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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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07SANSALVADOR273MEETING OF ATTORNEY GENERALS OF U.S., EL SALVADOR,
[...] (C) Summary. During Attorney General Gonzales' visit to El Salvador on February 5, Salvadoran AG Felix Safie hosted a private dinner for Attorney General Gonzales and their counterparts from Honduras and Guatemala, Leonidas Bautista and Juan Luis Florido. The topic of the dinner was regiona [...]
2007-02-16 19:03:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM KHLS ES GT HO
07SANSALVADOR298SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SALVADORAN PRESIDENT SACA
[...] (S) President Elias Antonio "Tony" Saca is likely to emphasize his concerns over Venezuelan and Iranian threats to regional stability and press for extension of TPS during his February 27 meeting with the President. Saca will also raise gang violence, deportation of Salvadoran criminal alien [...]
2007-02-20 16:36:00Embassy San SalvadorSECRETPGOV PREL OVIP KCRM KHLS ES
07SANSALVADOR299EL SALVADOR: SACA AT THE HALFWAY MARK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Elias Antonio "Tony" Saca remains one of his country's most popular political figures, and has continued to consolidate the nation's democratic institutions while making significant progress in facilitating sustainable economic growth. His administration remains one of [...]
2007-02-20 16:40:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALES PGOV PREL
07SANSALVADOR321LETTER FROM PRESIDENT SACA TO PRESIDENT BUSH
[...] (C) On February 17, Embassy received a cover letter (dated February 10) from President Saca to President Bush, thanking the President for the opportunity to meet with him in Washington to discuss issues "relating to the security and stability of both our countries." The letter was accompan [...]
2007-02-22 17:08:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALPREL ES KHLS PINR PGOV OVIP KCRM
07SANSALVADOR328REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran soldiers to participate in the Ground Defense Course, Inter American Air Force Academy, San Antonio, TX scheduled for March 10 - May 9, 2007. 1LT XX [...]
2007-02-23 15:04:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
07SANSALVADOR402EL SALVADOR: PARLACEN MURDERS CONTINUE TO RESONATE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of the February 19 murders of three Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) Central American Parliament (PARLACEN) deputies, and the subsequent apparent extrajudicial executions of four policemen implicated in the killings (per reftels),relations remain strained bet [...]
2007-03-02 22:39:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALES PGOV PREL
07SANSALVADOR409EL SALVADOR: 2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS RERPORT
[...] (U) The following is post,s responses to Reftel relative to the 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report. The text tracks paragraphs 27 to 30 in Reftel. --------------------------------------------- --------- Paragraph 27: Overview of Activities to Eliminate TIP ---------------------------------- [...]
2007-03-05 15:00:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB ES
07SANSALVADOR41THE CENTRAL AMERICAN INTEGRATION SYSTEM
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Although established in 1992, the Central American Integration System (SICA) remains an incipient attempt by the countries of Central America to achieve regional integration and cooperation. The organization includes the member nations of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guate [...]
2007-01-10 19:07:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM XK ES ETRD EU
07SANSALVADOR453MORE CAFTA-DR TRADE DATA AND SUCCESSES
[...] Maquila (apparel) exports, which account for 71 percent of El Salvador's exports, fell by 15.7 percent during the first nine months of CAFTA-DR, dragging down overall exports by 1 percent. Nonmaquila exports grew by 73.2 percent, much of the increase the result of third-country ethanol process [...]
2007-03-09 21:26:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EAGR ES
07SANSALVADOR454AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA RESPONSE PLANS
[...] The following are activities the Government of El Salvador has undertaken to prepare for the threat posed by highly pathogenic influenza subtype H5N1: -- The GOES has established the National Commission for Pandemic Avian Influenza Preparations (CONAPREVIAR) to coordinate the activities of [...]
2007-03-09 21:27:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL ES
07SANSALVADOR476A/S Sullivan and MCC Bent Visit on CAFTA Anniversary
[...] Assistant Secretary of State for EEB Daniel Sullivan and Millennium Challenge Corporation Deputy CEO Rodney Bent visited El Salvador February 28 and March 1 to commemorate the one-year anniversary of CAFTA-DR's entry into force. In meetings with GOES officials, the private sector, and the med [...]
2007-03-13 15:51:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EAGR EAID ES
07SANSALVADOR49EL SALVADOR'S PROPOSED CHANGES FOR SOFA
[...] (C) Presidential Legal Adviser Luis Mario Rodriguez sent the Embassy a formal request for proposed changes to the Status of Forces Agreement (ref A) on January 11, 2006. The proposed changes are as follows: --Suggests (though does formally propose) striking the paragraph that reads, "The [...]
2007-01-11 21:04:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALKTIA MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL ES
07SANSALVADOR490SAN SALVADOR COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAS DANIEL REIFSNYDER
[...] Post grants country clearance to Deputy Assistant Secretary of State/OES Dan Reifsnyder and delegation members Rob Wing, Rachel Kastenberg, Andrea Borel, Jun Bando, Jerry Bisson, John Garrison, Odalis Perez, Jill Kelley, Leslie Marbury, Steve Fondriest and Michael Donald to travel to San Salva [...]
2007-03-14 22:29:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDAORC ASEC OTRA SENV ES
07SANSALVADOR50EL SALVADOR RESPONSE TO U/S JOSEPH LETTER
[...] (U) On December 28, 2006 post received the following dipnote in response to reftel A. 2. (SBU) Begin Text (unofficial translation): Mr. Under-Secretary: With great interest we received your message which makes reference to the role that the countries that participate in the Prolifer [...]
2007-01-11 21:10:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM PREL PHSA EWWT EAIR PBTS ES
07SANSALVADOR518SAN SALVADOR COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NOAA VISIT
[...] Post grants country clearance to USDOC NOAA employees Stuart Cory, Mark Paterni, Nancy Daves, Cheryl Ryder, Paul Raymond and John Mitchell to travel to San Salvador March 18-21, 2007, to attend meetings with personnel of OSPECA, USAID and CAFTA. Control Officer for this visit is Economic Offic [...]
2007-03-16 21:06:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA TPHY KSCA EFIS ETRD ES HO
07SANSALVADOR519SAN SALVADOR COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANDREA C. BOREL
[...] Post grants country clearance to Regional Environmental Specialist Andrea C. Borel to travel to San Salvador March 19-23, 2007, to join NOAA delegation meeting with OSPESCA and attend CAFTA-DR environmental cooperation meetings. Control Officer for this visit is Economic Officer Geoffrey Schad [...]
2007-03-16 21:07:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA SENV ES CS
07SANSALVADOR562REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran airman to participate in the Aircraft Pneumatics/Hydraulics Systems Technicians Course, to be held at the Inter-American Air Forces Academy, San Antonio [...]
2007-03-26 22:00:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
07SANSALVADOR588INTERVIEW WITH IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On March 11, leading El Salvador daily La Prensa Grafica published an interview in its Sunday magazine with Mohammed Roohi Sefat, Iranian Ambassador to Mexico (also accredited to Nicaragua),about his opinions of the Salvadoran Armed Forces presence in Iraq. The int [...]
2007-03-29 21:26:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ES IZ MX NU VE IR KNNP
07SANSALVADOR65REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN AIR
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights record of Salvadoran candidate for participation in the Pilot Procedure Course, to be held at the Inter-American Air Forces Academy (San Antonio, Texas),scheduled for Februa [...]
2007-01-17 15:02:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
07SANSALVADOR785 El Salvador Bilateral Project Recommendations for use of
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-25 13:18:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ETRD SENV ECON ES
07SANSALVADOR786REGIONAL PRIORITIES FOR ENVIRONMENT PROJECTS THAT SUPPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-25 13:18:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEAID SENV ETRD CAFTA ELAB ES
07SANSALVADOR814EL SALVADOR HOSTS THIRD ANNUAL ANTI-GANG CONFERENCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Government of El Salvador hosted the Third Annual Anti-Gang Conference at the Decameron Resort in Sonsonate, El Salvador from April 23-27. Nearly 200 people were in attendance including law enforcement and government representatives from the U.S., El Salvador, Honduras, G [...]
2007-04-27 22:46:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM KHLS ES GT HO MX
07SANSALVADOR837EL SALVADOR'S REGIONAL SECURITY PLAN
[...] (C) On April 30, Polcouns met with Director of the National Civil Police (PCN) Rodrigo Avila to review progress on El Salvador's draft Regional Security Strategy. Avila, who is leading the GOES efforts to draft this strategy, reported that the GOES hosted a technical meeting on April 23 as a [...]
2007-05-03 20:18:00Embassy San SalvadorCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM KHLS ES GT HO MX
07SANSALVADOR892 REGIONAL PROJECT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE OF FY 2007
[...] Summary: As requested in reftel, the USAID Central America Regional Program based in El Salvador (E-CAM),in close consultation with posts in region, is providing recommended regional priorities for CAFTA-DR labor activities for FY 2007. The proposals described here build upon priorities ident [...]
2007-05-09 23:01:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ELAB ETRD SENV ES CAFTA
07SANSALVADOR938REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF SALVADORAN
[...] This cable contains an action request; please see Paragraph 2. 2. Post requests Department review of human rights records of Salvadoran soldiers for participation in six separate U.S.-funded training courses, as outlined below. Command and General Staff Course, Western Hemisphere Ins [...]
2007-05-15 19:49:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PINR ES
07SANTIAGO1004TAKING THE GOOD (AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST) WITH THE
[...] (S) Ricardo Ortiz, the MFA's Acting Director for the Middle East and Africa, confirmed to E/Pol Counselor on June 21 that Iran would open an embassy in Santiago, as MFA Director General Portales told the Ambassador June 15 (ref A). Ortiz said Chile and Iran had always maintained diplomatic re [...]
2007-06-22 14:30:00Embassy SantiagoSECRETIR PINR PREL PTER CI
07SANTIAGO104MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] On January 18, Megavision's morning news program featured a commentary by international pundit Libardo Buitrago on Iran's President Ahmadinejad to Latin America. He said, "He is a very controversial President of a Muslim, religious, Shiite nation.... He has a particular relationship with Hugo [...]
2007-01-19 16:28:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC PTER CI IR
07SANTIAGO1098MEDIA REACTION - U.S. AND LATIN AMERICA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-12 18:47:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC PTER CI
07SANTIAGO11MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ
[...] On January 4, conservative, influential newspaper-of-record "El Mercurio" (circ. 129,000) carried a column by international analyst Karin Ebensperger entitled "Iraq: The World is Waiting." Quote: 2. "Since my early studies of Political Science I have admired the values chosen by the America [...]
2007-01-04 15:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC PTER CI IR
07SANTIAGO1112MEDIA REACTION - U.S. AND LATIN AMERICA
[...] On July 14, conservative, independent "La Tercera" (Sat. circ. 195,626) ran an editorial entitled, "The U.S. and Latin America: A Strategic Relation." Quote: 2. "In recent days several high-ranking U.S. government officials have visited several countries in Latin America, including Chile. [...]
2007-07-17 19:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC PTER CI
07SANTIAGO1164CHILEAN LEADERSHIP TO DEPARTING AMBASSADOR:
[...] (C) President Bachelet, FM Foxley and Interior Minister Velasco, in farewell meetings with the Ambassador, expressed enthusiasm about our bilateral partnership on the ""themes of the future,"" like science, technology, innovation, energy and education. Bachelet acknowledged that Chile is doing mor [...]
2007-07-24 13:46:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL CI
07SANTIAGO125MEDIA REACTION - ECUADOR, CORREA PRESIDENCY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-22 19:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO EC CI
07SANTIAGO1266THE ONCE AND FUTURE CHILE: OBSERVATIONS BY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-03 15:34:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PINR PREL CI
07SANTIAGO130MEDIA REACTION - CHAVEZ'S SOCIALIST REVOLUTION
[...] On January 22, conservative, influential newspaper-of-record "El Mercurio" (circ. 129,000) ran an editorial entitled "Risks in Bolivia." Quote: "Morales' means of advancing his controversial electoral promises are preventing him from capitalizing on the auspicious conditions under which he [...]
2007-01-23 12:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE CI
07SANTIAGO1314CHILEAN DAILIES HYPE NUCLEAR AND CLEAN ENERGY AS BILATERAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chile's most prominent dailies claim energy will be the top agenda item of the next U.S. Ambassador. "La Tercera" declared that the nomination of Paul Simons -- EB DAS for Energy, Sanctions, and Commodities -- represents a decision to elevate energy to a U.S. foreign policy pr [...]
2007-08-10 21:35:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG PGOV KMDR KPAO OPRC CI
07SANTIAGO1336MEDIA REPORT - EDITORIAL ON U.S.-CHILE SCHOLARSHIP
[...] On August 14, conservative, influential newspaper-of-record "El Mercurio" (circ. 129,000) ran an editorial entitled "Educational Cooperation." Full translation follows: 2. "The university scholarships agreement signed by Minister Foxley and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice represent [...]
2007-08-14 21:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC PTER CI
07SANTIAGO1368MEDIA REPORT - EDUCATION SECRETARY SPELLINGS' VISIT TO
[...] Summary: Press coverage of Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings' visit has been extremely positive. All dailies highlighted the visit with references to the new Ph.D. Equal Opportunity Scholarship Program, which Secretary Rice signed in Washington on August 8. Influential "El Mercurio" [...]
2007-08-21 18:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC PGOV CI
07SANTIAGO1383MEDIA REPORT - EDUCATION SECRETARY SPELLINGS IN CHILE
[...] Summary: For a second consecutive day, Education Secretary Margaret Spellings received positive press coverage on her visit to Chile. The media reported about her keynote speech to members of the private sector and her meetings with Chilean university presidents and students. TV Channel 13 [...]
2007-08-22 22:31:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC PGOV CI
07SANTIAGO1392SECRETARY SPELLINGS AND CHILEAN EDUCATION MINISTER LOOK TO
[...] SUMMARY: Department of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and State Department DAS for Academic Programs Thomas Farrell discussed the new U.S.-Chile Equal Opportunities Scholarship Program with Education Minister Yasna Provoste, encouraging the GOC to widely publicize it to talented Chile [...]
2007-08-24 20:06:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KPAO SCUL SOCI CI
07SANTIAGO1421MEDIA REACTION - CHAVEZ' REGIONAL INFLUENCE
[...] On August 29, conservative, independent, "La Tercera" (circ. 101,000) ran an op-ed by Bolivian analyst Sergio Molina entitled "To bed with Chavez or Bush?" Excerpts follow: 2. "Will Latin Americans accept a horse with teeth like those tins cans distributed in Pisco (Peru),bribes of the Bol [...]
2007-08-29 19:00:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE CI
07SANTIAGO143DEPUSTR VERONEAU TELLS FONMIN FOXLEY MORE NEEDED
[...] (C) After first discussing common interests in Doha and regional FTAs, Deputy USTR Veroneau told FonMin Foxley January 24 that while just concluded U.S.-Chile Trade Commission talks had overall been very good, the issue of Chile's performance on IPR remained problematic. Placing Chile on the [...]
2007-01-25 12:33:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV CI
07SANTIAGO153MEDIA REACTION: CHILEANS CRITICAL OF BUSH ADMINISTRATION
[...] On January 29, government-owned, editorially independent "La Nacion" (circ. 4,200) carried a column by Raul Sohr entitled, "Chileans Condemn Bush." Quote: 2. "The majority of Americans and the rest of the world condemn Bush's policies.... The BBC commissioned a survey in 25 countries... [...]
2007-01-29 20:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO CI
07SANTIAGO1565SOUTHERN CHILE -- GLOBAL CHALLENGES OUTSIDE OF
[...] Summary. Southern Chile is known more for its natural beauty -- lakes, volcanoes and rivers -- than for its globally integrated economy. However, it exports everything from timber to salmon to a large part of Chile's manufacturing output. Businesses in the region are closely following the s [...]
2007-09-25 21:11:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD ENRG PGOV SOCI CI
07SANTIAGO1717MEDIA REACTION - CHAVEZ'S REGIONAL INFLUENCE
[...] On October 21, conservative, influential, newspaper-of-record "El Mercurio" (Sun. circ. 260,108) carried a column by Andres Oppenheimer entitled "Hugo Chavez' Project in the Continent." Quote: 2. "It is no mystery that Hugo Chavez...wants to destabilize Latin American countries that have go [...]
2007-10-22 19:29:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE CI
07SANTIAGO177MEDIA REACTION - LULA, KIRCHNER, AND CHAVEZ
[...] On January 31, Chile's conservative, independent "La Tercera" (circ. 101,000) carried a column by Venezuelan political analyst Alberto Garrido entitled, "Lula and Kirchner's 'Warning' to Chavez." 2. "The leak to the press of an alleged warning from Lula (da Silva) and (Nestor) Kirchner to [...]
2007-02-01 20:04:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE BL NU CU EC CI
07SANTIAGO1802CHILE: FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN
[...] E/POLoff delivered reftel demarche to Mauricio Fernandez, Chief of Money Laundering at the Public Ministry; Victor Ossa, Director of Chile's Financial Intelligence Unit (the UAF); Gustavo Arriagada, Superintendent of the Superintendency of Banks; Cristina Farah of the Bank Association; and Ju [...]
2007-11-07 19:18:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL MNUC ECON IR CI
07SANTIAGO1826MEDIA REACTION - CHAVEZ AND THE IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT
[...] Summary: The verbal flap between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dominated news about the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago. Foreign Minister Foxley's public statements after the Summit reflected the GOC's discontent with Chavez, emphasizing the need for tolera [...]
2007-11-14 11:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE CI
07SANTIAGO1828DEMARCHE ON DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA - CHILE
[...] (C) E/Pol Counselor November 13 delivered ref A demarche to Jamie Bascunan, the MFA's desk officer for Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador, stressing that the proposed Venezulan referendum ran contrary to Caracas's obligations under the Inter-American Democratic Charter. As such, it is incumbent [...]
2007-11-14 20:56:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM VE EU CI WHA
07SANTIAGO1846MEDIA REACTION - IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT AFTERMATH
[...] Summary: The Chilean press continues to collect opinions among experts and international commentators about the impact of the clash between the King of Spain and Chavez. The overall consensus is that Chavez' primary goal is to disrupt relations among nations in the region to his own advantag [...]
2007-11-20 10:43:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE CI
07SANTIAGO1859MEDIA REACTION: IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM - DVC WITH
[...] Summary: U.S. Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Ambassador Greg Schulte, briefed via Digital Video Conference (DVC) Chilean TV and radio commentators, think tank analysts, and university academics on the danger of Iran's nuclear program and the need for Iranian complian [...]
2007-11-23 10:48:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO PREL PGOV OPRC PTER CI IR
07SANTIAGO1870MEDIA REACTION - BOLIVIA
[...] On November 27, conservative, independent "La Tercera" (circ. 101,000) carried an editorial entitled "Bolivia and the Threat of a Permanent Crisis." 2. The violence in the streets of Sucre these past days is a reflection of the deep historical divisions in Bolivian society. Bolivia is not j [...]
2007-11-27 18:09:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO CI BL
07SANTIAGO201MEDIA REACTION - GLOBAL WARMING
[...] On February 4, conservative, independent "La Tercera" (Sun. circ. 222,084) carried an editorial by Alvaro Vargas Llosa entitled "Global Warming Divides the United States." Quote: "In his recent State of the Union Address, President Bush for the first time spoke about climate change.... It i [...]
2007-02-06 11:37:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO KSTC KTIA CI
07SANTIAGO202AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO FORMER TORTURE CENTER WELL RECEIVED
[...] Summary: An unpublicized visit by Ambassador Kelly to Villa Grimaldi -- a Pinochet-era torture center (now a memorial park) -- received favorable media attention and commentary. The certified guide of the site (a Villa Grimaldi survivor) praised the Ambassador for taking the initiative, and [...]
2007-02-06 13:20:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV KPAO PREL CI
07SANTIAGO211MEDIA REACTION - IPR AND THE U.S.-CHILE FTA
[...] On February 6, conservative, independent "La Tercera" (circ. 101,000) carried a column by University of Chile law professor Gabriel Zaliasnik. The article failed to note that Zaliansnik also is the attorney for Chile's association of local pharmaceutical companies. Quote: 2. "In the pas [...]
2007-02-07 11:32:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC KIPR ETRD CI
07SANTIAGO238CHILE: SUPPORT FOR ONE-YEAR MINUSTAH MANDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-12 20:03:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALEAID EFIN HA PGOV PREL UN CI
07SANTIAGO263CHILE WANTS TO DEEPEN BUT BALANCE ASIAN TIES
[...] (SBU) The Ambassador met February 14 with new director Fernando Schmidt of MFA's Asia-Pacific Division. The Ambassador briefed Schmidt on progress in talks with North Korea. Chile issued a statement in support of the talks on February 13. Schmidt expressed satisfaction with growing Chilean [...]
2007-02-15 12:27:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ETRD CI
07SANTIAGO267WITH FTA, U.S.-CHILE TRADE GROWS 133 PERCENT IN
[...] Summary. The Chilean-American Chamber of Commerce released on February 12 its 2006 report on U.S.-Chile trade. The numbers showed continued strong growth under the Free Trade Agreement (FTA),with bilateral trade up by 32 percent. Chilean exports to the U.S. jumped 43 percent compared to 2005 [...]
2007-02-15 16:24:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EFIN PREL KIPR CI
07SANTIAGO286CHILE TO CONTRIBUTE TO GPOI
[...] (C) MFA and MOD officials have both informally conveyed to Post that, in response to a request from the Guatemalan Defense Minister, Chile's Joint Center for Peacekeeping Operations (CECOPAC) will send three trainers to Guatemala's Conference of Central American Armed Forces (CFAC) peacekeepi [...]
2007-02-16 18:52:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR MASS PREL GT UY AR CI
07SANTIAGO292CHILEAN MFA EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT FALCON-CONDOR
[...] Summary: (C) Working level Foreign Ministry officials expressed concern February 14 that participation of U.S. F-16s in bilateral military exercises in Peru would allow "Peru to game a potential conflict with Chile." The seeds for this concern were apparently planted by the Russian military [...]
2007-02-20 10:53:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR PREL CI
07SANTIAGO296MEDIA REACTION - PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN HAITI
[...] Conservative, influential, newspaper-of-record El Mercurio (Sat. circ. 173,049, 2/17) ran an op-ed by former Army Commander-in-Chief and current Director of the International Studies Center of the Catholic University Juan Emilio Cheyre entitled, "Haiti: The Imperative Not To Fail." Excerpts [...]
2007-02-20 19:30:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC PGOV HA CI
07SANTIAGO304CHILE: POST RECOMMENDS CHILE REMAIN ON PRIORITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends Chile remain on the Special 301 Priority Watch List in 2007. During 2006, Chile was the subject of an Out-of-Cycle Review (OCR). The result of the OCR was USTR's announcement on January 8, 2007 placing Chile on the Priority Watch List. In the intervening month, [...]
2007-02-21 19:34:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR PREL CI
07SANTIAGO314CHILE: CLAUDIO GROSSMAN RUNNING FOR REELECTION TO
[...] On February 16 Post received Diplomatic Note No.38 from the Chilean Foreign Ministry, stating Chile's intent to press for the reelection of Professor Claudio Grossman to the United Nations' Committee Against Torture (CAT). The note also requests the USG's support for Grossman's candidacy. Po [...]
2007-02-22 20:08:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNHCR
07SANTIAGO337MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRAVEL TO LATIN AMERICA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-27 14:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC CI
07SANTIAGO363MEDIA REACTION - ASSISTANCE TO HAITI
[...] On March 2, conservative, independent "La Tercera" (circ. 101,000) ran an op-ed by Juan Emilio Cheyre, director of the Catholic University's International Studies Center, entitled, "Demanding Results in Haiti." Quote: 2. "The commitments assumed in Haiti need to show results.... We shou [...]
2007-03-02 18:17:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC CI HA
07SANTIAGO384MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRAVEL TO LATIN AMERICA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-07 16:20:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC CI
07SANTIAGO386CHILE: MILGP REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. Action request: Embassy requests the Department assist in conducting a Leahy Amendment Human Rights review, as well as a general name check, of the following Chilean candidates who have been nominated for U.S.-funded training, pursuan [...]
2007-03-07 18:53:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
07SANTIAGO40CHILE REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR CANDIDACY TO THE
[...] Post recently received Diplomatic Note No. 404 requesting U.S. support for Chile's candidacy to the Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the period of 2008-2011. Paragraph two contains Post's informal translation of the Note. 2. Begin Text: REPUBLIC OF CHILE Min [...]
2007-01-09 14:13:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNGA CI
07SANTIAGO402MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRAVEL TO LATIN AMERICA
[...] On March 8, conservative, independent "La Tercera" (circ. 101,000) carried a column by political scientist Boris Yopo entitled "Bush in Latin America." Quote: "President Bush's trip to Latin American is related to the global, regional, and domestic problems he is facing globally, regionally, [...]
2007-03-08 19:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC CI
07SANTIAGO408MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRAVEL TO LATIN AMERICA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-09 20:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC CI
07SANTIAGO416CHILE: LEGAT REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. Action request: Embassy requests the Department assist in conducting a Leahy Amendment Human Rights review, as well as a general name check, of the following Chilean candidates who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuan [...]
2007-03-12 22:32:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PREL SNAR PHUM CI
07SANTIAGO418MEDIA REACTION: IRANIAN TIES WITH VENEZUELA
[...] On March 11, conservative, influential, newspaper-of-record "El Mercurio" (Sun. circ. 260,108) carried an editorial entitled "Iran's Diplomacy in Latin America." Quote: 2. "Iran is actively engaged with the President of Venezuela to increase its influence in Latin America.... An eventual [...]
2007-03-13 13:55:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC PTER IR CI
07SANTIAGO441MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRAVEL TO LATIN AMERICA
[...] Summary: Wrap-up coverage of the President's trip to Latin America had an underlying negative tone in Chile. Words such as "no evident success," "cosmetic impact," "no significant assistance," are mentioned. However, the bio-fuel agreement signed with Brazil is identified as a success. End [...]
2007-03-16 12:03:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC CI
07SANTIAGO443GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM:
[...] (U) Ambassador Kelly, joined by Yuriy Filatov, his Russian counterpart, delivered reftel demarche on March 16, to Ambassador Luis Winter, Director of the MFA's Office for Special Projects (DIPESP). Also present were Rodrigo Hume of DIPESP, E/POL Counselor, and the Russian embassy's political [...]
2007-03-16 20:23:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALKNNP MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER CI
07SANTIAGO446FUJIMORI EXTRADITION RULING MAY BE IMMINENT,
[...] (C) Summary: At a dinner with FM Alejandro Foxley March on 16, Constitutional Tribunal President Jose Luis Cea told the Ambassador an initial ruling on Peru's extradition of former President Alberto Fujimori could come within the next two weeks. Despite efforts by Foxley to draw Cea out on the r [...]
2007-03-16 20:40:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS PHUM PE CI
07SANTIAGO447MY BAD: CHILE'S AMBASSADOR TO VENEZUELA OFFERS
[...] (U) Chile's ambassador to Venezuela, Claudio Huepe, returned to Santiago early the morning of March 15 and, after a 11:00 a.m. meeting with Foreign Minister Foxley, offered his "irrevocable resignation." President Bachelet accepted it. Huepe's exit was expected, coming only days after his rem [...]
2007-03-16 20:59:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL VE CI
07SANTIAGO448MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRAVEL TO LATIN AMERICA
[...] On March 16, conservative, influential newspaper-of-record "El Mercurio" (circ. 129,000) ran a positive editorial about President Bush's trip to Latin America entitled "The Other America." Quote: 2. "Bush reached an understanding with governments both on the left and right and was well re [...]
2007-03-16 22:19:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC CI
07SANTIAGO452AMBASSADOR ASKS CHILE TO TUNE IN ON U.S. HDTV,
[...] (U) On March 19, the Ambassador called on Minister Ricardo Lagos Weber, the presidential spokesman and member of the Bachelet administration's small political policy-making group, to advocate on behalf of ATSC, the U.S.-developed version of High Definition TV (HDTV). The Ambasssador was accom [...]
2007-03-19 21:24:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETRD PGOV PREL
07SANTIAGO460CHILE: LEGAT REQUESTS ADDITIONAL CANDIDATE FOR
[...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. Action request: Embassy requests the Department assist in conducting a Leahy Amendment Human Rights review, as well as a general name check, of the following Chilean candidate who has been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant [...]
2007-03-21 15:10:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PREL SNAR PHUM CI
07SANTIAGO461MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT BUSH'S TRIP TO LATIN AMERICA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-21 16:00:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC CI
07SANTIAGO476ON THE SAME PAGE: INFLUENTIAL CHILEANS SEEKING
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Foxley told the Ambassador Chile wants to increase cooperation with the USG on counter-terrorism and will advocate for Peru and Colombia as they negotiate FTA's with the U.S. A Foxley confidante expanded on the theme, arguing that Chile, feeling itself somewhat isolated i [...]
2007-03-23 15:49:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALETRD PGOV PREL PTER CI
07SANTIAGO48MEDIA REACTION - VENEZUELA
[...] On January 10, Chile's conservative, independent "La Tercera" (circ. 101,000) carried an editorial entitled "Venezuela and Twenty-First Century Socialism." Quote: 2. "Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has clearly shown his intention of deepening what he calls 'Twenty-First Century Sociali [...]
2007-01-10 18:31:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE CI
07SANTIAGO480CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CLEARANCE FOR
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of March 22, 2007, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs, Juan A. Alsace, certifies the abov [...]
2007-03-23 20:02:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR SNAR KCRM CI
07SANTIAGO545CHILE: APPROVED HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CLEARANCE FOR
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of March 30, 2007, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidate cited in reftel B. 2. Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs, Juan A. Alsace, certifies the above [...]
2007-04-04 16:13:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR SNAR KCRM CI
07SANTIAGO562SPORTS DIPLOMACY: TENNIS HERO ANDRE AGASSI BIG HIT IN CHILE
[...] SUMMARY: American tennis legend Andre Agassi generated good will and a media frenzy throughout his March 29-31 visit to Chile. In Santiago for an exhibition match, Agassi participated in clinics for Chile's promising young competitors and disadvantaged players. Headlines called him a true "ge [...]
2007-04-05 20:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PREL PGOV OVIP CI
07SANTIAGO576CHILEAN AMBASSADOR PREVIEWS FM FOXLEY'S CALL ON SECRETARY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-09 19:12:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CI
07SANTIAGO590MEDIA REPORT - PROMOTING CHILE'S SUCCESS AND A MORE ACTIVE
[...] Summary: In separate interviews, former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda and Chilean Foreign Minister Alejandro Foxley emphasized that Chile is an example of political, economic, and social success in Latin America, but that Chileans fail to recognize the scope of these accomplishment [...]
2007-04-11 17:54:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV MX CI
07SANTIAGO618NEW CHILEAN DEFENSE MINISTER TAKES THE HELM
[...] (C) New Minister of Defense Goni told the Ambassador his initial focus would be on strengthening Chile's regional military-to-military ties, including with Mexico and Chile's more immediate neighbors. Exchange and training programs, along with enhanced cooperation in joint peacekeeeping activiti [...]
2007-04-16 23:02:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CI
07SANTIAGO619MEDIA REACTION - CHAVEZ'S CRITICISM OF CHILEAN SENATE
[...] Summary: Last week the Senate voted to urge President Bachelet to complain at the OAS over Venezuela's decision to cancel the concession of an independent TV broadcast station. President Hugo Chavez reacted saying that Chile's Senate was "dominated by the same fascists that supported coups a [...]
2007-04-17 15:07:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO KIPR PGOV PREL VE CI
07SANTIAGO640CHILE: MILGP REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. Action request: Embassy requests the Department assist in conducting a Leahy Amendment Human Rights review, as well as a general name check, of the following Chilean candidates who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuan [...]
2007-04-18 21:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
07SANTIAGO686MEDIA REACTION - POSITIVE COVERAGE OF WHA A/S SHANNON'S
[...] Summary: Santiago dailies gave prominent coverage to WHA A/S Thomas Shannon at a press roundtable on April 26. The press highlighted his remarks about Chile's ability to promote dialogue and cooperation, "build bridges" in the region, and its linkages to other economies in Asia and North Ame [...]
2007-04-26 21:35:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC PGOV ETRD CI
07SANTIAGO687ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHANNON MEETS WITH CHILEAN
[...] (C) Summary: WHA Assistant Secretary Shannon and Chilean Minister of Defense Jose Goni exchanged views on regional issues and the U.S.-Chile bilateral military relationship during their April 24 meeting. Goni told A/S Shannon he valued the close relationship between the U.S. and Chilean mili [...]
2007-04-27 17:20:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR OTRA CL
07SANTIAGO698FONMIN FOXLEY TO A/S SHANNON: CHILE TAKES THE
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Foxley told visiting A/S Shannon April 26 that Chavez must not be underestimated as he pursues an aggressive agenda. President Bachelet had met opposition leaders while in Venezuela, who had urged her to keep asserting Chilean principles and values but to steer clear of t [...]
2007-04-30 12:34:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CI
07SANTIAGO70MEDIA REACTION - VENEZUELA: CHAVEZ'S REGIONAL AND
[...] On January 12, Chile's conservative, influential newspaper-of-record "El Mercurio" (circ. 129,000) carried an editorial entitled "Irreconcilable Positions." Quote: "The Governments of Venezuela and Bolivia have adopted similar political projects inspired in the Cuban model. But while Caraca [...]
2007-01-12 19:13:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE BL NU CI
07SANTIAGO72MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-12 19:40:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC PTER CI IR
07SANTIAGO75AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HAITI, SOFA, THE ICC AND
[...] Summary: (C) Minister of Defense Vivianne Blanlot told the Ambassador January 10 that Chile wanted to see Haiti progress to a point where MINUSTAH'S withdrawal would not initiate a "backslide to ground zero." Chile, along with Argentina and Brazil, were looking for an international commitmen [...]
2007-01-12 21:30:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR PGOV MOPS ETRD CI
07SANTIAGO79CHILE: MILGP REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. Action request: Embassy requests the Department assist in conducting a Leahy Amendment Human Rights review, as well as a general name check of the following Chilean candidates who have been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant [...]
2007-01-16 20:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PREL PHUM CI
07SANTIAGO796DEMARCHE IN THE GROWING IRAN-VENEZUELA
[...] (S) E/Pol Counselor delivered reftel demarche on May 15 to Ambassador Juan Pablo Lira March, head of the MFA's Division for South America, stressing following points: 1) Growing diplomatic links between Caracas and Tehran undermined international efforts to find a solution to Iran's nuclear effo [...]
2007-05-15 21:16:00Embassy SantiagoSECRETECON MARR MASS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER VE
07SANTIAGO827CHILE ON THE CONTINENT: LOTS OF COMMON INTERESTS
[...] (C) On May 15 E/Pol Counselor called on Ambassador Juan Pablo Lira, head of the MFA's Division for South America, to deliver demarche points on Venezuela-Iran relations (reftel),a conversation which then turned to Chile's relations with its fellow South Americans. Chile, Lira said, "often fee [...]
2007-05-18 16:31:00Embassy SantiagoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CI
07SANTIAGO848MEDIA REACTION - CHAVEZ' REGIONAL EFFORTS
[...] On May 23, conservative, influential newspaper-of-record "El Mercurio" (circ. 129,000) ran an editorial entitled, "Chavez in Latin America." Quote: 2. "Grupo de Diarios America is exploring...the phenomenon of Chavez' penetration in Latin America. From the abundant information gathered we [...]
2007-05-24 11:46:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL VE CI
07SANTIAGO856CHILE-U.S. JOINT COMMISSION ON SCIENCE &
[...] Summary. The U.S. and Chile held a Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) on Science and Technology in Santiago from May 9-10. This was the second JCM held under the original scientific cooperation agreement, which was signed in 1992. A 20-member USG delegation was led by OES Assistant Secretary Clau [...]
2007-05-25 18:09:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV ENRG PREL CI
07SANTIAGO859CHILEAN MEDIA VIGILANT ABOUT RCTV CLOSURE
[...] SUMMARY: Chilean media coverage of the upcoming cancellation of Radio Caracas TV's concession has increased noticeably in recent weeks. While the GOC has not commented publicly on the RCTV issue, newspaper editorials have argued against Chavez's undemocratic actions and interference in the re [...]
2007-05-25 22:29:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC KIPR PGOV CI
07SANTIAGO870CHILEAN MEDIA CRITICAL OF RCTV CLOSURE
[...] SUMMARY: Chilean dailies gave prominent coverage to the closing of RCTV in Venezuela, including critical editorials in influential El Mercurio and conservative La Tercera. With the exception of one Socialist Party Senator, leading political figures expressed opposition to Chavez's efforts to [...]
2007-05-29 21:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC KIPR PGOV CI
07SANTIAGO887YOSEMITE-TORRES DEL PAINE SISTER PARK PARTNERSHIP
[...] SUMMARY. At the conclusion of the U.S.-Chile Joint Commission on Science and Technology (JCM) on May 10, a partnership between Yosemite National Park in California and Torres del Paine (TDP) in southern Chile was signed, the first of its kind between a U.S. and Chilean park. The partnership ha [...]
2007-05-31 18:05:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KPAO OIIP PREL CI
07SANTIAGO939MEDIA REACTION: CRITICAL OP-EDS ON OAS REACTION TO RCTV
[...] Newspaper-of-record "El Mercurio" (circ. 129,000, 6/8) carried a column by Andres Oppenheimer entitled, "The Sad Spectacle of Cowardice Among Democracies." Quote: 2. "The silence of the majority of Latin American countries in the OAS on the closing of Venezuela's oldest television station [...]
2007-06-11 21:51:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OPRC KIPR PGOV CI
07SANTIAGO983A SOUTHERN CONE PERSPECTIVE ON COUNTERING CHAVEZ
[...] (C) Hugo Chavez,s effort to expand his influence into the Southern Cone was the subject of ref A. This, part two in a series of joint cables from Southern Cone embassies, looks at ways the U.S. can counter Chavez and reassert U.S. leadership in the region. From posts' perspectives, there are [...]
2007-06-18 14:45:00Embassy SantiagoSECRETPGOV PREL KDEM KCRM AR BO BR PARM UY VE CI
07SANTODOMINGO1000FOUR DOMINICAN TRAFFICKING PROPOSALS SUBMITTED FOR
[...] The four trafficking proposals being submitted by Embassy Santo Domingo for G/TIP's consideration represent four organizations with diverse areas of expertise, who are each seeking to strengthen and expand existing programs and alliances to include stepped-up trafficking components. Taken tog [...]
2007-04-26 19:45:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SMIG DR
07SANTODOMINGO1084DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: NON-USG DONOR ASSISTANCE FOR
[...] Summary. Per reftel, emboff met with officials from the Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources SIPDIS (SEMARENA) to discuss environmental trade capacity building (TCB) projects in the Dominican Republic that are financed by non-USG donors. In total, there are nine major dono [...]
2007-05-08 14:24:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ELAB EPA ETRD SENV DR
07SANTODOMINGO1119EVALUATING THE ENFORCEMENT OF DOMINICAN LABOR LAW
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Many employers in the Dominican agricultural sector regularly violate the Dominican labor code, according to several Dominican non-governmental organizations and other entities. Many of the workers in this sector are involved in the production of commodities that are exported to th [...]
2007-05-10 21:14:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ELAB ETRD PHUM SMIG KWMN DR HA
07SANTODOMINGO12DOMINICANS EMBARRASSED, ANGRY ABOUT FAILURE TO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-03 20:55:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNDR PHUM OAS KTIA HA
07SANTODOMINGO1205CUBA COUNTRY REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD ACT: DOMINICAN
[...] (C) Summary. In response to ref A, Embassy finds here has been no marked change in the Dominican Republic's situation with regard to Cuba since our last report (ref B). The Dominican Republic has very few investments in Cuba. No bilateral trade agreement exists between the Dominican Republi [...]
2007-05-22 12:40:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL DR CU
07SANTODOMINGO1207IRAN-VENEZUELA TIES: MEASURED DOMINICAN RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche to Dominican Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alejandra Liriano, emphasizing the talking points on nuclear ties, weapons technology cooperation, and terrorism concerns. 2. (C) In her reply, Liriano commented that Venezuela has close bilateral relatio [...]
2007-05-22 19:34:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MARR VE IR DR
07SANTODOMINGO1258BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: A WEEK OF CONTRASTS IN THE
[...] (SBU) Two distinctly different faces of the Dominican Republic were on display this week. The week saw record sales at the Cap Cana resort development, an enterprise which, based on the draw of world-class beaches, promises to bring considerable investment and job growth to the country. At th [...]
2007-05-29 15:32:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ELAB PHUM DR
07SANTODOMINGO1275BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: A WEEK OF CONTRASTS IN THE
[...] (SBU) Two distinctly different faces of the Dominican Republic were on display this week. The week saw record sales at the Cap Cana resort development, an enterprise which, based on the draw of world-class beaches, promises to bring considerable investment and job growth to the country. At th [...]
2007-05-30 13:13:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ELAB PHUM DR
07SANTODOMINGO13DOMINICANS EMBARRASSED, ANGRY ABOUT FAILURE TO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-03 20:56:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALDR PHUM OAS KTIA HA
07SANTODOMINGO1394CIVAIR: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC ACCEPTS DESIGNATION OF
[...] In diplomatic note 13577 dated 05 June 2007 the MFA provided permission foir Shuttle America Corporation (Shuttle) to operate between the United States and the Dominican Republic. BULLEN [...]
2007-06-11 19:19:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDDR EAIR KTIA
07SANTODOMINGO1424DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT
[...] a. Claimant A b. 1999 c. Eight independent power producers (IPPs),four of which are US-owned, provide approximately 30 percent of the Dominican Republic's electricity. In 1999, the IPPs entered into a "Definitive Agreement" with the government under which an escrow account [...]
2007-06-15 11:31:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KIDE DR
07SANTODOMINGO164DOMINICAN COMMERCE MINISTER DISMISSES USG
[...] (SBU) On January 23 the Dominican commerce minister insisted to the Ambassador that he has full justification to alter the terms of contracts between petroleum companies and local fuel haulers. He dismissed any suggestion that his two recent resolutions contravened either the spirit or the [...]
2007-01-24 16:48:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALBEXP ELAB ENRG ETRD DR
07SANTODOMINGO1662DOMINICAN POLITICS III #29: NATIONAL STRIKE ENDS
[...] (U) This is the 29th cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. (SBU) The 24-hour national strike ended peacefully at 6:00 a.m. this morning. The strike leaders, the Alternative Social Forum (FSA),estimated observance of [...]
2007-07-10 18:18:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELAB ASEC DR
07SANTODOMINGO1694DOMINICAN REPUBLIC CELEBRATES UPGRADE TO CATEGORY
[...] (U) In a ceremony at the Presidential Palace on July 2, the Charge d'Affaires presented President Leonel Fernandez and the Director of the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) with a letter officially notifying the Dominican Government that its aviation safety rating has been elevated to [...]
2007-07-13 16:35:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR DR
07SANTODOMINGO1729PRESIDENT PREVAL VISIT
[...] (SBU) On July 12th President Rene Preval of Haiti completed a 10 hour visit to Santo Domingo. This was his third trip to the country since his election in February 2006. His agenda included attending a program at FUNGLODE, a 40-minute lunch with President Fernandez in the national palace, a [...]
2007-07-18 17:36:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ELAB DR
07SANTODOMINGO1757EMBASSY SUPPORTS EFFORTS TO IMPROVE DOMINICAN AIR
[...] (SBU) Embassy concurs with and supports the aircraft procurement program (termed RAMP) proposed by U.S. Air Force Southern Command (AFSOUTH) designed to provide partner nations such as the Dominican Republic with the ability to work jointly with the United States to secure national borders and [...]
2007-07-20 20:40:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PTER DR
07SANTODOMINGO1810LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - AMERICAN LANGUAGE COURSE,
[...] This is an action request. Please see para. 2. 2. Post requests the Department's assistance in conducting human rights screening pursuant to the Leahy Amendment for the following subject(s) who have been nominated for training. Post has no derogatory information. Please slug response for [...]
2007-07-31 20:26:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PGOV PHUM DR
07SANTODOMINGO1850RADAR BREAKDOWN RAISES FINANCIAL AND SAFETY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Dominican Republic is currently operating without radar redundancy for tracking inbound and outbound flights into Dominican airspace. The radar has been out of service for roughly six months and has suffered repeated breakdowns over the course of the past four years. The ra [...]
2007-08-07 19:53:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR FAA PREL DR
07SANTODOMINGO1859EMBASSY BANS STAFF FROM NIGHTCLUB AFTER
[...] (U) On July 30, the Charge Roland Bullen directed all resident official U.S. Embassy employees to refrain from patronizing &The Loft,8 a popular Santo Domingo nightclub. The decision was made public in a press release, in which the Charge noted that the decision was taken in response to the ac [...]
2007-08-08 18:59:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM ASEC DR
07SANTODOMINGO1873MICHES: LA ESPERANZA EN UNA CIUDAD PERDIDA (A RAY
[...] (U) Summary: The trip to Miches emphasized the challenges facing a small town as well as the possible opportunities specifically concerning cultural and possible ecotourism. While in the town we visited an artisan workshop known as Arte Miches, on the outskirts of the city and conducted inter [...]
2007-08-09 20:05:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON DR
07SANTODOMINGO1934DOMINICANS CALL IN CHARGE ON SECURITY COUNCIL
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para. 5. 2. (U) Background: The Dominican Republic announced its candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the 2008-2009 period prior to the 2006 General Assembly. At the time, they were also positioning [...]
2007-08-16 19:24:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNGA CS DR
07SANTODOMINGO1936FREE TRADE ZONES CONFRONT CRISIS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The free trade zones (FTZ) of the Dominican Republic are experiencing a period of sharp decline. This decline has meant the loss of over 60,000 jobs since late 2004, concentrated almost exclusively in the textile and apparel industries, with additional job losses on the horizo [...]
2007-08-16 19:24:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD OTRA PGOV PREL DR
07SANTODOMINGO1995AMERICA'S MOST WANTED - SERIAL CHILD RAPIST
[...] On August 22, 2007, Miguel Angel Gonzalez, a U.S. citizen fugitive and convicted serial child rapist, was arrested in Santo Domingo by members of a specialized fugitive apprehension unit based in the National Directorate of Drug Control. Working in concert with locally-based agents of the U.S [...]
2007-08-24 12:30:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL CJAN CVIS KCRM DR
07SANTODOMINGO1998BUILDING AN INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTER IN THE
[...] (U) Plans to build a privately operated international financial center in the Dominican Republic are moving forward with construction slated to begin as early as the end of this year. On August 6, Charge met with representatives from the Independent Financial Centre of the Americas (IFC) and t [...]
2007-08-24 17:48:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN DR
07SANTODOMINGO2038DOMINICAN CONGRESS' RECORD UNDER PLD CONTROL IS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With its sweeping victory in the 2006 congressional election, the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) gained concurrent control of the legislative and executive branches of government for the first time (Ref A). The Congress' record over the past year is mixed: Important legisla [...]
2007-08-29 15:45:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON MARR DR
07SANTODOMINGO2152SCENESETTER FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING
[...] (SBU) The Dominican Republic has become a reliable supporter of democracy in the sometimes difficult and always strategic Caribbean. Our close relationship is exemplified by Dominican ratification of the CAFTA-DR free trade agreement, and our friendship is cemented by a history of strong econ [...]
2007-09-14 19:42:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ETRD SNAR UNGA DR
07SANTODOMINGO2263SANTO DOMINGO ECONOMIC-POLITICAL ROUNDUP, OCTOBER
[...] President Fernandez's UNGA Speech 2. Allegation that Opposition Working Against Security Council Bid 3. The Future of the IMF Stand-By Agreement 4. Minister of Finance Visits Venezuela Seeking Increase in PetroCaribe Quota 5. Technological Upgrade in Land Titles, Land Use Planning  [...]
2007-10-05 18:53:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON ENRG KJUS VE DR
07SANTODOMINGO2291THE SKIES ARE SAFE AGAIN: DOMINICAN GOVERNMENT
[...] The director of the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) called EconOff on October 8 to inform the Embassy that it had successfully finished repairs to the country's primary radar at Las Americas Airport outside of Santo Domingo, which had been partially inoperable for over a year. To ann [...]
2007-10-10 19:16:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON PGOV PREL DR
07SANTODOMINGO2365SANTO DOMINGO POLITICAL ROUNDUP, OCTOBER 19, 2007
[...] (SBU) During the October 15-16 visit of Country Officer Christopher Ward, WHA/CAR and Post engaged Dominican contacts on Haiti, election rules, human rights, Venezuela, and other issues. Alejandra Liriano, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the bilateral relationship had been st [...]
2007-10-19 13:23:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EAID VE HA DR
07SANTODOMINGO2458ATTENDEES FOR LATIN AMERICAN CORRUPTION CONFERENCE
[...] AmEmbassy Santo Domingo will be sending two officers to the Fighting Corruption in Latin America Conference, to be held Friday, Nov. 2, in Washington: USAID General Development Officer Stephen Brager and DOS Political Officer Michael Garuckis. BULLEN [...]
2007-10-30 18:10:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDPINR PGOV OTRA KCOR
07SANTODOMINGO2466LIQUID PROPANE GAS TANKER RUNS AGROUND: THREAT OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-30 20:55:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET SENV KPAO DR
07SANTODOMINGO2477BEACHED LPG TANKER UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-31 19:46:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EAID EPET SENV
07SANTODOMINGO2495UN OFFICIALS CITE 'PROFOUND AND ENTRENCHED RACISM'
[...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations' Special Rapporteur on racism and Independent Expert on minority issues have concluded a week-long visit to the Dominican Republic, noting that, there is "a profound and entrenched problem of racism and discrimination against such groups as Haitians, Dominican [...]
2007-11-02 17:33:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALPHUM ELAB DR
07SANTODOMINGO2570SANTO DOMINGO ECONOMIC-POLITICAL ROUNDUP, NOVEMBER
[...] Leftist Summit Postponed; Chavez May Still Visit 2. New Poll Gives Fernandez 12-Point Lead in Presidential Race 3. JCE on Haitian Community's Allegations Regarding Identity Documents 4. Electricity Sector Reorganization: Administrative or Substantive Change? 5. Government Debts to Power G [...]
2007-11-16 20:20:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON VE DR
07SANTODOMINGO2581MESO-AMERICAN BIOFUELS GROUP MEETING SUMMARY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Meso-American Biofuels Group met on November 14 in Guatemala City to discuss progress in developing the production and consumption of biofuels across Central America from Mexico to Colombia. Attendees were government representatives from particpant countries, the Inter-Amer [...]
2007-11-19 20:01:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ETRD ECON DR
07SANTODOMINGO2600DOMINICAN REPUBLIC INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT
[...] As requested refel, following is a summary of Dominican progress toward rectifying key deficiencies identified in the June 2007 TIP report. ------ 2. Increasing efforts to investigate, prosecute, convict and sentence trafficking offenders, including public officials allegedly complicit i [...]
2007-11-21 19:57:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KCRM KWMN ELAB DR
07SANTODOMINGO2601LEPTOSPIROSIS OUTBREAK WIDENS FOLLOWING TROPICAL
[...] Summary. Extensive rains and flooding from Tropical Storm Noel have resulted in an outbreak of leptospirosis in the Dominican Republic that has caused the deaths of at least 29 people. As many as 300 cases are suspected across the country according to news reports, with over 291 confirmed as [...]
2007-11-21 20:23:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO AMED PGOV CDC DR
07SANTODOMINGO2648POLITICS AND POPULISM DRIVE GOVERNMENT DECISION TO
[...] (C) Summary. Facing growing public displeasure with the rise in international fuel prices, President Fernandez announced on November 15 that the government intends to purchase the country's sole oil refinery from Shell Oil in order to increase the country's imports of oil under the PetroCari [...]
2007-11-29 19:24:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET ECON BEXP DR
07SANTODOMINGO2692CUBA COUNTRY REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD ACT: DOMINICAN
[...] (C) Summary. In response to Ref A request, Embassy finds here has been no marked change in the Dominican Republic's situation with regard to Cuba since our last report (ref B). The Dominican Republic has very few investments in Cuba. No bilateral trade agreement exists between the Dominican [...]
2007-12-06 19:02:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU DR
07SANTODOMINGO2790AMBASSADOR FANNIN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS, MAKES
[...] (U) Since arriving at Post on December 13, Ambassador Fannin has presented his credentials to President Fernandez and paid courtesy calls on all three branches of the Dominican Government, including the Attorney General, the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the President of the Central Elections [...]
2007-12-26 19:16:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALPGOV ETRD SNAR ECON PHUM DR
07SANTODOMINGO348DOMINICAN POLITICS III #18: VARGAS MALDONADO
[...] (U) This is the 18th cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. (U) Summary: In a speech to the diplomatic corps, presidential candidate Miguel Vargas Maldonado said that the foreign policy of a Dominican government led b [...]
2007-02-16 13:09:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALDR PGOV PREL
07SANTODOMINGO355U/S EDELMAN ON COUNTER-NARCOTICS COOPERATION AND
[...] (C) Summary. On February 2, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman, DEA Chief of Operations Michael Braun, Commander of U.S. Southern Command's Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-South) Rear Admiral Jeffrey Hathaway, Ambassador Hans Hertell and other U.S. civilian and militar [...]
2007-02-20 14:30:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALMASS MOPS PREL KCRM SNAR HA VE DR
07SANTODOMINGO441DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PART 2, SEVENTH ANNUAL
[...] The following is Part 2 of Embassy's response to the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) questions raised in reftel. 2. 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report for the Dominican Republic, Part 2 III. INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF TRAFFICKERS The Dominican government made significant progress i [...]
2007-03-02 11:13:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB DR
07SANTODOMINGO444DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PART 1, SEVENTH ANNUAL
[...] The following is Part 1 of Embassy's response to the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) questions raised in reftel. 2. 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report for the Dominican Republic, Part 1 I. OVERVIEW: EXTENT OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND THE GOVERNMENT'S RESPONSE [...]
2007-03-02 11:22:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB DR
07SANTODOMINGO451DOMINICAN POLITICS III, #19: FERNANDEZ'S NATIONAL
[...] (U) This is the 19th cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. SUMMARY (U) President Leonel Fernandez used the occasion of his February 27 Independence Day speech to announce that DR-CAFTA was expected to enter into fo [...]
2007-03-02 17:04:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALDR PGOV PREL ECON
07SANTODOMINGO479AT LAST, A BIRTH REGISTRATION SYSTEM FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Dominican civil registry and elections authority has responded somewhat belatedly to complaints from the U.S. Embassy and others by voting to create a procedure to register the Dominican-born children of foreigners who are not legal Dominican residents. Such children, includ [...]
2007-03-05 20:12:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC DR PHUM PGOV PREF SMIG HA
07SANTODOMINGO505DOMINICAN PROVINCE OF SAMANA PREPARES FOR TOURIST
[...] (U) This cable is part of a series of reports on economic and political issues at the provincial level in the Dominican Republic. SAMANA PREPARES FOR TOURIST BOOM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (U) Tourism is on the rise throughout the Dominican Republic, and the northeastern province [...]
2007-03-08 16:08:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYDR PGOV PREL
07SANTODOMINGO508DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: THE DEVELOPMENT AND EXERCISING
[...] (SBU) Summary. Avian influenza (AI) preparedness is a concern for the Dominican Republic. According to Embassy sources, the country has conducted very few AI response exercises. Currently only the Ministry of Agriculture has completed its response plan and has sponsored exercises, focused [...]
2007-03-08 18:07:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU KSTH DR
07SANTODOMINGO535DOMINICAN DIPNOTE REQUESTING SUPPORT IN FAVOR OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-12 17:19:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR PREL IO ICAO DR
07SANTODOMINGO597REGIONAL DRUGS SUMMIT CALLS FOR INCREASED U.S.
[...] (U) Summary. On March 16, OAS Secretary General Insulza, President Preval of Haiti, President Uribe of Colombia, and Prime Minister Manning of Trinidad and Tobago joined Dominican President Fernandez to sign a non-binding declaration on measures to counter threats posed by the trafficking of [...]
2007-03-19 20:25:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SNAR KCRM CO HA VE TD DR
07SANTODOMINGO636DOMINICAN REPLY ON HCOC AGAINST BALLISTIC MISSILE
[...] (SBU) POLOFF delivered a diplomatic note containing Reftel talking points encouraging the Dominican Republic to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct (HCOC). POLOFF emphasized the long period of time in which we have been discussing this issue with the Dominicans (more than four years),unde [...]
2007-03-21 20:26:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM ETTC MTCRE KSCA DR
07SANTODOMINGO637DOMINICAN REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM -
[...] On March 19, POLOFF delivered Reftel talking points on UN internal administration of justice to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Michelle Cohen, Dominican Chief of United Nations and Organization of American States Affairs (Assistant Secretary-equivalent),had no immediate reply but [...]
2007-03-21 20:27:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC APER UNGA DR
07SANTODOMINGO668FURTHER ON REGIONAL DRUGS SUMMIT AND CALLS FOR
[...] (U) Following is an amplified version of Santo Domingo 597 with addition of U.S. and Dominican positions, new text in paras. 10 and 11, and comment. 2. (U) Summary. On March 16, OAS Secretary General Insulza, President Preval of Haiti, President Uribe of Colombia, and Prime Minister Mannin [...]
2007-03-23 20:18:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SNAR KCRM CO HA VE TD DR
07SANTODOMINGO733SENIOR DOMINICAN OFFICIALS IMPLICATED IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: High-level officials in the Dominican Ministries of Foreign Relations and Migration use their positions to facilitate human trafficking and alien smuggling schemes, according to media reports, DHS investigations and Embassy contacts. Those implicated include the Assistant Secreta [...]
2007-03-30 23:06:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIALCVIS PGOV PHUM SMIG KCOR KCRM CH DR HA HK
07SANTODOMINGO734DOMINICAN POLITICS III #22: THE PLD PARTY -
[...] (U) This is the 22nd cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. (C/NF) SUMMARY: With a view to the 2008 presidential election, we make this assessment of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). Founded in the 1970s as a le [...]
2007-04-02 13:22:00Embassy Santo DomingoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PINR PREL DR
07SANTODOMINGO756DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REITERATES SECURITY COUNCIL
[...] This is an action request; please see para. 3. 2. In a diplomatic note received by the Embassy on April 3, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated the Dominican Republic's candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and requested U.S. support. The candidacy [...]
2007-04-03 17:58:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA DR
07SANTODOMINGO808DEMARCHES ON UNSCR 1747 AND DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S
[...] POLOFF delivered Reftels' talking points to the Ministry of Foreign Relations. Ambassador Rhadys Abreu, Acting Dominican Chief of United Nations and Organization of American States Affairs (Assistant Secretary-equivalent),took our views on board but had no immediate reply. We will report an [...]
2007-04-10 16:27:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA IAEA IR DR
07SANTODOMINGO840DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EXTENDS INVITATION TO REGIONAL
[...] Embassy has received a letter from Dominican Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena inviting U.S. participation in an upcoming conference on regional penitentiary practices and penitentiary reform to be held in Santo Domingo, June 20-22, 2007. Post requests notification regarding USG intent t [...]
2007-04-13 19:10:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KJUS KHUM OTRA DR
07SANTODOMINGO964DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ENVIRONMENT TRADE CAPACITY
[...] Summary: Per reftel this cable contains Embassy's proposals for regional and bilateral trade-related environment projects to be funded with FY2007 trade capacity funds under the CAFTA-DR free trade agreement. These proposals are in line with the CAFTA-DR Environmental Cooperation Agreement [...]
2007-04-24 11:11:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ELAB EPA ETRD SENV DR
07SAOPAULO1001MICROSOFT SEES GOB ATTACKS AGAINST IPR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 20 meeting in Sao Paulo with Ambassador Sobel, Microsoft Brazil President Michel Levy stated that current GOB policies are antagonistic towards Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). According to Levy, the GOB through the Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty) has mounted an i [...]
2007-12-21 13:59:00Consulate Sao PauloCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD ECIN PREL
07SAOPAULO1007IPR ROUNDTABLE FOR A/S SULLIVAN'S VISIT TO SAO PAULO
[...] SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs Daniel S. Sullivan held a roundtable on intellectual property rights (IPR) on December 12 at the U.S. Consulate in Sao Paulo. Representatives from recording, film, publishing, healthcare, and Sao Paulo state [...]
2007-12-26 18:08:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON BR
07SAOPAULO107MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VISITS OF NICHOLAS
[...] "There is No 'Free' Alliance" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo's International Editor Claudia Antunes commented (2/12): "The failed occupation of Iraq led many international relations experts in the US to conclude that the Americans, different from the British and [...]
2007-02-12 11:39:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO118MEDIA REACTION: DPRK NUCLEAR PROGRAM, IRANIAN NUCLEAR
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-14 10:38:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO157MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: IRAN'S NUCLEAR
[...] "How To Negotiate With Tehran's Astuteness" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo's Paris correspondent commented (2/27): "The UN Security Council members' meeting in London to discuss a new resolution against Tehran's tricks is affected by two uncertainties: the Europe [...]
2007-02-27 13:40:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO160MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: MERCOSUL, BRAZIL AND
[...] "Action In The Americas" The lead editorial in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (2/28) commented: "Brazilian concessions during President Lula's visit to Uruguay are in the right direction, but should not be considered a solution for Mercosul's erosion.... Urugua [...]
2007-02-28 12:45:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO161 CONSUL GENERAL VIIT TO THE PORT CITY OF SANTOS
[...] (U) ConsulGeneral (CG) and Econoff recently visited the port city of Santos, which lies 60 kilometers southwes of Sao Paulo across the Serra do Mar mountain rnge. Santos serves the industrial and agricultual trade needs of Sao Paulo and neighboring stats and is the most active port by volume [...]
2007-02-28 13:37:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT EINV ETRD ECON SENV OEXP BR ELTN SNAR
07SAOPAULO163UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH CEOs IN
[...] (U) Under Secretary of State R. Nicholas Burns' February 6 roundtable with the CEOs of major American companies and subsidiaries in Sao Paulo provided business leaders a chance to comment on the lcal and regional business environment and detail their corporate social responsibility programs. [...]
2007-03-01 13:18:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP ETRD EINV ECON PGOV BR
07SAOPAULO165UNDER SECRETARY BURNS'S ENERGY ROUNDTABLE IN SAO PAULO,
[...] (SBU) Summary: In his February 6 meeting in Sao Paulo with senior Brazilian energy experts, Under Secretary R. Nicholas Burns emphasized the tremendous potential of U.S.-Brazilian cooperation on ethanol, and solicited his interlocutors' views on developing this partnership. Discussion centered [...]
2007-03-01 16:06:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG PGOV EAGR EPET SENV BR
07SAOPAULO166UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' LUNCH WITH SAO PAULO GOVERNOR SERRA,
[...] (SBU) Summary: During his February 6-7, 2007 visit to Sao Paulo, Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns and his delegation were hosted for lunch by Sao Paulo Governor Jose Serra and key members of Serra's cabinet. U/S Burns and the Governor discussed cooperation on biofuels, [...]
2007-03-01 16:06:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAGR EPET SNAR ASEC EINV BR
07SAOPAULO167UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' SPEECH IN SAO PAULO, FEBRUARY 6,
[...] (U) Summary: In a speech at the new American Studies Center at the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP) in Sao Paulo February 6, Under Secretary for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns highlighted common challenges and opportunities that Brazil and the U.S. face and called for strengthen [...]
2007-03-01 16:08:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC OEXP KPAO PREL PGOV SCUL BR
07SAOPAULO172MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: PRESIDENT BUSH'S IN
[...] "Ethanol And Diplomacy" The lead editorial in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo maintained (3/5): "Agriculture and trade will be the prevailing issues during President George W. Bush's visit this week in Brazil. Biofuel will be the preferential topic of Presidents [...]
2007-03-05 16:24:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO176MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT BUSH TRAVEL TO BRAZIL; WESTERN
[...] "Chances And Obstacles Of A Positive Agenda With The US" Business-oriented Valor Economico (3/13) editorialized: "President Bush's goal today is to recover his popularity in the final half of his second term, as well as to recover some maneuvering room before Republican and Democratic Congres [...]
2007-03-13 17:04:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO177CORRECTED COPY MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE:
[...] "Lula And Bush In Globalization" Economic columnist Carlos Alberto Sardenberg commented in center-right O Estado de S. Paulo (3/12): "Many Latin American nations have already signed free-trade agreements with the US and do not pay the ethanol tariff Brazil has to pay.... Seen from this viewp [...]
2007-03-13 17:05:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO199MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: PRESIDENT BUSH IN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-15 11:10:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO206MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA: CHAVEZ AND
[...] "The Guyana Factor" Political columnist Eliane Cantanhede opined in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (3/16): "President Bush made rapprochement gestures towards US friends in Latin America while Chvez poured millions of dollars into Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia a [...]
2007-03-16 12:06:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO212VISIT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH TO SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
[...] (SBU) On March 8-9, President George W. Bush came to Sao Paulo, Brazil for the first stop in his five-country visit to the Latin American nations of Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico. This visit served to underscore the U.S. commitment to the Western Hemisphere and highlighted [...]
2007-03-19 12:49:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP BUSH GEORGE PREL PGOV SOCI EPET KTIA BR
07SAOPAULO250SAO PAULO GETS NEW ARCHBISHOP
[...] Summary: On March 21, Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Odilo Pedro Scherer, Secretary-General of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB),to be the next Archbishop of Sao Paulo. Dom Odilo replaces Dom Claudio Hummes, who in October of last year was named Cardinal Prefect of the Cong [...]
2007-03-27 16:25:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL PREL PGOV PINR ECON BR
07SAOPAULO251 BRAZIL: INDUSTRIAL AND TRADE ASSOCIATIONS PUSH FOR GREATER
[...] Summary: At a March 10 meeting held at the Sao Paulo headquarters of the Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo (FIESP),Brazilian industrialists presented USTR Ambassador Susan Schwab with a joint statement issued by eight Brazilian industrial and trade associations that calls fo [...]
2007-03-27 16:26:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD WTO BR
07SAOPAULO301GOB UNVEILS NEW EDUCATION PLAN TO ADDRESS SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS
[...] Prominent commentators and politicians have increasingly identified deficiencies in Brazil's public education system as a leading cause of the country's subpar economic performance and its inability to keep pace with other so-called BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) economies. Recent result [...]
2007-04-16 15:19:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL SOCI PGOV ECON KPAO BR
07SAOPAULO33MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: PRESIDENT BUSH'S IRAQ SECURITY PLAN;
[...] "Is There Any Logic In Bush's 'Madness'?" The lead editorial in center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo commented (1/13): "Bush has not only recognized that he made a mistake and publicly admitted it, but he is aware that not even with an additional 20,000 soldiers will h [...]
2007-01-16 13:10:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO368MEDIA REACTION: MIDEAST: ISRAEL; WESTERN HEMISPHERE:
[...] "Report Converts Israel Into 'Razed Land'" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo's Paris correspondent Giles Lapouge commented (5/3): "Following the preliminary conclusions of the Winograd Committee report on the war between Israel and Lebanon last year, Prime Minister [...]
2007-05-03 14:31:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO369MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: LEFTIST LEANINGS IN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-03 17:22:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO371MEDIA REACTION: EUROPE: FRANCE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION; SAO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-04 10:28:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO384MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: BRAZILIAN FOREIGN
[...] "What Kind Of Leadership Is This?" The lead editorial in center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo (5/5) maintained: "The GOB continues to support the creation of the Bank of the South, a financial adventure with a deadline to begin.... The idea is to constitute a developme [...]
2007-05-07 12:38:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO432OFFICE OF THE COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY (OCC) MEETS WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-21 12:33:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV PGOV BR
07SAOPAULO447ASSISTANT SECRETARY PATTERSONQS VISIT TO SAO
[...] (SBU) During her May 15 visit to Sao Paulo, INL A/S Anne Patterson participated in a roundtable with police, prosecutors, and other experts, who discussed the First Capital Command (PCC) criminal organization (see refs C-D) and the different experiences of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro with ga [...]
2007-05-25 09:47:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PREL KJUS ASEC BR
07SAOPAULO45WESTERN HEMISPHERE: MERCOSUL SUMMIT IN RIO DE JANEIRO;
[...] "Lost Mercosul" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo (1/19) maintained: "In 2006, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay imprudently accepted Colonel Hugo Chvez's Venezuela as a member of Mercosul.... With five partners, Mercosul is weaker than it was with four. With [...]
2007-01-19 12:00:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO464POPE BENEDICT'S VISIT TO SAO PAULO
[...] Pope Benedict XVI's four-day visit to Sao Paulo, the first trip to Latin America of his papacy, was received with popular enthusiasm and saturation media coverage. In his several sermons and other public utterances, the Pope called on the faithful to adhere to Church rules on personal morali [...]
2007-05-29 17:51:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL PREL PGOV PINR SOCI BR
07SAOPAULO481WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CLOSING OF RCTV, CHAVEZ'S
[...] "Geopolitical Presages" Editorialist Aldo Pereira remarked in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (6/4): "Hugo Chvez bought USD 4.5 billion in weapons over the past two years.... He has justified such spending as a precaution against a possible 'asymmetrical' war ag [...]
2007-06-04 13:38:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO490GLOBAL ECONOMY: VENEZUELA, CLOSING OF RCTV; SAO PAULO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-06 13:20:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO5MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: SADDAM'S DEATH; WESTERN HEMISPHERE:
[...] "Good For The US, Not For Justice" Liberal largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo's Washington correspondent Sergio Davila commented (12/30): "Saddam Hussein's execution served the USG's interests, the White House's will to be able to leave Iraq in the least shameful way possibl [...]
2007-01-03 15:11:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO53WESTERN HEMISPHERE: MERCOSUL SUMMIT IN RIO DE JANEIRO;
[...] "Chvez, The Dictator" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo editorialized (1/21): "In Venezuela, all the powers, the republic and democracy are now facing a checkmate. The powers that the Assembly members - who are Chvez's followers without exception - gave to the pres [...]
2007-01-22 12:59:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO551 BRAZILIAN MERCANTILE AND FUTURES EXCHANGE GROWTH AND
[...] (SBU) In a June 15 meeting with the Ambassador, Brazilian Mercantile and Futures Exchange (BM and F) President Manoel Felix Cintra Neto and Government Relations Director Joao Lauro Amaral gave an overview of the institution and presented an optimistic outlook of derivatives and commodity tradi [...]
2007-06-21 15:17:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD EAGR SENV ECON BR
07SAOPAULO560A PSDB INSIDER'S EARLY LOOK AT THE 2008 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) In a recent conversation with Poloff, Walter Feldman, a leader of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) currently serving as Sao Paulo Municipal Secretary of Sports, Leisure, and Recreation, shared his views on local government, next year's municipal elections, and the broader Braz [...]
2007-06-25 16:49:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR ECON BR
07SAOPAULO572BRAZILIAN COMPANY BECOMES WORLD'S LARGEST BEEF PRODUCER
[...] The Brazilian company JBS-Friboi, the largest producer and exporter of beef in Latin America and the largest exporter of beef in the world, purchased 100 percent of Colorado-based Swift & Company for USD 225 million with the assumption of USD 1.16 billion in debt, giving the deal a total value [...]
2007-06-29 11:41:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EFIN ETRD EINV BEXP BR
07SAOPAULO598SANTOS PORT INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT: WHERE IS THE MONEY?
[...] (SBU) Summary: Econoff and Econ FSN visited the Port of Santos recently to follow up on several news stories relating major infrastructure investment. Interviews with municipal and GoB Port Authority (CODESP) officials revealed that there are several privately-funded projects under way, and [...]
2007-07-11 14:33:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ETRD BEXP EWWT BR
07SAOPAULO599PRESIDENT AND MRS. BUSH HOLD WHITE HOUSE
[...] "Late and Modest Attention" Editorial on liberal Folha de S. Paulo (7/11) comments: "The re-discovery' of Latin America by the White House comes late, it is a reactive measure and does not promise glaring results. It comes late because George W. Bush already displays all the symptoms ...of a [...]
2007-07-11 16:21:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO640MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: US-CUBA DIALOGUE;
[...] "From Havana To Washington" Foreign affairs analyst Newton Carlos commented in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (7/28): "The idea of a possible dialogue between Cuba and the United States seems to be in Ral Castro's mind with who knows, maybe a slight ray of hope. [...]
2007-07-30 19:33:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO673MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH AND CENTRAL ASIA: IRAN; SCO PAULO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-09 13:05:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO7MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ: SADDAM'S DEATH; AFRICA: SOMALIA; SAO
[...] "Saddam And The Hanging" Columnist Carlos Heitor Cony wrote in liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (1/4): "Except for the US and the UK, the supporters of the Western civilization, apparently all other nations have condemned Saddam Hussein's execution.... I oppose t [...]
2007-01-04 10:49:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO71 RIO GRANDE DO SUL: AN ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT
[...] (U) Summary: Econoff and Econ Specialist traveled recently to Rio Grande do Sul (RGS),the southernmost state in Brazil located approximately 1100 km south of Sao Paulo. The state, which borders both Argentina and Uruguay, has a population of 10.3 million inhabitants, which represents 5.1 pe [...]
2007-01-30 19:08:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND EINV EWWT EAGR ELAB KIPR ETRD ECON ECIN SOCI
07SAOPAULO714MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CHAVEZ'S NEW
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-21 18:03:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO718DESPITE CHALLENGES, PRC,S INTEREST AND INFLUENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-22 18:29:00Consulate Sao PauloCONFIDENTIALPREL SENV ETRD EINV ECON PGOV EMIN KNNP BR CH
07SAOPAULO726BRAZIL: MOVING FORWARD ON BILATERAL HEALTH ISSUES
[...] (SBU) The government of Brazil is interested in increasing bilateral health cooperation with the United States and particularly in setting up joint programs in Africa, especially in the area of training medical technicians. According to Brazilian contacts, working together on health issues is [...]
2007-08-27 20:32:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL TBIO EAID TSPL BR PGOV SOCI
07SAOPAULO731BRAZIL: U/S JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT
[...] (SBU) Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery III met August 21 in Sao Paulo with Henrique Meirelles, President of Brazil's Central Bank. Meirelles commented on the recent global market turbulence and used the relatively mild reaction by Brazilian markets [...]
2007-08-28 13:50:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV BR
07SAOPAULO76WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA, CHAVEZ'S RULE BY DECREE; SAO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-01 11:37:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO766INFRASTRUCTURE IN BRAZIL: THE TIETE RIVER
[...] (U) The Brazilian Transportation Ministry hosted the first Bilateral Brazil-U.S. Inland Waterways Navigation Conference August 28-30 in Brasilia that brought together experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by inland waterways. The U.S. delegation included representativ [...]
2007-09-14 17:50:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT ETRD ECON SENV ELTN BR
07SAOPAULO768BRAZIL: INVESTMENT GRADE BY 2008?
[...] (U) Amid public speculation surrounding Brazil's possible ascent to an investment grade bond rating, Econoffs visited the credit ratings agencies Standard and Poors (S&P) and Moody's to solicit their views. Both ratings agencies have divergent opinions about the quality of Brazil's fiscal acc [...]
2007-09-14 19:32:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EINV BR
07SAOPAULO777CIVIC MOVEMENT "CANSEI" GENERATES BACKLASH
[...] (U) In an attempt to tap into popular discontent with the Lula government, a group of Sao Paulo-based professional and business organizations recently launched the Civic Movement for the Right of Brazilians, known informally as "Cansei" (I'm tired). Though leaders insist that the movement is [...]
2007-09-18 14:12:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDECON PINR PGOV ELAB EAIR BR
07SAOPAULO780DELFIM NETTO: NOT BULLISH ON BRAZIL"S ECONOMY OR
[...] (C) Former Finance Minister Antonio Delfim Netto told CG September 17 that the Brazilian economy is all right for now despite recent market turbulence, but he has "serious doubts" about the next 5-10 years, especially if the global economy enters a down cycle. He characterized Brazil's focus [...]
2007-09-20 17:34:00Consulate Sao PauloCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PINR ELAB EAGR BR
07SAOPAULO785Media Reaction: Western Hemisphere: Venezuela, Chvez's
[...] "Difficult Dialogue With Chvez's Venezuela" Business-oriented Valor Econtmico (9/24) editorialized: "Presidents Hugo Chvez and Lula da Silva resumed in Manaus embraces and friendly public declarations following a tense separation period that began in May when the Venezuelan accused the Brazil [...]
2007-09-24 13:01:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO787BRAZILIAN EXCHANGE STUDENTS FLOCKING TO THE UNITED STATES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: AmConsul Sao Paulo had a 23 percent increase in J visa applicants during the first semester of 2007 compared to the same period in 2006. This is the continuation of a trend that has resulted in a 185 percent increase in demand for J visas over the past five years. The increased [...]
2007-09-24 18:21:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS KFRD OEXC ELAB SMIG BR
07SAOPAULO794MEDIA REACTION: UNGA; SAO PAULO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-26 13:44:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO802BRAZILIAN FIRMS LOBBY TO HOLD ONTO GSP BENEFITS
[...] (U) The American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham) and Sao Paulo Federation of Industries (FIESP) met with representatives of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on September 13 and 14 to discuss Brazil's inclusion in the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) trade program. Amcham an [...]
2007-09-28 19:13:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON BR
07SAOPAULO819BRAZILIAN STOCK EXCHANGE INDEX BREAKS RECORD
[...] On September 27, the primary index on Brazil's stock exchange surpassed 60,000 points for the first time in its history. The Ibovespa, the main indicator of the Brazilian stock market's average performance, gained nearly 11 percent in the month of September, and is up 36 percent in 2007. It [...]
2007-10-03 17:23:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON BR
07SAOPAULO832CREDIT GROWTH IN BRAZIL DRIVING ECONOMIC GROWTH
[...] (U) Credit growth in Brazil is one of the major drivers of economic growth despite some of the highest real interest rates in the world. Overall credit availability is up 25 percent over the last 12 months, especially in personal consumer credit and much of this growth is attributed to rising [...]
2007-10-11 19:24:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON BR
07SAOPAULO855SAO PAULO'S ARCHBISHOP ON SOCIAL ISSUES
[...] (U) In a recent courtesy call, Consul General (CG) sought the views of Dom Odilo Pedro Scherer, Archbishop of Sao Paulo, on a range of issues in Brazil's political life and on the role of the Church in Brazil and Latin America. Dom Odilo, who replaced Cardinal Claudio Hummes in late April, an [...]
2007-10-24 09:54:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL PINR KIRF ECON BR
07SAOPAULO873PUBLIC SECURITY IN SAO PAULO: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
[...] (SBU) Although public security remains one of the most serious policy challenges in Brazil, civil society researchers and law enforcement analysts in Sao Paulo believe that the federal and state governments are taking inadequate action to tackle the issue or to coordinate with each other in fi [...]
2007-10-29 16:50:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM PGOV ASEC BR
07SAOPAULO882BRAZIL'S OPPOSITION PSDB POSITIONING FOR 2008 AND 2010
[...] (SBU) Summary: It is not true, according to Sao Paulo city official Andrea Matarazzo, that the Sao Paulo State Social Democracy Party of Brazil(PSDB) is divided between allies of Governor Jose Serra and supporters of former Governor (and 2006 presidential candidate) Geraldo Alckmin. Matarazzo [...]
2007-11-01 11:49:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR ECON EFIN BR
07SAOPAULO89MEDIA REACTION: MIDEAST: IRAN; GLOBAL ECONOMY: IPCC REPORT;
[...] "Bush Helps Ahmadinejad" Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo's Washington correspondent Sergio Davila commented (2/5): "The Iranian medium class imposed a political defeat on President Mahmoud Ahmdinejad in recent elections because he failed to fulfill his promise o [...]
2007-02-05 14:46:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO891MEDIA REACTION: WESTERN HEMISPHERE: VENEZUELA;SAO PAULO.
[...] "The Language That Chvez Understands" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo editorialized (11/6): "A regime that permits a caudillo to remain perennially in power, deprives minorities and the opposition their fundamental liberties and allows a nation to be ruled without [...]
2007-11-06 16:07:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO899BRAZILIAN STOCK EXCHANGE IPO LARGEST IN HISTORY
[...] (U) The Brazilian Stock Exchange's (Bovespa) initial public offering (IPO) last month was the largest in Brazil's history, bringing in nearly USD 4 billion. Bovespa representatives told Econoff that its IPO raised its international profile and increased its worldwide credibility as a premier [...]
2007-11-08 09:38:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON BR
07SAOPAULO90MIDEAST: CHIRAC ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PLANS; WESTERN
[...] "Middle East Is A Politicians' Swamp" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo's Paris correspondent Giles Lapouge commented (2/2): "Concerned with the idea that the world will be an orphan - when he leaves the presidency in two months - French President Jacques Chirac wan [...]
2007-02-05 14:55:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO900BRAZIL CIVAIR: BUDGET AIRLINE BRA SHUTS DOWN OPERATIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After operating for eight years, the Brazilian low-fare airline BRA (Brasil Rodo Aereo Transportes) suspended operations on November 7 and gave thirty days notice to its 1100 employees of a possible dismissal. In a last-ditch effort to avoid shutting down entirely, BRA is seek [...]
2007-11-08 16:24:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR PGOV ECON EINV BR
07SAOPAULO902SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT SARKOZY'S VISIT TO
[...] "Bush's New Best Friend" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo's Paris correspondent Giles Lapouge commented (11/7): "It was a U.S. friend who arrived yesterday in Washington for a two-day visit. The Americans, who are not used to kind words from French presidents, are [...]
2007-11-08 18:12:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO910Brazil's Real Estate Market Booming
[...] (U) In an October 23 meeting with Eli Horn, president and founder of Cyrela Brazil Realty, Ambassador Sobel discussed Brazil's booming real estate business. Horn expects company sales in 2007 to reach USD 1.2 billion, compared with less than USD 200 million in 2004. Cyrela's stock is up 50 [...]
2007-11-13 10:58:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDBTIO EINV EFIN ECON BR
07SAOPAULO915DESPITE PROBLEMS, BRAZILIAN AIRLINES OPTIMISTIC
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Sobel met with the Presidents of the two leading Brazilian airlines TAM and Gol on October 22 to discuss developments in the aviation sector. Both firms noted that Brazil's underdeveloped infrastructure is buckling under increased air traffic in recent years. The T [...]
2007-11-14 09:52:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR PREL MARR PGOV ECON EINV BEXP BR
07SAOPAULO916MEDIA REACTION: PAKISTAN; PRESIDENT SARKOZY'S VISIT TO
[...] "Self Coup In Pakistan" Center-right national circulation daily O Estado de S. Paulo's editorial remarked (11/10): "The US and its allies are facing an extremely difficult situation in Pakistan. They cannot support the violent abandonment of democratic appearances, nor can they impose sancti [...]
2007-11-14 10:30:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO954MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST: ANNAPOLIS PEACE CONFERENCE;
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-03 12:13:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
07SAOPAULO958FORCED LABOR IN BRAZIL: URBAN MYTH OR RURAL REALITY?
[...] (SBU) Recent reports in the Brazilian media have focused on the question of forced labor in Brazil and whether or not the GOB is doing enough to combat poor labor conditions in the country. Some observers question whether forced labor exists in Brazil at all but harsh working conditions are c [...]
2007-12-04 17:24:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EAGR EIND PHUM SOCI KTIP BR
07SAOPAULO966CODEL REID'S VISIT TO FOZ DO IGUACU, BRAZIL
[...] (U) During a November 27-28 visit to Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, Codel Reid met with the Ambassador and Embassy Brasilia and ConGen Sao Paulo officers, visited Federal Police headquarters and an operating center of the Maritime Federal Police, and toured Itaipu Dam. The delegation dined with three [...]
2007-12-12 09:23:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PINR PTER KCRM OPRC BR
07SAOPAULO992OVERWORKED SAO PAULO JUDGES WANT GREATER LAW
[...] (SBU) Sao Paulo judges tell us that they are overworked and overburdened and that the growth in the drug trade and lack of prison space make their already difficult work even more challenging. Greg West, Assistant United States Attorney and Organized Crime and Terrorism Section Chief for the [...]
2007-12-19 18:09:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBR PGOV PHUM OEXC OIIP KCRM SNAR
07SARAJEVO1068BOSNIA - THE STATE PROSECUTOR AND STATE COURT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The February 26 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision that genocide was committed in and around Srebrenica from July 11, 1995 has placed the issue of war crimes prsecutions near the top of the Bosnian political genda. The current political environment has highlghted criti [...]
2007-05-16 14:32:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPHUM KAWC KCRM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL BK
07SARAJEVO1211BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC SUGGESTS RAISING SREBRENICA AT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Srebrenica Initiative Board announced plans to hold a public demonstration in front of parliament on June 11 in support if its demand for secession from Republika Srpska. Spokesmen for all three major Bosniak parties endorsed the demonstration. Earlier in the week, the Party [...]
2007-06-01 15:16:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV KAWC KJUS UN BK
07SARAJEVO1471BOSNIA: EAGLE BASE TRANSFER CEREMONY MARKS NEW ERA
[...] (SBU) Summary. The return of Eagle Base in Tuzla to the authority of Bosnia-Herzegovina was marked in a poignant ceremony at the facility on June 30. The ceremony focused on the essential contributions to peace and security of the approximately 100,000 U.S. servicemen and women who served in [...]
2007-07-03 16:12:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR BK
07SARAJEVO1545BOSNIA: SCENESETTER FOR THE JULY 19-20 VISIT OF
[...] (C) Your visit comes at a time of high political polarization in Bosnia. Increased tensions have resulted in the near total paralysis of government and the reform process. Nationalism has even begun to impact the defense reform agenda, where we have seen some recent slippage in the so far suc [...]
2007-07-13 15:11:00Embassy SarajevoSECRETPREL PGOV MARR BK
07SARAJEVO1547BOSNIA - SREBRENICA: AN ISSUE DEFLATED, BUT NOT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and representatives from the international community July 11 participated in events to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the 1995 genocide that took place in Srebrenica. The commemoration followed a politically tense four months in Bosnia after the International Cour [...]
2007-07-16 13:15:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO211BOSNIA - DODIK HEARS CLEAR U.S. MESSAGE TO DESIST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: We met with Republika Srpska (RS) Premier Milorad Dodik January 25 to deliver a stern warning that the USG had lost patience with his destabilizing rhetoric, especially on Kosovo status, as well as with press statements like the recent article in Croatia,s &Globus8 which strike at [...]
2007-01-30 06:33:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALBK PGOV PINR PREL
07SARAJEVO2142BOSNIAN DEFENSE LEADERSHIP TO CONSIDER ADDITIONAL
[...] (S) DASD Debra Cagan visited Sarajevo September 28 to encourage the senior Bosnian defense leadership to augment their military deployments in support of coalition operations Iraq. DASD Cagan urged Minister of Defense Selmo Cikotic and Chief of the Joint Staff LTG Sifet Podzic to deploy an in [...]
2007-10-04 16:23:00Embassy SarajevoSECRETPGOV PREL MARR BK IZ
07SARAJEVO2309BOSNIA - EUR/SCE DIRECTOR CHRIS HOH'S OCTOBER
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During his October 16-20 visit to the Brcko District, Banja Luka, and Sarajevo, visiting EUR/SCE Director Christopher Hoh expressed concern about the current political stalemate, but pledged continued US support to help Bosnia move forward. While the economy has visibly improved [...]
2007-10-29 14:41:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR EU BK
07SARAJEVO2555BOSNIA- CHALLENGES FOR THE STATE COURT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the past four years, the State Prosecutor,s Office and State Court have made important strides building Bosnia,s capacity to try war crimes cases. Preliminary information on likely future war crimes cases suggests a demanding workload and challenges for both the prosecutor an [...]
2007-11-27 16:56:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ICTY KAWC KJUS KCRM BK
07SARAJEVO2575BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED'S DECEMBER 4-5
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After six weeks of an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between the High Representative, backed by the international community, and Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik, backed by the RS political establishment, both sides have blinked a bit. It now appears that we may have a dea [...]
2007-11-30 20:19:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL BK
07SARAJEVO2647BOSNIA- FOREIGN MINISTRY UPDATED ON MNF-I UNSC
[...] (C) We presented points, draft UNSC resolutions, and letters per reftel to Acting Assistant Foreign Minister Davorka Istuk, MFA America's Desk Officer Asim Karahasanovic, and Foreign Minister's Advisor Asim Dorovic. Istuk thanked us for the information, and requested further updates as availa [...]
2007-12-11 17:03:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UNSC EFIN MARR IZ BK
07SARAJEVO2648BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR DEFENSE MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary. Defense Minister Selmo Cikotic comes to Washington December 17-21 for Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDCs) and other meetings ready to present his vision completing Bosnia's defense reform, expanding Bosnia's participation in coalition support operations, and expediting NATO ac [...]
2007-12-11 18:04:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MARR BK
07SARAJEVO2655BOSNIA- PRESIDENT KOMSIC SUPPORTS US POSITION ON
[...] (C) On December 12, Ambassador reviewed reftel points on next steps on Kosovo status with Chairman of the Presidency Zeljko Komsic. Ambassador highlighted the points recently raised by A/S Fried during his visit to Sarajevo that the United States understands the particularly delicate position [...]
2007-12-12 16:33:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BK YI
07SARAJEVO292BOSNIA: USG MESSAGE ON KOSOVO DELIVERED TO KEY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with all three members of the Bosnian Tri-Presidency and the DCM with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs February 5 and 6 to discuss the Ahtisaari Kosovo plan. All of the Embassy's interlocutors expressed cautious support for the proposal, and none said they were [...]
2007-02-08 14:39:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BK YI
07SARAJEVO319BOSNIA: THE NEW COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
[...] (U) Following is biographic information on the new BiH Council of Ministers, confirmed by the BiH House of Representatives on February 9. Details of the parliamentary session will be reported septel. MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SVEN ALKALAJ (Sven AL-ka-lye),SBiH ---------------------- [...]
2007-02-13 09:05:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV BK
07SARAJEVO41BOSNIA - THE HIGHREP'S PROPOSAL FOR PHASE II
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The High Representative (High Rep) shared with us his draft proposal for conducting phase II of constitutional reform (A copy of the 21-page paper was e-mailed to EUR/SCE) and asked for official U.S. comments on it. The HighRep proposes establishing a Commission on Constitutional [...]
2007-01-10 09:55:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR BK EU
07SARAJEVO441BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR THE FEBRUARY 26-27 PIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: We expect the February 26-27 meeting of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) to approve a one-year extension of OHR's mandate (i.e., to June 2008),though we anticipate the Russians will complicate efforts to reach consensus on this decision. High Representative Christian Schwa [...]
2007-02-23 15:46:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINR KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO510BOSNIA - NEW BATTLE BEGINS OVER CITIZENSHIP LAW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The opening salvo in what could prove to be an ugly political battle over amendments to the Bosnian Law on Citizenship came on February 27, when FM Sven Alkalaj (Party for BiH (SBiH)) sent a diplomatic note to the Serbian MFA informing it that the bilateral agreement on dual cit [...]
2007-03-06 15:01:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER BK
07SARAJEVO651BOSNIA - NOT WHERE WE WANT IT TO BE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: One year ago, Bosnia's prospects looked brighter than they had at any moment since Dayton. Today, the accomplishments of post-war reconstruction have been placed in question. Externally, the drawdown of the international presence here, coupled with Europe's stupor over future en [...]
2007-03-23 16:41:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO674BOSNIA - THE PRESIDENCY DEVELOPS A STAFF-LEVEL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bosnian Tri-Presidency has begun to develop a staff that can serve their respective bosses. On a day-to-day basis the vast majority of our contact with the Presidency takes place at the staff level, which has provided an important avenue for influencing their bosses' thinking [...]
2007-03-27 14:52:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO686BOSNIA - SREBRENICA'S CITIZENS LIKELIEST LOSERS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Long ignored by state and entity politicians, Srebrenica Municipality is now the subject of a tug-of-war pitting political interests of the country's leading Bosniak politicians against those of Srebrenica's local community. In the wake of the ICJ verdict, calls for Srebrenica's s [...]
2007-03-29 08:59:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS MARR BK
07SARAJEVO791A/S FRIED'S VISIT TO BOSNIA
[...] (C) During his April 3-5 visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried conveyed a message of strong U.S. support for Bosnia's path to Europe. He urged political leaders to seize current opportunities to finalize constitutional and police reforms, thereby cementing Bosni [...]
2007-04-12 16:10:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BK
07SARAJEVO804BOSNIA DEMINING: PROSECUTOR REQUESTS QSI REPORT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary. After briefings from the Quality Solutions International (QSI) team on their recent assessment of demining operations in Bosnia, post believes the report highlights the importance of changing our demining operating pr [...]
2007-04-13 13:35:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM MASS PREL MOPS PGOV BK SI
07SARAJEVO935BOSNIA: FOREIGN MINISTER ALKALAJ SHOULD HEAR A
[...] (C) Summary. Bosnian Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj arrives in Washington April 30 for a week-long visit. Having served as the Bosnian Ambassador to the U.S (1994- 2000),Alkalaj is no stranger to Washington, but this will be his first U.S. visit as Foreign Minister. Although he assumed his [...]
2007-04-27 13:31:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALBK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO995BOSNIA - CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND THE EUROPEANS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Christian Schwarz-Schilling, in his capacity as European Union Special Representative (EUSR),briefed Quint Ambassadors (plus the European Commission Ambassador) on the proposal to create a Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC),which would be responsible for guiding a longer-term [...]
2007-05-09 09:14:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL EU BK
07SECTION02OF03EIJING483U/S HUGHES URGES INCREASED EXCHANGES, MEDIA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-22 12:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SCUL PHUM KOLY KPAO KIRF CH
07SEOUL1012ELECTION EXPERTS SHARE VIEWS ON FTA AND ELECTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, a pollster, an ex-spokesperson for presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon, a political consultant and a professor shared their views of the current political landscape in Korea and on the factors that would determine the outcome of Dece [...]
2007-04-06 08:38:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL1078PRESIDENT ROH'S MEETING WITH RICHARDSON-PRINCIPI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 12 meeting with President Roh Moo-hyun, New Mexico Governor Richardson and former Secretary of Veteran's Affairs Anthony Principi said that the DPRK had been cooperative in assisting the transfer of the remains of servicemen thought to have died during the Korean War. [...]
2007-04-13 04:42:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MNUC KS KN
07SEOUL1088GWANGJU: BIRTHPLACE OF ROK DEMOCRACY GEARS UP FOR
[...] (SBU) Gwangju's votes were pivotal in electing Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun in 1997 and 2002. Also, the May 18, 1980 student uprising and massacre in Gwangju was a defining moment in Korea's modern history and, due to misinformation that tied the U.S. to the event, a source of anti-American [...]
2007-04-16 04:17:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KS PGOV PREL
07SEOUL1112GOVERNOR RICHARDSON AND FORMER SECRETARY PRINCIPI
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an April 11-12 visit to Seoul, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former Secretary of Veteran's Affairs Principi noted that the DPRK had been cooperative in facilitating the transfer of the remains of servicemen thought to have died during the Korean War. The Richa [...]
2007-04-17 04:34:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MUNC KS KN
07SEOUL1126NSC DIRECTOR CHA'S 4/12 MEETING WITH PARK SUN-WON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 12, NSC Director for Asian Affairs Victor Cha met with Park Sun-won, Secretary to the President for National Security Strategy, to provide a readout of the April 8-11 visit to North Korea by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Former Secretary of Veteran's Affairs Ant [...]
2007-04-18 06:32:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MNUC KS KN
07SEOUL114DELIVERED: REQUEST FOR ALLIED DEMARCHE TO CHINA
[...] (S) The Ambassador delivered the talking points contained in reftel A to Cho Jung-pyo, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday January 14, 2007. He also showed A/FM Cho the photographs of the event, but as instructed did not leave the photographs behind. [...]
2007-01-14 03:39:00Embassy SeoulSECRETPREL PARM MNUC MARR
07SEOUL1141PRIVATE BROADCASTING TO NORTH KOREA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fueled by foreign funding, three Seoul-based radio stations are broadcasting news, information about defection, entertainment and other programming into the DPRK via shortwave platforms located overseas. The three -- Free NK Radio (FreeNK),Open Radio for North Korea (OpenRad [...]
2007-04-19 07:29:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN
07SEOUL1158SOUTH KOREANS' SHOCK AND GRIEF OVER THE VIRGINIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From all indications, South Koreans were shocked, saddened, and sorry about the mass murder at Virginia Tech by South Korean national Cho Seung-hui. South Koreans -- ranging from ordinary citizens to the President -- have expressed their condolences to the victims and their fam [...]
2007-04-20 08:59:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL1175KOREAS AGREE TO RICE AID AND TEST RUNS OF RAILWAYS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 23 briefing on the April 18-22 Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation Promotion Committee talks in Pyongyang, Director-General for Unification Policy Planning Um Jong-sik told A/DCM that the ROKG used the meetings to emphasize the need for the DPRK to implement the Februar [...]
2007-04-23 09:58:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC EAID KS KN
07SEOUL1189MOFAT DELIVERS NONPAPER ON KIC EXPANSION
[...] (C) In an April 23 meeting with A/DCM, MOFAT Director-General for North American Affairs Cho Byung-jae passed a nonpaper that says, given the February 13 "Initial Actions" agreement, the ROKG intends to resume efforts to expand development of the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC),which had be [...]
2007-04-24 07:37:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC EAID KS KN
07SEOUL1215THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE RELATIONS (2 OF 3)
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the second in a series of cables on the politics of U.S.-ROK Alliance relations. Reftel A explored how the ROK perceives its security environment, concluding that the Korean public and their policy makers are heavily conflicted when it comes to relations with their neig [...]
2007-04-26 07:54:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PGOV PINS MARR MCAP KS KN CH JA
07SEOUL1216THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE RELATIONS (3 OF 3)
[...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the third and final cable in a series reporting on the politics of U.S.-ROK Alliance relations. Reftel A explored how the Republic of Korea views its security environment. Reftel B looked at how the U.S.-ROK Alliance fits with ROK security perspectives. This final rep [...]
2007-04-26 08:19:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM PGOV PINS MARR MCAP KS KN CH JA
07SEOUL1327TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON'S MARCH VISIT TO SEOUL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On the eve of the 8th KORUS-FTA round, Treasury Secretary Paulson visited Seoul March 6-7 to meet President Roh Moo-hyun, Deputy Prime Minister Kwon O-kyu, and Trade Minister Kim Hyun-chong. His discussions reaffirmed: (1) high-level support on both sides for keeping the KORUS- [...]
2007-05-07 01:22:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD KN KS PREL EINV PGOV
07SEOUL1365PROMINENT NK DEFECTORS FORM RADICAL NGO
[...] (C) "Aquariums of Pyongyang" author Kang Cheol-hwan, former DPRK inner-circle member Hwang Jang-yop and other prominent North Korean defectors have formed a new organization, the Committee for Democratization of North Korea (CDNK). Its main goals are to topple the DPRK regime and organize def [...]
2007-05-08 08:16:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN
07SEOUL1405NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR BAEK ON FTA, ALLIANCE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 10 lunch meeting with the Ambassador, National Security Advisor Baek Jong-chun said his responsibilities were defined: work closely to support the KORUS FTA, USFK relocation agreements, and progress in the Six-Party Talks (6PT). Baek expressed optimism that the Banco De [...]
2007-05-10 09:32:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MNUC KS KN
07SEOUL1439URI PARTY VISIT TO PYONGYANG: DPRK SAID IT IS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Five Uri Party parliamentarians, led by potential presidential candidate Rep. Kim Hyuk-kyu, met with the Ambassador on May 9 to brief him on their May 2-5 trip to Pyongyang. Kim said that the North Korean side had stressed: (a) its commitment to implementing the February 13 "Initi [...]
2007-05-14 06:58:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KS KN
07SEOUL1448S/CRS AMBASSADOR HERBST'S CONSULTATIONS IN SEOUL
[...] (SBU) The U.S. and ROKG held a second round of consultations on reconstruction and stabilization (R&S) issues on April 26. The U.S. delegation led by Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) John Herbst obtained Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Vice Minister Ch [...]
2007-05-15 01:07:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRS KS
07SEOUL151CLEARANCE FOR EAP DAS CHRISTENSEN'S TRAVEL TO KOREA
[...] (U) Embassy Seoul warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the January 25-28, 2007 official visit to Seoul by EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas J. Christensen. CONTACT INFORMATION ------------------- 2. (U) Control officer for the visit is Political Officer Andrew Bennett [...]
2007-01-18 07:12:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AMGT OTRA KS
07SEOUL1557BILATERAL RICE AID TO START IN LATE MAY BUT 6PT
[...] (C) Rice assistance: MOFAT North America DG Cho Byung-jae said that the ROKG would provide some bilateral rice aid by the end of May, given political and interagency pressure to do so; ideally, the Banco Delta Asia (BDA) issue would be resolved by then and the DPRK would start Yongbyon shutd [...]
2007-05-21 09:11:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ECON KS KN
07SEOUL1576XXXXXXXXXXXX SHARES IDEAS ON DPRK
[...] (C)XXXXXXXXXXXX Arranging an Eric Clapton concert in Pyongyang could also be useful, he said, given Kim Jong-il's second son's devotion to the rock legend. END SUMMARY. XXXXXXXXXXXX ---------------------------------- 2. (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX DOING BUSINESS IN THE DPRK -------------------------- [...]
2007-05-23 02:45:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV KS KN
07SEOUL1670LEE MYUNG-BAK FOREIGN POLICY ADVISORS ON U.S.-ROK
[...] (C) Members of presidential contender Lee Myung-bak's foreign policy team told poloffs on May 30 that Lee would likely advocate a "pragmatic" approach to the U.S.-ROK alliance, aimed principally to preserve room to strengthen the relationship after the election without alienating progressives [...]
2007-06-01 08:08:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KS KN
07SEOUL1710ROKG ON VENEZUELA-IRAN RELATIONSHIP
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-05 09:04:00Embassy SeoulSECRETPREL ECON PTER VE IR KS
07SEOUL1711LEE MYUNG-BAK: SMOOTH SAILING TILL DECEMBER?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 4 meeting, the Ambassador and GNP presidential front-runner Lee Myung-bak discussed North Korea, the December elections, and the FTA. Lee also asked the Ambassador to help set up a meeting with Secretary Rice during his scheduled June 11-14 trip to Washington D.C. Le [...]
2007-06-05 09:40:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KS ECON KN
07SEOUL173MOFAT PROTESTS GENERAL BELL'S PUBLIC REMARKS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 18 meeting with the acting DCM, MOFAT Director General for North American Affairs Cho Byong-jae expressed a strong protest about two aspects of the public remarks General Bell had delivered at the Seoul Foreign Correspondent's Club earlier in the day. The first prob [...]
2007-01-19 08:20:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PREL PGOV KN KS
07SEOUL1740ROK-JAPAN-PRC TRILATERAL BARELY MENTIONS DPRK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The June 3 trilateral foreign ministers' meeting focused on efforts to increase trilateral economic and civic cooperation, but glossed over security issues in Northeast Asia (including North Korea) and other regions, MOFAT contacts told poloffs on June 5. The host-ROK agenda had [...]
2007-06-07 08:54:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ENRG KS JA CH
07SEOUL1755ROKG RELUCTANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO WFP PROGRAM IN DPRK
[...] (U) Action Request: See paragraph 4. 2. (C) On June 8, A/POL delivered ref A points recommending that the ROKG contribute to the WFP's DPRK program as soon as possible despite the lack of DPRK enthusiasm for the idea, to Cho Byung-jae, Director-General for North American Affairs at the Mi [...]
2007-06-08 08:02:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID EAGR WFP KS KN
07SEOUL1756PROGRESSIVE KINGMAKERS: STILL UNDECIDED ON 2007
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Roh Moo-hyun and former President Kim Dae-jung are the kingmakers on the progressive side of Korean politics, but with fewer than 200 days to go until the December 19 election, neither has made clear whom he supports for president. Meanwhile, on the conservative side [...]
2007-06-08 09:10:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL1817MISSING/DETAINED AMCITS IN IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-14 07:53:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EUN KS IR
07SEOUL1826MOFAT EQUIVOCAL ABOUT CONTINUING THE ROK PRESENCE
[...] (C) Summary. In a June 7 meeting, DoS and OSD representatives presented the ROKG with a proposed course of action for the ROK's continued presence in Afghanistan beyond 2007. In response, Ministry of Trade and Foreign Affairs (MOFAT) North America III Division Director Lee Jeong-kyu acknowl [...]
2007-06-15 04:36:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MOPS MARR PBTS KS
07SEOUL1852SPI 13: U.S.-ROK SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE TALKS
[...] (C) Summary. The thirteenth U.S.-ROK Security Policy Initiative talks (SPI 13) took place June 8, 2007 in Seoul. Topics addressed included the transition of wartime operational command (OPCON),UNC Armistice maintenance responsibilities, airspace management, security cooperation in Afghanista [...]
2007-06-19 08:22:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS MARR MNUC PARM PREL KN
07SEOUL1893DUSD LAWLESS' ALLIANCE MEETINGS WITH MOFAT, BLUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 7, visiting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (DUSD) Richard Lawless met with the following senior South Korean officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) and the Blue House: Senior Secretary to the President for National Security Yun Byung-se, MOFAT No [...]
2007-06-22 04:49:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMARR MCAP PARM PREL KS
07SEOUL1908NEW ROK SMA FORMULA HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC
[...] (C) Summary. On June 5, 2007, Ambassador Robert Loftis, Senior Advisor for Security Negotiations and Agreements, held a two-hour discussion and working lunch with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Director General for North American Affairs Cho Byung-jae to discuss the ROK's "Propo [...]
2007-06-25 08:23:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMARR MCAP PARM PREL KS
07SEOUL2014FOREIGN POLICY OUTLOOK FOR SOUTH KOREAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: South Korea's presidential candidates have focused much of their campaign efforts on domestic and economic issues. On foreign policy, from what we can glean from public statements, debates, and meetings with foreign policy advisors, one thing is certain: all of the candidates, [...]
2007-07-05 08:10:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDKN KS PGOV PREL
07SEOUL2048GAP IN POLLS CLOSING BETWEEN TWO GNP HEAVYWEIGHTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The gap in polls between the frontrunner Lee Myung-bak and his rival Park Geun-hye from the conservative Grand National Party (GNP) started to drop off significantly in recent weeks. The shrinking gap comes from Lee's falling popularity amid revelations by Park's camp and the [...]
2007-07-09 23:03:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL2146AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ: WHAT THE ROK WILL/WON'T DO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 16, MOFAT North America DG Cho Byung-jae conveyed the following ROKG decisions to POLMC regarding South Korea's planned 2008 role in Iraq and Afghanistan. -- The ROK will withdraw all of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2007. -- In place of those troops, the R [...]
2007-07-18 07:20:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PGOV PTER PREL AF IZ KS
07SEOUL2157AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ: WHAT THE ROK WILL/WON'T DO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 16, MOFAT North America DG Cho Byung-jae conveyed the following ROKG decisions to POLMC regarding South Korea's planned 2008 role in Iraq and Afghanistan. -- The ROK will withdraw all of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2007. -- In place of those troops, the R [...]
2007-07-18 08:16:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PGOV PTER PREL AF IZ KS
07SEOUL217POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION 2: ENERGY
[...] (C) S/P Director Dr. Stephen Krasner and his delegation met with Korean and Japanese counterparts January 10-11 for a trilateral policy planning dialogue (ref a). Over lunch on January 11, the three delegations discussed energy security, peacebuilding, and UN reform. Both Korea and Japan, [...]
2007-01-23 07:54:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALENRG PREL AORC KUNR KPKO KS JA US
07SEOUL2178ROK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: STILL THE POLITICS OF
[...] (C) The late Gregory Henderson, an FSO who had served several tours in Korea in the 1940s and 1960s, is well remembered as the author of "Korea: The Politics of the Vortex." The title remains an accurate description of Korean politics today: a spiraling whirlpool that sucks everything toward [...]
2007-07-20 05:13:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL2180STUDENTS' VIEWS ON CANDIDATES' FOREIGN POLICY
[...] In an informal survey of college students, we found that the majority of students acknowledged the importance of foreign policy in the upcoming presidential election. Most, however, appeared to be utterly uninformed about the candidates' policies. This outcome likely reflects the conscious [...]
2007-07-20 07:28:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KS KN
07SEOUL220POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION 1: THE KOREAN
[...] (C) During Session 1 of the January 11 U.S.-ROK-Japan Policy Planning Talks, ROK Deputy Foreign Minister Park In-kook, Japanese Deputy Vice Minister Masaharu Kono, and S/P Director Stephen R. Krasner outlined their respective countries' foreign policy priorities and strategies toward North Ko [...]
2007-01-23 08:30:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KS
07SEOUL2336AFGHAN HOSTAGE SITUATION: MISSION'S ASSESSMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Fifteen days after 23 Korean hostages were kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, emotions are running high in Korea. Especially after two hostages were killed, pressure is mounting on the ROKG to ensure the remaining hostages are saved. Some politicians and leftist groups are [...]
2007-08-03 08:43:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMARR NATO PGOV PREL PTER AF KN KS
07SEOUL2337ROK EMPHASIZES AFGHANISTAN HOSTAGE CRISIS DURING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The current hostage crisis in Afghanistan dominated the agenda of meetings with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) David S. Sedney during his SIPDIS orientation trip to the ROK on August 2. ROKG officials in the Ministry fo Froiegn Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Ministry [...]
2007-08-04 06:40:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL MOPS KS AF
07SEOUL2361KOREAN MEDIA TAKES THE RIGHT LINE ON AFGHAN HOSTAGE CRISIS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an August 6 meeting with Embassy Seoul PAO, a senior writer for one of Korea's three largest and most influential national dailies explained that the mainstream media have made a conscious editorial decision to advise Koreans not to blame the hostage crisis on the United Sta [...]
2007-08-07 07:38:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PROP PTER KS AF
07SEOUL2368ROK EMPHASIZES AFGHANISTAN HOSTAGE CRISIS DURING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The current hostage crisis in Afghanistan dominated the agenda at meetings Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) David Sedney had with several ROK officials on August 2. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Ministry of National Defense (MND),and Blue House's Nati [...]
2007-08-07 08:45:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL MOPS KS AF
07SEOUL2410ROK-DPRK SUMMIT LIKELY TO BROADEN ECONOMIC
[...] (C) During the two days since the surprise announcement of an August 28-30 North-South summit to be held in Pyongyang (reftel),hints have emerged that the ROKG will offer to considerably broaden economic cooperation with the North under the heading of "social overhead capital," possibly inclu [...]
2007-08-10 09:04:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKN KS PGOV PINR PREL
07SEOUL2482PRESIDENT ROH MAGNANIMOUS ON US-ROK RELATIONS
[...] (C/NF) In an August 16 Blue House meeting following the ceremony honoring Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace, ROK President Roh Moo-hyun detailed the many positive advances in U.S.- ROK relations accomplished during his term in office, including the relocation of U.S. Fo [...]
2007-08-19 22:11:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR KS
07SEOUL2556REPORT ON 14TH U.S.-ROK SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The 14th Security Policy Initiative meeting (SPI-14) was held on July 27 in Hawaii. OSD/APSA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense James Shinn headed the U.S. delegation. The Korean delegation was led by Dr. Jeon Jei Guk, Deputy Minister of Defense for Policy, Ministr [...]
2007-08-24 05:02:00Embassy SeoulSECRETPGOV PREL MARR KS
07SEOUL2634FTA: TRADE MINISTER KIM DISCUSSES BEEF, RICE, AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 29, newly appointed Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon reviewed major KORUS-FTA trade issues with Congressman Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) and the Ambassador. TM Kim said the FTA remained on track for submission to the National Assembly in early September -- and President Roh was s [...]
2007-08-31 01:06:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EAGR PREL KS
07SEOUL2651ROK TO CONDUCT UAV HAESEONG-II FLIGHT TEST (S)
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-31 07:46:00Embassy SeoulSECRETKS MARR PARM PREL
07SEOUL2653HOSTAGES AND RAMIFICATIONS ARE COMING HOME TO KOREA
[...] (S) SUMMARY: On August 30, all of the remaining Korean hostages held by their Taliban captors in Afghanistan were turned over to the International Committee of the Red Crescent in Ghazni. Out of the 23 Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban, two were killed, two were released on August 13, and th [...]
2007-08-31 08:22:00Embassy SeoulSECRETPREL PTER PINR MARR MOPS AF KS
07SEOUL270WILL THE YOUNGER GENERATIONS ELECT THE NEXT KOREAN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Historically, regionalism has played an important role in Korean presidential elections. But in 2002, young voters successfully mobilized and helped Roh Moo-hyun edge out Lee Hoi-chang by a 2.2 percent margin. The media had a frenzy touting the "youth revolution," and the da [...]
2007-01-29 05:22:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL2842AFGHANISTAN: HOSTAGE CRISIS DOES NOT AFFECT ROKG
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) On September 17, Cho Byung-Jae, Director General for North American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),told Pol M/C that the ROKG had decided to move forward with its pre-ROK hostage crisis pla [...]
2007-09-17 08:11:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL PTER PGOV MASS KS AF IZ
07SEOUL2960ADVISOR SAYS GNP CANDIDATE LEE LACKS CLEAR FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: Former Foreign Minister Yoo Chong-ha, a senior advisor to Lee Myung-bak, told poloffs on September 26 that Lee's lack of overall foreign policy vision worried him. Since Lee did not have a fixed idea about how Korea should relate to its neighbors, Lee was flexible and open to ide [...]
2007-09-28 08:04:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL2974SUBJECT: ISSUES TO WATCH AT THE ROK-DPRK SUMMIT,
[...] (C) President Roh Moo-hyun and his 300-person entourage of businesspeople, journalists and support staff will drive from Seoul to Pyongyang on the morning of October 2 for the second ROK-DPRK summit meeting with Kim Jong-il. This is the first chance for Roh and Kim Jong-il to meet face to face [...]
2007-10-01 10:31:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKN KS PGOV PREL
07SEOUL3024MOFAT READOUT OF NORTH-SOUTH SUMMIT: ROH "WENT TO
[...] (C) In an October 5 meeting with the Ambassador, Vice Foreign Minister Cho Jung-pyo said that the ROK had reached a comprehensive agreement on the future direction of inter-Korean relations during the North-South Summit. Peace, inter-Korean economic cooperation, and reconciliation were the ma [...]
2007-10-05 08:44:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPROG PREL PGOV KS KN
07SEOUL3086ALL KEY POLITICAL FACTORS FAVOR GNP CANDIDATE LEE
[...] (C) Summary: With just 68 days until the presidential election, there is no indication that the liberal camp will be able to overcome Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak's lead. (In an October 5 SBS-Hankook Ilbo poll, Lee received 47.6 percent support to 11.3 percent for his cl [...]
2007-10-12 06:44:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KN KS
07SEOUL3104EAST ASIA DASD SEDNEY'S MEETINGS IN SEOUL ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During meetings in Seoul on October 9-10, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David Sedney met with U.S.-ROK Alliance counterparts in MOFAT and MND to discuss preparations for the visit of Secretary Gates for the November 6-7 Security Consultative Meeting. They also discussed [...]
2007-10-16 06:13:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL AF KS
07SEOUL3159ROK TROOPS IN IRAQ: UNDP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
[...] (C) Summary: On the same day President Roh formally proposed to extend the stay of the Zaytun unit in Iraq for one more year (see septel),United New Democratic Party (UNDP) Candidate Chung Dong-young formally announced that he would oppose the proposal. Chung and the leaders of the UNDP cit [...]
2007-10-23 07:50:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KS PINR
07SEOUL3214SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
[...] (C) Defense Minister Kim Jang-soo, your host for the 39th Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) November 6-7, has done a tremendous job in stabilizing the ROK-U.S. Alliance in his 12 months as Defense Minister. By helping to resolve the most contentious issues (OPCON transfer, camp returns),he [...]
2007-10-30 07:52:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MARR KS
07SEOUL3256PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MOON KUK-HYUN FOCUSES ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 1 independent presidential candidate Moon Kuk-hyun outlined his platform during breakfast with the Ambassador. Moon's support rate has been hovering just below 10 percent, but he is still optimistic these rates will reach 20 percent by the end of November. Moon's ove [...]
2007-11-05 01:39:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALCH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS
07SEOUL3268CANDIDATE LEE HOI-CHANG: THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sensing an opportunity that the imminent return of a financial swindle figure could destroy Lee Myung-bak's candidacy, two-time presidential runner-up and former Grand National Party (GNP) Chairman Lee Hoi-chang, 72, is expected to announce a third bid for the presidency in the [...]
2007-11-06 06:49:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KN KS
07SEOUL329COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EAP A/S HILL AND SPECIAL
[...] (U) Embassy Seoul warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the February 3-5, 2007 official visit to Seoul by EAP A/S Christopher R. Hill and Special Assistant Thomas B. Gibbons. CONTACT INFORMATION ------------------- 2. (U) Control officer for the visit is Political External [...]
2007-02-02 07:51:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL AMGT KS
07SEOUL3323ROK OPINION OF CHINA DRIVEN BY GOGURYEO ANXIETY
[...] (C) Mt. Baekdu, known in China as Mt. Changbai, is considered in Korea to be a sacred mountain, containing the legendary foundation of the nation. This highest mountain in Korea (and Manchuria) has come to the fore for many South Koreans because they perceive Chinese economic, cultural, and [...]
2007-11-15 08:16:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS KN PROG PREL
07SEOUL333PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL CHUNG DONG-YOUNG: CONTENDER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the American model of celebrity turned politician, former news anchor Chung Dong-young enjoyed rising star status as one of the founders of the Uri Party, a close ally of Roh Moo-hyun, and a Minister of Unification who met with Kim Jong-il. Soon after Chung's histori [...]
2007-02-02 09:09:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDKS PGOV PINR PREL
07SEOUL33552007-2008 ROK AND DPRK INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] (U) Per reftel, Embassy Seoul's submission for the Republic of Korea (ROK) portion of the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report is provided at para 2. Input for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) portion of the INCSR is provided at para 3 with the understandi [...]
2007-11-21 00:19:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KS KN
07SEOUL33572007-2008 ROK AND DPRK INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] (U) Per reftel, Embassy Seoul's submission for the Republic of Korea (ROK) portion of the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report is provided at para 2. Input for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) portion of the INCSR is provided at para 3 with the understandi [...]
2007-11-21 04:33:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KS KN
07SEOUL33582007-2008 ROK AND DPRK INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] (U) Per reftel, Embassy Seoul's submission for the Republic of Korea (ROK) portion of the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report is provided at para 2. Input for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) portion of the INCSR is provided at para 3 with the understandi [...]
2007-11-21 04:33:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KS KN
07SEOUL33592007-2008 ROK AND DPRK INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] (U) Per reftel, Embassy Seoul's submission for the Republic of Korea (ROK) portion of the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report is provided at para 2. Input for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) portion of the INCSR is provided at para 3 with the understandi [...]
2007-11-21 04:33:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KS KN
07SEOUL3385ROKG BRIEFS U.S. OFFICIALS IN ADVANCE OF N-S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 26 the U.S.- ROK Senior Working Group, consisting of representatives from MOFAT, MND, UNC/CFC/USFK and the Embassy, met for a briefing on the ROK strategy for the November 27-29 North-South Defense Ministerial. The briefing conducted by BG Moon Sung-mook of MND's No [...]
2007-11-26 07:57:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PARM PREL MNUC KN KS
07SEOUL3424THE HEAT IS ON: OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
[...] (C) Summary: The 23-day official presidential campaign period kicked off November 27 with large rallies consisting mostly of yelling, dancing and hugging of voters. Despite the compact campaign period, bubbling scandals, late entries of candidates and intrigue surrounding North Korea, Park Ge [...]
2007-11-30 06:00:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3427SCENESETTER FOR NSA BAEK'S TRIP TO WASHINGTON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: ROK National Security Advisor Baek Jong-chun will make what he sees as his final visit to Washington in his current position on December 3-4. In a November 28 meeting with the Ambassador, he said that the main reason for the trip was to coordinate on relevant U.S.-ROK issues fo [...]
2007-11-30 08:19:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS KN PGOV PREL
07SEOUL3531NORTH KOREA REFUGEES FACE PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA
[...] (SBU) This cable is the first in a two-part series about psychological issues facing North Korean refugees. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: As the number of North Korean refugees arriving in the South continues to rise, so too do the accounts of harsh living conditions that North Koreans faced on a day t [...]
2007-12-14 03:34:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL KS KN
07SEOUL3576ENGAGING THE NEW ROK LEADERSHIP ON U.S. PRIORITIES
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Early results and exit polls show that GNP presidential candidate Lee Myung-bak has won the election with around 50 percent of the vote. His closest rival, the UNDP's Chung Dong-young, garnered around 25 percent. This is an unprecedented margin of victory, but Lee is seriously [...]
2007-12-19 09:22:00Embassy SeoulSECRETPGOV PINS MARR KS KN
07SEOUL3577NUCLEAR SMUGGLING OUTREACH INITIATIVE: DOE-KOREA
[...] (U) Per reftel authorization, the Ambassador designated Pol M/C Joseph Y. Yun to sign the "Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea and the Department of Energy of the United States of America for Cooperation on the Global Threat Re [...]
2007-12-20 05:46:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM PREL ETTC KS UP
07SEOUL3579"ANYTHING BUT ROH" CARRIES THE DAY FOR
[...] (C) Summary: GNP candidate Lee Myung-bak won a landslide victory in the December 19 presidential election, winning 49 percent of the votes in a field of ten candiates and carrying all regions except Jeolla Provinces. Among pundits a strong consensus is emerging that Lee's was able to sweep to [...]
2007-12-20 07:01:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL382EAP DAS CHRISTENSEN'S CONSULTATIONS ON CHINA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas Christensen met with ROKG officials and academics January 26-27 to discuss North Korean asylum seekers, Six Party Talks (6PT),and China. The DAS told his ROKG interlocutors that the USG appreciated Seoul's cooperation with efforts to resett [...]
2007-02-08 04:56:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MNUC PREF KS KN CH
07SEOUL449ROK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PARK GEUN-HYE: CAN SHE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition presidential hopeful Park Geun-hye, currently second in all presidential polls with about 20 percent support, is the first woman to run for president in Korea. As former President Park Chung-hee's daughter, she earns votes from those who are nostalgic for the double [...]
2007-02-14 07:33:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDKS PGOV PINR PREL
07SEOUL471ROKG SEEKS CLOSE COORDINATION ON NEXT STEPS WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-15 08:53:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM KNNP KS KN
07SEOUL489PLANS TO COMMEMORATE THE "PYONGYANG REVIVAL" IN
[...] (SBU) In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a large number of Protestant Americans came to Korea and found a reception. By 1907, Jang Dae Hyun Church in Pyongyang became the center of what became known as the "Pyongyang Revival," earned it the moniker "Jerusalem of the East." To commemo [...]
2007-02-20 04:15:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDKN KS PHUM SCUL PREL
07SEOUL552COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EAP/MLS DIRECTOR RAPSON
[...] (U) Embassy Seoul warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the March 9-11, 2007 official visit to Seoul by EAP/MLS Director Robert Rapson. A notional schedule will follow separately. CONTACT INFORMATION ------------------- 2. (U) Control officer for the visit is Political Offi [...]
2007-02-26 08:53:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA KS TH BM LAS VM CB JA
07SEOUL570LAWMAKERS PROPOSE DENUCLEARIZED DPRK BEFORE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A resolution introduced by a group of lawmakers opposing wartime OPCON transfer passed the Defense Committee on February 21 and is scheduled for a National Assembly plenary vote in the coming weeks. The leaders of the anti-OPCON coalition, including a former Defense Minister, me [...]
2007-02-27 08:57:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
07SEOUL587SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] (U) Post's submission for the seventh annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report follows. Responses are keyed to questions in Ref A. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The ROKG continued to make efforts to fight trafficking in persons during the April 2006 to March 2007 reporting perio [...]
2007-02-28 08:33:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDKS KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF
07SEOUL659SPI 11: U.S.-ROK SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE TALKS
[...] (C) The eleventh U.S.-ROK Security Policy Initiative talks (SPI 11) took place February 7-8, 2007 in Seoul. Topics addressed included the transfer of wartime operational command (OPCON),the transition of Armistice Maintenance Responsibilities (AMRs),USFK camp returns, the status of the Yong [...]
2007-03-06 08:34:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS MARR MNUC PARM PREL KN
07SEOUL793ROK INQUIRIES ON PRT LEADERSHIP IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 2. 2. (C) In a March 16 meeting with Director General for North American Affairs Bureau of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Cho Byung-jae, POL M/C raised the issue of ROKG plans to lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan. C [...]
2007-03-19 09:05:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MOPS MARR PBTS KS
07SEOUL799ROK ATTITUDES ON UNIFICATION: LONG-TERM PLANS VS.
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The February 13 "Initial Actions" agreement has once again brought to the fore the resumption of inter-Korean engagement and the overall relationship between the two Koreas, including reunification. The ROK's constitution and presidential oath call for Korean un [...]
2007-03-20 02:10:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL MNUC ECON KS KN
07SEOUL851FORMER PRESIDENT KIM YOUNG-SAM ON NORTH KOREA AND
[...] (C) Summary: In a March 21 luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, former President Kim Young-sam (KYS) was his usual self: energetic, warm, and, above all, generous with his opinions. Warning that "communists could never be trusted," KYS expressed the concern that Washington was getting to [...]
2007-03-23 01:06:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KS
07SEOUL912VICTIMS' ORGANIZATION REQUESTS U.S. JOIN EFFORT TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (SBU) Shin Sung-won, Director of North America Division II of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) informed Embassy that the Republic of Korea (ROK) will finance a USD 200,000 task force under the Special Law to Restore the Reputat [...]
2007-03-29 05:42:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PREL MOPS
07SEOUL935ADVISERS TO GNP CANDIDATE PARK GEUN-HYE STRESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 29 foreign policy advisers to opposition GNP presidential candidate Park Geun-hye told us that a Park administration would restore the U.S.-ROK alliance as the central pillar of ROK foreign policy. They stated that Park's priorities would be made explicit during an Apri [...]
2007-03-30 06:47:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KS
07SEOUL955ROK CONTRIBUTION TO USFK RELOCATION: A GLASS MORE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent Ministry of Defense (MND) press release, the ROKG estimated that it would pay about half of the total cost of about USD 10 billion to relocate U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) to Pyungtaek/ Camp Humphreys. However, USFK estimates that the ROK share will be far more than half. [...]
2007-04-02 06:23:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PARM PREL MARR
07SEOUL971ROK-JAPAN MINISTERIAL TALKS DOGGED BY HISTORY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 2, MOFAT Northeast Asia Division I Director Lee Hee-sup told poloff that the March 31 - April 1 talks between ROK Foreign Minister Song Min-soon and visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso focused on history issues (comfort women, textbooks, Yasukuni) and included dis [...]
2007-04-03 06:33:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KS JA
07SEOUL972SMA RATIFIED, BUT NEW SMA FORMULA NOT YET READY
[...] (U) In a April 2 plenary session, the National Assembly ratified the 2007-2008 Special Measures Agreement (SMA). Of the 245 representatives present, 192 (78.3 percent) voted in favor of the agreement, 28 (11.43 percent) against, and 25 (10.2 percent) abstained. 2. (SBU) The Joint U.S.-RO [...]
2007-04-03 07:15:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PARM PREL
07SEOUL973ROKG REQUESTS ASSISTANCE WITH NATO TRANSITION IN
[...] (C) On April 2, POL-MIL Chief met with Lee Jeong-kyu, Director of North America Division III of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) to discuss ROKG concerns over additional NATO requirements for the transition of ROK troops to NATO/ International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) [...]
2007-04-03 07:22:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PARM PREL MARR MOPS
07SEOUL988NGO URGES RECOGNITION OF KOREAN WAR ABDUCTEES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with the Ambassador on April 3, the president of the Korean War Abductees' Family Union asked that the DPRK Human Rights Report and the Report on Terrorism both be expanded to include the issue of Korean War abductees. KWAFU alleges that the DPRK abducted over 80,000 So [...]
2007-04-04 09:13:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN
07SETION02OF02BAKU1501AMERICAN IT COMPANIES BULLISH ON OPPORTUNITIES IN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-18 07:41:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD ECPS AJ
07SHANGHAI110POLICY PLANNING STAFFER GREEN SHANGHAI MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary: During his meetings with Shanghai Academics on January 17, Policy Planning Staffer James Green engaged academics on East Asian security issues, including North Korea and Taiwan. Academics were pessimistic that there would be any progress on North Korea in the near future. Academ [...]
2007-02-16 05:23:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH KN TW
07SHANGHAI117IPR ATTACHI ENGAGES SHANGHAI CULTURAL TASK FORCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 19, Senior IPR Attachi Mark Cohen met with the Director of Shanghai Culture Task Force (SCTF) Zhou Jianmin to discuss Shanghai's efforts on copyright enforcement. Cohen engaged Zhou on SCTF's authority over copyright infringement matters vis-`-vis the Shanghai Copyri [...]
2007-02-16 10:11:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR EFIN EINV CH
07SHANGHAI161CITIBANK'S STANLEY ON GDB AND CHINA BUSINESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 8 meeting with Beijing Financial Attache David Loevinger, Treasury Asia DAS Robert Dohner, Asia Director Mathew Haarsager and Congenoffs, Citigroup China CEO Richard Stanley expressed great appreciation for USG support which facilitated its December acquisition of [...]
2007-03-23 08:21:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI166SHANGHAI RELIGIOUS CONTACTS DISCUSS NGOS, THEOLOGICAL
[...] (C) Summary: During her February 26-27 visit to Shanghai, DRL/IRF Officer Emilie Kao explored ways to expand religious freedom in China with academics, officials from the Communist Party-approved China Christian Council/Three Self Patriotic Movement (CCC/TSPM),Shanghai YMCA leaders, a represe [...]
2007-03-26 03:31:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI167FORMER DEPUTY SECRETARY ZOELLICK SHANGHAI VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick delivered a well-received speech at the third annual Barnett-Oksenberg Lecture in Shanghai on March 21. Zoellick called for China to play a more cooperative role on Korea, Iran, Sudan and energy security. The text of the speech [...]
2007-03-26 08:42:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CH
07SHANGHAI178JAPAN-CHINA RELATIONS BACK ON TRACK IN SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) Summary. According to Japanese contacts in Shanghai, Japanese Prime Minister Abe's October 2006 breakthrough visit to Beijing has dramatically improved the climate for Japanese investment in Shanghai, as well as led to an overall increase in cultural exchanges. The number of Japanese Ch [...]
2007-03-29 05:38:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV PREL CH JA
07SHANGHAI181EAST CHINA STUDENT LEADERS HOPEFUL ABOUT THE FUTURE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Recent discussions with East China student leaders as part of the selection process for a USG-funded student leadership institute indicated that many students were satisfied with Chinese government policies and goals and optimistic that China would continue to develop economica [...]
2007-03-30 06:17:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR SOCI CH
07SHANGHAI193LABOR COMPLAINT: A VISIT TO KAISI HARDWARE IN SOUTH CHINA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kaisi Hardware Company Ltd., one of China's largest furniture parts manufacturers and exporters appears to be addressing problems - including underpaying workers and providing poor working conditions - documented in a February report by the New York-based National Labor Committee [...]
2007-04-05 09:52:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON EINV PHUM CH
07SHANGHAI220DOT SECRETARY PETER'S APRIL 11-12 VISIT TO SHANGHAI
[...] (U) Summary. During her April 11-12 visit to Shanghai, Transportation Secretary Mary Peters attended a signing ceremony for the creation of the United Parcel Service (UPS) International Air Hub at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) (to be reported septel); expressed concerns of U. [...]
2007-04-18 03:00:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ELTN ECPS ETRD OVIP CH
07SHANGHAI229CHINA CHRISTIAN COUNCIL PRESIDENT CAO MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 18 luncheon hosted by the Consul General, China Christian Council (CCC) President Cao Shengjie confirmed that all Protestant churches must go through the China Christian Council/Three-Self Patriotic Movement (CCC/TSPM) in order to register, although these churches did n [...]
2007-04-19 08:16:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF PINR CH
07SHANGHAI247CFETS UPDATE ON FX AND BOND MARKET DEVELOPMENTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: China Foreign Exchange Trading System (CFETS) President Xie Duo told Embassy ECON M/C Robert Luke on April 19 that CFETS continued to carry out policies to make China's foreign exchange (FX) trading system more market-based and efficient, including: increasing the number of over [...]
2007-04-25 06:17:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI26FRB TOLD: NO OVERHEATING AND BUSINESS GOOD
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) delegation led by Governor Kevin Warsh met with economic analysts, U.S. business leaders, and equity market analysts during a December visit to Shanghai. Economic analysts offered the contrarian view that China's economy was not overheated, and, in t [...]
2007-01-12 02:12:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI269DOD GENERAL COUNSEL'S RULE OF LAW MEETINGS
[...] (C) Summary: During DOD General Counsel William J. Haynes April 20-22 visit to Shanghai, he discussed rule of law issues with Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Institute of Law Academics, expatriate and Chinese legal experts at a Consul General-hosted dinner, and at the New York Unive [...]
2007-05-07 08:38:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS ETRD EINV PHUM PINR CH
07SHANGHAI279INTERNATIONAL MEDIATION CONFERENCE HELD IN JIANGSU
[...] (SBU) Summary: On the margins of an April 14-18 American Bar Association(ABA)-sponsored administrative law conference in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, Supreme People's Court (SPC) Administrative Court Chief Judge Zhao Daguang told FSN Rule of Law Coordinator (ROLC) that the SPC soon would issue a [...]
2007-05-10 08:06:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KJUS PINR CH
07SHANGHAI283EAST CHINA DISPATCHES, MAY 14, 2007
[...] (SBU) Summary: In this Dispatch, we learn that Shanghai loves luxury cars, anti-Japanese sentiment still simmers, Internet rumors spread quickly in Shanghai, even migrants dream of making it big on the stock market, information on IPR continues to be welcomed, and some Shanghai youth are passi [...]
2007-05-14 07:37:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EINV SOCI OEXC OIIP KPAO CH
07SHANGHAI286SHANGHAI EDITORS INCREASE U.S. NEWS COVERAGE AS RESULT OF IV
[...] (SBU) Summary. During an April 18 lunch hosted by the President of the Shanghai Youth Daily, four senior editors from the paper who had recently returned from an International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) reported that they came back from their IVLP trip with overwhelmingly positive views [...]
2007-05-15 07:50:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI ECON OEXC OIIP KPAO CH
07SHANGHAI297YANGTZE RIVER DELTA ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting on April 19, Shanghai scholars told visiting Embassy ECON M/C that local and central Government plans called for further integration of the Yangtze River Delta's (YRD) transportation and communications infrastructure and greater coordination of environmental controls [...]
2007-05-18 10:02:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PINR CH
07SHANGHAI314SHANGHAI ACADEMIC HUANG RENWEI ON POLITICS, FOREIGN AND
[...] (C) Summary. On May 25, Consul General met with Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Vice President Huang Renwei, one of Shanghai's leading Americanologists. Huang had a positive appraisal of Shanghai Party Secretary Xi Jinping thus far; in another six months, he will have mastered his brief s [...]
2007-05-25 09:42:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR CH TW
07SHANGHAI316EAST CHINA CONTACTS ON EAST CHINA LEADERSHIP
[...] (C) Summary. During a series of recent meetings, East China contacts commented on top leaders in Shanghai and Jiangsu. With his recent appointment as Shanghai Party Secretary, Xi Jinping was likely out of the running for a top-level job for the next 5-10 years. Meanwhile, Shanghai Mayor Han [...]
2007-05-25 10:03:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRETPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI318SHANGHAI'S GAY COMMUNITY
[...] (U) Summary: In a series of meetings with Poloff in April 2007, gay individuals in Shanghai said their identity and lifestyle continued to be shaped by family and social pressures to conform, which had different impacts on male and female homosexuals. Maintaining a gay identity tended to be l [...]
2007-05-29 06:21:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI TBIO CH
07SHANGHAI319INFIGHTING AT FUDAN UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
[...] (C) Summary. During a May 21 discussion with Consul General, Fudan Center for American Studies (CAS) Director Shen Dingli in addition to sharing his views on Chinese leadership issues (reftels),spent a great deal of time discussing infighting at the Center. We share a summary of Shen's lam [...]
2007-05-29 07:52:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR CH
07SHANGHAI330CHINA'S BANKING REFORMS FAST ENOUGH FOR HSBC
[...] (SBU) Summary: At a meeting with visiting Embassy Finatt on May 16, HSBC China Deputy CEO Bryan Stiles and Global Markets Managing Director David Liao said HSBC's local incorporation had gone smoothly. HSBC believed that Chinese regulators would soon allow foreign banks to offer retail RMB cu [...]
2007-05-31 15:20:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI331SUPER GIRL MAKES SHANGHAI LOOK TWICE
[...] (U) Summary: According to contacts in Shanghai's gay community, the Internet had provided this once isolated community with a private and safe space to organize and communicate among themselves. In addition, the Super Girl and Good Man TV shows, singing talent competitions similar to America [...]
2007-06-01 02:22:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI TBIO CH
07SHANGHAI333GOLDMAN SACH'S GAOHUA SECURITIES: AN ONLY CHILD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Goldman Sachs' venture in China, Gaohua Securities, has both benefited and suffered from being the only foreign-controlled, full service securities firm in China. Goldman's method of obtaining control of a Chinese licensed securities firm by giving unsecured loans to trusted Chin [...]
2007-06-01 02:37:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI335SHANGHAI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES VIEWS ON
[...] (C) Summary. During a May 29 luncheon with the Consul General, Shanghai Institute For International Studies (SIIS) Vice President Yang Jiemian said China would be responsive to U.S. requests conveyed via the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) process. He predicted that China would gradually ta [...]
2007-06-01 03:09:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON CH TW XA XK XR XD
07SHANGHAI357DRL OFFICER CHANG EAST CHINA VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary. During his May 21-24 visit to Shanghai and Hefei, Anhui Province, DRL Program Officer met with DRL grantee organizations International Bridges for Justice (IBJ) and SE Consortium for International Development/Global Suppliers Institute (SECID/GSI),as well as academics and stud [...]
2007-06-08 07:17:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB KJUS CH
07SHANGHAI36TOP SHANGHAI JOB UP IN THE AIR, PROBABLY NOT LIU YANDONG
[...] (C) Summary: The husband of United Front Work Department head and Hu Jintao protigi Liu Yandong said that Liu was not under consideration for the job of Shanghai Party Secretary. He said that people currently rumored to be under consideration for the position included the current Shanghai May [...]
2007-01-17 08:48:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI412SHANGHAI BISHOP JIN ON PAPAL LETTER
[...] (C) During a conversation with Poloff during Consulate's Independence Day reception on July 3, Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian said he was pleased by Pope Benedict XVI's June 30 letter to Chinese Catholics, which he said was the Pope's way of "extending his hand" to the Chinese government. [...]
2007-07-05 04:47:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV CH VT
07SHANGHAI43SHANGHAI SCHOLARS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) Summary: During a January 19 lunch with PDAS Stephens, Shanghai scholars were pessimistic that there would be progress on North Korea in the near term. One scholar said that while North Korea would continue to participate in the Six-Party Talks, it would never give up its nuclear program. [...]
2007-01-23 02:53:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW JA KN
07SHANGHAI452TREASURY DAN WRIGHT'S SHANGHAI ACADEMIC MEETINGS
[...] (SBU) Summary. During Treasury Managing Director for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) Dan Wright's June 26-27 visit to Shanghai, Shanghai academics agreed with Wright that the talks needed to be focused and institutionalized to be sustainable. Two academics urged more low-leve [...]
2007-07-18 06:52:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN ETRD CH
07SHANGHAI459AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ZHEJIANG PARTY SECRETARY ZHAO
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Randt met with Zhejiang's new Party Secretary, Zhao Hongzhu, in Hangzhou on July 9 and was hosted by SIPDIS Zhao for dinner on July 13. Zhao noted that, while relatively small in size and population, Zhejiang contributes more than its fair share to national GDP grow [...]
2007-07-20 08:27:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ECON KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI464SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL TRADE UNION COUNCIL: PROTECTING ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a July 16 meeting, Shanghai Municipal Trade Union Council (SMTUC) Deputy Director Huang Qi called the new Labor Contract Law (LCL) a positive development because of its emphasis on the role of the trade union in labor contracts. Although SMTUC's primary responsibility was to [...]
2007-07-24 03:42:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALELAB PGOV PHUM CH
07SHANGHAI474EAST CHINA'S SOUTH KOREAN COMMUNITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Since the establishment of diplomatic relations in August 1992, South Koreans have flocked to Shanghai in search of economic and educational opportunities. More than 110,000 South Koreans live in east China (Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and Shanghai),with some 70,000 [...]
2007-07-30 06:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD EINV KIRF CH KS KN
07SHANGHAI504CITIBANK'S LOCAL INCORPORATION PROBLEMS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with Federal Deposit Insurance Chairman (FDIC) Sheila Bair on July 26, Citibank (China) Chief Executive Officer Richard Stanley opined that the China Banking Regulatory Commission was "making it up as they went along" with regard to the treatment of newly locally-i [...]
2007-08-09 06:07:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV CH
07SHANGHAI530DINNER WITH JIANGSU PARTY SECRETARY LI YUANCHAO
[...] (C) Summary: During an August 9 dinner, Jiangsu Party Secretary Li Yuanchao said that he had been ordered by Vice SIPDIS Premier Wu Yi to increase his province's imports. He also discussed his views on democracy, noting significant pressure on the party from the people to move forward with [...]
2007-08-23 08:43:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EINV ETRD ECON CH
07SHANGHAI532SHANGHAI TAIWAN SCHOLARS WARN NEXT TWELVE MONTHS CRITICAL,
[...] (C) Summary. Shanghai Institute for Taiwan Studies researchers expressed strong concerns about political developments in Taiwan through May 2008 and about potential United States actions or reactions in response to Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's plans for a Taiwan referendum on United Na [...]
2007-08-23 09:28:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07SHANGHAI535CODEL HASTERT VISITS SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) Summary: On August 10- 12, Representative Dennis Hastert (R-IL),Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ) and two staff members from the House Committee on Energy & Commerce visited Shanghai to engage U.S. businesses energy, environment and business climate issues. Representatives from GE sh [...]
2007-08-27 01:39:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG ETRD EFIN SENV PREL CH
07SHANGHAI541SHANGHAI ASKS DOE FOR HELP CUTTING ENERGY USE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Department of Energy delegation led by PDAS John Mizroch met with municipal officials, academics, and U.S. businesses during its August 16-17 visit to Shanghai. Shanghai's inefficient energy consumption limits its economic growth and contributes to its pollution problems. Sha [...]
2007-08-27 08:21:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV EINV EIND CH
07SHANGHAI546CNO ADMIRAL MULLEN'S AUGUST 22 BREAKFAST WITH SHANGHAI
[...] (C) Summary. Shanghai scholars of strategic and American studies urged the United States to suspend arms sales to Taiwan through the May 2008 Presidential election in an August 22 meeting with United States Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Mullen. Chen Shui-bian was described as a [...]
2007-08-29 02:39:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MCAP MARR OVIP CNO ADMIRAL MULLEN CH TW
07SHANGHAI557SHANGHAI FINANCIAL LEADERS DISCUSS SED
[...] (SBU) Summary. According to Chinese financial service company executives, the Strategic EcoQic Dialogue (SED) plays an important and positive role in advancing U.S.-Chinese relations and understanding. While foreign investments in the financial services sector, and the technology, products, a [...]
2007-08-31 11:17:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL ECON PINR KPAO CH
07SHANGHAI570FUDAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMICS ON TAIWAN AND NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) Summary: During an August 30 lunch discussion with Fudan Center for American Studies Director Shen Dingli and Deputy Director Xin Qiang, the academics predicted that Beijing would not take any military measures in reaction to the referendum on UN membership in Taiwan. However, anger was bu [...]
2007-09-05 09:19:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR CH TW KN
07SHANGHAI573AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS WITH SHANGHAI
[...] (C) Summary: During a September 3 breakfast hosted by the Ambassador, five leading Shanghai academics spoke positively about U.S.-China relations, which one described as stable and predictable. Shanghai Institute for International Studies Vice President Yang Jiemian expressed concern, however, [...]
2007-09-06 06:42:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD CH TW KN
07SHANGHAI575AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SHANGHAI BISHOP JIN
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador on September 5, Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Luxian Jin was pessimistic about the prospects of reconciliation between the Vatican and Beijing. Talks were moving at a "marathon" pace and reconciliation would likely not occur in time for the 2008 Olympics [...]
2007-09-06 06:55:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KIRF CH VT
07SHANGHAI6CODEL BARTLETT'S VISIT TO SHANGHAI: JANUARY 1-2
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 1 meeting with Zhou Muyao, Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, CODEL Bartlett discussed China's efforts to address energy issues, especially in the rural sector. Zhou highlighted the strong ties between the United States and Shanghai and gave [...]
2007-01-04 03:16:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL ENRG CH
07SHANGHAI601SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings in late August, Shanghai cross-Strait experts expressed concerns about Taiwan's referendum on UN membership, which they believed touched on the redline of the Anti-Secession Law and created a basis for Taiwan independence. While there were many voices in Ch [...]
2007-09-11 03:25:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07SHANGHAI620NODEL LARSEN DISCUSSES FOOD SAFETY IN SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) Summary. Shanghai-based U.S. businessmen told visiting Congressmen Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) that concerns about China's food and product safety were "legitimate." While China's laws and regulations were adequate, the inability of the Central Government to implement these [...]
2007-09-19 07:14:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP ECON PREL ETRD CH
07SHANGHAI631DISCUSSION OF FOOD SAFETY ISSUES WITH SHANGHAI'S CIQ
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Consul General and ATO Chief met September 20 with China Inspection and Quarantine (CIQ) Shanghai Director General Xu Jinji to discuss recent problems with U.S. food products entering East China ports. Xu said the United States and China must deepen the understanding of re [...]
2007-09-27 03:16:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD TBIO PGOV ECON BEXP EAGR CH
07SHANGHAI640VISIT OF AFRICA BUREAU SENIOR ADVISOR, AMBASSADOR RUTH A.
[...] (SBU) Summary: In Shanghai from September 8-14, Ambassador Ruth A. Davis participated in the Vital Voices symposium for Chinese and African women business leaders, met with Chinese Africa experts, visited two Chinese companies investing in Africa and delivered a lecture on U.S.-African policy [...]
2007-09-30 00:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON CH XA
07SHANGHAI647EDUCATION SECRETARY SPELLINGS' MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary. On October 2, the U.S. Special Olympics Delegation, headed by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, met with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. Secretary Spellings expressed appreciation for China's support for the Special Olympics and delivered a letter from President Bush to Presid [...]
2007-10-04 07:02:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV SOCI PREL CH
07SHANGHAI677SPECIAL OLYMPICS POLICY SUMMIT CONVENES, SECRETARY SPELLINGS
[...] (U) Summary. On October 3, U.S. Secretary for Education Margaret Spellings, Shanghai and Central Government officials, scholars from around the world and China, and famous entertainment and political figures met in the Shanghai Convention Center to convene the Special Olympics Global Policy [...]
2007-10-22 07:10:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SOCI SCUL CH
07SHANGHAI678EDUCATION SECRETARY SPELLING'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT OF
[...] (SBU) On October 3, U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings held a short bilateral exchange with President of the Republic of Iceland Olafur Grimsson on the margins of the Special Olympics Global Policy Summit on the Well-being of People with Intellectual Disabilities. The meeting was [...]
2007-10-22 07:10:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI CH US
07SHANGHAI70NYSE/NASDAQ: NO OFFICES, BUT STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Seeing China as the next great frontier for emerging markets, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ have been engaging in a "Great Game" to persuade Chinese companies to list on their respective exchanges. Chinese entrepreneurs view being listed on U.S. markets as the si [...]
2007-01-31 08:20:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI737TAIZHOU - CHINA'S MOTOR CITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 5-6 visit to Taizhou in Zhejiang Province, Deputy Principal Officer (DPO) and econoff engaged Taizhou officials and Chinese automotive industry representatives on the area's booming automotive sector. Vice Director Wang Haiping from Geely Auto, one of China's [...]
2007-11-19 08:35:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV EINV ETRD PINR KIPR ELAB CH
07SHANGHAI756PROMOTING ANHUI TOURISM TO AMERICANS: A HARD SELL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Anhui Province, the poorest province in Shanghai's consular district, hopes to jump-start its economy by promoting tourism. Although home to many beautiful natural and historical sights, Anhui is finding it difficult to attract mass numbers of Western tourists, and Americans in p [...]
2007-11-23 05:47:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND PGOV EINV ELTN EAIR ECON CH KS
07SHANGHAI7622ND CHINA-U.S. MARITIME CONSULTATIVE MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: On November 28 and 29, members of the U.S. Maritime Administration delegation led by Maritime Administrator Sean Connaughton met with the Chinese Ministry of Communications delegation led by Vice Minister Xu Zuyuan in Shanghai. The two sides discussed a wide range of bilateral [...]
2007-11-29 11:13:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT ELTN CVIS EINV ETRD OVIP CH
07SHANGHAI769SHANGHAI ACADEMICS, BUSINESSMEN TO AMBASSADOR HOLMER: KEEP
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai-based academics and businessmen stressed the importance of having the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) focus on long-term policy issues between the two countries in order to insure its relevance and sustainability beyond 2009 in meetings with Treasury Department SED Speci [...]
2007-12-04 06:49:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI77CG VISITS YANGZHOU; DISCUSSES NEW SOCIALIST COUNTRYSIDE AND
[...] (C) Summary. The Consul General visited Yangzhou City in the northern section of Jiangsu Province from January 29-30. During a visit to a model "new socialist countryside" village, local officials showcased the progress being made in the municipality's rural areas and successes in moving labo [...]
2007-02-05 09:46:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR KJUS CH
07SHANGHAI785LEADING INDIAN IT COMPANIES BULLISH ON CHINA MARKET
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met with high level managers of three Indian information technology (IT) companies operating in Shanghai -- Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys Technologies, Satyam Computer Services -- to discuss their current operations and future outlook for the China market. They expla [...]
2007-12-11 09:05:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN EINV ELAB PGOV PREL CH IN
07SHANGHAI789SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings in mid-November to discuss China-India relations, Shanghai's leading South Asia academic experts provided differing views on a variety of issues including border disputes, United Nations Security Council reform, energy competition, and regional dynamics. T [...]
2007-12-13 01:06:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ENRG PARM CH IN RS
07SHANGHAI791SHANGHAI ACADEMIC ZHANG NIANCHI ON TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary. During a December 11 lunch, Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies (SIEAS) President Zhang Nianchi warned that the 2008 referendum on Taiwan's UN membership would have serious consequences for cross-Straits relations. The referendum has a good chance of passing, especially if [...]
2007-12-13 09:00:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CH TW
07SHANGHAI792UP, UP AND AWAY: SHANGHAI'S FY-07 VISA NUMBERS GO THROUGH
[...] (U) Consular officers in Shanghai adjudicated 16 percent more NIV applications in FY-07 than in FY-06. This follows a 19 percent increase in FY-06 over the FY-05 NIV workload, which in turn was up 20 percent over FY-04. This cable not only reports the quantitative increases but also provides [...]
2007-12-13 09:21:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS CMGT CH
07SHENYANG102PRC/DPRK: SCARLET FEVER, SMUGGLING, BORDER-
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC authorities in Jilin recently claimed they have taken measures to prevent a scarlet fever outbreak in the DPRK from making its way into China. Though officials would not confirm the outbreak, they privately stressed that they are prepared. South Koreans appear to be playing b [...]
2007-05-31 02:34:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF PINR KN KS CH
07SHENYANG131Taiwan's Kuomintang Representative Given Warm Reception in Harbin
[...] Summary: The 18th Harbin International Fair for Trade and Economic Cooperation attracted participants from all over the world, showing that what was once largely a Sino-Russian event has become truly international. Event organizers claimed two hundred of the world's five hundred largest corpor [...]
2007-07-11 09:12:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV PREL CH TW
07SHENYANG152ANGANG STEEL HOPES TO GROW AT HOME AND ABROAD
[...] Summary: Zhang Xiaogang, Chairman of Anshan Iron and Steel Corporation (AnSteel),recently discussed an impending meeting with John Surma, President of International Iron and Steel Institute and potential cooperation with U.S. Steel Executive Committee of the IISI in New York on July 12 and 13, [...]
2007-08-03 08:46:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV PREL CH
07SHENYANG155China's Brilliance Automotive to Enter U.S. Market in
[...] Summary. Liu Xuemin, General Office Vice-Director of Huachen Group told Econoff recently that, contrary to some trade reports about delays, China's Brilliance Automotive -- the publicly traded arm of state-owned Huachen Group -- will begin exports to the United States in early September of thi [...]
2007-08-07 08:39:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EFIN PGOV PREL CH
07SHENYANG175LATE AUGUST TRIP TO THE DPRK/CHINA/RUSSIA BORDER
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-12 10:07:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PINR PGOV KS KN CH
07SHENYANG184AIDING NORTH KOREAN PATIENTS (AND BORDER-
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A Dandong-based, Korean-American NGO focused on North Korea continues to ship medical aid into the DPRK, but headaches abound as the group seeks to refine its aid strategy. In a modest hospital near the PRC-DPRK border, the group also discreetly tends to North Korean border-cross [...]
2007-09-28 08:35:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREF PINR KWMN KN KS CH
07SHENYANG220INVESTOR PROTESTS ROCK SHENYANG
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A relatively small group of protestors assembled outside Consulate General Shenyang early in the afternoon of 21 November to protest the failure of ant-farming health-product company Yilishen to pay dividends. The protests were not directed at the United States, but rather at the [...]
2007-11-21 10:05:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PINS SOCI CH
07SHENYANG222CHINA: AMBASSADOR HOLMER MEETS WITH SHENYANG AMERICAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a lunch meeting with Ambassador Alan Holmer, American business leaders in Shenyang expressed worry about the appreciation of the Renminbi and the weakness of the dollar, while admitting that the lower dollar did offer some competitive advantages, especially against European c [...]
2007-11-23 07:45:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SENV EIND CH
07SHENYANG223BRILLIANCE SLOWS APPROACH TO U.S. MARKET
[...] (SBU) Summary. Brilliance Automotive plans to delay its entry into the United States market while it resolves safety and environmental standards issues for its line of high-end sedans. The company cites a return to profitability and a desire to make its market debut a clear success as the ma [...]
2007-11-26 07:46:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EPIT EFIN PROV WTRO CH
07SHENYANG250CESSNA HOPES TO OPEN CHINA TO PRIVATE AVIATION
[...] (U) Cessna Aircraft Corporation, as part of successful negotiations to contract with Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) to manufacture Cessna's new 162 Skycatcher Light Sport Aircraft (LSA),received assurances from Chinese officials that, by the time the aircraft rolls off the production lin [...]
2007-12-20 07:39:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALCH EAIR ECON PREL
07SHENYANG251EXCESS DOMESTIC DEMAND DRIVES CHINA'S GRAIN MARKET
[...] (C) Summary. China will not allow any exports of corn or soybeans during 2008 and will radically curtail wheat exports, according to Wang Haisheng, Director of state-owned Jilin Grain Group and General Manager of Jilin Grain Group Export and Import Company. Wang,s company, which accounts for [...]
2007-12-26 07:37:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALCH EAGR ECON EIND EINT ELAB ENRG ETRD PGOV
07SINGAPORE1241DENGUE FEVER EPIDEMIC: NOT YET PEAKED?
[...] (SBU) The number of Singapore's dengue fever cases decreased recently after briefly crossing the Ministry of Health's (MOH) "epidemic threshold" of 378 cases per week in mid-June, according to press reports. However, there are concerns that the current outbreak is far from over. Hospitals re [...]
2007-06-28 09:16:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO ECON SN
07SINGAPORE1409INTEL LEAK IRKS GOS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-31 02:59:00Embassy SingaporeSECRETKNNP PARM PREL MNUC ETTC IR SN
07SINGAPORE1612GOS LETTER TO DHS REGARDING NEW CARGO SCANNING LEGISLATION
[...] (U) Transportation Minister Raymond Lim recently sent the letter in paragraph 2 to Secretary Chertoff highlighting Singapore's concerns about our new cargo scanning legislation. Per State 119837, we will report other local reactions septel. 2. (SBU) Begin text of letter: MINISTER FOR T [...]
2007-08-31 00:20:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER PHSA ETRD EWWT SN
07SINGAPORE1671SINGAPORE'S TEXTILES AND APPAREL PRODUCTION
[...] Post provides the following updated responses to information requested ref A concerning Singapore's textile and apparel industry. 2. Statistics: Total Industrial Production: Year USD (million) 2006 152,979 2007H1 n.a. Total Textile/Apparel Production: Year USD (m [...]
2007-09-10 02:42:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIEDKTEX ECON ETRD SN
07SINGAPORE1781GOS DISCUSSES REGIONAL, DOMESTIC ISSUES WITH
[...] (C) Summary: A U.S.-ASEAN Business Council (US-ABC) delegation, joined by the Ambassador, had separate meetings with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, Minister of National Development Mah Bow Tan, and Minister of Defense Teo Chee Hean on September 20 and 21. Singa [...]
2007-09-26 09:31:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETRD PREL ECON SN
07SINGAPORE1828NEXT STEPS ON ASEAN-U.S. TRADE COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: ASEAN countries are on track to achieve their specific trade-related objectives in time for the November Summit in Singapore, GOS officials told visiting Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Doug Bell. They expressed confidence that an enhanced trade dispute resolution m [...]
2007-10-02 02:04:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV KIPR ECON SN
07SINGAPORE1833FTA IMPLEMENTATION ON DAUSTR BELL'S AGENDA
[...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings to discuss implementation progress under the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA),Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Doug Bell cited Singapore's failure to fulfill its telecom commitments as our top concern. GOS officials agreed that additional flexib [...]
2007-10-03 01:47:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN EINV ECPS SENV KIPR ECON SN
07SINGAPORE1844 SINGAPORE AMENDS PHARMACISTS REGISTRATION ACT
[...] (U) Singapore's practice of allowing physicians to both dispense and prescribe pharmaceuticals remains unchanged in spite of recently approved modifications to the Pharmacists Registration Act. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) has consistently opposed Singapore [...]
2007-10-04 02:56:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ETRD KIPR ECON SN
07SINGAPORE1948GOS CANDIDATE FOR ICAO AIR NAVIGATION COMMISSION
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (U) Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided the following diplomatic note concerning its candidate for the Air Navigation Commission of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). We will send an electronic version o [...]
2007-10-23 09:09:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYICAO EAIR AORC PREL CA SN
07SINGAPORE1960GOS RE-ELECTION TO IMO COUNCIL: SECOND REQUEST
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Singapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided the following diplomatic note concerning its candidacy for re-election to the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Note: This is the second diplomatic note w [...]
2007-10-25 01:47:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIMO PREL EWWT AORC UK SN
07SINGAPORE1966RESULTS OF BLUE LANTERN CHECK ON APPLICATION
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, post conducted a site visit to establish the bona fides of Mega Indah Cargo Pte Ltd. 2. (SBU) Mega Indah Cargo is a limited exempt private company that has been operating in Singapore since 1978. (Note: The company was established under a different name, Soon Hong Hang [...]
2007-10-25 09:24:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC ETRD ECON KOMC ID SN
07SINGAPORE19892007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT
[...] (U) Per reftel instructions, this message is Post's draft 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part I - Drug and Chemical Control. Part II will be submitted septel. 2. (SBU) Begin text. I. Summary The Government of Singapore (GOS) enforces stringent counternar [...]
2007-10-31 07:43:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM SNAR ECON ETRD PREL SN
07SINGAPORE2016SINGAPORE - 2008 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT
[...] (U) In response to reftel instructions, this message is Post's draft chapter on Singapore for the 2008 National Trade Estimate Report. We assume that Washington agencies will update the trade and investment data in the first three paragraphs of the report as they have done in the past. Per r [...]
2007-11-07 06:55:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EFIN KIPR ECPS SN
07SINGAPORE2046USG AND GOS CONCLUDE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW, DISCUSS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Regional environmental initiatives, "green" technologies, and reducing air and water pollution were high on the list of future activities discussed during a biennial review of the U.S. - Singapore Free Trade Agreement's Memorandum of Intent (MOI) for Cooperation on Environment [...]
2007-11-15 02:26:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ETRD ECON PREL SN
07SINGAPORE206AMBASSADOR MICHALAK HIGHLIGHTS USG APEC AND ASEAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Senior U.S. Official to APEC Ambassador Michael Michalak told Singapore officials that APEC members needed to fulfill certain action items this year in order to keep the momentum going for a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP). He also sought their opinions on how to [...]
2007-01-30 08:59:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPEC ETRD ECON EINV USTR TBIO KFLU SN
07SINGAPORE2147U.S. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON IRAN'S
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-05 00:23:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC IR PARM SN
07SINGAPORE2150100-PERCENT SCANNING "UNWORKABLE," SAYS SINGAPORE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Singapore government remains opposed to the "100-percent" scanning provision of the 9/11 Act, calling it "unworkable" in its current form. Senior GOS officials have urged in meetings, formal letters, and public fora that the USG reconsider the legislation. Singapore-based [...]
2007-12-05 06:36:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EWWT ETTC PTER ECON USTR SN
07SINGAPORE2190U/S BURNS' DEC. 3 MEETING WITH SINGAPORE FM YEO
[...] (C) Summary: Singapore and ASEAN should step up the pressure on the Burmese regime, U/S Burns told Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo on December 3. FM Yeo said ASEAN would stand aside on the Burma issue now that Burma had made it clear through its actions at the ASEAN Summit that it woul [...]
2007-12-12 10:19:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALBM PREL ASEAN SN XF
07SINGAPORE2197BURMA: UPDATE ON PAVO TRADING'S FINANCIAL
[...] (S) A person claiming to be the former finance manager of Pavo Trading Pte Ltd. -- a Singapore-based company with close ties to the Burmese junta -- again volunteered to meet with us on December 10 to provide additional information about the company's business activities. We first met source [...]
2007-12-14 04:19:00Embassy SingaporeSECRETETTC KCRM EFIN ECON ETRD PGOV SN BM
07SINGAPORE2247AL JAZEERA ENGLISH TO START BROADCASTING IN
[...] (U) Summary. Al Jazeera English will likely begin broadcasting in Singapore twenty-four hours a day in the first quarter of 2008, according to Nigel Parsons, Managing Director of Al Jazeera English. On December 4, the Media Development Authority of Singapore granted SingTel a landing licens [...]
2007-12-27 06:02:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOIC SN MY SCUL KMDR
07SINGAPORE225SINGAPORE QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - Q1 FY2007
[...] SUMMARY: H-1B fraud remained the most common fraud activity that we saw in Singapore this quarter. Post began utilizing Lexis Nexis this quarter to support fraud-prevention activities. The number of H-1B applications from unqualified and/or short-term residents of Singapore originating from In [...]
2007-02-01 03:29:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC SN
07SINGAPORE24SINGAPORE - 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] Per reftel instructions, Post submits the text of the 2007 Investment Climate Statement for Singapore. As requested, we have also provided the document via email to EB/IFD/OIA. 2. Begin text of Statement: Singapore INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2007 INTRODUCTION Foreign investments [...]
2007-01-04 00:46:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR
07SINGAPORE285TEMASEK CEO HO CHING SURVEYS THE REGION
[...] (C) Summary. Temasek Holdings CEO Ho Ching (also wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong) told Ambassador David Gross that she was pessimistic about ASEAN's future. Thailand's interim government was obsessed with "everything Thaksin" and, having come up short on evidence to implicate the for [...]
2007-02-09 09:18:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD ECPS EINV EFIN PREL SN
07SINGAPORE371SINGAPORE 2007 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: RECOMMEND NO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends maintaining Singapore's current Special 301 status in 2007, i.e., not on the Watch List. Singapore remains committed to enhancing what is already one of Asia's strongest intellectual property regimes. The government continues to implement its IPR-related commit [...]
2007-02-23 06:56:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ECON ETRD EINV USTR WTRO SN
07SINGAPORE680SINGAPORE QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - Q2 FY2007
[...] SUMMARY: H-1b fraud continued to be our most serious form of fraud, but the number of H-1b applications from unqualified and/or short-term residents of Singapore originating from India continued to drop this quarter. Post devoted significant resources to addressing potential adoption fraud. EN [...]
2007-04-04 05:36:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC SN
07SINGAPORE996FTA AT YEAR THREE - ZEROING IN ON COMMITMENTS
[...] (SBU) Summary/Action Items: Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Barbara Weisel singled out Singapore's continued failure to fulfill its telecom commitments as the USG's top priority during the third annual review of the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA) held in Singapore May 11. Whil [...]
2007-05-24 03:50:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EFIN EINV ECPS SENV EAGR KTEX KIPR ECON SN
07SKOPJE162MACEDONIA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH THE PRIME
[...] (C) During a meeting with Prime Minister Gruevski on February 21, the Ambassador raised U.S. concerns regarding political dialogue, education issues, and the rule of law in Macedonia (reftels). Pledging U.S. support for Macedonia's NATO membership aspirations, the Ambassador stressed that ther [...]
2007-02-23 15:08:00Embassy SkopjeCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL MK
07SKOPJE175MACEDONIA: REQUEST FOR CONTACT INFORMATION FOR
[...] (U) See action request in para 5. 2. (U) Post received a diplomatic note from the Macedonian MFA on February 16 conveying a request from the defense attorney for former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boskovski in his ICTY case in The Hague. She requests Embassy assistance in providing [...]
2007-02-28 11:16:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MK
07SKOPJE629MACEDONIA: PRIME MINISTER ON WAY AHEAD FOR NATO
[...] (C) During a July 31 tete-a-tete lunch, PM Gruevski outlined what he considers to be the remaining tasks for Macedonia to make its case for NATO membership: implement the May 29 VMRO-DUI agreement, fully constitute the State Judicial Council, and pass a liberal religious freedom law. He also s [...]
2007-08-01 16:02:00Embassy SkopjeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR MK
07SKOPJE730MACEDONIAN: ELECTORAL CODE CHANGES WOULD ALLOW
[...] (SBU) Following more than six months of talks between Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and a group of MPs from the smaller ethnic minority communities (Turks, Serbs, Bosniacs, Roma, Vlachs),the government announced on August 27 that it would seek to amend the electoral code to guarantee ten new [...]
2007-09-07 12:34:00Embassy SkopjeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MK
07SKOPJE739MACEDONIA: IDENTIFYING "CREDIBLE VOICES" IN MUSLIM
[...] (SBU) CONTEXT: In Macedonia, there is a rough correlation between religion and ethnicity; most ethnic Albanians, who comprise 25 percent of the total population, are Muslim, as are most Roma and ethnic Turks. There are also smaller populations of ethnic Macedonian Muslims. Macedonia's Muslim [...]
2007-09-11 13:45:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MK
07SOFIA114BULGARIA LEANS FORWARD ON AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Minister Kalfin told the Ambassador January 25 that Bulgaria had lifted its caveat regarding night operations in Afghanistan, and that there was political will to lift at least some caveats pending receipt of additional training and equipment. The government expects parl [...]
2007-01-25 14:42:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO MARR CVIS IZ AF SR BU
07SOFIA1181DEMARCHE ON BLACK SEA STRAGEGY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-02 13:28:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM PBTS PHSA SENC ECON EWWT BU
07SOFIA1202RECOMMENDATION FOR BULGARIA TO BE ADDED TO WIREC 2008
[...] (U) Embassy Sofia strongly urges the inclusion of Bulgaria on the list of priority countries to be invited to the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008.) The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has called Bulgaria a "model country" in the impleme [...]
2007-10-05 13:35:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV EAID SOCI TRGY PGOV BU
07SOFIA125BULGARIA: PRESIDENT PARVANOV IN STRONG POSITION AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Parvanov, Bulgaria's first post-communist president to win re-election, begins his second term in office as the dominant actor on the Bulgarian political stage, despite his relatively limited constitutional powers. His behind-the-scenes influence over the current govern [...]
2007-01-26 14:55:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IZ BU
07SOFIA1285BULGARIA STRONGLY CONDEMNS PKK USE OF VIOLENCE.
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-01 15:20:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN BU
07SOFIA1295BULGARIA SUPPORTS US CANDIDACY TO THE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-08 10:12:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDAORC IMO EWWT PHSA UK BU
07SOFIA1342DEMARCHE ON U.S.-IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-30 18:14:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MOPS PREL PGOV IZ BG
07SOFIA1382AMBASSADOR WISNER'S MEETINGS IN SOFIA ON KOSOVO
[...] (C) Summary: On December 6 Special Representative to the Kosovo Status Talks Frank Wisner briefed Foreign Minister Kalfin and, in a separate meeting, members of parliament on the outcome of the Troika negotiations and next steps on Kosovo. Wisner told the Bulgarians that although the Troik [...]
2007-12-18 05:11:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREL KV UN EU RU BU
07SOFIA149BULGARIA: GOVT APPROVES IRAQ EXTENSION
[...] (SBU) In a February 2 meeting with the DCM, MFA NATO and International Security Director Petio Petev officially informed us of the government's February 1 decision to extend Bulgaria's mission at Camp Ashraf in Iraq. He delivered a diplomatic note, the operative paragraphs of which read: "T [...]
2007-02-02 14:17:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM PGOV IZ BU
07SOFIA181BULGARIA 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] Bulgaria - 2007 Investment Climate Statement ------------------------------ Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ Bulgaria has a liberal foreign investment regime; a top government priority is to attract foreign investment, especially American. The government foc [...]
2007-02-13 09:44:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR BU
07SOFIA187BULGARIA SEEKS US VOTE FOR INTERNATIONAL MARITIME
[...] Post received a Diplomatic Note from the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, notifying the U.S. government, that Bulgaria will seek a seat in the Council of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The IMO Council will be holding elections at their assembly scheduled to take place in [...]
2007-02-13 13:48:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PHSA PREL TSPL BU
07SOFIA224BULGARIA: MFA TAKES HARD LINE ON BLACK SEA HARMONY
[...] (S) SUMMARY: In a February 14 meeting, MFA Regional Security chief (and resident Black Sea expert) Dimitar Dimitrov briefed us on the GoB's emerging Black Sea strategy. He expressed hardening resistance to Bulgarian membership in Operation Black Sea Harmony (OBSH),and allowed poloff to revie [...]
2007-02-20 10:39:00Embassy SofiaSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV NATO MARR MOPS TU BU
07SOFIA231BULGARIA 301: RECOMMEND RETAIN ON WATCH LIST, WITH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Bulgarian government has made tremendous strides over the past 15 months to improve its Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regime. It has met virtually all of our Action Plan requests (Ref C). With renewed political will, it has adopted strong IPR legislation; established [...]
2007-02-21 12:08:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR ETRD BU
07SOFIA252CONTROVERSIAL ECONOMY/ENERGY MINISTER GOES TO THE
[...] (S) Bulgaria's Minister of Economy and Energy Rumen Ovcharov heads to Washington and several other U.S. cities on February 27 for an eleven-day road trip to drum up investor interest in Bulgaria. His meetings at State, Commerce, Energy and USTR will give us an opportunity to press for stron [...]
2007-02-26 15:12:00Embassy SofiaSECRETENRG ECON PREL OVIP BU
07SOFIA26BULGARIA: PATIENCE WEARS THIN ON LIBYA MEDICS CASE
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 9. 2. (C) SUMMARY: AS BULGARIA BEGINS THE NEW YEAR, PUBLIC RANCOR IS STEADILY BUILDING OVER LIBYA'S DECEMBER 19 CONFIRMATION OF DEATH SENTENCES AGAINST FIVE BULGARIAN NURSES. AFTER A HOLIDAY SEASON MARKED BY HIGH-PROFILE EXPRESSIONS OF SUPPORT [...]
2007-01-08 14:41:00Embassy SofiaSECRETPREL PHUM LY BU
07SOFIA303NARCOTICS REPORT GRABS BULGARIA'S ATTENTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) received unprecedented media coverage in Bulgaria. Overall coverage was factual and positive, concentrating on links between the OC-controlled drug trade and government corruption, and quoting Ambassador Beyrle e [...]
2007-03-07 12:09:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALSNAR OPRC PGOV PREL BU
07SOFIA344BULGARIA: DIP NOTE ON IRAQ EXTENSION
[...] This is an action request -- please see paragraph 2. 2. On March 7, we received a diplomatic note from the MFA notifying us of the National Assembly's ratification of Bulgaria's decision to extend its military mission in Camp Ashraf. We would appreciate Department assistance in providing [...]
2007-03-14 11:14:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MOPS IZ BU
07SOFIA377BULGARIA: MISSILE DEFENSE PD STRATEGY
[...] (U) Per Ref A request, Post has designated DCM Alexander Karagiannis as the POC for public diplomacy and outreach efforts on missile defense. 2. (U) During the Sofia visit of Admiral Harry Ulrich, CINCUSNAVEUR, the Admiral briefed the Sofia and Varna press corps in appearances on February 2 [...]
2007-03-21 13:25:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR KPAO PL EZ RU BU
07SOFIA43BULGARIAN MFA EAGER TO KEEP TRADE TREATIES, BUT
[...] (C) We delivered ref. A points to MFA's Emilena Popova, Director of the International Cooperation Directorate, and Ivan Danchev, Head of the U.S. and Canada Department in the Americas Directorate, on January 8. Popova was glad to hear that the USG agreed to discontinue the 1938 Treaty on Cer [...]
2007-01-10 13:42:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALETRD EUN PGOV BU
07SOFIA590YOUR JUNE 10-11VISIT TO SOFIA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-15 15:01:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREL OVIP BU
07SOFIA593BULGARIA'S EU ENTRY HELPS MANY - BUT NOT ALL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgaria entered the EU in strong macroeconomic and fiscal shape with 5 percent annualized GDP growth over the past 7 years and three years of budget surpluses. Foreign investors are piling in to take advantage of cheap prices and labor, much as they did in the EU-10 a few year [...]
2007-05-16 08:52:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEUN ECON EINV BU
07SOFIA594BULGARIA HAPPY TO BE OFF 301; PLEDGES TO CONTINUE IPR
[...] Bulgarian officials were very pleased to learn on April 30 that Bulgaria was being removed from the Special 301 Watch List. Deputy Minister of Culture Ina Kileva and Deputy Minister of Economy Lachezar Borisov thanked us and assured us that Bulgaria would continue to work hard to reduce Intel [...]
2007-05-16 10:04:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR ETRD BU
07SOFIA598BULGARIA READY TO NEGOTIATE EXTRADITION AND MLAT
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) On May 3, we delivered reftel points to Georgi Rupchev, Head of International Cooperation Directorate at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),and, separately, to Ivan Dantchev, MFA's Acting Head of America's Directorate. MOJ's [...]
2007-05-16 12:57:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CJAN BU
07SOFIA611PUTIN PUSHES RUSSIA-TO-BULGARIA UNDERSEA GAS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-17 13:44:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALENRG PREL EUN RU BU
07SOFIA718DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH FM KALFIN: IRAQI
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Minister Kalfin thanked the Deputy Secretary for President Bush's public and private assurances of support for the release of the five Bulgarian nurses imprisoned in Libya. He also asked for the opportunity to consult with the USG in advance of any travel by the Secretar [...]
2007-06-14 08:46:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EFIN NATO LY IZ BU
07SOFIA72BULGARIAN NURSES IN LIBYA: GOB REASSURED, AGREES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. U.S., UK, EU, AND BULGARIAN REPRESENTATIVES AGREED IN SOFIA JANUARY 16 THAT CONTINUED PRIVATE TALKS WITH LIBYAN MFA DIRECTOR OBEIDI OFFERED THE BEST HOPE FOR GAINING THE RELEASE OF THE FIVE BULGARIAN NURSES AND ONE PALESTINIAN DOCTOR JAILED IN LIBYA SINCE 1999 FOR ALLEGEDLY SPREAD [...]
2007-01-17 15:14:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EUN LY BU
07SOFIA735BULGARIA EXPRESSES CONCERN TO IRAN ON
[...] (C) On June 14 POL/ECON Officer delivered reftel points on detained/missing American citizens in Iran to Oleg Doychinov, Iran Desk Officer from MFA's Asia Directorate. Doychinov was sympathetic and said he would convey Bulgarian and USG concern for the American citizens to his Iranian counterp [...]
2007-06-15 12:51:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL EUN KDEM IR BU
07SOFIA743BULGARIA: EUR A/S FRIED DISCUSSES GEORGIA, KOSOVO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Valentin Radomirski, Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Stanishev, described to EUR A/S Dan Fried on June 11 Russian pressure tactics regarding Bulgarian relations with Georgia, especially regarding export of small arms and munitions to Georgia. Tbilisi's larger than normal [...]
2007-06-19 07:24:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM NATO GG BU
07SOFIA794BULGARIA: 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND
[...] The United States government is aware of two (2) claims of U.S. persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Bulgaria (GOB). 2. List is keyed according to reftel instructions. A) Claimant A (ongoing case) B) 2000 C) In 1999, Claimant A established a subsidiary, whic [...]
2007-06-28 16:03:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KIDE CASC PGOV BU
07SOFIA883NURSES RETURN, BULGARIA REJOICES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. BULGARIA GAVE AN EMOTIONAL WELCOME-HOME TO THE FIVE MEDICAL WORKERS RELEASED FROM A LIBYAN PRISON EARLY THIS MORNING AND FLOWN BACK TO SOFIA ON A FRENCH JET. AMBASSADOR BEYRLE JOINED PRESIDENT PARVANOV, PRIME MINISTER STANISHEV AND SEVERAL EUROPEAN AMBASSADORS FOR AN IMPROMPTU AIRPORT [...]
2007-07-24 13:05:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM LY BU
07SOFIA949OPPORTUNITIES FOR U.S.-BULGARIAN ENERGY PARTNERSHIP
[...] (C) Summary. New Economy and Energy Minister Petar Dimitrov recently told the Ambassador that he welcomes a partnership with the U.S. government on energy and will also work to eliminate obstacles to U.S. investments in Bulgaria. A newcomer facing a steep learning curve on energy, Dimitrov is [...]
2007-08-07 12:44:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PGOV RU BU
07STATE116244TFGV01 SITUATION REPORT NO. 001 AS OF 1700 EST
[...] (U) NORAD reports the onset of tropical storm force winds should hit Jamaica August 19 at 0400 EDT, with hurricane force winds starting at 1200 EDT. The eye of the storm is scheduled to make landfall at 1400 EDT, with sustained winds upwards of 150 mph. The National Hurricane Center predicts [...]
2007-08-19 00:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS AEMR MARR CASC GV KHLS
07STATE116306TFJA01 SITUATION REPORT NO. 002 AS OF 1700 EDT
[...] (U) NORAD reports Hurricane Dean is on a more southerly route, with the eye likely passing 17 nautical miles south of Kingston. The National Hurricane Center predicts 5-10 inches of rain, with up to 20 inches in isolated areas. Embassy Kingston reported increasing winds at 1500 EDT. 2. (U) [...]
2007-08-20 01:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PINS AEMR MARR CASC JA KHLS
07STATE117348TFJM01 SITUATION REPORT NO. 004 AS OF 0845EDT
[...] NORAD does not expect hurricane force winds in any of the main tourist areas of the Yucatan (Cancun, Cozumel, or Merida). As of 0700 EDT, Consulate Merida and Embassy Belmopan report no visible damage and no reports of Amcit injuries. ------ MEXICO ------ 2. Consulate Merida reported [...]
2007-08-21 17:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS AEMR MARR CASC JM MX BH KHLS
07STATE11796DEMARCHE: TURNING OFF THE CEIRPP UN-SPONSORED
[...] (U) This is an action request. Department requests USUN urge UN Undersecretary General Gambari and/or Secretary General Ban to persuade the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) to cancel its event on Israel-Palestine scheduled for March 22-2 [...]
2007-01-30 21:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL IS
07STATE118576US-AZERBAIJAN DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) As part of the high-level democracy dialogue between the USG and the GOAJ, in an August 3 DVC, DRL Assistant Secretary Lowenkron, EUR Assistant Secretary Fried, and SIPDIS Foreign Minister Mammadyarov discussed media freedom, human rights, civil society, democratic elections, and rule of [...]
2007-08-23 17:11:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALAJ KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL
07STATE125277TRAVEL WARNING - SUDAN
[...] This Travel Warning for Sudan alerts U.S. citizens to the threat from armed conflicts and warns of continued threats from terrorism in Sudan. This supersedes the Travel Warning issued for Sudan on October 5, 2006. 2. The Department of State continues to warn U.S. citizens against all trave [...]
2007-09-06 19:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCASC ASEC KPAO PTER PREL AF SU
07STATE129764U.S. PRIORITIES FOR THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 - 5. BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (U) On October 1, 2007, on the margins of this year,s UN General Assembly (UNGA),Mali, the Chair the Community of Democracies (CD),will host a short meeting of Ministers that will set the stage for its bi [...]
2007-09-14 20:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV
07STATE130600BLACKWATER PERSONNEL SECURITY DETAIL INVOLVED IN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-17 20:21:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALAMGT ASEC IZ PREL PTER
07STATE131146DEMARCHE REQUEST ON DOHA NON-AGRICULTURAL MARKET
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (U) Summary and action request: Negotiations on potential modalities for global reductions of tariffs on industrial goods (known as Non-Agricultural Market Access or NAMA) as part of the Doha Round in the World Trade Organization (W [...]
2007-09-18 16:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD WTRO
07STATE131348DEMARCHE REQUEST ON WTO DOHA INDUSTRIAL GOODS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (U) Summary and action request: WTO Doha Round negotiations on potential approaches for global reductions on industrial goods tariffs (known as Non-Agricultural Market Access or NAMA) resumed in Geneva September 17 with informal me [...]
2007-09-18 19:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD WTRO
07STATE131603THE SECRETARY'S SEPTEMBER 14 MEETING WITH
[...] (U) Participants: U.S. ---- The Secretary EUR A/S Daniel Fried PA A/S Sean McCormack Steve Beecroft Marc Nordberg, EUR note taker Hungary ------- FM Kinga Goncz Appointed Ambassador Ferenc Somogyi State Secretary Laszlo Varkonyi Acting Chief of Cabinet Gyorgy Varga DCM Viktor Sz [...]
2007-09-18 23:28:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HU
07STATE138404(U) NEA A/S WELCH,S SEPTEMBER 28, 2007, MEETING WITH SPANISH FOREIGN MINISTER MIGUEL MORATINOS AND DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR MIDDLE EAST ALVARO IRANZO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-01 21:26:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOVIP DAVID UNGA PREL KPKO SP XI XF DAVID WELCH
07STATE138428REQUEST FOR DEMARCHE ON MINISTERIAL DELEGATIONS
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 7-9. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. Background: As described in reftel, on May 1, 2007 Secretary Rice announced that the State Department will SIPDIS host the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) i [...]
2007-10-01 23:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG KSCA
07STATE141316APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE OCTOBER 15-
[...] (U) Classified by William Lucas, Office Director, EUR/ERA. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 15. 3. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Luxembourg on October 15 [...]
2007-10-06 03:39:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEUN PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL YI RS LY IS
07STATE141820U/S DOBRIANSKY,S SEPTEMBER 25 MEETING WITH
[...] (U) September 25, 2007; 1700; New York City, United States. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Dobriansky NEA Senior S&T Advisor Lawson (Notetaker) Libya Foreign Minister Abdulrahman Shalgam Ambassador Ali Aujali Deputy Permanent Representat [...]
2007-10-09 18:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV KSCA LY
07STATE142845WHA A/S SHANNON,S SEPTEMBER 27, 2007 MEETING WITH
[...] (U) September 27, 2007, 5:00 p.m., New York 2. (U) Participants: United States A/S Thomas A. Shannon Scott Miller, WHA Notetaker Brazil U/S for South America Jorge D'Escragolle Taunay Christian Sigueiroa, second secretary, Brazilian Mission to the U.N. Wilson Dockhorn, second secr [...]
2007-10-11 16:02:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALBL BR EC PA UNGA
07STATE143859VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: MINUSTAH RENEWAL
[...] ACTION REQUEST: Department instructs USUN to vote in favor of and co-sponsor the Security Council resolution contained in para 2 below concerning the extension of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). USUN should seek additional guidance if substantive changes are made [...]
2007-10-13 00:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDHA KPKO PGOV PREL UNSC
07STATE144727SUMMARY OF RESPONSES TO CABLE ON INDOOR AIR
[...] This is an action request. See Paragraph 3. SUMMARY 2. SUMMARY: Reftel asked posts in countries where greater than 20 percent of the population uses biomass and coal to meet basic energy needs to assess host countries' commitment to addressing the health concerns posed by indoor air poll [...]
2007-10-16 17:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDES GT NU PM SENV TBIO
07STATE145210SUDAN - HANDOVER OF LIGHT SUPPORT PACKAGE
[...] (U) This is an urgent action request for USUN. Please see paras 4 and 5 for instructions and text of handover document. 2. (U) Background: Per a request by the United Nations, Department of Peacekeeping Operations in late 2006, the Department of State created a contract to provide logistics [...]
2007-10-17 15:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KPKO SU MARR
07STATE1468562007:COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] This message provides preparation guidance for preparing the 2007 Country Reports on Terrorism (CRT). 2. We recommend that "Country Reports on Terrorism 2006" be the starting point for this year's exercise. Per reftel, the Department requests that posts draft narrative submissions, as oppos [...]
2007-10-19 23:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR
07STATE147334INAUGURAL U.S.-KYRGYZ COMPREHENSIVE POLICY
[...] (C) Summary. On September 27, the United States and Kyrgyzstan inaugurated an interagency "Comprehensive Policy Dialogue." In over three hours of discussion with U.S. officials responsible for Central Asia representing seven agencies, Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Ednan Karabayev reviewed security [...]
2007-10-22 23:30:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KG
07STATE149413TAJIKISTAN: DEMARCHE ON REGISTRATION OF THE
[...] (SBU) This is an action message. Please see para 2. 2. (SBU) Post is instructed to deliver the demarches in paras three and four to the appropriate presidential or government official to strongly voice U.S. concern about the ongoing failure to register the National Democratic Institute a [...]
2007-10-26 16:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM EAID KIRF TI
07STATE149959REQUEST FOR WIREC FOLLOW-UP; MINISTER
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE, PLEASE SEE PARA 3. 2. SUMMARY: On July 19, 2007, OES P/DAS Reno Harnish met with France's Natalie Kosciusko-Morizet (Secretaire d' Etat, Ministere de L' Ecologie et du Developpement Durable) to discuss the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC [...]
2007-10-29 17:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TRGY SOCI KPAO ENRG FA
07STATE149960REQUEST FOR WIREC FOLLOW-UP; MR. KESTERIS (HEAD
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE, PLEASE SEE PARA 3. 2. SUMMARY: On July 18, 2007, OES P/DAS Reno Harnish met with the European Commission's Andris Kesteris (Head of Cabinet, Commissioner for Energy to discuss the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008). As part of that d [...]
2007-10-29 17:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TRGY SOCI KPAO ENRG EUN XG
07STATE149963REQUEST FOR WIREC FOLLOW-UP; CORRADO CLINI DG,
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE, PLEASE SEE PARA 3. 2. SUMMARY: During the US-Italy climate change bilateral meetings in June, Italy provided enthusiastic support for the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008),including the possibility of GOI providing financial assist [...]
2007-10-29 17:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TRGY SOCI KPAO ENRG IT
07STATE149968REQUEST FOR WIREC FOLLOW-UP; DR. AMIN (HEAD
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE, PLEASE SEE PARA 3. 2. SUMMARY: OES P/DAS Reno Harnish met with the United Kingdom's Dr. Amal-Lee Amin (Heaad Technology, Investment and Development, International Climate Change, Defra) to discuss the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 200 [...]
2007-10-29 17:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TRGY SOCI KPAO ENRG UK
07STATE150043VOTING INSTRUCTION ON CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to vote against the resolution on the Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba, to be considered by the UN General Assembly on October 30, drawing on the points in para [...]
2007-10-29 18:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PHUM UN CU
07STATE150674SECRETARY'S 10/29 MEETING WITH SPANISH FM
[...] (U) October 29, 2007, 10:00 a.m., Secretary's Office 2. (U) Participants: United States The Secretary EUR A/S Daniel Fried PA A/S Sean McCormack Steve Beecroft EUR Elaine Samson (Notetaker) Spain Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos Ambassador Carlos Westendorp Chief of Staf [...]
2007-10-30 22:29:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOSCE KCFE SP KV RU KZ MD
07STATE151024DEMARCHE REQUEST: ADVANCING THE DEMOCRACY AGENDA
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3-18. The CD Ministerial in Bamako, November 14-17, will have five thematic and five regional roundtables. We ask that Posts inquire as to the priorities of host government for the ministerial and each roundtable, and share the U.S. prio [...]
2007-10-31 17:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PHUM PREL UNGA
07STATE151077REQUEST FOR WIREC FOLLOW-UP; HONORABLE KAZUYUKI
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE, PLEASE SEE PARA 3. 2. SUMMARY: The week of September 24th, OES P/DAS Reno Harnish met with Japan's Kazuyuki Takeuchi (Director, Economic Security Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs) to discuss the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) [...]
2007-10-31 19:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TRGY SOCI KPAO ENRG JA
07STATE152304INSTRUCTIONS (PART TWO) FOR THE RESOLUTION ON
[...] This is an action request. Below continues the resolution text of the resolution "The Situation in Afghanistan" from PART ONE of this instruction sent by separate cable. USUN is also instructed to use the points in para 3 in making our Explanation of Vote. 2. Continue resolution text: [...]
2007-11-03 02:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM MOPPS UN AF
07STATE152799STEERING GROUP NON-PAPER FOR THE PARTNERSHIP FOR
[...] (SBU) This is an action request; please see para 5. 2. (SBU) Background: The Partnership for Democratic Governance was successfully rolled out at a well-attended high level event co-hosted by OECD and UNDP in New York on October 1, 2007. The Department appreciates Posts' support and effort [...]
2007-11-05 22:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAU BR CA CI EAID ET JA KDEM KS MX NL NZ PL PO
07STATE152819UNGA: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ECOSOC MEMBERSHIP
[...] On November 8, the UN General Assembly will vote on the members to be elected to ECOSOC for the term 2008-2011. This year there are no contested elections (there are as many states presenting themselves for election as there are seats to be elected). The Department is not opposed to any of t [...]
2007-11-05 23:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDECON AORC UN
07STATE153576PSI: CHILE'S PARTICIPATION IN THE PSI OPERATIONAL
[...] This is an action request please see paragraphs 2-11. SUMMARY ------- 2. Department requests embassy approach the GOC to determine its interest in becoming a participant in the PSI Operational Experts Group (OEG). If the GOC decides it is willing and able to accept the long-term commitm [...]
2007-11-07 17:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCI KNNP MNUC PARM PREL
07STATE154497DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE'S MEETING WITH U/SYG
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guehenno on November 5 to discuss challenges to UNAMID deployment. U/SYG Guehenno pressed the Deputy Secretary for further U.S. assistance with acquiring the capabilities necessary to mak [...]
2007-11-09 01:18:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALKPKO PREL UNSC
07STATE154603BRINGING THE US-JAPAN MRA INTO FORCE
[...] This is an action message. See paragraph 3. 2. BACKGROUND: The Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Results of Conformity Assessment Procedures between the United States of America and Japan ("the Agreement") was signed in Washington on February 16, 2007. By the terms of Article 15 of th [...]
2007-11-09 14:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDECON ECPS JA
07STATE154674DEMARCHE ON DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA
[...] (C) Summary. Department requests action addressees demarche host governments, at the highest appropriate level, to: 1) share our concerns about the anti-democratic changes in the proposed constitutional reform package; 2) highlight growing dissension within Venezuela and the increasingly rep [...]
2007-11-09 16:02:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPGOV VE PHUM WHA EU
07STATE154860REQUEST FOR WIREC FOLLOW-UP; MR. SMALL (ASSISTANT
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE, PLEASE SEE PARA 3. 2. SUMMARY: On July 16, 2007, OES P/DAS Reno Harnish met with Canada's Political Minister Kevin O,Shea and Energy Counselor Paul Connors to discuss the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008). As part of that discussion [...]
2007-11-09 18:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDENRG KPAO SOCI TRGY CA
07STATE155061A/S WELCH ADDRESSES NEA HARDSHIP ASSIGNMENTS
[...] On November 8, Assistant Secretary Welch testified in a public hearing before the House Foreign Affairs and Senate Foreign Relations Committees on Lebanon and Syria, respectively. During his testimony, A/S Welch refuted some recent criticism alleging that Foreign Service officers were unwill [...]
2007-11-10 01:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER XF XI
07STATE156011PDAS KELLY CALLS IN BOLIVIAN AMBASSADOR GUZMAN
[...] (C) PDAS Craig Kelly called in Bolivian Ambassador Gustavo Guzman November 9 to express USG dissatisfaction about the Bolivian Government's (GOB) repeated verbal attacks against the USG. PDAS Kelly warned Guzman that GOB actions could negatively impact Bolivia's requests for trade preferences [...]
2007-11-14 14:37:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALBO EUN KDEM PGOV PREL
07STATE156111PSI OPERATIONAL EXPERTS GROUP MEETING IN RHODES,
[...] The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Operational Experts Group (OEG) meeting took place in Rhodes, Greece on October 2-4, 2007. Information contained in this cable is provided for Posts' information and is not to be passed to non-OEG participant governments. A follow-on cable will pro [...]
2007-11-14 16:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC GR PARM PREL
07STATE156113PSI OPERATIONAL EXPERTS GROUP MEETING IN RHODES,
[...] The Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Operational Experts Group (OEG) meeting took place in Rhodes, Greece on October 2-4, 2007. Information contained in this cable is provided for Posts' information and is not to be passed to non-OEG participant governments. A follow-on cable will pro [...]
2007-11-14 16:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC GR PARM PREL
07STATE157649LETTER INVITING MFA TO MEET IN WASHINGTON ON
[...] This is an Action Request -- see paragraph 2. 2. Action requested: Post is requested to deliver at the earliest opportunity the letter below inviting the MFA North America Director Igor Neverov to a meeting in Washington to discuss the political impact of the current impasse on State Flight [...]
2007-11-16 23:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAIR RS
07STATE159330SUPPORT FOR NEW DELHI CONFERENCE ON AVIAN AND
[...] This is an action request (see para 12) both for posts whose host governments have not yet accepted invitations to the New Delhi avian and pandemic influenza conference and for donor nations. SUMMARY ------- 2. Begin Summary: The USG has assumed a world leadership role in the effor [...]
2007-11-21 21:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL XX
07STATE160266SHARING WASHINGTON OUTBOUND CABLES
[...] Drafting Officers are encouraged to use the SIPDIS caption only on those cables deemed appropriate for sharing - such as cable reporting messages, analytical pieces, and policy instructions. SIPDIS content in the NCD system is available to hundreds of thousands of employees and contractors [...]
2007-11-26 21:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDACOA AMGT AOMS KCCP PINR
07STATE163714REQUEST TO GOVERNMENT OF THE NETHERLANDS FOR
[...] (U) This is an action cable, please see paragraph 3. 2.(SBU) SUMMARY: The USG will host the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) on March 4-6, 2008 at the Washington Convention Center. As the third global ministerial-level event on renewable energy, WIREC is e [...]
2007-12-05 18:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENG KPAO SENV TRGY
07STATE163961LIBYA: FOLLOW-UP ON DETAINEES AND THE GOL'S REQUEST TO VISIT
[...] (S/NF) Department requests that Post continue to seek additional information regarding returned Libyan detainee Muhammad Abdallah Mansur al-Rimi's (ISN 194) injuries and ongoing treatment in the GOL's custody. DoD confirms that the detainee did not sustain the arm injury at Guantanamo, as the [...]
2007-12-05 23:26:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL PHUM PINS LY
07STATE165472DEMARCHE ON GAMBLING - WTO ARTICLE XXI PROCEDURE
[...] This is an urgent action request. See paragraphs 14 and 15. SUMMARY ------- 2. In May 2007, the United States began a process to clarify that its WTO obligations do not extend to gambling and betting services, in response to a WTO dispute settlement finding that the U.S. inadvertent [...]
2007-12-10 23:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD WTRO
07STATE165479URGING THE EC TO SEND PAKISTAN ELECTION OBSERVER
[...] (C) This is an urgent action request. Department requests the United States Mission to the European Union convey key points (see paragraph 8) at the earliest opportunity and at the highest appropriate level to the Commissioner's Office. 2. (C) Summary: Pakistan will hold country-wide par [...]
2007-12-10 23:32:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK
07STATE165916REQUEST TO GOVERNMENT OF NORWAY FOR WIREC SUPPORT
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION CABLE, PLEASE SEE PARAGRAPH 3. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The USG will host the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) on March 4-6, 2008 at the Washington Convention Center. As the third global ministerial-level event on renewable energy, WIREC i [...]
2007-12-11 21:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TRGY SOCIS KPAO ENG
07STATE166027A/S FRIED MEETING WITH RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR USHAKOV
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 11, Russian Ambassador Yuriy Ushakov met with EUR A/S Daniel Fried for a read-out of meetings of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) and the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) at the foreign ministers level in Brussels. Fried noted that the NRC "could have been much worse." He [...]
2007-12-12 13:34:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAIR PARM MARR RS
07STATE166241REQUEST TO GOVERNMENT OF DENMARK FOR WIREC
[...] THIS IS AN INFORMATION CABLE, PLEASE SEE PARA 3. 2. SUMMARY: The USG will host the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) on March 4-6, 2008 at the Washington Convention Center. As the third global ministerial-level event on renewable energy, WIREC is expected [...]
2007-12-12 19:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TRGY SOCIS KPAO ENG NB
07STATE166405DEMARCHE REQUEST - MISSING AMCIT ROBERT LEVINSON
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 8. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (S) The United States has reason to believe Iranian security services may have targeted and detained private investigator and retired FBI Special Agent Bob Levinson on March 8, 2007, during a t [...]
2007-12-13 02:52:00Secretary of StateSECRETBA CASC IR IZ JO KDEM KISL KJUS KPRP KU LE MU PGOV
07STATE166406DEMARCHE REQUEST - MISSING AMCIT ROBERT LEVINSON
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 8. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (S) The United States has reason to believe Iranian security services may have targeted and detained private investigator and retired FBI Special Agent Bob Levinson on March 8, 2007, during a t [...]
2007-12-13 03:27:00Secretary of StateSECRETAS CA CASC CH EU EZ FR GM IN IR IT JA JO KDEM
07STATE166577CORRECTED COPY - DEMARCHE REQUEST - MISSING AMCIT
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 8. This cable included corrected action request/objectives. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (S) The United States has reason to believe Iranian security services may have targeted and detained private investigator and retired F [...]
2007-12-13 15:13:00Secretary of StateSECRETBA CASC IR IZ KJUS KPRP KU LE MU PGOV PHUM PK PREL
07STATE170925DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (C/Rel UN) The Department of Justice (DOJ),in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney,s Office for the Western District of Missouri, is conducting a criminal investigation regarding the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) and its alleged f [...]
2007-12-28 21:50:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALKTFN PTER UNSC XA XD PK
07STATE19737PORTUGAL'S ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel request, the following is guidance on the Community of Democracies (CD),the role the U.S. can play in shaping both the work of the GOP-led CD Working Group "Regional and Interregional Cooperation for Democratic Governance," and priorities for Portugal's upcoming C [...]
2007-02-16 18:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PREL PHUM PO
07STATE19832PORTUGAL'S ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel request, the following is guidance on the Community of Democracies (CD),the role the U.S. can play in shaping both the work of the GOP-led CD Working Group "Regional and Interregional Cooperation for Democratic Governance," and priorities for Portugal's upcoming C [...]
2007-02-16 19:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PREL PHUM PO
07STATE2659SURVEYING EU MEMBERS ON THEIR IRAN CIVIL SOCIETY
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Background: Department wishes to gain current information about EU member states, efforts to promote democratic reform in Iran, including civil society, respect for human rights, and freedom of information. Through its Freedom [...]
2007-01-09 19:19:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IR EUN
07STATE29082DEMARCHE REQUEST - ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR USG
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraphs 2, 3, 4, 5, and 12. (U) SUMMARY ----------- 2. (C) Argentina has asked for USG assistance in persuading Interpol to issue six Red Notices for five current and former Iranian officials and one Lebanese national thought by Argentina [...]
2007-03-08 04:59:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALIR AR LE PGOV PREL FBI PTER KJUS ASEC PRT
07STATE32192RESEND: MARSHALL PLAN 60TH ANNIVERSARY
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 6 & 7. 2. (U) The year 2007 marks the 60th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, arguably the most significant American diplomatic and economic initiative towards Europe in our nations, history. In the aftermath of World War II, the Marshall Plan r [...]
2007-03-14 16:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEUN FR KPAO SCUL UNESCO
07STATE3592IRAQ: GUIDANCE ON PRESIDENT'S POLICY ADDRESS
[...] Department requests Ambassadors reinforce the President's January 10 announcement on Iraq policy with the highest levels in the host governments on Thursday January 11. OBJECTIVES ---------- 2. Department instructs posts to pursue the following objectives: --Drawing on the backgrou [...]
2007-01-11 03:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MOPS PGOV PREL IZ
07STATE45355REQUEST FOR ASSESSMENT OF KOSOVO POSITION
[...] (SBU) This is an action request for ambassadors in Accra, Brazzaville, Pretoria, Jakarta, Doha, Panama and Lima -- please see para 4. 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND: On April 3, UN Special Envoy Marti Ahtisaari presented to the UNSC his proposals for Kosovo's future status, including a recommendatio [...]
2007-04-05 23:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC UNMIK PGOV YI EU
07STATE470DEMARCHE TO ROMANIA AND BULGARIA ON BILATERAL
[...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARAGRAPH 19. 2. SUMMARY: Per refs a and b, the Governments of Romania and Bulgaria have recently presented diplomatic notes to Embassies Bucharest and Sofia, respectively, proposing to amend or terminate several economic agreements with the United States in [...]
2007-01-03 21:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDBU ETRD EUN RO
07STATE4791BN350 BILATERAL TALKS - TERMS OF REFERENCE
[...] (U) This is an Action Request: Chiefs of Mission (or highest appropriate official at post's discretion) are requested to approach the appropriate ranking host government official available, as soon as possible, to convey U.S. Terms of Reference for Joint U.S. - Kazakhstan Cooperation on BN-350 [...]
2007-01-12 23:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ETTC KSTC MNUC PGOV PREL KZ
07STATE54846Walk-In Guidance for 2007 - Administrative Procedures For Handling Foreign National Walk-Ins, Defectors and Asylum Seekers
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: THE INFORMATION IN THIS TELEGRAM MUST BE HANDLED WITH UTMOST DISCRETION AND DUE DILIGENCE. THIS TELEGRAM CONTAINS UPDATED GUIDANCE AND PROCEDURES FOR HANDLING FOREIGN NATIONAL WALK-INS, DEFECTORS AND ASYLUM SEEKERS AT OVERSEAS POSTS. IT DESCRIBES PROCEDURES TO BE FOLLOWED IN RE [...]
2007-04-24 21:11:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNASEC CVIS PINR PREF
07STATE58461TAX EXEMPTION FOR DOD CONTRACTORS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The purpose of this cable is to provide clear guidance to Post to address issues outlined in reftel that have arisen surrounding the interpretation and implementation of the Status of United States Military and Civilian Personnel of the U.S. Department of Defense Present in A [...]
2007-05-01 18:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAF OFDP
07STATE58678CANVASSING SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS' FOR VIEWS ON
[...] (C) This is an action request. Department requests USUN to canvass the Missions of Italy, Belgium, Slovakia, Peru, Panama, Congo-B, China, Indonesia, and Ghana about their views on establishing the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, given the impasse in Lebanon. The information will be used to [...]
2007-05-01 21:36:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALUNSC LE PREL PTER
07STATE59324CREW LIST EXEMPTION
[...] (U) Please respond to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs' Diplomatic Note (No. 794/JS/AMS/2007) on the crew list issue with the text below. 2. (U) Begin Text: (Complimentary Opening) and acknowledges receipt of the Ministry's Note no. 794/JS/AMS/2007 dated April 11, 2007 which reads [...]
2007-05-02 19:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKREC KTIA MARR MOPS PBTS PGOV IN
07STATE67683MISSING AMERICAN CITIZEN IN IRAN
[...] (U) This is an action message ) please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) The United States has reason to believe Iranian security services targeted and detained retired FBI Special Agent Bob Levinson on March 8, 2007, during a trip to Kish Island. Iranian authorities may have believed he was sti [...]
2007-05-17 14:51:00Secretary of StateSECRETAR KISL KJUS LE PGOV PREL PTER FBI PRT KTFN ASEC IR
07STATE68161DEMARCHE REQUEST ON ARRESTED IRANIAN-AMERICAN
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: The Department requests that post ask the GOJ to engage the Iranian government on the case of Iranian-American academic Haleh Esfandiari, Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. Dr. Esfandiari was arreste [...]
2007-05-17 22:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM IR PREL PGOV KDEM
07STATE72784IRAQ AMBASSADORS' FORUM - MAY 17, 2007
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Political Military Bureau hosted an Iraq Ambassadors' Forum on May 17. Ambassador David Satterfield, the Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State and Coordinator for Iraq, briefed on the successful launching event of the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) and the subse [...]
2007-05-25 21:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID IR IZ MOPS PREL SY
07STATE73184US-AZERBAIJAN DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (SBU) In their March 22 bilateral Democracy and Human Rights Dialogue, DRL Assistant Secretary Lowenkron and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Mammadyarov discussed a variety of issues related to human rights, rule of law, democratic political processes, media freedom, and civil society. The FM c [...]
2007-05-29 14:49:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AJ
07STATE75561SUCCESSFUL CENTCOM COALITION CONFERENCE IN TAMPA
[...] (U) SUMMARY. CENTCOM's Coalition conference in Tampa, FL, successfully gathered both military and civilian participants from current and prospective Coalition countries to provide an overview of Coalition planning for the next 12-18 months. The guest appearance by the President was particula [...]
2007-06-01 15:32:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL IZ NATO
07STATE76354SURVEYING FRIENDLY COUNTRIES ON THEIR IRAN CIVIL
[...] (U) This is an action request; see paragraph 3. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. Begin Background. (U) Through its Freedom Agenda and diplomatic engagement with like-minded governments and NGOs, the Department is engaging in programs throughout Iran to promote civil society, respec [...]
2007-06-04 14:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IR
07STATE77328DEMARCHE: DETAINED/MISSING AMERICANS IN IRAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Department understands that the GOJ has expressed a willingness to raise the case of detained AmCit Kian Tajbakhsh with Iranian officials in Tokyo, but has asked for a formal request from the USG to do so. Based on the Department's request to raise the case of Dr. Hale [...]
2007-06-05 15:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM IR PREL PGOV KDEM
07STATE80300DEMARCHE: MISSING/DETAINED AMCITS IN IRAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Department asks that addressee posts raise the issue of missing and detained American citizens in Iran with their host governments and request that host government contacts reach out to their Iranian interlocutors regarding the speedy return of these individuals to their fam [...]
2007-06-08 21:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN
07STATE81232EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INSURGENCY OPENS DIALOGUE;
[...] (U) This cable is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) SUMMARY: As part of the U.S. Government Interagency Counterinsurgency Initiative, the State Department collaborated with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) to deliver a European conference on [...]
2007-06-11 23:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MOPS EAID EUN PGOV PINS PREL PTER PROP
07STATE87911NEW MOHAMMAD BIN RASHID FOUNDATION: SEIZING THE
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph four. 2. (C) Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MbR),UAE Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, announced at the World Economic Forum on May 19 the establishment of the $10 billion Mohammed Bin Rashid Foundation (MbR [...]
2007-06-23 00:00:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNECON SOCI SCUL AE KPAO
07STATE88160DEPARTMENT RESPONSE TO GOT REGARDING U.S. DEFENSE
[...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Per REFTEL A, Department provides points in paragraph 4 upon which Embassy Ankara may draw to respond to MFA Deputy Under Secretary for Northeast Mediterranean and Americas Haydar Berk and other appropriate GOT officials. 4. [...]
2007-06-25 14:30:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALCY GR PARM PREL TU
07STATE95285KUDOS FOR OUTSTANDING REPORTING ON POLITICAL AND
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-09 20:35:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNAMGT EG
07STATE98411PROPOSED STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT WITH THE
[...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9. 2. Department of Defense uniformed, civilian, and possibly contractor personnel will likely visit the Republic of Cape Verde in the near future. 3. It is USG policy that DoD personnel should not be put at personal risk from t [...]
2007-07-16 16:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MARR CV
07STATE99391A COORDINATED APPROACH ON DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) Promoting democratic reform and respect for human rights in Azerbaijan, a geo-strategically important, secular Muslim country, is a high USG priority. In December 2006, DRL A/S Lowenkron met with President Ilham Aliyev to launch a formal senior-lev [...]
2007-07-17 21:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAJ EUN KDEM OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL
07STOCKHOLM1091DELIVERY OF NON-PAPER ON SEPTEMBER 7-8 INFORMAL EU
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-05 14:56:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEUN PGOV PREL YI RS CH IN SW
07STOCKHOLM1176SWEDEN SEEKS U.S. COOPERATION IN EVALUATING
[...] (s) Sweden has requested U.S. assistance in evaluating requirements for the deployment of the Sweden-led EU Nordic Battlegroup, scheduled to be operational January 1, 2008. At the MFA's request, we met September 18 with MFA Americas Director Hakan Malmqvist and a Swedish interagency group in [...]
2007-09-19 14:47:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV NATO MARR MASS MOPS SW
07STOCKHOLM1454BILDT ON POST-ANNAPOLIS PROCESS
[...] (C) In a December 11 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Bildt said: -- Annapolis went better than Europeans expected. America had an opportunity but faced suspicion in taking on the role of honest broker. -- The regional context to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict affected th [...]
2007-12-12 16:40:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IS IR KPAL
07STOCKHOLM506SWEDEN: SCENE-SETTER FOR PRIME MINISTER
[...] (c) The May 15 visit of Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt provides an opportunity to strengthen ties in key areas with a Swedish government that is relatively new to office and better-disposed toward working with the U.S. than its predecessor. Reinfeldt comes from a new political generation a [...]
2007-05-04 15:26:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV SW
07STOCKHOLM77 EXPORT CONTROL BILATS BETWEEN SWEDEN AND DOC
[...] (C) Summary: On December 7, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Christopher Padilla met with a Swedish interagency group to discuss a variety of export control and strategic trade issues. The two sides addressed the U.S. Government's proposed China licensing policy rule [...]
2007-01-23 09:36:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC EINV KSTC SW
07STOCKHOLM957SWEDEN: NOTIFICATION OF AGREMENT FOR AMBASSADOR
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-07 14:46:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAGR PREL PGOV SW
07SURABAYA31AVIAN INFLUENZA -- BALI OUTBREAKS UPDATE
[...] (SBU) During an August 24 courtesy call by the Principal Officer, the Governor of Bali Dewa Made Beratha stressed that local government and health officials were taking proactive measures to restrict the spread of Avian Influenza (AI) on the island. The Governor admitted that Balinese official [...]
2007-08-29 09:11:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV ID
07SURABAYA33MALANG: EAST JAVA'S UNIVERSITY CITY AND EPICENTER OF HUMAN
[...] (SBU) During an August 30-31 visit to Malang, Principal Officer spoke with educators and civil society leaders about the duality of this East Javanese city: a city famous for both education and growing poverty that has made Malang's citizens easy targets for traffickers. Malang hosts two state [...]
2007-09-04 07:25:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PHUM PGOV ELAB KWMN SMIG KPAO ID
07SURABAYA44CONGEN SURABAYA CLEBRATES RAMADAN
[...] SUMMARY: U.S. Consulate General Surabaya planned and hosted five separate Iftar activities during the month of September. Two were hosted by the Consul General at her residence, and another one was hosted by the CG in Manado, in the province of North Sulawesi. Another two events involved unde [...]
2007-10-02 09:58:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPAO ECON ID
07SURABAYA60US CONSULATE GENERAL SURABAYA: 2007 ANNUAL CERTIFICATION OF
[...] Post completed the 2007 annual review of consular management controls on 22 October 2007. Caryn R. McClelland, Consul General, FS-01 certified the completion of the management review. 2. Background on Surabaya Personnel: There are currently two consular officers assigned to post and one [...]
2007-10-23 07:54:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIEDCMGT CVIS ID
07SURABAYA63JAWA POS: FIRST HAND-COVERAGE OF BURMA CRISIS, INTERNATIONAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a visit by the Surabaya Principal Officer, Public Affairs Officer, and Public Affairs Assistant to the Surabaya headquarters of the Jawa Pos Group October 19, Jawa Pos editors and journalists described their efforts to provide accessible and relevant news coverage to read [...]
2007-10-25 09:37:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO PGOV PHUM ID BM NS IS
07SURABAYA73EAST JAVA: INAUGURATION OF HESS PROJECT CANCELLED BY
[...] (SBU) On November 15, beginning at approximately 1100, hundreds of demonstrators blocked the entrance to the Hess Onshore Processing Facility in Gresik, north of Surabaya, demanding Hess (the facility's operator) discontinue operations. The protestors, residents of three villages surrounding t [...]
2007-11-16 06:31:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EPET ID
07SUVA187FIJI UPDATE 3/27/07:
[...] (C) The Forum-Fiji working group proposed at the Forum Ministerial in Vanuatu may begin efforts shortly. The Forum's intention is for high commissioners at Forum-member embassies in Suva to make up the Forum side, including the high commissioners from New Zealand and Australia. It will be in [...]
2007-03-26 20:27:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MARR ASEC CVIS FJ
07SUVA220FIJI MFA REITERATES: REMOVE STREET BARRIERS BY
[...] (C) Fiji's interim government has given the Embassy until COB April 20 to remove the vehicle barriers that block the street in front of the chancery. The Suva City Council has asked the Embassy to do the deed. Other correspondence confirms the embassy has had permission to keep the street cl [...]
2007-04-15 21:58:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALAMGT ASEC CASC PREL FJ
07SUVA224EAP DAS DAVIES IN TONGA URGES RAPID DEMOCRATIC
[...] (C) During EAP DAS Davies' April 13-14 visit to Tonga, Prime Minister Sevele reiterated that he and the King are committed to reform. In conversations across the political spectrum, Davies heard various views about the appropriate pace, though most all agreed last November's riot in Nuku'alof [...]
2007-04-17 13:54:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM CH TN
07SUVA229FIJI INTERIM GOVERNMENT RESCINDS DIRECTIVE TO REMOVE
[...] (SBU) The interim government delivered to us a diplomatic note April 19 stating that it was rescinding the earlier order to remove the barriers that block the street in front of the Embassy. In a press statement, Interim PM Bainimarama said this action was taken, in part, in response to th [...]
2007-04-18 19:35:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC AMGT PREL CASC FJ
07SUVA260FIJI UPDATE, MAY 10, 2007: REACTION TO SECRETARY
[...] (C) Summary: Secretary Rice's comments condemning the coup in Fiji received considerable press play in Fiji and elicited a relatively mild response from the interim government. The EU warned the interim government that failure to honor commitments it made last month in Brussels could lead [...]
2007-05-09 21:46:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR ASEC FJ
07SUVA331SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PAYNE JULY 8-9 VISIT TO FIJI
[...] (SBU) Your visit comes at a time of great uncertainty in Fiji. In December of 2006, the Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF) overthrew the elected government of Laisenia Qarase and dissolved parliament. The military commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, installed an interim government (I [...]
2007-06-26 17:30:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV MARR FJ
07SUVA416FIJI UPDATE 8/20/07: BAINIMARAMA "JOKING" RE
[...] (C) Fiji interim PM Bainimarama was only joking in announcing an election date, according to the interim Attorney General. Critics don't find that funny. Pacific Island Forum (PIF) and EU dialogues with the interim government (IG) are adding to doubts about IG motives. Some court cases sugg [...]
2007-08-19 19:50:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR MARR FJ
07SUVA427KIRIBATI UPDATE:
[...] (C) Kiribati President Tong, Vice President Onorio, and five other Ministers were re-elected to Parliament in a first round of elections on Aug. 22. A second round of run-off races takes place today. Once Parliament is in place, it will select three or four MPs to run for President in Octobe [...]
2007-08-29 19:27:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIS SENV PHSA KCRM KWMN ELAB EAID
07SUVA442SCENE-SETTER FOR COMMANDER PACOM VISIT TO TONGA
[...] (C) A first visit to the Kingdom of Tonga is always fascinating, as is a meeting with eccentric King George V. The U.S. and Tonga have friendly relations, especially mil/mil, as evidenced by the new Tonga Defense Service (TDS) deployment to Iraq. Within Tonga, pro-democracy sentiments have be [...]
2007-09-09 13:16:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PHUM TN
07SUVA480FIJI: REPORTED PLAN TO REMOVE BAINIMARAMA; CHANCES UNCERTAIN
[...] (C) On Oct. 2, Ballu Khan, a controversial Indo-Fijian businessman, met with the Australian High Commissioner to Fiji. Khan owns IT businesses and has close ties to the Qaranivalu, the high chief of Naitasiri Province who was convicted of fomenting a mutiny against Commodore Bainimarama in No [...]
2007-10-02 18:35:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR ASEC CASC FJ
07SUVA523FIJI: DEPOSED PM QARASE'S POLITICAL VISION
[...] (C) During a lunch on Nov. 6, deposed PM Qarase sketched two scenarios he is prepared to offer interim PM Bainimarama in order to end Fiji's political impasse. Both would involve reconvening Parliament, at least for a few days. Qarase admitted that neither is likely to appeal to Bainimarama, [...]
2007-11-06 15:21:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PHUM FJ
07SUVA534FIJI: ASSASSINATION PLOT UPDATE; PEOPLE'S CHARTER;
[...] (C) Accused assassination plotter Ballu Khan is now formally in police custody. He was hospitalized for 11 days after suffering skull fractures during arrest. We hear at least one of those detained for the plot has indicated contingency plans are still in place for action against the interim [...]
2007-11-14 18:33:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PHUM FJ
07SUVA61TONGA REMAINS FRACTURED FROM 11/16 RIOT
[...] (C) This telegram sketches factors that appear to have contributed to the riot of Nov. 16 in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, an event that devastated the central business district (CBD) and has left deep scars on every Tongan's psyche. Certainly on Nov. 16, Tonga's political process was at center stage, wi [...]
2007-01-24 21:26:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID PHUM TN
07SUVA67FIJI FOREIGN SECRETARY DISCUSSES ROAD MAPS, CHINA,
[...] (C) On Jan. 26, Fiji interim Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mataitoga described to us the interim government's plan for responding to concerns about post-coup human rights and about a road map back to democratic elections, issues bound to be raised by a Pacific Islands Forum Eminent Persons Grou [...]
2007-01-25 20:13:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM ASEC CASC CVIS IQ FJ
07TAIPEI1086Taiwan Insurers Can Invest More Offshore
[...] Taiwan's legislature has relaxed restrictions on insurance firms' offshore investments primarily to increase their flagging profits; the measure does little to address Taiwan's excess liquidity, a root cause of the insurance firms' woes. END SUMMARY. Agreement on Insurance Amendment ------ [...]
2007-05-15 07:37:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
07TAIPEI1140TAIWAN FM HUANG CONCERNED OVER CENTRAL AMERICA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-21 11:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL TW
07TAIPEI1142TAIWAN FM HUANG CONCERNED OVER CENTRAL AMERICA
[...] (C) Summary. On the eve of his departure for yet another damage-control trip to Central America, Foreign Minister James Huang told the Director on May 21 that Taiwan faces strong challenges from the PRC to its diplomatic position there, and requested U.S. assistance in countering that pressu [...]
2007-05-22 00:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL TW
07TAIPEI12PRESIDENT CHEN'S NEW YEAR'S ADDRESS: STANDARD
[...] (C) Summary: In his annual New Year's address, President Chen Shui-bian discussed Taiwan's status separate from the PRC, economic development, cross-Strait economic policy, social welfare, and democratization, and he listed the major accomplishments of his administration. Chen defended estab [...]
2007-01-03 10:26:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW
07TAIPEI124DAUSTR STRATFORD DISCUSSES TIFA & FTA WITH TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary: Taiwan reiterated its strong desire to enter into an FTA with the U.S. Senior economic officials indicated they are prepared to work diligently on the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) agenda, including the bilateral investment and tax agreements, the Consultative [...]
2007-01-17 09:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON PREL TW
07TAIPEI1272SOLAR CELL MANUFACTURING - NEW ENGINE FOR
[...] (U) Summary: Taiwan's solar cell manufacturing industry will triple in capacity this year after nearly doubling in 2006. Although manufacturing of solar cells is booming, Taiwan is less competitive in other segments of the industry's supply chain. Taiwan's solar cell makers face two major co [...]
2007-06-07 03:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND ECON ETRD ENRG SENV TW
07TAIPEI1273BATTLING BEIJING THROUGH FOREIGN AID DIPLOMACY
[...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's robust foreign aid and assistance programs play a key role in preserving ties with many of the 24 countries that recognize Taipei rather than Beijing. MOFA spends approximately US$300 million a year, close to a third of the ministry's annual budget, on direct aid and [...]
2007-06-07 07:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TW
07TAIPEI1283TAIWAN REACTS TO COSTA RICA BREAK
[...] (C) Summary: In a June 7 press briefing, FM James Huang announced Taiwan was severing relations and ceasing cooperation projects with Costa Rica after having confirmed that San Jose was switching diplomatic recognition to the PRC. Huang blamed Beijing for unrelenting "suppression" of Taiwa [...]
2007-06-07 10:15:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL TW CR
07TAIPEI130MTAG: UPDATE ON TAIWAN SANCTIONS ON NORTH
[...] (C) Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Department North American Affairs met with AIT/T/Econ on January 17 to deliver talking points/non-paper updating the status of Taiwan's trade, travel and financial sanctions against North Korea and Iran. Highlights include that the Sensitive Co [...]
2007-01-18 03:27:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALETTC UNSCR KNNP NK TW
07TAIPEI1317PRC/TAIWAN JOINT VENTURE TO EXPLORE OIL IN TAIWAN
[...] SUMMARY. The PRC and Taiwan are both actively seeking new energy sources and compete for oil concessions in the same countries. However, the PRC and Taiwan are cooperating to explore for petroleum in the Taiwan Strait. This is part of an effort to triple energy exploration spending by Taiwa [...]
2007-06-12 02:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ECON CH TW
07TAIPEI1344TAIWAN: 2007 TIP NARRATIVE AND DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] The Acting Deputy Director (ADDIR) delivered the 2007 TIP Report Taiwan narrative and demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Deputy Director General of North American Affairs Christine M.Y Hsueh on June 12. Hsueh was accompanied by National Immigration Agency (NIA),Director of Immigra [...]
2007-06-13 10:09:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV TW
07TAIPEI135 Taiwan TIFA: AUSTR Stratford presses on IPR
[...] Summary. As part of a December 18-19 visit to Taiwan, Assistant United States Trade Representative Timothy Stratford and Deputy Assistant USTR Eric Altbach met with rights-holders, officials from the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office, and the Minister of Education to review IPR issues. Rig [...]
2007-01-18 08:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR TW
07TAIPEI136Taiwan TIFA: U.S. and Taiwan agree to move ahead on
[...] Assistant USTR Timothy Stratford urged Taiwan's Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) and Department of Health (DOH) to consult actively with US firms and the U.S. as it contemplates major changes to its national health insurance system. USTR promised to provide by early January a proposa [...]
2007-01-18 08:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EIND TW
07TAIPEI1363EAP/ANP DIRECTOR MCGANN'S JUNE 9-11 VISIT TO TAIPEI
[...] (C) Summary: During his June 8-11 visit to Taipei, EAP/ANP Office Director C. Steven McGann commended Taiwan for its significant contributions to the South Pacific region and urged Taipei to conduct its foreign assistance and other activities in an open and transparent manner that promotes [...]
2007-06-15 08:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL TW
07TAIPEI1365AIT CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT AND FOREIGN MINISTER HUANG
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Huang told AIT Chairman Burghardt on June 14 that Taiwan remains deeply concerned about its shrinking international space, particularly after Costa Rica's decision last week to switch recognition to Beijing. Despite his public statements that the loss would not [...]
2007-06-17 23:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL TW
07TAIPEI1423VICE PRESIDENT ANNETTE LU ON UPCOMING U.S. TRANSIT
[...] (C) Summary: Vice President Annette Lu told the Director on June 21 that she appreciates Washington's assistance in arranging a transit through the West Coast on her way to and from Latin America in early July. Lu said she would be visiting Paraguay for the 50th anniversary of Taiwan-Parag [...]
2007-06-22 08:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TW
07TAIPEI1485TAIWAN BATTLES TO HOLD ON IN CENTRAL AMERICA
[...] (C) Summary: Central America remains a major focus of Taiwan's diplomatic and foreign assistance programs following the loss of Costa Rica. Over half of Taiwan's foreign assistance is channeled to Central America, where six countries still recognize Taipei, and to the Caribbean, where Taiwa [...]
2007-06-29 10:01:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL TW XK
07TAIPEI153TAIWAN: PREMIER URGES REPATRIATION OF REBAR GROUP
[...] (C) Summary: During a January 18 meeting with the Director, Premier Su Tseng-chang formally asked the U.S. for immediate assistance to control the movements of and to repatriate Rebar Group founder Wang You-theng, an alleged embezzler, to face justice in Taiwan. On the defense budget, Su ex [...]
2007-01-19 09:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN CJAN TW
07TAIPEI1530FORMER VICE PREMIER TSAI ON TAIWAN POLITICS,
[...] (S) During a one-on-one lunch July 6 with Director, former Vice Premier Tsai Ying-wen shared plans for her future, a critique of internal DPP politics and her own sense of the dilemma Chen Shui-bian faces over U.S.-Taiwan relations and his legacy quest. Tsai offered some personal suggestions [...]
2007-07-06 09:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiSECRETPGOV PREL TW
07TAIPEI1812WILL LABOR SHORTAGES HURT TAIWAN'S TECH SECTOR?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the latest attempt to forestall a predicted shortage of skilled labor that could disproportionately affect Taiwan's high technology industries, the Executive Yuan recently approved measures to attract more foreign professionals to Taiwan. The measures provide tax and non-tax [...]
2007-08-10 06:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINT ELAB ETRD TW CH
07TAIPEI1853DPP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FRANK HSIEH PICKS
[...] (C) Summary: DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh announced on August 15 that former Premier Su Tseng-chang has agreed to be his vice presidential running mate. Although Hsieh had strongly hinted at this outcome for several days, Su's agreement came only at the last minute after much diffi [...]
2007-08-15 11:01:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW
07TAIPEI1867CONGRESSMAN FALEOMAVAEGA'S MEETINGS WITH TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary: In meetings with Taiwan leaders during his August 11-14 visit, Congressman Eni Faleomavaega voiced strong U.S. support for Taiwan's democracy, but also expressed U.S. concerns about maintaining stability in the region. The Congressman encouraged President Chen to improve relat [...]
2007-08-16 10:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TW
07TAIPEI1920MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage August 22 on the aftermath of the combustion of a China Airlines passenger jet in Okinawa Monday; on President Chen Shui-bian's transit in Alaska Tuesday morning; on local pig farmers' strong protests Tuesday over the Taiwa [...]
2007-08-22 09:17:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
07TAIPEI1937 Port of Kaohsiung's Container Volume Eclipsed by Mainland
[...] (U) Summary. With geographic advantages and new long-term leases from major shipping carriers, Kaohsiung will likely hold on to its status as a transshipment hub in the Asia-Pacific region, even as it continues to fall behind in world rankings. The completion of a s)QD'Qolume is expected to r [...]
2007-08-24 01:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT ETRD PGOV ECON TW ELAB
07TAIPEI1999U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Vice Premier Chiou I-jen told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission delegation that the cross-Strait military balance is increasingly favoring China. President Chen understands that U.S.-Taiwan military cooperation is essential to Taiwan's defense, Chiou added [...]
2007-08-31 04:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PGOV PREL CH TW
07TAIPEI2033PROTEST TO AIT REGARDING TAIWAN UN BID REFERENDUM
[...] During the small group demonstration outside AIT on Sept 4 (reftel),ADIR invited several Legislative Yuan and Taipei Council members (list provided below) to present their views inside AIT. Apart from reading their letters (translated below),several added their own views during the meeting. [...]
2007-09-06 09:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PGOV PREL OPRC KMDR KPAO CH TW
07TAIPEI2040FRANK HSIEH STEERING TOWARDS MAINSTREAM ON UN
[...] (C) Summary: Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) politicians remain determined to continue their support for President Chen Shui-bian's plan to hold a referendum on entering the UN under the name "Taiwan" despite recent strong U.S. opposition. DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh publicly [...]
2007-09-06 09:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW
07TAIPEI206NEW ECONOMIC OFFICIALS NAMED
[...] (C) Summary: The Chen administration named Hu Sheng- cheng Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Chairman, Ho Mei-yueh Council for Economic Planning and Development Chairman (CEPD),and Tang Jinn-chuan Fair Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman. The appointments of Hu and Ho come after the previou [...]
2007-01-26 08:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV ECON PINR TW
07TAIPEI2078TAIWAN UN REFERENDA: BLUE PERSPECTIVE
[...] (C) Summary: The KMT was forced to float its own UN referendum to counterbalance the DPP version, and to deflect DPP accusations that the KMT does not "stand up" for Taiwan. The DPP UN referendum is an attempt to exploit the growing sense of "Taiwan identity," and KMT presidential candidate Ma [...]
2007-09-10 08:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW
07TAIPEI2112TAIWAN REACTION TO DAS CHRISTENSEN SPEECH:
[...] (C) Summary: Following DAS Christensen's September 12 remarks, high-ranking DPP officials continue to insist that U.S. objections to the DPP UN referendum are the result of inadequate communication between Taipei and Washington. The referendum should continue, DPP proponents argue, because i [...]
2007-09-13 10:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW
07TAIPEI2139TAIWAN MOFA RESPONSE TO UN DEBATE DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Summary. AIT conveyed reftel demarche on UN Taiwan debate to MOFA on Sept 19 (AIT Director's separate presentation to Vice Premier Chiou I-jen reported septel). MOFA told AIT that Taiwan is hoping the General Committee (GC) Chairman will be able to arrange an open GC debate on the Taiwan [...]
2007-09-19 10:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALAALC PREL UNGA AORG CH TW
07TAIPEI214TAIWAN-NICARAGUA RELATIONS: BUSINESS SAVES THE DAY?
[...] (C) Summary: Nicaraguan Consul General Armando Boza is cautiously optimistic about the future of Taiwan-Nicaragua relations, predicting that Managua will probably maintain diplomatic ties with Taipei for at least another year. Despite making a pre-election pledge to switch recognition to Be [...]
2007-01-29 09:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL TW
07TAIPEI2191PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE FRANK HSIEH ON BILATERAL
[...] (C) Summary: The Director briefed DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh September 25 on his recent consultations in Washington, stressing the importance that Taiwan avoid unnecessary, election-driven moves that could provoke cross-Strait tensions. Hsieh said that while he supports the DPP's [...]
2007-09-26 23:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL TW
07TAIPEI2284U.S. TREASURY OFFICIALS HEAR CALLS FOR MORE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In the first visit of U.S. Treasury officials to Taiwan in more than two years, East Asia Director Mathew Haarsager and Taiwan Desk Officer TT Yang met with a variety of Taiwan financial sector authorities, economists, and U.S. and local business people. Business people and econom [...]
2007-10-04 10:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD PREL TW
07TAIPEI2289Taipei Economic Brief for September 2007
[...] Summary. This cable summarizes selected September 2007 economic events in Taiwan. Economic statistics show better than expected performance and potential job growth....Biggest share of next year's government budget goes to defense and deficit expected to shrink significantly....The Central B [...]
2007-10-05 06:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
07TAIPEI2313DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER LEE
[...] (S/NF) Summary. AIT Director met with Taiwan Minister of Defense Lee to discuss a range of issues on October 9, on the eve of the National Day celebrations. Subjects discussed included military participation and possible HF-IIE in the National Day parade, 2008 defense budget, Taiwan's request [...]
2007-10-11 11:01:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiSECRET//NOFORNPGOV TW MASS
07TAIPEI2430Taipei Economic Brief for October 2007
[...] Summary. This cable summarizes selected October 2007 economic events in Taiwan. Taiwan enjoyed economic expansion, increased investment, but faced inflationary pressure...Export orders moving to new high in 2007... Taiwan's semiconductor sector passes U.S. in production capacity...Non-electr [...]
2007-11-01 07:19:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
07TAIPEI244SEMICONDUCTOR ENTREPRENEUR EXPLAINS TAIWAN
[...] (C) Summary: Powerchip Semiconductor Chairman Frank Huang told the AIT Director on January 30 that Taiwan semiconductor firms will keep their global competitive advantage of cost-effective production. He commented that Chinese competitors in the industry will not be the threat to Taiwan firm [...]
2007-01-31 09:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETTC PGOV PREL TW CH
07TAIPEI2442 Taiwan IPR: Some Progress on Compulsory Licensing
[...] (SBU) Responding in part to U.S. concerns, Taiwan has shown some progress on compulsory licensing, a practice whereby one company can request that the authorities force a rights-holder to grant the company a license for its patented product, often at a below-market rate. In one promising devel [...]
2007-11-05 22:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR TW
07TAIPEI2459FM HUANG ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, CAMPAIGN RHETORIC,
[...] (C) Foreign Minister James Huang expressed general confidence over the state of Taiwan's relations with its 24 remaining diplomatic allies, which bear watching but evidence no major changes in the near term. At the same time, he expressed concern that Beijing might try to spring a surprise i [...]
2007-11-08 08:17:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI246CLOSING THE FINAL LINK - AVIATION (PART 2 OF 2)
[...] (C) Summary: The lack of direct air links between Taiwan and the Mainland causes considerable harm to Taiwan's economy. Inconvenient passenger routes change how Taiwan businessmen and foreign investors do business. More expensive air cargo makes Taiwan exporters less competitive. Direct air [...]
2007-02-01 02:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON PREL EINV ETRD TW CH
07TAIPEI2461HSIEH OUTLINES A PRAGMATIC ECONOMIC POLICY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a November 8 presentation to the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (Chang-ting) balanced an emphasis on Taiwan's underlying "sovereignty" with an espousal of greater economic openness. He called for strengthening the manufactu [...]
2007-11-08 09:25:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV TW
07TAIPEI2462INVASIVE SPECIES FLOOD TAIWAN RIVERS AND LAKES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This is an action cable see paragraph 9. Taiwan, an island 160 kilometers off the coast of China, has been home to unique flora and fauna. Distance from the mainland has managed to preserve many of its endemic species from foreign invasion, although that situation is under th [...]
2007-11-09 07:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV TBIO ECON TW
07TAIPEI2498Taiwan Pharma: Patent Linkage Going Nowhere
[...] (SBU) Taiwan lacks a patent-linkage notification requirement and allows generic-drug licensing before patent expiry, practices that foreign pharmaceutical manufacturers claim allow local generic drug makers to infringe on patent-holders' rights and, in some cases, result in the Bureau of Nation [...]
2007-11-19 07:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR TW
07TAIPEI2545HOW STRONG IS TAIWAN'S ECONOMY?
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Reflecting popular concern about the economy, both presidential candidates are raising economic issues as Taiwan heads into the 2008 legislative and presidential elections. The DPP boasts about Taiwan's solid growth even as the KMT pledges to reverse a purported economic decline. [...]
2007-11-30 07:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV TW
07TAIPEI2547KMT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MA YING-JEOU ON
[...] (C) Summary. KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou met with the Director on November 29 to discuss upcoming legislative and presidential elections and election disputes. While Ma said he was not worried about President Chen's loose talk of martial law earlier this week, he is concerned th [...]
2007-11-30 09:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI2551BIOTECH IN TAIWAN: THE ECONOMY'S NEXT GROWTH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the 1970s and 80s, official funding and support fostered a Taiwan high technology IT sector that now ranks among the world's most competitive. With the mainland and other low-cost producers offering increased competition, Taiwan authorities have identified biotechnology as a [...]
2007-12-03 09:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO ETRD ECON EINV TW
07TAIPEI2591AIT CHAIRMAN BURGHARDT AND FOREIGN MINISTER HUANG
[...] (C) Summary. In response to AIT Chairman Burghardt's expression of serious U.S. concern over the ruling DPP's UN referendum in their December 10 meeting, Foreign Minister James Huang insisted the referendum would not actually change anything. Explaining that he was carrying messages from Pr [...]
2007-12-11 10:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH TW
07TAIPEI2596CONGRESSMAN FALEOMAVAEGA'S DECEMBER 7 MEETINGS
[...] (C) SUMMARY and INTRODUCTION. In separate December 7 meetings with Taiwan's Premier Chang Chun-hsiung and KMT presidential candidate Ma Ying-jeou, Congressman Eni F.H. Faleomavaega (D - American Samoa),Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee, stressed U.S. i [...]
2007-12-12 00:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ETRD SENV TW
07TAIPEI2627DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER LEE
[...] (S/NF) American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Director Stephen Young met with Minister of Defense Lee Tien-yu December 19th to discuss PRC's proposed air route in the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan's defense budget. Also present at the meeting were Col Tony Chow (LAS),and Tony Hu (TECH). Taiwan atten [...]
2007-12-19 11:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiSECRETPGOV TW MASS
07TAIPEI2633DIRECTOR,S MEETING WITH NSC SECRETARY GENERAL
[...] (S/NF) American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Director Stephen Young met with National Security Council Secretary General Mark Chen Tang-shan on 20 December 2007 to discuss the PRC's proposed civilian air corridor in the Taiwan Strait. Also present at the meeting was AIT Liaison Affairs Chief COL [...]
2007-12-20 10:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiSECRETPGOV TW MASS
07TAIPEI407TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY - SOARING PROFITS
[...] (U) Summary: Taiwan's semiconductor industry showed strong growth in 2006 at 23 percent overall. The top producers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) averaged growth of 74 percent. Taiwan may overtake South Korea as the largest supplier of DRAM this year. Taiwan contract chip manufactur [...]
2007-02-16 07:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETTC TW
07TAIPEI581LY SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG ON DEFENSE BUDGET,
[...] (S/NOFORN) Summary. During a March 13 meeting with Director Young, LY Speaker Wang Jin-pyng solicited AIT's assistance with the ruling party to break a legislative logjam holding up passage of the 2007 Budget (including arms procurement appropriations),but was told in return that he and the K [...]
2007-03-14 10:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MASS MARR TW
07TAIPEI597FOREIGN MINISTER HUANG ON LATIN AMERICA, AFRICA,
[...] (C) Summary: Taiwan Foreign Minister James Huang told the Director on March 15 that Taiwan-Nicaragua ties remain good four months into the presidency of Daniel Ortega. Huang noted that Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Santos will be traveling to Taipei sometime between March 26-28 to conclude a [...]
2007-03-15 09:39:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREL TW
07TAIPEI605TAIWAN SLOWLY OPENING DOOR TO PRC EMPLOYEES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan has made gradual but notable progress in making it easier for firms in Taiwan, both foreign and local, to bring Mainland employees to Taiwan for business activities. Requirements have been lowered and processing times have been reduced. The next step will be to treat bu [...]
2007-03-16 07:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON EINV CH TW
07TAIPEI606AIT REQUESTS AUSTR STRATFORD WRITE MINISTER OF ED
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) With little movement on the IPR front from the Ministry of Education, contacts at the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office now openly share their frustrations with AIT about their difficulties in getting the MOE to take m [...]
2007-03-16 07:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR TW
07TAIPEI616ACADEMICS OFFER PERSPECTIVES ON TAIWANESE IDENTITY
[...] (C) Summary: Four prominent Taiwan political scientists -- two each from the Blue and Green camps -- told the Director on March 14 that the growth in Taiwanese identity over the past decade does not equate to stronger support for Taiwan independence, which has remained relatively constant si [...]
2007-03-16 10:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV TW
07TAIPEI638TAIWAN IPR DIALOGUE: US Raises Concerns about Compulsory
[...] In a March 6 digital video conference U.S. officials raised concerns about proposed amendments to Taiwan's patent law which would expand the scope of compulsory licensing. USTR likewise raised the "potentially disturbing precedent" of the ongoing Phillips compulsory license case, which is now [...]
2007-03-21 08:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON KIPR ETRD TW
07TAIPEI674TAIWAN VICE PREMIER DISCUSSES BILATERAL
[...] (C) Summary: Vice Premier Tsai told AIT Director Young March 22 that President Chen's speech of March 4 was not intended as any signal of a change in policy on Chen's commitment to the "four noes." She said the DPP wants to press the budget forward but the "pan Blue" KMT and PFP parties firs [...]
2007-03-23 09:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON PREL TW
07TAIPEI73Taiwan's 2007 Investment Climate Statement (Part II)
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-11 01:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR OPIC KTDB USTR TW
07TAIPEI74Taiwan's 2007 Investment Climate Statement (Part I)
[...] Taiwan officially welcomes foreign direct investment. Taiwan's science-based industrial parks and export processing zones offer streamlined procedures. Taiwan has made significant improvement in protecting intellectual property. 2. As part of its efforts to improve the investment climate [...]
2007-01-11 01:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR OPIC KTDB USTR TW
07TAIPEI740INPUT FOR 2007 TIP REPORT - TAIWAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-30 11:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV TW
07TAIPEI91TAIWAN VICE PREMIER ON BILATERAL TRADE
[...] (C) Summary: Vice Premier Tsai told AIT Director Young January 12 she is focused on managing the financial crisis resulting from a run on a local bank and criminal investigations into the collapse of a large local conglomerate. The Director reaffirmed U.S. interest in advancing bilateral tr [...]
2007-01-12 10:37:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON PREL TW
07TAIPEI919 Taiwan Increases Deposit Insurance Premium
[...] Taiwan will increase the deposit insurance premium paid by banks starting in July 2007 by shifting the basis for premiums from insured deposits to outstanding deposits. In response to complaints of U.S. and European banks in Taiwan, authorities may reduce the rate. END SUMMARY. Outstandin [...]
2007-04-26 02:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
07TAIPEI998TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR FIRMS - FOCUSED ON CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Semiconductor industry executives described Taiwan's decision to permit investment in more advanced manufacturing technology in China as a small step in the right direction. They do not expect to see further liberalization of investment restrictions during the Chen administrati [...]
2007-05-03 01:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETTC PGOV PREL TW CH
07TALLINN112ESTONIA: VOLUNTARY INPUT FOR 2007 SPECIAL 301
[...] Summary: In 2006, the GOE continued to improve the country's intellectual property rights (IPR) regime through legislative changes and cooperation with rights holders. The long-awaited new Civil Procedure Act that provides for ex parte searches came into force January 1, 2006. On June 14, 200 [...]
2007-02-21 13:10:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON EUR EN
07TALLINN124MISSLE DEFENSE: ESTONIA READY TO COUNTER RUSSIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-28 10:03:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPARM MARR PREL RS EUN EN
07TALLINN134EMBASSY TALLINN TO HOST OIL SPILL SPEAKER;
[...] Summary. In response to reftel, post is enthusiastic to report that our Public Affairs and PolEcon Sections are planning to host Alaskan oil spill cleanup expert John Devens, Ph.D., under IIP's U.S. Speaker Program in May. Dr. Devens will meet with Estonian government, industry, and private [...]
2007-03-02 07:32:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL EN SENV ENRG EWWT EPET EUN
07TALLINN138ESTONIA LOSING KEY INDUSTRY SUPPORT FOR IPR
[...] (U) Action request; please see paragraph 5. 2. (U) Summary: Loss of funding from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) will likely result in the closing of Estonia's only anti-piracy NGO, the Estonian Organiza [...]
2007-03-02 15:48:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON EN
07TALLINN204ESTONIA: UNSCR 1747 AND SANCTIONS ON IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-27 14:32:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP EFIN IR IAEA PARM MNUC TRGY AORC
07TALLINN239ESTONIA AGREES WITH SHARING OF EXPORT DENIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-10 11:26:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP IR IAEA MNUC EN
07TALLINN24 TALLINN'S BFIF FY07 PROPOSAL
[...] Summary: Embassy Tallinn proposes four FY07 projects for the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund. All four projects are integral parts of Embassy Tallinn's relationship with its FCS partnership post in Helsinki, Finland. The first is a summer 2007 FSI Commercial Tradecraft training program [...]
2007-01-16 06:05:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD BEXP AMGT ABUD BTIO EINV EN
07TALLINN281ESTONIA TO DECIDE LATER ON IRAQ MISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-27 14:03:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER EN
07TALLINN31ESTONIA GRATEFUL FOR U.S. INFO ABOUT IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-16 12:01:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MNUC KNNP ISN IO NEA EN
07TALLINN316ESTONIA SUPPORTS UN ARMS TRADE TREATY (ATT)
[...] (U) On May 15, we delivered reftel points to Arti Hilpus, MFA Director for Strategic Goods Control Division, and Tuuli Parnsalu, 3rd Secretary, and sought Estonia's support in opposing the UN-proposed Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). Kruuv thanked us for the points and provided us with a copy of the [...]
2007-05-16 08:44:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC UNDC PARM PREL EN
07TALLINN327ESTONIA: IRAN-VENEZUELA DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-21 07:59:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER VE IR EN
07TALLINN33ESTONIA: LABOR SHORTAGE LOOMS LARGE
[...] Since emerging from nearly 50 years of Soviet occupation in 1991, the economy of Estonia has been racing. Annual double digit growth rates have been the norm. Estonia is a country of just 1.35 million people with a working population of 692, 800 according to the Estonian Labor Market Board. [...]
2007-01-16 15:06:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDECON ELAB PGOV EN
07TALLINN362ESTONIAN RESPONSE TO UNSCR 1737 AND 1747 AND
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-04 05:37:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC IR EN
07TALLINN367TALLINN'S PROPOSAL FOR 2007 IPR ENFORCEMENT
[...] In response to reftel, the following is Embassy Tallinn's proposal for funding to develop, distribute and promote an extensive awareness campaign in Estonia to combat internet piracy and promote cyber security. Background ----------- 2. The biggest IPR challenge in countries with a well [...]
2007-06-05 07:41:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAIR EU KTIA PREL EN
07TALLINN376ESTONIA: ADDITIONAL SUDAN SANCTIONS
[...] (SBU) On May 31, we delivered reftel points to Marin Mottus, MFA Director for the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, and Keiu Saral, MFA Africa Desk Officer. On June 6, Saral informed us that since Estonia has no diplomatic relations with Sudan, it will support the EU's common position th [...]
2007-06-08 05:06:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD ETTC UN SU EUN EN
07TALLINN397ESTONIA: MISSING/DETAINED AMCITS IN IRAN
[...] (SBU) On June 11, we delivered reftel points concerning the issue of missing and detained American citizens in Iran to Marin Mottus, MFA Director for Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, and Reen Liivat, MFA U.S. Desk Officer. On June 12, Mottus and Liivat expressed to us their regrets ove [...]
2007-06-14 11:38:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN EN
07TALLINN424COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL BOEHNER (JUL 05 -
[...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to the Congressional Delegation headed by Congressman John Boehner, to Tallinn, Estonia from July 5-7, 2007. 2. A schedule will be sent to the Delegation's designated POCs and to State (H) via e-mail. 3. No visa is required for holders [...]
2007-06-25 12:01:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN RS SW EN
07TALLINN433 ESTONIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BOEHNER
[...] (SBU) Summary: The last eight months have been a banner period for U.S.-Estonian bilateral relations, including President Bush's November visit to Tallinn, Foreign Minister Paet's recent visit to Washington for a celebration of the 85th anniversary of diplomatic relations, and President Ilves [...]
2007-06-28 14:18:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN EN
07TALLINN537 TALLINN'S BFIF FY07 REPORT
[...] Summary: Embassy Tallinn received USD 2,500 from the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund in 2007 for FSC Helsinki Shadow Training and U.S. Automobile Industry promotion project. Post has used 959.67 for the U.S. car promotion project. Helsinki Shadow training is scheduled in late September o [...]
2007-08-17 11:53:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD BEXP AMGT ABUD AFIN EINV EN
07TALLINN548 ESTONIA: SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY OF ENERGY SELL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The last year has been a banner period for U.S.-Estonian bilateral relations, including President Bush's November visit to Tallinn, Foreign Minister Paet's visit to Washington for a celebration of the 85th anniversary of diplomatic relations, and President Ilves' June visit to W [...]
2007-08-24 10:40:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OVIP AMGT ASEC AFIN EN
07TALLINN549 ESTONIA: SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The last year has been a banner period for U.S.-Estonian bilateral relations, including President Bush's November visit to Tallinn, Foreign Minister Paet's visit to Washington for a celebration of the 85th anniversary of diplomatic relations, and President Ilves' June visit to [...]
2007-08-24 10:44:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OVIP AMGT ASEC AFIN EN
07TALLINN589 ESTONIA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF FBI DIRECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Welcome to Tallinn. Three and a half years after NATO and EU accession, Estonia remains a strong ally on all fronts. It is a steadfast ally in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and an effective role model for democracy in the former Soviet states [...]
2007-09-07 14:42:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OVIP AMGT ASEC AFIN EN
07TALLINN594ESTONIAN RABBI DOWNPLAYS REPORTS OF ANTI-
[...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent meeting with Poloffs, Rabbi E. Shmuel Kot said anti-Semitism is not a serious concern for Estonia's small Jewish Community. Kot also emphasized his efforts to remain outside of local politics and outlined the religious, social and educational opportunities offe [...]
2007-09-10 14:15:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV RU EN
07TALLINN621USDOC DAS FOR EUROPE VISITS ESTONIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: GOE officials told Department of Commerce DAS for Europe Paul Dyck that Estonia is very open to more U.S. investment and noted that Estonia's business climate has not suffered from the cyber attacks of early May. They also expressed interest in the goals of the new Trans- Atlan [...]
2007-09-20 10:34:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP ECON PGOV EN
07TALLINN66ESTONIA: IPR WORKSHOP REVEALS SHORTCOMINGS AND
[...] (U) Summary: On January 17-18, Embassy Tallinn and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) held a workshop focusing on copyright infringement in the digital environment. The event was a rare coming together of 60 Estonian police, prosecutors, judges, government officials, law professor [...]
2007-01-31 15:19:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN KIPR EN
07TALLINN716SURVEY OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-02 12:34:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL IZ EN
07TALLINN720 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Tallinn's submission for the 2007 - 2008 (EUR) International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control. ---------- I. SUMMARY ---------- 2. (U) The closures of illegal synthetic drug labs, seizures of narcotic substances, [...]
2007-11-05 14:57:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EN
07TALLINN745 TALLINN'S BFIF FY07 FINAL REPORT
[...] Summary: Embassy Tallinn received USD 2,500 from the Business Facilitation Incentive Fund in 2007 for FSC Helsinki Shadow Training and an U.S. Automobile Industry promotion project. Post used 959.67 for the U.S. car promotion project (reported in ref C) and 477.50 USD for Helsinki Shadow trai [...]
2007-11-16 13:00:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD BEXP AMGT ABUD AFIN EINV EN
07TALLINN752SCENESETTER FOR ESTONIAN PM ANSIP'S NOVEMBER 27-29
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Andrus Ansip's November 27- 29 visit to Washington, his first as PM, comes on the eve of the Estonian Parliament's vote to renew Estonia's participation in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Ansip supports Estonia's military engagements abroad, but relies on USG recognitio [...]
2007-11-21 14:36:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ENRG NATO ECON CVIS EN
07TALLINN778ESTONIA: HSPD-6 AGREEMENT SIGNED
[...] On December 6, 2007, Ambassador Phillips and Aldis Alus, Director General of the Estonian Security Police Board, signed the "Arrangement between the Terrorist Screening Center of the United States of America and the Security Police Board of the Republic of Estonia for the Exchange of Screening [...]
2007-12-07 15:14:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALASEC CVIS PREL PTER EUN EN
07TASHKENT1058UZBEKISTAN 2007 FOREIGN LABOR TRENDS (FLT) REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-04 09:39:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PHUM UZ
07TASHKENT1061HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH PERSEVERES DESPITE DIFFICULTIES
[...] (C) Summary: During a week-long visit to Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch (HRW) Europe and Central Asia Division Executive Director Holly Cartner met with Charge and Acting DCM on June  [...]
2007-06-05 03:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ
07TASHKENT1069THE ERA OF U.S. ASSISTANCE IS OVER
[...] (C) U.S. Coordinator for Assistance to Europe and Eurasia Tom Adams urged Deputy Prime Minister Azimov and First Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov to resolve ongoing issues involving an Embassy FSN and the seizure of U.S. assistance funding from two nongovernmental organizations. The U.S. is re [...]
2007-06-05 11:48:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID UZ
07TASHKENT1079FM HARSHLY CRITICIZES PRESIDENT'S REMARKS ON
[...] (C) Summary: On June 6, Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov registered the Government's deep displeasure with President Bush's criticism of Uzbekistan's human rights practices in his June 5 speech at the Prague Conference on Democracy and Security. Norov said that these comments demonstrate that [...]
2007-06-06 11:50:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV UZ
07TASHKENT1096GOU CONTINUES NGO REGISTRATION GAMES
[...] (C) American nongovernmental organizations continue to experience registration problems despite good faith efforts to comply with Uzbek law and the advice of the Ministry of Justice. Post learned June 5 that the Ministry of Justice has denied Project Hope's application to transfer its status [...]
2007-06-08 09:16:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID UZ
07TASHKENT11392007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND
[...] The United States Government is aware of fifteen (15) claims of United States persons against the Government of Uzbekistan, seven (7) of which have been resolved. 2. a. Claimant B b. 1998 c. Claimant B is a US trading company that exported alcohol to Uzbekistan. In 1998, customs au [...]
2007-06-15 10:29:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDCASC PGOV EINV KIDE UZ
07TASHKENT1140COSCOM CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT FUTURE
[...] (C) Summary: In the past month, the Uzbekistan Agency for Communications and Information Technology (the Telecom Agency) and other authorities have quietly dropped their legal and administrative complaints against U.S. majority-owned cellular provider COSCOM. The company has recovered most of [...]
2007-06-15 10:40:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEINV ECPS PGOV UZ
07TASHKENT1151UZBEKS APPARENTLY WILLING TO "FORGIVE" NGO TAX
[...] (C) Summary: A U.S.-Uzbekistan working group met June 19 to discuss the process whereby U.S. assistance funds frozen or seized by the Government of Uzbekistan could be returned to the USG for reprogramming in the health sector. The U.S. side said that the most pressing issue was to halt liqui [...]
2007-06-19 11:19:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID UZ
07TASHKENT1152CHARGE ASKS GOU TO REVERSE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
[...] (C) Summary: Charge urged Deputy Foreign Minister Anvar Salikhbaev on June 19 to reconsider the GOU's accreditation denial to Human Rights Watch's (HRW) amcit staff member (reftel). Salikhbaev said he would take the message directly to the Foreign Minister, and did. End summary. 2. (C) Ch [...]
2007-06-19 12:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
07TASHKENT1271UZBEKS TOUT FOREIGN "EXPERT" COMMENTS ON
[...] (SBU) In early June, the Uzbek Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a publication claiming to highlight positive international reactions to the adoption of the two new Uzbek Constitutional Laws. The booklet, titled "Comments and Assessments of Foreign Political and Expert Circles of the Constitut [...]
2007-07-11 05:16:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM UZ
07TASHKENT1292GOU CRACKDOWN ON CASH "SMUGGLING"
[...] (C) Summary: Uzbek law requires that cash brought in to, or taken out of Uzbekistan, be declared and establishes limits on the amount of cash that can be taken out of the country. Enforcement of these regulations, historically weak, appears to have been stepped up in recent months, particular [...]
2007-07-16 08:02:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV CASC UZ
07TASHKENT1300UZBEK OFFICIALS SHOW A HINT OF FLEXIBILITY IN
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford met with four key Uzbek Government interlocutors during his five-day visit to Tashkent. All fiercely defended Uzbekistan's record on religious freedom and suggested that the country's designation as a Country of [...]
2007-07-16 14:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF UZ
07TASHKENT1407EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM - 2007
[...] Per reftel, Post requests the temporary posting of an Embassy Science Fellow to Embassy Tashkent for approximately six weeks in either October-November 2007 or March-April 2008. No medical or security clearance is required. If approved for participation in the program, Post commits to provi [...]
2007-08-02 03:47:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDTSPL AMGT UZ
07TASHKENT1420OTAKHONOV OUT, RUSTAMBAEV REPORTEDLY IN AS
[...] (C) Embassy contacts have confirmed internet press reports that Minister of Justice Foziljon Otakhonov has been transferred to a position within the Presidential Apparat where he possibly will be in charge of preparations for the upcoming Presidential election. Our contacts suggest that Otakh [...]
2007-08-03 10:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR UZ
07TASHKENT1448ICRC PLANS TO DEMARCHE KARIMOV
[...] (C) Summary: On August 8, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation for Central Asia Head told poloff that ICRC has received no response from the Government on restarting its prison monitoring program since their last abortive attempt in May and is now considering del [...]
2007-08-09 12:37:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV ICRC UZ TI
07TASHKENT1489UZBEKS PROPOSE JOINT HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE
[...] (U) This message contains a guidance request. Please see para 6. 2. (C) Uzbekistan's Regional Policy Foundation has proposed a human rights conference to Post as the means to nudge the bilateral relationship back on track. The Foundation's director said the conference had been vetted and [...]
2007-08-15 08:05:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM PINR UZ
07TASHKENT1514INDIANS ASK ABOUT URANIUM
[...] (C) Charge met with Indian Ambassador Skand Ranjan Tayal at the latter's request August 17 to discuss potential supplies of uranium to India. Tayal mentioned the Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) in 2004 had discussed selling uranium yellow cake to India, but nothing had come of these discussion [...]
2007-08-20 04:59:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG PARM IN UZ
07TASHKENT1602GOU AGREEMENT TO CONVENE BILATERAL BORDER SECURITY
[...] (U) Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded positively to the United States proposal to resume cooperation with Uzbekistan's Committee for State Border Protection (reftel). 2. (U) An unofficial translation of the GOU's diplomatic note No 20/21189 follows: Begin text: The Ministr [...]
2007-09-11 01:48:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID UZ
07TASHKENT1607UZBEKISTAN'S FOREIGN POLICY MAP OF THE WORLD
[...] (C) Summary: In an Independence Day speech to the Tashkent Diplomatic Corps August 28, FM Norov outlined Uzbekistan's foreign policy, rank-ordering relations with five tiers of countries and international organizations. Not surprisingly, he extolled relations with Russia and Russian-supporte [...]
2007-09-13 10:37:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UZ
07TASHKENT1648U.S. COTTON GIN IS A RARE SEMI-SUCCESS STORY
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 7, econoff visited the Central Asia Seed Company (CASC),a modern, fully U.S.-owned cotton gin located in Syrdarya, about two hours southwest of Tashkent. With over ten years experience in Uzbekistan, CASC is valued by the provincial government for its social and e [...]
2007-09-17 10:33:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETRD ICAC UZ
07TASHKENT1659DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON
[...] (SBU) On September 17, 2007 poloff delivered demarche to the Division Chief of the Uzbekistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk, Ismat Fayzullaev. Mr. Fayzullaev responded that Uzbekistan is a small country and is not generally involved in affairs of the Middle East. He added that Uz [...]
2007-09-19 04:32:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC LE PTER
07TASHKENT1662GM-DAT, UZDAEWOO IN JOINT VENTURE TALKS; CHEVROLET
[...] (C) Summary: GM-DAT, a Korean-based GM subsidiary, is in talks on the establishment of a joint venture (JV) with UzDaewoo. GM-DAT intends to sign the formal contract with President Karimov in October and then publicly announce the JV. GM-DAT views the JV as a long-term investment in which it [...]
2007-09-19 10:17:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALECON EINV EIND ELTN RU UZ
07TASHKENT1667KAZAKH AMBASSADOR TO HEAD NEW KAZAKHSTAN STATE
[...] (C) Summary. Kazakh Ambassador to Uzbekistan Askar Myrzakhmetov is departing post on September 20 to head the new state-owned company Ontustik, which will be headquartered in Shimkent. Ontustik will focus on economic development projects in the the provinces of South Kazakhstan, Jambul, and [...]
2007-09-20 05:51:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPINR EMIN PREL KZ UZ
07TASHKENT1681SECURITY SERVICE DISRUPTS POLOFF BUKHARA VISIT
[...] (C) Summary. Poloff visited Bukhara from September 20 - 23, where he previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in a high school. Local English teachers informed poloff that an NSS (National Security Service) agent was monitoring the hotel and questioned them about their association with an [...]
2007-09-24 10:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PROP PINS PHUM OEXC UZ
07TASHKENT1739MFA ON CANCELLED DRL/IRF VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: MFA U.S. Affairs Section Chief Ismat Faizullaev met October 4 with poloff to cover several matters. On religious freedom, Faizullaev explained that the decision to cancel the trip next week of DRL/IRF's Barbara Cates was influenced in part by the GOU's frustration with not having [...]
2007-10-05 10:14:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF UZ
07TASHKENT1744CONTINUED GOU INTERFERENCE AND HARASSMENT WITH
[...] (C/NF) During the last two weeks of September, travel and contact work by U.S. officials has been hindered or disrupted by the GOU on multiple occasions. On September 21 (ref B),poloff,s visit to a Bukhara school was interrupted by a National Security Service officer and the director of the [...]
2007-10-08 01:47:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNPREL EAID KPAO PGOV PHUM PINR UZ
07TASHKENT1765KOKAND TV STATION CAREFULLY MAKES PROFIT
[...] (C) Summary. On October 3 poloff and visiting SCA/CEN desk officer visited the headquarters of Kokand TV, an independent television station that reaches an audience of one million in the densely populated Ferghana Valley. The owner noted that the station must compete with subsidized state ch [...]
2007-10-12 10:18:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL EAID ECON OEXC CH UZ
07TASHKENT1806UZBEKS PROMISE POST-ELECTION PROGRESS ON TIP ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary. On October 17 poloffs and visiting G/TIP officer met with GOU officials from MFA, Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD),and the Office of the State Prosecutor to discuss TIP issues. MFA said the GOU was surprised and upset by the recent Tier 3 rating, which it considered "political [...]
2007-10-19 06:27:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN EAID GG KG UZ
07TASHKENT1817GOU PROVIDES WRITTEN REBUTTAL TO EU ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary: During an Embassy event on October 9, MFA U.S. Affairs Chief Ismat Fayzullaev provided, at Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov's request, the Ambassador with a written GOU rebuttal to recent public statements made by EU officials criticizing human rights abuses in Uzbekistan. The re [...]
2007-10-22 08:22:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EUN KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
07TASHKENT1828POLOFF RECEIVES ACCREDITATION AND WARNING
[...] (C) On October 23 poloff was summoned to MFA for a rare personal appearance regarding his accreditation. MFA Protocol Head of Accreditations, Mr. Akhmedov, said the Ministry typically deals directly with LES on these issues "but, on occasion, it is necessary to personally explain the obligati [...]
2007-10-23 10:56:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AMGT ODIP UZ
07TASHKENT1853(C) MY WAY OR NO WAY: UZBEKISTAN GETS DEFENSIVE ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Karimov,s speech at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Bishkek on August 16 was the clearest and most official statement of Uzbekistan,s position on the use of transboundary waters of Central Asia. In an effort to legally justify its position, on S [...]
2007-10-25 09:37:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALKENV ETRD ENRG PREL TBIO ZK UZ
07TASHKENT1865LONG-AWAITED MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On 16 October 2007, the Ambassador, the Defense Attache (DATT),Defense Attache Office (DAO) Operations Coordinator (OPSCO) and DAO FSN, met with the Minister of Defense Ruslan Mirzayev. This is the first time that Mirzayev himself has received U.S. representatives since January [...]
2007-10-26 10:11:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMARR MASS MCAP PREL PGOV PINR UZ
07TASHKENT1887GOU RESPONSE TO SAIPOV SLAYING
[...] (C) Summary: Uzbekistan (belatedly) condemns the murder of VOA stringer Alisher Saipov, and claims the Kyrgyz government has not yet asked for Uzbek assistance in the investigation. End summary. 2. (C) Ambassador met October 30 with MFA First Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov, who delivered [...]
2007-10-30 13:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KG UZ
07TASHKENT1888ERK PARTY TALKS WITH HIZB UT-TAHRIR LEADERS
[...] (C) Summary: On October 26, poloff met with Erk political opposition party leader Atanazar Arif, who claimed that Erk was to hold a meeting in Istanbul on October 27 with leaders of Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) and other religious extremist factions on coordinating their opposition to President Karimov [...]
2007-10-30 14:41:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM KIRF KISL PGOV PINR RS TU UZ
07TASHKENT1889ERK LEADER DESCRIBES RELATIONSHIP WITH SLAIN
[...] (C) Summary: On October 26, Erk political opposition party leader Atanazar Arif described to poloff Erk's relationship with journalist Alisher Saipov, who was murdered on October 24 in Osh, Kyrgyzstan (ref C). According to Arif, Saipov was not an official member of Erk, but had long standing [...]
2007-10-30 14:51:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KG UZ
07TASHKENT1896UZBEK MEDIA ACCUSES U.S. OF SAIPOV MURDER
[...] (C) On October 29, Uzbek state-run television in Namangan Province broadcast a program describing murdered journalist Alisher Saipov in terms much the same as those used by the MFA in its October 30 diplomatic note (ref A). Saipov was accused of being a tool of foreign (including western) in [...]
2007-10-31 11:33:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UZ
07TASHKENT1908GOU EXPRESSES INTEREST IN FURTHER BORDER SECURITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The first bilateral border security assistance working groups met November 1. The GOU's delegation repeatedly expressed its desire for improved border security cooperation with the United States. GOU representatives from the MFA, Border Guards of the National Security Service [...]
2007-11-02 13:28:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PBTS PREL UZ
07TASHKENT1922UZBEKS TAKE TEETH OUT OF MONEY LAUNDERING LAW
[...] (C) Summary. A Department of Treasury official was part of a Eurasia Group delegation which met in Tashkent with Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) counterparts from the Office of the State Prosecutor (Procuracy) to discuss anti-money laundering efforts. The official purpose of the event was to [...]
2007-11-05 10:46:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM ECON UZ
07TASHKENT1927UZBEK OFFICIAL CALLS THE ELECTION, HOPES FOR
[...] (C) Summary. On November 2, poloff spoke at length with Furqat Sidikov, an Uzbek Diplomat who recently completed a five-year tour as Press Attache at the Uzbek Embassy in Washington, DC, and now works at the state-run International Center for Strategic Studies and Inter-regional Cooperation i [...]
2007-11-06 09:00:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS PTER EAID UZ
07TASHKENT1931JIZZAKH AND SYRDARYA EXCHANGE PROGRAM ALUMNI FULL
[...] (C) Summary: During a two-day tour of Jizzakh and Syrdarya provinces on October 31 and November 1, poloff met with several USG international exchange program alumni who described what they learned in the United States and how they have transferred that knowledge to their home communities. The [...]
2007-11-06 10:49:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECON KPAO PGOV SOCI UZ
07TASHKENT1949UZBEK HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN FOCUSES ON STRUCTURAL
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met November 1 with Sayora Rashidova, Parliamentary Ombudsman for Human Rights and daughter of former Uzbek Communist Party boss Sharof Rashidov. Although Rashidova operates under certain political limits, she is clearly aware of broader human rights issues in Uzbekist [...]
2007-11-08 09:35:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UZ
07TASHKENT199WARNING - DO NOT RUN FOR PRESIDENT!
[...] (C) Summary: Self-declared presidential candidate Jahongir Shosalimov sued in Uzbekistan's Supreme Court alleging that President Karimov is violating the constitution by staying in office beyond his mandated term. The Tashkent police responded by detaining his wife for a seven-hour "discussion [...]
2007-02-05 12:14:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ
07TASHKENT1995EURO REPLACES USD IN OFFICIAL ACCOUNTING AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Uzbek Government officially switched from USD to euros for accounting and financial management. The tourism industry followed suit, and is also raising prices to keep up with high inflation. The GOU likely is concerned over the depreciation of its USD 2.3 billion in reserve [...]
2007-11-19 10:04:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN UZ
07TASHKENT1998DEPUTY HOKIM OF UZBEKISTAN'S KHOREZM PROVINCE:
[...] (U) Summary: On November 5, Poloff met with Usmonboy Jumagaldiyev, the Deputy Hokim (Deputy Governor) for Economic and Public Development Issues in Uzbekistan's Khorezm province. He painted a very rosy picture of economic development and political stability in Khorezm. While some of his clai [...]
2007-11-20 07:53:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV ECON ECIN EAGR PTER SOCI UZ
07TASHKENT2005AMCHAM CONCERNED OVER POSSIBLE U.S. SANCTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-21 10:21:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMCHAMS PREL ECON UZ
07TASHKENT2023GOU CONTINUES TO EXPAND CONTROLLED ACCESS TO U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy personnel, and in particular Ambassador Norland, have been afforded expanded, though carefully controlled, access to GOU officials. Over the past several weeks, Ambassador Norland has met twice with President Karimov, and once each with National Security Service Chairman [...]
2007-11-23 13:50:00Embassy TashkentSECRET//NOFORNPREL ECON ECIN EAGR KPAO OEXC PGOV PTER SCUL
07TASHKENT2024MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS DISCUSSES PRIORITIES,
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Minister of Internal Affairs Bakhodir Matlyubov on November 22. Matlyubov cited counterterrorism and counternarcotics as key priorities, and repeatedly noted Uzbekistan's cooperation with a variety of other countries on these issues. He was also [...]
2007-11-23 14:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PBTS PREL SNAR SOCI UZ
07TASHKENT2108KARIMOV CALLS FOR COOPERATION WITH WEST IN
[...] (C) Summary: President Karimov's Constitution Day speech, in which he calls for stronger ties with the United States and Europe, may reflect a desire to receive positive election coverage or diversify his foreign policy or both. He appears to have cited Russia--without explicitly naming it--as [...]
2007-12-11 13:11:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UZ US RS
07TASHKENT2132GOU OFFICIALS MINGLE WITH ACTIVISTS AT HUMAN
[...] (C) Summary: In commemoration of Human Rights Day on December 10, the Ambassador hosted an evening reception with diplomatic, government, and human rights contacts. The event followed an afternoon roundtable with several prominent Uzbek human rights activists at the Embassy (septel). There w [...]
2007-12-17 12:16:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ KG
07TASHKENT2162HIGH-LEVEL GOU ATTENDANCE AT BORDER SECURITY
[...] (U) Summary: On December 18, representatives of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC),Government of Uzbekistan (GOU),American and British Embassies, and the Asian Development Bank took part in a border project dedication ceremony at Hayraton checkpoint on the Uzbekistan-Afghan [...]
2007-12-26 12:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PBTS PREL SNAR PTER AF UZ
07TASHKENT2164PRESIDENT KARIMOV "REELECTED" WITH 88 PERCENT OF
[...] (C) Summary: Uzbek President Islam Karimov was re-elected December 23 to a third term, by a reported 88.1 percent of the vote. The OSCE's ODIHR limited election observation mission released a statement December 24, saying the election failed to meet most norms for free and fair elections. Thi [...]
2007-12-26 13:48:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM PREL OSCE UZ
07TASHKENT2179NO SURPRISES IN MEDIA COVERAGE OF UZBEK ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Local press coverage of the December 23 Uzbek presidential election was flatteringly positive and utterly ignored critical statements, such as that of the OSCE election monitoring mission. Russian reporting was mixed, while most Western reporting was more critical. Among fore [...]
2007-12-27 13:35:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPAO PHUM UZ
07TASHKENT265COSCOM SUSPENSION ENDS, BUT PROBLEMS REMAIN
[...] (C) Summary: Majority U.S.-owned cellular provider COSCOM returned to service at the end of a 10-day suspension. However, the company has only limited service, as crucial connections to the national cellular network remain severed. Important disputes with the state telecom agency remain unreso [...]
2007-02-16 06:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEINV ECPS RU UZ
07TASHKENT278COSCOM SUSPENSION ENDS, BUT PROBLEMS REMAIN
[...] (C) Summary: Majority U.S.-owned cellular provider COSCOM returned to service at the end of a 10-day suspension. However, the company has only limited service, as crucial connections to the national cellular network remain severed. Important disputes with the state telecom agency remain unreso [...]
2007-02-17 03:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEINV ECPS RU UZ
07TASHKENT354UZBEK TELECOM CHIEF DENIES DISCRIMINATORY
[...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, also chief of Uzbekistan's national telecommunications agency, used his meeting with SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum almost exclusively to harp on complaints about alleged legal and regulatory violations by U.S.-owned cellular provider COSCOM. He was [...]
2007-03-05 05:11:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL EINV ECPS PGOV US UZ
07TASHKENT355(C) UZBEK FM MISSES OPPORTUNITY IN MEETING WTIH
[...] (C) Summary: SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum's March 2 meeting with Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov did not live up to expectations. Over three days of meetings with senior Uzbek officials, Feigenbaum had proposed that the Government take concrete steps to improve relations and offered specific sugge [...]
2007-03-05 06:25:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ECON EU AF UZ
07TASHKENT358BACK TO THE BASICS IN UZBEK EDUCATION
[...] (C) Summary: In back-to-back meetings with Uzbek education ministers on February 28, SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum heard a rehearsed tune of openness SIPDIS to "dialogue and cooperation" regarding U.S. education programs. While both ministers acknowledged the merits of [...]
2007-03-05 10:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSCUL PREL SOCI PGOV US UZ
07TASHKENT428COUNTING PENCILS AT TASHKENT'S INTERCONTINENTAL
[...] (C) Tashkent's Intercontinental Hotel is experiencing very low occupancy rates as the result of fewer foreign visitors, a situation that has caused cash flow and other problems for the hotel. The hotel is restructuring its rates to attract additional business travelers and mid-level government [...]
2007-03-15 10:49:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON UZ
07TASHKENT451HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ROLLOUT SHOWS UZBEKS' TRUE
[...] (C) Summary: Authorities reportedly used threats, house arrest, and beatings to prevent several human rights activists from attending the Embassy's reception to launch the 2006 Human Rights Report. Government officials, for the second straight year, failed to attend. DCM raised the issue wit [...]
2007-03-19 12:23:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UZ
07TASHKENT478GULNORA'S DAUGHTER WINS GYMNASTICS COMPETITION
[...] (C) President Karimov's eldest daughter Gulnora Karimova's eight year old daughter Iman won a rhythmic gymnastics competition in Moscow on March 2 under the surname Azizova. Iman, an American citizen, was born in New Jersey on June 17, 1998. News websites including Press-Uz.info and Tatarlar. [...]
2007-03-23 10:48:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR CASC UZ
07TASHKENT482UZBEKISTAN'S CAUTIOUS RESPONSE TO ZIMBABWE EVENTS
[...] (C) On March 26, Poloff delivered ref A demarche to Ismat Fayzullayev, Director for U.S. Affairs at the Foreign Ministry's Americas Department. Fayzullayev assured Poloff that he would relay the information to the appropriate officials. He stated that Uzbekistan is a "small country" with few [...]
2007-03-26 12:26:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ZI UZ
07TASHKENT544ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT545ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT546ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT547ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT548ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT549ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT550ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT551ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT552ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT553ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT554ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT555ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT556ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT557ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT558ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT559ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT560ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT561ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT562ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT563ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT564ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT565ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT566ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT567ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT568ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT569ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT570ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT571ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT572ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT573ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT574ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT575ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT576ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT577ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT578ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT579ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT580ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT581ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT582ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT583ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT584ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT585ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT586ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT587ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT588ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT589ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT590ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT591ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT592ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT593ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT594ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT595ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT596ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT597ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT598ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT599ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT600ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT601ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT602ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT603ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT604ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT605ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT606ACCESS PROBLEMS NEARLY DERAIL INL-FUNDED TRAINING
[...] (C) An INL-funded U.S. Customs team provided training for Uzbek Customs personnel at the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot. The team was initially denied access to the border areas, and the project went forward only after visiting SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum raised [...]
2007-04-04 11:09:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT709FEW ABUSES AT JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES MEMORIALS
[...] (C) Summary: On April 2, Jehovah's Witnesses throughout Uzbekistan encountered far less harassment than in the past two years in the course of their annual memorial services commemorating Jesus' death. American representatives who attended services at the organization's sole registered local [...]
2007-04-05 08:05:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF UZ
07TASHKENT717UZBEKISTAN'S EVOLVING RESPONSE TO CPC DESIGNATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Reflecting its disappointment at being designated a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for religious freedom, last December the government issued a line-by-line rebuttal to the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report. Officials have made limited efforts to engage in dialog [...]
2007-04-05 12:03:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF UZ
07TASHKENT723GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL VISITS TRAFFICKING SHELTER,
[...] (SBU) Summary: As part of the government's dialogue in support of the International Organization for Migration's Tashkent shelter for trafficking victims, an MFA official visited the shelter and met with a trafficking victim. This follows a visit to the shelter in mid-2006 by state Women's Co [...]
2007-04-06 12:03:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KWMN KCRM PHUM UZ
07TASHKENT767INL QUARTERLY REPORT FOR JANUARY - MARCH 2007
[...] (SBU) Post's INL program sponsored training in February for Uzbek Customs personnel assigned to the Termez River Port and Sarosiya Rail Depot, as well as an assessment of the current training curriculum in use at the Uzbek Customs Institute. A Department of Justice forensics team completed it [...]
2007-04-12 11:06:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PREL KCRM UZ
07TASHKENT978GH SUBSIDIARY SIGNS STRATEGIC COOPERATION DEAL
[...] (C) Summary: On May 1, the Chief Executive Officer of General Motors' South Korean subsidiary, GM-DAT, signed a major cooperation agreement with the Government of Uzbekistan. The deal was personally endorsed by President Karimov and heralded in the state-run press, which, however, ignored the [...]
2007-05-18 06:45:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALEIND ECON ETRD ELTN EINV KS UZ
07TBILISI1121GEORGIA INFORMED OF BOSNIA'S CANDIDACY FOR UNHRC
[...] On May 11, Poloff informed Irakli Machitidze, the Americas' Desk Officer at the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, that Bosnia has officially declared its candidacy for one of the two open Eastern European Group Human Rights Council seats (Ref A). Machitidze reiterated the GoG position aga [...]
2007-05-14 14:41:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM GG
07TBILISI1135GEORGIA: DEMARCHE ON KEY U.S. OBJECTIVES AT THE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-15 12:19:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO AORC PREL WHO KFLU GG
07TBILISI1169Georgia Bi-Weekly Update May 18
[...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of May 5-18. Opposition Pulls Out of Parliamentary Group ------------------------------------------- 2. Both of the opposition members of the Parliamentary inter-faction group o [...]
2007-05-18 12:59:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV GG
07TBILISI1212DFM MANJGALADZE'S READOUT OF HIS MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: On May 22, Deputy Foreign Minister Giorgi Manjgaladze called in the Ambassador and the German Charge (representing the EU) to give a readout of his recent meeting with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin. Manjgaladze said Karasin did not present anything new and thought the [...]
2007-05-23 09:36:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG
07TBILISI1213ANTADZE ON PROSPECTS FOR DIALOGUE WITH ABKHAZIA
[...] (C) Georgian State Minister for Conflict Resolution Merab Antadze told the Ambassador May 22 that Abkhaz de facto officials appeared to have decided to block contacts with Georgia at virtually every level of society, rebuffing Georgian requests to discuss the security situation in Gali and oth [...]
2007-05-23 09:38:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG
07TBILISI1293DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NATO-AFGHANISTAN: URGENT NEED
[...] (C) Per reftel request, on May 29, Poloff delivered demarche points to MFA America Desk Officer Irakli Machitidze. Machitidze said Georgia was committed to doing everything it can in the fight against Islamic fundamentalist forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, as evidenced by its significant troop [...]
2007-06-01 13:08:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALNATO PINS PREL MOPS MARR AF GG PK
07TBILISI1298Georgia Bi-Weekly Update June 1
[...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of May 19-June  [...]
2007-06-01 13:45:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM GG
07TBILISI1446Georgia Bi-Weekly Update June 15
[...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of June 2-15. Meeting of Georgian and Russian Presidents ------------------------------------------ 2. Georgian President Saakashvili and Russian President Putin had a 50-minute [...]
2007-06-15 11:01:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ECON GG
07TBILISI1504UN DOWNBEAT ON INCREASING ASSISTANCE TO ABKHAZIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 11 meeting with USAID representatives, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) for Georgia Jean Arnault was downbeat on the prospect of increasing assistance to Abkhazia. He said that the current atmosphere is as bad as it has been since he arrived so [...]
2007-06-21 13:17:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON PHUM PREF EAID GG
07TBILISI1528MCC DANILOVICH MEETS MINORITY LEADERS IN ETHNIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 14, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) President John Danilovich, accompanied by Ambassador Tefft and MCC Country Director Colin Buckley, traveled to the ethnic Armenian area of Samtskhe-Javakheti to meet members of the local government and civil society. This isolate [...]
2007-06-26 12:45:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON EAID GG
07TBILISI1574Georgia Bi-Weekly Update June 29
[...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of June 16-29. Criminal Procedure Code Moving through Parliament --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. The Legal Committee of Georgian Parliament is currently i [...]
2007-07-02 15:24:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM GG
07TBILISI1621DETAINEE TREATMENT BETTER--TRANSPARENCY STILL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Georgia's Ombudsman told DCM and Poloff in a meeting on 5 July that detainee treatment at pre-trial detention centers has improved due to monitoring of these venues. He recounted specific cases where independence of courts, instances of misuse of power by police, government's in [...]
2007-07-09 13:39:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM GG
07TBILISI1933GEORGIA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE AUGUST 3
[...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of July 14-August 3. Commission on Ossetian Status Starts Work ----------------------------------------- 2. The state commission defining the status of the temporary autonomous [...]
2007-08-03 13:36:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ECON ENRG GG
07TBILISI1976DAS BRYZA MEETS WITH PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS
[...] (C) Summary: On July 27, EUR DAS Matt Bryza met with influential majority Members of Parliament. Saakashvili insider Giga Bokeria complained that the recent UN report on the situation in Abkhazia was unbalanced. Bryza argued that the UNOMIG Joint Fact Finding Group (JFFG) report made a stron [...]
2007-08-08 13:02:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG RU
07TBILISI1979DAS BRYZA MEETS WITH OPPOSITION MP'S
[...] (C) Summary: On July 27, EUR DAS Matt Bryza met with leading opposition Members of Parliament. Their most urgent concern was elections, and they raised the issues of the fairness of the majoritarian system and composition of the Central Election Commission (CEC) (reftel A). Although they als [...]
2007-08-08 13:15:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG RU
07TBILISI2063DAS BRYZA'S MEETING WITH STATE MINISTER FOR
[...] (C) David Bakradze, Georgia's new State Minister for Conflict Resolution, told EUR DAS Bryza July 27 that the Georgian government was concerned UNOMIG and the Group of Friends had lost "strategic focus" over Abkhazia, as reflected in a recent UN report criticizing Georgia for minor issues, whi [...]
2007-08-16 06:29:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM GG
07TBILISI2076GEORGIA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE AUGUST 17
[...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of August 4-17. Saakashvili Visits Upper Abkhazia --------------------------------- 2. On August 11, President Saakashvili visited the Upper Kodori Gorge (or Upper Abkhazia) fo [...]
2007-08-17 13:41:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ECON ENRG GG
07TBILISI2084WHO'S RUNNING GEORGIA: IT'S THE EKA'S
[...] (C) Summary: Amid the crowd of young, talented, Western-educated officials in Georgia, one feature often stands out: many of those in key power positions are women. In addition to the prominent role held by the Speaker of Parliament,Nino Burjanadze, one of the founders of the Rose Revolutio [...]
2007-08-21 07:31:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PHUM GG
07TBILISI2091REVENUE SERVICE HEAD POSITIVE ABOUT TAX AND
[...] Summary. On August 8, Mindia Gadaevi, head of Georgia's Revenue Service, discussed with Econoffs the progress made to date in the reorganized service, which includes customs and tax departments and elements of the former Financial Police. Tax revenues are up by one third year on year in the fi [...]
2007-08-21 13:21:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV GG
07TBILISI2139MAIA TOPURIA CASE
[...] (C). Summary: On August 24, the Tbilisi City Court found all 13 defendants accused of plotting to overthrow the country's leadership in September 2006 guilty. Most of the 13 are linked with Igor Giorgadze's Justice Party. Igor Giorgadze is a Georgian fugitive wanted for attempted murder of [...]
2007-08-27 14:10:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GG
07TBILISI2272REGIONAL GOVERNORS - WHO ARE THEY?
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Following a series of scandals involving the misuse of public funds by newly elected local officials, the Georgian Parliament recently passed two laws that strengthen the powers of regional Governors, who are appoint [...]
2007-09-07 13:18:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PINR GG
07TBILISI2290REGIONAL GOVERNORS - WHO ARE THEY?
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Following a series of scandals involving the misuse of public funds by newly elected local officials, the Georgian Parliament recently passed two laws that strengthen the powers of regional Governors, who are appoin [...]
2007-09-11 12:50:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PINR GG
07TBILISI2291REGIONAL GOVERNORS - WHO ARE THEY?
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Following a series of scandals involving the misuse of public funds by newly elected local officials, the Georgian Parliament recently passed two laws that strengthen the powers of regional Governors, who are appoin [...]
2007-09-11 12:50:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PINR GG
07TBILISI2398LABOR TRENDS IN GEORGIA
[...] Summary: Post submits the following voluntary report on labor trends in Georgia. Most Georgians work in agriculture and unemployment and underemployment are high, while wages in hired employment are relatively low. Creating new employment opportunities is a key challenge for the Georgian [...]
2007-09-21 12:50:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDELAB BEXP SENV EAGR ENRG GG
07TBILISI2400MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT VIEWS ON WIREC AND CLIMATE
[...] Post received the following letter from the new Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, David Chantladze on September 19, regarding the GOG's views on WIREC and climate change. 2. Begin text of letter: To: The Honorable John F. Tefft Ambassador Embassy of the Unite [...]
2007-09-24 12:15:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDENRG PREL GG
07TBILISI2501GEORGIA: DEMARCHE ON BLACK SEA STRATEGY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-05 11:11:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PARM PBTS PHSA SENC ECON EWWT GG
07TBILISI2663GEORGIA TACKLES CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
[...] Summary: In an effort to protect children from sexual exploitation, Georgia is working to criminalize online child exploitation, building upon its recent aggressive legislative and enforcement efforts which resulted in Tier I status for Georgia in the 2007 United States Government's Annual Repo [...]
2007-10-26 12:04:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV OTRA KCRM KJUS GG
07TBILISI2664GEORGIA BI-WEEKLY UPDATE OCTOBER 26
[...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of October 13-26. Deputy Governor Resigns, Levels Charges --------------------------------------- 2. Deputy Governor of the Mtskheta-Mtianeti region Beso Sabashvili announced h [...]
2007-10-26 12:16:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ECON GG
07TBILISI2772RESOURCE NATIONALISM IN GEORGIA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-07 14:17:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG PREL PGOV GG
07TBILISI2787DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON THE 4TH COMMUNITY OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-08 13:47:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL KOEM UNGA GG
07TBILISI2789GEORGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER BEZHUASHVILI ON
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting on November 8, Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili said that the government has decided not to go for parliamentary approval of the full 15 day state of emergency if there are no incidents during the next two days, thereby letting it lapse. It will also sta [...]
2007-11-08 14:16:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR CFE GG
07TBILISI2796GEORGIA OUTLINES WORK OF COMMISSION ON SOUTH
[...] (SBU) Embassy received the below letter and non-paper (full texts in paragraph 2) from Georgian State Minister for Conflict Resolution David Bakradze on November 5. The non-paper lays out Georgian plans for the continued work of the commission on defining the autonomous status of South Osseti [...]
2007-11-09 12:51:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL GG
07TBILISI2802TBILISI PROTESTS: SITREP NO 6
[...] (U) The United National Council of Opposition (UNC) met with the government, represented by the Speaker of Parliament, Nino Burjanadze, on November 10 and again on November 12. Five opposition parties - Georgia's Way, the Conservatives, the Republicans, the New Rightists, and the Industriali [...]
2007-11-13 12:50:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG
07TBILISI2944DAS BRYZA'S NOVEMBER 11 AND 14 MEETINGS WITH IMEDI
[...] (C) (Summary) During his visit to Tbilisi DAS Bryza held three meetings with the management and journalists of Imedi television. On November 11, Lewis Robertson, CEO Newscorp Caucasus and Imedi General Manager; Bidzina Baratashvili, Imedi General Director; and Irakli Rukhadze, Manager of Self [...]
2007-11-21 11:30:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAO ASEC GG RU
07TBILISI2978GEORGIAN INVESTIGATION OF PATARKATSISHVILI
[...] (C) Summary: The closure of Imedi television and the investigation of its finances and operations by the Goverment of Georgia has made headlines around the world. The Government has also begun investigation of other businesses in which oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili is a principal investor. [...]
2007-11-28 14:24:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BEXP EFIN GG
07TBILISI3002WHY PATARKATSISHVILI SCARES THE GOG
[...] (C) Summary. The Georgian government accuses oligarch and presidential candidate Badri Patarkatsishvili of moving from ordinary politics to fomenting revolution over the course of 2007. It has taken steps against him personally and against his business interests in an attempt to blunt his in [...]
2007-11-30 13:12:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM KBIO GG
07TBILISI3004INVESTIGATION OF IRAKLI RUKHADZE EXPLORES POSSIBLE
[...] (C) The Deputy Prosecutor General of Georgia, Nika Gvaramia, called DCM to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to give an update on the criminal investigation of American citizen Irakli Rukhadze. Although Rukhadze has not been charged as yet, he is being investigated on suspicion of influence pe [...]
2007-11-30 13:20:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPGOV CASC GG
07TBILISI489ABKHAZIA: UN BRIEFS WESTERN FRIENDS ON KODORI
[...] (C) Summary: On March 12, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Jean Arnault briefed the Western Friends of the Secretary General (FSG) on the alleged rocket and missile firing on Georgian villages in Upper Kodori on March 11 (reftel). Arnault said that the Georgians had [...]
2007-03-12 14:27:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG
07TBILISI624Georgia Bi-Weekly Update March 23
[...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of March 11-23. Investigation of MOD Finances under Okruashvili --------------------------------------------- -- 2. Georgian newspapers are reporting that the Audit Chamber has [...]
2007-03-23 13:07:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KPAO GG
07TBILISI711EUR DAS MATT BRYZA'S MARCH 29 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: In a March 29 meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli, EUR DAS Matt Bryza discussed the recent attack on Georgian government buildings in Kodori and rising tensions in the Gali region, and their relationship to the debate over the next UNOMIG mandate renewal in the U [...]
2007-04-02 10:21:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG GG AR RU TX UN
07TBILISI725EUR DAS MATT BRYZA'S MARCH 29 MEETING WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-02 11:35:00Embassy TbilisiCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG GG AR RU TX UN
07TBILISI769Georgia Bi-Weekly Update April 5
[...] This cable contains current items of political, economic, and social interest concerning Georgia during the weeks of March 24-April 6. --------------------------- Georgians Pay Tribute to Late President Gamsakhurdia --------------------------- 2. Thousands of people throughout Georgia cam [...]
2007-04-05 14:53:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV GG
07TBILISI855DEMARCHE REPLY: GEORGIA LOOKS FOR USG SUPPORT TO
[...] On April 17, Econoff delivered reftel talking points as a non-paper and solicited GoG views on the World Meterological Organization (WMO) Congress. Econoff met with Ramaz Tchitanava, head of the Hydrometeorological Department of the Ministry of Environment Protection, Irakli Machitizdze of the [...]
2007-04-18 13:26:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDSENV TPHY WMO GG
07TBILISI927GEORGIAN LABOR UNIONS SEEK DIALOGUE WITH THE
[...] On April 20, PolEcon deputy and Econoff met with approximately 20 trade union delegates to the Georgian Trade Unions Confederation (GTUC),representing almost 63,000 unionized workers from Telasi electricity distribution, BatumiTex Textiles, Adjara civil service, EnergyInvest (which operates t [...]
2007-04-25 08:41:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON GG
07TEGUCIGALPA1154A CAFTA-DR SUCCESS STORY: TIME TO START A BUSINESS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-29 14:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECIN ECON EIND PGOV DR GT CS HO
07TEGUCIGALPA1192WHO WILL BREAK FIRST? HONDURAS MAY SOON FACE FUEL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-10 21:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET HO PGOV PINR PREL
07TEGUCIGALPA1247SELECTION OF NEW HONDURAN AMBASSADOR TO THE UN RAISES VISA ISSUES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Jorge Arturo Reina, the current Minister of Government and Justice, was nominated by President Zelaya to represent Honduras as the ambassador to the United Nations. To assume his duties at the United Nations, Reina will need a G-1 visa to travel to the United States. To obtain that vis [...]
2007-07-19 21:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETCVIS PGOV PREL HO
07TEGUCIGALPA1258HONDURAS SUPPORTS SPECIALIZED 1206-FUNDED CT
[...] (S) Embassy Honduras fully endorses the two FY08 funding proposals submitted in support of the Honduran Armed Forces under Section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). These two proposals are: (1) Operation Enduring Friendship (OEF),submitted by USSOUTHCOM; and (2) Operation [...]
2007-07-23 21:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETMARR PTER HO
07TEGUCIGALPA1295MCC REQUIREMENTS KEY TO REDUCING BUSINESS OPENING TIME IN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-31 22:32:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDECIN ECON EIND PGOV DR CS HO
07TEGUCIGALPA1311INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE VICE-MINISTER ROSA MEETING
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador and EconOff met with Industry and Commerce Vice-Minister Jorge "Coque" Rosa and Official CAFTA-DR negotiator Melvin Redondo on August 2, 2007, regarding the potential imposition of safeguards on the sock industry. The GOH does not believe that the USG has a legitimate r [...]
2007-08-02 22:29:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON EIND EINV ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL HO
07TEGUCIGALPA1336HONDURAS'S ASSESSMENT OF CENTRAL AMERICA SECURITY
[...] SUMMARY. (C) Post's assessment of the regional security requirements from Honduras focuses on two strategies: a transit zone strategy to disrupt the flow of contraband through Central America, and an anti-crime strategy to reduce the level of violence and address the issues of organized crime, [...]
2007-08-08 15:37:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PTER HO
07TEGUCIGALPA1367TELECOM PROTESTS HIGHLIGHT DIVISION IN LIBERAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The recent scuffling in the Honduran National Congress, when union members of Hondutel, with the support of the minor left-wing party Unificacion Democratica, attempted to stop Congress from passing a telecommunications rate reduction bill, was a visible manifestation of an ongoing [...]
2007-08-14 00:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPGOV HO
07TEGUCIGALPA1476HONDURAN NATIONAL PROTEST FIZZLES WITHOUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya, frustrated in his struggle with the Honduran National Congress on issues such as telecommunications reform (ref. A),resorted to tacit support for a nation-wide protest on August 27, 2007 by the Bloque Popular and organized labor unions. Teachers, [...]
2007-08-29 22:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALASEC CASC EAGR ECON ELAB ELTN EMIN ENRG EPET
07TEGUCIGALPA1484HONDURAS SCENESETTER FOR USDA SECRETARY JOHANNS
[...] (SBU) Summary: As you prepare to visit Tegucigalpa, relations between the United States and Honduras are generally good. President Zelaya considers himself a friend of the United States, and Honduras generally supports U.S. positions on major international issues, including the War on Terrori [...]
2007-08-30 21:19:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP EAGR EAID ECON EFIS ETRD OVIP PGOV PREL
07TEGUCIGALPA1785CHIMIRRAZO: HONDUTEL DIRECTOR OUT; HOUSE AND
[...] (C) On November 9, Honduran police simultaneously raided the state telecommunications (Hondutel) offices across the country and the residences of Hondutel Director Marcelo Chimirri and other officials. The search warrants were executed in response to a legal complaint of illegal taping of pho [...]
2007-11-13 21:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRETPGOV SOCI KCOR HO
07TEGUCIGALPA1798FROM BAD TO WORSE: ENERGY FINANCES IN HONDURAS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Due to rates that do not cover costs, Honduran state-run electric company ENEE is losing USD 300 million a year, equal to 3 percent of GDP. The Zelaya administration appears to be seriously considering a long overdue rate increase. Some businesses have said they would pay hi [...]
2007-11-16 19:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALENRG EFIN EAID HO
07TEGUCIGALPA1818GOH PURSUING PETROCARIBE DEAL
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: Facing severe losses at state-run electric energy company ENEE, in addition to increasing losses stemming from gasoline subsidies, the GOH is pursuing a package of solutions that includes a deal with PetroCaribe. [...]
2007-11-26 21:01:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PGOV PINR PREL HO
07TEGUCIGALPA1909UN MAY PROVIDE TECHNICAL SUPPORT IN NEXT HONDURAN
[...] On December 13, 2007 The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Resident Representative, Rebeca Arias, called a meeting of the G-16 plus the Organization of American States (OAS) to discuss the November 2009 general elections in Honduras. Since 2005, the OAS has been assisting the Supreme [...]
2007-12-14 16:51:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM PREL HO
07TEGUCIGALPA1923CABEI SEEKS U.S. PARTICIPATION TO COUNTER
[...] (C) Summary: The Head of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) is concerned that certain member states may seek to invite Venezuela to join the bank or to form an association between CABEI and Hugo Chavez's Banco del Sur. He is urging the USG to join CABEI as a member or [...]
2007-12-19 16:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN HO
07TEGUCIGALPA415CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO HONDURAS FINALLY
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque filled his two-day visit to Honduras with the inauguration of a hospital specializing in ophthalmology, a visit with President Zelaya, the signing of three agreements to bring the two countries closer together, and a visit with local suppo [...]
2007-03-07 14:30:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR CU HO
07TEGUCIGALPA432HONDURAS TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2006/2007
[...] (SBU) The following is the 2006/2007 Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report input for Honduras, responding to questions posed in the checklist. Post point of contact is Vice Consul Jason McInerney, phone: 011-504-238-5114 x 4152, IVG phone: 539-4152, fax 011-504-237-1792, and unclassified [...]
2007-03-09 21:25:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KJUS ASEC PREF ELAB HO
07TEGUCIGALPA471CHALLENGES FOR IMPROVING SECURITY ENVIRONMENT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: All leading dailies and a number of television and radio stations in Honduras covered the U.S. Human Rights Report on Honduras and the National Human Rights Commission's own Human Rights Report for 2006, both released on March 6. Major media also highlighted the signing, on the [...]
2007-03-16 21:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ELAB KCRM KJUS KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG
07TEGUCIGALPA472HONDURAS DEMARCHED ON ENGAGING NICARAGUA
[...] (SBU) Acting Polcouns delivered demarche to Foreign Vice Minister Enrique Reina and Ambassador Eduardo Rosales, the Foreign Ministry's Director of Exterior Affairs, on March 15, 2007 (reftel) on engaging Nicaragua. Polcouns made it clear that the demarche was not/not in relation to the mariti [...]
2007-03-16 22:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PREL NU HO
07TEGUCIGALPA493HONDURAN FUEL IMPORTS: USG EFFORTS STAVE OFF
[...] (C/NF) In a hemisphere disillusioned with market economics, the USG has successfully held the line in Honduras. Thanks to two face-to-face meetings between POTUS and Honduran President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales and numerous public and private interventions by the Ambassador and his sta [...]
2007-03-21 14:34:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEPET ENRG PREL BBSR NI VE HO
07TEGUCIGALPA509HONDURAS SCENESETTER FOR HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT
[...] (SBU) Summary: After 14 months in office, the Honduran President, Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales, faces the difficult task of leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Bilateral relations between the U.S. and Honduras are excellent. Honduras was the first country in the Wester [...]
2007-03-22 22:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON MOPS SNAR PTER SOCI HO
07TEGUCIGALPA584HONDURAS SCENESETTER FOR DHS DEPUTY SECRETARY
[...] (SBU) Summary: After 15 months in office, the Honduran President, Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales, faces the difficult task of leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Bilateral relations between the U.S. and Honduras are excellent. Honduras was the first country in the Wester [...]
2007-04-09 20:08:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON MOPS SNAR PTER SOCI HO
07TEGUCIGALPA585HONDURAS SCENESETTER FOR CODEL THOMPSON
[...] (SBU) Summary: After 15 months in office, the Honduran President, Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales, faces the difficult task of leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. Bilateral relations between the U.S. and Honduras are excellent. Honduras was the first country in the Wester [...]
2007-04-09 20:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PREL PGOV ECON MOPS SNAR PTER SOCI HO
07TEGUCIGALPA701 HONDURAN PRESIDENT MEETS WITH DHS DEPSEC JACKSON AND CODEL
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Jose Manuel Zelaya Rosales expressed a desire to increase law enforcement cooperation with the United States, his support for CAFTA and comprehensive immigration reform during a bilateral meeting with DHS DepSec Jackson and a CODEL consisting of 9 members of the Hous [...]
2007-04-25 21:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KJUS MARR MCAP MOPS OREP OVIP PGOV PREL PTER
07TEGUCIGALPA838HONDUTEL UNDER FIRE AS NEGOTATIONS OVER NEW LAW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The major actors in on-going effort to pass a new telecommunications law met May 11, and agreed to reconcile four key issues: license authorizations, naming of commissioners, taxes, and mobile licenses. While the group plans to meet again May 18, a related effort by Congress to [...]
2007-05-16 00:18:00Embassy TegucigalpaCONFIDENTIALECON ECPS ELAB KJUS KPRV PGOV PINR
07TEGUCIGALPA91HONDURAN GOVERNMENT BLAMES OIL COMANIES; COMPLAINS
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Ambassador, Charge, and EconChief met with Ministers Enrique Flores Lanza and Milton Jimenez on January 16 to discuss the announced GOH intent to seize control of U.S. owned oil storage facilities without the consent of the owners. Both Ministers blamed the companies for fail [...]
2007-01-17 19:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaSECRET//NOFORNEPET ENRG PREL BBSR NI VE HO
07TELAVIV1019ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran-Britain Crisis ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that on Wednesday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that his government would release the 15 detained British sailors and marines as a gift t [...]
2007-04-05 08:22:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1029ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran: Detention and Release of UK Sailors ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot and Israel Radio reported that around two weeks ago IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit's captors passed on to him a pair of glasses sent by his father. The r [...]
2007-04-06 10:00:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1062ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-11 09:52:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1063ISRAELI MOD CONTACTS SHARE VIEWS ON PALESTINIANS,
[...] (C) In a March 29 meeting, Israeli officials from the MOD's POL-MIL Bureau briefed EUCOM Political Advisor (POLAD) Mary Carlin Yates on their assessment of the Palestinian National Unity Government (NUG) and its implications for Palestinian-Israel relations, Israeli thinking about the negative [...]
2007-04-11 12:50:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG NATO IZ IS
07TELAVIV1075ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-12 09:15:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1086CODEL ACKERMAN'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER OLMERT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. REPRESENTATIVE GARY ACKERMAN (D, NEW YORK),CHAIRMAN OF MIDDLE EAST AND SOUTH ASIA SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE, ACCOMPANIED BY THE AMBASSADOR, CALLED ON PRIME MINISTER EHUD OLMERT APRIL 11. THEY DISCUSSED OLMERT'S APPROACH TO HIS UPCOMING MEETING WI [...]
2007-04-13 10:46:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV KWBG IS
07TELAVIV1088ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot reported that, during their meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, PM Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas will discuss the "diplomatic horizon." Yediot reported that Olme [...]
2007-04-13 11:34:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1094ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-16 10:44:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1104ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Visit of US Secretary of Defense in Israel ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that the U.S. administration will present in the following weeks to the Israelis and the Palestinians a list with benchmarks aimed to p [...]
2007-04-17 09:40:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1114CODEL ACKERMAN'S MEETING WITH OPPOSITION LEADER
[...] (C) Summary. Representative Gary Ackerman (D, New York),Chairman of the Middle East and South Asia Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee, accompanied by the Ambassador, met with Opposition Leader Binyamin Netanyahu at the Knesset April 11. The discussion covered Netany [...]
2007-04-18 06:55:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNNP EFIN IR KPAL IS
07TELAVIV1119ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-18 09:14:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1143ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Secretary Gates to Israel, April 18-19, 2007 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz and The Jerusalem Post prominently covered the visit of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to Israel. Yediot and Maariv did not report on th [...]
2007-04-19 08:49:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1163ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that Defense Secretary Robert Gates ended his short visit to Israel on Thursday with a meeting with PM Olmert and FM Tzipi Livni. Ha'aretz said that the [...]
2007-04-20 09:46:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1201ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Israel's 59th Independence Day 2. Mideast 3. Sudan: Darfur ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Over the weekend all media prominently and extensively covered, and commented on, events related to Israel's Memorial Day and Independence Da [...]
2007-04-23 11:02:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1208GENERAL MISHLEV SEES NO QUICK SOLUTION TO STALLED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: POL/C and ECON/C met with Major General Yossef Mishlev, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT),at the Ministry of Defense April 19. POL/C conveyed the Ambassador's concerns on access and movement issues, specifically approval of five Palestinian Red Cresc [...]
2007-04-23 13:42:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL ECON KPAL KWBG IS
07TELAVIV1218ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Similar to other media, Ha'aretz quoted senior IDF officers as saying that on Tuesday the IDF foiled a Hamas attempt to kidnap a soldier on the Gaza border. Apparently as pa [...]
2007-04-26 05:17:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1223ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] PM Olmert's Performance 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that, in a high-level defense consultation on Wednesday, PM Ehud Olmert decided that Israel will avoid a broad military response to the Hamas rocket bar [...]
2007-04-26 08:50:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1246ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. PM Olmert's Performance ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that the US administration has presented Israel and the PA with benchmarks by which the sides will be required to abide, in accordance with [...]
2007-04-27 09:39:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1263ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Winograd Probe Into 2nd Lebanon War 2. Mideast 3. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Over the weekend Channel 10-TV unofficially disclosed the basic points of the interim report of the Winograd Commission probing the Second Lebano [...]
2007-04-30 09:33:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1293ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-02 09:42:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1324ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-04 10:00:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1335ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] PM Olmert's Performance 2. Mideast 3. France: Presidential Election ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported on a Qassam rocket attack on Sunday afternoon that wounded two people at a gas station near Sderot. The media c [...]
2007-05-07 10:03:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1348ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. PM Olmert's Performance ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot, Israel Radio, and other leading media quoted State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack as saying in his daily briefing on Monday that he would not ex [...]
2007-05-08 11:39:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1358ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-09 09:54:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1365ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-10 09:41:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1384ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-11 12:04:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1425ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-15 12:08:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1438ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the shelling of Sderot with Qassam rockets and the internecine fighting in the Gaza Strip. The media reported that more than 20 Qassam rockets fell on Sderot on Tuesda [...]
2007-05-16 11:38:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1476ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-17 12:35:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1492ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Muslims in US Society ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media continued to highlight Qassam rocket attacks on the western Negev and related developments, mainly a limited Israeli military response to the rocket [...]
2007-05-18 10:04:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1514ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that last night the Israel Air Force bombed the house of Hamas parliamentarian Khalil al-Haya in Gaza. He was slightly injured in the attack, but eight others including [...]
2007-05-21 10:43:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1524ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Jonathan Pollard Affair ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that last night the attacks on Sderot claimed the life of one woman, whose vehicle was struck by a rocket. Two other Sderot residents were wounded in [...]
2007-05-22 10:18:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1540ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-24 10:23:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1549ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Syrian Option ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz cited both Israeli and American officials as saying that neither Jerusalem nor Washington has changed its views on talks with Syria. This reaction came in response to recent [...]
2007-05-25 10:26:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1558NEW ISRAELI MOD DG BUCHRIS SHARES HIS PRIORITIES
[...] (S) ON MAY 22, AMBASSADOR JONES HELD HIS FIRST MEETING WITH NEW ISRAELI MOD DIRECTOR GENERAL PINCHAS BUCHRIS. BUCHRIS, WHO HAD BEEN IN OFFICE ONLY 14 DAYS, FOCUSED HIS COMMENTS ON THE U.S.-ISRAEL RELATIONSHIP, STRESSING HIS PERSONAL COMMITMENT TO SEEING THE RELATIONSHIP PUT "BACK ON TRACK," AN [...]
2007-05-25 15:29:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PTER PINR MARR MASS ETTC KNNP KWBG KPAL
07TELAVIV1569ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Syria 3. US and Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that former prime minister Ehud Barak won Monday's first round of the Labor Party primaries. Barak finished with 35.6 percent of the votes to Ayalon's 3 [...]
2007-05-29 12:06:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1579ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] "The Great Fiasco" Eytan Haber, veteran op-ed writer and assistant to the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, opined in an editorial of the mass-circulation, pluralist Yediot Aharonot (05/31): "Policy makers and decision takers in Washington are frightened ... They have no answer to what is h [...]
2007-05-31 10:59:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1587ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that Israel is waiting for Hamas to forward it another list of Palestinian prisoners whom it proposes to exchange for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. The paper noted tha [...]
2007-06-01 10:47:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1589RESULTS OF BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 PRE-LICENSE
[...] (SBU) Acting upon reftel, Embassy Blue Lantern Officer and commercial specialist visited the office of Fury International Consultant, Ltd. in Haifa on April 18, and met with the owner and founder of the company, Shlomo Cohen. Based on the interview, the following was learned about Fury Interna [...]
2007-06-01 12:35:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC IS
07TELAVIV1604ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast: ----------- Summary: -------- Senior commentator Nahum Barnea wrote in the popular, pluralist Yediot: "The current government has three negotiation tracks that require discussion.... Each track involves great risks, but refraining from making a choice is no less dangerous. Whoe [...]
2007-06-04 10:36:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1624ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] 40th Anniversary of the Six-Day War 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Palestinian sources as saying that PM Ehud Olmert will meet on Thursday in Jericho with PA Chairman (President) Mahmoud Abbas. Israel Rad [...]
2007-06-05 11:00:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1644ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. G-8 Summit, June 6-8 ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the possibility that a military confrontation with Syria might break out this summer. The media reported that this morning the security cabinet will hold [...]
2007-06-06 10:26:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1661ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that Israeli officials are concerned about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice possibly influencing the speech SIPDIS President Bush is slated to deliver on the Mid [...]
2007-06-07 11:05:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1682AMANA SETTLER MOVEMENT REPORTEDLY BUILDING 100
[...] (C) Lt. Col. (ret.) Oded Herman, advisor to MOD Pol-Mil Director Amos Gilad, confirmed to econoff on June 7 that the Amana settlement organization will likely build 100 new housing units in the West Bank, as reported recently in Israeli and Palestinian press. He said that Amana had obtained [...]
2007-06-08 13:04:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KWBG IS
07TELAVIV1688ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-11 10:04:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1699ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Israel Labor Party Primaries 2. Mideast 2. Democracy ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz cited the belief of unnamed officials that President Bush will make new suggestions for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement in a speech slate [...]
2007-06-12 10:15:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1727ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-13 10:39:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1731CODEL LIEBERMAN DISCUSSES THE ROAD FORWARD WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with FM Tzipi Livni and PM Ehud Olmert on June 3, Senator Lieberman (CT) discussed issues regarding the Palestinian Authority (PA),the war in Iraq, and strategies for confronting the nuclear ambitions of Iran. Lieberman reassured the GOI that the US would maintain an [...]
2007-06-13 15:55:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL IS KPAL IR IZ
07TELAVIV1757ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Hamas Takeover of Gaza Strip 2. Election of Shimon Peres as President of Israel ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that on Thursday Hamas completed its takeover of the Gaza Strip. Maariv bannered: "Three States for Two Na [...]
2007-06-15 10:01:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1783ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Among the main stories over the weekend were the formation by PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas of an emergency cabinet headed by Salam Fayyad, in defiance of Hamas; the [...]
2007-06-18 09:54:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1842ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Israel: Governance ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that on Monday the US and EU lifted the embargo on the PA. The media quoted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as saying: "We intend to lift [...]
2007-06-19 12:39:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1857ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] PM Olmert's Visit to US 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on Tuesday's meeting at the White House between PM Ehud Olmert and President Bush. The media quoted the two leaders as saying publicly that they would [...]
2007-06-20 09:52:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1901ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-21 10:56:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1912ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media (banner in Yediot) quoted PM Ehud Olmert as saying at a fundraising event in Haifa on Thursday that his meeting with PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday will create a "new be [...]
2007-06-22 11:14:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1930ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-25 13:44:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1957ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that in a conciliatory address to the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh PM Ehud Olmert declared in a surprise gesture that he intends to ask the cabinet to approve the release of [...]
2007-06-26 12:07:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1972ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that on Tuesday two Qassam rockets were launched at Sderot. This morning leading electronic media reported on IDF operations in the southern Gaza StripQIs [...]
2007-06-27 10:38:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV1996ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media, except the ultra-Orthodox newspapers, led with news on the plea bargain agreement for President Moshe Katsav. As a result Katsav resigned this morning. The media reported that [...]
2007-06-29 09:14:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2022ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Global War on Terror: UK Terror Attempts ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that difficulty in finding 250 Fatah prisoners, who have been in jail for a long time but do not have "blood on their hands," [...]
2007-07-02 09:54:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2050ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-03 10:29:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2063ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-05 11:14:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2081ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-06 10:17:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2082NATO A/SYG COLSTON'S JUNE 24-26 VISIT SEES
[...] (S) NATO Assistant Secretary General (Defense Policy and Planning) John Colston told NATO embassy representatives in Tel Aviv June 26 that his 3-day visit to Israel resulted in progress on implementation of five chapters of Israel's Individual Cooperation Program (ICP). Observing NATO and Isr [...]
2007-07-06 10:25:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL NATO PTER MASS MARR IS
07TELAVIV209MFA DEBUNKS MEDIA REPORT OF PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (U) THE LEFT-LEANING DAILY HA'ARETZ RAN AN EXCLUSIVE FRONT PAGE STORY JANUARY 16 BY VETERAN JOURNALIST AKIVA ELDAR "REVEALING" THAT BACK CHANNEL ISRAELI-SYRIAN NEGOTIATIONS HAD RESULTED IN A DRAFT PEACE AGREEMENT. THESE TALKS, WHICH WERE UNDERTAKEN THROUGH UNSPECIFIED EUROPEAN MEDIATION FROM [...]
2007-01-18 13:48:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IS SY
07TELAVIV2098AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SHIMON PERES: AMBITIOUS
[...] (C) Summary. In a July 6 meeting with the Ambassador, President-elect Peres offered an ambitious agenda for his presidency, including restoring optimism to the Israeli public and reinvigorating Israel's relations with the American Jewish community. Peres thought Israel should not apply too [...]
2007-07-09 13:57:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECIN EINV JO KWBG IS
07TELAVIV2109ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-10 10:06:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2124ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Pakistan 3. Iraq 4. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz and The Jerusalem Post reported that the Arab League delegation composed of Egyptian FM Ahmed Ali Abu al-Gheit and Jordanian FM Abdelel [...]
2007-07-11 09:57:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2144ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that the visit of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, which was scheduled for next week, has been canceled. Media quoted President Bush as saying during a press co [...]
2007-07-13 10:15:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2163ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Swearing-In of Shimon Peres as President of Israel ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that today President Bush will give a special address on the Middle East, which is expected to focus on the Israeli-Palestin [...]
2007-07-16 10:32:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2173ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-17 10:19:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2177GENERALLY POSITIVE ISRAELI REACTION TO THE
[...] (C) Summary. Public commentary in Israel on the President's July 16 speech has headlined the GOI's satisfaction, including a leak from PM Olmert's office that the idea for a regional meeting originated with Olmert. Meanwhile, mainstream commentators continued to express doubts about President [...]
2007-07-17 15:26:00Embassy Tel AvivCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL XF IS
07TELAVIV2183ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed President Bush's announcement of a Middle East conference in the fall. Saying that the White House lowered expectations [...]
2007-07-18 11:54:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2210ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-19 10:24:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2221ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media continued to report on the release of 255 Palestinian prisoners this morning. The released prisoners signed a pledge not to return to terrorism and they will be welc [...]
2007-07-20 10:10:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2233ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Turkish Elections: AKP Victory ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that former British PM Tony Blair, the Quartet's special envoy to the Middle East peace process, is scheduled to arrive in the country today for [...]
2007-07-23 12:01:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2250ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Tony Blairs' Mission 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted the Quartet's Special Envoy, Tony Blair, as saying after his meeting with President Shimon Peres that: "I think there is a sense of possibility, but whethe [...]
2007-07-24 13:45:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2258ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Tony Blairs' Mission 2. Syria ------------------------- Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a new offer to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: both parties would negotiate an "agreement of principles" fo [...]
2007-07-25 10:40:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2338ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] US-Saudi Arms Deal 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------- The media reported on Sunday that the U.S. is prepared to increase military aid to Israel to ease concerns over a proposed American weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. The media cite [...]
2007-07-30 10:24:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2345ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-31 09:57:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2357ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-01 08:07:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2367ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-02 05:24:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2391ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-03 10:07:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2398ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-06 09:57:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2409ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-07 10:25:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2417ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. US Defense Aid ------------------------- Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------- The Bush administration will not be able to increase military aid to Israel next year by USD 0.5 billion due to expenditures on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel had already p [...]
2007-08-09 04:38:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2435ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-10 11:06:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2454ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post cited official Israeli assessments according to which Syria does not believe PM Ehud Olmert's public statements of reassurance that Israel has no intention of attacking S [...]
2007-08-13 10:43:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV246ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported and all major media, except Maariv and The Jerusalem Post, bannered last night's joint statement by PM Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister announcing their decision to appoi [...]
2007-01-23 11:25:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2465ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot and The Jerusalem Post reported that on Monday in Washington Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Yediot reported that Itzik thanked the Secreta [...]
2007-08-14 10:25:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2483ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Pakistan ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All major media reported that Binyamin Netanyahu won the Likud primary with 73.2 percent of the vote. Far-Right activist Moshe Feiglin garnered 23.4 percent, and World Likud Chairman D [...]
2007-08-15 10:02:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2486DEMARCHE REQUEST: GOI DENIAL/DELAY OF ENTRY TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to recent spate of incidents in which American citizens of Palestinian or other Arab origin encountered problems attempting to enter Israel, post in two separate meetings with MFA said any such discriminatory treatment could prompt us to revise our Travel Warning. Suc [...]
2007-08-15 11:28:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWBG KPAL CASC IS
07TELAVIV2491ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Israeli electronic media reported that a memorandum of understanding was signed this morning in Jerusalem between Israel and the US on the new American defense package for Israel. Unde [...]
2007-08-16 11:22:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2504ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] US Aid to Israel 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz quoted Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns as saying on Thursday that the new USD 30-billion defense package for Israel is not conditioned on [...]
2007-08-17 09:41:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2539ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Muslims in European Society ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that a week ago President Shimon Peres met in his office with Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad and that he is willing to meet with PA Chairman [Presi [...]
2007-08-21 09:47:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2543ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-22 10:00:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2557U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER LIVNI
[...] (S) Summary. In their August 16 meeting, U/S Nicholas Burns and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni discussed the just-signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on U.S. Foreign Military Financing (FMF) assistance to Israel and arms sales to the Gulf states, Iran, the situation in Gaza, Lebanon, and A [...]
2007-08-23 09:30:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PTER MASS IR LE KPAL IS
07TELAVIV2558ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-23 10:14:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2576U/S BURNS' MEETING AT ISRAEL'S MFA ON LEBANON,
[...] (S) After the August 16 signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on U.S. Security Assistance to Israel and the press conference that followed, Under Secretary Burns and his delegation participated in a roundtable discussion of issues with an Israeli MFA delegation led by MFA Director G [...]
2007-08-24 04:24:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL MASS NATO PTER KNNP UNSC SY IR EG LE IS
07TELAVIV2579ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-24 11:36:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2592ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-27 09:56:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2601ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-28 10:33:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2620ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Turkey ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on the meeting between PM Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas. The Jerusalem Post reported that on Tuesday officials from both sides ad [...]
2007-08-29 11:46:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2635U/S BURNS' AUGUST 15 MEETING WITH ISRAELI DEPUTY
[...] (S) In an August 15 meeting, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz and Under Secretary Burns discussed the Memorandum of Understanding on security assistance to Israel that would be signed the following day, U.S. efforts to ensure that security assistance to Arab partners would not jeopard [...]
2007-08-30 07:12:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETPREL PTER MASS MARR KNNP UNSC SY LE IS
07TELAVIV2636ISRAELI NGO SUES TERRORISTS, TIES UP PA MONEY
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The Government of Israel (GOI) recently reached an agreement with the Palestinian Authority (PA) to release portions of withheld Palestinian customs revenue (ref A),but a substantial portion of these funds remains frozen by court order. Israeli courts are in the process of deci [...]
2007-08-30 07:43:00Embassy Tel AvivSECRETEFIN EAID PTER KWBG IS IR
07TELAVIV2642ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Turkey ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that three Palestinian children from one family were killed in a strike against rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip. The media quoted the IDF [...]
2007-08-31 03:39:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
07TELAVIV2650ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-31 10:52:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR IS
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