ZIMBABWE - REACHING OUT TO REFORM-MINDED ZANU-PF [...] (C) As part of an effort to engage with moderate members of ZANU-PF, poloff met with Ivene Dzingirayi, a first-time ZANU-PF parliamentarian with good working relationships with his MDC counterparts. Dzingirayi discussed his perspective of reform elements within the ZANU-PF side of Parliament a [...]	2009-02-10 13:31:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
09HARARE177	TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT (TIP) - ZIMBABWE [...] (U) The following is Embassy Harare's response to questions posed to Post in reftels. ------------------------ Zimbabwe's TIP Situation ------------------------ -- 23 A. (SBU) There are no reliable statistics on the trafficking problem in Zimbabwe. Most information on trafficking comes fr [...]	2009-03-03 11:38:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ZI ASEC
09HARARE207	ZANU-PF ORCHESTRATES RENEWED LAND GRABS [...] (C) On March 5, poloff met with Trevor Gifford, president of the Commercial Farmer's Union in Zimbabwe. According to Gifford, a recent upsurge in farm invasions that began in February is being orchestrated by Attorney General Tomana, President Mugabe, and the Zimbabwean High Court. Gifford no [...]	2009-03-11 11:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAGR ZI
09HARARE218	MDC'S BENNETT RELEASED ON BAIL; STATE CONSIDERS [...] (C) Jailed Deputy Minister of Agriculture-designate Roy Bennett was released from a Mutare jail on March 12 after the Supreme Court Chief Justice upheld a previous, lower court decision to grant Bennett bail. The magistrate who originally ordered Benntt's release after a High Court order gran [...]	2009-03-12 14:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC ZI
09HARARE24	MILITARY EXPANSION FUELS DIAMOND CHAOS XXXXXXXXXXXX [...] (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX, poloff met with XXXXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXX region that contains the diamond-rich Marange fields, to discuss violence in the region as well as recent developments in the turbulent Marange diamond trade. XXXXXXXXXXXX described how the military expansion in XXXXXXXXXXXX in late [...]	2009-01-09 08:43:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON EMIN RS ZI
09HARARE261	MONITORING REPORT ON GCN G/TIP GRANT [...] (U) On March 24, 2009, poloff visited the local non-governmental organization Girl Child Network (GCN) to evaluate progress on a US$152,000 grant that was awarded by G/TIP on September 22, 2009. 2. The answers below are keyed in response to questions posed in reftel. A. Political officer [...]	2009-03-26 15:13:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PGOV KTIP ZI
09HARARE264	ZIMBABWEAN PARLIAMENT'S PRIORITIES AND NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Speaker of the House of Assembly Lovemore Moyo met with polecon chief and poloff on March 25, 2009 and discussed Parliament's next steps, legislative priorities, and role in promoting reform. Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara addressed Parliament for the first time and can [...]	2009-03-27 09:03:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
09HARARE276	LABOR ANALYSIS: ZCTU'S INTERNAL STRUGGLES (PART 2 [...] (SBU) This is the second in a two-part series analyzing the labor movement in Zimbabwe. Part one (Ref A) examined the history of the labor movement and the current struggles unions are facing. Part two examines the internal political struggles within the labor movement and its relationship w [...]	2009-04-02 14:00:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM KDEM ELAB ZI
09HARARE281	ZIM PARLIAMENT PUTS IN PLACE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEES [...] (SBU) Zimbabwe's parliament finalized its committee nomination process this week by announcing appointments to the Parliamentary Legal Committee as well as to the 20 various portfolio committees. These bodies serve as important mechanisms to evaluate the legality of proposed legislation and t [...]	2009-04-03 10:16:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
09HARARE283	ANGLICAN CHURCH FEUD TURNS VIOLENT; POLICE BACK [...] (C) The head of the Anglican Church in Harare, Bishop Sebastian Bakare, met with poloff on March 31 to discuss the escalating feud and resultant violence stemming from the rivalry between the official Anglican Church and a rogue faction headed by Bakare's predecessor, expelled Bishop Nolbert K [...]	2009-04-03 11:33:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
09HARARE284	DELISTING ZIMBABWEAN BANKS WORTH CONSIDERING [...] (C) Post recommends consideration of removing Zimbabwean banks the Agricultural Development Bank of Zimbabwe ("Agribank") and ZB Financial Holdings and its subsidiaries (collectively "ZB Bank") as Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals (S [...]	2009-04-03 11:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM EFIN ZI
09HARARE288	LACK OF FUNDS LEAD TO ZIM PARLIAMENTARY RECESS [...] (SBU) Parliament has announced it will adjourn until May 12. This is due to a lack of funds to pay MPs housing and travel allowances while Parliament is in session. Separately, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono's recent offer to give MPs secondhand central bank vehicles is [...]	2009-04-06 15:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
09HARARE307	MONITORING REPORT ON HURIDETSA G/TIP GRANT [...] (U) On March 30, poloff visited the local non-governmental organization Human Rights and Development Trust of Southern Africa (HURIDETSA) to evaluate progress on a US$300,000 grant that was awarded by G/TIP on September 25, 2008. 2. (SBU) The answers below are keyed in response to questions [...]	2009-04-15 12:12:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PGOV KTIP ZI
09HARARE322	ZIMBABWE DEMARCHE ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL AND [...] (SBU) On April 16, poloffs met with Joe Mhishi Tapera, Head of Multilateral Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Relations to present the U.S. nomination to the UN Human Rights Council (Refs A and B) and to discuss Madagascar (Ref C). 2. (SBU) With respect to the Human Rights Council, we pr [...]	2009-04-17 09:26:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ZI
09HARARE342	ZIM NOTES 04-17-2009 [...] SUMMARY ----------- Topics of the week: - Stalemate Continues... - Biti Demands Investigation of Gono, Travels to U.S... - Ministerial Visit Fails to Quell Disruptions at Farms... - Constitutional Committee Still Lacks a Chair... - Political Detainees Rearrested... - Kunonga vs. Baka [...]	2009-04-27 07:35:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
09HARARE379	FORGIVE AND FORGET? NOT YET -- RECONCILIATION SLOW [...] (C) Progress towards forgiveness is slow in Gutu South, a rural constituency that was hard hit by violence during the 2008 inter-election period. Although some chiefs are leading an effort towards reconciliation between victims and perpetrators of violence, fear and intimidation remain high a [...]	2009-05-07 15:51:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
09HARARE402	MDC-M SUSPENSIONS REVEAL SPLIT IN PARTY [...] (SBU) The President of the MDC-M and Deputy Prime Minister, Arthur Mutambara, and other top party officials suspended six senior party members, including three MPs. The suspensions have unearthed growing dissent within the MDC-M about Mutambara's leadership, which some party officials and par [...]	2009-05-14 15:43:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
09HARARE430	AMCIT INVOLVED IN VIOLENT ZIMBABWEAN FARM INVASION [...] (SBU) The Zimbabwean President of the Senate, Edna Madzongwe, is carrying out a violent farm invasion of a commercial citrus farm with an annual estimated export crop worth US$4 million. The invasion and ejection of the title holder appear to violate local law, as the Zimbabwean High Court ha [...]	2009-05-21 15:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM EAGR CASC ZI
09HARARE431	ZANU-PF AND MDC-T RESOLVE SOME OUTSTANDING ISSUES [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Tsvangirai announced on May 21 that the three political parties had reached agreement on the contentious issues of division of governorships, appointment of permanent secretaries and ambassadors, and the delayed swearing in of Roy Bennett as Deputy Minister of Agriculture. [...]	2009-05-21 18:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
09HARARE447	GORDON MOYO SHARES INSIGHTS INTO CABINET AND TOP [...] (C) Minister of State in the Prime Minister's office, Gordon Moyo, explained President Mugabe's refusal to fire Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono and Attorney General Johannes Tomana. Firing Gono would be an indictment on Mugabe's presidency and he was still financially useful, while Tomana w [...]	2009-05-29 14:45:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
09HARARE456	TEA WITH MUGABE: CODEL PAYNE'S MARATHON MEETING AT [...] (SBU) On May 30 President Robert Mugabe received Congressmen Donald Payne (D-NJ),Ambassador McGee, and staffers at his State House office for a nearly three-hour-long meeting. Throughout the marathon meeting Mugabe was alert, articulate, in apparent good health, and defiant. Congressman Pay [...]	2009-06-02 13:59:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ASEC PREL PHUM ZI
09HARARE460	ZIMBABWE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KOSOVO WORLD BANK [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche on the upcoming vote on Kosovo's application to join the World Bank (WB) on June 2 to Godfrey Magwenzi, the head of Multi-Lateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Magwenzi explained that while Zimbabwe was supportive of Kosovo's application to j [...]	2009-06-02 15:08:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PREL ZIM
09HARARE465	ZIMBABWEAN STATE DINNER HONORING THE KING OF SWAZILAND [...] (U) On June 3, President Robert Mugabe held a State dinner at the Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare in honor of visiting King Mswati III of Swaziland. The dinner occurred before King Mswati departed to Victoria Falls for the COMESA Summit. Mugabe thanked the King for his support of the inclusive [...]	2009-06-05 12:38:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ASEC KDEM PGOV PREL ZI
09HARARE477	CODEL PAYNE: GOZ AND CIVICS PLEAD FOR HEALTH, [...] (SBU) During his May 29-31 visit to Zimbabwe, Congressman Donald Payne (D-NJ) and three congressional staffers met with senior government officials including President Robert Mugabe (ref),Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara, Health Minister Dr. Henry Madzo [...]	2009-06-09 08:56:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
09HARARE49	ZIMBABWE COURTING FOREIGN DIAMOND INVESTMENT IN [...] (C) Discussions in mid-January with private sector mining executives Ndodana Mguquka and Greg Sebborn revealed further details of a possible diamond deal between the Zimbabwean government and either Russian or Indian diamond investors. The Russian group may only be interested in purchasing sev [...]	2009-01-22 08:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN ECON PHUM PREL ZI RS IN IS ASEC
09HARARE51	MILITARY PLANS TO DISPLACE THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS [...] (SBU) In mid-January, a local chief in the diamond rich and violence-ridden XXXXXXXXXXXX informed us of the Zimbabwean military's intention to displace as many as 25,000 villagers from their homes XXXXXXXXXXXX. The military operation is intended to establish control over the diamond fields as [...]	2009-01-23 09:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN ASEC PHUM ZI RS ECON PREL
09HARARE525	THE BUSINESS OF PARLIAMENT IN ZIMBABWE [...] (SBU) The Speaker of the House of Assembly, Lovemore Moyo, updated Post on the Constitutional drafting process and the formation of vital commissions that are expected to drive reforms within the media, electoral process, human rights, and corruption spheres. Speaker Moyo also clarified that - [...]	2009-06-29 13:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
09HARARE626	BBC AND CNN ALLOWED BACK IN ZIMBABWE, BUT KEPT ON [...] (SBU) After an eight-year ban, in an effort to help repair the country's battered image, the ZANU-PF led Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity (MMIP) has given permission to the BBC and CNN to report from within Zimbabwe. A BBC crew has been openly reporting from Zimbabwe since July [...]	2009-07-30 15:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM OEXC KPAO ZI
09HARARE678	ZIMBABWE TIER 3 TIP ASSESSMENT: MOVING IN THE [...] (U) This cable serves as a response to the Department's request for information (Ref B) on Zimbabwe's progress towards improving its performance in addressing anti-trafficking issues. In response to Zimbabwe's recent Tier 3 ranking in the Trafficking in Persons report, Post has encouraged the [...]	2009-08-19 16:04:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC KDEM KTIP PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
09HARARE679	MDC-T ATTEMPTS TO USE DWINDLING PARLIAMENTARY [...] (C) In the absence of leadership by Cabinet, Parliament is moving forward with attempts to reform two pieces of existing legislation that have been used by the State to restrict civil liberties. The effort comes as the MDC-T's slim parliamentary advantage is under threat by ZANU-PF and polit [...]	2009-08-20 15:34:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
09HARARE710	ZIM CONSTITUTIONAL CHAIR GIVE UPDATE ON PROGRESS [...] (C) Co-chair of the Parliamentary Select Committee on the Constitution, Douglas Mwonzora of the MDC-T, briefed the Embassy on recent developments regarding Zimbabwean efforts to craft a new constitution. Parliament is moving forward on the creation and composition of 17 thematic sub-committees [...]	2009-09-04 10:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
09HARARE72	FARM SEIZURES CONTINUE: SADC RULING AND BIPPAS [...] (C) In mid-January, the president of the Commercial Farmer's Union told us that the Zimbabwean government was continuing to promote its land seizure and redistribution program by evicting commercial farmers and handing their farms over to loyal regime officials. Land reform was a topic of con [...]	2009-01-30 08:20:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR ASEC PHUM ZI
09HARARE839	UNEASY CALM BLANKETS ZIMBABWE,S RURAL AREAS [...] (SBU) A series of Embassy visits across five Zimbabwean provinces between mid-September and mid-October 2009 confirmed that levels of political violence are currently quite low, with the exception of invasions of several contested white-owned commercial farms. Nevertheless, the potential for [...]	2009-10-21 12:26:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
09HARARE856	WAITING FOR GOD OR SADC: VIOLENT FARM SEIZURES, [...] (SBU) Poloff visits to farms in central Zimbabwe confirmed continuing invasions of white-owned commercial farms by ZANU-PF supporters, and associated violence and displacement of black Zimbabwean farm workers. Police have refused to intervene. Although politically-motivated violence has decrea [...]	2009-10-28 14:04:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB PGOV ASEC ZI
09HARARE857	WAR ENDS WITH WAR: ANOTHER FARMER LOSES THE LONG STRUGGLE [...] (SBU) As part of a trip to research the impact of recent farm invasions, poloffs visited farms and farmers in central Zimbabwe on October 21 and 22 (septel). On October 21, we met with Manie and Lucy Grove who, after battling to keep their property since 2002, were homeless just five days afte [...]	2009-10-28 14:05:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB PGOV ASEC ZI
09HARARE862	MDC PUSHES FOR REFORM IN ZIMBABWE'S PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) The MDC-T caucus in Parliament intends to introduce draft legislation over the next several weeks to amend several acts that have been used by the State to suppress individual and press freedoms. The MDC-T will first target the Public Order and Security Act (POSA),before addressing the [...]	2009-10-29 13:54:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
09HARARE864	NGO DIRECTOR BEMOANS LACK OF PROGRESS IN ZIM [...] (C) The Research and Advocacy Unit (RAU),a local NGO, is joining with regional civil society organizations to pressure southern African governments to re-focus attention on Zimbabwe and the failures of the Global Political Agreement (GPA). RAU Director Tony Reeler also shared with poloffs his [...]	2009-10-30 07:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL ZI
09HARARE890	MDC OFFICIAL DESCRIBES LIFE IN CHINAMASA'S [...] (C) Poloff met with Deputy Minister of Justice Jessie Majome (MDC-T) on November 5 to discuss her experiences working in a ministry led by ZANU-PF stalwarts Patrick Chinamasa and Attorney General (AG) Johannes Tomana. Majome described her position as a constant "fight against marginalization [...]	2009-11-09 16:52:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
09HAVANA147	CUBA'S JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES: RENDERING UNTO CAESAR [...] (C) Summary: A visit to the headquarters of Cuba's Jehovah's Witnesses revealed a sophisticated and growing operation. Leaders of the religion said that there were 90,000 practitioners in Cuba, a number far in excess of previous estimates. Although the religion has neither sought official [...]	2009-03-04 19:35:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PHUM CU
09HAVANA198	HUMAN RIGHTS ROUND UP MARCH 16- MARCH 30 [...] (C) Ladies in White (Damas de Blanco) Pleased with Results of Six Day Protest: Members of the organization, Ladies in White, a group composed of relatives of political prisoners and their supporters, were pleased that they had achieved wide visibility during six days of street protests to m [...]	2009-03-31 13:24:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PHUM CU
09HAVANA329	GOC PROMOTES MUTUAL RECRIMINATIONS AND STRONG ARM [...] (C) Summary: For the past several weeks leading opposition groups have been racked with severe personal quarrels coupled with widely disseminated accusations that leading dissident figures are agents of Cuban state security (see reftel). At the same time a broad cross section of our contact [...]	2009-06-05 13:53:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PHUM CU
09HAVANA462	OBSERVATIONS OF THE STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] (SBU) This front channel cable was originally sent as Official/Informal in reftel. The following is a collection of observations by outgoing human rights officer on the state of human rights and civil society in Cuba. 2. (C) CONTINUITY: Repeat visitors to Cuba, whether they have been gone fo [...]	2009-07-28 14:01:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ECON CU
09HAVANA512	BRITISH EMBASSY SEEKS TO BUILD CUBAN CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In regard to civil society, the British Embassy in Cuba is focused on building capacity and providing Cubans with greater access to uncensored information. Although they are currently doing very little in this area, their stated goal lines up well with past and future USINT prog [...]	2009-08-21 13:20:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CU UK
09HAVANA53	HUMAN RIGHTS ROUND UP JANUARY 2009 [...] SBU) POLICE BRUTALLY SUPPRESS PEACEFUL PROTEST: On January 11, police forcefully stopped a protest in the park of Santiago de las Vegas in the municipality of Boyeros, Havana Province. Protesters had gathered to demand the release of political prisoners and to honor the memory of Miguel Vald [...]	2009-01-28 12:02:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL
09HAVANA639	A SPLENDID LITTLE VISIT, FOR CUBA [...] (C) SUMMARY. The visit by the Spanish Foreign Minster to Cuba highlighted the differences that have emerged among the Europeans, in particular, on how to nudge Cuba most effectively towards political reform. Foreign Minister Moratinos committed Spain to diluting the EU's emphasis on human rig [...]	2009-10-21 20:58:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PHUM CU
09HAVANA650	RELEASED CUBAN PRISONER PONDERS HIS OPTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Cuba (GOC) paroled political prisoner and "75'er" Nelson Aguiar Ramirez on October 20 following the visit of Spanish Foreign Minister Moratinos. Aguiar was the first 75'er to be released since February, 2008, and is in extremely poor health. In conversation with [...]	2009-10-28 20:52:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PHUM CU

09HAVANA651	RELEASED CUBAN PRISONER PONDERS HIS OPTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Cuba (GOC) paroled political prisoner and "75'er" Nelson Aguiar Ramirez on October 20 following the visit of Spanish Foreign Minister Moratinos. Aguiar was the first 75'er to be released since February, 2008, and is in extremely poor health. In conversation with [...]	2009-10-28 20:52:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PHUM CU
09HAVANA684	BLOGGERS BEATEN BUT NOT DETERRED [...] (C) SUMMARY. Cuba's most famous bloggers were detained and roughed up by GOC agents as they traveled on foot to a public event on November 6. Plainclothes officials intercepted bloggers Yoani Sanchez, Claudia Cadelo, Orlando Luis Pardo and another person on a sidewalk, forced them into cars an [...]	2009-11-10 12:02:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV CU
09HAVANA695	BLOGGER THRILLED WITH POTUS RESPONSE TO HER Q&AS [...] (C) USINT Poloffs delivered on November 18, 2009 President Obama's responses to Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez's questions on Cuba - U.S. relations (REF A). Last August, Sanchez had posed seven questions to POTUS and seven for Cuban President Raul Castro (the two sets were different). She was no [...]	2009-11-18 18:21:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV CU
09HAVANA704	CUBA UNLEASHES MOB ON BLOGGERS [...] (SBU) Cuban blogger Reinaldo Escobar was attacked by a pro-government mob on November 20, 2009. Escobar had challenged the state security agents who beat his blogger wife Yoani Sanchez to meet in the same spot where she was picked up and roughed-up on November 6 (Ref A). Escobar was answerin [...]	2009-11-23 18:45:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV CU
09HAVANA706	FEISTY LITTLE MISSIONS DENT CUBAâ€™S RECORD OF [...] (C) Summary. The Cuban Government has been able to stonewall its independent civil society from foreign visitors who have, for the large part, been all too ready to give in to Cuban bullying and give up on these encounters. A series of recent visits has shown the different approaches that foreign g [...]	2009-11-24 13:33:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV CU
09HAVANA721	MILITARY EXERCISES FAIL TO ROUSE CUBANS [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-04 11:50:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	CU PGOV PM PREL
09HAVANA736	HUMAN RIGHTS DAY TURNS VIOLENT IN HAVANA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Human Rights Day turned violent in Havana as State-organized mobs attacked separate marches by the Damas de Blanco and by supporters of Dr. Darsi Ferrer. While the Damas were generally insulated from physical assault by state security agents surrounding them, Ferrer's supporters w [...]	2009-12-10 22:33:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV ECON EAID SMIG CU
09HAVANA739	STRIDENT GOC PROTEST OF USINT AND OTHER MISSIONS, OBSERVATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EVENTS [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Ministry (MINREX) summoned COM on December 12 to protest USINT observation of Human Rights Day activities in Havana. The meeting was the latest of several recent GOC efforts to put the USG on the defensive in our bilateral relationship. COM gave a low-key but firm response to M [...]	2009-12-14 20:16:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL CASC CU
09HELSINKI12	FINLAND: IAEA ANNOUNCEMENT DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-09 09:16:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IAEA ENRG NPT PREL KNNP TRGY KTIA PARM
09HELSINKI122	FINLAND: SEOUL KOREA GICNT WORKSHOP AND EPG [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-26 13:50:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC MNUC KS FI
09HELSINKI129	FINLAND SEEKS STRONGER LINKS WITH U.S. ON HUMAN [...] (SBU) On March 26, Kari Kahiluoto, MFA Ambassador for Human Rights and Democracy, met with Charge to discuss the Alliance fr Civilizations (AOC) meeting in Istanbul (April2009),the UN, the Finnish Holocaust Task Force memership application, the Community of Democraciesmeeting (uly 2009),and t [...]	2009-04-02 13:02:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM FI
09HELSINKI13	CUBA: FINLAND REVIEW TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (U) PolOff asked Veikko Soralahti, Counselor, Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean at the Finnish MFA on January 8 if there had been any changes in the Finnish relationship with Cuba since the EU dropped sanctions. He said that there had not. 2. (C) Post provides the following respons [...]	2009-01-09 13:22:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU FI
09HELSINKI132	FINLAND: BRIEF ON ICJ ADVISORY OPINION [...] (C) On April 3, PolOff met with Sari Makela, Finnish MFA Legal Counselor and Tony Paso, Counselor, Unit for EU Enlargement and Western Balkans (Kosovo & Serbia). Makela said that the Government of Finland (GoF) intends to submit a brief to the ICJ by April 17. She stated that the main legal [...]	2009-04-06 08:55:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREL ICJ KV FI
09HELSINKI135	FINLAND: FOREIGN MINISTER ON UN REFORM, CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary: Finnish Foreign Minister Stubb kicked off Finland's 2013-14 Security Council Seat campaign at a March 17 seminar entitled "The Role of Small States in the United Nations Security Council"(UNSC). Stubb defined Finland as a small state with proven leadership experience that would h [...]	2009-04-06 12:43:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV FI
09HELSINKI143	FINLAND: MADAGASCAR RETURN TO DEMOCRACY [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-15 13:12:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EAID PGOV SZ NO MA FI
09HELSINKI146	FINLAND: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-23 11:24:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MTCRE PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC
09HELSINKI148	FINLAND: BURMA POLICY REVIEW [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-24 13:38:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD BM FI
09HELSINKI149	FINLAND: COMMENTS ON APRIL GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY. PolOff met with Finnish MFA Deputy European Correspondent Markku Lampinen on April 23. Lampinen previewed all of the EU agenda items. The Government of Finland (GoF) believes that efforts should be made to encourage the new Israeli government to honor the commitments made by the [...]	2009-04-24 13:47:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PGOV FI
09HELSINKI17	NONPROLIFERATION SANCTIONS: A.Q. KHAN AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-14 11:31:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MNUC KNNP GM PREL PARM EFIN FI
09HELSINKI186	CUBA: FINLAND REVIEW TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (U) Econoff and Poloff discussed Finland's Cuba relations with Kimmo Pulkkinen, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) Ambassador for the Unit for Latin America and the Caribbean. Post provides the following responses to reftel A questions: 2. (C) -- Has the host country, in Post's opinion, [...]	2009-05-20 15:19:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL FI
09HELSINKI197	FINLAND: ROMA OUTREACH 2009 [...] (SBU) Post maintains strong ties with the Roma community in Finland and has remained active in Roma engagement. On April 17, PolOff and PAS Cultural Assistant attended the opening of a Romani written and directed play on Finnish minority stereotypes entitled "Botox". In February, PolOff atte [...]	2009-05-27 13:25:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	APER KPAO PHUM SOCI FI
09HELSINKI217	FINLAND: U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN ICSC [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-10 13:50:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA FI
09HELSINKI218	FINLAND: NOTIFICATION DELIVERY EXTRADITION TREATY [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-10 13:55:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL CJAN KTIA FI
09HELSINKI221	FINLAND: JUNE GAERC DISCUSSION [...] (C) On June 12 PolOff met with the MFA Deputy European Correspondent for European Common Foreign and Security Policy Markku Lampinen to discuss the June GAERC agenda. Lampinen said that the Middle East discussion would dominate in light of the Lebanese elections and since the last discussion w [...]	2009-06-12 12:42:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN FI MARR PGOV PREL
09HELSINKI23	FINLAND: DEMARCHE EU-SYRIA ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-16 13:42:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EU SY FI
09HELSINKI239	FINLAND: MUSLIM POPULATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the last two decades, Finland has experienced significant growth in its Muslim population, albeit based on smaller numbers than other European countries. In the last decade, the growth occurred mainly due to refugee acceptance programs. Analyzing that growth proves chall [...]	2009-06-24 10:42:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR KISL KPLS FI PHUM PGOV
09HELSINKI24	FINLAND: DEMARCHE US-ISRAEL ANTI-SMUGGLING MOU [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-16 13:46:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MASS PARM PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS FI
09HELSINKI281	FINLAND: RESPONSE AUSTRALIA GROUP PROMOTING [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel points to Finnish MFA First Secretary Marja Rosvall in the Unit for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation on July 23. She noted in particular that in her opinion, Russia approaches participation in the Australia Group ambivalently, desiring to participa [...]	2009-07-24 07:37:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC CBW FI
09HELSINKI284	FINLAND: DEMARCHE COMMENTS ON JULY GAERC [...] (C) Summary: PolOff delivered demarche to Finnish MFA Deputy European Correspondent Markku Lampinen on July 23. Somalia: The Government of Finland (GoF) would like more concrete political action on Somalia from the EU. The GoF supports the Djibouti Peace Process and the Somali Transitional [...]	2009-07-24 10:58:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER EUN ER SO IR GG SW FI
09HELSINKI287	FINLAND: RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT'S REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 20, PolOff and PolAsst met with Dr. Pekka Tuomola, Director of the Helsinki Deaconess Institute Centre for Torture Survivors in Finland. The Centre for Torture Survivors provides a unique holistic approach to therapy, offering a range of treatments from psychological [...]	2009-07-27 11:36:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UN FI
09HELSINKI310	FINLAND: DEMARCHE RESPONSE AUNG SAN SUU KYI [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Heidi Marttila, Finnish MFA Unit for Asia and Oceania on August 18. Marttila noted that while Government of Finland (GoF) does not comment or issue press releases unilaterally on issues covered through the EU, the Finnish Foreign Minister (Stubb) is well [...]	2009-08-19 07:09:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL BM FI
09HELSINKI317	FINLAND: INFORMED THAT UNODC IS GICNT OBSERVER [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-24 06:53:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL PTER KGIC FI RU
09HELSINKI318	FINLAND: MTCR PLENARY PARTICIPATION REQUEST [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-24 06:53:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA FI
09HELSINKI319	IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE: FINNS SHARE CONSENSUS [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-24 06:53:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREL PARM KNNP IAEA EG IS FI
09HELSINKI392	FINLAND: MISCOMMUNICATION OVER AFGHANISTAN TROOP [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Finnish Government's (GOF) withdrawal from Afghanistan next week of its Election Support Force (ESF) caught the GOF's top leaders unaware, leaving them embarrassed and scrambling for explanations. The President and Foreign Minister publicly claimed the ESF would stay through [...]	2009-10-23 14:29:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	FI MARR PGOV PREL
09HELSINKI408	FINLAND'S RUSSIAN SPEAKING MINORITY: INVITED BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Finland's Russian-speaking minority is the largest immigrant group in the country. Most Russian-speaking immigrants are ethnically Finnish, and have come since the 1990s as part of a government program to encourage resettlement of ethnic Finns in the Karelia region, lost to Rus [...]	2009-11-03 11:44:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR ECON ELAB SMIG PREL PGOV FI
09HELSINKI440	HELSINKI HOSTS SCPAR WHILE PARLIAMENT PUSHES FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In separate but nearly simultaneous events November 18-19 in Helsinki, the Standing Committee of Parliamentarians of the Arctic Region (SCPAR) held a workshop and meeting and the Finnish Parliament held a plenary session to which called for a comprehensive national Arctic Strate [...]	2009-11-24 14:59:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EWWT FI PHSA PREL SENV
09HELSINKI441	AFGHANISTAN: SIMILAR EXPECTATIONS OF KARZAI, PRT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with MFA officials responsible for Afghanistan policy, poloff delivered reftel points regarding USG expectations of the new Karzai government and solicited information on the redesign of the Swedish-Finnish PRT. The interlocutors noted a lack of USG emphasis on follow [...]	2009-11-24 15:00:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	AF FI MOPS PREL
09HELSINKI455	AFGHANISTAN: FINLAND TOPPING UP OMLT, EUPOL, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Obama's December 1 speech and the request for more support in Afghanistan from NATO Secretary General Rasmussen have triggered an extensive public discussion in Finland's political and media circles. There is a broad consensus behind the current level of commitment of [...]	2009-12-04 14:55:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AF FI MOPS PGOV PREL
09HELSINKI458	AFGHANISTAN: FINLAND TOPPING UP OMLT, EUPOL, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Obama's December 1 speech and the request for more support in Afghanistan from NATO Secretary General Rasmussen have triggered an extensive public discussion in Finland's political and media circles. There is a broad consensus behind the current level of commitment of [...]	2009-12-04 17:10:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AF FI MOPS PGOV PREL
09HELSINKI63	FINLAND COMMENTS ON FEBRUARY 23-24 GAERC [...] Summary: PolOff met with Markku Lampinen, Finnish MFA Deputy European Correspondent on February 20 in advance of the GAERC. Lampinen said that the main topics this month will be Afghanistan and the Middle East. This GAERC represents the first discussion of the Eastern Partnership Initiative [...]	2009-02-20 12:14:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EUN PGOV FI
09HELSINKI76	FINLAND: POSTURE TOWARDS THE DURBAN REVIEW [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered subject talking points to Charlotta Spolander and Kirsti Pohjankukka in the Finnish MFA Unit for Human Rights Policy on February 27. Spolander said that the Human Rights Council (HRC) will continue planning for the Durban Review Conference. Spolander said GoF welcomes U [...]	2009-02-27 14:00:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL FI
09HELSINKI9	FINLAND: OPPOSING IRAN PRESIDENCY AT UNDP [...] (SBU) PolOff discussed the Iranian candidacy for UNDP President with Marko Laine, Counselor, Unit for Development Issues (UNDP Desk for Finland). He plans to discuss the candidacy further with the political section at the Finnish MFA, but noted that their unofficial position will be to vote i [...]	2009-01-08 11:09:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL IR UN EAID FI
09HOCHIMINHCITY130	THREE DISSIDENTS RELEASED AFTER SERVING FULL TERMS; ONE [...] (SBU) Post has confirmed the release of political activists Huyen Nguyen Dao and Phung Quang Quyen, both of whom have served their full prison terms. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Dao's February 15 release from Xuan Loc prison in Dong Nai province during a February 19 press briefin [...]	2009-02-25 02:56:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY153	VETERAN DEMOCRACY DISSIDENTS SPEAK OUT ON U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary: Veteran democracy activists Dr. Nguyen Dan Que, Democratic Party of Vietnam (DPV) leader Tran Khue and monk Thich Quang Do of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) offered divergent views [...]	2009-03-03 08:52:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY169	POLITICS AT PLAY IN HCMC BAR ASSOCIATION RESHUFFLE [...] (C) Summary: The battle between the Ministry of Justice and the HCMC Bar Association over the establishment of a new National Bar Association (NBA) has ended in a truce, of sorts, with HCMC Bar Association President Nguyen Dang Trung staying in place and Vice President, prominent human rights l [...]	2009-03-09 10:02:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY170	DISSIDENT DO NAM HAI BARRED FROM MEETING BY SECURITY [...] (C) On February 26, plainclothes public security officers physically prevented democracy activist Do Nam Hai from meeting Poloff for the third time in the past year. Hai, who last met with ConOffs during the 2007 USCIRF visit, is a member of Bloc 8406 and has lived under conditions of house ar [...]	2009-03-09 10:10:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY189	FAMILY MEMBERS OF IMPRISONED DISSIDENTS SHARE THEIR STORIES [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 27, family members of several imprisoned democracy activists from Bloc 8406, the People's Democratic Party, United Workers and Farmers Organization and Bach Dang Giang shared news with PolOff about their relatives' recent hunger strike as well as general conditions f [...]	2009-03-13 08:53:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY473	LEADING VIETNAMESE LAWYER LE CONG DINH ARRESTED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Vietnamese police arrested lawyer Le Cong Dinh at his home in Ho Chi Minh City's (HCMC) District 7 on June 13 then searched his home and office in District 1. Dinh is widely considered to be one of Vietnam's top corporate litigators (with A-list clients including ExxonMobile and [...]	2009-06-15 11:15:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY574	UBCV HOLDS MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR FORMER PATRIARCH UNDER HEAVY [...] (SBU) Summary: Over 3,000 members of the unrecognized Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam (UBCV) gathered at Nguyen Thieu Monastery in Binh Dinh province on July 23 to mark the first anniversary of the death of their late patriarch, Thich Huyen Quang. While there were no direct confrontations w [...]	2009-08-04 09:58:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY589	TWO NEWLY-APPOINTED CATHOLIC BISHOPS DISCUSS GROWTH AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Two of the three new Vietnamese bishops named by the Vatican earlier in the summer recently met with the Consulate to share their positive experiences in overseeing Catholic communities in the southern part of the country. One of the two, Bishop Joseph Nguyen Nang, will be headi [...]	2009-08-27 10:50:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY599	SITUATION FOR LANG MAI MONKS DETERIORATES AT BAT NHA PAGODA [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 21, local authorities raided the dormitory of the besieged monks and nuns of the Plum Village Lang Mai Order at Bat Nha pagoda in Lam Dong province, demanding identification papers and taking several monks into custody for questioning. The police action came shortly [...]	2009-09-22 10:39:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PGOV VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY614	ROUTINE RECEPTION BECOMES "GREEN ZONE" FOR SENSITIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent reception to introduce newly-arrived staff and to kick off the busy fall season provided a welcome opportunity for a wide range of contacts, both those working inside the GVN/CPV and those on the outside, to renew acquaintances and share ideas on a wide range of topics. W [...]	2009-10-06 03:41:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY650	UNREGISTERED PROTESTANT HOUSE CHURCH LEADERS REPORT HALTING [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of several unregistered house churches told ConGenOff recently that religious freedom continues to improve, but some congregations continue to experience problems with slow localized registrations and harassment by local authorities. Some individual pastors have been s [...]	2009-10-29 09:33:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY651	PARENTS OF DETAINED ACTIVIST NGUYEN TIEN TRUNG RAISE ACCESS, [...] (SBU) Summary: In a visit with ConGenOff on October 28, the parents of detained democracy activist Nguyen Tien Trung said they have not been able to visit their son or find him legal counsel due to MPS intimidation of potential lawyers. Trung's father, a decorated war veteran, has been forced [...]	2009-11-04 10:09:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL VM
09HONGKONG1103	HONG KONG GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE TO TIP RANKING [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post met with Principal Assistant Secretary for Security W.H. Chow June 16 to inform him of Hong Kong's TIP ranking downgrade and provide a preview of Hong Kong's narrative in the 2009 Trafficking in Persons report. 2. (SBU) Principal Assistant Secretary Chow [...]	2009-06-16 09:12:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP KCRM PHUM SMIG HK
09HONGKONG386	SUBMISSION FOR 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: [...] (SBU) Per reftel, the following are post's contributions to the ninth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People's Republic of China. (Note: Per instructions, subheadings and answers correspond to questions posed in paragra [...]	2009-03-03 10:15:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KCRM PHUM SMIG HK MC CH
09HONGKONG387	SUBMISSION FOR 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: [...] (SBU) Per reftel, the following are post's contributions to the ninth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report for the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) of the People's Republic of China. (Note: Per instructions, subheadings and paragraph letters correspond to those in paragraphs [...]	2009-03-03 10:38:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KCRM PHUM KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB HK MC CH
09HYDERABAD124	TELANGANA - THE REACTION [...] SUMMARY: Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram's announcement on Telangana statehood resulted in a revolt in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) state legislature, with an en masse "resignation" of state legislators. The resignations cut across party lines as political parties backtracked from established [...]	2009-12-12 18:52:00	American Consulate Hyderabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09ISLAMABAD1025	SITUATION IN SWAT: MAY 12 [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Gilani called a special session of the National Assembly to discuss the situation in Swat and surrounding areas in Malakand District as well as the humanitarian situation of the growing number of IDPs. While most of the members agreed to support the government,s [...]	2009-05-12 15:42:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PGOV PINR PK PREL
09ISLAMABAD1074	MODERATE RELIGIOUS LEADERS FIND THEIR VOICE [...] (C) Summary: Bolstered by the government's new determination to combat terrorism, usually quiet moderate Pakistani religious leaders have begun publicly to condemn the Taliban. The most vocal are the Barelvi leaders who have formed a new alliance, the Sunni Ittehad Council, to counter the Ta [...]	2009-05-18 11:55:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM KISL PK
09ISLAMABAD1079	IDP CRISIS UPDATE: MEETINGS WITH GOP, G8 HEADS OF [...] (C) Summary: At a May 18 meeting between GOP Economic Advisor Shaukat Tarin and G-8 Heads of Mission, Tarin said that while the government is focused on immediate IDP emergency needs, it also is looking at reconstruction in order to permit IDPs to return to their homes as soon as their area [...]	2009-05-18 15:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1118	TURKISH AMBASSADOR: THEIR TRILATERALS, FRIENDS, [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador, accompanied by EmbOffs, met May 20 with Turkish Ambassador Soysal and other Turkish counterparts. The Turkish Embassy, which has taken on a coordinating role for NATO in Pakistan, advocated greater cooperation with the U.S. vis-a-vis Pakistan. Soysal described Turkey's [...]	2009-05-24 06:23:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PGOV PREF EAID MOPS PHUM MARR PREL PK TU
09ISLAMABAD1142	CJCS MAJID BRIEFS CODEL CARPER ON LATEST IN SWAT; [...] (C) Summary: Codel Carper, accompanied by the Ambassador, met May 26 with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Majid. Majid described his wish list for U.S. assistance -- precision-targeting weapons, more helicopters, and night vision equipment. The land push was going well, but the [...]	2009-05-26 15:51:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD1152	U.S. REMOVAL OF PAKISTAN RESEARCH REACTOR FUEL ON [...] (S) XXXXXXXXXXXX, told Poloff on May 26 that the recent spate of media attention on Pakistan's nuclear security has led the GOP to delay an important nonproliferation effort, the removal of U.S.-origin highly-enriched uranium spent fuel from a Pakistani nuclear research reactor. The GOP agreed [...]	2009-05-27 16:32:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP MNUC PK
09ISLAMABAD1200	PAKISTAN RECOMMENDS WORKING WITH AFRICANS ON SUDAN [...] (C) PolOff deliver June 2 ref demarche to Pakistan MFA Director for Human Rights Imran Ahmed Siddiqui. Siddiqui remarked that as a "Coordinator" for the Organization Islamic Conference (OIC),Pakistan was likely to defer to the wishes of fellow OIC member Sudan regarding any extension of the [...]	2009-06-02 13:51:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AORC PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD1256	PAKISTAN STILL CONSIDERING UN ICSC VOTE [...] (C) PolOff delivered June 2 reftel demarche to MFA UN-III Director Dr. Ahsan Nabeel in support of the U.S. candidate for the United Nations International Civil Service Commission (UN ICSC). Nabeel noted that the ICSC election was not expected until November. While he committed to discuss the [...]	2009-06-08 16:22:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA PK
09ISLAMABAD1297	GILANI UPBEAT; ASKS FOR HELP ON MANY FRONTS [...] (C) Summary: Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and the Ambassador met June 5 with Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani and several of his key Ministers. Gilani noted how much had changed politically since Holbrooke's last visit to Pakistan in Apri [...]	2009-06-13 08:33:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PINR PHUM ETRD EAID MOPS KJUS PK
09ISLAMABAD1319	PAKISTAN SUPPORTS CONCEPT OF NUCLEAR FUEL BANK, [...] (C) Summary: PolOff delivered reftel demarche soliciting support for international fuel bank proposals to Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director in Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on June 15. Akhtar stated that Pakistan can support the idea of a fuel bank operated by the IAEA, but has r [...]	2009-06-15 14:25:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC IAEA ENRG TRGY PK
09ISLAMABAD1408	PAKISTAN COMMITS TO GETTING OFF TIP WATCH LIST [...] (C) Summary: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Tariq Khosa called in A/PolCouns and PolOff June 17 -- the day after the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report placed Pakistan on the Tier 2 Watch List (WL) -- to commit Pakistan to those measures which would result in a better [...]	2009-06-26 08:58:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIP PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB SMIG PK
09ISLAMABAD141	CONSEQUENCES OF A ZARDARI-NAWAZ SHOWDOWN [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-22 14:13:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PK PREL
09ISLAMABAD1465	PAKISTAN IMPLEMENTING UN SANCTIONS ON DPRK, BUT [...] (C) Summary. In response to reftel demarches supporting implementation of United Nations Security Council sanctions on the DPRK, Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director at Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told PolOff on June 30 that Pakistan has issued a Statutory Regulatory Order to appl [...]	2009-07-01 16:16:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PARM EFIN PK
09ISLAMABAD1589	PUNJAB WITHDRAWS ITS APPEAL AGAINST HAFIZ SAEED'S RELEASE [...] (C) Summary: On July 14, to the surprise of the federal government, the Punjab Advocate General withdrew his province's appeal to the Supreme Court challenging the release of Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed. Punjab provincial officials cite a lack of evidence and cooperation from the federal gov [...]	2009-07-15 13:39:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1625	SUPREME COURT AND GOP CLASH OVER FUEL TAX; GOP WINS FOR NOW [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-18 05:07:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EFIN PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD183	UPDATE ON PAKISTAN IDP SITUATION [...] (C) Summary. As of January 23, the population of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the conflict-afflicted areas of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) continued to rise, with approximately 10,000 families living in the twelve establi [...]	2009-01-28 14:56:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER MOPS
09ISLAMABAD1896	ZARDARI TO REFORM FATA GOVERNANCE [...] (C) Summary: At midnight on August 14, Pakistani Independence Day, President Zardari plans to unveil a reform package significantly changing the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) and extending the Political Parties Act. Zardari's new ordinance will remove some of the draconian aspects of the F [...]	2009-08-14 05:21:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1900	ZARDARI TO REFORM FATA GOVERNANCE [...] (C) Summary: At midnight on August 14, Pakistani Independence Day, President Zardari plans to unveil a reform package significantly changing the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) and extending the Political Parties Act. Zardari's new ordinance will remove some of the draconian aspects of the F [...]	2009-08-14 05:23:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1917	RECONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITY ZONE PREP - GAINING SOME TRACTION? [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-17 01:31:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID ETRD PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2162	FORMER RULING PARTY PML SPLITS [...] (SBU) Summary: Following weeks of wrangling within the former ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) about the intra-party electoral process, and on the heels of the July 20 national-level party elections in which Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain was reelected unopposed as PML president, dissident part [...]	2009-09-08 13:53:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PK PREL
09ISLAMABAD2200	NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT INFORMATION DELIVERED TO [...] Ambassador passed reftel information on President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit to Pakistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi on September 11, 2009, and will raise it with President Zardari at the next opportunity. Embassy PolOff followed up with MFA Director General for Di [...]	2009-09-11 11:15:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PK
09ISLAMABAD2233	PAKISTAN WILL FOLLOW NAM ON IAEA GENERAL [...] (C) PolOff raised U.S. concerns about Middle East issues at the IAEA General Conference (reftel) with Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Disarmament Director General Irfan Yusuf Shami on September 15. Shami agreed that Middle East issues are likely to be problematic this year and recognize [...]	2009-09-15 14:17:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP AORC PARM IAEA EG IS PK
09ISLAMABAD2285	PAKISTAN WILL OBSERVE CTBT CONFERENCE, BUT [...] (C) PolOff raised GOP participation in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Article XIV Conference (reftel) with MFA Disarmament Director General Irfan Yusuf Shami on September 18. Shami reported that Pakistan will be an observer at the conference, as it has been since 1998. He indicat [...]	2009-09-18 14:06:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP PREL KTBT PGOV MNUC PK
09ISLAMABAD237	BAHAWALPUR: GROWING MILITANT RECRUITMENT IN [...] (C) Summary: In discussing research findings for her new book on extremism, Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa outlined to A/DCM how a decline in the old socio-economic order in southern Punjab was slowly radicalizing the region. She described how a failing agricultural system, absentee landlords, poor educa [...]	2009-02-04 12:53:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2385	GOP SUGGESTS DISCUSSION ON INDIAN NUCLEAR ISSUES [...] (C) PolOff met with MFA Disarmament Director General Dr. Irfan Yusuf Shami on September 30 and conveyed reftel points regarding Pakistani concerns about a possible Indian nuclear test. Shami reiterated the GOP perception that India may be preparing for a nuclear test, but when pressed on the [...]	2009-10-03 11:45:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL PGOV MNUC IN PK
09ISLAMABAD2416	PAKISTAN NOMINATES AMBASSADOR TO BEIJING AS [...] Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director in Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, conveyed to PolOff on October 6 that Pakistan has decided to appoint its Ambassador to Beijing, Mr. Masood Khan, as Sherpa for the Nuclear Security Summit. Ambassador Khan can be reached by phone at 86-10-6532-25 [...]	2009-10-07 03:05:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PK
09ISLAMABAD2417	PAKISTAN WELCOMES GICNT UPDATE, BUT CAUTIOUS ON [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche updating partners on enhanced implementation of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) to Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director at Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on October 6. (Despite repeated attempts, PolOff was not able to ma [...]	2009-10-07 03:05:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC KGIC PK
09ISLAMABAD2431	PAKISTAN WELCOMES PROGRESS ON IRAN NUCLEAR ISSUES [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-08 06:32:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	IR KNNP MNUC PGOV PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD2459	HEATED DEBATE IN PAKISTAN'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON [...] (SBU) Summary: In three days of intense debate in the Pakistan National Assembly October 7-9, the Kerry-Lugar Bill (KLB) has come under fire (reftel). Post has been observing the debates daily. During debates on October 8 and 9, criticism of the bill by opposition members of parliament conti [...]	2009-10-10 06:24:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD269	PAKISTAN INVESTIGATION INTO MUMBAI ATTACKS LEADS [...] (C) Summary: On February 5, Interior Minister Rehman Malik met with the Ambassador and FBI agents to discuss the initial results of the FIA-led investigation into the Mumbai attacks. Malik shared both the investigation team's findings and the draft First Instance Report (FIR),both of which wi [...]	2009-02-06 14:58:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2786	PAKISTAN UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT RUSSIAN FUEL BANK [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel request for support for the Russian Fuel Bank proposal at the November International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board meeting to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Disarmament Director Kamran Akhtar on November 17. Akhtar said that Pakistan believed the Russian proposal [...]	2009-11-19 08:43:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC KNNP PREL PGOV PTER IAEA ENRG PK
09ISLAMABAD2828	BONDED LABORERS HELD HOSTAGE BY LANDLOWNERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 4, a Pakistani NGO reported to Embassy Islamabad that over 150 peasants and their family members in rural Sindh had disappeared after filing illegal confinement and non-payment wage petitions with local courts. There was strong evidence that the peasants' employers -- [...]	2009-11-23 13:56:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER ELAB PK
09ISLAMABAD283	PAKISTAN INTERESTED IN GICNT WORKSHOP, BUT LACKS [...] PolOff delivered invitation and informational paper on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Draft Model Guidelines workshop to Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director in Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on February 7. Akhtar welcomed the invitation and stated that experts from [...]	2009-02-09 12:33:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP KGIC PK
09ISLAMABAD2840	PAKISTANI VIEWS ON FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF TREATY [...] (C) Summary: Pakistani officials do not appear to have coalesced on a strategy or position for the mid-January resumption of Conference on Disarmament (CD) discussions on the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) interlocutors continue to stress the need for conse [...]	2009-11-24 12:59:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC KNNP PREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2903	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OMAR SAEED SHEIKH CASEREF: SECSTATE 108201 [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and associated non-paper and diplomatic note on the transfer of Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh to the U.S. to MFA Director for Americas Sohail Khan on November 25. Per reftel instructions, she specifically requested that while the request for transfer of Sheikh was bei [...]	2009-12-03 09:52:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV UK PK
09ISLAMABAD3037	BALOCH REQUEST UNHCR FACILITATE MOVEMENT OF [...] (S/NF) Summary: XXXXXXXXXXXX, who has been designated by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres as XXXXXXXXXXXX in Pakistan, met with the Ambassador and Deputy Chief of Mission on December 13 to discuss the U.S. Government's position on the possible movement of Baloch leader Brahmdagh B [...]	2009-12-18 11:04:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PREF PK AF
09ISLAMABAD3116	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON "DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS" [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche regarding the U.S. request to cooperate with Pakistan to constructively address the problem of racial and religious intolerance and discrimination to MFA Director General (Americas) Sohail Khan on December 30. Khan noted U.S. opposition to "defamation of r [...]	2009-12-31 07:22:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD415	SHARIFS DISQUALIFIED FROM OFFICE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled February 25 that both Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif from the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party are ineligible to hold public office. President Zardari told Charge that he had temporarily appointed PPP Governor Taseer as Chief Execut [...]	2009-02-25 15:14:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KJUS EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD429	DEMONSTRATIONS AND POLITICAL MANEUVERING CONTINUE [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-26 15:05:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINR PK PREL
09ISLAMABAD441	POLITICAL TURMOIL, GOING NOWHERE FAST [...] (C) Summary: Actors across the political spectrum were working to solve yet another self-inflicted political crisis in the wake of the Supreme Court's February 25 decision to disqualify the Sharif brothers from public office. Both President Zardari's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Shar [...]	2009-03-01 12:09:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PINR KDEM PK
09ISLAMABAD477	NO CONTEST: PAKISTAN'S SENATE ELECTIONS [...] (C) National and provincial legislators gathered in their respective chambers March 4 to elect 50 new senators to Pakistan's 100-member upper house (ref A). Senators are hand-picked by their party leaders, elected indirectly not by popular vote, and serve six-year terms. Pakistan's Election [...]	2009-03-04 14:14:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID PINR PK

09ISLAMABAD505	MUMBAI ATTACKS PROSECUTION UPDATE [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-09 15:28:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD508	PML-N: "WE WON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN." [...] (C) Summary: Opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) reached out March 9 to the diplomatic corps; the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-led government made its case to the same group on February 28. PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif, meeting with the Ambassador late March 9, reiterated the part [...]	2009-03-09 16:04:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD514	LAWYERS: "OUR MARCH HAS BEGUN." [...] Summary: In an attempt to pre-empt tens of thousands of protesters from converging on Islamabad, with marches starting March 12 and a sit-in planned for March 16, the GOP arrested dozens of lawyers, opposition party workers and civil society activists (reftels). The top opposition leadership [...]	2009-03-11 14:21:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD559	LONG MARCH ROUND UP AS OF 1500 LOCAL TIME, MARCH 16 [...] (C) Summary: Early in the morning on March 16 Prime Minister Gilani announced former Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's reinstatement and the GOP's intention to file a review petition on the Sharif brothers' case in the Supreme Court. Shortly thereafter, Nawaz Sharif announced that he was calling of [...]	2009-03-16 12:11:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD767	SMALL STEPS TO RECONCILIATION [...] (C) Summary: As a conciliatory gesture to the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N),Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani presented April 10 a parliamentary resolution to endorse the 2006 Charter of Democracy (CoD) and to create a committee to review the repeal of enhanced presidential power [...]	2009-04-10 14:52:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD776	BAITULLAH MEHSUD DECLARES WAR [...] (C) Summary: On April 5, Baitullah Mehsud announced that in retaliation for drone strikes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and a now five million dollar U.S. bounty on his head, his Taliban would be carrying out two attacks each week in Pakistan. This announcement came after [...]	2009-04-13 01:51:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD816	RED MOSQUE MULLAH FREED ON BAIL [...] (C) Summary: On April 17, the Supreme Court released Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) leader Maulana Abdul Aziz on bail. He faces 27 charges of murder, abduction, and forceful occupation of government property. The military operation to retake the Red Mosque from militants in July 2007 left over 100 [...]	2009-04-18 14:07:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD858	MISSION CONVEYS CONCERN OVER ARRESTED AHMADI TEENS [...] (C) Summary: Both Embassy and Consulate Lahore have interceded with Pakistani officials and community representatives on behalf of four Ahmadi teenagers arrested on charges of blasphemy for writing the name of the Prophet Mohammed on a latrine wall of a Sunni mosque. Minority Affairs Minister [...]	2009-04-24 07:20:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD917	KERRY AND QURESHI PLAN STRATEGY FOR SECURING AID [...] (C) Summary: Codel Kerry met April 13 with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Senator Kerry and Qureshi focused on the importance of articulating a clear GOP strategy for security and economic growth to both U.S. legislators and other donor countries. Foreign Minister Qureshi planned to [...]	2009-04-30 10:04:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD991	GILANI DECLARES WAR IN SWAT [...] (C) Summary: On May 7 in a landmark television and radio address to the nation, Prime Minister Gilani made an impassioned plea to Pakistanis to support decisive military action against the Taliban in Swat and surrounding areas. All political parties except Imran Khan's and the Jamaat-e-Islami [...]	2009-05-08 13:21:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV PREF PHUM PK
09ISTANBUL118	WITH ELECTION IN THE BAG, SISLI MAYOR AIMS HIGHER [...] In a meeting earlier this week with PolOffs, Mustafa Sarigul, Mayor of Istanbul's Sisli District, focused more on his national ambitions than he did on the local elections scheduled for March 29. With polls showing some 80 percent of the District supporting him for a third term, Sarigul can [...]	2009-03-23 10:56:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL287	IRANIAN REFUGEES IN TURKEY: NO SIGN YET OF A [...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings with UNHCR and ICMC representatives in Turkey we learned that neither organization has seen a significant surge, yet, of Iranians coming to Turkey to request asylum or refugee status as a result of the post-election crackdown in Iran. However, UNHCR officials [...]	2009-07-28 11:16:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PGOV PREL PINS IR TU AF
09ISTANBUL323	PM ERDOGAN RAISES HOPES OF MINORITY COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 15, in an unprecedented event, Prime Minister Erdogan spoke to 150 business, community, and religious leaders during a lunch on Buyukada Island, also attended by the Ecumenical Patriarch. Prominent human rights lawyer Kezban Hatimi, the CHP Mayor of the Princes' Islan [...]	2009-08-17 13:54:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV TU OSCE GR
09ISTANBUL326	PATRIARCHATE,S READOUT OF PM ERDOGAN AND PATRIARCH [...] Summary. (C) Press officer for the Ecumenical Patriarchate Father Dositheos on August 18 elaborated to poloff about the August 15 conversation between Prime Minister Erdogan and the Ecumenical Patriarch (Ref A). Dositheos reported that during his visit to the Greek sites on the island (the fir [...]	2009-08-19 15:39:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV TU GR OSCE
09ISTANBUL357	ISLAM, AKP, HEADSCARVES, FETHULLAH GULEN, AND THE [...] (SBU). SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. A wide range of our contacts dismissed the notion that Turkey is at risk of becoming an Islamic Republic. Their consensus is that the political system is flexible enough to accommodate pious Turks, growing political activism. Though this activism will contin [...]	2009-09-17 14:25:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PREL TU
09ISTANBUL376	BAHA'I COMMUNITY REPORTS IMPROVEMENTS, STILL SEEK [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 23, leadership of the Baha'i community in Turkey shared with us their close collaboration with the government, the reduction in the number of assaults and harassment, and the community's remaining request to be recognized, at least informally, as a religion by the [...]	2009-10-02 11:09:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL403	11TH DINK TRIAL HEARING: A CALL FOR FILES FROM [...] (SBU) Summary. At the eleventh hearing of the Dink murder trial on October 12, attended by Istanbul PolOff, the Dink family attorneys requested that Istanbul's 14th Heavy Penal Court consider files from the Ergenekon indictments pertaining to a clandestine organization whose alleged members [...]	2009-10-22 16:59:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV TU AR OSCE
09ISTANBUL429	SISLI MAYOR SARIGUL BROADENING ELECTORAL BASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mustafa Sarigul, mayor of Istanbul's Sisli District, remains on track to launch his political party, the Turkey Change Movement (Turkiye Degisim Hareketi, or TDH),in January 2010 and will make a bid to oust Prime Minister Erdogan in the 2011 election. In separate, recent meetings [...]	2009-11-19 11:39:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL434	HALKI AND PATRIARCHAL SUCCESSION [...] (C) Summary. Echoing statements made earlier by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the U.S.-based spokesperson for the Ecumenical Patriarchate on November 14 reiterated to poloff that Turkey's remaining community of 2,500 Greek Orthodox alone is not large enough to sustain the Patriarchate. The [...]	2009-11-27 09:31:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL GR TU
09ISTANBUL456	ALEVIS WITHOUT A PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary. The definition of Turkish Alevism varies greatly, as do the cultural and political objectives of the rainbow of Alevi organizations in the country. Three significant Alevi organizations/federations share only two demands: official GOT recognition of Alevi places of worship ("c [...]	2009-12-14 13:02:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TU
09ISTANBUL464	PATRIARCH,S "60 MINUTES" INTERVIEW CREATES A STIR [...] (C) Summary. A harsh media buzz continues to reverberate over the Patriarch's December 20 comments in the "60 Minutes" program that he feels "crucified" as a member of the Greek Orthodox community in Turkey. The program focused on the shrinking number of Christians in the Middle East, includ [...]	2009-12-22 08:14:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL GR TU OSCE
09ISTANBUL466	SURVEY SHOWS HIGH LEVELS OF RELIGIOSITY AND [...] (C) Summary. Sabanci University political scientist Ali Carkoglu, together with Ersin Kalaycioglu, reported new research findings on religiosity in Turkey under the framework of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) that indicate a high level of religiosity among Turks and high levels [...]	2009-12-24 07:56:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF TU
09ISTANBUL467	PATRIARCHATE FEELS SECURE BUT DEFENSIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ecumenical Patriarchate's press and public relations representative Father Dositheos told poloff on December 23 that while they are hard-pressed to explain the Patriarch's controversial use of the term "to feel crucified" in the "60 Minutes" program aired on December 20, t [...]	2009-12-28 05:58:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TU GR
09ISTANBUL48	SECOND ANNIVERARY OF HRANT DINK'S MURDER, [...] (SBU) Summary. Consul General and other consulate officers attended a number of memorial events commemorating the second anniversary of Hrant Dink's murder in Istanbul on January 19, 2007. During a January 22 courtesy call by Ambassador Jeffrey, Hrant Dink's widow Rakel and family lawyer Feth [...]	2009-01-29 14:47:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL OSCE TU PGOV
09JAKARTA1007	UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON SUDAN -- CONTINUING TO [...] (C) Poloff joined British and French Embassy counterparts for a June 12 discussion of the UN Special Rapporteur on Sudan with officials at Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). Using Ref A points, poloff underscored the importance of extending the Special Rapporteur's mandat [...]	2009-06-12 09:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ID SU
09JAKARTA1023	INDONESIA CONDEMNS NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia condemns North Korea's recent nuclear test and calls on Pyongyang to return to the Six Party Talks, a senior GOI nonproliferation official told us on June 15 in response to our points on this issue. President Yudhoyono is following the matter closely and plans to send [...]	2009-06-17 08:43:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KNNP UNSC ID KN
09JAKARTA1050	NORTH KOREA -- ENGAGING INDONESIA ON ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has underscored the importance of vigorous enforcement of UN Security Council Resolution 1874 on North Korea's nuclear program to senior contacts in the President's office and the Department of Foreign Affairs. Our contacts reiterated Indonesia's commitment to enforcing [...]	2009-06-22 09:16:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP MNUC ID KN
09JAKARTA1060	BURMA -- INDONESIAN ACTIVISTS KEEP UP PRESSURE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian activists marked Aung San Suu Kyi's June 19 birthday by demanding her immediate release from detention and calling on ASEAN states to take a tougher line toward the Burmese regime. At a Mission-organized event, a leading MP--while noting that Indonesia's record is re [...]	2009-06-23 09:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA108	INDONESIAN SUPREME COURT CHOOSES A NEW CHIEF TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The members of Indonesia's Supreme Court have chosen Harifin A. Tumpa to be the next Chief Justice. Tumpa had previously served as one of the court's vice chiefs and had been serving as the interim Chief Justice after the former Chief reached mandatory retirement age in October [...]	2009-01-20 10:29:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA PREL ID
09JAKARTA1095	KOPASSUS--ALLEGED PAPUA INCIDENTS NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report claims that Indonesian Army Special Forces (KOPASSUS) continue to violate human rights in Papua. However, the report draws this conclusion based on six incidents in a single Papuan town with a history of corruption, violence, and other gove [...]	2009-06-26 09:44:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PHUM ID
09JAKARTA1128	LEGISLATORS TRY TO BLOCK PURCHASE OF ISRAELI-MADE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Some Indonesian legislators are moving to block the GOI's plan to purchase Israeli-manufactured unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The Indonesian Department of Defense claims that the UAVs are a cost effective way to provide surveillance of Indonesian waterways. Flagging concerns [...]	2009-07-02 08:58:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR ID IS
09JAKARTA1134	URGING GOI TO SUPPORT NGO INVOLVEMENT AT UN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has encouraged Indonesia to support UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) consultative status for the Democracy Coalition Project (DCP) and deferral back to the NGO Committee for the Dynamic Christian World Mission Foundation (DCWMF). Missio*n underscored the importanc [...]	2009-07-06 03:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ID
09JAKARTA1176	COUNTERING THREATS FROM RADICAL CLERIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission recently spoke to Indonesian authorities about threatening comments denouncing President Obama made by radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir. The comments were aired in a YouTube posting on a hard-line Indonesian-language web site. Mission underscored that such inflammator [...]	2009-07-13 10:35:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1215	RULE OF LAW: PROSECUTORS GET A CLOSE LOOK AT U.S. JUDICIAL [...] (U) This message is Sensitive-but-Unclassified; please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A team of eleven Indonesian prosecutors from a key task force, accompanied by DOJ Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) and poloff, participated in a June study visit to the U.S. The State-funded, DOJ-orga [...]	2009-07-21 09:48:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER KJUS ID
09JAKARTA1221	ARF -- INDONESIA INTERESTED IN DISASTER RELIEF [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia is keen to host the second ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Voluntary Demonstration of Response in Disaster Relief (VDR) in 2010 or 2011. However, the GOI is seeking support and assistance [...]	2009-07-22 08:21:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MASS
09JAKARTA1237	AFGHANISTAN -- URGING INDONESIA TO DO MORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: We have strongly encouraged the GOI to consider what it can do to assist Afghanistan's political development. We urged, for example, that the GOI think creatively and consider using the Indonesian-founded Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) as a venue to help build up the capacity of th [...]	2009-07-24 08:44:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID ID AF
09JAKARTA1259	USG-FUNDED TRAINING EMPOWERS NEW WOMEN LEGISLATORS [...] (U) SUMMARY: U.S.-funded training is playing a key role in building up the legislative capacity of the Indonesian Parliament (DPR). More than sixty percent of the DPR which will sit in October will consist of new members. Between 15 to 18 percent of the new legislators will be women, an i [...]	2009-07-28 10:42:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM KWMN ID
09JAKARTA1275	JULY 17 BOMBINGS -- CLAIM OF RESPONSIBILITY SEEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission reached out to security authorities and other knowledgeable contacts about the recent blog post claiming responsibility for the July 17 Jakarta bombings. Although the "Al-Qaeda Indonesia" name used in the blog is new, virtually all observers agree that it appears to be mo [...]	2009-07-30 09:01:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL ASEC CASC ID
09JAKARTA1277	INDONESIA'S PARLIAMENT -- COURT RULING SPARKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent Indonesian Supreme Court ruling dealing with the arcane process of parliamentary seat allocation has stirred controversy. The ruling, if implemented, would dramatically shift the balance of power in the new Parliament toward the biggest parties, including President Y [...]	2009-07-30 09:56:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1281	ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE -- KEY INDEPENDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the latest anti-corruption news, Indonesia's independent Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is facing various inquiries. KPK-police tensions have escalated with both sides threatening to bring corruption charges against the other. President Yudhoyono's intervention in [...]	2009-07-31 10:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA1290	ASEAN -- INDONESIANS PRAISE U.S. ENGAGEMENT BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of the Phuket ministerial, Indonesian officials continue to praise U.S. commitment to ASEAN and underscore the regional organization's central place in Indonesian foreign policy. However, Indonesia continues to press for more aggressive human rights mechanisms withi [...]	2009-08-04 10:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ASEAN ID BM
09JAKARTA1318	INTENSIVE POLICE OPERATIONS STRIKE BLOW AGAINST [...] (S) SUMMARY: Indonesian police operations against suspected terrorist safe houses in Central Java and on the outskirts of Jakarta, August 7-8, mark an important success in efforts to eliminate the terrorist threat posed by the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) splinter group led by Noordin M. Top. Despi [...]	2009-08-10 10:19:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	PTER PGOV PREL PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA133	BURMA -- USG-FUNDED SPEAKER PROGRAM MOVES FORWARD [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Mission has sponsored a speaker symposium and photo exhibition on Burma in two Indonesian cities, Bandung in West Java and Malang in East Java. The USG-funded programs seeks to increase public awareness on [...]	2009-01-27 09:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA1342	BURMA DEMOCRACY GROUP SHUTDOWN OUT OF CHARACTER AS [...] (C) Indonesian police temporarily stopped a coalition of Burma pro-democracy organizations from holding a conference at a Jakarta hotel August 12, reportedly following a complaint from Burma to the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). National police ordered the conference closed [...]	2009-08-13 09:55:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA137	ROHINGYAS -- URGING THE GOI TO ENSURE PROTECTION [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Although it has publicly classified them as "economic migrants," the Indonesian government has made no final decision regarding the status of 193 Burmese and Bangladeshi boat people. The boat people are mostly ethnic [...]	2009-01-27 11:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA1400	PAPUA -- SHOOTINGS CONTINUE NEAR U.S. MINING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Unidentified assailants fired on vehicles belonging to U.S. mining company Freeport-McMoRan in Indonesia's restive Papua province in several recent incidents. Five Freeport employees, all Indonesian nationals, were injured. A coalition of pro-independence groups claimed respons [...]	2009-08-24 10:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS EMIN ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1419	BURMA -- INDONESIA CONSIDERS STRONGER ACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono is considering stronger Indonesian action in response to the Burmese regime's recent extension of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest. As he has done in the past, Yudhoyono may write to Burmese leader Than Shwe or dispatch a special envoy to urge reforms. Separa [...]	2009-08-27 10:42:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA143	MILITARY JUSTICE REFORM -- LEGISLATURE REVIEWS BILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Proponents of the military justice reform bill are considering whether to push for the bill's passage before Indonesia move toward elections. The bill, an initiative of the national legislature (DPR),would make the Indonesian military (TNI) subject to the civilian justice syst [...]	2009-01-28 08:23:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR KJUS ID
09JAKARTA1442	NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE 2010 -- INDONESIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia, in general, is positively disposed toward the U.S. nonproliferation agenda, not least because of what the GOI views as the Administration's balanced perspective on nonproliferation and disarmament issues. The GOI supports U.S.-Russia arms control efforts and is prepa [...]	2009-08-31 09:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV NPT ID
09JAKARTA1519	UNHRC "FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION" RESOLUTION -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: Per reftel instruction, poloff met with Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) contacts, explained USG positions, and urged the GOI to support USG priorities at the upcoming UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Contacts indicated support for U.S. initiatives and stressed that Indonesi [...]	2009-09-11 09:53:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL SOCI ID UN
09JAKARTA1555	INTERFAITH DIALOGUE -- WORKING WITH INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission is working closely with the GOI to finalize details of the proposed bilateral interfaith dialogue with the U.S. Poloff met recently with GOI officials to discuss key elements of the dialogue, which is slated to take place in Jakarta in November. The GOI is being very f [...]	2009-09-16 07:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL KPAO ID
09JAKARTA1580	INDONESIAN COUNTERTERRORISM SUCCESS CONTINUES, BUT [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The apparent slaying of terrorist leader Noordin M. Top is the latest and most prominent in a string of GOI counterterrorism successes. The police have stated that fingerprint analysis has confirmed Top was killed in a [...]	2009-09-18 11:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1581	INDONESIAN COUNTERTERRORISM SUCCESS CONTINUES, BUT [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The apparent slaying of terrorist leader Noordin M. Top is the latest and most prominent in a string of GOI counterterrorism successes. The police have stated that fingerprint analysis has confirmed Top was killed in a [...]	2009-09-18 11:16:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1614	THE GOLDSTONE REPORT RE GAZA -- SEEKING INDONESIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has discussed reftel message regarding the report of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict with GOI officials, underscoring U.S. concern about the report's unbalanced focus on Israeli actions. We stressed the need to seek a constructive resolution on the matt [...]	2009-09-28 07:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PHUM IS ID
09JAKARTA1615	ENGAGING INDONESIA ON U.S. INTERNATIONAL MARITIME [...] (U) SUMMARY: Mission has urged Indonesia to support the United States' candidacy for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) (Category "A") during the November 23-December 4 IMO meetings in London. Our interlocutors promised to review the U.S. candidacy carefully, adding that Indonesi [...]	2009-09-28 07:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHSA ECON IMO ID
09JAKARTA1626	HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL -- SEEKING GOI SUPPORT FOR [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche regarding the UN Human Rights Council draft resolution on "Elimination of Discrimination Against Women" to officials at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) on September 29. We noted U.S. support for the appointment of an Independent Exper [...]	2009-09-29 07:46:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KWMN ID UN
09JAKARTA1628	BURMA -- INDONESIA WELCOMES NEW U.S. APPROACH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has welcomed the new U.S. approach on Burma. Speaking in New York, Foreign Minister Wirajuda publicly praised the USG's decision to begin a direct dialogue with the Burmese authorities, and called on Burma to respond with positive steps regarding Aung San Suu Kyi and ot [...]	2009-09-29 10:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA1644	GOLDSTONE REPORT ON GAZA -- FURTHER ENGAGING [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref A points regarding the UN Fact Finding Mission Report on the Gaza conflict to Diana Sutikno, Director for Civil and Political Rights in the Directorate of Multilateral Affairs in the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) on October 1. Poloff noted that the resolution [...]	2009-10-01 09:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PHUM ID IR
09JAKARTA1658	IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM -- BRIEFING INDONESIA ON OUTCOME OF GENEVA TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has briefed the GOI on the outcome of last week's P5 1 talks in Geneva. We urged that Indonesia publicly support the dual track approach of engagement plus preparations for increased pressure on Iran. GOI contacts expressed support for the current approach while urging [...]	2009-10-05 07:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KNNP PARM ID IR
09JAKARTA1687	INDONESIAN RESPONSE T0 USG IMO CANDIDACY -- QUID [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia has responded formally to Ref B demarche seeking support for the United States' candidacy to the International Maritime Organization (IMO),promising to consider the matter carefully. Informally, a Department of Foreign Affairs official told poloff that Indonesia was a [...]	2009-10-07 09:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHSA ECON IMO ID
09JAKARTA1710	MURDER OF ACTIVIST MUNIR -- PROGRESS MADE AFTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Well-known human rights activist Munir Said Thalib was murdered just over five years ago. So far, the Indonesian government has convicted three people for involvement in the crime. The GOI is still working to convict remaining suspect--former top intelligence official Muchdi P [...]	2009-10-09 09:35:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS ID
09JAKARTA1723	INDONESIA RESPONSE ON NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT [...] (U) This is an Action Message. Please see para 3. 2. (U) Per reftel, Poloff provided a briefing on the upcoming Sous-Sherpa and Sherpa meetings in advance of the April 2010 Nuclear Security Summit to Andy Rachmianto, Deputy Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) Directorat [...]	2009-10-14 07:08:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER MNUC AORC IAEA ID
09JAKARTA1737	GOLDSTONE REPORT ON GAZA -- ENGAGING INDONESIA ON [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche regarding the report of the UN Fact-Fining Mission on the Gaza Conflict (the Goldstone Report) to Dicky Komar, Deputy Director for Civil and Political Rights at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),on October 15. Poloff underscored USG concern rega [...]	2009-10-15 11:21:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PHUM ID IS
09JAKARTA1771	MOVING FORWARD ON INTERFAITH DIALOGUE AND BALI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Umar Hadi, Director for Public Diplomacy at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),confirmed in his recent meeting with CDA that the GOI remained committed to holding an interfaith dialogue with the U.S. Hadi welcomed high level U.S. participation in both the Bali Democracy F [...]	2009-10-22 11:58:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL KPAO ID
09JAKARTA1779	BURMA -- ENGAGING INDONESIA IN ADVANCE OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: We encouraged Indonesia to press the Burmese authorities to launch a credible dialogue with the democratic opposition and ethnic minority groups, per Ref A instructions. GOI interlocutors reiterated their praise for the United States' new policy on Burma and agreed that the Bur [...]	2009-10-23 10:52:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ASEAN ID BM
09JAKARTA1785	ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON VISA CASE OF [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In reftel message, Mission provided information regarding allegations of gross human rights violations against presidential advisor and Defense Secretary General Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin. Mission is p [...]	2009-10-26 11:08:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL CVIS KISL ID
09JAKARTA1788	NEW HEAD OF INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kemal Stamboel is the new chair of Indonesia's parliamentary commission dealing with foreign policy and defense. He should prove to be a productive interlocutor for the U.S. on critical policy issues. An experienced businessman with a U.S. education and a solid knowledge of [...]	2009-10-27 04:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1793	AS MIGRANT FLOWS INCREASE, GOI AND AUSTRALIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has intercepted another group of Sri Lankan migrants traveling by boat in Indonesian waters. The GOI is detaining the migrants, who were on their way to Australia. These 78 migrants join 255 Sri Lankans who are being held by the Indonesian government after their boat was [...]	2009-10-28 08:07:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV ID AS CE
09JAKARTA1799	INDONESIA'S SUPREME COURT GAINS TRACTION IN REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first year as Chief Justice of Indonesia's Supreme Court, Harifin Tumpa has demonstrated a strong commitment to reforming Indonesia's judiciary. Under Tumpa,s leadership, the court has instituted a code of conduct and undertaken human resource and financial management re [...]	2009-10-29 07:49:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1803	UN CONVENTION ON DEFAMATION OF RELIGION -- [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has engaged Department of Foreign Affairs interlocutors regarding the draft UN convention on religion. We underscored that the convention could entail legal obligations that would justify censorship and other limits on freedom of expression. We also encouraged Indonesi [...]	2009-10-29 10:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL UN ID
09JAKARTA1831	GOLDSTONE REPORT -- INDONESIA LIKELY TO JOIN OIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission delivered points on possible UN General Assembly (UNGA) discussion of the Goldstone Report regarding Israeli military action in Gaza to GOI officials. We urged Indonesia to oppose any resolution endorsing the report. GOI contacts did not commit to a specific vote on any [...]	2009-11-04 10:12:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL ID IS
09JAKARTA1863	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- POSITIVE NEWS IN INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has welcomed the 2009 International Religious Freedom Report's acknowledgment of Indonesia's improved respect for religious freedom. Several recent developments underline efforts in this area: for example, Christian groups have received permission to open a new seminar [...]	2009-11-10 08:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KIRF ID
09JAKARTA1865	ENCOURAGING SENIOR INDONESIAN REPRESENTATION AT [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-10 10:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KDEM AF ID
09JAKARTA1894	EUROPEAN UNION AND INDONESIA SIGN PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The European Union and Indonesia signed a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) in Jakarta on November 9. The accord was held up since 2007 due to the GOI's anger over the EU's flight ban on Indonesian carriers. This is the latest such cooperative accord signed by the GOI [...]	2009-11-16 10:10:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ID EUN
09JAKARTA1895	UPTICK IN NUMBER OF MIGRANTS ON WAY TO AUSTRALIA [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. It was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI is intercepting a rising number of migrants on their way to Australia. Over 100 Afghan migrants were detained in two tranches on No [...]	2009-11-16 10:37:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF ID AS CE AF
09JAKARTA1913	OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH AN ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has reviewed points re upcoming Israel-related UNGA resolution with Presidential Palace and Department of Foreign Affairs contacts. We underscored the overall unbalanced number of UNGA resolutions explicitly critical of Israel and urged the overall reduction of one-side [...]	2009-11-19 08:58:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID IS
09JAKARTA1932	NPT REVIEW -- INDONESIA SUPPORTS SUBSIDIARY BODIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia will support the re-establishment of three subsidiary bodies at the 2010 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, a key GOI nonproliferation official told poloff in response to reftel demarche. The GOI's position includes support for the U.S. proposal [...]	2009-11-23 10:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KNNP NPT ID
09JAKARTA1945	IRAN--INDONESIA INCREASINGLY FRUSTRATED OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia is increasingly frustrated with Iran's continued intransigence on the nuclear issue, GOI contacts told us in response to Ref A demarche. Indonesia supports the P5 1's dual track efforts to engage Iran. While supporting Iran's right to peaceful use of nuclear energy, [...]	2009-11-25 08:41:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KNNP IAEA ID IR
09JAKARTA1966	BURMA -- URGING INDONESIA TO PRESS FOR A DIALOGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff briefed GOI officials on the need for a dialogue between the Burmese government, the democratic opposition and ethnic minority groups, per reftel instruction. Our interlocutors agreed that such a dialogue was necessary if Burma's 2010 elections were to meet minimum inter [...]	2009-12-01 11:00:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA1973	PAPUA -- SENSITIVE DATE PASSES WITHOUT MAJOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: December 1, a highly symbolic date to Papuan independence supporters, passed without major incident in Indonesia's sometimes restive eastern provinces. Police detained fifteen demonstrators who had gathered without appropriate permits but none have been charged. Other peaceful [...]	2009-12-02 10:52:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SNAR ID
09JAKARTA1982	INDONESIA STILL LIKELY TO SUPPORT OIC IN UN [...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Mission urged Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs interlocutors to vote no or abstain from the December vote on the draft UN resolution on defamation of religion. Our interlocutors indica [...]	2009-12-03 09:41:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KISL UN ID
09JAKARTA2009	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- HIGH-LEVEL VATICAN OFFICIAL [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Cardinal Tauran, President of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue, recently visited Indonesia. The Cardinal highlighted positive Christian-Muslim relations in Indonesia [...]	2009-12-07 10:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KIRF ID
09JAKARTA2022	AFGHANISTAN -- INDONESIA WELCOMES PRESIDENT'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian officials have welcomed President Obama's speech on Afghanistan and are looking for ways to be more helpful there. Indonesia already provides training and capacity building for the Afghan government in the agriculture, education, and health care areas. Senior GOI of [...]	2009-12-09 10:10:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS MOPS ID AF
09JAKARTA2033	G/TIP -- URGENT NEED TO REFORM INDONESIAN LABOR [...] This is an Action Request -- Please see Para 6. 2. SUMMARY: The Indonesian Working Group on Labor Migration (IWGLM) is seeking International Organization for Migration (IOM) assistance in reforming Indonesian Labor Law 34 on the Placement and Protection of Indonesian Overseas Workers. Th [...]	2009-12-11 10:50:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PREF ID
09JAKARTA204	COUNTERTERRORISM -- PROMOTING DERADICALIZATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Counterterrorism experts from across Indonesia led a training workshop on strategies for deradicalizing terrorists, February 2-4. Mission, using an INL-funded grant, was one of four co-sponsors of the workshop, which was held at the Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement Cooperatio [...]	2009-02-06 08:37:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ID
09JAKARTA2044	2010 NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission continues robust efforts to engage GOI nonproliferation officials in advance of the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. High-level USG officials have urged the GOI to support our nonproliferation objectives during a series of recent visits. On [...]	2009-12-14 10:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KTBT NPT ID
09JAKARTA2052	PARLIAMENTARY INQUIRY LOSES CREDIBILITY AS FINANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Parliament's inquiry into the government's bailout of Bank Century is losing credibility as it escalates into a political in-fight between technocrat Finance Minister Sri Mulyani and wealthy businessman and Golkar Party leader Aburizal Bakrie. Mulyani's claims that the Golkar [...]	2009-12-15 10:40:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ID ECON EFIN
09JAKARTA3	INDONESIA -- 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) The following is a revised draft text of the 2008 Country Report on Terrorism for Indonesia. The amended text contains additional information on DS/ATA's success in working with the Indonesian National P [...]	2009-01-02 04:43:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA313	UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL -- SEEKING INDONESIAN SUPPORT [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloff urged Indonesia to support U.S. candidate Judge Mark P. Painter when the UN General Assembly voted on candidates for the UN Appeals Tribunal. Our contacts promised to consider Painter' [...]	2009-02-23 11:04:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA ID
09JAKARTA344	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL/DURBAN REVIEW -- REVIEWING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Per ref a instructions, poloff notified GOI officials that the USG would participate as an observer in the next UN Human Rights Council (HRC) meeting, but would discontinue our involvement in the review of the UN's World Conference on Racism (the Durban Conference). Our contacts [...]	2009-02-27 09:45:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ID
09JAKARTA346	PROTECTION FOR ROHINGYAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has thanked the GOI for its efforts to provide protection to the Rohingya boat people who have been rescued in Indonesian waters. GOI officials reiterated their commitment to addressing the Rohingya's humanitarian needs and working with the UN High Commissioner for Refug [...]	2009-02-27 10:12:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA349	IRAQ -- REVIEWING U.S. POLICY WITH INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has reviewed the President's commitment to end the U.S. combat mission in Iraq by August 31, 2010, with key Indonesian officials. They welcomed the USG's initiative and said they hoped it would lead to greater security for the Iraqi people. Indonesia has not yet decided [...]	2009-03-02 08:40:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS ID IZ
09JAKARTA355	PRESIDENT'S PARTY POLLS WELL BUT GRASSROOTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono's Partai Demokrat (PD) is doing well in public opinion surveys, thanks in part to a successful media strategy. Although it seems poised to do well in the national legislative elections slated for April 9, questions persist about the strength of its grassroots [...]	2009-03-02 10:56:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA40	CHARGE DISCUSSES BILATERAL ISSUES WITH KEY GOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Charge discussed important bilateral issues with a key GOI official on January 7. He said that the USG looked forward to discussing President Yudhoyono's proposal for a Strategic Partnership. He also urged Indonesia to move forward on a bilateral Defense Cooperation Agreem [...]	2009-01-09 10:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ID
09JAKARTA435	INDONESIA-SINGAPORE SIGN BOUNDARY PACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia and Singapore have signed a long-awaited agreement delineating their common maritime border in a section of the Singapore Strait. The agreement promises to improve control of sea and air navigation in the Strait and aid national law enforcement efforts as well. The r [...]	2009-03-12 10:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS EWWT ID SN
09JAKARTA447	ASEAN SECRETARIAT -- POSITIVE MOMENTUM ON TIES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Secretary's February 18 visit to the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta has generated positive momentum regarding U.S. engagement with Southeast Asia. ASEAN Secretariat officials welcome the U.S. decision to pursue accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation and look forward [...]	2009-03-13 09:37:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIA ASEAN ID
09JAKARTA455	ABKHAZIA/SOUTH OSSETIA -- URGING INDONESIA TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has reviewed Department's points related to Georgia with the GOI. Indonesia has no intention of recognizing either Abkhazia or South Ossetia as independent countries or lending legitimacy in any way to their self-proclaimed status. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Per reftel in [...]	2009-03-16 08:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS ID GG
09JAKARTA457	LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS -- CAMPAIGN SEASON KICKS OFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The official campaign for the April Indonesian national legislative elections has kicked off in earnest. Starting from March 16, parties are free to hold large rallies and fly large banners (up until now parties have been running ads, but were not engaged in mass mobilization). [...]	2009-03-16 08:44:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA467	AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE -- INDONESIA CONSIDERING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has urged Indonesia to attend the March 31 International Conference on Afghanistan in the Hague, per reftel instructions. The Indonesian government is reviewing the matter but has not yet finalized attendance. The Dutch Embassy here told us they expect that FM Wirajuda [...]	2009-03-17 05:56:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN ID AF
09JAKARTA488	BURMESE PRIME MINISTER VISITS JAKARTA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein met with President Yudhoyono, VP Kalla and key ministers during a March 16-17 visit to Jakarta. Yudhoyono stressed the need for concrete progress toward political reform and for credible elections in 2010. Sein acknowledged concerns regarding [...]	2009-03-18 10:48:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID BM

09JAKARTA52	BURMESE AND BANGLADESHI REFUGEES IN ACEH [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Over 190 Burmese and Bangladeshi refugees continue to be housed in an Indonesian military camp in Sabang off the coast of Aceh in north-western Sumatra Island. The GOI is reviewing what to do about the refugees who wer [...]	2009-01-12 09:48:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF ID
09JAKARTA521	PAPUAN SEPARATIST LEADER RETURNS TO INDONESIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Longtime Papuan separatist leader Nicholas Jouwe has visited Indonesia after over forty years of self-imposed exile in the Netherlands. He held talks with senior Indonesian officials in Jakarta and visited Papua where he reportedly welcomed GOI efforts to improve conditions. J [...]	2009-03-23 10:18:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ID
09JAKARTA528	BURMA -- INDONESIA SUPPORTS TRIPARTITE CORE GROUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has underscored the importance of the unfettered operation of the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) that was formed to coordinate relief operations after Cyclone Nargis struck Burma. GOI officials told us they supported the TCG's operations and continued to raise the matter wi [...]	2009-03-24 08:49:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ASEAN ID BM
09JAKARTA530	PAPUA -- ELECTION CAMPAIGN IN FULL SWING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The campaign is in full swing in the Papuan region of eastern Indonesia ahead of April's national legislative elections. While local election officials admit that logistical challenges in the remote region are daunting, they feel confident they will be ready by election day. Pr [...]	2009-03-24 10:40:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA538	UN "DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" RESOLUTION -- PRESSING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Per reftel instructions, poloff met with Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) contacts and urged that the GOI oppose the "Combating Defamation of Religion" resolution at the UN Human Rights Council. Contacts said the GOI planned to support the resolution, citing purported "Isla [...]	2009-03-25 09:21:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL SOCI ID UN
09JAKARTA553	HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT -- POSITIVE REACTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since its release a month ago, media reaction to the 2008 Country Report on Human Rights Practices for Indonesia has been relatively muted, with the report only generating several press articles. GOI officials had no public reaction, but several contacts privately welcomed lang [...]	2009-03-27 08:56:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KISL ID
09JAKARTA557	LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS -- KEY OPPOSITION PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: It's a full court press ahead of April 9, election day for Indonesia's national legislature and other bodies. Working to mobilize its considerable grassroots base, Indonesia's key opposition party, PDI-P, held a large rally on March 24 in Jakarta. Golkar Party is also revving [...]	2009-03-27 09:53:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA564	AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN -- INDONESIA WELCOMES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia welcomes a new U.S. approach on Afghanistan and Pakistan and will review carefully President Obama's new strategy. GOI officials remain concerned about possible civilian casualties that might result from increased military operations but applaud the United States' emph [...]	2009-03-30 10:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR EAID ID AF PK
09JAKARTA573	LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS -- COURT ALLOWS "QUICK [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Ten days before the April 9 legislative elections, the Constitutional Court has decided to allow pollsters to announce "quick count" results on election day. With the GOI set to announce final results only [...]	2009-03-31 09:56:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL ID
09JAKARTA574	INDONESIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- GOOD NEIGHBORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia has overcome past tensions to forge a neighborly and increasingly cooperative cross-border relationship with Papua New Guinea (PNG). Although traffic and trade between Indonesia and PNG remains small, Indonesian officials are seeking to expand it. A new border crossin [...]	2009-03-31 10:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ID PP
09JAKARTA584	WORLD OCEAN CONFERENCE -- RAISING ISRAELI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has learned that Indonesia does not plan to invite Israeli representatives to the World Ocean Conference (WOC) it will host, May 11-15. We have noted that a failure to invite Israeli participants could undermine the WOC's claim to be a world conference. We also urged GO [...]	2009-04-01 10:35:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PHSA SENV ID IS
09JAKARTA59	PAPUA -- COURT UPHOLDS CONVICTIONS FOR RAISING [...] (C) SUMMARY: A court in Papua in eastern Indonesia has upheld a lower court's treason conviction of 12 Papuan activists for raising a banned separatist flag. The court quadrupled the activists' sentences in the process. In other Papua news, alleged members of a separatist group raided a po [...]	2009-01-13 08:36:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM ID
09JAKARTA594	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL -- INDONESIA WELCOMES U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia welcomes the United States' decision to reengage with the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) and will consider supporting our candidacy. Indonesia does not expect to announce how it will vote prior to the HRC election in May. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) DepPol/C delivered ref [...]	2009-04-02 09:48:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ID UN
09JAKARTA605	PEACEKEEPING -- UN IMPRESSED WITH INDONESIA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN officials have briefed local diplomats on talks with the GOI as part of a United Nations review of peacekeeping. The UN was impressed with Indonesia's interest and past/ongoing performance in operations (including in Lebanon, Darfur and the DRC),and wants to boost GOI contr [...]	2009-04-03 07:08:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM UNSC ID
09JAKARTA624	NORTH KOREAN TAEPO-DONG 2 LAUNCH -- INDONESIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has conveyed the U.S. response to North Korea's missile launch (ref B) and the official White House statement to officials in the President's office and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). On April 5, DEPLU's official press spokesman expressed Indonesia 's concer [...]	2009-04-06 10:29:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP ID KN
09JAKARTA633	PAKISTAN DONORS' CONFERENCE -- URGING HIGH-LEVEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia supports the April 17 Japan/World Bank-sponsored Donors' Conference for Pakistan, but has not yet finalized its participation. Underscoring the importance of the conference, Mission has urged the GOI to attend at a senior level and to pledge support for Pakistan. The [...]	2009-04-07 09:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID PK AF JA
09JAKARTA657	ACEH PEACE BOLSTERED BY ELECTIONS [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. It is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Aceh Province confounded those worried about violence on election day by carrying out legislative elections notable only for lack of incident. Early info [...]	2009-04-10 05:08:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM ID
09JAKARTA658	PRESIDENT'S PARTY SET TO WIN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: As quick counts crystallize the day after the April 9 national legislative elections, it appears that President Yudhoyono's Partai Demokrat (PD) will emerge victorious. PD easily tops the list [...]	2009-04-10 05:55:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA681	PAPUA -- SUSPICIOUS FIRE ADDS TO ALREADY TENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A suspicious fire at the Papua Provincial Election Commission on April 14 has added to tensions in a a province already hit by pre-election violence. Electric company officials said the fire was an accident but Papuans--including Governor Suebu--are skeptical. NGOs and other ac [...]	2009-04-15 10:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ID
09JAKARTA687	PAPUA -- SEPARATISTS KILL POLICE IN REMOTE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Separatists killed one police officer and wounded six others in a remote highland area of Papua province in eastern Indonesia on April 15. Police blamed a faction of the Papua Freedom Movement (OPM) but would not confirm that the attack was linked to a recent spate of violent i [...]	2009-04-16 09:43:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ID
09JAKARTA702	COORDINATING MINISTER REVIEWS COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a report to Indonesia's parliament, Coordinating Minister Widodo Adi Sucipto highlighted Indonesia's 2008 counterterrorism successes and looked forward to improvements in 2009. Sucipto described the Government of Indonesia's (GOI) approach to counterterrorism and evaluated l [...]	2009-04-20 09:59:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA71	TERRORIST TRIALS BEGIN IN JAKARTA [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The trials of ten alleged terrorists have begun in Jakarta. The ten suspects were arrested in Palembang, South Sumatra, in July 2008. The suspects are linked to the terrorist Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and other Muslim h [...]	2009-01-14 10:14:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA727	JAKARTA COURT CONVICTS FOUR MORE JI-LINKED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In two separate trials, a Jakarta Court has convicted four members of the so-called "Palembang Group" of terrorist-related offenses. The court delivered prison sentences ranging from four to 12 years. The four terrorists were arrested in a July 2008 raid on a suspected Jemaah [...]	2009-04-24 08:49:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA732	PAPUA -- ICRC WORKS TO RENEGOTIATE AGREEMENT WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is working with the GOI to renegotiate its operational agreement for activities in the restive region of Papua in eastern Indonesia. Pending the outcome of the discussions which focus on whether the ICRC should have field offi [...]	2009-04-27 03:05:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ID
09JAKARTA741	KOSOVO -- ENCOURAGING INDONESIAN RECOGNITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has encouraged Indonesia to recognize Kosovo and support the country's bid for membership in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. We noted that an increasing number of countries have now recognized Kosovo--most recently Saudi Arabia--and that Indonesia [...]	2009-04-28 09:49:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS ID KV OICCO
09JAKARTA760	COUNTERTERRORISM -- INDONESIA CONVICTS THREE MORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Jakarta court has convicted three terrorists, including an Afghan-trained Singaporean national with links to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leader Mas Selamat Kastari. The three were members of the so-called "Palembang Group" and were arrested during a July 2008 raid on a suspected JI [...]	2009-04-29 10:33:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA767	PAPUA -- AMID ONGOING TENSIONS, ARMY RIOT QUICKLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: An army battalion in Jayapura--the capital of restive Papua Province in eastern Indonesia--rioted when their commander ordered them to pay for the burial expenses of a fellow soldier. Sources told us that the commander was widely suspected of skimming money from the funds alloca [...]	2009-04-30 10:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS MARR ID
09JAKARTA793	NONPROLIFERATION -- URGING THE GOI TO SUBSCRIBE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has encouraged Indonesia to support international missile nonproliferation efforts by subscribing to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC). GOI interlocutors took our points on board. Mission underscored the importance of the Code of [...]	2009-05-06 09:37:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC MTCRE ID
09JAKARTA813	BURMA -- URGING THE GOI TO PRESS FOR AUNG SAN SUU [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has urged the GOI to press the Burmese authorities to release Aung San Suu Kyi from detention. Contacts underscored that Indonesia had pressed the Burmese regime to do this on multiple occasions, adding that they would look for ways to raise it again before the end of M [...]	2009-05-08 09:09:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA837	BURMA -- NEW INITIATIVES FROM ASEAN AND INDONESIA [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: ASEAN has appointed a Special Envoy to coordinate reconstruction of parts of Burma devastated by cyclone Nargis last year. The envoy, Indonesian William Sabandar, will also seek way to address governance and strengthen Burmese civil society as part of his mission. In other B [...]	2009-05-14 10:16:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA84	BURMA CORE GROUP -- URGING GOI AND ASEAN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Per reftel instructions, Mission has urged the GOI and the ASEAN Secretariat to support extending the mandate of the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) on Burma cyclone relief. We underscored the TCG's unique role in coordinating critical relief and reconstruction assistance. GOI offi [...]	2009-01-15 09:32:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SENV ID BM
09JAKARTA848	SABERI INTERVENTIONS -- THANKING INDONESIA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche regarding recently released Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi to Dewi Tobing, Acting Deputy Director for American Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) on May 15. He noted that the USG appreciated the Indonesian Embassy's recent con [...]	2009-05-15 06:38:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ID IR
09JAKARTA850	BURMA -- NEW CHARGES AGAINST AUNG SAN SUU KYI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Using Ref A points, Mission underscored U.S. concern regarding new charges against Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) to GOI and ASEAN Secretariat officials. The regime's latest move deepened Burma's international isolation and hurt ASEAN. Our contacts are following the matter but neither [...]	2009-05-15 09:31:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA855	ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM -- ENCOURAGING GOI [...] (U) Per reftel instruction, poloff delivered invitation and related materials for the June 10-11 U.S.-Philippines ASEAN Regional Forum workshop on biological threat reduction on May 18 to Ibnu Hadi, Director for Intra-Regional Cooperation at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). Poloff u [...]	2009-05-18 05:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM TBIO ARF ID
09JAKARTA90	INDONESIA AND THE NETHERLANDS MOVE TOWARD A [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia and the Netherlands pledged to conclude a Comprehensive Partnership Agreement during FM Verhagen's January 14-15 visit to Indonesia. The Partnership would deepen the two countries' cooperation in security, economic development, environmental protection, education and [...]	2009-01-16 09:41:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAIR ID NL
09JAKARTA905	INDONESIA'S WITNESS AND VICTIM PROTECTION AGENCY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia's Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK) has yet to fulfill its mandate. Although the law establishing the basis for the protection body was passed in 2006, as of May 2009 the agency has yet to protect any witnesses or victims. Still operating in temporary office [...]	2009-05-27 08:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRIM KCOR ID
09JAKARTA953	PAKISTAN'S DISPLACED PERSONS CRISIS -- ENGAGING [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche re Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Pakistan to Cicilia Rusdiharini, Deputy Director for American Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),on June 2. W [...]	2009-06-04 07:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF ID PK
09JAKARTA954	UN CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION -- URGING SUPPORT FOR [...] (U) Per reftel instructions, Mission has reviewed the candidacy of Lucretia Myers for the UN International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) with the GOI. Poloff discussed the matter with Cicilia Rusdiharini, Deputy Director for American Affairs at the Department of Foreign Affairs, on June 2. [...]	2009-06-04 07:06:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL APER UNGA ID
09JAKARTA962	BURMA/INDONESIA -- ACTIVIST FORUM ON AUNG SAN SUU [...] (C) SUMMARY: As a follow-up to USG-sponsored civil society and student conferences held last year, an association of Indonesian activist groups recently sponsored a public forum on the human rights crisis in Burma and the plight of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK). The event demonstrated ongoing Ind [...]	2009-06-05 04:43:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PHUM ID BM
09JAKARTA974	INDONESIAN POLITICAL TENSIONS SURGE IN BORDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian government officials and parliamentarians are gearing up for a political tussle with Malaysia over a border dispute off the coast of Borneo. Six legislators plan to visit Kuala Lumpur to complain about what they consider to be Malaysian naval incursions into disputed [...]	2009-06-08 10:31:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PBTS MY ID
09JEDDAH113	SHURA COUNCIL MAY BE ON THE VERGE OF LEGALIZING [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to Saudi film-maker and documentarian Dania Naseef, niece of a newly appointed Shura Council member, the Council is actively discussing the legalization of movie theaters in the Kingdom. Numerous trusted sources have confirmed that major malls in Jeddah have left empty s [...]	2009-03-25 07:23:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PGOV SA SCUL
09JEDDAH119	SAUDI BLOGGER CURBS HIS ACTIVISM BUT NOT HIS [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Fouad Al-Farhan, previously jailed activist and blogger, claims a travel ban that prevented his attending a December bloggers' conference in Beirut continues in effect. Al-Farhan says that continued harassment and threats by the SAG since his release nearly a year ago have d [...]	2009-03-29 16:18:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET	EINT PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL PTER SA
09JEDDAH13	GAZA VIOLENCE LEADING TO CANCELLATION OF JEDDAH [...] (C) Summary: Due to the conflict in Gaza, the 2009 Jeddah Economic Forum, a high profile annual event that attracts prominent visitors and wide media attention, is likely to be cancelled. Our sources tell us that the organizers say funds for the event very likely will be transferred to unspe [...]	2009-01-07 16:03:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KWBG SOCI SA
09JEDDAH131	MAKING A FIRST UMRAH IN MECCA: AN INSIDE VIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 5, 2009, ConGen Jeddah political officer made a first visit to the Masjid Al-Haram(Grand Mosque) in Mecca in the company of three American Muslims of Sudanese origin, two men and one woman, in order to perform together the Umrah (visit to the holy places). Following is a [...]	2009-04-08 14:38:00	Consulate Jeddah	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIRF KISL PHUM SA
09JEDDAH152	OIC REQUEST FOR HIGH-LEVEL DELEGATION TO VISIT [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-28 13:54:00	Consulate Jeddah	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KISL OPDC OIC SA
09JEDDAH156	INFORMAL SURVEY OF JEDDAH PHARMACIES SUGGESTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloff's highly informal discussions with three local pharmacies in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an April 30 weekend walk around the city suggest that anti-viral medications Tamiflu and Relenza, both shown to be potentially effective in limiting the severity of the 2009 H1N1 vir [...]	2009-05-02 04:42:00	Consulate Jeddah	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR AMGT ASEC CASC ECON KFLO KPAO KSAF MG
09JEDDAH157	ALBANIA SUBMITTING DRAFT RESOLUTION ON KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Albania is submitting a draft resolution on Kosovo recognition at May 4-6 OIC Jeddah meeting preparatory to May 23-25 Damascus OIC Ministerial. En route to Jeddah OIC meeting today, the Albanian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Admirim Banaj, passed post a copy of Albania's draft reso [...]	2009-05-04 19:17:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID KISL OFDP OVIP PREL SA KO XF
09JEDDAH163	ALBANIA SUBMITTING DRAFT RESOLUTION ON KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Albania is submitting a draft resolution on Kosovo recognition at May 4-6 OIC Jeddah meeting preparatory to May 23-25 Damascus OIC Ministerial. En route to Jeddah OIC meeting today, the Albanian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Admirim Banaj, passed post a copy of Albania's draft reso [...]	2009-05-06 14:28:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KISL OFDP OVIP PREL SA KO XF
09JEDDAH172	OIC OFFICIAL ON KOSOVO ATTENDANCE/RECOGNITION AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to an OIC official, a request for Kosovo to attend the May 23-25 OIC Ministerial in Damascus is still pending Syrian permission. Reasons behind Egypt's role in hampering Albanian efforts to pass a resolution on Kosovo recognition remain opaque while the role of Syria as [...]	2009-05-19 15:32:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EG KISL OFDP OVIP PREL RP SA SY KO
09JEDDAH173	RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CREATION OF NEW HUMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is moving forward with plans to create a new human rights organ within the OIC. A senior OIC official passed post a draft resolution as it stands now, with key points noted below. Outstanding issues include membership and composit [...]	2009-05-19 17:15:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	IR KISL OPDC PREL SA OIC KTIP
09JEDDAH175	OIC CAMPAIGNING FOR SYG IHSANOGLU TO ATTEND POTUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In recent meeting an Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) official again expressed strong interest in sending a high level delegation to Washington in June, identifying five potential participants. In the course of the meeting, a May 13 email from OIC Permanent Observer [...]	2009-05-21 15:23:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL OFDP OPDC PREL SA OIC
09JEDDAH186	READ-OUT ON OIC MINISTERIAL IN DAMASCUS: SUPPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In May 25 conversation with Jeddah poloff, Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) adviser Ufuk Gokcen reviewed developments at the May 23-25 OIC Ministerial in Damascus, which included passage of a "modest" Kosovo resolution along with a watered-down version of a proposal to [...]	2009-05-26 15:27:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	EG KISL KO PREL RP SA SY OIC OFDP OVIP
09JEDDAH194	RUMBLINGS THAT SAUDI ARABIA MAY FOLLOW BAHRAIN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent media reports and an account from a Saudi Ministry of Labor official indicate that the Saudi Arabian Government (SAG) is considering an end or change to the labor sponsorship system just weeks after Bahrain took the same major step. There continue to be signs and speculati [...]	2009-05-30 14:53:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM KTIP SA
09JEDDAH215	ASKING TO SEE WORDS LINKED TO ACTION, JEDDAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Obama's June 4 speech in Cairo to the Muslim world was very positively received by an audience of a dozen Saudi elites, Muslim diplomats, and a senior OIC official at the Consul General's residence in Jeddah. The speech was viewed as setting US-Islamic relations in a new [...]	2009-06-04 16:43:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL KPAO PGOV PREL SA TU EG
09JEDDAH226	OIC SECRETARY GENERAL REQUESTS MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the President's POTUS speech, the Organization of the Islamic Conference remains fixated on gaining a meeting with a high-ranking U.S. official and specifically are requesting a meeting with the Secretary between June 15-23. While the OIC continues to press for lower le [...]	2009-06-14 13:14:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KISL KPAL WBG SA
09JEDDAH257	OIC EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN OVER VIOLENCE AGAINST [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 7, 2009, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) issued a statement decrying the violence against Uighurs in Xinxiang, China, referring to the violence as "disproportionate" and expressing "deep concern". An OIC advisor noted that the statement came at the bequest [...]	2009-07-10 06:12:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PREL PHUM CH SA
09JEDDAH268	POST SNAPSHOT OF NEWLY-APPOINTED IRAN NUCLEAR [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: The Jeddah-based Organization for the Islamic Conference's (OIC) recent Assistant Secretary for Scientific and Technology Affairs, Ali Akbar Salehi, an AUB grad with doctorate from MIT, has been named chief of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization. In 2008, USG officials dealt [...]	2009-07-19 16:11:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET	KNNP KISL IAEA PHUM PREL IR SA
09JEDDAH29	MORE UNCERTAINTY ABOUT JEDDAH ECONOMIC FORUM [...] (C) Summary. A Saudi businessman/intellectual claims that losses at last year's Jeddah Economic Forum (JEF) totalling 7 million dollars constitute the primary reason for JEF's cancellation. Other reasons include management and organizational problems, making it uncertain that the JEF will be [...]	2009-01-23 15:51:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KWBG SOCI SA
09JEDDAH290	HAQL, SAUDI ARABIA: NOW, WHERE THE HECK IS THAT? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A 3-member American delegation of ConGen Jeddah officers recently visited Haql, Saudi Arabia, a city that lies almost within swimming distance from major tourist resorts in Jordan, Israel, and Egypt. Haql reaps none of the rewards for its location in such a prime tourism region. [...]	2009-08-03 15:53:00	Consulate Jeddah	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EG IS JO KPAO PHUM PREL SA SOCI PSOC
09JEDDAH300	SAUDI SUMMER CAPITAL OF TAIF EAGER TO ENGAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Charge on August 8, the Governor and Mayor of Taif and the President of Taif University (the site of recent protests by rejected female applicants) invited U.S. participation and investment in their ambitious plans to develop tourism, technology, manufacturing, [...]	2009-08-14 15:30:00	Consulate Jeddah	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS ECON ENIV KPAO OEXC PGOV SA SOCI
09JEDDAH348	OIC ISLAMIC FIQH ACADEMY SECRETARY GENERAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-20 16:26:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL KWBG KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SA OIC
09JEDDAH349	SAUDI BLOGGER SCARED INTO CURBING HIS ACTIVISM [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-21 07:56:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET	EINT KJUS KPAO PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL PTER
09JEDDAH359	CONVERSATIONS WITH SAUDI EDUCATION OFFICIAL AND [...] (C)SUMMARY: In separate meetings with Poloff, Jeddah Education Ministry official Mustafa Hersi (strictly protect) and Al Sharq Al Awsat columnist Hussein Shabokshi (strictly protect),described what they viewed as rampant anti-Americanism and widespread discontent with the SAG among young and [...]	2009-09-27 12:03:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SA SCUL SOCI
09JEDDAH381	ALLEGATIONS OF VOTE BUYING AND SORCERY ON EVE OF [...] (C) In the final week before elections for the Board of Directors of the influential Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI),candidates accused each other of buying votes and expressed mixed feelings about the new election procedures imposed by the Minister of Commerce and Industry. Al [...]	2009-10-08 14:00:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KWMN PGOV SA SOCI
09JEDDAH39	RUNAWAY SAUDI MAID ISSUE CONTINUES TO RAISE DEBATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The issue of foreign domestic workers fleeing from the homes of their employers remains a hot topic in Saudi Arabia. A well-connected labor lawyer explained to Poloff that workers are being lured by organized groups encouraging illegal work and prostitution. A private Saudi adver [...]	2009-01-29 14:19:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG SA
09JEDDAH407	OIC SYG CALLS MEETING WITH SECRETARY "HISTORIC"-- [...] (C) SUMMARY: Returning from a recent trip to the U.S. with Organization for the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, OIC senior official Ufuk Gokcen discussed the highlights of the visit, including the long anticipated meeting between SYG and Secretary Clinton. Acco [...]	2009-10-22 12:49:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KISL KPAL WBG SA
09JEDDAH415	READ-OUT FROM OIC ON "DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS" [...] (C) In October 28 meeting, Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) senior advisor Ufuk Gokcen (protect) told Jeddah Poloff that OIC Secretary Geneal Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu was "upset" by the way te U.S. position was being portrayed in the Arabi media, specifically noting that Arabc daily A [...]	2009-10-28 16:18:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET	PHUM PREL SA SI UNGA UN
09JEDDAH416	OIC DG ON "DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS" RESOLUTION: [...] (C) In meeting over lunch today (October 29),Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Director General for Cultural and Social Affairs Ambassador Hemayet Uddin (protect) expressed the opinion that the OIC states would not/not agree to postponement since passage currently looks highly prom [...]	2009-10-30 08:36:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BG PHUM SA UNGA UN
09JEDDAH422	COMBATING POVERTY THROUGH "PRODUCTIVE FAMILIES": A [...] (C) On October 23-24 the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) in collaboration with four ministries hosted a two-day forum on "Productive Families". The forum -- organized by one of the JCCI's lameduck female board members -- was originally intended to package the idea of women work [...]	2009-11-04 14:56:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KWMN PGOV SA SOCI
09JEDDAH423	OIC: MEMBER STATES SUSPICIOUS U.S. POSTPONEMENT [...] (C) Following up on a recent discussion with Poloff regarding the OIC,s Defamation of Religion resolution (ref A),OIC Senior Adviser Ufuk Gokcen said yesterday that a number of OIC member states would like the U.S. "to find common ground" on the current resolution rather than seeking postpo [...]	2009-11-04 15:49:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SA UNGA UN
09JEDDAH424	"HEY, THAT'S MINE": U.S. STUDENT AT KAUST ACCUSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Even before its star-studded September 23 official inauguration, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) was being heralded and closely watched as a bold and unprecedented attempt by King Abdullah to transform Saudi society from within (ref C). As expected [...]	2009-11-07 15:22:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KIPR KPAO SA SCUL SOCI
09JEDDAH45	SAUDI JUDGES HEAR U.S. AND SAG VIEWS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post outlined U.S. policies on human trafficking for an audience of Saudi judges, prosecutors, and investigators at a Jan 10-12 workshop on human trafficking at Prince Naif Arab Univerity for Security Sciences (NAUSS) in Riyadh. The workshop addressed the relationship between Isl [...]	2009-02-01 13:14:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG SA
09JEDDAH466	HAJJ 2009/1430 -- AN AMERICAN'S INSIDE VIEW OF THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-08 14:47:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV PREL KFLU SA
09JEDDAH47	HIGHER EDUCATION TAKING A LEAP FORWARD IN SAUDI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In early January the King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST),slated to open in September 2009, held an on-site pre-orientation in Jeddah for 320 students including 60-70 from the U.S. and approximately 100 students from Saudi Arabia. Virtually all students [...]	2009-02-01 16:57:00	Consulate Jeddah	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KISL PGOV TPHY KPAO SA
09JEDDAH5	OIC HOLDS JANUARY 3 MINISTERIAL LEVEL MEETING ON [...] (C) Summary. The Organization of the Islamic Conference issued a communiqu at the end of its January 3 ministerial level meeting strongly condemning Israel for its role in the conflict in Gaza and calling for a series of steps aimed at stopping the violence. The OIC is emphasizing the need f [...]	2009-01-05 16:36:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KWBG OPDC PTER AORC GZIS SA
09JEDDAH6	OIC HOLDS JANUARY 3 MINISTERIAL LEVEL MEETING ON [...] (C) Summary. The Organization of the Islamic Conference issued a communiqu at the end of its January 3 ministerial level meeting strongly condemning Israel for its role in the conflict in Gaza and calling for a series of steps aimed at stopping the violence. The OIC is emphasizing the need f [...]	2009-01-05 16:37:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KWBG OPDC PTER AORC GZIS SA
09JEDDAH70	SAUDI HUMAN RIGHTS BODY COMMENTS ON HAIMDAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloffs met recently with an official of the Jeddah branch of the National Society for Human Rights to discuss a range of human rights issues: freedom of worship, rights of the child, Gaza and TIP. Praising the President's decision to close Guantanamo, our interlocutor expressed c [...]	2009-02-17 12:56:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF SA
09JEDDAH85	HIJAZIS COMMENT ON RECENT MEDINA CLASHES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post met with Hijazi Shi'a to get their views of recent demonstrations in Medina following clashes after Shi'a pilgrims were not allowed to enter Baqi'a cemetery on February 20. Poloffs also spoke to a local Sunni contact with ties to Medina who claims the situation has been blown [...]	2009-03-02 16:49:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SA
09JERUSALEM1091	TALMON PLANS PAVE THE WAY FOR CONSTRUCTION OF NEW [...] (C) Summary. Israeli NGO Bimkom provided PolOff a copy of the plan deposited last April to expand Talmon settlement (reftel). The plan includes capacity for 300 total residential units. NGOs report that approximately 60 residential units illegally constructed in the area would be retroact [...]	2009-06-26 14:16:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL KWBG PREL
09JERUSALEM1096	GOI SEEKS TO REGISTER NEARLY 35,000 ACRES OF WEST [...] (C) The Government of Israel is seeking to register roughly 139,000 dunums (or 35,000 acres) of non-contiguous land in areas of the West Bank south of Route 1 and northeast of Hebron. Much of the land is currently used as military zones or nature reserves. Public advertisements on June 26 gi [...]	2009-06-29 14:40:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM1097	ANNOUNCEMENT OF MUNICIPALITY PLAN TO SCALE BACK [...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem Municipality contacts confirmed a June 29 Ha'Aretz article, which claimed that the municipality is developing a plan to legalize Palestinian homes that do not interfere with municipal development, such as the construction of roads and schools. Jerusalem Legal Advisor Y [...]	2009-06-29 15:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM1098	UPDATE ON SETTLEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS [...] (C) Summary. Israeli NGO contacts briefed PolOff on several West Bank settlement infrastructure projects. Projects include a wastewater pipeline to serve Ariel settlement, a wastewater purification plant in Ofra settlement, a road between Geva'ot and Beitar Illit settlements, and access roads [...]	2009-06-29 15:35:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL KWBG PBTS PREL
09JERUSALEM1151	MUNICIPALITY APPROVAL PUTS SHEPHERD HOTEL ONE STEP [...] (C) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality Licensing Committee approved plans to build two apartment buildings on the Shepherd Hotel property, pending certification from other agencies -- such as the Antiquities Authority and safety inspectors -- according to Municipality officials. The remain [...]	2009-07-06 13:35:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM116	GAZAN CONTACTS MAKE GOOD USE OF "HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Gaza contacts reported that the daily "humanitarian pauses" in the fighting allow them to take care of household chores and stock up on supplies, but do not mean a complete cessation of IDF attacks. Some contacts and USG partners reported severe damage to their homes from IDF [...]	2009-01-12 16:44:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID IS KWBG MOPS PHUM PREF
09JERUSALEM1184	SETTLER VIOLENCE IN THE WEST BANK CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary. NGO contacts, UNRWA, and local Palestinian sources report continuing incidents of settler violence in the West Bank. Reports of violence include settlers setting fire to Palestinian agricultural land, throwing stones at vehicles carrying Palestinians, and attacking Palestinian [...]	2009-07-10 14:37:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM IS KWBG KPAL PTER
09JERUSALEM1202	AL-QUDS VICE PRESIDENT COMMENTS ON FATAH CONGRESS, [...] (C) Summary. Zakaria al-Qaq, a senior official at Jerusalem's al-Quds University, said that PA President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) is using the Fatah General Congress to shore up his authority, following the Hamas take-over of Gaza and the failure of negotiations with Israel. Al-Qaq added th [...]	2009-07-14 13:03:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM1217	JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY CARRIES OUT TWO HOME [...] (C) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality, together with the Israeli Border Police, carried out two home demolitions in East Jerusalem on July 13. The Jerusalem Mayor's office denied responsibility for the demolition orders, saying the Municipality only executed orders issued by the GoI Interi [...]	2009-07-15 13:33:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM1220	PALESTINIAN RELIGIOUS LEADERS COMPLAIN OF ISRAELI [...] (C) Summary. The Israeli National Police (INP) are exercising increasing control over the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount and interfering with the Jordanian-run Waqf's ability to operate, according to Palestinian religious leaders. The INP, they allege, has prevented the Waqf from carrying out [...]	2009-07-16 07:10:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL JO KISL IS
09JERUSALEM1256	UPDATE ON PENDING DEMOLITIONS AND EVICTIONS IN [...] (C) Summary. This cable provides an update on the status of nine politically sensitive property issues in East Jerusalem. Developments in three of these cases (the Shepherd Hotel, Shaykh Jarrah evictions, and demolitions in Abasiya -- a subdivision of Abu Tor -- could occur within the next [...]	2009-07-21 13:40:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM1265	RECENT TRENDS IN WEST BANK VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary. While levels of Israeli-Palestinian violence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are down this year, the first half of 2009 saw a 44 percent increase in incidents of Israeli settler violence against Palestinians or Palestinian property, and a doubling of the number of Palestini [...]	2009-07-22 15:18:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM IS KWBG KPAL PTER
09JERUSALEM1270	YESHA COUNCIL DIRECTOR-GENERAL REJECTS U.S. CALL [...] (C) Summary. It will be "impossible" for the USG and Israel to agree on settlements without accommodating natural growth, according to YESHA Council Director-General Pinchas Wallerstein. A freeze on settlement construction would have the greatest impact on the settlement blocs, which accoun [...]	2009-07-23 12:59:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM1306	ALL QUIET AT THE HARAM AL-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT, [...] (C) Summary. There were no violent confrontations on the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount July 30, in spite of attempts by religious Jews to worship at the site and Palestinian activists' efforts to prevent them. Hundreds of Jews visited the compound under police protection July 29 and 30, durin [...]	2009-07-30 14:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM1311	E-1 DEVELOPMENT CONFLICTS WITH PALESTINIAN PLANS [...] (C) Summary. PA officials say that development of E-1 and the Ma'ale Adumim "bubble" threatens the contiguity of a future Palestinian state and Palestinians' access to Jerusalem. Palestinians from five Palestinian towns and one East Jerusalem neighborhood bordering E-1 said the GoI has thwa [...]	2009-07-31 10:35:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM133	GAZA HUMANITARIAN UPDATE -- JANUARY 14 [...] (SBU) Summary: Kerem Shalom crossing was open on January 14 for approximately 100 truckloads. Nahal Oz fuel transfer station and Karni conveyer belt were closed. An estimated 10 trucks of medical supplies entered through Rafah. ICRC and Gaza water and sanitation authorities reported signif [...]	2009-01-14 17:36:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID PHUM KWBG ETRD IS CASC PREF
09JERUSALEM1343	SETTLER LEADER SHARES VIEWS ON US POLICY, FUTURE [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Radical settler leader Arieh King called U.S. policy in Jerusalem "anti-Semitic" and attacked USG officials, including President Obama, during a meeting with PolOff July 29. He demanded that the ConGen "stop meddling in domestic Israeli legal issues." He accused th [...]	2009-08-04 13:46:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER IS KPAL KWBG
09JERUSALEM1344	PALESTINIANS, INTERNATIONALS PROTEST EVICTIONS IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The GoI evicted two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem's Shaykh Jarrah neighborhood on August 2, after Israeli courts awarded ownership of the properties to two Israeli organizations, Nakhalat Shimon International (NSI) and the Sephardic Community Committe [...]	2009-08-04 14:22:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER IS KPAL KWBG
09JERUSALEM1353	BIL'IN: SEVEN PALESTINIANS ARRESTED IN LATEST IDF [...] (C) Summary. The IDF raided several homes in the Palestinian village of Bil'in in the early hours of August 3, arresting two adolescents and five adults. Six have been charged with stone-throwing and damage to public property, and one with incitement. NGO contacts maintain that the August [...]	2009-08-05 14:07:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM138	GAZA UPDATE JANUARY 15, 2009, 1300 LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary. IDF troops moved central Gaza City the morning of January 15. Contacts there told ConGenOffs by phone that the city is "burning" and residents are fleeing as the IDF advanced into the city center from three directions. They said the threat to their lives increased and humanit [...]	2009-01-15 12:11:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PTER MOPS PHUM PREF AFSN CASC IS
09JERUSALEM1397	LETTER FOR THE SECRETARY FROM EVICTED EAST [...] (U) Members of the Hanun and Ghawi families, who were evicted from their homes in East Jerusalem's Shaykh Jarrah neighborhood August 2 (ref),arrived at the Consulate General's Post 2 facility August 10 carrying a letter addressed to the Secretary. The letter describes the families' eviction [...]	2009-08-12 14:21:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM1398	YESHA COUNCIL WEAKEND, NEEDS TO DELIVER TO SETTLER [...] (C) Summary. Although it emerged weaker from the 2005 Gaza disengagement and 2006 evacuation of Amona outpost, and is now challenged by a younger generation of radical settlers, the YESHA Council remains the strongest settler organization, according to ConGen contacts. One expert claimed t [...]	2009-08-12 14:42:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS

09JERUSALEM1402	MORE CONSTRUCTION AT KOCHAV YA'AKOV SETTLEMENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary. At least 12 new caravans have been "illegally" constructed in Kochav Ya'akov settlement since June 2009, according to ConGen's NGO contacts. PolOff observed 12 new caravans, which appear to be uninhabited. The Local Council of Kfar Aqab village, with the assistance of Israel [...]	2009-08-13 14:40:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL KWBG PREL
09JERUSALEM143	NEW LAND CONFISCATIONS IN EAST JERUSALEM AND WEST [...] (C) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality informed an East Jerusalem family that ten dunams (2.5 acres) of their land will be confiscated to build a school for Palestinian children. A Municipality representative told PolOff the Municipality planned to confiscate land throughout East Jerusalem [...]	2009-01-15 16:25:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PBTS PTER
09JERUSALEM144	ICRC SURGEON DESCRIBES CONTROLLED CHAOS AT MAIN [...] (C) Summary. ICRC surgeon Harald de Veen told donors and international medical NGO representatives January 14 that Gaza City's main government hospital, al-Shifa, has been functioning as well as can be expected and coping with massive numbers of injured. He said clinical staff are capable a [...]	2009-01-15 16:37:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI EAID ICRC KWBG KPAL PREF PTER GZ IS
09JERUSALEM1451	HAMAS CONFRONTS ISLAMIC EXTREMIST GROUP IN GAZA [...] (C/NF) Summary. Fighting between Hamas-led security forces and Jund Ansar Allah during August 14-15 in Rafah resulted in 28 dead and over 120 wounded. Casualties included Jund Ansar Allah leader Sheikh Abdel Latif Mousa and senior Hamas member Abu Jibril Shamali. Gaza-based contacts said th [...]	2009-08-17 14:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PGOV KPAL KWBG KISL
09JERUSALEM1561	UPDATE ON SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS [...] (U) Summary. Ongoing construction was observed at settlement sites ranging from established blocs inside the separation barrier to Jordan Valley farms during observation trips conducted by PolOff August 21-25. Near Givat Zeev, just north of Jerusalem, construction continues on 300 additional [...]	2009-08-28 14:50:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS PREL KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM1585	YESHA COUNCIL SAYS NO EVACUATION UNLESS FREEZE IS [...] (C) Summary. YESHA Council Director-General Pinchas Wallerstein said that the Council would not discuss outpost evacuation unless a freeze on tenders for new settlement construction is lifted. If the freeze were lifted, he said, outpost evacuation could be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. [...]	2009-09-02 15:48:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS PREL KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM1606	WEST BANK SETTLEMENT LEADERS FULMINATE ABOUT U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Local West Bank settlement leaders expressed anger over a possible construction freeze in separate meetings with PolOff on September 2. Gush Etzion Regional Council Chairman Shaul Goldstein said he gave up on the YESHA Council after Gaza disengagement and is now organizing me [...]	2009-09-04 13:39:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS PREL KPAL KWBG IS KPAO
09JERUSALEM161	NEW EVICTION ORDER THREATENS PALESTINIAN HOME IN [...] (C) Summary. An Israeli court issued an eviction order to an East Jerusalem family after a legal case that dates to 1998. The family has secured an extension of the eviction deadline and appealed to a higher court but fears that they will lose their home in the end. This house is close to [...]	2009-01-21 11:42:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PBTS
09JERUSALEM1649	AMBITION, LIMITATIONS IN EVIDENCE AT WEST BANK [...] Summary: PolOffs visited the Palestinian Civil Police (PCP) station in the West Bank village of al-Mughayyer in the aftermath of September 3-4 clashes between Palestinian villagers and Israeli settlers from a nearby outpost. The visit illustrated a gap between PCP ambitions and capabilities [...]	2009-09-11 13:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV MOPS KWBG KJUS IS
09JERUSALEM17	GAZA CONTACTS DESCRIBE A MISERABLE LIFE UNDER FIRE [...] (C) Summary. A wide selection of Gaza Strip political, business, civil society, academic and NGO contacts report fear of airstrikes, deteriorating conditions, minimal or no electricity, increasing food pressures, and a gloomy outlook for resolution of current hostilities. Several who are st [...]	2009-01-02 16:27:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG IS PHUM ECON EAID
09JERUSALEM1701	SETTLER VIOLENCE SETS NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR IN [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Sources on both sides of recent settler-Palestinian clashes near the Palestinian village of al-Mughayyer provided conflicting explanations of what precipitated the event. This incident illustrates the difficulty in establishing ground truth on incidents of violence [...]	2009-09-17 09:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG CASC IS
09JERUSALEM1707	CONTINUED TUNNELING IN EAST JERUSALEM [...] (C) Summary. The settler organization ELAD continues to excavate a tunnel under the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, according to NGO sources, despite a stop-work order from Israeli courts. The organization is beginning to publicize its efforts, leading Muslim leaders to criticize the [...]	2009-09-18 16:16:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM1708	CONTINUED TUNNELING IN EAST JERUSALEM [...] (C) Summary. The settler organization ELAD continues to excavate a tunnel under the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, according to NGO sources, despite a stop-work order from Israeli courts. The organization is beginning to publicize its efforts, leading Muslim leaders to criticize the [...]	2009-09-18 16:18:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM1754	PROFILE OF AVIGAIL OUTPOST FOUNDER ELISHA MEIDAN [...] (C) Summary. On September 22, PolOff visited the settlement outpost of Avigail in the Hebron Hills and met with its founder, 30-year-old Elisha Meidan. Meidan, a new husband and father living in a converted bus, explained to PolOff that while he considers himself and his fellow outpost sett [...]	2009-10-01 16:24:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG CASC IS
09JERUSALEM1756	LARGE SETTLEMENT PROPOSAL IN EAST JERUSALEM FACES [...] (C) Summary. Israeli developers are resubmitting for GOI review a proposed settlement project in al-Walajah (southwest Jerusalem). If approved and completed, the Givat Ya'el neighborhood would become the largest settlement undertaking in East Jerusalem in the past decade. Jerusalem Municipa [...]	2009-10-01 20:05:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM1766	RENEWED UNREST ON HARAM AL-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT [...] (C) Summary: On October 4, Israeli police clashed briefly with Arab Israeli protesters attempting to enter the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount platform in order to "protect" the al-Aqsa mosque from hard-line Jewish groups whom protesters believed to be organizing a visit. Arab Islamic Movement [...]	2009-10-05 12:07:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV MOPS ASEC PHUM KWBG IS KIRF
09JERUSALEM178	WEST BANK SETTLEMENT ACTIVITY CONTINUES [...] (C) Summary. New settlement activity in December and January included 184 new housing units in Etz Efraim, augmented infrastructure in some outposts, and progress on previously halted construction in Karmel. End summary. Etz Efraim Breaking Ground for 184 New Units ---------------------- [...]	2009-01-23 16:23:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PREL
09JERUSALEM179	HAMAS RE-ESTABLISHES CONTROL IN GAZA [...] (C) Summary. Gaza contacts told PolOffs January 21-22 that Hamas remains in control of the Gaza Strip, opening public offices, restarting limited services, and deploying security forces in the streets. Contacts said Gazans are able to move freely and stores are open, but many are still home [...]	2009-01-23 16:28:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM1790	JERUSALEM MAYOR BRIEFS ON AL-BUSTAN DEVELOPMENT [...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat informed the Consul General and Ambassador Cunningham on October 7 that the Municipality intends to roll out a development plan for the al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem sometime in early November. The plan calls for the demolition o [...]	2009-10-08 15:17:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM1838	EAST JERUSALEM HOME DEMOLITIONS RESUME [...] (C) Summary. On October 12, Israeli officials demolished a Palestinian-owned house and dismantled several other structures in the Beit Hanina area of East Jerusalem. The demolitions were the first to take place inside the Jerusalem municipality in nearly three months. PLO official Saeb Ere [...]	2009-10-15 12:44:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM1907	OVERCROWDED PA PRISONS SEEK DONOR RELIEF [...] (C) Summary. PM Fayyad has consistently singled out reform of the PA prison system as his highest priority in security sector reform, to counter politically damaging allegations of abuse. (Reftels outlined Fayyad's recent efforts -- including replacement of senior personnel -- to address pr [...]	2009-10-19 15:02:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV PHUM KPAL KWBG EAID
09JERUSALEM1925	OLIVE HARVEST KICKS OFF, LESS VIOLENTLY THAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Post contacts say violence during the current olive harvest season has been lower than expected so far, but they offered different reasons for the decline. Rabbis for Human Rights, (RHR) Arik Ascherman said the IDF,s increased presence in Palestinian orchards adjacent to settle [...]	2009-10-21 15:22:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS EAGR KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM1948	ABU MAZEN ISSUES PRESIDENTIAL DECREE CALLING FOR [...] (C) Summary. President Abbas (Abu Mazen) issued a decree October 24 calling for PA presidential and legislative elections on January 24, 2010, and calling on the Central Elections Commission (CEC) to begin preparations for elections. During a joint meeting of the Fatah Central Committee (FC [...]	2009-10-26 14:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL
09JERUSALEM1949	UPDATE ON OCTOBER 25 EVENTS AT THE TEMPLE [...] (SBU) Summary. Skirmishes took place between Muslim worshippers and the Israeli National Police (INP) around the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif compound on October 25, apparently triggered by rumors of an impending incursion into the compound by radical pro-settler elements. Unrest spread int [...]	2009-10-26 19:05:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAL KISL IS JO
09JERUSALEM195	IDF CONDUCTS PUNITIVE HOME SEALING IN EAST [...] (C) Summary. The Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) has refused to hear a case brought against the IDF for sealing the home of an East Jerusalem Palestinian who attacked the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in West Jerusalem in March 2008. The HCJ called the sealing a legitimate deterrent measure and a [...]	2009-01-27 15:38:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM1956	OCTOBER 27 HOME DEMOLITIONS IN EAST JERUSALEM [...] (SBU) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality executed demolition orders on October 27 for five buildings (a total of nine housing units) in East Jerusalem, displacing or partially destroying the homes of 45 Palestinian residents. The Municipality also dismantled a tent in the Sheikh Jarrah neig [...]	2009-10-28 18:07:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM1967	WEST BANK POLLSTERS COMMENT ON RECENT PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary. Three early-October polls showed a decrease in support for both Hamas and Fatah following the decision of PA President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) to support a deferral of the Goldstone report. Palestinians still expressed greater trust in Abu Mazen and Fatah than in former Hamas P [...]	2009-10-30 15:36:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KDEM KPAL KPAO KWBG PGOV PTER
09JERUSALEM1977	UPDATE ON EAST JERUSALEM HOME DEMOLITIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality on November 2 executed three home demolitions in East Jerusalem, displacing 37 Palestinians, including 18 children, according to residents and NGO sources. Local residents told PolOff that the owners of the first two homes were not aware of any demo [...]	2009-11-03 13:01:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM201	WEST BANKERS RELEASE PETITION CALLING FOR [...] (C) Summary. Prominent Palestinians from a range of political factions in the West Bank issued a petition January 26 calling for national reconciliation and a national unity government. Their stated goal is to generate pressure on President Abbas and Hamas leaders to return to discussions a [...]	2009-01-28 15:41:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM2020	OVERVIEW OF EAST JERUSALEM HOME DEMOLITIONS [...] (C) Summary. With many more homes built illegally each year than are demolished, an estimated 20,000 buildings in East Jerusalem -- one-third of the total -- are illegal. Permits for new construction are limited by municipal planning (since the 1970s explicitly aimed to preserve a Jewish maj [...]	2009-11-06 16:10:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM2026	JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY ISSUES MORE EAST JERUSALEM [...] (C) The Jerusalem Municipality served 17 more demolition orders on November 8, in this case on homes in the already-tense Silwan neighborhood of East Jerusalem. Of the 17 orders served, eight pertain to homes in the al-Bustan area of Silwan, which is the subject of a development plan propose [...]	2009-11-09 15:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM2077	NEW EAST JERUSALEM DEMOLITIONS NOVEMBER 17-18 [...] (C) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality executed demolition orders at five sites in East Jerusalem over the course of November 17 and 18, according to municipal, NGO, and local press sources. The demolitions are the most significant in scope since the demolition of nine housing units on Oct [...]	2009-11-18 17:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM208	MUNICIPALITY DEMOLISHES THREE HOMES IN EAST [...] (C) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality conducted three demolitions in East Jerusalem on January 28, including a large building inhabited by 45 people. The building's owner said the GoI Interior Ministry had postponed demolition until March 31, but that the Municipality acted on its own. Ac [...]	2009-01-29 15:49:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM2174	WEST BANK SETTLERS FEEL "BETRAYED" BY NETANYAHU [...] (C) Summary. In the wake of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's November 25 announcement of a 10-month suspension of new construction in West Bank settlements, Post contacts in the settler community voiced distrust of the GOI, anger at the USG, and a determination to resist GOI efforts to moni [...]	2009-12-03 15:38:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG CASC IS
09JERUSALEM2175	RECORD NUMBER OF JERUSALEM RESIDENCY STATUS [...] (C) An Israeli Ministry of Interior probe into the legal status of thousands of Arab residents of East Jerusalem led to the revocation of 4,577 Jerusalem residency permits in 2008 -- a figure equivalent to 53 percent of all revocations since 1967. NGO and Palestinian sources described the tr [...]	2009-12-03 15:46:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM219	SETTLER ATTACKS IN HEBRON AND NORTHERN WEST BANK [...] (C) Summary. According to NGO B'tselem, Hebron settlers attacked three Palestinian women January 28. The IDF subsequently arrested two of the Palestinian women for filming the attack with a B'tselem-provided camera. In the northern West Bank, Havat Gilad settlers attacked Palestinian farme [...]	2009-02-02 14:18:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PBTS PTER
09JERUSALEM2224	SETTLEMENT MORATORIUM: WEST BANK SETTLERS ANGRY, [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite recent GOI outreach to the settler community, Post contacts continue to express distrust of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and blame the USG for the current moratorium on West Bank construction. Meanwhile, most Palestinian contacts remain unimpressed with what they [...]	2009-12-08 15:10:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM2260	WEST BANK MOSQUE TORCHED, SETTLERS SUSPECTED [...] (C) Summary. Before dawn on December 11, a mosque was set afire in the Palestinian village of Yasuf, south of Nablus, according to Palestinian Authority security officials. Local contacts and press report that Israeli settlers from Kfar Tappuach are suspected of the arson, which was the la [...]	2009-12-11 16:33:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL KIRF KISL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM2325	UPDATE ON HEBRON'S OLD CITY [...] (C) Summary. In recent visits to Hebron's "H2" district, the impact of Israel Defense Forces' (IDF) movement restrictions on Palestinian residents remains apparent in high Palestinian unemployment, a shrinking Palestinian population, and derelict storefronts in what was once Hebron's commerc [...]	2009-01-01 15:45:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS KPAL KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM234	EAST JERUSALEM RESIDENTS BLAME SETTLERS FOR [...] (C) Summary. On February 1, eight Palestinian girls were injured when the floor of their classroom in an UNRWA school in Silwan collapsed. Residents of the area blamed the collapse on archeological excavations being carried out by the Elad organization. UNRWA is investigating the cause of [...]	2009-02-03 15:57:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM239	PRESS REPORT HIGHLIGHTS E-1 AGAIN [...] (C) Summary. Israeli and Palestinian press reports on February 2-3 described GOI plans to develop the E-1 area between East Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim and highlighted approximately USD 50 million spent on infrastructure there over the past two years. The infrastructure described in the pre [...]	2009-02-04 14:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PBTS
09JERUSALEM240	GOI TO RELOCATE MIGRON SETTLERS [...] (C) Summary. According to a February 4 report in Ha'aretz, the GOI will relocate settlers from the Migron outpost to a new location one kilometer east of the Adam settlement, northeast of Jerusalem. ConGen previously reported (reftels) that the Yesha Council and the GOI agreed to relocate [...]	2009-02-04 17:19:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PBTS PREL
09JERUSALEM243	PALESTINIANS SEEK USG ASSISTANCE IN REOPENING [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian contacts have asked the USG to encourage the GoI to allow eight Jerusalem-based Palestinian institutions to reopen this month. The institutions were originally closed in 2001, and the closures have been renewed every six months since then. End Summary. PALESTINIA [...]	2009-02-05 09:33:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM245	FRANCISCANS REQUEST USG ASSISTANCE PROTECTING [...] (C) Summary. The Franciscan (Catholic) Custos of the Holy Land reported vandalism against a monastery on Mount Zion and requested USG assistance to protect Jerusalem's Christian holy sites. A representative of the Custos told PolOff vandals accessed the monastery from the neighboring Cenacl [...]	2009-02-05 14:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM249	DEMOLITIONS IN EAST JERUSALEM AND THE WEST BANK [...] (C) Summary. Israeli authorities conducted at least 20 demolitions of Palestinian property in the West Bank and East Jerusalem during February 1-4, the highest frequency of demolitions in the past thirteen months. Most of the demolitions were reportedly due to a lack of permits. A Jerusale [...]	2009-02-05 15:39:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM277	UNRWA RESUMES AID SHIPMENTS TO GAZA [...] (SBU) UNRWA contacts told Poloff that UNRWA resumed aid shipments to Gaza. Forty-eight truckloads of food and non-food items were transferred by UNRWA through Kerem Shalom on February 11. 2. (SBU) The resumption of aid shipments follows the return on February 8 and 9 of 3,500 blankets an [...]	2009-02-12 15:11:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PBTS PREF PTER UNRWA KWBG KPAL IS GZ
09JERUSALEM278	ISRAELI ELECTIONS LEAVE PALESTINIANS PESSIMISTIC [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian political leaders, in conversations on February 11-12, expressed dismay over the results of Israeli elections. Most predicted a rightist bloc would form the next government of Israel with Benjamin Netanyahu as its prime minister. Several predicted a Netanyahu-led g [...]	2009-02-12 16:03:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM30	GAZA CONTACTS DISCUSS DETERIORATING SITUATION AS [...] (C) Summary. A wide range of political, civil society, and NGO contacts in the Gaza Strip expressed a growing sense of fear and desperation on January 4, with essential services almost completely cut off and the sounds of intense ground combat growing nearer to densely inhabited areas. ConGen [...]	2009-01-04 19:57:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG IS PHUM ECON EAID
09JERUSALEM315	SETTLERS PROTEST AT FORMER IDF BASE NEAR BEIT [...] (C) Summary. Settlers continue weekly protests near the former IDF base of Shdema where the Beit Sahour municipality is developing a park and plans to build a hospital. The park is heavily-used by Beit Sahour residents, and USAID is funding improvements to it. Gush Etzion Regional Council [...]	2009-02-23 15:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PHUM ASEC IS PREL EAID
09JERUSALEM316	ISRAEL RESTRICTS ACCESS TO "SEAM ZONE" ALONG [...] (SBU) Summary. A series of IDF closure orders will restrict access for West Bank Palestinians to the "seam zone" between the separation barrier and the green line. The January 5 orders primarily impact lands adjacent to completed sections of the barrier in the central and southern West Bank [...]	2009-02-24 09:19:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM319	PALESTINIANS SEEK USG INTERVENTION TO SAVE 88 [...] (SBU) Summary: The municipality of Jerusalem has reissued existing demolition orders for 88 Palestinian homes in the al-Bustan area of East Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood. An attorney representing many of the home owners appealed for USG intervention to stop the demolitions. A representati [...]	2009-02-24 13:57:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM327	SEPARATION BARRIER CLOSURE RESTRICTS MOVEMENT [...] (U) Summary. On February 16, the IDF sealed a gap in the separation barrier between East Jerusalem and the West Bank municipality of al-Ram, and permanently closed the adjacent al-Ram checkpoint. Completion of the separation barrier and closure of the checkpoint in this area means that rough [...]	2009-02-25 16:32:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM337	CONSUL GENERAL'S MEETING WITH JERUSALEM MAYOR NIR [...] (C) Summary. Recently-elected Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat described his "businesslike" approach to municipal governance to the Consul General during a February 23 meeting, saying that he hopes to develop Jerusalem into a tourist haven using the "Disney World" model. Barkat said he wants to in [...]	2009-02-26 13:13:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG ABLD PREL
09JERUSALEM340	"GOVERNMENT" IN GAZA REPLACES MAYOR AND COUNCIL IN [...] (C) Summary. The "Minister" of Local Government (MoLG) in Gaza removed the mayor of al-Zahra and the municipal council in mid-February, installing a committee of individuals associated with Hamas to run the municipality. Deposed Mayor Tarik Hijju, who is a member of Fatah, told PolOff that h [...]	2009-02-26 15:09:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER
09JERUSALEM37	WEST BANK REACTIONS TO START OF IDF GROUND [...] (C) Summary. Since IDF ground operations began in the Gaza Strip on January 3, the West Bank has seen continued demonstrations. Faction leaders, including jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, are calling for unity and joint protests. PA security forces (PASF) continue to prevent clashes [...]	2009-01-05 16:12:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KWBG KPAL IS GZ
09JERUSALEM372	MAYORS BLAME CHECKPOINT AND EACH OTHER FOR [...] (C) Summary. Mayors of al-Khas (Khader Hamdan) and al-Nu'man (Yusif Darawi) villages -- in the Wets Bank south of Jerusalem and separated by the separation barrier -- blamed each other, as well as the separation barrier, for a late-2008 rupture in their joint village council. Darawi said th [...]	2009-03-02 12:59:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
09JERUSALEM373	B'TSELEM REPORTS PLANS FOR EXPANDED SEWAGE SYSTEMS [...] (C) Summary. NGO B'tselem has published on March 3 a report revealing Civil Administration plans for vastly expanded sewage systems in eight West Bank settlements. B'tselem claims the plans signal GOI intentions to expand the settlements themselves. Much of the proposed sewage system expan [...]	2009-03-02 14:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG
09JERUSALEM385	JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY ORDERS DEMOLITION OF 55 [...] (C) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality issued demolition orders on March 3 for 55 apartments located in five buildings in the Ras Khamis area of East Jerusalem, stating that the buildings were constructed without a permit. The Consul General called Jerusalem Mayor Barkat on March 4 to exp [...]	2009-03-05 16:20:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG
09JERUSALEM444	JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY ISSUES 58 ADDITIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian sources informed Post about an additional 56 demolition and two evacuation orders issued by the Jerusalem municipality between March 5 and March 9. Palestinian officials told the Consul General that Israel has adopted a policy of "escalation" in East Jerusalem that co [...]	2009-03-10 08:20:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM479	IDF REPLACES BEIT IBA CHECKPOINT, PALESTINIANS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 15, the IDF dismantled the Beit Iba checkpoint west of Nablus and replaced it with a new checkpoint about two kilometers away (reftel). ConGen contacts reported that permits are not currently required at the new checkpoint, resulting in some easing of north-south trave [...]	2009-03-17 10:32:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID PHUM KWBG ETRD IS PTER
09JERUSALEM48	WEST BANK POLITICAL FIGURES GIVE THE PA MIXED [...] (C) Summary. West Bank political figures told ConGen that their constituencies are frustrated and angry with Israeli military operations in Gaza. They gave a mixed review of the PA's handling of the crisis, but suggested that PA President Abbas (Abu Mazen) can only lose Palestinian support [...]	2009-01-06 18:03:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS KWBG KPAL IS GZ
09JERUSALEM49	AS IDF MOVES IN, GAZA CONTACTS EXPRESS ANGER AND [...] (SBU) Summary. A wide range of ConGen Gaza contacts showed signs of increased trauma as they recounted a night of heavy IDF bombardment, an attempt by militants to fire rockets from civilian areas, and shortages of essential materials, including food, water, and fuel. Contacts expressed mount [...]	2009-01-06 18:28:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON IS KWBG MOPS PHUM
09JERUSALEM491	GOI DEMOLISHES WEST BANK RESIDENCES, DISPLACING 25 [...] (C) Summary. Israeli authorities demolished four structures on March 18, three of them residential, displacing 25 Palestinians in the village of al-'Azariya in the West Bank, just outside Jerusalem. One house was on the Palestinian side of the barrier, in a built-up area of al-'Azariya. Th [...]	2009-03-19 16:13:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM501	UPDATE ON DEMOLITIONS AND EVICTIONS IN EAST [...] (C) Summary. In recent days, there have been new press reports about plans for additional demolitions in East Jerusalem. Jerusalem Municipality contacts have stated that these developments are all part of the normal, legal operation of the city, but they have also confirmed Mayor Barkat's i [...]	2009-03-20 15:23:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM502	MUGHRABI GATE PLANS ONE STEP CLOSER TO APPROVAL [...] (C) Summary. A senior Jerusalem municipal planning official said that the Israeli National Planning Committee has approved the District Committee's recommendation for plans for the Mughrabi Gate ramp, bringing the ramp one step closer to construction. She said the final steps of the process [...]	2009-03-20 15:36:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM503	POSSIBLE 65-UNIT EXPANSION OF NABLUS-AREA [...] (C) Summary. The mayor of Burin, a Palestinian village near Nablus adjacent to the Har Bracha settlement, says he believes ongoing land clearing operations begun three weeks ago are part of a plan for 65 new housing units in Bracha. The mayor said Palestinian laborers working in the village [...]	2009-03-20 15:47:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM562	ISRAELI HIGH COURT PRESSES GOI ON WEST BANK [...] (C) Summary. The Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) issued a conditional order on March 24 seeking to compel the IDF to execute demolition orders on nine houses in Ofra settlement built on private, Palestinian-owned land. DefMin Ehud Barak had previously informed the HCJ that he would not [...]	2009-03-26 15:07:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM574	ISRAELI POLICE SHUT DOWN EAST JERUSALEM CULTURAL [...] (C) Summary. Israeli National Police (INP) prevented several Palestinian cultural events from taking place in East Jerusalem on March 21-26. These events were part of the Arab League's "Arab Cultural Capital" (ACC) program. Local contacts said that not all of these cultural events received [...]	2009-03-30 14:44:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL
09JERUSALEM575	PALESTINIAN RECONCILIATION: FATAH NEGOTIATORS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Palestinian reconciliation talks are set to resume April 1-2 in Cairo. In public statements, HAMAS officials have hardened their position against accepting prior PLO agreements and Quartet principles, specifically regarding recognition of Israel. In addition, Hamas is demanding [...]	2009-03-30 14:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KWBG KPAL EG
09JERUSALEM580	FATAH SIXTH GENERAL CONGRESS: DELAY LIKELY AS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Preparatory Committee for the Fatah Sixth General Congress is not likely to complete planning in time to stage the event April 15, according to senior Fatah sources. The venue, participation lists, and political platform all remain unresolved despite a renewed determinati [...]	2009-03-31 10:50:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER IS KDEM KPAL KWBG
09JERUSALEM61	GAZA UPDATE JANUARY 7, 2009, 1300 LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Israeli ground operations and air strikes continued on the morning of January 7 after what Gaza-based contacts described as a relatively quiet night. Ground forces continued to fight militants around Gaza City, and moved closer to Khan Yunis without entering the city. Airstri [...]	2009-01-07 11:46:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG PTER MOPS IS
09JERUSALEM615	ATTACK KILLS ONE CHILD, INJURES ANOTHER IN WEST [...] (C) Summary. A Palestinian armed with an ax killed one child and injured a second at Bat Ayin settlement, southwest of Bethlehem, on April 2. The Gush Etzion Regional Council Chairman spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu the same day to encourage Netanyahu to strengthen the [...]	2009-04-03 14:20:00	Consulate Jerusalem	SECRET	PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG PTER
09JERUSALEM620	ATERET COHANIM TAKES OVER PALESTINIAN HOME IN [...] (C) Summary. Ateret Cohanim members took over an Old City residence early April 2, claiming they had bought the property, according to Jerusalem lawyer Danny Siedemann. The Palestinian resident Naser Jaber disputed this claim, saying he won a court case challenging his ownership several yea [...]	2009-04-06 13:34:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG
09JERUSALEM627	ROAD CONSTRUCTION AROUND NABLUS-AREA OUTPOST [...] (SBU) Summary. Palestinians in the Nablus area have raised concerns about construction activity on three roads in the vicinity of Hayoval outpost, between the Palestinian village of Qaryut and Eli settlement. The Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) issued an injunction on April 5 against fu [...]	2009-04-07 13:46:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM628	EAST JERUSALEM EVICTION ORDER UPHELD IN ISRAELI [...] (C) Summary. Israel's High Court of Justice (HCJ) on April 5 rejected a petition lodged by two East Jerusalem families against eviction orders regarding their homes in Shaykh Jarrah. The decision exhausts possible judicial remedy and effectively reinstates eviction orders, which could now b [...]	2009-04-07 13:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL
09JERUSALEM629	PUNITIVE HOME DEMOLITION LEADS TO SHOOTING, DEATH [...] (C) Summary. A Palestinian was shot to death by the Israeli National Police (INP) after his car hit and lightly injured three INP officers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sur Bahir April 7. The officers were involved in the demolition of the home of Husam Duwayit, a Palestinian who ki [...]	2009-04-07 14:44:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM630	ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY MOVES STONE FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY. On April 5, the Israeli Antiquities Authority (IAA) removed a stone from just outside the southeastern wall of the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount and placed it on the Israeli Knesset grounds. IAA staff assert the stone came from "debris" in the Jerusalem Archaeological Park and co [...]	2009-04-08 07:44:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM648	OVER A DOZEN PALESTINIANS WOUNDED IN CLASH WITH [...] (C) Summary. Bat Ayin settlers and IDF soldiers on April 8 wounded over a dozen Palestinians, one of them critically, less than a week after the April 2 murder of a young Bat Ayin settler. Palestinian media put the number of injured Palestinians as high as 40, while Israeli press reported [...]	2009-04-10 13:05:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ASEC PBTS KWBG KPAO PTER IS
09JERUSALEM661	CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES IN WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Site visits by Poloff in mid-April confirmed large-scale, ongoing construction in Maale Adumim and smaller-scale work in nearby Qedar, extending about 70 meters outside Qedar's current built-up area. There has been no new activity in E-1. The YESHA Council Chairman expressed [...]	2009-04-13 14:41:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ASEC PBTS KWBG IS
09JERUSALEM67	SETTLERS STRONGLY SUPPORT IDF OPERATION IN GAZA [...] (C) Summary. The Yesha Council Chairman told Poloff that four of the six IDF soldiers killed in Gaza since the beginning of military operations on December 27 were settlers from the West Bank/East Jerusalem. Settler contacts told PolOff that they strongly support IDF operations in Gaza, but [...]	2009-01-07 13:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KWBG IS GZ
09JERUSALEM674	FATAH MEMBERS JOSTLE FOR INFLUENCE AHEAD OF SIXTH [...] (C) Summary: As preparations for the Sixth Party Congress proceed, Fatah members have begun to jostle for influence over future membership in the Fatah Central Committee (FCC),which will be decided by the Congress. With delegate lists nearly finalized, aspiring Fatah leaders are competing [...]	2009-04-16 13:15:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER IS KPAL KWBG
09JERUSALEM679	PALESTINIAN BOYS DESCRIBE BEATING BY SETTLERS AND [...] (C) Summary. Three Palestinian shepherd boys were attacked and beaten by settlers from Ma'on in the south Hebron hills on April 5, according to the boys and a volunteer from Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). The children's accounts given to CPT immediately following the incident, and to Pol [...]	2009-04-20 14:35:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM686	HOME DEMOLITIONS IN EAST JERUSALEM AND THE WEST [...] (C) Summary. The GoI Ministry of Interior demolished a home in East Jerusalem April 22, and the Civil Administration demolished four structures in a Palestinian village southeast of Nablus. The number of home demolitions decreased in East Jerusalem in March and April following critical comme [...]	2009-04-22 14:42:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM687	MIGRON UPDATE; EVICTION ORDERS ISSUED NEAR ADAM [...] (C) Summary. The GOI recently issued eviction orders for Palestinians living near Adam settlement, and the PA is helping the Palestinians appeal these orders. The evictions may be related to the GOI's plan to expand Adam to incorporate the settlers from Migron outpost. The Migron settlers [...]	2009-04-22 14:47:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG KPAL
09JERUSALEM689	YESHA COUNCIL CHAIRMAN DISCUSSES COUNCIL MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary. The YESHA Council held an expanded meeting in January at which it established a Secretariat of ten former Council leaders and a core group of 25 Council members, which will meet every two months. The expanded Council, with over 200 members, will meet only two or three times pe [...]	2009-04-23 13:47:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC IS PBTS KWBG KPAL
09JERUSALEM694	NO CLEAR TREND EVIDENT IN RECENT UNIVERSITY AND [...] (C) Summary. Employee and student elections are widely seen by Palestinians as indicators of the relative standing of political factions at a given point in time. Recent elections reveal no clear trend in favor of either Fatah or Hamas, who continue to compete for influence and attempt to s [...]	2009-04-24 09:20:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
09JERUSALEM697	PALESTINIANS EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT RISING TENSION [...] (C) Summary: Palestinian contacts explained a recent increase in violent incidents in Jerusalem and the West Bank as resulting from increased tension brought on by Palestinians' growing sense of insecurity. In conversations with PolOff, Palestinian contacts pointed to the new Israeli govern [...]	2009-04-24 10:54:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS ASEC KWBG
09JERUSALEM698	UPTICK IN SETTLER VIOLENCE IN APRIL [...] (C) Summary. Incidents of settler violence in April include multiple attacks on Palestinians in the Hebron area, clashes south of Gush Etzion settlement bloc, and damage to a Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance. Settler activist Nadia Matar called for the assasination of the [...]	2009-04-24 12:08:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC IS KWBG KPAL CVIS
09JERUSALEM705	GOI COMMITTEE PROPOSES UNIFICATION OF MAALE ADUMIM [...] (C) Summary. NGO Peace Now confirmed press reports that the Israeli Ministry of Interior (MOI) internal panel recommended unification of West Bank settlements Maale Adumim and Qedar (southeast of Maale Adumim). This step could potentially annex 3,000 acres of land to Maale Adumim and pave [...]	2009-04-27 14:06:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC IS KWBG KPAL
09JERUSALEM717	OFRA SETTLEMENT BATTLES LEGAL CASE OVER ILLEGAL [...] (C) Summary. NGO Yesh Din updated Poloff on April 28 on its legal action in the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) to compel the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MOD) to evacuate and demolish nine homes in Ofra settlement. Yesh Din believes these homes were constructed illegally on private Pa [...]	2009-04-28 13:40:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ASEC KPAL PINR IS KWBG
09JERUSALEM736	JERUSALEM MAYOR DESCRIBES PLANS FOR SILWAN BUT [...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem Mayor Barkat told the Consul General May 1 that the Municipality is nearly ready to submit a new Jerusalem master town plan to the District Committee for approval. Barkat also said he is developing a neighborhood plan for al-Bustan, which will require the demolition o [...]	2009-05-04 14:15:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM752	ISRAELI BORDER GUARD KILLS PALESTINIAN AT IBRAHIMI [...] (C) Summary. An Israeli border policeman shot and killed a mentally disabled Palestinian at the entrance of Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron late May 6. According to the International Committee for the Red Cross, the Palestinian was unarmed and had passed the security checkpoint. Palestinian secu [...]	2009-05-07 10:45:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER PHUM ASEC IS KWBG KPAL
09JERUSALEM783	JERUSALEM MAYOR PRESENTS NEW TOWN PLAN, FAILS TO [...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem Mayor Barkat presented a new Jerusalem town plan to the District Planning Committee on May 5. The new town plan aims to develop jobs and tourist areas in Jerusalem, and specifically mentions developing East Jerusalem and constructing new housing in East Jerusalem. Mu [...]	2009-05-12 13:13:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM800	1,500 ISRAELIS ATTEND MAY 12 DEMONSTRATION AT [...] (U) Summary. Around 1,500 Israelis, including busloads from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as well as West Bank settlers, attended a May 12 demonstration at the evacuated settlement of Homesh. The northern West Bank settler council and several settler organizations are lobbying for Homesh to be re [...]	2009-05-14 10:42:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC IS KWBG KPAL
09JERUSALEM803	PALESTINIANS OUTLINE IMPLICATIONS OF ISRAELI [...] (C) Summary. Palestinians outlined serious consequences for a viable and contiguous Palestinian state resulting from the decision by the Israeli Minister of Interior to join the Qedar settlements to the Ma'ale Adumim Municipality. The Palestinian Governor of Jerusalem and the Mayor of Abu Di [...]	2009-05-14 14:34:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
09JERUSALEM807	UPTICK IN SETTLER VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN MAY [...] (C) Summary. NGO and Palestinian security contacts have reported multiple incidents of settler violence during the first two weeks of May, continuing a trend reported in March and April (reftels). Specific recent incidents include Hebron area settlers attacking Palestinian farmers, settlers [...]	2009-05-15 11:47:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC IS KWBG KPAL PTER
09JERUSALEM811	SHEPHERD HOTEL PLANS SUSPENDED, BUT THE [...] (C) Summary. The head of the Jerusalem Municipality Department of Building, Licensing, and Enforcement told PolOff May 7 that plans for the construction of two new Israeli apartment buildings on the Shepherd Hotel property in East Jerusalem are set to be approved by the Licensing Committee w [...]	2009-05-15 14:16:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL PTER UK
09JERUSALEM817	LATEST ROUND OF FATAH-HAMAS RECONCILIATION TALKS [...] (C) Summary. A fifth round of reconciliation talks in Cairo between Fatah and Hamas concluded on May 18 without significant progress, according to Fatah negotiator Azzam al-Ahmad. The parties failed to reach agreement in any of the substantive areas discussed, including formation of a facti [...]	2009-05-19 13:34:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KWBG KPAL KDEM IS GS
09JERUSALEM824	SETTLERS ATTACK PALESTINIAN FARMERS AND ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary. Settlers attacked Palestinian farmers and Israeli and international activists who had gathered on May 19 to plow fields in the northern West Bank, according to Arik Ascherman of "Rabbis for Human Rights." The resulting skirmish resulted in minor injuries and the arrest of one P [...]	2009-05-20 13:57:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM IS KWBG
09JERUSALEM846	REGIONAL SETTLER COUNCIL MOVES ON EXPANSION OF [...] (C) Summary. The Jordan Valley Regional Council issued a tender on May 12 for 20 houses in Maskiyot settlement for settler evacuees from Gaza, and held a tour for contractors on May 17. The 20 houses will be constructed outside Maskiyot's built-up area, roughly doubling the settlement's fo [...]	2009-05-22 13:24:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC IS KWBG KPAL EAGR

09JERUSALEM847	150 FAMILIES TO MOVE INTO NEW GIVAT ZEEV [...] (C) Summary. Poloff visited West Bank settlement Givat Zeev and observed more than 300 units nearing completion. According to the settlement's developer, 150 families will move into the new neighborhood, Givat Zeev Illit, in August. The developer said he has sold 800 units, exceeding the nu [...]	2009-05-22 13:35:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC IS KWBG KPAL CASC
09JERUSALEM857	"OUTPOST" MAOZ ESTHER DISMANTLED, TEN "DELIMITING" [...] (C) Summary. On May 21, Israeli border police dismantled, for the third time, six caravans at a site north of Ramallah called Maoz Esther by settlers. Settlers immediately began rebuilding the caravans. Settler leadership claimed to be unconcerned by the GOI's decision to dismantle Maoz E [...]	2009-05-27 14:27:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC IS KWBG KPAL
09JERUSALEM859	EAST JERUSALEM SETTLEMENT "NOF ZION" ON THE [...] (C) Summary. Residential units in the Nof Zion settlement in the Jabal Mukabbir neighborhood of East Jerusalem are not selling and the builder is in serious financial difficulty. According to the developer, prospective buyers of the high-end apartments were "uncomfortable" with Nof Zion's [...]	2009-05-28 13:34:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM IS KWBG
09JERUSALEM868	FATAH MAYOR IN GAZA QUITS UNDER PRESSURE FROM HAMAS [...] (C) Summary. The Mayor of Gaza's al-Qarrara Municipality, a Fatah member, is resigning from his post June 1, having come under pressure from Hamas on the distribution of foreign assistance. His deputy (a Hamas member) will take over as mayor. Commenting on Gaza's political scene, the Mayor [...]	2009-05-28 14:16:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER
09JERUSALEM869	PA SET TO BORROW ITS WAY PAST ANOTHER PAYDAY [...] (C) Summary: Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Finance officials claim that a new round of borrowing from commercial banks will allow the PA to pay civil servant salaries in the first week of June. Other than the monthly transfer from Brussels, PA officials report only small amounts of [...]	2009-05-28 15:23:00	Consulate Jerusalem	SECRET	ECON EAID EFIN KWBG PGOV IS
09JERUSALEM876	SETTLERS RIOT IN WEST BANK AS "PRICE TAG" FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Settlers rioted south and west of Nablus on June 1, attacking a minibus of Palestinian laborers and setting fire to dozens of acres of fields and olive trees near the villages of Burin and Jit, reportedly in response to GOI evacuations of minor outposts in the area (Ref A). Is [...]	2009-06-02 15:56:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM892	SETTLERS LASH OUT AGAINST USG [...] (C) Summary. ConGen contacts in West Bank settlements are uniformly angry at U.S. statements calling for a freeze in settlement expansion and the dismantling of outposts. Poloffs visited with a number of settler leaders who asserted that U.S. opposition to settlement activity "will push peop [...]	2009-06-05 12:23:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PTER PHUM ASEC IS KWBG KPAL
09JERUSALEM894	GOI COMMITTEE APPROVES PLAN FOR 200-ROOM HOTEL IN [...] (C) Summary. The Israeli Ministry of Interior (MOI) on June 2 approved a plan for a 200-room hotel in the Wadi Joz neighborhood of East Jerusalem, which will involve the demolition of a Palestinian wholesale market and kindergarten. The approval was welcomed by the Jerusalem Municipality, [...]	2009-06-05 14:09:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM IS KWBG
09JERUSALEM895	IDF DEMOLISHES 18 SITES IN NORTHERN JORDAN VALLEY; [...] (SBU) Summary. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) demolished structures at 18 sites in the northern Jordan Valley on June 4, displacing 190 Palestinians from their homes in Area C. Tubas Governor Sami Musallam claimed the demolitions are designed to drive Palestinians from the Jordan Valley an [...]	2009-06-05 14:15:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
09JERUSALEM899	ONE PALESTINIAN PROTESTER KILLED, AT LEAST FOUR [...] (C) IDF soldiers and Israeli border police, responding to a June 5 protest against the separation barrier in Ni'lin, killed one Palestinian and injured four others, at least one critically. A 36-year-old Palestinian protester died on the scene when hit in the chest by live fire, according to [...]	2009-06-08 15:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV MOPS KWBG KPAL IS CASC
09JERUSALEM965	NEW HOME DEMOLITIONS AND DEMOLITION ORDERS IN [...] (C) Summary. According to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD),two home demolitions were carried out in Jerusalem's Old City on June 9. One was an apartment in the Christian Quarter, and the other a second-floor addition in the Muslim Quarter. ICAHD also reported that [...]	2009-06-09 14:26:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC IS KWBG KPAL
09JERUSALEM966	SALFIT LEADERSHIP RAISES PROBLEMS OF ROADBLOCKS, [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with the Consul General on June 8, the Mayor of Salfit Municipality and Governor of Salfit District both expressed concern about a road gate that has closed the main road into Salfit. They also described untreated wastewater seeping into Salfit from the nearby s [...]	2009-06-09 14:30:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PGOV PREL SENV IS KISL KPAL KWBG
09JERUSALEM97	ICRC AND PCRS DETAIL HORRIFIC SCENES IN EVACUATION [...] (SBU) Summary. An International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) statement on January 8 described the discovery of four children next to their dead mothers and at least 12 dead bodies in a house in Gaza City's Zaytun neighborhood. A Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) medical worker pr [...]	2009-01-09 17:50:00	Consulate Jerusalem	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PHUM MOPS ICRC KWBG KPAL IS GZ PREF
09JERUSALEM971	JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY ISSUES TWO MORE DEMOLITION [...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem municipal officials, accompanied by police, served two demolition orders and ten warning notices in the al-Bustan neighborhood of Silwan to Palestinian homeowners on June 10. Local residents and Palestinian officials expressed concern that as many as 88 homes in al-Bu [...]	2009-06-10 15:17:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC IS KWBG KPAL
09KABUL1094	CANDIDATES EYE POSSIBLE DEALS BEFORE DEADLINE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Six days into the two-week registration period for the presidential election, no candidate among the more than 60 names considering a run has filed his or her completed paperwork. Behind-the-scenes efforts to consolidate campaigns among the leading candidates are in full swin [...]	2009-04-30 07:12:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AF
09KABUL1097	OPPOSITION MPS CONTINUE TO FAN DEBATE ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Although most of Afghanistan's political establishment has moved on, some parliamentarians continue to stir debate over continuity of government after the May 22 constitutional expiration of President Karzai's term. The Supreme Court last month affirmed the legitimacy of Karza [...]	2009-04-30 12:48:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL11	JUNBESH LOOKS AHEAD TO LIFE AFTER DOSTUM [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Junbesh-e-Milli leaders are scrambling to lead the party in a new direction following Gen. Dostum's exit from Afghanistan. Junbesh, the country's largest ethnic Uzbek political organization, receives the bulk of its funding from foreign governments, which also influence the [...]	2009-01-04 09:47:00	Embassy Kabul	SECRET	KDEM PREL PGOV AF TU UZ
09KABUL1100	ABDULLAH CAMPAIGN STUCK ON VP CHOICES [...] (SBU) Campaign staffers for United Front (UF) presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah hope to lock in vice presidential nominees by May 2 and register their candidate with the Independent Election Commission (IEC) by May 4. Several UF top choices for the First Vice President position have tu [...]	2009-04-30 14:15:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AF
09KABUL1109	SHERZAI AIDE CLAIMS KARZAI STRONG-ARMS SHERZAI OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Nangarhar Governor Gul Aga Sherzai withdrew from the presidential race on May 2, the day after a reportedly lengthy and emotional meeting with President Karzai. Sherzai's campaign manager alleged that Karzai's increasingly emotional and threatening tone pushed Sherzai to end hi [...]	2009-05-02 14:56:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL1111	WHERE ARE THE WOMEN?: FEMALE REGISTRATION FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the April 25 opening of the two-week candidate registration period, over 500 individuals have registered as provincial council (PC) candidates for the August elections. The Independent Election Commission's (IEC) initial reports on candidate registration indicate, howeve [...]	2009-05-03 09:41:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV AF
09KABUL1134	KAMBAKHSH: CLOSE TO A PARDON [...] SUMMARY. (C) President Karzai told the Charge on May 1 Karzai would pardon Parwez Kambakhsh, the journalism student serving a 20-year prison sentence for disseminating an article discussing women's rights and Islam (reftel A) shortly after his May 11 return to Afghanistan from abroad. Karzai [...]	2009-05-04 10:26:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM AF
09KABUL1173	ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN LAW: MOJ [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has completed its initial review of a draft Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) law. Embassy review is ongoing, but the draft law is a much needed effort to identify and criminalize the myriad types of violence Afghan women face. Several MPs [...]	2009-05-06 13:24:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KDEM AF
09KABUL1174	ABDULLAH REGISTERS FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah registered his campaign for the presidential election today (May 6),signing up with two relatively unknown running mates ) evidence that he had failed to attract support outside the splintering United Front opposition coalition. Abdul [...]	2009-05-06 14:20:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AF
09KABUL1181	THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT, 5/2-5/7: MORE ANGER OVER [...] Lower House MPs exploded in anger Wednesday (May 6) over new reports of civilian casualties resulting from a joint Afghan Army-Coalition forces operation in Bala Boluk district of Farah province this week. Afghan media and NGOs reported between 40 and 160 civilians killed, prompting many MPs t [...]	2009-05-07 13:03:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM AF
09KABUL1186	CANDIDATE REGISTRATION REFLECTS PUBLIC OPINION [...] (U) On May 8 at 5:00 p.m. (local time),the two-week candidate registration period for the August 2009 presidential and provincial council elections will close. As the Independent Election Commission (IEC) compiles the registration data, a strong preliminary trend speaks to poor public opini [...]	2009-05-08 11:36:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV AF
09KABUL1187	CANDIDATE REGISTRATION REFLECTS PUBLIC OPINION [...] (U) On May 8 at 5:00 p.m. (local time),the two-week candidate registration period for the August 2009 presidential and provincial council elections will close. As the Independent Election Commission (IEC) compiles the registration data, a strong preliminary trend speaks to poor public opini [...]	2009-05-08 11:36:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV AF
09KABUL1194	A CROWDED FIELD, BUT LITTLE TRUE COMPETITION FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Candidate registration for the Aug. 20 presidential election closed May 8, with at least 44 candidates turning in completed registration forms. We will report septel on provincial council registration, particularly on female candidate registration. President Karzai appears t [...]	2009-05-10 13:03:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL1195	INSIDE KARZAI CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Karzai officially launched his re-election campaign last week, relying on an unusual mix of powerful commanders from Afghanistan's 30 years of conflict and a small group of younger volunteers from newer pro-democracy organizations. To date, former mujahideen command [...]	2009-05-10 13:09:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL1199	DEBUNKING THE MYTH - PD WORK REALLY IS POSSIBLE IN [...] SUMMARY: Contrary to popular belief that American diplomats remain isolated behind compound walls, PD officers in Kabul routinely travel around the city and throughout the country. Too much emphasis has been placed on "messaging," too little on building personal relationship that allow the mes [...]	2009-05-11 04:08:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO KIRC SCUL AF
09KABUL1230	THE WEEK IN PARLIAMENT, 5/9-5/15: MPS DEMAND [...] (SBU) Lower House MPs continue to push for the "legalization" of foreign forces, following intense debate over an incident involving civilian casualties in Farah Province last week (ref A). During May 13 testimony to the Lower House, Justice Minister Sarwar Danesh told MPs President Karzai t [...]	2009-05-14 14:32:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL1232	TALIBAN AND WARLORD QUESTIONS AS THE ECC SETS UP [...] (U) SUMMARY: At a May 12 press conference, the five commissioners of the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) introduced their organization, noted the jurisdiction of the ECC and explained the process for the upcoming challenge period. Afghan media representatives pressed the ECC on whethe [...]	2009-05-15 06:05:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV AF
09KABUL1281	YASENI CONCERNED ABOUT KARZAI'S CASH ADVANTAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Lower House Deputy Speaker and presidential candidate Mirwais Yaseni is asking for US assistance to help balance what he sees as President Karzai's significant advantage over other candidates in terms of cash and the use of government resources. Yaseni has opened campaign off [...]	2009-05-19 13:06:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL1296	JUNBESH-WAHDAT ALLIANCE CLOSE TO RELUCTANT KARZAI [...] (SBU) Representatives of the majority-Uzbek Junbesh-e-Milli party and Hezb-e-Wahdat-e-Mardum faction of Hazara leader Haji Mohammed Mohaqqeq say their two-party alliance is reluctantly nearing an endorsement of President Karzai's re-election campaign. The two parties agreed last month to sup [...]	2009-05-21 09:54:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL1297	POLITICAL PARTIES A NEAR NO-SHOW ON PROVINCIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Some 88 percent of the more than 3,300 candidates who registered for this summer's provincial council elections chose to identify as independent candidates rather than associate with one of Afghanistan's 100-plus political parties. The near no-show by political parties on the [...]	2009-05-21 11:57:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AF
09KABUL1350	MPS ASK, "WHEN IS OUR ELECTION?" [...] (SBU) In an interesting conversation with PolOff this week, five Lower House MPs disagreed with each other over when their legislative terms expire next year and when the 2010 parliamentary election should occur. MPs Fawzia Koofi (Badakhshan, Tajik),Sultan Mohammed Awrang (Badakhshan, Tajik [...]	2009-05-30 10:32:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL139	SECOND THOUGHTS ON KARZAI AMONG AFGHAN ELITE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Constituencies important to President Karzai's re-election hopes are voicing dissatisfaction that Karzai is ignoring their counsel and failing to improve local governance and fight corruption. Disappointment with Karzai's performance over the last few years is becoming more comm [...]	2009-01-20 09:02:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AF
09KABUL1398	OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN START TWO WEEKS AWAY; KARZAI IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The presidential election season officially starts June 16, but the major candidates are already in full swing. President Karzai will begin the campaign with a significant head start, having consolidated support from a number of powerful factional leaders. The other major ca [...]	2009-06-02 13:19:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL1560	QUIET START TO OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN SEASON [...] SUMMARY. The presidential and provincial council campaigns for the Aug. 20 election officially kicked off June 16, with a relatively subdued atmosphere in both Kabul and the outlying provinces. Major and minor candidates alike plastered Kabul streets with campaign posters, though few held la [...]	2009-06-18 04:40:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL1561	HEZB-E-ISLAMI AFGHANISTAN BACKS KARZAI, BUT NOT [...] (SBU) Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) Chairman Abdul Hadi Arghandewal told PolOff on June 17 that his party had decided to back President Karzai's re-election campaign and had already started organizing on his behalf. HIA would, however, withhold a public endorsement until Karzai better arti [...]	2009-06-18 04:43:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL1562	SUPPORTERS QUESTION JALALI ON HIS FUTURE [...] (SBU) Former presidential candidate Ali Ahmad Jalali has told supporters he intends to sit out the rest of the campaign and not publicly endorse any other candidate. He hinted his acceptance of the conventional wisdom that President Karzai had amassed an impressive collection of endorsements [...]	2009-06-18 05:18:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL1564	YASENI CALLS FOR MORE INVOLVEMENT FROM [...] (C) Lower House Deputy Speaker and presidential candidate Mirwais Yaseni requested more USG and international community involvement in the presidential election to help offset President Karzai's alleged use of government officials and resources to benefit his campaign. In a June 15 meeting wit [...]	2009-06-18 05:25:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL1593	HAZARA LEADERS SUPPORT KARZAI IN EXCHANGE FOR PROMISES OF [...] Hazara political leaders backing President Karzai's re-election have asked Karzai to support the creation of more majority-Hazara provinces in exchange for their influential endorsements among the ethnic Hazara minority, which could constitute as much as 15 percent of the electorate in this su [...]	2009-06-22 09:08:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AF
09KABUL1680	Elections Snapshot from Northeastern Afghanistan [...] Controversy ensued in Badakhshan when Zalmay Mojaddedi, a Member of Parliament (MP) close to Karzai, used two GIRoA helicopters to personally distribute emergency assistance items such as tents, blankets and cash to flood victims in his home district of Jurm and neighboring areas in mid-June. [...]	2009-06-28 04:07:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV AF
09KABUL1684	UPPER HOUSE IN QUANDRY OVER FATE OF PROVINCIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Parliament's Upper House faces a potential crisis this fall when new provincial councils will select replacements for two-thirds of the chamber. If the councils follow the Constitution, they will elect their representatives to the Upper House around Oct. 1, mid-way through a [...]	2009-06-29 04:10:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL1747	CANDIDATES DISCUSS PLATFORMS AND ELECTORAL PROCESS [...] SUMMARY: On July 1, Ambassador Eikenberry hosted a roundtable for the members of CODEL Ellsworth with four presidential candidates standing in the August elections. The Ambassador, Ambassador Ricciardone and Rep. Ellsworth focused their comments on U.S. support for a secure, credible and incl [...]	2009-07-05 04:41:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM OREP PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL181	AFGHAN OPPOSITION SOFTENS STANCE ON ELECTION DATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Several Afghan powerbrokers have hinted in recent days that they have waived their opposition to a fall election date. Parliamentary and jihadi leaders reportedly have told President Karzai and UNAMA officials they are open to an election date later than the spring timeframe set [...]	2009-01-26 11:44:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV AF
09KABUL183	ANALYSIS OF 2009 PARLIAMENTARY LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Both houses of Afghanistan's Parliament elected their leaderships to new one-year terms this week. This year's elections showed evidence of President Karzai's low standing among MPs and the continued tendency for MPs to vote along ethnic, rather than ideological or gender lines. [...]	2009-01-26 11:45:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AF
09KABUL1899	MINOR CANDIDATES ADD COLOR AND CONFUSION TO THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: By nearly all informal observations, President Karzai holds a sizable lead over his closest competitors in the lead up to the Aug. 20 election. If Karzai is unable to secure 50 percent of the vote in the first round, it will likely be due to the high number of candidates spli [...]	2009-07-16 08:30:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AF
09KABUL210	AFGHAN PUBLIC: STRONG SUPPORT FOR THE DEATH PENALTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Although most Afghans strongly support the death penalty, Afghan human rights activists and other civil society actors have called on the government to halt executions, arguing rampant corruption in the law enforcement system and lack of judicial capacity to adequately administer [...]	2009-01-28 03:35:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV AF
09KABUL244	LOWER HOUSE DEPUTY SPEAKER LIKELY TO RUN FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Lower House Deputy Speaker Mirwais Yaseni (Nangarhar, Pashtun) told the Ambassador February 1 that he will run as a candidate in this year's presidential election. Yaseni criticized President Karzai's inability to rein in corruption. He will campaign on a reformist platform that [...]	2009-02-03 04:26:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AF
09KABUL2478	AFGHAN ELECTIONS: PRELIMINARY OBSERVER GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary: Numerous observer groups released preliminary reports on the transparency and fairness of the Afghan elections. There were universal concerns among the groups about the accuracy of the voter registry; the intimidation of voters, candidates, campaign workers, and election offici [...]	2009-08-23 14:16:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL254	DECIDEDLY MIXED REACTION FROM POLITICIANS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Members of Parliament, political leaders, and other political observers had a mixed reaction to the Independent Election Commission's (IEC) announcement of August 20 for presidential and provincial council elections (ref A). IEC arguments that an earlier date would not allow su [...]	2009-02-03 15:49:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV AF
09KABUL279	WOMEN PARLIAMENTARIANS REACH OUT TO SECRETARY [...] SUMMARY. Afghan women Parliamentarians are asking to work with the new U.S. Administration to continue developmental assistance programs and to protect gains made by female politicians over the past seven years. PolOffs have spoken with several women MPs since Secretary Clinton took office [...]	2009-02-09 02:59:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PGOV AF
09KABUL2933	AFGHAN GOVERNMENT REQUESTS TRANSBOUNDARY WATER [...] (C) Summary: After years of official reluctance to negotiate with its neighbors on transboundary water issues, Afghan government officials received the go-ahead from President Karzai to discuss capacity building for government negotiators. Before donors begin large-scale irrigation, drinking [...]	2009-09-21 15:30:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EAID SENV ECON PREL AF
09KABUL3076	AFGHANISTAN: CHILD LABOR REPORT POINTS DELIVERED; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered reftel points on the Department of Labor (DOL),s Child Labor Report and "List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor" to the Afghanistan Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disabled (MoL) Director of International Relations, Mr. Ahmad Komail [...]	2009-10-03 12:11:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AID ECON EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM PREL SOCI
09KABUL309	KABUL APPEALS COURT AGAIN DELAYS DECISION IN DARI [...] (C) Most observers expected the Kabul Appeals Court to rule February 8 on the appeal of two individuals sentenced to 20-year prison sentences for publishing a Dari translation of the Koran without accompanying Arabic verses. The session ended without decision, and the presiding judge scheduled [...]	2009-02-10 12:41:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV AF
09KABUL3362	IRANIAN AID AND CHILD LABOR KEY LABOR MINISTRY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a review of child labor issues, Afghanistan Ministry of Labor Director of International Relations Ahmad Komail focused on issues of foreign criminals preying on the children of the poor, foreign government influence on his ministry, and ineffective staffing policies pursued wi [...]	2009-10-19 13:04:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON EIND ETRD PHUM PREL SOCI
09KABUL3440	AFGHANISTAN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IRFR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Poloff delivered the Department of State's International Religious Freedom Report (IRFR) to the Afghanistan Ministry of Hajj and Islamic Affairs Director of External Relations and Director of Publications Mr. Qazi Habib Rahman Salehi. Salehi agreed in theory that religious toleran [...]	2009-10-27 12:51:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KIRF KPAO PGOV PHUM OPCR
09KABUL3445	ABDULLAH DEFLATED [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Eikenberry met with Karzai, Abdullah and several of their key advisors separately on October 26 - 27. Each side expressed appreciation for our contacts with them and the opposite camp in support of the election process and at the same time, a possible political accom [...]	2009-10-27 17:19:00	Embassy Kabul	SECRET	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL3484	ABDULLAH'S WITHDRAWAL: THE DOOR STAYS OPEN [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Abdullah Abdullah made public his decision to withdraw from the Presidential race on November 1, conducting a meeting-announcement in front of about 1000 followers and a formal press conference later in the day. His tone was critical of the Karzai government, especially the I [...]	2009-11-01 14:31:00	Embassy Kabul	SECRET	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL3485	ABDULLAH'S WITHDRAWAL: PRELIMINARY LEGAL ANALYSIS [...] (C) Summary: Following Dr. Abdullah Abdullah's November 1 speech withdrawing from the Presidential election, there are legal questions that must be answered in coming days. The ECC's Legal Advisor, Peter Lepsch, provided his preliminary analysis of the options under the Afghan Constitution and [...]	2009-11-01 14:52:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL3493	IEC ANNOUNCEMENT: KARZAI DECLARED THE WINNER [...] (U) Summary: While the possibility of a legal challenge remains to the just announced IEC declaration of Karzai as the newly elected President of Afghanistan, only challenger Abdullah or Karzai himself could potentially force the issue to the Supreme Court. Abdullah is debating the nature of h [...]	2009-11-02 15:28:00	Embassy Kabul	SECRET	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL3494	FIRST REACTIONS TO ABDULLAH'S ANNOUNCEMENT: RELIEF [...] (S) Summary: While many Afghan interlocutors are glad that the long and tumultuous 2009 Presidential elections process might be over, the political classes apparently have not given up their deal-making. The night of his November 1 press conference withdrawing from the race, Dr. Abdullah had [...]	2009-11-02 16:36:00	Embassy Kabul	SECRET	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL3501	AFGHAN SIKH LEADER WANTS LAND--OR MEANS OF ESCAPE [...] (U) Summary: The senior representative of Afghanistan's beleaguered Sikh minority flagged to us their deepening problems and alleged that, since the election, the security situation for Sikhs and Hindus has worsened as a result of the central government's failure to exercise control and influe [...]	2009-11-03 12:07:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KIRF PGOV AF
09KABUL3503	CONFLICTING VIEWS WITHIN AFGHAN GOVERNMENT ON [...] (C) Summary: Contacts within the Afghan National Security Committee (NSC) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) appear ambivalent regarding the overall value of de-listing individuals from UNSCR 1267. FM Spanta's senior advisor said that re-integrating individuals "won't change the Taliban" [...]	2009-11-03 12:34:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AF
09KABUL3595	PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS: PLENTY OF FRAUD BUT [...] (S) Summary: The sustained dispute between the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) over the final percentages in the August 20 Afghan Presidential election appears to have hampered the ability and desire of either organization to investigate wide [...]	2009-11-09 16:42:00	Embassy Kabul	SECRET	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL361	KABUL APPEALS COURT: 20 YEARS IN DARI KORAN CASE [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 15 an Afghan appellate court ordered 20-year prison sentences for Ghous Zalmai and Mullah Qari Mushtaq in connection with their publication and distribution of a Dari language Koran. (Reftel A) This decision affirmed the primary court's September 2008 order. Zalmai a [...]	2009-02-17 15:57:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPOL PREL PHUM AF
09KABUL3658	JUVENILE HUMAN RIGHTS AT RISK IN AFGHAN CRIMINAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to UNICEF's Chief of Child Protection, the situation for children in Afghanistan has improved only slightly, if at all, nationwide -- despite the proliferation of NGOs in-country and the volume of money channeled toward children's programs. Poverty-reduction programs [...]	2009-11-12 12:28:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AID ECON PHUM PREL AF ELAB SOCI PGOV KPRM
09KABUL3663	UN IN AFGHANISTAN: SECURITY DRAWDOWN MAY NOT [...] (S) Summary: Two weeks after an attack on a UN guest house in Kabul that left five UN employees dead, top UN officials assert that operations will proceed basically unhindered. The attacks were devastating to the UN community and left many junior and mid-level UN staff debating whether adeq [...]	2009-11-13 11:53:00	Embassy Kabul	SECRET	PGOV PREL UN AF
09KABUL3678	2010 ELECTIONS: OPEN TO DEBATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Decisions must be made rapidly regarding the date for the Parliamentary, District Council, and Mayoral elections scheduled for 2010. The USG, UNAMA, and other donors must debate the pros and cons regarding holding the elections as scheduled in the spring, delaying them until su [...]	2009-11-16 14:04:00	Embassy Kabul	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM AF
09KABUL3811	EMBASSY PRESSURE TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS IN PUBLIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NGOs recently approached Embassy Kabul with the news that the Afghan Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Martyrs and the Disabled (MOLSA) has issued order to close some residential orphanages for the winter. This practice, apparently routine for the winter months, is a way bot [...]	2009-11-30 05:50:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AID ECON PHUM PREL SOCI PGOV EIND ETRP ELAB
09KABUL3849	INVERTING THE INTERNATIONAL INTERFERENCE PARADIGM: [...] (U) Summary: According to a series of meetings Embassy officials have held with Afghan women in Kabul, they are generally in favor of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan and cited many positive changes that have occurred in their lives since the fall of the Taliban. Many women's rights activists [...]	2009-12-02 09:09:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AF
09KABUL3874	ELECTORAL FRAUD --"IS ANYONE LISTENING OUT THERE?" [...] (C) SUMMARY: The inability of a Provincial Council candidate to obtain redress for his allegations of voting fraud highlights the breakdown of Afghan electoral watchdogs and the absence of any backup mechanism to right these wrongs. Recently, Eqbal Safi, an MP representing Kapisa Province, [...]	2009-12-04 08:11:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL391	ASHRAF GHANI EXPLORES SOLUTIONS TO PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai recommended using the Constitution and other government institutions to resolve the question of President Karzai's authority after the May 22 expiration of his term. Ghani, who expects to declare his own candidacy for the presidency [...]	2009-02-23 05:07:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AF
09KABUL400	UNITED FRONT: KARZAI MUST STEP DOWN AFTER MAY 22 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. United Front (UF) spokesman Sayed Sancharaki said President Karzai must step down after the 5/22 expiration of his term, but promised UF leaders will temper their public comments so as not to destabilize the country. Hard Line, But Tempered Tone ----------- 2. (SBU) In a [...]	2009-02-24 04:06:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AF
09KABUL404	JUNBESH SEEKS COMPROMISE ON PRESIDENTIAL CONTINUITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Junbesh-e-Milli leaders say the majority-Uzbek party is willing to play a constructive role in negotiations with President Karzai and other political leaders over post-5/22 executive authority. Most Junbesh leaders insist Karzai must step aside after the constitutional expira [...]	2009-02-25 04:11:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AF
09KABUL4066	FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN AFGHANISTAN OFF TO A ROCKY [...] (C)Summary: Kabul Mayor Abdul Ahad Sahebi's recent release on bail pending appeal of his conviction for misuse of public funds caused a media firestorm that has intensified public perceptions of Karzai administration corruption. President Karzai,s public defense of Sahebi coincides with repor [...]	2009-12-18 14:43:00	Embassy Kabul	SECRET	KCOR KJUS PGOV PINR PREL AF
09KABUL4129	AFGHANISTAN: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Per reftel, the following is Embassy Kabul's submission for the 2009 Country Report on Terrorism. Begin Text: In 2009, an Afghan presidential election year, Afghanistan continued to confront the challenges of building a stable, democratic government in the face of a sophisticated, multi-fa [...]	2009-12-22 15:55:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER
09KABUL4218	2010 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: AFGHAN AND [...] (C) Summary: IEC officials claim they are powerless to change the election date and that few, if any, reforms can be enacted in the compressed timeline before May 2010 elections. While requesting U.S. assistance, the officials appeared unmoved by our concerns over reform. Separately, UNDP EL [...]	2009-12-31 12:31:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL432	POLITICAL LEADERS ON STATE OF EMERGENCY OPTION [...] (C) Afghan political leaders and opposition groups held a series of meetings this week ahead of Karzai's expected 2/28 announcement of his intentions regarding the election date and issue of presidential continuity. After consultations with the Palace, international community, and each other, [...]	2009-02-28 14:14:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AF
09KABUL466	UPPER HOUSE REPSONDS TO KARZAI'S ELECTION DATE [...] (C) Upper House MPs issued a statement on 3/1 supporting the Independent Election Commission's (IEC) earlier announcement of an 8/20 election date, and called on President Karzai to step aside in favor of a caretaker government after 5/22 or not stand for re-election. The Upper House statemen [...]	2009-03-02 13:32:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AF
09KABUL495	IRANIAN INFLUENCE AT PARLIAMENT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Iranian government officials routinely encourage Parliament to support anti-Coalition policies and to raise anti-American talking points during debates. Pro-Western MPs say colleagues with close Iranian contacts accept money or political support to promote Iran's political agenda. S [...]	2009-03-03 12:08:00	Embassy Kabul	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV AF IR
09KABUL533	YASENI PICKS UP SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENTIAL BID [...] (C) Lower House 1st Deputy Speaker Mirwais Yaseni (Nangarhar, Pashtun) is attracting support for his presidential bid from some fellow parliamentarians. Lower House 2nd Deputy Speaker and United Front member Ammanullah Payman (Badakhshan, Tajik) told PolOff the UF's inability to settle on a s [...]	2009-03-10 09:58:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AF
09KABUL535	MORE FRACTURES IN THE UNITED FRONT [...] (C) SUMMARY. The opposition United Front coalition has faced a series of setbacks in recent weeks jeopardizing the group's unity and its plans to defeat Karzai in this year's presidential election. Karzai has remained one step ahead of his chief rivals through a handful of savvy political ma [...]	2009-03-10 10:09:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AF
09KABUL543	SHERZAI TELLS CHARGE HE WILL RUN FOR PRESIDENT [...] (C) Nangarhar Gov. Gul Aqa Sherzai told the Charge on 3/10 that he would run for the presidency in this year's election. Sherzai said he has been approached over the past year by Members of Parliament, political and religious leaders, tribal elders, and academics urging him to run for the off [...]	2009-03-11 04:54:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AF
09KABUL719	AFGHAN ELECTION COMMISSION AND WOMEN'S NGOS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a March 16 Embassy-hosted tea, a dozen women's NGO leaders and Independent Election Commission (IEC) and Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA) officials strategized how the IEC, together with national and international partners, could encourage women's p [...]	2009-03-25 05:25:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM AF PREL PHUM
09KABUL789	OPPOSITION LEADERS ANNOUNCE TWO OPTIONS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 28 opposition leaders announced that they had agreed among themselves on two possible options for resolving the post-May 22 presidential continuity issue to a gathering of diplomatic representatives: a transitional mechanism based on political consensus or a caretaker go [...]	2009-03-30 15:15:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AF PREL KHUM
09KABUL837	KARZAI SIGNS ANTI-WOMEN SHIA LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 19 President Karzai signed the Shia Personal Status Bill into law, regulating only the affairs of Shia citizens, a minority comprising about 15 percent of the population. Although the law has been in draft form for years, public backlash against the more extreme measures [...]	2009-04-02 17:22:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV AF PREL PHUM
09KABUL899	AFGHANISTAN LAND TRANSPORT SECTOR PART 2: [...] (SBU) Summary: Development of the Ring Road and its links to the borders has led to decreased travel times, increased commercial activity, and increased government revenue. However, Afghan business leaders complain that road quality and maintenance, police and Customs corruption, and burdensom [...]	2009-04-11 02:52:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EAID ELTN ETRD ECON PGOV AF
09KABUL913	MEDIA LAW UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The 2007 media law remains inactive due to the government's refusal to publish the law in the official legal gazette. Ambassador Holbrooke, the Charge, Embassy officials and journalists' groups have pressed Karzai to move the legislation forward. Karzai has told Holbrooke he w [...]	2009-04-13 08:41:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF PHUM
09KABUL914	SHIA FAMILY LAW UPDATE: SHIA LEADERS, CIVIL SOCETY [...] (U) SUMMARY. A prominent Shia cleric publicly lashed out this week against opponents of the Shia Family Law, charging that the government has no right to alter a law passed by Parliament and signed by President Karzai (ref A). Officials say they remain committed to a thorough review of the la [...]	2009-04-13 08:53:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN AF
09KABUL942	SHIA FAMILY LAW: DUELING DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Hundreds of protesters for and against the Shia Family Law engaged in a standoff on April 15 in front of a mosque and university run by Ayatollah Mohammad Asef Mohseni, a prominent supporter of the law (reftel). Supporters of the law outnumbered opponents. After roughly two hour [...]	2009-04-15 13:39:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KWMN AF
09KABUL947	HIA TO ENDORSE ITS OWN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan's (HIA) leader Arghandewal says party members are dissatisfied with the existing presidential candidates and plan to nominate a candidate from within their own party next week. Arghandewal will promote Gulbuddin Helal, Hezb-e-Islami's political direct [...]	2009-04-16 08:54:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM KWMN PHUM AF
09KABUL956	UNITED FRONT MAKES ABDULLAH ENDORSEMENT OFFICIAL [...] (SBU) The United Front opposition coalition announced on April 15 it had nominated former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah as its candidate for president in this summer's election. Abdullah offers an impressive political and international resume, but we continue to assess that Karzai r [...]	2009-04-16 12:08:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL971	SHIA FAMILY LAW: OFFICIAL TELLS MP TO DROP [...] (C) Upper House MP Rida Azimi (Parwan, Tajik) told PolOff on April 16 that Office of Administrative Affairs Director and Karzai advisor Sadiq Mudabir threatened that he would urge Karzai to remove her from Parliament unless she dropped her opposition to the Shia Family Law. (Azimi is one of the [...]	2009-04-19 04:50:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWMN AF
09KABUL991	JUNBESH, WAHDAT PARTIES FORGE ELECTION PACT [...] (U) The majority-Uzbek Junbesh-e-Milli and majority-Hazara Wahdat-e-Mardum political parties announced on April 18 that they would support an as-yet unnamed single candidate for president in this summer's election. Junbesh Chairman Sayed Noorullah and Wahdat leader Mohammed Mohaqqeq held a joi [...]	2009-04-20 03:47:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL994	CANDIDATE REGISTRATION: WHAT IS HAPPENING (AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Afghanistan's presidential hopefuls are scanning political circles in search of running mates to fill the two vice presidential slots on their tickets, apparently unaware or unconcerned with a rapidly approaching April 25-May 8 registration period, at which time candidates will [...]	2009-04-20 11:57:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL997	INFORMATION MINISTER SURVIVES IMPEACHMENT VOTE [...] (U) Information and Culture Minister Abdul Karim Khoram survived a chaotic impeachment vote in the Lower House on April 20 over his refusal to enforce the media law. Pashtuns and former members of the Hezb-e-Islami mujahideen group rallied to Khoram's defense, shouting down the minister's cri [...]	2009-04-20 13:32:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AF
09KAMPALA1076	UGANDA DEMARCHE REPSONSE: EXPANDING THE CHORUS ON [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uganda (GOU) is concerned about Iran's nuclear intentions and its support for Palestinian groups with links to al Qaeda. It intends to continue raising these concerns with the Iranian government. End summary. 2. (C) U.S.Mission Poloffs delivered ref A demarch [...]	2009-09-18 09:38:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL AORC UG
09KAMPALA1078	UGANDA/DRC/CAR/SUDAN: OPERATION RUDIA II UPDATE [...] (SBU) Background: This cable is a periodic update on the regional military operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) known as Operation Rudia II. This report is not meant to provide an overarching narrative or polished analysis of the operation, but rather offers spot information g [...]	2009-09-18 10:12:00	Embassy Kampala	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS MARR UG CG SU

09KAMPALA1095	UGANDA OUTLINES AMISOM REQUIREMENTS AFTER SUICIDE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met Maj. General Nathan Mugisha, the force commander of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM),on September 22 to discuss U.S. support for Uganda's contribution to AMISOM. Mugisha listed armored personnel carriers, IED detection capability, boat [...]	2009-09-22 16:10:00	Embassy Kampala	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MASS MCAP AU UG
09KAMPALA1106	UGANDA: FAO BUDGET - ZERO NOMINAL GROWTH DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-24 10:02:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN AORC EAGR EAID KUNR UN UG
09KAMPALA1107	UGANDA: 1820 RESOLUTION ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-24 10:03:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PHUM PREL CG UG KWMN
09KAMPALA1108	UGANDA: AFRICA WORKSHOP ON BIOSAFETY AND SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-24 10:04:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC KPAO PREL PTER UNSC XA KE UG
09KAMPALA1191	UGANDA: URGENT DEMARCHE ON THE GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-15 11:12:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAL PREL PHUM PTER UG
09KAMPALA1196	UGANDA: OPPOSITION PARTIES WARN OF TROUBLE AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with the Mission on October 5, opposition party and National Resistance Movement (NRM) leaders shared their views of the 2011 presidential election process. Opposition parties warned of civil disobedience and renewed violence if the Government of Uganda (GOU) [...]	2009-10-16 06:25:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM UG
09KAMPALA1229	UGANDA AND THE NILE: UPSTREAM STATES EAGER FOR [...] (C) Summary: On October 6, members of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) Secretariat based in Entebbe told PolOff that the NBI Technical Advisory Committee meeting held September 28-29 in Uganda had failed once again to achieve a cooperative breakthrough with their two northern neighbors. Upstre [...]	2009-10-27 04:46:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SENV EAGR EAID UG
09KAMPALA1265	UGANDA: MYERS CANDIDACY TO ICSC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-30 08:14:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA
09KAMPALA1267	UGANDA: NIGER COUP DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-30 09:16:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA UG
09KAMPALA1268	UGANDA: UNGA IRAN, BURMA, NORTH KOREA DEMARCHES [...] (SBU) Poloff urged Uganda to vote against no action motions and in favor of Third Committee resolutions on Iran, Burma, and North Korea per reftel on October 28. Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Multilateral Affairs Officer, Issac Sebulime, and the Acting Chief of the Ministry's Social Unit, Marti [...]	2009-11-02 13:47:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA UG
09KAMPALA1269	UGANDA: SUDAN STRATEGY DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-02 13:48:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SU UG
09KAMPALA1270	UGANDA: UN 1267 DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-02 13:48:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC UG
09KAMPALA1271	UGANDA: PARLIAMENT CONSIDERS CRIMINALIZING HOMOSEXUALITY [...] (SBU) Summary: A Member of Parliament belonging to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) submitted draft legislation criminalizing homosexuality on October 14, with very extreme penalties for offenders. A local gay and lesbian NGO told Poloff that the legislation, even in draft form, [...]	2009-11-03 05:22:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI UG
09KAMPALA1304	UGANDA: THE CONTINUED DECLINE AND FALL OF THE LRA [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-10 13:51:00	Embassy Kampala	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PINS PINR PHUM PGOV UG
09KAMPALA1306	DEMARCHE RESPONSE: UGANDA WILL SUPPORT U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-13 05:23:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC IMO EWWT PHSA PREL UG
09KAMPALA1308	UGANDA: GOLDSTONE VOTE RESULT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-13 05:25:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAL PRE PHUM UNGA PTER UG
09KAMPALA1309	UGANDA: HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS FEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: The regional representative of the Ford Foundation, the Chairman of Sexual Minorities of Uganda (SMUG),and the leader of a local women's rights association thanked the U.S. for its opposition to Uganda's draft "anti-homosexuality" legislation (ref. A),expressed concern over th [...]	2009-11-13 05:57:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI PREL UG
09KAMPALA1323	UGANDA: ALLEGATIONS OF "GHOST" VOTERS HAUNT [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-17 06:30:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR UG
09KAMPALA1339	UGANDA: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON UNGA ANTI-ISRAELI [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-24 13:02:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNGA KPAL UG
09KAMPALA1344	UGANDA: PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN [...] (C) Summary: The Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee reviewing Uganda's draft anti-homosexuality legislation told PolOffs he is opposed to the bill and that his committee has more important issues to consider. Chairman Stephen Tashobya said the legislation would likely pass if it reaches t [...]	2009-11-25 12:42:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL UG
09KAMPALA1359	UGANDA: DEMARCHE RESPONSE - DEFAMATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-03 13:43:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA UG
09KAMPALA1360	UGANDA - BLUE LANTERN DTC CASE: 050112288 (TRIPLE [...] (U) PolOff conducted a post-shipment inspection of license 050112288 for the export of International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)-controlled biometric identification equipment on December 1 per reftel request. Poloff visited the Triple Canopy Uganda recruiting/processing center to inspect the equip [...]	2009-12-03 13:45:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC UG
09KAMPALA1364	UGANDA: DEMARCHE RESPONSE - CHILD SOLDIERS [...] (SBU) PolOff informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Child Soldiers Prevention Act (CSPA) provisions and impending implementation per reftel demarche on November 27 (ref. A). The United Nations removed Uganda from the list of countries that actively recruit children into the armed forces in [...]	2009-12-07 07:41:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KTIP ELAB KCRM KWMN KMCA PGOV PREL SMIG
09KAMPALA1365	UGANDA: NEW LAND REFORMS TARGET BUGANDA KINGDOM [...] (C) Summary: Parliament ratified Uganda's controversial Land Amendment Bill on November 26, after more than two years of wrangling between the Ugandan government and the Buganda Kingdom. The bill now awaits President Museveni's signature. Museveni revived the legislation in September after th [...]	2009-12-07 14:16:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EINV PINR UG
09KAMPALA1381	UGANDA: DONORS NOT AMUSED AS ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY [...] (C) Summary: During a December 1 meeting with U.S. EmbOffs, UN Special Envoy on AIDS in Africa Elizabeth Mataka criticized Ugandan leaders for trying to criminalize homosexuality instead of curbing rampant health sector corruption. Mataka traveled to Kampala to raise concerns about Uganda's d [...]	2009-12-08 12:32:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM EAID KCOR UG
09KAMPALA1390	UGANDA: DEMARCHE RESPONSE - IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-10 07:18:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR
09KAMPALA1395	UGANDA: EDBI DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (S) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Multilateral Affairs Officer, Isaac Sebulime, on December Â [...]	2009-12-14 12:36:00	Embassy Kampala	SECRET	EFIN ETTC KNNP IR PINR PARM PREL UG
09KAMPALA1396	UGANDA: ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY BILL REMAINS UNCHANGED, NOT [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 10, Member of Parliament and sponsor of Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill David Bahati said a Bloomberg newswire report misquoted Ethics Minister Nsaba Buturo and that provisions on the death penalty and life imprisonment for homosexuals remain in the bill. A separate [...]	2009-12-11 09:40:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM UG
09KAMPALA1399	UGANDA: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON 2002 GULU PRISON INCIDENT [...] (C) Summary: The following information responds to reftel questions regarding the 2002 death of Peter Oloya at Gulu Central Prison. In 2003, the Ugandan High Court described Mr. Oloya's death as "a blatant case of extra judicial killing." Relying on the testimony of one eyewitness, and the Ugandan [...]	2009-12-17 07:09:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UG
09KAMPALA1407	UGANDA: PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER BESIGYE FORESEES ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) president Kizza Besigye, who won 37% percent of the vote in the 2006 presidential election and is President Museveni's most formidable challenger for 2011, told PolOffs on December 15 that government officials and security forces are actively obstr [...]	2009-12-21 07:42:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UG
09KAMPALA1409	UGANDA: INTERNAL OPPOSITION TO ANTI-HOMOSEXUALITY BILL [...] (C) Summary: Three domestic opponents of Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill received significant local press coverage during the December 12-13 weekend. The government-owned newspaper published a column against the bill by senior presidential advisor John Nagenda. Nagenda had earlier told PolOf [...]	2009-12-21 08:34:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM UG
09KAMPALA1413	UGANDA: HOMOPHOBE EXTREMISTS AND HOMOSEXUAL SCAPEGOATS [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-24 08:27:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UG
09KAMPALA288	UGANDA'S KARAMOJA REGION: THE FINAL FRONTIER FOR SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: A first-of-its-kind USG inter-agency delegation visiting Uganda's northeast Karamoja region in February found unrelenting drought, desperate poverty, and wrenching economic and cultural change. Karamojong leaders and civil society representatives acknowledged that they must mo [...]	2009-03-18 11:59:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR ECON MASS PREL SENV PGOV PHUM KDEM UG
09KAMPALA338	GOU CONSIDERS REQUEST TO LEAD ON PRST ON COUPS IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-02 13:11:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL AU UNSC UG
09KAMPALA628	MUSEVENI APPOINTS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONERS [...] (SBU) Summary: President Museveni named four commissioners to the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) on May 7, finally filling the vacancies after six crippling months of inactivity. The appointments will allow the UHRC to resume hearing cases of human rights violations, which had stalled a [...]	2009-06-18 08:13:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV UG
09KAMPALA771	UGANDA/DRC: OPERATION RUDIA II UPDATE (JULY 15, [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable is a periodic update on the regional military operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) known as Operation Rudia II. This report is not meant to provide an overarching narrative or polished analysis of the operation, but rather offers spot information glea [...]	2009-07-15 12:50:00	Embassy Kampala	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS MARR UG CG SU
09KAMPALA830	UGANDA/DRC: OPERATION RUDIA II UPDATE (JULY 31, [...] (SBU) Background: This cable is a periodic update on the regional military operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) known as Operation Rudia II. This report is not meant to provide an overarching narrative or polished analysis of the operation, but rather offers spot information g [...]	2009-07-31 10:16:00	Embassy Kampala	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS MARR UG CG SU
09KAMPALA84	UGANDA: IRREGULARITIES PLAGUE ANOTHER BY-ELECTION [...] Summary: On January 7, Uganda's ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) regained two seats which the courts had earlier declared vacant due to election fraud committed by the winning candidate in one case, and to non-compliance with the electoral law in the other. Electoral malpractices wer [...]	2009-01-21 09:58:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV KDEM UG
09KAMPALA913	DEMARCHE: GOU UNDECIDED ON UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-13 09:38:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNESCO UG
09KAMPALA922	UGANDA/DRC/CAR: OPERATION RUDIA II UPDATE (AUGUST [...] (SBU) Background: This cable is a periodic update on the regional military operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) known as Operation Rudia II. This report is not meant to provide an overarching narrative or polished analysis of the operation, but rather offers spot information gl [...]	2009-08-14 09:27:00	Embassy Kampala	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS MARR UG CG SU
09KAMPALA997	UGANDA/DRC/CAR/SUDAN: OPERATION RUDIA II UPDATE [...] (SBU) Background: This cable is a periodic update on the regional military operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) known as Operation Rudia II. This report is not meant to provide an overarching narrative or polished analysis of the operation, but rather offers spot information g [...]	2009-08-28 06:41:00	Embassy Kampala	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM MOPS MARR UG CG SU
09KARACHI145	BALOCHISTAN - WHAT MAY BE BEHIND THE CURRENT [...] (C) Often violent unrest over the killing of three Baloch leaders continued in Balochistan over the past week. Nationalist political parties led protest rallies and militant nationalist groups claimed credit for violence, including a rocket attack on a Frontier Corps (FC) camp. Some nationali [...]	2009-04-27 05:04:00	Consulate Karachi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MARR PK
09KARACHI362	KARACHI - MQM'S STUDENT-WING AS LEADERSHIP TRAINING GROUND [...] (C) Summary. Poloffs met November 6 with Syed Waheeduzzaman, Chairman of APMSO, which he described as the "mother-wing" of MQM. APMSO provides traditional student support in schools and Universities across Sindh and plays a major role in the day to day operations of MQM by identifying and prov [...]	2009-11-16 04:47:00	Consulate Karachi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KCRM KCRS PK
09KARACHI81	SINDH - PPP SECRETARY GENERAL RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary: Former Sindh Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Secretary General Nafis Siddiqui said that he tendered his resignation as the party's leader in Sindh after being passed over for a Senate seat because President Zardari has marginalized long-time PPP members in favor of his close allie [...]	2009-03-14 09:18:00	Consulate Karachi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PK
09KATHMANDU1135	NEPAL: UNPKO OFFICER REPATRIATED AND DETAINED [...] (SBU) Nepal Army (NA) Major Niranjan Basnet, who had been deployed to Chad on a UN peacekeeping mission, has been repatriated to Nepal following intervention by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). Basnet is one o [...]	2009-12-14 11:50:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM NP
09KATHMANDU1154	NEPAL: MAOIST YOUNG COMMUNIST LEAGUE ACTIVE, STRONG [...] (C) SUMMARY: With more than 700,000 members, the Maoist-affiliated Young Communist League (YCL) is the country's largest, best-organized youth paramilitary organization. The Maoist leadership uses the YCL to enforce general strikes, intimidate voters, and raise funds, mostly through mafia-lik [...]	2009-12-22 12:02:00	Embassy Kathmandu	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM NP
09KHARTOUM1005	U.S SPECIAL ENVOY GRATION VISITS MALAKAL, ASSESSES [...] (SBU) Summary: During the August 20 visit by U.S. Special Envoy (S/E) for Sudan General Scott Gration to Malakal, capital of Upper Nile State, where fatal clashes between local Joint Integrated Units (JIUs) occurred in February, JIU commanders said relations between their forces were "good". I [...]	2009-09-02 08:02:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PINS MCAP KDEM EAIR SU
09KHARTOUM1019	Civilian Protection Against LRA Attacks in Southern Sudan [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to Reftel, PolOff met with Minister of Interior Gier Cuang Aluong, SPLA Chief of Staff Major General James Hoth and UNMIS officials to assess the SPLA, UNMIS and Uganda People's Defense Forces (UPDF) response capacity to Lord's Republican Army (LRA) attacks in Western [...]	2009-09-03 11:25:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINS MOPS UG SU
09KHARTOUM102	DARFUR HUMANITARIAN MECHANISM AND PROSPECTS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 24, the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue's (CHD) Theo Murphy told CDA Fernandez that Abdul Wahid Al-Nur's acceptance of CHD's proposed humanitarian monitoring mechanism was a "breakthrough." Murphy also reported that JEM has accepted CHD's initiative "in principle," [...]	2009-01-27 12:57:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM103	TURABI MOVED TO PORT SUDAN, FAMILY DEFIANT [...] (SBU) On January 25, Sudanese authorities transferred Dr. Hassan Al-Turabi from Khartoum's Kober prison to the political detainees' wing in Port Sudan's prison, in the eastern part of the country. Turabi, the outspoken Islamist who was once a founding father of the present regime, but now its b [...]	2009-01-27 14:06:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM1031	SPLM SIGNS MOU WITH UMMA PARTY AND PREPARES FOR TRILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 5, the Southern People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and Umma parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) pledging Umma's support for free and fair elections and for a referendum that allows the South to choose unity with or separation from the North. Umma Pa [...]	2009-09-07 15:35:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM SU
09KHARTOUM1033	CIVIL SOCIETY REPORTS POLITICAL SPACE IN SUDAN SHRINKING [...] (SBU) Summary: Northern opposition parties and civil society groups report rising levels of government interference in voter education and political party activities in the runup to the 2010 elections. Groups report delayed and cancelled meetings; violence, arrest and detention of those who a [...]	2009-09-08 04:28:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM1036	Sudanese Opposition to Use Lubna Hussein Trial as Rallying [...] (SBU) Summary: Lubna Hussein, accused of violating article 152 of Sudanese criminal code (indecent dress),was tried and convicted on September 7 in a proceeding at which she was not given an opportunity to enter a plea or to call witnesses in her defense. Mrs. Hussein, who was sentenced to pay [...]	2009-09-08 18:11:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KDEM SU
09KHARTOUM1040	IRISH AMBASSADOR PROVIDES UPDATE ON HOSTAGES' SITUATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Irish Ambassador Gerard Corr (resident in Cairo) met with DCM Asquino on September 8 to update him on the status of the two aid workers, Irish national Sharon Cummins and Ugandan citizen Hilda Kawuki, who were kidnapped in North Darfur on July 3. Ambassador Corr confirmed that I [...]	2009-09-10 09:08:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER PGOV CASC SU
09KHARTOUM1041	DAFURI HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ARRESTED [...] (SBU) On September 2, poloff talked with Hamid Nur, a former U.S. Embassy locally-employed staff member in the political section, to discuss the detainment of a human rights activist. Nur said the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) arrested Abdel Majeed Saleh Abakr Haroun in Kha [...]	2009-09-10 13:02:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI SU
09KHARTOUM1067	Abyei Border Demarcation Committee Facing Hurdles; Will Not [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met with members of the Abyei Border Demarcation Committee on September 7 and again on September 12 to introduce a U.S. demarcation expert tasked with providing technical assistance to the Committee, and to discuss the Committee's needs and readiness. Committee members i [...]	2009-09-23 05:28:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM KPKO SU
09KHARTOUM1077	UNAMID NOT PERMITTED ACCESS TO CONDUCT ASSESSMENT OF KORMA, [...] (SBU) UNAMID sources reported on September 23 that the UN has not yet conducted a security assessment of Korma, North Darfur, following unconfirmed reports of clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Darfuri rebels aligned with Sudanese Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW). Accordin [...]	2009-09-23 15:18:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM1087	Donors, UN, Reject Funding Request for DDR [...] (SBU) Summary. At a September 10 meeting, donors rejected a written request for operations funding from the Chairperson of the Southern Sudan Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration Commission (SSDDRC),William Deng Deng. The meeting was chaired by Adriaan Verheul, Chief of the Integrat [...]	2009-09-24 14:03:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM1095	UNAMID TO BE GRANTED ACCESS TO KORMA IN WAKE OF ATTACKS ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) continues to be denied access to the town of Korma following clashes between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and Sudan Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) faction there on September 17-18. UNAMID's most recent attempt t [...]	2009-09-28 17:29:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PGOV PHUM PINR PREF KPKO AU SU
09KHARTOUM1098	BORDER DEMARCATION RESTARTS, PENDING LEGISLATION MAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Elizabeth Pelton of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) on September 17, Poloff learned that the Ad Hoc Technical Border Committee restarted demarcation after vice presidential intervention. Poloff also met during the week of September 6 with interna [...]	2009-09-29 07:20:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO SOCI SU
09KHARTOUM1099	VOTER REGISTRATION FACING MANY CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The National Election Commission (NEC) announced that voter registration will take place from November 1 to November 30. Many challenges face the NEC including inadequate logistical plans, staffing shortfalls, poor constituency delimitation, and the lack of a voter education pr [...]	2009-09-29 08:04:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KPKO SOCI EAID SU
09KHARTOUM1135	MISSERYIA ORGANIZE TO BLOCK ABYEI BOUNDARY DEMARCATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately one thousand members of the Misseryia, an Arabic-speaking nomadic tribe located primarily in South Kordofan State, met October 5 to reject the July 22 decision of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA),which defined the boundaries of Abyei. Conference attendees [...]	2009-10-08 14:24:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PBTS PINS KPKO AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM114	DARFUR MEDIATION: WE NEED A FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT BEFORE AN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 28, George Zechariah, the primary staff assistant to AU-UN Chief Darfur Mediator Djibril Bassole, told poloffs that the Mediation needs to secure a framework agreement between the rebels and Government of Sudan (GoS) before the issuance of an ICC indictment against Pr [...]	2009-01-29 15:04:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM1150	SOUTH DARFUR HUMAN RIGHTS UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Human rights violations as a whole have declined in South Darfur due to a reduction in tribal violence, human rights officers at the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) told poloff on October 7. They expressed alarm, however, at the increase in politically-mot [...]	2009-10-14 05:24:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL PINR KDEM SOCI SU
09KHARTOUM116	DARFUR REMAINS TENSE AND JEM IS ON THE MOVE - BUT TO [...] (SBU) The North Darfur capital of El Fasher was quiet on January 29 and 30, with no bombing reported. According to several sources, GOS security forces had somewhat reduced their presence in the North Darfur capital. No estimates of casualties from fighting earlier in the week (neither in Muh [...]	2009-01-30 13:29:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM1165	VOTER REGISTRATION STAFF CUT, POLITICAL PARTIES SADDLED [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 13, the National Elections Commission (NEC) announced that it will cut its voter registration staff from 10,000 to 1,500, a number which election experts say is sufficient to register only 40 percent of the eligible electorate. The NEC also announced that political p [...]	2009-10-16 10:11:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KPKO SOCI SU
09KHARTOUM117	CHADIAN REBELS - ERDIMI PLEDGES POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 29, the newly-selected Chadian rebel leader Timane Erdimi (reftel) told polchief and poloff that his movement, the Union of Resistance Forces (UFR),will focus first on political and diplomatic engagement, and only later consider an attack on the Chadian Government. E [...]	2009-01-31 07:28:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
09KHARTOUM1172	OUTLOOK NOT GOOD FOR DARFUR ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During meetings with political party and civil society leaders in Darfur from October 9-12, poloff found that participation of opposition parties in elections is unlikely given the lack of political space, security concerns and the lack of a comprehensive peace in Darfur. Some reb [...]	2009-10-18 13:33:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO SU
09KHARTOUM1174	ABYEI DEMARCATION COMMITTEE DELAYED, SEEKS INTERVENTION [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 9 letter to Riek Machar (SPLM),Vice President of the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS),three members of the Abyei Boundary Demarcation Committee state that the committee is seriously hampered by political interference, security concerns, and lack of equipment. [...]	2009-10-18 16:03:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PBTS PINS KPKO AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM118	CHADIAN REBELS - ERDIMI PLEDGES POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 29, the newly-selected Chadian rebel leader Timane Erdimi (reftel) told polchief and poloff that his movement, the Union of Resistance Forces (UFR),will focus first on political and diplomatic engagement, and only later consider an attack on the Chadian Government. E [...]	2009-01-31 07:28:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
09KHARTOUM1182	GOVERNOR AGAR STRIKES PESSIMISTIC TONE IN MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 14 meeting with members of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC),Malik Agar (SPLM),Governor of Blue Nile State, said that increasing numbers of Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the continued presence of Other Armed Groups (OAGs) in his state raise security co [...]	2009-10-20 13:48:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM1188	INITIAL REACTION TO SUDAN STRATEGY ROLL OUT MUTED [...] (SBU) Summary. Our initial soundings about Sudanese reaction to the New Sudan Strategy roll out indicates that most informed observers are adopting a muted and cautious posture as they digest how the strategy will impact the bilateral relationship. Media reaction today largely echoed the mi [...]	2009-10-22 07:07:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SU
09KHARTOUM1198	POPULAR CONSULTATIONS CRUCIAL, WITH OR WITHOUT ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) held a conference from October 15-18 in Kurmuk, Blue Nile State, to brain-storm about the form and function of popular consultations. The latter are called for by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) to "ascertain the v [...]	2009-10-25 15:53:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM1199	DARFUR UPDATE: UNAMID FEARS ATTACKS COMING IN JEBEL MARRA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) officials are deeply concerned that the Government of Sudan (GOS) plans to fortify recent gains against Sudanese Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) forces by attacking the rebel stronghold of West Jebel Marra in the coming [...]	2009-10-25 15:54:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PGOV PHUM PINR PREF KPKO AU SU
09KHARTOUM1208	SLA/AW GENERAL COMMANDER REQUESTS REBEL UNIFICATION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The General Commander of the rebel forces of Sudanese Liberation Army/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) Abdelgadir Abdelrahman (Gaddura) supports rebel unification efforts that occur within Darfur's "liberated areas," not in Libya. Assembled commanders reaffirmed their support for the work o [...]	2009-10-26 11:40:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SU
09KHARTOUM1209	CHADIAN REBELS: UFR'S TOLLIMI ADDRESSES EU INITIATIVE, [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 25 meeting with poloff, Secretary General of Chadian rebel group Union des Forces de la Rsistance (UFR) Abakar Tollimi expressed concern about the lack of progress in the EU-led initiative to facilitate political discussions between UFR and the Government of Chad (G [...]	2009-10-27 09:52:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PGOV PINR PREL KPKO SU CD
09KHARTOUM1212	SPLM MAKING PROGRESS ON CPA ISSUES BUT REJECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 23, while hosting a visit of the South African Vice President, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) held an emergency Polit-Bureau meeting chaired by Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) President Salva Kiir. The meeting focused on the SPLM boycott of the Nat [...]	2009-10-27 15:07:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SU
09KHARTOUM1214	LUBNA HUSSEIN CONTINUES HER CRUSADE AGAINST SHARIA LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: Almost four months after journalist and former United Nations press employee Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein gained tremendous international attention for wearing pants in public, she appears determined not to allow the incident to quietly fade away. Despite threats and travel restriction [...]	2009-10-29 06:28:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KPAO OIIP SOCI SU
09KHARTOUM1234	CDA DISCUSSES ABYEI WITH DIRDIRI [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 29, CDA Whitehead discussed developments in the Abyei special administrative district with Ambassador Al Dirdiri Mohamed Ahmed (NCP),the Government of Sudan's (GoS) Abyei point-person. Dirdiri said that the migration of Misseriya tribes-people into Abyei this year c [...]	2009-11-03 14:42:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM124	CHADIAN REBELS - HASSABALLAH EMPHASIZES ALLIANCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 30, Adouma Hassaballah Djadarab, the First Vice President of the Union of Resistance Forces (UFR,) told poloffs that UFR is an alliance of existing Chadian rebel groups, not the "fusion" of all movements. Like UFR President Erdimi (reftel,) Hassaballah emphasized that [...]	2009-02-02 07:21:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU
09KHARTOUM1261	WILL THE GOS REVIVE THE SUDAN PEOPLE'S INITIATIVE? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sudan People's Initiative (SPI) civil society forum may soon be revived pending approval from the Presidency, SPI Chief Drafter and University of Khartoum Professor Attayeb Hajj Atia told poloff in a meeting on October 26. Revival of long-dormant forum, which in the past prod [...]	2009-11-08 06:25:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM1262	SOUTHERN SUDAN ASKS FOR HELP IN PREPARING FOR ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Voter registration began in Southern Sudan on November 1 amid logistical and political hurdles. (Septel will report on registration progress.) This cable discusses the Government of South Sudan's (GoSS) urgent plea for help in preparing security for the elections following an O [...]	2009-11-08 07:05:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINS SU
09KHARTOUM1263	DEMARCATION OF ABYEI BOUNDARY REMAINS FROZEN [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 5, Poloff spoke with Kwol Biong (SPLM),Deputy Chair of the Abyei Border Demarcation Committee, who said that no physical demarcation of the Abyei border has occurred. Biong said that security issues are the committee's primary concern, but also complained of insuffic [...]	2009-11-08 08:33:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM MOPS SU
09KHARTOUM1271	PARTY TALKS CONTINUE WITH SHORT DEADLINE SET [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 9 meeting with Poloff, Remy Oller, Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Deputy Speaker of the Council of States, said the National Congress Party (NCP) and SPLM were still engaged in talks initiated by the US. Special Envoy on outstanding Comprehensive Pea [...]	2009-11-10 09:21:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL SU
09KHARTOUM1272	SUDAN: 49th Plenary of the AEC [...] (U) Summary: The November 8, 49th Plenary of the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) tackled the following issues: preparations for upcoming elections and referendum, post referendum arrangements, voter registration and border demarcation problems in Abyei. State Minister at the Minis [...]	2009-11-10 13:45:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR MARR KDEM SU
09KHARTOUM1278	FRENCH DIPLOMAT CALLS FOR RETURN TO NAIVASHA-STYLE [...] (C) Summary: In an October 21 meeting with Polchief and Poloff, French Deputy Chief of Mission Denis Douveneaux praised Chadian President Idris Deby as a "peacemaker," and placed the blame squarely on Libya for arming and funding insurgents in the Darfur region. He expressed doubts that unity [...]	2009-11-15 06:32:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINS CH FR SU
09KHARTOUM1279	AU LIAISON ANALYSES PEACE AND SECURITY MEETING [...] (C//NOFORN) SUMMARY: On November 09, Poloff met with Boitshoko Mokgatlhe, African Union (AU) Liaison Officer for Sudan. Mokgatlhe went over the main points recommended by the 207th meeting of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) in Abuja (ref. A) and quietly confirmed the widespread speculati [...]	2009-11-15 06:46:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU
09KHARTOUM1281	PROBLEMS PLAGUE BEGINNING OF VOTER REGISTRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After two weeks of voter registration for the first general elections in Sudan in over 20 years, observers say the dearth of information about when, where and how to register has confused potential registrants. The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has reported far more people [...]	2009-11-15 09:09:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SU
09KHARTOUM13	MAIDOB REBELS KILLED IN JEM INFIGHTING [...] (SBU) Summary: Dozens of Maidob fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) were killed and many more injured at the hands of their Zaghawa counterparts in clashes in Eastern Chad on January 1, according to multiple rebel sources. The infighting apparently started when the Maidob prot [...]	2009-01-06 13:14:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM1319	Energy Ministry Official Says Sudan's Oil to Run Out by [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 9, Hamad Elneel Abdulgadir, Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry of Energy and Mining (MEM) complained to Poloff that the Ministry's efforts in training Southern Sudanese for oil industry jobs had been a failure, one reason that the National Petroleum Commission [...]	2009-11-23 08:58:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET PGOV PREL ECON EFIN SU
09KHARTOUM1323	VOTER REGISTRATION LAGS IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] (SBU) Voter registration in Southern Sudan continues to move slowly and to be hampered by organizational, funding and logistical challenges. Percentages of registered voters in the south lag far behind the overall totals of registered voters in other parts of Sudan. Lack of clear policies, gu [...]	2009-11-23 12:14:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO SU
09KHARTOUM1339	SE Gration Visits Voter Registration Centers in Sudan [...] (SBU) Summary: United States Special Envoy to Sudan (SE) General Scott Gration visited a lively registration center in Khartoum on November 18 during a visit arranged by the National Congress Party (NCP). Additional visits to voter registration centers in Khartoum, Abyei and El Geneina showed [...]	2009-11-26 07:48:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SU
09KHARTOUM1359	SPLM HEAVYWEIGHTS PAGAN AMUM, YASSIR ARMAN [...] (C) Summary: Two key leaders of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM),Secretary General Pagan Amum and Head of SPLM Northern Sector Yassir Arman, were detained by Omdurman authorities in conjunction with an "illegal" protest by opposition parties at the National Assembly on December 7. [...]	2009-12-07 11:57:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINS PREL SU
09KHARTOUM1370	SPLM'S ARMAN DESCRIBES POLICE ABUSE; ARRESTED DEMONSTRATORS [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 8, Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Head of Northern Sector Yasir Arman described how several Government of Sudan (GOS) junior police officers "beat him with their boots" and a police baton while he was in police custody on December 7. Arman stated he receiv [...]	2009-12-08 13:20:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREF SU
09KHARTOUM1376	NCP AND SPLM UP THE POLITICAL ANTE; TENSIONS SPIKE [...] (C) Summary: The December 7 confrontation between opposition demonstrators that led to the arrest of several Sudan People's Liberation Movement leaders (reftels) has led to Counter-moves on both sides, effectively upping the political ante. Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Vice President [...]	2009-12-09 16:02:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINS PREL SU
09KHARTOUM1378	SPLM'S AMUM PAUSES PROTESTS, VOWS CONTINUED OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition party protests will continue until outstanding CPA implementation issues are resolved, Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Secretary General Pagan Amum told DCM Asquino on December 9. While Amum has decided to hold off on leading any protests in Khartoum in the [...]	2009-12-10 07:33:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREF SU
09KHARTOUM1389	MISSERIYA IN MUGLAD REJECT PCA DECISION [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Poloff in Muglad on December 9 and 10, Misseriya from traditional leadership, civil society groups, and local NGOs universally expressed the view that the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruling on Abyei (Ref A) was an unjust taking of their land. Members of [...]	2009-12-13 10:54:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM KPKO SOCI SU
09KHARTOUM1390	GNU FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH U.S. COMMISSION ON [...] (C) Summary: The Government of National Unity (GNU) Minister of Foreign Affairs Deng Alor commented on the National Congress Party's (NCP) relationship with the United States during a December 9 meeting with the visiting U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Alor, who is [...]	2009-12-13 11:45:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR SU
09KHARTOUM140	BOMBING CONTINUES AND GOS BLOCKS UNAMID SENIOR LEADERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 3, the Government of Sudan blocked senior UNAMID leaders from traveling to Muhajarriya - a move that several UNAMID leaders have already interpreted as a violation of UNAMID's Status of Forces Agreement with the GOS. UNAMID sources also reported that the Sudanese Ar [...]	2009-02-03 16:16:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM1401	PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT FOR ABYEI SLOW IN COMING [...] Summary. (SBU) On December 8, Poloff met with Ngok Dinka traditional leaders in Abyei town, who stated that the National Congress Party (NCP) is arming militias in the area in order to destabilize Abyei and prevent demarcation of Abyei's boundaries. Traditional leaders also complained that the [...]	2009-12-14 12:05:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PBTS KDEM KPKO SOCI SU

09KHARTOUM1410	ABYEI JIU INTEGRATED BUT INEFFECTIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. On December 8 Poloff met with Colonel Zakaria Akoi Yak (SPLM),Deputy Commander of the Abyei Joint Integrated Unit (JIU),who told Poloff that his JIU forces, tasked with providing security for the Abyei boundary demarcation team, had never been confronted by Misseriya tribesmen [...]	2009-12-15 11:33:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PBTS KDEM KPKO MOPS SU

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