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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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08SANTODOMINGO805LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: INTERNATIONAL SHIPYARD
[...] This is an action request. Please see para. 2. 2. Post requests the Department's assistance in conducting human right screening pursuant to the Leahy Amendment for the following subjects. Post has no disqualifying information. Please slug response for NAS and ECOPOL. 3. Names and id [...]
2008-05-27 20:53:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PHUM DR
08SANTODOMINGO806LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: NAVAL COMMAND COLLEGE,
[...] This is an action request. Please see para. 2. 2. Post requests the Department's assistance in conducting human right screening pursuant to the Leahy Amendment for the following subjects. Post has no disqualifying information. Please slug response for NAS and ECOPOL. Names and identif [...]
2008-05-27 20:53:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PHUM DR
08SANTODOMINGO807LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: COUNTER DRUG OPS, WHINSEC,
[...] This is an action request. Please see para. 2. 2. Post requests the Department's assistance in conducting human right screening pursuant to the Leahy Amendment for the following subjects. Post has no disqualifying information. Please slug response for NAS and ECOPOL. 3. Names and id [...]
2008-05-27 20:53:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PHUM SNAR DR
08SANTODOMINGO809LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: FOREIGN PURCHASE AND
[...] This is an action request. Please see para. 2. 2. Post requests the Department's assistance in conducting human right screening pursuant to the Leahy Amendment for the following subjects, one of whom is subject of pending reftel vetting request. Post has no disqualifying information. Ple [...]
2008-05-28 16:27:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PHUM DR
08SANTODOMINGO884ASSESSING LABOR AFTER ONE YEAR OF CAFTA-DR:
[...] Summary: In a series of meetings with labor unions, NGOs and officials from the Ministry of Labor (SET),our contacts highlighted some of the successes and continuing problems in labor rights since the entry-into-force of CAFTA-DR in the Dominican Republic in March 2007. Positive improvements [...]
2008-06-04 15:12:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI DR
08SANTODOMINGO887DOMINICAN REPUBLIC RESPONSE: FORCED LABOR AND
[...] This is in response to a Department of Labor request for a list of goods that may have been produced with child or forced labor in the Dominican Republic as mandated by the Trafficking in Victims Protection Act. 2. Post reports that the following goods, listed in paragraph four, are alleged [...]
2008-06-04 18:41:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI DR
08SANTODOMINGO929ELECTION SHOWS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The analysis of Post and other observers of the 2008 presidential election is that the Dominican democratic system has improved to the extent that widespread election day fraud, which occurred as recently as 1994, is now a thing of the past. Other strengths of Dominican democr [...]
2008-06-09 18:38:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ECON DR
08SANTODOMINGO967LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: TERRORISM AND
[...] 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. Post has no disqualifying information. Please slug response for NAS and ECOPOL. 3. Name and ide [...]
2008-06-13 16:01:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PHUM SNAR DR
08SANTODOMINGO990LEAHY VETTING REQUEST: UH-1H HELICOPTER MECHANIC
[...] 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. Post has no disqualifying information. Please slug response for NAS and ECOPOL. 3. Name and ide [...]
2008-06-19 14:30:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PHUM SNAR DR
08SAOPAULO117BRAZIL,S ECONOMIC GROWTH, INDIGENOUS RIGHTS, AND
[...] (SBU) Despite the mostly encouraging news regarding Brazil's rapid economic growth, new trade and industry development is increasingly coming into conflict with the country's indigenous communities. The demarcation of indigenous lands allows for a degree of legal protection; however, even wh [...]
2008-03-10 14:34:00Consulate Sao PauloCONFIDENTIALPHUM SCUL SOCI EAID ELAB ECON BR
08SAOPAULO119QUILOMBO COMMUNITIES SERVE AS MODERN-DAY REMINDER OF
[...] (SBU) As Brazil enjoys economic prosperity and growth, the plight of the Brazilian quilombos highlights that racial and income inequality persists. Although founded centuries ago, these communities of Afro-Brazilian slave descendants still serve as an important part of the country's legacy of [...]
2008-03-11 12:37:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SCUL SOCI BR
08SAOPAULO129BRAZIL'S WORKERS' CENTRALS GAIN LEGAL RECOGNITION,
[...] (SBU) On March 11, Brazil's Chamber of Deputies passed a bill giving legal recognition to Brazil's labor Centrals. Although they have been playing an important role in Brazilian political life for many years, the Centrals have not been considered part of the national labor system, but rather [...]
2008-03-14 15:53:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI EFIN ECON BR
08SAOPAULO170HUMAN RIGHTS AND PUBLIC SECURITY CHALLENGES IN MATO GROSSO
[...] (SBU) Mato Grosso do Sul's public security and human rights challenges are typical of those found in many Brazilian states today. The state's geographic location, sharing an international border with Bolivia and Paraguay, however, creates an additional set of public policy tests for the state [...]
2008-04-02 12:52:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV SOCI KCRM SNAR ASEC BR
08SAOPAULO171REFORMING SAO PAULO'S JUVENILE CORRECTION SYSTEM
[...] (SBU) Sao Paulo's juvenile correctional system continues to battle its image as a network of uncaring staff and unsanitary facilities that turns young petty thieves into hardened criminals. Observers agree that sustained growth and development depend on Brazil's investing in its youth, especia [...]
2008-04-03 13:00:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SOCI ASEC KCRM BR
08SAOPAULO177INDIGENOUS RIGHTS ABUSES INCREASE IN MATO GROSSO DO SUL
[...] (SBU) Mato Grosso do Sul's indigenous population faces some of the harshest conditions among the native populations of Brazil. Government officials and landowners deny the extent of human rights abuses occurring in the state, but activists and the indigenous themselves recount stories of land [...]
2008-04-04 10:10:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM EAGR SOCI SCUL BR
08SAOPAULO228SAO PAULO POLICE ACCUSED OF CRIMES AGAINST PCC LEADERS
[...] (SBU) Summary: As the second anniversary of organized criminal violence in Sao Paulo approaches (reftels),an investigation has uncovered evidence of possible civil police misconduct related to the First Capital Command (PCC) criminal gang. Two investigators have been accused of illicit wire [...]
2008-05-09 09:41:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KCRM SNAR ASEC BR
08SAOPAULO242DRUGS, ARMS AND CONTRABAND CONTINUE TO ENTER BRAZIL
[...] (SBU) Brazil continues to wrestle with the serious challenge posed by increasingly creative traffickers of drugs, arms and IPR-infringing products, according to law enforcement officials and NGO representatives in Sao Paulo and Foz do Iguacu. Growing demand, both domestic and international, [...]
2008-05-13 12:39:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KCRM SNAR KIPR SENV ASEC PARM BR
08SAOPAULO248MST "RED APRIL" SHOWS DECLINE IN ACTIVITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) is facing a significant change in its organization. The number of its members is slowly decreasing, as is the number of land invasions it carries out. Some observers cite President Lula's "Bolsa Familia" cash transfer program for the p [...]
2008-05-16 09:18:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ELAB PHUM PINS EINV PGOV SOCI ASEC BR
08SAOPAULO276CONTACTS FEAR TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS ON THE RISE
[...] (SBU) Brazil's trafficking in persons (TIP) dilemma presents a growing challenge to the law enforcement community and NGOs assisting with TIP victims. Brazil is home to some cases of agricultural forced labor as well as urban textile sweatshops where Bolivian migrants work in precarious condi [...]
2008-06-03 16:59:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV ELAB KCRM SMIG BR
08SAOPAULO39BRAZIL: NEGLECTED INDIGENOUS FACE LAND RIGHTS CHALLENGES
[...] (SBU) According to a range of Sao Paulo-based contacts, the Brazilian Government does not respect fully the territorial and cultural rights of indigenous peoples, leaving communities to subsist in squalid urban slums or neglected rural territories that represent a fraction of the lands the ind [...]
2008-01-29 09:41:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM EAGR SOCI SCUL BR
08SAOPAULO412G/TIP LAGON VISIT TO SAO PAULO REVEALS BOTH PROGRESS AND
[...] (SBU) Ambassador-at-Large Mark P. Lagon, Director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),visited Sao Paulo on June 26-27 as part of a multi-city trip to Brazil. Ambassador Lagon met with both federal and state-level members of the judicial and la [...]
2008-07-30 15:33:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF KCRM PHUM ELAB KTIP BR
08SAOPAULO432SUGAR, ETHANOL, CHARGES OF SLAVERY, AND TIP STRATEGY IN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-08 16:32:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF KCRM PHUM ELAB EAGR ENRG BR
08SAOPAULO56POOR SAO PAULO PRISON CONDITIONS CONTINUE TO POSE SERIOUS
[...] (SBU) Although state authorities emphasize that they are working hard on introducing new plans to address deficiencies in Sao Paulo's penitentiaries, reputed to have Brazil's best-organized and well-run jails and detention centers, local prison watchers tell us that conditions are in an abysma [...]
2008-02-08 10:46:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM SNAR ASEC BR
08SAOPAULO66POOR PRISON CONDITIONS FUEL GROWTH OF PCC CRIMINAL
[...] (SBU) According to Sao Paulo-based public security analysts, poor prison conditions in the state are a major contributing reason for the expansion of the First Capital Command (PCC) network into one of the most powerful gangs in Sao Paulo's criminal world. While state authorities argue that a [...]
2008-02-15 08:53:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SOCI KCRM SNAR ASEC BR
08SAOPAULO678SAO PAULO STATE ORGANIZES TIP MEETING
[...] (U) Summary: The State of Sao Paulo and the Secretary of Justice and Citizen Defense organized a broad-based meeting for NGOs and government agencies dedicated to fighting Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in Sao Paulo on December 16. Panelists stressed their commitment to "institutionalizing" th [...]
2008-12-19 17:05:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIEDPREF KCRM PHUM ELAB KTIP BR
08SAOPAULO87SAO PAULO STATE SLOWLY ADDRESSES PRISON CONDITIONS (3 OF 3)
[...] (SBU) Sao Paulo State officials candidly admit that a host of challenges exist within the state penitentiary system but tell us they are working hard on addressing the prison network's shortcomings. According to state authorities, the cash-strapped Secretariat for Prison Administration (SAP) [...]
2008-02-22 12:53:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SOCI ASEC BR
08SARAJEVO1036BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR THE JUNE 24-25 PEACE
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The June 24-25 Peace Implementation Council (PIC) will take place in the warm glow of Bosnia's June 16 signing of its Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) with the EU. Though this fulfills one of the two conditions set by the PIC in February for closure of OHR. Prog [...]
2008-06-18 16:53:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR PHUM KAWC MARR ECON EAID EU
08SARAJEVO1056BOSNIA - TIHIC THROWS SUPPORT BEHIND DURAKOVIC FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 19, the Party for Democratic Action (SDA) announced that it would nominate Camil Durakovic, the notorious leader of the Srebrenica separatist movement and organizer of the Srebrenica tent settlement, as their candidate for mayor of Srebrenica. Several senior SDA members h [...]
2008-06-23 09:52:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINR KAWC KJUS BK
08SARAJEVO1087BOSNIA - WHERE WE ARE PROSECUTING THE SREBRENICA
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: As the thirteenth anniversary of the genocide that took place in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 approaches, we thought it would be useful to review the progress made and the challenges faced by the State Prosecutor's Office Special Department for War Crimes (SDWC) investiga [...]
2008-07-02 14:42:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR KCRM KAWC PHUM BK
08SARAJEVO1112BOSNIA-SDA MAKES LAST MINUTE SREBRENICA SWITCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 7, the deadline for registering candidates for the October 2008 municipal elections, the Party for Democratic Action (SDA) submitted Osman Suljic to be its candidate for the Srebrenica mayoral race. Following several days of discussions with SDA leadership, SDA President [...]
2008-07-08 16:59:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINR KAWC KJUS BK
08SARAJEVO1193BOSNIA - DODIK REMAINS TOP DOG IN THE RS DESPITE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During his 2006 election campaign, Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik promised the RS public that he would revitalize the RS oil industry and the Gacko thermo power plant, finish the highway connecting Banja Luka to Croatia, and build a comprehensive network of hig [...]
2008-07-24 16:26:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM ECON KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1227BOSNIA - A VISIBLY UPSET DODIK DIMISSES USG
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik responded angrily to a letter from Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried, which outlined USG concerns about statements and actions by Dodik that created the impression that Dodik believed the RS can take a path separate form Bosnia as a [...]
2008-07-30 15:10:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM KJUS PINR EUN BK KDEM PHUM
08SARAJEVO1231BOSNIA - THE LONG, SAD SAGA OF BOSNIA'S HUMAN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The appointment of a single state-level Ombudsman for human rights, a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) and Council of Europe post-accession requirement, remains incomplete almost two years after the Bosnian parliament adopted legislation mandating it. The initial att [...]
2008-07-31 08:50:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM EAID BK
08SARAJEVO1260BITTER POLITICAL STANDOFF OVER STOLAC SECONDARY
[...] (SBU) Summary: With Bosnia-Herzegovina's local elections looming in October, the future of the Stolac Secondary School in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton remains the political hot button of choice for local and cantonal politicians looking to energize their electorate and mobilize voters. The a [...]
2008-08-05 08:33:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBK PGOV PHUM SCUL
08SARAJEVO1265NEW DEATH THREAT TO RS HELSINKI COMMISSION STAFF,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Republika Srpska Helsinki Citizens' Committee (HCC) received a death threat against its president, Branko Todorovic, and members of his family on July 31. Todorovic speculated that the threat is possibly linked to rogue elements (or former members) of RS intelligence and p [...]
2008-08-05 14:51:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM BO
08SARAJEVO1312TIP: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS HOTLINE NUMBERS FOR
[...] (U) In response to reftel, post provides the following information on TIP hotlines in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). It is worth noting that the situation in BiH is made more complex, both legally and practically, by the existence of the two entities in BiH (the Federation of BiH and the Republ [...]
2008-08-14 05:45:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL BO
08SARAJEVO1406BOSNIA: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE HUMAN RIGHTS DEMARCHE
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on September 3 to Minister Counselor Sanja Kenig-Corovic, MFA Head of Department for the UN and other International Organizations. Ms. Kenig-Corovic informed us that her government would take a position on each of the human righs issues addressed by the UNGA Th [...]
2008-09-03 14:45:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UN BK
08SARAJEVO1418BOSNIA: SCENESETTER FOR DAS JONES' SEPTEMBER 8-9
[...] (C) SUMMARY: You are coming to Bosnia at a time when rising ethnic nationalism, a weakened Office of High Representative (OHR) and threats by Russia to break off cooperation with its partners in the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) have brought reform to a standstill and could potentially t [...]
2008-09-04 18:07:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKJUS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL EU BK
08SARAJEVO1449BOSNIA -- A HOUSE DIVIDED: MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The campaign to register 1991 residents of Srebrenica to vote in municipal elections there has leveled the political playing field in the municipality for Bosniaks, whose demographic profile in Srebrenica reflects the genocide and ethnic cleansing that took place in and around the [...]
2008-09-11 13:28:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PINR KAWC KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1476BOSNIA - PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS IN WAR CRIMES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Earlier this month, the State Prosecutor's Office publicly debuted its demographic analysis and new case selection criteria for war crimes cases. The demographic analysis identifies the timeframes and places in which significant numbers of people were killed during the 1992-199 [...]
2008-09-16 15:38:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ICTY KAWC KJUS KCRM BK
08SARAJEVO1481BOSNIA - DISENFRANCHISEMENT IN POSAVINA LEAVES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Central Election Commission (CEC) decided on September 9 not to approve voter registration applications for 2,084 Croats from the Posavina region (details of the Croats' dilemma are reported reftel). The party that helped spearhead the effort to register these Croats is laun [...]
2008-09-17 08:12:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1484BOSNIA - SERBS AND CROATS ANGRY OVER DELIC VERDICT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The September 15 decision by the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to acquit Rasim Delic on several charges of murder and cruel treatment and to sentence him to just three years in prison received prominent press coverage in Bosnia. Delic was found guilty on [...]
2008-09-17 15:04:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ICTY KAWC KJUS KCRM BK
08SARAJEVO1492BOSNIA - DIVISIONS, DIVISIONS, AND MORE DIVISIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 9, as part of his two day visit to Bosnia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Stuart Jones met with Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik and had dinner with political leaders from the six parties that make up Bosnia's state-level go [...]
2008-09-18 13:31:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL KJUS EU BK
08SARAJEVO1494BOSNIA - DAS JONES' SEPTEMBER 8-9 VISIT TO SARAJEVO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During his September 8-9 visit to Sarajevo Deputy Assistant Secretary Stuart Jones met with Republika Srpska Prime Minister (RS PM) Milorad Dodik and attended a dinner hosted by the Ambassador with leaders from coalition parties and the leading opposition party (both events repor [...]
2008-09-18 15:15:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKJUS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL EU BK
08SARAJEVO1507BOSNIA - SDA ISSUES WARNING TO DODIK AND THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Party of Democratic Action (SDA) main board on September 20 adopted a declaration that: decried the "perpetual and systematic obstruction" of Dayton by "some politicians" (read: Republika Srpska PM Dodik); stressed that Dayton had not been implemented; underscored that it was [...]
2008-09-23 13:29:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1518BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC STOKES THE FLAMES OF A RESTIVE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Bosniak Tri-Presidency member Haris Silajdzic has ratcheted up his anti-Republika Srpska (RS) rhetoric, this time tking his vitriol to the international stage. Hedelivered his most recent potshot during his Septmber 23 speech to the UN General Assembly, at whic he declared -- as [...]
2008-09-25 14:13:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1531BOSNIA - REPUBLIKA SRPSKA ATTACKS ON MISSING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Republika Srpska (RS) authorities have taken a series of steps that undermine the ability of the state-level Missing Persons Institute (MPI) to locate, exhume, and identify victims of the 1992-1995 war. MPI was designed to search for missing individuals without regard to ethnicit [...]
2008-09-29 09:59:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KAWC KJUS BK
08SARAJEVO1553BOSNIA - AGREEMENT ON CENSUS? DON'T COUNT ON IT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Underscoring growing political intransigence on key reforms, Bosnian leaders sharply diverge on the data to include in a country-wide census, which Bosnia has not conducted since 1991. The EU-Bosnia Partnership Agreement -- a non-binding document outlining reforms the EU deems n [...]
2008-10-03 11:32:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1575BOSNIA - COUNCIL OF EUROPE REPORT PLAYS INTO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on September 30 adopted a resolution on Bosnia that -- inter alia -- calls for a new constitution by October 2010 that: 1) reforms entity voting; 2) narrows the "vital national interest" protections; 3) allows "others" to [...]
2008-10-07 13:14:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1593BOSNIA - MUNICIPAL ELECTION RESULTS UNLIKELY TO CHANGE DOWNWARD POLITICAL TRAJECTORY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-10 16:34:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALBK KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
08SARAJEVO1598BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR HIGHREP'S OCTOBER 20-21
[...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Miroslav Lajcak will visit Washington on October 20-21 as part of his consultations with Peace Implementation Council (PIC) capitals prior to the November 19-20 PIC. Lajcak's stop in Washington follows visits earlier this month to Quint capitals, Brussels, and [...]
2008-10-14 14:55:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KAWC KDEM PHUM BK
08SARAJEVO1599BOSNIA - PUBLIC BROADCAST REFORM: BAD NEWS
[...] (C) Summary: Public Broadcast Reform, though a prerequisite for the signing of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA),remains incomplete, and recently suffered two notable setbacks. On September 17, Croat and Serb parliamentarians joined forces and passed over the objections of [...]
2008-10-15 09:12:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM KPAO BK
08SARAJEVO1613BOSNIA - RS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY REAFFIRMS RIGHT TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following calls in September by Bosniak Tri-Presidency member Haris Silajdzic for the abolition of the RS, the Republika Srpska National Assembly (RSNA) held a special session on October 13 and 15, at which it adopted a resolution implying the right of the RS to hold a referendum [...]
2008-10-16 14:28:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1614BOSNIA: SREBRENICA MAYOR'S OFFICE RETAINED BY
[...] (C) Summary: SDA candidate Osman Suljic won the mayor's office of Srebrenica, carrying with him a significant number of seats for the SDA-SBiH coalition in the municipal assembly, though fewer than SDA previously held. The resounding defeat of SDP's Hakija Meholjic, and the cooperative tone [...]
2008-10-16 15:19:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1655BOSNIA - BACKSLIDING ON BRCKO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: With the municipal elections behind us and the November PIC approaching, OHR and Bosnian leaders are again discussing the five objectives and two conditions for OHR closure. Among the outstanding objectives is the completion of the Brcko Final Award, which requires the Superviso [...]
2008-10-24 15:57:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1703BOSNIA - DODIK FAILS TO DELIVER DOCUMENTS TO STATE
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Despite public and private promises, including an October 23 commitment to the Ambassador, Republika Srpska PM Milorad Dodik and his government have yet to comply with a request for RS government documents from the State Prosecutor's Office. The State Prosecutor had reiterat [...]
2008-11-04 14:20:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM KCRM KJUS BK
08SARAJEVO1725BOSNIA: REPUBLIKA SRPSKA MOVES ON PROPERTY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 4, the Republika Srpska National Assembly (RSNA) passed, on its first reading, a draft law on the restitution of property which would address outstanding property issues for victims of expropriation, nationalization, and forcible donation, including properties lost dur [...]
2008-11-07 18:12:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF ECON PINR KJUS BK
08SARAJEVO1728BOSNIA - DODIK, TIHIC, COVIC AGREE TO A POLITICAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 8, Bosnia's three main political party leaders -- Sulejman Tihic, Dragan Covic, and Milorad Dodik -- issued a joint statement outlining a common approach to a number of controversial issues. The statement deals with constitutional reform, state and defense property, th [...]
2008-11-10 18:48:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1734BOSNIA - STATE PROSECUTOR REQUESTS TEMPORARY
[...] (C/NF) In light of the Republika Srpska (RS) government's failure to submit documents needed for an inquiry into corruption associated with government building and other contracts in the RS, the State Prosecutor's Office on Monday requested a temporary seizure order from the State Court, whi [...]
2008-11-13 07:54:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM KCRM KJUS BK
08SARAJEVO1738BOSNIA - HIGHREP PROPOSES "NO CONTACT" POLICY WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The ongoing confrontation between Republika Srpska PM Milorad Dodik, the RS government and state-level law enforcement and judicial authorities intensified on November 13. The RS government issued a defiant statement asserting that it "had no legal obligation" to comply with a re [...]
2008-11-13 18:04:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KJUS KDEM PHUM BK
08SARAJEVO1739BOSNIA - POLITICAL MANEUVERING BEFORE THE PIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Going into next week's PIC, most Bosnian leaders are capitalizing on a climate of relative political optimism created by the three-party agreement that Milorad Dodik, Sulejman Tihic, and Dragan Covic reached on November 8 (reftel). Tihic, Covic, and Dodik have put elements of thei [...]
2008-11-13 19:17:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1789BOSNIA: RS GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES PLANS TO APPEAL
[...] (C/NF) On November 20, contacts at the State Prosecutor's Office told us that the RS government has not yet complied with the temporary seizure order that was requested by the State Prosecutor's Office for its preliminary investigation into corruption associated with RS government building and [...]
2008-11-24 17:00:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM KJUS KCRM BK
08SARAJEVO1795BOSNIA - POSSIBLE BREAKTHROUGH IN THE RS/STATE
[...] (C/NF) We understand from contacts at the State Prosecutor's Office that the Republika Srpska (RS) government handed over today some of the documents requested by the State Prosecutor's Office for its investigation into corruption associated with government building and other contracts to St [...]
2008-11-26 17:03:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM KJUS KCRM BK
08SARAJEVO1803BOSNIA - RS GOVERNMENT FILES CRIMINAL SUIT AGAINST
[...] (U) The Republika Srpska government on November 27 filed "criminal charges" with the State Prosecutor's Office against Principal Deputy Representative Raffi Gregorian, Acting Chief Prosecutor Milorad Barasin, and seven other individuals in connection with the State Prosecutor's investigation [...]
2008-11-28 17:29:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM KCRM KJUS BK
08SARAJEVO1811BOSNIA - MAYORALTY BATTLES MAY THREATEN TENUOUS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the October 5 municipal elections, parties are measuring their strength not only in terms of the number of mayoralties and city council positions they hold, but in the concentration of power in the areas of importance to each ethnic group. As such, the Croatian Democrati [...]
2008-12-03 18:14:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1832BOSNIA - PIC REITERATES COMMITMENT TO 5-PLUS-2,
[...] (C) Summary: At the November 19-20 PIC, HiRep Lajcak and PIC members underscored their commitment to seeing the 5-plus-2 benchmarks and conditions met in full prior to OHR closure and transition to EUSR, but stressed a desire be in a position to make a decision on transition at the next PIC m [...]
2008-12-05 13:53:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PHUM KCRM KDEM EU BK
08SARAJEVO1861BOSNIA - CROAT COUNCIL PROPOSAL STRIKES A
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Prime Ministers of the three Croat-majority cantons declared on December 9 that they intend to form an Inter-Cantonal Council by the end of December. The chairmen of the two parties that lead these cantons -- the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)-1990 and the Croatian Party of [...]
2008-12-13 15:54:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1862BOSNIA: DODIK CROSSES THE LINE WITH ATTACK AGAINST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The conflict between Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, his government, and state-level judicial institutions over the State Prosecutor's preliminary investigation into corruption in the RS rose to new heights the week of December 8. Dodik, whose government has been [...]
2008-12-14 15:22:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM KCRM KJUS BK
08SARAJEVO1868BOSNIA - MESIC AND DODIK GO AT IT AGAIN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Croatian President Stjepan Mesic's strong criticisms of Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Dodik in a December 8 speech in New York provoked a sharp reaction from Dodik and an even fiercer counterattack from Dodik's political allies and the RS media. Mesic referred to Dodik as [...]
2008-12-15 14:18:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PHUM KDEM KISL IR BK
08SARAJEVO1869BOSNIA - PROGRESS ON PRUD AGREEMENT SLOW AND SHAKY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A month after the signing of the November 8 Prud Agreement (Ref A),the leaders of all three signatory parties continue to profess their support for the document. However, intra-party rifts, quibbling over details, continued concern over the element of the Agreement pertaining to [...]
2008-12-15 16:55:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1894BOSNIA - RETURN OF ALGERIANS SPARKS BOSNIAK MEDIA
[...] (S) SUMMARY: The return of the first three members of the "Algerian Six" from Guantanamo has been the top news item for much of the Bosnian media since their arrival on December 16. The detainees' return has sparked a media battle between the two Bosniak-led dailies, one portraying the detaine [...]
2008-12-22 16:30:00Embassy SarajevoSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER BK
08SARAJEVO1900BOSNIA - AMBASSADOR VISITS SREBRENICA, PUSHES
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador English visited Srebrenica December 16 to inaugurate two USAID-funded projects and one new American-backed investment. He also met with newly-elected Mayor of Srebrenica Osman Suljic, who named his municipal team at the inaugural session of the Srebrenica assembly on [...]
2008-12-24 06:37:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO1906BOSNIA - HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMEN (FINALLY) TAKE
[...] (SBU) On December 4, after more than two years of political wrangling, Bosnia and Herzegovina's three new state-level ombudsmen for human rights issues finally took office. The inaugural session of the ombudsman institution took place December 15, with a formal hand-over of responsibility fro [...]
2008-12-29 13:37:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV BK
08SARAJEVO1911BOSNIA - TIHIC OFFERS HAND OF COMPROMISE, BUT
[...] (C) Summary: In a December 26 press conference, Party of Democratic Action (SDA) chairman Sulejman Tihic called on Bosniaks to abandon the politics of victimhood and stressed that compromise with Serbs and Croats is the only path to a stable Bosnia. Tihic also attacked rival Bosniak politician [...]
2008-12-30 15:56:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO202BOSNIA: ABU HAMZA SUPPORTERS RALLY TO OPPOSE
[...] (C) A rally in support of former mujahedeen Imad al Husein AKA Abu Hamza took place in Zenica over the weekend. The rally occurred in the wake of a State Court decision upholding the revocation of Abu Hamza's Bosnian citizenship. The demonstration featured an address by Abu Hamza in which he [...]
2008-02-04 16:37:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL PTER BK FR
08SARAJEVO290BOSNIA - DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST VIOLENT CRIME
[...] (U) The February 5 murder of a youth by other juveniles on a Sarajevo tram has focused popular attention on the perception of a growing problem with violent juvenile crime in Bosnia. The murder follows on the heels of other high profile crimes committed by minors including the deliberate immo [...]
2008-02-13 17:03:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KCRM BK
08SARAJEVO350BOSNIA - ONE YEAR POST ICJ VERDICT, MUCH PROGRESS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In February 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict that genocide was committed in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 unleashed pent-up Bosniak anger about the 1992-1995 war. Bosniak political leaders exploited the verdict in order to advance their own narrow, nati [...]
2008-02-21 18:32:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KCRM KAWC KDEM PHUM BK
08SARAJEVO398BOSNIA - SUBMISSION FOR 2008 TIP REPORT
[...] (U) Summary: This cable constitutes Post's submission for the 2008 TIP report for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Post's point of contact for trafficking issues is Poloff Danielle Harms, phone 387-33-445-700 x2312, fax 387-33-659-722, e-mail HarmsDA@state.gov. Time spent in preparing report: Po [...]
2008-03-03 06:55:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
08SARAJEVO532BOSNIA - DODIK FORCED TO WITHDRAW PROPOSAL TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The international community and civil society groups scored a victory this week in blocking a move that would have walked back a key democratic gain in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This came on March 19, when Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik withdrew a proposal to eliminate the [...]
2008-03-21 17:44:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM SOCI ECON BK
08SARAJEVO735BOSNIA - LOOMING POLITICAL CRISIS OVER SREBRENICA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Central Election Commission (CEC) plans to announce on May 8 that municipal elections will take place on October 5. In Srebrenica, Bosniaks currently hold the mayoralty and majority of the 27 seats on the Municipal Assembly (17; Serbs hold the other 10 seats). There is a r [...]
2008-04-23 13:49:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM KAWC BK
08SARAJEVO816BOSNIA - PARLIAMENT ADOPTS SREBRENICA ELECTION LAW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 7, Bosnia's Parliamentary Assembly adopted an amendment to the BiH Election Law that will allow all 1991 residents of Srebrenica Municipality the option to vote there in the upcoming October 2008 municipal elections. The amendment was supported by every major political party [...]
2008-05-07 17:02:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PHUM KDEM BK
08SARAJEVO818BOSNIA - RESPONSE TO ACTIVISTS FOR DEMOCRACY AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-08 12:16:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL BK
08SARAJEVO829BOSNIA - 2008 PROJECT PROPOSAL FOR PRM
[...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraphs 3 and 4. 2. (U) In response to PRM's announced renewal of the Ambassador's Fund for Refugees for the eighth year (ref),we have identified a critical gap in returnee assistance and protection for FY 08. Last year, PRM provided funding for the p [...]
2008-05-09 12:16:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL BK
08SARAJEVO870BOSNIA - DISCUSSIONS WITH SDA LEADERSHIP ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 15, we met two senior officials from the Bosniak Party for Democratic Action (SDA) -- Federation Vice President Mirsad Kebo and state-level parliamentarian Bakir Izetbegovic -- to discuss the party's plans to the October municipal elections, particularly the steps SDA was t [...]
2008-05-19 08:47:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM PHUM PTER IR BK
08SARAJEVO871BOSNIA - DISCUSSIONS WITH SDA LEADERSHIP ON
[...] (C) Summary: On May 15, we met two senior officials from the Bosniak Party for Democratic Action (SDA) -- Federation Vice President Mirsad Kebo and state-level parliamentarian Bakir Izetbegovic -- to discuss the party's plans for the October municipal elections, particularly the steps SDA was [...]
2008-05-19 11:15:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM PHUM PTER IR BK
08SARAJEVO90BOSNIA - DODIK'S ATTACKS ON PRESS AND NGOS RAISE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 10, Embassy officers and representatives of the International Community met with non-governmental organizations and independent media outlets in Banja Luka to discuss concerns over the deterioration of press freedom and freedom of speech in the Republika Srpska (RS). [...]
2008-01-15 15:38:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KMDR BK
08SARAJEVO93BOSNIA - ABU HAMZA, THE CRC, AND EXTREMISTS: A
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Citizenship Review Commission (CRC) has completed its review of the decisions on naturalization made by Bosnian government officials on behalf of former mujahedeen who came to fight for the Republic of Bosnia during the 1992-1995 war. Elements of the Bosnian government, notab [...]
2008-01-16 09:05:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PTER BK
08SECTIN03OF03KABUL3036DISCUSSIONS ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS LAW AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-24 10:13:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM KTIP AF
08SECTION01OF03CAIRO1416CODEL ACKERMAN MEETIGS WITH MUBARAK, SULEIMAN, AND ABOUL GHEIT
[...] (C) Summary: In separate June 28 eetings with President Hosni Mubarak, EGIS Direcor Omar Suleiman, and FM Ahmed Aboul Gheit, CODELAckerman and the Ambassador discussed Israeli-Paestinian developments (focusing on Egypt's goalsfor building upon the current "calming period"),Eypt's regional rela [...]
2008-07-07 13:55:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL KPAL EAID ENRG IS
08SECTION01OF04HARARE754ZIMBABWEAN HUMANITARIAN CRISIS WORSENING AS BAN
[...] (SBU) The Mugabe government continues to deny nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and private voluntary organizations (PVOs) access to 1.3 million at-risk Zimbabweans to provide food, water, seed, fertilizer, and hygienic support. Currently, less than 300,000 people are receiving assistance [...]
2008-08-28 15:11:00Embassy HarareCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC EAID PHUM ZI
08SEOUL1008MAY 21 - DAY OF SOLIDARITY (PART II)
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-16 04:20:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKDEM PHUM PREL EUN CU KS
08SEOUL1021EMBASSY SEOUL, KOREAN NGOS SHOW SOLIDARITY WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador on May 19 hosted a lunch meeting with Burmese exiles residing in South Korea and the South Korean NGOs supporting the exiles. In brief remarks before the South Korean press present at the event, the Ambassador conveyed the U.S.'s deep concern over the growing human [...]
2008-05-20 04:16:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PGOV PHUM BM PREL
08SEOUL1060ROK IN SYNC WITH U.S. POSITIONS ON BURMA AID
[...] (C) Seo Eunji, MOFAT Deputy Director for Humanitarian Assistance, said on May 23 that the ROK had the same views as the U.S. concerning the priorities of the May 25 conference. The ROK was concerned about the lack of access granted by Burmese officials to international humanitarian aid workers, [...]
2008-05-23 07:46:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PGOV PHUM BM EAID
08SEOUL1086NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION RELUCTANTLY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 28 meeting with POL M/C, National Human Rights Commission Commissioner Yoo Nam-young and colleagues explained that the Commission is complying with a Blue House request to complete a study of human rights conditions in North Korea by the end of the year, after largely ig [...]
2008-05-28 23:52:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS KN PGOV PHUM
08SEOUL1141INVITATION TO CONFERENCE IN SEOUL ON UNITED
[...] (C) MOFAT delivered a diplomatic note to Post on June 3 concerning a Letter of Invitation to the International Conference on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, titled, "United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Major Achievements and Implications for Policy Development," to be held in Seoul [...]
2008-06-05 07:31:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PGOV PHUM UN
08SEOUL1215ROK URGED BURMA TO ACCEPT AID WORKERS, INCLUDING
[...] (C) Hong Sang-hun, MOFAT Deputy Director for Humanitarian Assistance, said on June 9 that the ROK had urged Burma to fully implement measures permitting humanitarian assistance personnel, regardless of nationality, to travel to areas affected by Cyclone Nargis in dire need of relief assistance. [...]
2008-06-18 01:14:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PGOV PHUM BM EAID
08SEOUL1317ROK STILL IN AGREEMENT WITH U.S. ON BURMA POLICY
[...] (C) Hong Sang-hun, MOFAT Deputy Director for Humanitarian Assistance, said that ROK policy on Burma had not changed (reftels). The ROK had finished providing humanitarian assistance to Burma, but would still press Burma publicly and privately that further such assistance would depend on full [...]
2008-07-01 07:50:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PGOV PHUM BM
08SEOUL1371ROK TO SEEK CONSULAR RELATONS WITH CUBA AND SYRIA
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 8 meeting with the DCM, ROK Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Yong-joon said that ROKG would soon begin negotiations on establishing consular relations with Cuba and Syria. DFM Lee was adamant, however, that this was not a first step toward full diplomatic relations with Cuba. [...]
2008-07-09 08:11:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CU SY KS
08SEOUL1391ROKG INCLINED TO SUPPORT REVISITING HRF ECOSOC
[...] (C) PolOff conveyed to MOFAT reftel talking points in support of according the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) ECOSOC consultative NGO status. The MOFAT Human Rights and Social Affairs Division responded that the ROKG did not have enough information about the HRF at this time to commit to suppo [...]
2008-07-11 05:55:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKN KS PGOV AORC UN NGO PHUM
08SEOUL1757ROK SAYS "NO" TO HOSTING APDP SENIOR OFFICIALS'
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-05 06:00:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV PHUM KS
08SEOUL1820ROK RECONSIDERING HOSTING APDP MEETING; REQUESTS
[...] (C) Summary: This is an action request. The ROK is giving positive consideration to hosting the Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership (APDP) Senior Officials' Meeting (ref A),the Deputy Foreign Minister for Multilateral, Global, and Legal Affairs Oh Joon told the DCM on September 12. Oh said, [...]
2008-09-12 05:36:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KS
08SEOUL1847ROK CLOSE TO AGREEMENT TO HOST APDP; REQUESTS U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: Based on the Department's answers to his queries (refs B-D),Deputy Foreign Minister for Multilateral, Global, and Legal Affairs Oh Joon told the DCM on September 17 that he would recommend to the Foreign Minister that the ROK agree to host the Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership [...]
2008-09-17 07:54:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KS
08SEOUL1859ROK AGREES TO HOST APDP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-18 06:57:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KS
08SEOUL1947US-ROK CONSULATIONS ON NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS: NO CHANGES IN DPRK, ROKG MORE ASSERTIVE
[...] (C) In the third and final consultation session between delegations headed respectively by EAP DAS Alex Arvizu and MOFAT Director General for Korean Peninsula Peace Regime Huh Chul on September 25, ROK officials said that they discerned no significant improvement in the human rights situation i [...]
2008-10-06 03:11:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKN KS PGOV PREL PHUM
08SEOUL2000US-ROK CONSULTATIONS ON DPRK HUMANITARIAN
[...] (C) Summary: At the second of three meetings between a U.S. delegation led by DAS Alex Arvizu and a ROKG delegation led by MOFAT DG for Korean Peninsula Peace Regime Huh Chul on September 24, Huh said the ROK would consider additional contributions of food aid or fertilizer to the DPRK only a [...]
2008-10-10 07:28:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KS KN
08SEOUL2078AMBASSADOR HOSTS SCHOLTE TO CONGRATULATE ON SEOUL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador hosted a luncheon in honor of the 2008 Seoul Peace Prize recipient and North Korean human rights activist Suzanne Scholte on October 11, 2008. Scholte reflected on her twelve years of experience working to improve the human rights of North Koreans and highlighted [...]
2008-10-23 05:01:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KS KN
08SEOUL2166ROK EMBRACES ITS ROLE AS CHAIR OF FIRST APDP SOM
[...] (U) Summary: The Republic of Korea hosted and chaired the first Senior Officials' Meeting (SOM) of the Asia-Pacific Democracy Partnership (APDP) in Seoul on October 31, 2008. Twelve countries participated: Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, New Zealand, the Philippines, the [...]
2008-11-05 06:57:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV PHUM KS
08SEOUL2182ROKG ON UN THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS
[...] (C) On November 6 and 7, Poloff presented reftel demarche points to MOFAT North America Division I Director Moon Sook-hyeong and UN Human Rights Division Director Chang Jae-bok. MOFAT confirmed that the ROKG would vote to block no-action motions on all three of the resolutions, in keeping wit [...]
2008-11-07 08:53:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KS
08SEOUL2248PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE JUNTA'S LATEST CRACKDOWN
[...] (C) MOFAT's Director of the Southeast Asia Division Kim Young-chae said in response to reftel demarche that the ROKG's inclination was to take a non-confrontational, indirect approach with Burma. Korea's interactions with Burma were so limited, he said, that he did not see how the ROK, acting [...]
2008-11-21 04:51:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL BM KS
08SEOUL2305HELP FOR NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS: PRIVATE CHARITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff visited two government supported and two private institutions for helping student-age North Korean defectors: Hanawon, the re-education center where all defectors spend two months on arrival; Hangyerae School, where 220 students live and study; the Heavenly Dream School, [...]
2008-12-02 09:07:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV KS KN
08SEOUL2306NEW NGO REVEALS ABUSE AT PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN DPRK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the November 18 inaugural gathering of Campaign for North Korean Freedom (NK Freedom),Yonsei University Associate Professor of Law Hong Seong-phil explained that the group's founding was based on the notion that defectors needed to take ownership of the North Korean human r [...]
2008-12-02 22:11:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PGOV PROP KTIP KS KN
08SEOUL2402DAY IN LIFE OF NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS IN SOUTH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff attended the second annual group wedding for four North Korean defector couples organized by a South Korean NGO. The couples were grateful for the ceremony, which they postponed because of lack of funding. Poloff also met with two of the brides to discuss their experien [...]
2008-12-15 08:23:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PINR KS KN
08SEOUL336NO CHANGE IN ROK POSITION ON FULL ISRAELI
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-20 09:06:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SZ AA IS KS LI NZ
08SEOUL474NGO CONTACTS UNAWARE OF UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW
[...] (U) Embassy contacts in Korea's NGO community were unaware of the UN Human Rights Council's new Universal Periodic Review special mechanism, and, consequently, did not submit input to the review. As noted in reftel, the deadline for Korean NGOs to participate has passed. VERSHBOW [...]
2008-03-11 07:42:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL IO DRL KS UN
08SEOUL502ROK AGREES WITH US VIEWS ON IRAN'S PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (C) Kwak Sung-kyu, MOFAT Director for Middle Eastern Affairs, said that the ROK agreed with all of the reftel points detailing the U.S.'s assessment of the March 14 parliamentary elections. Instead of a public statement condemning the elections, however, Kim believed that a statement that exp [...]
2008-03-14 00:01:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS IR KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL
08SEOUL560ROK WILL SUPPORT CALLS FOR GREATER PARTICIPATION
[...] (C) In a March 19 meeting with poloff, Han Woo-yong, MOFAT Deputy Director for Southeast Asian Affairs, said in response to reftel points that the ROK has consistently expressed its desire for authentic democratization in Burma to Burmese officials. As such, it would have no problem urging Bur [...]
2008-03-20 07:18:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PGOV PHUM BM
08SEOUL561ROK SUPPORTS HRC SPECIAL MANDATES FOR NORTH KOREA,
[...] (C) In a March 19 meeting with poloff, Jang Hyun-cheol, MOFAT Deputy Director for Human Rights, said that the ROK will vote to extend the special mandate for the Special Rapporteur for North Korean Human Rights in the U.N. Human Rights Council. Furthermore, the ROK also supported the continua [...]
2008-03-20 07:18:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS KN BM PGOV PHUM PREL
08SEOUL562ROK WILL CONSIDER JOINT DEMARCHE TO INDONESIA,
[...] (C) In a March 20 meeting, Jang Hyun-cheol, MOFAT Deputy Director for Human Rights and Social Affairs, said that the ROK would consider the proposal to jointly demarche Indonesia on the non-paper and Indonesia's active participation in the Asia-Pacific Democracy Partnership (APDP). Mr. Jang sa [...]
2008-03-20 07:18:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PGOV PHUM
08SEOUL645CONGRESSMAN ROHRABACHER'S MEETINGS IN SEOUL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, met separately with ROK Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan and members of the National Assembly on March 25 to advocate several proposed initiatives. Foremost on the list was the Congressman's propos [...]
2008-04-01 04:43:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR ENRG KNNP PHUM KS KN IRAQ
08SEOUL833ROK NOT ABLE TO SPONSOR PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-25 09:09:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KS EUN
08SEOUL878ROKG REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR RE-ELECTION TO HUMAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade has written to the Secretary of State to request that the USG support the ROKG's re-election to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) for the 2008-2011 term at the UN General Assembly in May (see text below). Recommendation: Post supports the [...]
2008-04-29 08:37:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKS PHUM PREL UNGA
08SEOUL879SOUTH KOREAN ANGER AT CHINESE STUDENTS' VIOLENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On Sunday, April 27, Chinese students studying in Korea who had gathered for the procession of the Olympic torch through downtown Seoul violently attacked South Korean demonstrators who were protesting China's treatment of North Korean refugees and Tibet. Unlike in other parts of [...]
2008-04-29 08:39:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PGOV PHUM CH
08SEOUL896ROK REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES: NEAPSM AND NORTH KOREAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 30, POL M/C met with MOFAT Director General for the Korean Peninsula Peace Regime Bureau, Huh Chul, to discuss regional issues including a Northeast Asia Peace and Security Mechanism (NEAPSM) and North Korean refugee policy. On NEAPSM, DG Huh said there had been very li [...]
2008-05-01 07:18:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM KS KN
08SEOUL917ROK CONSIDERING PUBLIC STATEMENT ON FLAWED BURMESE
[...] (C) In a May 2 meeting with poloff, Han Woo-young, MOFAT Deputy Director for Southeast Asian Affairs, said that the ROKG was currently discussing the possibility of making a public statement about the flawed nature of the May 10 referendum in Burma. There was "favorable discussion" on the top [...]
2008-05-02 07:31:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PGOV PHUM BM
08SEOUL928ROK TO ISSUE STATEMENT ON BURMESE REFERENDUM AFTER
[...] (C) In a May 6 meeting with poloff, Han Woo-young, MOFAT Deputy Director for Southeast Asian Affairs, said that the ROKG will release a public statement concerning Burma after Deputy Secretary Negroponte meets with Vice Foreign Minister Kwon Jong-rak on May 8 in Seoul. The statement will inclu [...]
2008-05-06 08:28:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALKS PGOV PHUM BM
08SEOUL936ROKG RESPONSE TO UNSC RESOLUTION ON SOMALI PIRACY
[...] (C) In a 7 May meeting with poloff, Kie-joo Kim, MOFAT Director of Security and Counter-terrorism Division, said the ROKG will both support the reftel points in their entirety and actively court the support of the Asian elected members on the UN Security Council (UNSC),Indonesia and Vietnam. [...]
2008-05-07 07:32:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALEWWT KCRM KS PHSA PHUM PREL SO XW UNSC
08SEOUL991MAY 21 - DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN PEOPLE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-15 04:25:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PHUM PREL EUN CU KS
08SEOUL993ROK COURTS U.S. AND WESTERN VOTES ON HRC CANDIDACY
[...] (C) In a May 15 breakfast meeting with Ambassadors and DCMs from Europe and the U.S., Vice Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan asked for support of the ROK's re-election bid to the U.N. Human Rights Council. VFM Kim noted that Japan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, East Timor, and Bahrain had also announced [...]
2008-05-15 06:36:00Embassy SeoulCONFIDENTIALUNHRC PREL PHUM UNGA KS
08SHANGHAI154YIWU PARTY SECRETARY ON IPR, RMB APPRECIATION, AND TIBET
[...] (SBU) On April 18, the Consul General (CG) hosted Yiwu Party Secretary Wu Weirong for lunch in Shanghai. Yiwu, a city in SIPDIS central Zhejiang Province of 1.6 million people, claims to be home to the biggest small commodity wholesale market in the world. Yiwu also has a reputation for b [...]
2008-04-22 03:50:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ECON KIPR CH
08SHANGHAI159THE EVE OF CIVIL SOCIETY'S ARRIVAL: NPI PROMOTES
[...] (SBU) Summary. According to Director of the Shanghai Pudong-based Non-Profit Incubator (NPI) Simon Lu, the Pudong District Government began to "outsource" some social services to local non-government organizations (NGOs) as a part of its comprehensive coordination pilot reform program approved [...]
2008-04-29 03:06:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI PHUM CH
08SHANGHAI18SHANGHAI MAGLEV - A LONG HISTORY OF CONTROVERSY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Shanghai's magnetic levitation train (Maglev),has not only been costly in financial terms but is now costing the city the support of many of its residents. On January 13, Shanghai residents staged a large-scale demonstration against the proposed extension of the Maglev train [...]
2008-01-16 08:37:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ETRD ELTN KIPR ELAB PHUM CH
08SHANGHAI19SHANGHAI RESIDENTS PROTEST MAGLEV EXTENSION
[...] (C) Summary. Large-scale demonstrations on January 12 and 13 against the Shanghai government's plans to extend the Maglev train line have not only highlighted dissatisfaction by Shanghai residents over the government's plans, but is an example of local residents using public means to press fo [...]
2008-01-16 08:57:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV ELTN CH
08SHANGHAI234SHANGHAI-BASED "NGO" DEMOCRACY BUILDING EFFORTS
[...] (C) Summary. In the past five years, Shanghai-based Harmonious Committee Institute (HCI),a non-profit organization, has been working to promote democracy through strengthening homeowners associations and educating homeowners of their property rights. According to HCI General Manager Liu She [...]
2008-06-23 08:18:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SOCI
08SHANGHAI254SHANGHAI BAR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT CONCERN ABOUT COMPETITION
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a June 26 meeting with ConGenoffs, newly appointed Shanghai Bar Association (SBA) President Liu Zhengdong expressed his concerns about the increase in the number of foreign law firms operating in Shanghai in direct competition with local Shanghai firms. He acknowledges, ho [...]
2008-07-02 06:11:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHANGHAI259SHANGHAI BISHOP JIN ON CHINA-VATICAN RELATIONS, SHESHAN
[...] (C) Summary. In a July 7 meeting with Pol/Econ Section Chief and Poloffs, Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Luxin Jin continued to be pessimistic about prospects for normalization of relations between the Vatican and Beijing. He also confirmed that Beijing had taken measures to keep the annual pilgrim [...]
2008-07-08 00:31:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PTER KIRF CH VT TW
08SHANGHAI275CHINA SUMMIT ON ANTI-CORRUPTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The China Summit on Anti-Corruption, a private-sector conference aimed at providing U.S. businesses and multi-national companies with information on anti-corruption best practices and strategies to comply with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, took place in Shanghai from July 1 [...]
2008-07-23 00:47:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KJUS CH
08SHANGHAI337VOLUNTEERISM IN SHANGHAI
[...] (SBU) Summary. Despite ample opportunities for people to volunteer, local volunteer organizations still have problems attracting people. Interlocutors blamed the lack of interest in volunteering to the absence of legislation on volunteers, the lack of a system to track someone's volunteer exp [...]
2008-08-18 00:34:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI ELAB CH
08SHANGHAI371CHINESE PROTESTANT SEMINARY IN NANJING SLATED FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The Nanjing Union Theological Seminary is on track for a major expansion in facilities and student capacity, according to Dean Reverend Ambroise Aiming Wang. The Seminary's new campus in the Nanjing suburbs, scheduled to open next year, as well as a new cathedral, have both been m [...]
2008-09-04 06:52:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM CH KIRF PGOV PINR SOCI
08SHANGHAI374NANJING'S AMITY PRINTING COMPANY WORLD'S LARGEST BIBLE
[...] (C) Summary: With its recent move to a larger facility, the Amity Printing Company in Nanjing will increase its production of Bibles to over 12 million volumes annually, cementing its position as the world's largest Bible publisher. Among other successes, Amity Printing was commissioned by Bei [...]
2008-09-05 08:13:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI
08SHANGHAI384EAST CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ON IMPACT OF OLYMPICS AND
[...] (C) Summary: Three East China human rights activists told Poloff on September 10 that their activities were tightly constrained during the recent Beijing Olympics with one of the activists prevented from traveling to the United States to attend a conference. Local security forces currently are [...]
2008-09-11 07:40:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH ECON ETRD KIRF PGOV PHUM
08SHANGHAI407SHANGHAI CATHOLIC BISHOP JIN OPTIMISTIC ON RELIGIOUS
[...] (C) Summary: Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Jin (JIN Luxian) told the Consul General that he is generally satisfied with the situation of Catholics in China, favorably contrasting present freedoms against the Mao Zedong era. The 92-year-old Bishop said he was unaware of any bishops presently incarcer [...]
2008-09-22 07:38:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALCH KIRF PGOV PHUM SOCI
08SHANGHAI410THE CONSUL GENERAL DISCUSSES BILATERAL RELATIONS,
[...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the successful Beijing Summer Olympic Games, international economic stability is now Beijing's top priority, according to Shanghai scholars. They regard U.S. actions leading up to and during the Olympics as having provided a psychological boost to bilateral relatio [...]
2008-09-22 08:57:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON CH KN RS TW
08SHANGHAI422SHANGHAI SCHOLARS EXPRESS CONCERN OVER DELAY IN SIX-PARTY
[...] (S/NF) Summary: xxxxx are concerned about the current impasse in the Six-Party Talks, but each varies in his diagnosis of its causes and prescriptions for U.S. policy. xxxxx claims that a debate has emerged within the Chinese leadership over the merits of quick U.S. delisting, as a result of Pyongy [...]
2008-09-26 06:40:00Consulate ShanghaiSECRET//NOFORNCH KN PGOV PHUM PREL
08SHANGHAI491SERVICE PROVIDER OR A SUPPLEMENT TO GOVERNMENT: A
[...] (SBU) Scholars at an international conference on social welfare in Nanjing said strengthening service-oriented non-government organizations (NGOs) would be a stable and secure strategy for NGO development in the future but would have limited influence in China's political system and promotion o [...]
2008-11-12 05:47:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI493U.S.-CHINA INTERNET INDUSTRY FORUM EMPHASIZES COOPERATION;
[...] (SBU) The Internet Society of China (ISC) and Microsoft co-hosted the 2nd U.S.-China Internet Industry Forum November 7-8 in Shanghai, encouraging more bilateral cooperation on Internet issues. Chinese participants highlighted technological advances and the patriotic virtues of the Internet, w [...]
2008-11-14 04:28:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PHUM TINT KIPR ETTC KPAO OIIP SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI494SHANGHAI: THE PARTY SECRETARY IS ONLINE
[...] (SBU) Shanghai CPC Party Secretary Yu Zhengsheng participated in his first webchat on November 6, fielding questions from Shanghai residents on economic and social issues. Netizens took advantage of the opportunity to raise concerns about economic development, infrastructure projects, housing [...]
2008-11-14 06:00:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PHUM EFIN TINT ETTC SOCI CH
08SHANGHAI505LUWAN DISTRICT OFFICIAL RETURNS TO SHANGHAI AFTER MYSTERIOUS
[...] (C) An official from Shanghai's Luwan District returned home earlier this month after mysteriously disappearing during a business trip to France in October. It is unclear why the official vanished, or why he returned, but media reports have focused on corruption as the likely cause. Public sc [...]
2008-11-20 08:38:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHANGHAI506SHANGHAI MAYOR ADDRESSES TAXI CONCERNS
[...] (C) Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng met with taxi drivers and other public transportation representatives on November 18 to discuss upcoming reform plans. The mayor's meeting with taxi drivers comes on the heels of highly publicized work stoppages by taxi drivers in Chongqing and Hainan, and one cont [...]
2008-11-20 08:55:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHANGHAI513SHANGHAI: MILK NOT DOING THE BODY POLITIC ANY GOOD
[...] (C) Public reaction to the recent milk scandal remains muted in Shanghai even as local stores have faced difficulties stocking an adequate supply of imported milk. Observers say Shanghai residents are angry about the food safety lapse, but the situation has not led to social instability in lar [...]
2008-11-25 03:26:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON EAGR CH
08SHANGHAI522(C) ZHEJIANG: FACTORY CLOSURES RAISE SOCIAL STABILITY
[...] (C) Social and political analysts in Zhejiang Province said the province's economy may recover from the current financial crisis (Refs A and B),but factory closures could result in social unrest, particularly as Lunar New Year approaches. Zhejiang-based observers worry that the Central Governm [...]
2008-12-05 08:24:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN ELAB PHUM CH
08SHANGHAI523(C) HUMAN RIGHTS DAY PETITION TO CALL FOR POLITICAL REFORM
[...] (C) Summary: Contacts in Hangzhou said they have joined a petition calling for more political reform in China, which they said would be posted on-line o/a December 10 to coincide with UN Human Rights Day. Both contacts said China's current social and economic environment provides an opportuni [...]
2008-12-08 02:08:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH UN
08SHANGHAI527HANGZHOU CONTACTS ON INTERNET FREEDOM IN EAST CHINA
[...] (C) The case of a blogger from Jiangsu Province about to go on trial for libel is being watched closely in East China, according to contacts in neighboring Zhejiang Province. Journalists and intellectuals told Poloff they see internet freedom as a critically important issue, particularly given [...]
2008-12-08 08:46:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR SOCI TINT CH
08SHANGHAI542(C) HANGZHOU POLICE QUESTION ONE CHARTER SIGNATORY BUT NO
[...] (C) Summary: Hangzhou activist Wen Kejian, who first informed Consulate Poloff about the "08 Charter" (reftels),was questioned by local police on December 10 and later released. Another Hangzhou activist told Poloff on December 11 that he has not been contacted by police despite being both a c [...]
2008-12-11 08:18:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH UN
08SHANGHAI552SHANGHAI LEGAL EMPLOYMENT MARKET HIT BY ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
[...] (SBU) Expansion of Shanghai's legal employment market appears to have come to a sudden halt. Partners at Chinese and international law firms report a hiring freeze, but they said their firms have not yet begun layoffs. Law students express frustration trying to find legal employment. Profess [...]
2008-12-17 00:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHANGHAI562(C) SHANGHAI LAWYERS SAY THEY ARE TOLD TO STAY AWAY FROM
[...] (C) Summary. Shanghai attorneys say the Shanghai Bar Association informed its members to stay away from sensitive cases related to melamine and residents displaced by proposed Maglev construction (reftels). Many of the lawyers expressed concern that rule of law in East China is threatened by [...]
2008-12-18 10:28:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON PREL CH
08SHANGHAI66PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION RESEARCH PROJECT
[...] (SBU) Summary: In an effort to find ways to amend the Administrative Litigation Law, China's Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has tasked Suzhou University School of Law Professor Huang Xuexian to conduct research on public interest litigation. Public interest litigation occurs when an individual sues [...]
2008-02-15 02:20:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR KJUS SENV CH
08SHANGHAI75SHANGHAI HOUSING RIGHTS LAWYER ZHENG ENCHONG DETAINED
[...] (C) In a phone conversation with Poloff on February 22, Shanghai petitioner Chen Enquan confirmed a February 20 report by Human Rights in China (HRIC) that prominent Shanghai housing rights lawyer Zheng Enchong was detained on February 20. She also asserted as appeared in the HRIC report that [...]
2008-02-22 06:27:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
08SHANGHAI81SHANGHAI HOUSING RIGHTS LAWYER ZHANG ENCHONG UPDATE
[...] (C) In a phone conversation on the evening of February 22, Shanghai Housing Rights Lawyer Zheng Enchong confirmed that he is currently under heavy surveillance and was beaten by thugs he believed to be plainclothes police. According to Zheng, he was beaten by two "policemen" on February 16 af [...]
2008-02-26 07:44:00Consulate ShanghaiCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV CH
08SHENYANG13PRC: RELIGIOUS FREEDOM A MIXED PICTURE IN YANBIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Religious freedom is enjoying modest improvement in a key ethnic minority enclave of Jilin Province, near the PRC-DPRK border. Christianity is making inroads among local Chinese, migrant workers, and North Korean border-crossers. "House churches," many with links to official chu [...]
2008-01-24 01:25:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALKIRF PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREF KN KS CH
08SHENYANG134NORTHEAST CHINA: CORRUPTION SCANDALS SNARE JUDGES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Corruption scandals in northeast China over the past year have reached levels in seniority unseen for several years. Jilin Province quietly sacked ten of its High Court judges, but legal contacts say the Party prevented a thorough investigation. Attorneys report that judicial co [...]
2008-09-26 05:02:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHENYANG135NORTHEAST CHINA: CORRUPTION SCANDALS SNARE JUDGES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Corruption scandals in northeast China over the past year have reached levels in seniority unseen for several years. Jilin Province quietly sacked ten of its High Court judges, but legal contacts say the Party prevented a thorough investigation. Attorneys report that judicial co [...]
2008-09-26 05:02:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SOCI ECON CH
08SHENYANG3PRC HUMAN RIGHTS: YAO FUXIN ABUSE ALLEGATIONS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Health problems continue to beset imprisoned Liaoning labor activist Yao Fuxin, whose case has triggered high-level USG attention since his initial arrest in 2002. In a letter to his daughter he recently managed to have smuggled out of prison, Yao for the first time described sev [...]
2008-01-07 07:43:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PINS SOCI CH
08SHENYANG36"SLAVE LABOR" SCANDAL HITS CHINA AGAIN: 33 FORCED
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Authorities in Heilongjiang Province announced yesterday that they discovered 33 migrant "slave laborers" held captive and coerced to work--some for as long as three years--in a suburb of the provincial capital. Initial reports claim the captors "systematically" targeted vulnerabl [...]
2008-03-20 10:14:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV ELAB GTIP KCRM ECON CH
08SHENYANG48MORE INTERNAL PRC RESEARCH ON NK BORDER-CROSSERS:
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Northeast China is home to 10,000-20,000 North Koreans, according to the internal research of another one of the few Chinese specialists studying North Korean border-crosser issues for the PRC Government. PRC policy toward North Korean border-crossers shifted in 2002 in part beca [...]
2008-04-10 01:12:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREF PINR PGOV PREL PHUM KN KS CH
08SHENYANG71PRC-DPRK: BORDER-CROSSERS, RELIGIOUS TROUBLES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The PRC appears to have tightened internal security in the PRC-DPRK borderlands in recent months, though border-crossers continue to trickle into China. Border residents report increased official scrutiny of some religious activities. Yanji officials warned religious leaders that [...]
2008-05-30 06:56:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV PREF PHUM KIRF KN KS CH
08SHENYANG76DPRK: RASON THROUGH THE EYES OF AN AID WORKER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Rason, in northeastern North Korea, is home to a variety of foreign-assistance ventures, involving everything from agriculture and animal husbandry to power generation, transportation and pharmaceuticals, according to a Westerner involved in several projects there, but tensions ha [...]
2008-06-13 00:20:00Consulate ShenyangCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KN KS CH
08SINGAPORE1006SINGAPORE OFFICIAL RESPONSE TO UNGA THIRD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-17 08:20:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UNGA SN
08SINGAPORE1019DASD SEDNEY HEARS OF SINGAPORE'S MALAYSIA
[...] (C) Summary: Singapore perceives a distinct possibility of racial conflict in Malaysia, Bilahari Kausikan, MFA Second Permanent Secretary told David Sedney, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia September 15. Kausikan offered his view that if racial conflict provoked ethnic Chin [...]
2008-09-18 10:09:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ASEAN SN MY BU ID IN TH KN
08SINGAPORE103BURMA - BANNING IMPORTS OF GEMS AND HARDWOODS
[...] (C) MFA Director for Southeast Asia Peter Tan reiterated Singapore's position that it opposes sanctions against Burma, in response to ref A demarche we delivered on January 25. He said he would pass our points to his superiors, but indicated Singapore would not adopt an import ban on Burmese [...]
2008-01-25 09:27:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD PHUM ETTC SN BM
08SINGAPORE1046TRILATERAL CT SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH JAPAN AND
[...] (C) Summary: Emboffs met counterparts from the embassies of Japan and Australia September 18 to discuss counterterrorism (CT) efforts with Singapore in relation to the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD). Emboffs provided counterparts a matrix of Post's CT-related training and cooperative act [...]
2008-09-25 08:33:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL PHUM SN
08SINGAPORE114ANTI-TIP PROVISIONS GO INTO EFFECT ON FEBRUARY 1
[...] (U) On February 1, the Penal Code (Amendment) Act 2007 will come into operation. The amendments include three important provisions to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) by criminalizing: commercial sex with a minor under 18 years old, commercial sex by any Singaporean citizen or permanent re [...]
2008-01-29 09:27:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PGOV KWMN PREL SN
08SINGAPORE1153CHEE'S PARTY FACING THREAT OF DISSOLUTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Beset by legal actions, threatened with insolvency, and hobbled by a leadership that seems unable to gain traction with the public, Chee Soon Juan's Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) shows no sign of becoming a credible political opposition for the long-ruling People's Action Par [...]
2008-10-31 00:29:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM SN
08SINGAPORE1199SINGAPORE TO SUPPORT NO ACTION ON UNGA 3RD
[...] (C) CDA used reftel materials to urge, in a November 10 meeting with MFA International Organizations Director Lim Kheng Hua, that Singapore move as far as it can in the direction of voting against no-action resolutions and for UNGA 3rd Committee Human Rights resolutions on Iran, Burma and the [...]
2008-11-10 11:32:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL SN
08SINGAPORE1256COURT SLAMS DOW JONES FOR CONTEMPT BUT IMPOSES
[...] (SBU) Summary. A Singapore judge has fined publisher Dow Jones over US$16,000 for contempt of court, the largest contempt fine ever imposed here. The judge also called Dow Jones a "repeat offender" and ordered the company to pay Singapore's Attorney-General (AG) nearly US$20,000 in legal co [...]
2008-11-26 09:38:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KJUS SN
08SINGAPORE1289SINGAPORE TOYS WITH ALLOWING POLITICAL FILMS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Singapore is moving at glacial speed toward deciding whether, when, and how to allow political films in the island republic. Singapore's Films Act has long criminalized political films. After 20 months of work, a government-appointed Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media [...]
2008-12-11 09:04:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SN
08SINGAPORE1322REFORM PARTY RUDDERLESS WITHOUT JEYARETNAM STAR
[...] (C) Summary. Iconic opposition leader and lawyer J.B. Jeyaretnam (JBJ) emerged from government-imposed bankruptcy earlier this year and co-founded the Reform Party. The press and public greeted the event as a dramatic comeback by a political figure long known for his defiance of the ruling [...]
2008-12-19 07:49:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM SN
08SINGAPORE144SINGAPORE MEDIA CELEBRATE CORRESPONDENT'S RELEASE
[...] (SBU) Singapore media featured prominently China's decision to parole the Singapore Straits Times' chief China correspondent Ching Cheong February 5 (reftel). Coverage included photos of Ching's joyful reunion with his family in Hong Kong after China's surprise decision to release him just be [...]
2008-02-06 10:10:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV HK SN CH
08SINGAPORE541BURMESE EXILES PETITION FOR MILITARY INTERVENTION
[...] (SBU) Four representatives of a Burmese exile group calling itself the Overseas Burmese Patriots (OBP) presented post with a petition May 12 calling on the United States to "immediately enter Burma" to deliver humanitarian relief "regardless of the lack of permission from the military junta." [...]
2008-05-12 09:55:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID MOPS PREL PHUM BM SN
08SINGAPORE960UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-08 08:53:00Embassy SingaporeCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNGA SN
08SKOPJE158MACEDONIA: RETURN OF ICTY FILES
[...] (C) Four ICTY files concerning alleged crimes reputedly committed by ethnic Albanian NLA rebels during the country's inter-ethnic conflict in 2001 have been returned to Macedonian jurisdiction. Should the Chief Public Prosecutor here develop evidence against any of the individuals that is dee [...]
2008-02-27 14:42:00Embassy SkopjeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ICTY MK
08SKOPJE178MACEDONIA: "OPERATION DRAGON" BUSTS TIP NETWORK
[...] (SBU) The conclusion of the anti-trafficking "Operation Dragon" led to the arrest of 15 Macedonian citizens on trafficking-in-persons (TIP) charges on March 3. The National Anti-TIP Commission credits the use of special investigative measures for the success of the operation and for the colle [...]
2008-03-06 07:32:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM MK
08SKOPJE22MACEDONIA'S NEW VISA REGULATIONS MEET EU
[...] (SBU) Macedonia's new Law on Foreigners has caused a stir domestically and in Albania by requiring visas for Albanian travelers to Macedonia to be issued at the Macedonian Embassy in Tirana rather than at border crossings (reftel). In fact, the new law is fully compliant with EU acquis and wil [...]
2008-01-15 14:15:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SMIG KCRM AL MK GR
08SKOPJE307MACEDONIA: INFORMATION ON FORCED OR CHILD LABOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-07 07:39:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI MK
08SKOPJE347MACEDONIA: TEXTBOOKS AND LENDING LIBRARY FOR ROMA
[...] SUMMARY: Embassy Skopje proposes granting 20,000 USD of the FY 2008 PRM Julia V. Taft Fund for Refugees toward the purchase of school textbooks for 395 Roma refugee children. The textbooks will promote access to education for Roma students for the 2008/9 academic year, and the creation of a l [...]
2008-05-28 12:28:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PHUM MK
08SKOPJE399MACEDONIA: INPUT FOR OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION
[...] (SBU) In response to the request for information on Macedonia's commitment to human rights and fundamental freedoms for the OSCE's annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (reftel),Post offers the following summary of progress in areas of democratic development, human rights, religious [...]
2008-06-18 13:29:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM OSCE PGOV KDEM PREL MK
08SKOPJE501MACEDONIA TO REVIEW HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRESS AHEAD OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-05 11:36:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV OSCE PHUM KDEM
08SKOPJE575MACEDONIA: SUPPORT FOR USG POSITIONS IN UNGA THIRD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-12 13:56:00Embassy SkopjeCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MK
08SKOPJE576MACEDONIA: SUPPORT FOR U.S. PRIORITIES IN THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-12 13:58:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA MK
08SKOPJE577DPA CRACKS UP
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ethnic Albanian DPA Vice Presidents Imer Selmani and Ruzhdi Matoshi have left the party to form a new one based on "ideas and values," breaking from what they call the thuggish politics of DPA leader Menduh Thaci. Selmani and Matoshi have so far pulled with them a total of three [...]
2008-09-15 05:23:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL MK AL KV
08SKOPJE590MACEDONIA: ALI AHMETI SPEAKS OUT ON COALITION DYNAMICS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GoM's decision to prosecute the four cases which the ICTY recently decided not to pursue is a clear violation of the 2002 amnesty law and threatens inter-ethnic relations, ethnic Albanian DUI Party leader Ali Ahmeti told visiting NAVEUR ADM Fitzgerald on Sept 17. Despite his [...]
2008-09-23 05:22:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL MK AL KV
08SKOPJE601AMBASSADOR MEETS MACEDONIAN LEADERSHIP AS
[...] (C) In their first official meeting, PM Gruevski told the Ambassador Sept. 29 that NATO and EU membership remain the GoM's top strategic priorities, adding that despite their political differences he and President Crvenkovski have a similar strategic view of the name issue with Greece. Gruevsk [...]
2008-10-01 18:55:00Embassy SkopjeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KAWC ENRG MK GR KV SR MW RS
08SKOPJE607MACEDONIA: RETURNED ICTY CASES THREATEN BOTH RULING
[...] (SBU) Summary: The four war crimes case files recently returned to Macedonian jurisdiction by the ICTY are threatening to fracture the new coalition between the largest ethnic Macedonian party, VMRO-DPMNE, and its ethnic Albanian partner, DUI. One of the four cases has already proceeded to t [...]
2008-10-06 06:41:00Embassy SkopjeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KAWC MK
08SKOPJE617MACEDONIA: DPA LEADER THACI ON ICTY CASES, NAME
[...] (SBU) Summary: The prosecution of the returned Hague cases by the Macedonian justice system is a violation of the 2002 amnesty law, ethnic Albanian DPA leader Menduh Thaci told Ambassador Reeker in their first meeting October 3. Thaci also said the October 2 meeting of the four major political [...]
2008-10-09 14:05:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNATO PGOV PHUM PREL KV AL MK
08SKOPJE619MACEDONIA: DUI'S AHMETI STILL WORRIED ON HAGUE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Macedonian government is forming a task force to determine if the 2002 amnesty law should apply to the four cases returned to Macedonia by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),ethnic Albanian DUI Party leader Ali Ahmeti told Ambassador Reeker [...]
2008-10-09 14:12:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNATO PGOV PHUM PREL KV AL MK
08SKOPJE66 MACEDONIA: NEW ERA IN LABOR RELATIONS
[...] (SBU) The GOM and the Federation of Free Trade Unions (KCC) signed a collective bargaining agreement for public sector workers on January 16. The agreement will not directly increase civil servants' wages or benefits, since the GOM is already providing public employees with a 34 percent wage [...]
2008-01-28 11:25:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PHUM ECON EAID PGOV MK
08SKOPJE673DAS STUART JONES VISIT TO SKOPJE, OCTOBER 27-29
[...] (C) Summary: In addition to discussions on the name issue, Macedonian leaders discussed regional, economic, and bilateral issues with EUR DAS Jones during his October 27-29 visit. GoM officials pressed for further development of the Trade Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) U.S. cooperation [...]
2008-11-06 14:52:00Embassy SkopjeCONFIDENTIALNATO PGOV PHUM PREL KV AL MK
08SKOPJE710100 DAYS INTO THE SECOND VMRO GOVERNMENT: A
[...] (C) Despite a nation-wide ad campaign touting 100 separate accomplishments in its first 100 days, PM Gruevski's VMRO-led government is failing to confront effectively the big issues: the name dispute with Greece; meeting the EU benchmarks; and improving political dialogue, rule of law, and inte [...]
2008-11-25 08:14:00Embassy SkopjeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL MK
08SKOPJE724GRUEVSKI HOSTS AND TOASTS ALBANIANS IN REGIONAL EVENT
[...] (U)SUMMARY: The Prime Ministers of Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo attended a GOM organized reception in Skopje to mark the 100th Anniversary of the Albanian alphabet. PM Gruevski wisely used the event to reach out to the Albanian community throughout the region as well as in Macedonia. End Summ [...]
2008-12-02 18:07:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KV AL MK
08SKOPJE725 Teachers Strike Hits at VMRO's Weak Spot
[...] (SBU) Summary: A nationwide teachers strike has dragged on for more than a week and closed schools throughout the country, though a settlement may be near. Union leaders have accused the GoM of hardball tactics and outright lies in dealing with the strike; the GoM has countered that the strike [...]
2008-12-02 18:13:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ILO PHUM SOCI PGOV MK
08SKOPJE731MACEDONIA: OSCE HELSINKI MINISTERIAL POINTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-04 15:41:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE MK
08SKOPJE748MACEDONIA: THE RETURN OF "BRAT LJUBE" BOSKOVSKI
[...] (C) Former Interior Minister (and ICTY indictee, acquitted) Ljube Boskovski appears ready to return to politics, most likely as a candidate for president in March elections. He claims to be fully committed to Euro-Atlantic integration and to a multi-ethnic Macedonia. Boskovski asserted that [...]
2008-12-12 11:15:00Embassy SkopjeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL MK
08SKOPJE760MACEDONIA: BUCKOVSKI CONVICTION ADDS TO PARTISAN
[...] (C) On December 9, Skopje Basic Court I sentenced former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense (and current SDSM Member of Parliament) Vlado Buckovski to 3.5 years in prison for abuse of authority in the disbursement of 2.4 million Euros by padding the budget for the purchase of spare parts f [...]
2008-12-17 15:20:00Embassy SkopjeCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MK
08SKOPJE92MACEDONIA WAIVES NEW VISA REQUIREMENTS FOR
[...] (SBU) The Macedonian government has suspended implementation of a new (and more cumbersome) visa issuance procedure for Albanian citizens required by the Law on Foreigners, which was passed in 2006 but only came into force this year (ref A). In addition, Macedonian and Albanian officials are [...]
2008-02-06 07:15:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SMIG KCRM AL MK
08SOFIA103APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE FEBRUARY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-19 14:51:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV
08SOFIA124BULGARIA: 2008 ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] SUMMARY: This cable provides Embassy Sofia's input for the eighth annual Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Bulgaria is primarily a country of origin and transit, and to a lesser degree a country of destination for human trafficking. The past year has seen a significant energizing o [...]
2008-02-29 11:54:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BU
08SOFIA1410BULGARIA MARKS THE 16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-02 15:12:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PREL KPAO PHUM
08SOFIA1742008 BULGARIA NOMINATIONS FOR ANTI-TRAFFICKING HEROES
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Post submits two recommendations for anti-trafficking heroes: Nedyalka Georgieva Popova, an accomplished prosecutor in trafficking cases; and Svetoslav Tanev, Section Chief for the Border Police, a pioneer in increasing cooperation between the police and NGOs. Both have signifi [...]
2008-03-25 14:59:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BU
08SOFIA178BULGARIA ALIGNS WITH EU POSITION ON BELARUS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-27 05:21:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL
08SOFIA180BULGARIA ON THE WESTERN BALKANS AND RUSSIA IN
[...] (U) On March 26 we delivered REFTEL points to MFA's European Correspondent Sergei Tassev. Tassev thanked us for the points and said Bulgaria wanted the EU to maintain engagement with the Western Balkans, encouraging their future membership in Trans-Atlantic institutions. The EU needs to giv [...]
2008-03-27 10:55:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM BU
08SOFIA181REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO ASSIST
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-27 11:29:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PREL
08SOFIA280BURMA'S FLAWED CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-30 14:57:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM BM
08SOFIA29BULGARIA TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-14 15:57:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNGA
08SOFIA32BULGARIAN CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR U.S. CANDIDATE TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-15 15:47:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNGA
08SOFIA330COMPETENT GOB INSTITUTIONS CONSIDERING FINANCIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-23 12:49:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM BM
08SOFIA332BULGARIA: VIEWS ON GAERC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-23 13:35:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV
08SOFIA354BULGARIA MOST INTERESTED IN U.S-EU SUMMIT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-03 10:23:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDEUN PGOV PREL PHUM CU
08SOFIA356CYLCON NARGIS DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-03 10:24:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM BM
08SOFIA387UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: BULGARIA UNDERSTANDS BUT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-11 13:00:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM BU
08SOFIA388BULGARIA WILL GIVE 50,000 EURO FOR CYCLONE NARGIS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-11 13:35:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM BM
08SOFIA399BULGARIAN AMBASSADOR TO VIENNA WILL ATTEND VIENNA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-16 10:09:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM LE UNRWA
08SOFIA400DEMARCHE ON BERLIN CONFERENCE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-16 10:11:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS EUN
08SOFIA403MUSLIM LEADER REGAINS LEGITIMACY, REINFORCES
[...] (U) Summary. As expected, in a national conference convened by more than 3,000 Bulgarian Muslims and sanctioned by the court, Mustafa Alish Hadji won re-election as Chief Mufti. Most of the Muslim community, weary of a decade-long leadership struggle, welcomed Hadji's victory. Community le [...]
2008-06-17 07:23:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KRIM PHUM BU
08SOFIA460PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 09:08:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDEUN PHUM PREL KDEN
08SOFIA472BULGARIA ON PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-18 10:47:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDEUN PHUM PREL KDEN
08SOFIA489OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-23 11:17:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PREL PHUM KDEM
08SOFIA555BULGARIA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS HOTLINE NUMBERS
[...] Political Officer delivered REFTEL request for information to the Bulgarian National Commission for Combating Human Trafficking, which is the central government authority responsible for coordination of anti-TIP efforts, as well as to several local TIP NGOs. 2. Bulgaria's major, nation-wi [...]
2008-08-14 12:35:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL BU
08SOFIA566TFGG01: BULGARIA STANDS BY GEORGIA; STILL AVOIDS
[...] (C) Summary: Georgian Ambassador Ukleba told Ambassador McEldowney that Tbilisi has not accepted a Bulgarian offer to host talks between Russia and Georgia, which Deputy FM Keremedchiev later confirmed. Ukleba stressed that Tbilisi values U.S. support and humanitarian assistance and looks for [...]
2008-08-19 16:29:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MOPS RU GG BU
08SOFIA590BULGARIA: SEPT 5-6 FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-03 13:47:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDEUN PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU
08SOFIA60BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. VIEWS ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-24 15:44:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL
08SOFIA601BULGARIA ON UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD COMMITTEE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-09 11:22:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UN
08SOFIA61BULGARIA SUPPORTS EU STANCE ON BURMA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-25 10:43:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD PHUM BM
08SOFIA64BULGARIA LOOKING FOR "EU SOLIDARITY" ON KOSOVO AT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-28 14:17:00Embassy SofiaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV
08SOFIA77BULGARIA DELEGATION TO THE VIENNA FORUM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-06 15:01:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
08SOFIA783 BULGARIAN ROMA PROPOSE COMMON AGENDA TO GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Bulgarian Roma representatives gathered in Sofia on the eve of the International Human Rights Day to endorse a common strategy for cooperation with the government. More than 100 Roma representatives discussed ways to accelerate integration and crafted a common platform on issu [...]
2008-12-12 13:37:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PREL KPAO PHUM
08SOFIA793 BULGARIAN ROMA PROPOSE COMMON AGENDA TO GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Bulgarian Roma representatives gathered in Sofia on the eve of the International Human Rights Day to endorse a common strategy for cooperation with the government. More than 100 Roma representatives discussed ways to accelerate integration and crafted a common platform on issu [...]
2008-12-17 12:34:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PREL KPAO PHUM
08SOFIA85HEAD OF BULGARIAN DELEGATION'S PRIORITIES FOR THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-08 14:31:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
08STATE100108LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR SOMALI CANDIDATES TO
[...] Reftel nominated nineteen candidates to attend the Interdicting Terrorist Activities course from September 22 to October 3 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. As per reftel, Embassy Nairobi has reviewed mission records and found no credible information of gross human rights violations by the nominees l [...]
2008-09-18 20:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PHUM PGOV PINS PREL SO
08STATE10011BANGLADESH GSP PETITION: REQUEST FOR INTERIM
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 6. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The USTR-led Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) subcommittee accepted a 2007 American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) GSP petition against the government of Bangladesh (GOB) for [...]
2008-01-31 17:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON ETRD PHUM PREL
08STATE100116HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-09-18 20:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE100643RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of September 19, 2008 it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below: HASAN MUNEER HASAN ISSA ID: 912353703 DPOB: 25 Jun 1970 Kuwait WALID MARZOUK [...]
2008-09-19 19:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC IS WE KPAL MASS MARR
08STATE10106NIGER GSP PETITION: REQUEST FOR INTERIM DEMARCHE
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: The USG is presently continuing to review a 2006 Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) petition from the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF),which alleged Niger's failure to comply with GSP eligib [...]
2008-01-31 19:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD ECON PHUM PREL
08STATE101141INSTRUCTION ON PRST ON MEDIATION AND SETTLEMENT
[...] USUN is authorized to join consensus on the following PRST on Mediation and Settlement of Disputes due to be adopted on September 23, 2008. Begin text: The Security Council recalls the Purposes and Principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and reaffirms its commitment to the pacif [...]
2008-09-22 19:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM
08STATE101434OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RELEASE OF THE 2008
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the Permanent Council meeting in Vienna on September 25. Begin text: Thank you Mr. Chairman. On Friday, September 19, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice transmitted to the United States Congress the 10th annual United States Re [...]
2008-09-23 15:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE
08STATE101740SOMALIA: TALKING POINTS AND NEGOTIATING
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the talking points in paragraph 2 to affect the changes desired in the French draft resolution on Somalia piracy, in paragraph 3, for the UNSC experts meeting on September 23. 2. Being talking points: -- We would like to thank the French for taking the i [...]
2008-09-23 19:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SO XA XW
08STATE102147OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO THE HEAD OF
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the September 25, 2008 meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council: Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ambassador Tesoriere, welcome to the Permanent Council and thank you for your comprehensive report on the situation in Kyrgyzstan a [...]
2008-09-24 17:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKG PHUM KDEM PREL PGOV
08STATE102410OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: CONCERNS ABOUT UPCOMING
[...] Post is authorized to present the following statement at the September 25 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States welcomed the August release of three prisoners of conscience by the government of Belarus in the hope that this positive [...]
2008-09-24 22:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV OSCE KDEM BY
08STATE10273PHILIPPINES GSP PETITION: REQUEST FOR INTERIM
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: The USG is presently reviewing a 2007 Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) petition from the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF),which alleged the Philippines fails to comply with GSP eligibility [...]
2008-01-31 22:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD ECON PHUM PREL
08STATE103358GUIDANCE FOR SYG FRIENDS OF BURMA MEETING,
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points during the September 27 meeting of the "Group of Friends of the Secretary General on Burma." 2. (U) Begin points, to be supplemented as appropriate from background in para 3 and refetls. On behal [...]
2008-09-26 19:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM BM
08STATE103528INSTRUCTIONS FOR EXTENSION OF TERM OF OFFICE OF
[...] This is an action cable. USUN is instructed to join consensus on the draft UN Security Council resolution in para 2 below that extends the term of office of ICTY judges. If there are substantial changes to the text of the resolution USUN is requested to seek additional instruction prior to a [...]
2008-09-27 06:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM
08STATE104183DAS SWAN,S MEETING WITH CAR PRESIDENT BOZIZE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Highlighting the progress made during recent peace talks in Libreville, CAR President Bozize informed AF DAS Swan that a revised and more expansive amnesty bill was with the national assembly, and the CARG hoped to establish a tentative date for the national dialogue. Bozize a [...]
2008-09-30 14:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM CT CD GB
08STATE104315RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of September 29, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. 1 Fares Attif Yusif Khalil Yabad 6/2/1989 850072760 2 Ayad Hammed Ahmad Rushd [...]
2008-09-30 17:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08STATE104488UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' MEETING WITH UZBEKISTAN
[...] (C) Under Secretary Burns met with Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov on September 26 in New York on the margins of the UN General Assembly. Norov told Burns that the Government of Uzbekistan was satisfied with the U.S.-Uzbek relationship, and hoped the relationship would grow in a balan [...]
2008-09-30 20:37:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALASEC NATO PHUM KDEM PREL KMAR AF RS UZ
08STATE104508(SBU) HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED
[...] (SBU) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for the individual be filed with as muc [...]
2008-09-30 21:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE104519UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' MEETING WITH TAJIKISTAN
[...] (C) In a forty minute meeting on September 25, Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon and Under Secretary William Burns discussed the U.S.-Tajik relationship and Rahmon's views on issues facing South and Central Asia. Rahmon expressed concern over the situation in Afghanistan stressing that, i [...]
2008-09-30 21:35:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC PHUM KDEM PMAR PK AF TI
08STATE105452RESPONSE TO UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR NOWAK:
[...] (U) Following in paragraph 2 below is the text of a response to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Question of Torture, Mr. Manfred Nowak, regarding the situation of Mr. Abdullah Bin Omar Al Hajji and Mr. Lutfi Ben Swi Lagha. Mission is requested to convey this response to Mr. Nowak under cover [...]
2008-10-02 16:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM
08STATE105486RESPONSE TO UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ALSTON: TROY
[...] (U) Mission is requested to convey to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions the current situation of the case of Troy Anthony Davis. This is in response to Mr. Alston,s letter of September 12 concerning the pending and subsequently stayed execution of Mr. [...]
2008-10-02 17:54:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM
08STATE105791(SBU) Secretary Rice's September 29, 2008
[...] (U) Classified by: Uzra Zeya, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) September 29, 2008; 9:00 a.m.; New York. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary George Krol DRL Assistant Secretary David Kramer SCA Noteta [...]
2008-10-02 22:12:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV PHUM KZ UNSC CONDOLEEZZA RICE
08STATE105880A/S JENDAYI E. FRAZER,S SEPTEMBER 25 MEETING WITH
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A/S Jendayi E. Frazer met with Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Gadio September 25 on the margins of UNGA. They discussed South African President Mbeki,s resignation, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Senegal,s relationship with Iran, and the state of Senegal,s democratic institutions. END SUM [...]
2008-10-03 13:37:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM PREL IR SF SG SU ZI
08STATE106010SUBJECT: DEMARCHE REQUEST: URGENT NEED FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The U.S. government is deeply concerned about the lack of financial commitments from donors to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in support of the agenc [...]
2008-10-03 16:25:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEAID LE PGOV PHUM PREL UNRWA
08STATE106151BOUCHER AND NOROV: PRAGMATIC STEPS FORWARD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, Richard Boucher, and Uzbekistan's Foreign Minister, Vladimir Norov, met September 27 on the margins of the UN General Assembly and discussed: overland supply to Afghanistan, human rights, religious freedom, the Red Cross, counter nar [...]
2008-10-03 18:32:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC PHUM KDEM PMAR PK AF UZ
08STATE106306USUN INSTRUCTION: CIRCULATE SUDAN PANEL OF
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to circulate the resolution (text in para 2) that will extend the mandate of the current UNSC Sudan Sanctions Committee's Panel of Experts (POE). The POE's mandate expires 15 October. ------------------ TEXT OF RESOLUTION ------------------ [...]
2008-10-03 21:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SU UNSC
08STATE106314GUINEA-BISSAU: TALKING POINTS FOR UNSC
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the October 6 UN Security Council Consultations on Guinea-Bissau. Begin points: -- We would like to thank (DPA official) for his briefing on the situation in Guinea-Bissau. -- The United States is pleased by statements fro [...]
2008-10-03 22:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
08STATE106405SOMALIA PIRACY: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR FRENCH
[...] USUN is instructed to vote in favor of and co-sponsor the French drafted resolution on Somalia piracy to be adopted in the Security Council early next week. 2. Begin text of resolution: (1) Recalling its resolutions 1814 (2008) and 1816 (2008),(2) Gravely concerned by the recent prol [...]
2008-10-05 17:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE106406SOMALIA PIRACY: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR FRENCH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-05 17:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE106743USUN INSTRUCTION: SOMALIA SANCTIONS COMMITTEE
[...] This is an action request; see paras 3 and 4. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. As part of security sector reform efforts in Somalia the United States will provide a two-week Interdicting Terrorist Activities Course for nineteen Somali Transitional Federal Government participants. The [...]
2008-10-06 19:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM KTFN PGOV PHUM PINS PREL PTER SO XW UNSC
08STATE106863ACTION REQUEST: UNGA - OPTIONAL PROTOCOL TO THE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy is requested to approach host government at the appropriate level to share U.S. concerns about the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on the Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (OPESCR),and to request a small change in the proposed UN [...]
2008-10-06 23:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM
08STATE106869GUIDANCE FOR PRST ON GUINEA-BISSAU OCTOBER 7
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the PRST on Guinea-Bissau (para 2) October 7 in the UN Security Council Consultations. 2. Begin text of PRST: The Security Council, recalling its previous statements on Guinea-Bissau, and having considered the latest report of the Secretary-General [...]
2008-10-06 23:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
08STATE10690ADDRESSING PROTECTION CONCERNS OF UIGHUR ASYLUM
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs three and four. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The Department requests the Embassy ask the Government of United Arab Emirates (UAEG) not to return Chinese Uighur Muslim Abduhalik Nazar to China without appropriate consideration of h [...]
2008-02-01 20:54:00Secretary of StateSECRETCH KIRF KISL PHUM PREF PREL
08STATE107315RESPONSE TO THE WORKING GROUP ON
[...] This is an action request. The Working Group on Communications, which reviews individual complaints sent to the UN Human Rights Council, has requested a response regarding the case of Edgar Allen Stitzel. The US response has been sent by email to Mission Geneva. Mission is requested to deliv [...]
2008-10-07 17:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM
08STATE107421HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-10-07 19:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDMOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL IZ
08STATE107438DEMARCHE REQUEST: REPLACEMENT OF SRSG GAMBARI FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para. 4. 2. (C) Department views the "good offices" mission of the UN Secretary General's Special Representative (SRSG) to Burma as an important vehicle for encouraging democratic progress in Burma. Consequently, Department has viewed with growing concern the lac [...]
2008-10-07 19:48:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAO PHUM BM
08STATE108064APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE OCTOBER
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 12. 2. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Luxembourg on October 13. We expect the formal agenda to include: Zimbabwe, Georgia/Russia, Belarus, and Uzbekis [...]
2008-10-08 19:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEUN PHUM PREL PGOV ZI UZ BO GG RS SIPDIS
08STATE10999HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. If at any time Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents that could be deemed to [...]
2008-02-04 12:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE110175HOW A POST CAN REFER CASES TO THE U.S. REFUGEE
[...] Summary. The U.S. operates a refugee resettlement program coordinated by the State Department through the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, Office of Admissions (PRM/A). Under this program, tens of thousands of refugees of many nationalities are identified, interviewed, and ultimat [...]
2008-10-15 17:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER CVIS PHUM PREF
08STATE11021TALKING POINTS FOR FEBRUARY 4 UNSC CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) Action Request. USUN is instructed to draw from the talking points in paragraph two below and to introduce the draft press statement in paragraph three below during the February 4 UNSC consultations on the Western Sahara. USUN should seek to keep the UNSC consultations and UNSC press st [...]
2008-02-04 13:40:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM AG MO WI XA XF XI
08STATE110279USUN INSTRUCTION: VOTE IN FAVOR OF SUDAN PANEL
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the resolution (text in para 2) that will extend the mandate of the current UNSC Sudan Sanctions Committee's Panel of Experts (POE). USUN should consult with the Department should there be any changes made to this text. The P [...]
2008-10-15 20:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SU UNSC
08STATE110354OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON DEPORTATION
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the October 16, 2008, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States joins Norway and the EU in expressing its concern about recent actions taken by Kyrgyz authorities agains [...]
2008-10-15 22:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE KG
08STATE110733AUTHORIZATION TO COSPONSOR RESOLUTION ENTITLED
[...] This is an action request. USDEL is authorized to co-sponsor the draft resolution contained in REF entitled "Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" provided that USDEL in conjunction with the Office of the Legal Adviser determines that the text has not changed [...]
2008-10-16 20:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNGA
08STATE110863MEETING OF FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN'S CO-CHAIRS IN
[...] (U) This is an action cable. See paragraph 4. Info addressees FYI only; do not discuss with host country at this time. 2. (C) Background. The Friends of Pakistan, a group organized to work with the Government of Pakistan on its security and development challenges, met for the first t [...]
2008-10-17 12:58:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PK
08STATE111639RESPONSE TO LEAHY VETTING FOR MG BENNY GANTZ
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of October 17, 2008 it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below: Name: Benjamin Gantz DPOB: 09 Jun 1959 Israel 2. Post is permitted to provide the followi [...]
2008-10-20 18:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM IS
08STATE111745PORTUGAL: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP
[...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 2 when host governments are not meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA),but are making signif [...]
2008-10-20 21:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PHUM PO PREL SMIG KTIP
08STATE111994THE NETHERLANDS: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP
[...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 2 when host governments are not meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA),but are making signif [...]
2008-10-21 17:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG NL
08STATE112223OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON UZBEK
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the October 23, 2008, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna. Begin Text: Mr. Chairman, The United States would like to take this opportunity to note some specific positive developments in Uzbekistan on religious freedom a [...]
2008-10-21 21:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE UZ
08STATE112382UKRAINE: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP
[...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 2 when host governments are not meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA),but are making signif [...]
2008-10-22 13:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG UP
08STATE112510INSTRUCTIONS TO SUPPORT INSCRIPTION OF HOLODOMOR
[...] (C) Summary: This is an action request. See the objectives listed in para 2. Department requests Mission to coordinate with the Ukrainian Mission to the United Nations and offer support to their efforts to inscribe an agenda item on the Great Famine in Ukraine for the 63rd General Assembly, [...]
2008-10-22 17:25:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM
08STATE112515DJIBOUTI: TALKING POINTS FOR OCTOBER 23 BRIEFING
[...] USUN may draw from the following talking points and those in reftel for their October 23 briefing on the situation between Djibouti and Eritrea. USUN should seek to speak last so they can adequately determine if the "If Raised" point is needed. Begin points: -- The United States would l [...]
2008-10-22 17:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM DJ ER XA XW
08STATE112570OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON UZBEK
[...] This cable transmits a correction to reftel text. Post is authorized to make the following statement at the October 23, 2008, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Mr. Chairman, The United States would like to take this opportunity to note advances in Uzbeki [...]
2008-10-22 18:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE UZ
08STATE112600OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON RELIGIOUS
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the October 23 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin Text: Mr. Chairman, The United States takes note that the lower chamber of the Kazakhstani parliament passed on September 24th draft amendments to legislation on freedo [...]
2008-10-22 19:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM OSCE KZ
08STATE112701IRELAND: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP
[...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 2 when host governments are not meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA),but are making signif [...]
2008-10-22 21:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG EI
08STATE113172HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AFRICA PARTNERSHIP
[...] (SBU) The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of October 23, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officer listed below: Name: Alain Jerome Mounguet Ingoule Rank: Commander Unit/Org [...]
2008-10-23 20:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PGOV PHUM TP GB
08STATE114071HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AFRICA PARTNERSHIP
[...] SBU) The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of October 17, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officers listed below: Name: Wilker Viegas Rank: E6 Unit:/Organization: Cost guard DOB: May 11, 1984 POB> Sao To [...]
2008-10-27 13:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PHUM PREL GB
08STATE11495TALKING POINTS FOR FEBRUARY 5 SYG BRIEFING ON HIS
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following points for the Security Council's February 5 briefing from Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on his recent trip to the AU Summit and Kenya Begin points: -- The United States thanks the Secretary-General for his very informative briefing on his vi [...]
2008-02-04 23:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG KE SO SU XA XW ZF
08STATE114964OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO ODIHR
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the Permanent Council meeting in Vienna on October 30. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Ambassador Lenarcic for your comprehensive report. The United States strongly supports ODIHR, which has earned its place a [...]
2008-10-28 21:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV OSCE KDEM
08STATE115034INSTRUCTIONS FOR CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION
[...] The Department instructs USUN to vote against the resolution, "Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial, and Financial Embargo Imposed by the United States of America against Cuba," scheduled for consideration by the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, October 29. USUN should draw on the f [...]
2008-10-29 02:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU
08STATE115258USUN INSTRUCTION: VOTE IN FAVOR OF CDI SANCTIONS
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the adoption of the resolution (text in para 2) that will renew the UNSC Cote d'Ivoire sanctions regime and extend the mandate of the Group of Experts for an additional 12 months. ------------------ TEXT OF RESOLUTION ----- [...]
2008-10-29 16:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM KTFN PGOV PHUM PINS PREL PTER UNSC XY
08STATE115259OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON RUSSIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-29 16:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDGG OSCE PHUM PREL
08STATE115695SPAIN: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP (2008-2009)
[...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 1 when host governments are fully meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Remaining on Tier [...]
2008-10-30 13:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG SP
08STATE115726CORRECTED COPY: THE NETHERLANDS: TIP ACTION GUIDE
[...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 1 when host governments are fully meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Remaining on Tier [...]
2008-10-30 14:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG NL
08STATE116826DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA SECURITY FORCE LEAHY
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the ODC Maneuver Captain Career Course that starts Novem [...]
2008-11-03 15:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PGOV PREL SNAR ID
08STATE117508HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for the individual be filed with as much [...]
2008-11-04 20:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE117668DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates to participate in the ODC Integrated Maritime Security System "1206" Project [...]
2008-11-05 13:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PGOV PREL SNAR ID
08STATE117684DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR LEAHY VETTING - JUSMAG TITLE X
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the Comprehensive Crisis Management course under JUSMAG' [...]
2008-11-05 13:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER SNAR MARR RP
08STATE117686DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR LEAHY VETTING - JUSMAG TITLE X
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the Comprehensive Security Responses to Terrorism course [...]
2008-11-05 13:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER SNAR MARR RP
08STATE117689DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - JUSMAG'S
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the units and commanders identified below. These units and commanders are candidates for participation in the JUSMAG's Vector Balance Pi [...]
2008-11-05 13:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE117691DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - JUSMAG IMET
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the International Officer Intelligence/Military [...]
2008-11-05 13:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE117832DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for the Targeting and Risk Management (TRM) Course hosted in Jakarta and spon [...]
2008-11-05 17:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE117881YOUR HELP IS NEEDED TO ENSURE PASSAGE OF THE
[...] (SBU) Department requests that posts encourage host governments to vote against no-action motions and for the resolutions on Iran, Burma, and DPRK. Votes on these resolutions and on any associated no-action motions are expected later this month in the Third Committee of the United Nations G [...]
2008-11-05 17:56:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL
08STATE117889YOUR HELP IS NEEDED TO ENSURE PASSAGE OF THE
[...] (C) This is an action request. See paras 3, 9-12. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Department requests that posts encourage host governments to vote against no-action and for the resolutions on Iran, Burma, and the DPRK (North Korea). Ambassador or Charge is requested to engage at the highest [...]
2008-11-05 18:02:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL
08STATE117901YOUR HELP IS NEEDED TO ENSURE PASSAGE OF THE
[...] (SBU) Department requests that posts encourage host governments to vote against no-action motions and for the resolutions on Iran, Burma, and DPRK. Votes on these resolutions and on any associated no-action motions are expected later this month in the Third Committee of the United Nations G [...]
2008-11-05 18:10:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL
08STATE118651INSTRUCTION: REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO
[...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 2-6. 2. USDel is instructed to vote against the resolution entitled "Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories." 3. USDel is i [...]
2008-11-07 03:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNGA IS WE GZ SY
08STATE118863DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is an additional candidate for the DS/ATA VIP Protection Course scheduled from November 24 thro [...]
2008-11-07 15:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE118865DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals listed below. The individuals are candidates to attend the Special Investigation Group Workshop on Pangolins and B [...]
2008-11-07 15:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE118867DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is a candidate for participation in the Special Investigations Group (SIG) Workshop on Pangolin [...]
2008-11-07 15:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR CB
08STATE118868DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - JUSMAG IMET
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the Aviation Safety Officer course under JUSMAG [...]
2008-11-07 15:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE118991DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate to attend the LEGATT (FBI) National Academy 237th Session in Quantico, [...]
2008-11-07 18:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE118992DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is a candidate to attend the ODC - Surface Warfare Officer School from December 30, 2008 throug [...]
2008-11-07 18:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PGOV PREL SNAR ID
08STATE119170DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MANILA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is a candidate for participation in the Comprehensive Crisis Management course under JU [...]
2008-11-07 20:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE119223GUIDANCE FOR PRST ON COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the PRST on Cte d'Ivoire (para 2) on November 7 in the UN Security Council. 2. Begin text of PRST: The Security Council takes note that, as mentioned in the report of the Secretary-General dated 14 October, the peace process has crossed a critical [...]
2008-11-07 21:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PU XA XY
08STATE119308GUATEMALA: GUIDANCE ON CICIG RESOLUTION
[...] The Department requests that USUN co-sponsor the resolution on the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (para 3),scheduled for consideration by the UN General Assembly on Monday, November 10, and to deliver the following Explanation of Vote (EoV). 2. Begin text of EoV [...]
2008-11-08 00:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNGA PREL PHUM GT
08STATE119309AFGHANISTAN: INSTRUCTIONS FOR UNGA AFGHANISTAN
[...] The Department requests that USUN co-sponsor the resolution on the situation on Afghanistan (para 3),to be considered by the UN General Assembly on November 10, and that USUN draw on the following points for use during the discussion. 2. Begin points: Mr. President: The United State [...]
2008-11-08 00:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNGA UNAMA KDEM PREL MARR MOPS SNAR PHUM AF
08STATE119510(U) HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-10 15:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE119512(U) HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-10 15:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE119513(U) HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-10 15:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE119625DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the units and commanders identified below. These units and commanders are candidates for participation in the JUSMAG Balance Piston 09-1 [...]
2008-11-10 17:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE119630DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the ICITAP Command Information Center Training of the Ma [...]
2008-11-10 18:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE119631DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the ILEA Clandestine Lab Investigations and Chemical Con [...]
2008-11-10 18:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR CB
08STATE119632DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the INL-DOJ/ICITAP Provincial Criminal Investigation Tra [...]
2008-11-10 18:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE119634DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR LEAHY REQUEST - JUSMAG - 533 COMBAT
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate to attend the JUSMAG - 533 Combat Systems Science and Technology program at th [...]
2008-11-10 18:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE119636DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the USAID sponsored, and ASEAN-WEN facilitated, Support [...]
2008-11-10 18:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE119639DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MANILA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the Combined Logistics Captain Career Course of [...]
2008-11-10 18:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE119642DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MANILA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the Naval Staff College under JUSMAG Internation [...]
2008-11-10 18:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE119643DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate for participation in the Fusion Mint 09-01 training exercise scheduled from February 23 [...]
2008-11-10 18:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE119644DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR SINGAPORE LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals below. These individuals are candidates to attend the Fourth Annual Sovereign Challenge Foreign Military Attach Conference sponsored by U. [...]
2008-11-10 18:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MOPS PHUM SNAR MASS SN
08STATE119651DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MANILA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is a candidate for participation in the Captain Career Common Core under JUSMAG Interna [...]
2008-11-10 18:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE119671DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CHINA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - ILEA
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified in paragraph 2 below. The individuals listed below are candidates to attend the ILEA Bangkok Tactical Safety and Pla [...]
2008-11-10 19:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM PTER PREL MARR SNAR HK CH TH
08STATE119672DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MANILA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is a candidate for participation in the International Officer School and Squadron Offic [...]
2008-11-10 19:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE119722DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates for attendance at the Fourth Annual Sovereign Challenge Conference from November 17- [...]
2008-11-10 21:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE120035DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR LEAHY REQUEST - JUSMAG - ROYAL THAI
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates to visit the United States Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, N [...]
2008-11-12 16:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE120182DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate for participation in a Naval Staff College Program training course from January 13, 200 [...]
2008-11-12 19:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE120185DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY REQUEST - JUSMAG
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate to participate in the JUSMAG THAI International Officer Intelligence, Captains [...]
2008-11-12 19:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE120188DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY REQUEST - JUSMAG
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate to participate in the JUSMAG THAI Civil Affairs Training program at Fort Bragg [...]
2008-11-12 19:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE120333OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: AZERBAIJAN MOVE AGAINST
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the November 13 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Mr. Chairman, The United States has noted with concern reports that Azerbaijan's National Television and Radio Council may discontinue local radio broadcasts of [...]
2008-11-12 23:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV OSCE KDEM AZ LO
08STATE120336OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO HEAD OF
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the November 13, 2008 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ambassador Keltchewsky, welcome to the Permanent Council. Thank you for the hard work you have put into your first months as the H [...]
2008-11-13 00:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM OSCE KZ
08STATE120466DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the ILEA Bangkok Tactical Safety and Planning Course sch [...]
2008-11-13 15:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR CB
08STATE120474DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the joint INL/DOJ, Standard Emergency Management Systems [...]
2008-11-13 16:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE12119SAUDIS SKEPTICAL ABOUT SUDANESE INTERFERENCE IN
[...] (S) Charge d'Affaires Gfoeller met with Prince Dr. Turki bin Mohammed, Undersecretary for Political Affairs at the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on February 4 and presented demarche points per REFTEL. The CDA also presented a letter of condolence to the Ministry following the de [...]
2008-02-05 14:54:00Secretary of StateSECRETPREL PGOV PHUM PREF SU SA CH
08STATE121208DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for an ILEA-Bangkok Tactical Safety and Planning course. The course s [...]
2008-11-14 18:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER SNAR MARR RP
08STATE121209DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the Multinational Force Standard Operating Proce [...]
2008-11-14 18:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE121430SOMALIA PIRACY: DEMARCHE INSTRUCTIONS FOR UK AND
[...] This is an action cable see paragraph 2. 2. Posts are requested to demarche host governments at the appropriate level to relay USG concerns about French and British edits to the draft UN Security Council resolution (UNSCR) on Somalia piracy. Post may draw from the background in paras 4 a [...]
2008-11-15 00:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE121442SECOND COMMITTEE RESOLUTION ON PERMANENT
[...] This is an action request. See paragraph 2. 2. USDel is instructed to vote against the resolution entitled "Permanent Sovereignty of the Palestinian People in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab Population in the Occupied Syrian Golan over their Nat [...]
2008-11-15 04:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNGA IS WE GZ SY
08STATE12185OIC ACCOUNT FOR GAZA
[...] (C) Department read reftel with great interest and requests that post approach the OIC Secretary General to ensure that the account opened to streamline OIC member states' donations for humanitarian relief to Gaza be coordinated with the Fayyad government. The account should not undermine the [...]
2008-02-06 14:22:00Secretary of StateSECRETPREL KISL PHUM SA WBG KPAL
08STATE121875DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the unit and commander listed below. The unit and commander are candidates for participation in the Fusion Mint 09-01 training exercise scheduled f [...]
2008-11-17 18:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE122811OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON DRAFT LAW
[...] POST IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT AT THE NOVEMBER 20, 2008, MEETING OF THE OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL IN VIENNA: BEGIN TEXT: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN. THE UNITED STATES GENUINELY WELCOMES THE POSITIVE STEPS THE KYRGYZ REPUBLIC HAS TAKEN TO EXPAND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND TOLE [...]
2008-11-19 17:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE KG
08STATE122822DEMARCHE REQUEST: REQUEST HIGH LEVEL UN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Department requests USUN urge SYG Ban to inform the UNSC the Burmese regime has prohibited Ban from traveling to Rangoon, to stress the lack of progress on the release of political prisoners and the need to establish an inclusive dialogue, and to continue to con [...]
2008-11-19 17:46:00Secretary of StateSECRETPREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE123047OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO THE REPORT BY
[...] (U) Post is authorized to make the following statement at the November 20 meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States joins other delegations in welcoming the three Personal Representatives of the Chairman in Office to the Pe [...]
2008-11-19 22:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV OSCE
08STATE123051DIPLOMATIC NOTE FOR THE TRANSFER OF GTMO DETAINEE HAMDAN
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 3 and 4. --------- SUMMARY --------- 2. (C) The Department thanks Post for its work to develop an agreement with the Government of Yemen (ROYG) to accept the transfer of GTMO detainee SALEM AHMED SALEM HAMDAN (ISN 149) with a commitment t [...]
2008-11-19 22:49:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALKDRG PHUM PINR PTER YM
08STATE123072GUIDANCE FOR UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON ZIMBABWE
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should draw from the statement in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Zimbabwe November 20. USUN should also address the press after the UNSC briefing to summarize the key points from the U.S. statement. Additionally, USUN should hand t [...]
2008-11-19 23:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU KDEM
08STATE123174LEAHY VETTING FOR AFRICAN MILITARY WORKSHOP IN
[...] (SBU) The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of November 20, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officers listed below: Name: Jean Baptiste Nkwezi Rank: Lieutenant Colonel DOB: 1968 POB: Burundi Unit: MDNA [...]
2008-11-20 14:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PHUM PGOV BY
08STATE123225SOMALIA: INSTRUCTIONS ON TABLING OUR UNSC
[...] This is an action cable. USUN is instructed to deliver the following draft resolution (complete text paragraph 4) to the British and the French Mission in New York immediately. USUN should table the resolution to the Council NLT COB on November 20. 2. Objectives: -- Thank the British [...]
2008-11-20 16:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE123238SOMALIA: TALKING POINTS FOR SOMALIA BRIEFING
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the talking points in paragraph 2 for the UN Security Council briefing and consultation on Somalia to be held on November 20. 2. Begin points: -- We would like to thank the (DPA official),(DPKO official),as well as the IMO Secretary-General Mitropoulos [...]
2008-11-20 16:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE123473OSCE GUIDANCE: DRAFT MINISTERIAL DECISION ON
[...] Per reftel request for guidance, the Department agrees that the Roma and Sinti decision is a worthwhile one. The Department would like USOSCE to seek an edit in preambular paragraph two, replacing the word "people" with the word "persons" so that the sentence reads: "Recognizing the importan [...]
2008-11-20 23:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PHUM PREL
08STATE123513UNGA VOTING INSTRUCTION: SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE
[...] This is an action request. See paragraph 2. 2. USDel is instructed to vote against the following six UNGA resolutions under the agenda items 15, "The Situation in the Middle East," and 16, "Question of Palestine." USDel may call for a vote on any of these resolutions if no other member does [...]
2008-11-21 03:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNGA IS PA WE GZ SY
08STATE123908DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR LAOS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - ILEA
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for "Special Investigation Group Workshop on Pangolin and Big Cats." The In [...]
2008-11-21 20:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PHUM PREL PGOV MARR KCRM LA
08STATE124166DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY REQUEST - JUSMAG
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate to participate in the JUSMAG - Royal Thai Army Officer, Foreign Military Attac [...]
2008-11-24 12:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE124212HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CAMEROONNIAN MILITARY
[...] (SBU) the Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of November 17, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officers listed below: Name: Serge Durrel Title: Marine Military Officer POB: Okong, Cameroon DOB: June 6, [...]
2008-11-24 14:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PHUM PGOV CM
08STATE124214DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the ILEA Bangkok Post Blast Investigation Course schedu [...]
2008-11-24 14:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR CB
08STATE124462(U) HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-24 19:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE124562HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE ARMY OFFICER
[...] Embassy Lome requested human rights certification for one Togolese Army officer to attend HIV/AIDS Strategic Planning and Policy Development training from 4 through 13 December 2008. 2. Information about the participant is as follows: Name: Kodjo Patanaam ABALO Rank: Major Unit: Togole [...]
2008-11-24 21:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08STATE124569DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the units and commanders identified below. These units and commanders are candidates for participation in the JIATF-West Leather Piston [...]
2008-11-24 22:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE124745DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is a candidate for participation in the INL/DOJ-ICITAP STANDARD EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM tra [...]
2008-11-25 14:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE124746DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate for attendance at the HIV/AIDS Conference training course December 5-12, 2008 in San A [...]
2008-11-25 14:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE124780DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the INL/DOJ-ICITAP STANDARD EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM [...]
2008-11-25 15:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE124901DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY REQUEST - JUSMAG
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the units and commanders listed below. These units and commanders are candidates to participate in the JUSMAG Thai JCET Fusion Torch 09-1 [...]
2008-11-25 17:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE124902DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate for attendance at the HIV/AIDS Conference training course December 5-12, 2008 in San A [...]
2008-11-25 17:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE124992DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in a Basic Crime Investigation and Evidence Collect [...]
2008-11-25 19:54:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE125004DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY REQUEST - JUSMAG
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the units and commanders listed below. These units and commanders are candidates to participate in the JUSMAG Thai CNT Fusion Torch 09-1 a [...]
2008-11-25 20:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE125046DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR VIETNAM LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for the ILEA Bangkok Tactical and Safety Training Course from Decem [...]
2008-11-25 20:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER SNAR MARR KCRM VM
08STATE125072DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the unit and commander identified below. The unit and commander received a nomination to participate in the "GPOI PKO Lanes Train the T [...]
2008-11-25 21:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM CB
08STATE125145OSCE GUIDANCE: DRAFT MINISTERIAL DECISION ON
[...] Encourages those participating States that have not yet done so to ensure that all forms of trafficking in human beings as defined in the OSCE Action Plan are criminalized in their national legislation and that perpetrators of human trafficking do not enjoy impunity; STATE 00125145 002 OF [...]
2008-11-25 22:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PHUM PREL KTIP
08STATE125246OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO THE REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-26 13:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE
08STATE125319(U) HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for the individual be filed with as much t [...]
2008-11-26 14:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE125369DEMARCHE REQUEST: UN RAPPORTEUR ON TORTURE,S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Summary: Department requests Embassy Malabo to reach out to appropriate interlocutors to convey USG concern with the findings of UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak. The Department recognizes the [...]
2008-11-26 15:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI EK
08STATE125506CROATIA: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP
[...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 1 when host governments are fully meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Remaining on Tier [...]
2008-11-26 18:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG CR
08STATE125626DEMARCHE REQUEST ON THE HELSINKI OSCE MINISTERIAL
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. The annual OSCE Ministerial will take place in Helsinki 4-5 December. The Secretary will attend a portion of the meeting which forty-nine ministers are expected to attend. Posts are requested to engage host country officials to garner support for U.S. object [...]
2008-11-26 21:31:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU
08STATE125681KOSOVO - PRST INSTRUCTION FOR NOVEMBER 26 2008
[...] USUN is authorized to join consensus on the following PRST on Kosovo due to be adopted on November 26, 2008. 2. Begin text: The Security Council takes note of the Secretary-Generals report on UNMIK (S/2008/692) dated 24 November 2008 and, taking into account the positions of Belg [...]
2008-11-27 01:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO PREL YI UNSC UNMIK PHUM KV
08STATE125686 COLD FRONT AFFECTING CARIBBEAN COAST OF COSTA RICA AND
[...] As result of flood damage caused by the interaction of a high and low pressure systems on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica from November 22-26, 2008, the Chief of Mission has determined that the disaster is of sufficient magnitude to warrant US Government assistance. The damage has exceeded [...]
2008-11-27 02:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID AEMR ASEC PHUM KFLO CS
08STATE125694HUMAN RIGHTS DAY - PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
[...] (U) Summary: December 10 marks the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This day, celebrated as Human Rights Day worldwide, is the date that the UDHR was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948. The Department is celebrating the occasion with [...]
2008-11-27 08:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAPER KPAO PHUM OIIP SCUL
08STATE125908DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the Staff and Instructor Training from January 3 [...]
2008-11-28 17:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM CB
08STATE125909DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates to attend the USAID/ILEA Q Special Investigation Group Workshop on [...]
2008-11-28 17:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE125910DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR TAIWAN LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - DEA
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below. These are candidates from the Taiwan Criminal Investigation Bureau selected to attend a DEA Basic Drug De [...]
2008-11-28 17:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PHUM ASEC KCRM PTER SNAR TW
08STATE126443INSTRUCTIONS ON DECEMBER 3 CONSULTATIONS ON
[...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN is instructed to draw from talking points in para 2 below during December 2 consultations on the UN Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BONUCA). End action request. 2. Begin points: The United States strongly supports Special Envoy Francois Lonseny [...]
2008-12-01 19:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PHUM PBTS CT
08STATE126579SOMALIA: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR UNSC RESOLUTION
[...] The Department instructs USUN to vote in favor of the following UN Security Council resolution on Somalia piracy, to be considered on Tuesday, December 2. 2. Begin text: The Security Council, Recalling its previous resolutions concerning the situation in Somalia, especially resolution [...]
2008-12-02 00:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE126725HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR DOD-SPONSORED HIV/AIDS
[...] (SBU) The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 2, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officer listed below: Name: Magloire Ondounda Rank: Captain Major Unit/Organization: Military HIV/AIDS Program DOB: [...]
2008-12-02 16:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PHUM GB
08STATE126729HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CANDIDATES WHO HAVE BEEN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-02 16:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PHUM GB
08STATE126733HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CANDIDATES TO
[...] (SBU) The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 2, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officers listed below: Name: Honor Enzema Nguema Rank: Lieutenant Commander Unit/Organization: Navy Operational Bas [...]
2008-12-02 16:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PHUM ASEC GB
08STATE126737HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CAMEROONIAN MILITARY
[...] (SBU) The Department of Stae has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 2, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officers listed below: Name: Abondo ze Evina Etiene Rank: Colonel DOB: December 26, 1957 POB: Centre, Cameroon [...]
2008-12-02 16:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PHUM PGOV CM
08STATE126744DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in Session Two of the Basic Crime Investigation and [...]
2008-12-02 16:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE126746DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for a SET/PA Qualification course under JUSMAG International Military [...]
2008-12-02 16:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE126861DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR HONG KONG LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates to attend the ILEA Bangkok Tactical Safety and Planning Course from Dece [...]
2008-12-02 19:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PHUM ASEC KCRM SNAR HK TH
08STATE126864DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR BRUNEI LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - ILEA
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates for the ILEA Bangkok "Tactical Safety and Planning" course to be held fr [...]
2008-12-02 19:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM KCRM PREL SNAR BX
08STATE127279DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the INL/DOJ-ICITAP Standard Emergency Management System [...]
2008-12-03 15:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE127280DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates to attend the Cobra Gold 09 Medical Civic Assistance Program to proceed Febr [...]
2008-12-03 15:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PGOV PREL SNAR ID
08STATE127281DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for the Manpower Personnel Officer Course that starts January 3, 2009 [...]
2008-12-03 15:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE127294DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY REQUEST - JUSMAG
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates to participate in the DAO Advanced Security Cooperation/Executive Course a [...]
2008-12-03 15:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE127295DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY REQUEST - JUSMAG
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate to participate in a JUSMAG Thai - Psychological Operation Course at Fort Brag [...]
2008-12-03 15:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE127297DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR BRUNEI LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - ILEA
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates for the ILEA Bangkok "Clandestine Lab Investigations/Chemical Control Co [...]
2008-12-03 15:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM KCRM PREL SNAR BX
08STATE127337DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates to attend the USAID/ILEA Bangkok in Special Investigation Group Wo [...]
2008-12-03 16:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE127352DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR SINGAPORE LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates for the Post-Blast Investigations Course at ILEA Bangkok. The course runs from January 11 [...]
2008-12-03 17:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MOPS PHUM SNAR MASS KCRM SN
08STATE127371DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is a candidate for participation in the USAID/ILEA Bangkok Special Investigations Group (SIG) [...]
2008-12-03 18:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR CB
08STATE127372DEPARTMENT LEAHY VETTING CLEARANCE FOR PAPUA NEW GUINEA
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations for the following individual listed below. This individual is a candidate to attend the Naval Staff College at the Naval War College in Rhode Island from J [...]
2008-12-03 18:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL PGOV SNAR KCRM PP
08STATE127448REQUEST FOR CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TRADE
[...] This is an action request. Please see summary paragraph (para) 2 and paras 6 through 11 for specific information requested. 2. Summary: This is a request for information to determine if countries eligible for trade benefits under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program are im [...]
2008-12-03 19:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID
08STATE127955HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for the individual be filed with as much t [...]
2008-12-04 19:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE127999DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the RSO-ILEA Bangkok Clandestine Lab Investigations and [...]
2008-12-04 20:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE128039DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR LAOS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - ILEA
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for the "Tactical Safety and Planning" course hosted by International Law En [...]
2008-12-04 21:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PHUM PREL PGOV MARR KCRM LA
08STATE128542DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual received a nomination to participate in the APCSS ASC 09-1 in Hawaii, USA from January [...]
2008-12-05 21:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM CB
08STATE128543DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR SUVA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations for the following individual listed below. This individual is a candidate for the Engineer Basic Officer Course at Fort Leonard Wood, MO scheduled from Jan [...]
2008-12-05 21:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL PGOV SNAR KCRM TN
08STATE128544DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates for attendance in a Squadron Officer School training course conducted by the Air Un [...]
2008-12-05 21:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE128785DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the RSO - ILEA Bangkok-Post Blast Investigations Course [...]
2008-12-08 14:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE128787DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates to attend the COBRA GOLD 09 Engineer Civic Assistance Program from January 9 [...]
2008-12-08 14:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PGOV PREL SNAR ID
08STATE128793LEAHY VETTING FOR CHADIAN NATIONAL POLICE
[...] (SBU) The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 8, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officers listed below: Name: Mahamat Moussa DOB: January 1, 1958 POB: Ndjamena, Chad Name: Djombe Djankreo [...]
2008-12-08 15:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PHUM CD
08STATE128796DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CHINA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - POST
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified in paragraph 2 below. The individuals from the Tianjin and Hubei public security bureaus listed below are candidates [...]
2008-12-08 15:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM PTER PREL MARR SNAR HK CH TH
08STATE129296DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the ILEA Advanced Management Course scheduled for Janua [...]
2008-12-09 18:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR CB
08STATE129353DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the ILEA Advanced Management Course scheduled for Janua [...]
2008-12-09 19:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR CB
08STATE129528SOMALIA: INSTRUCTIONS ON TABLING OUR RESOLUTION
[...] Action Request: USUN is instructed to circulate the draft resolution on Somali piracy (paragraph 3) to our P3 partners upon receipt of this message and report responses to the Department. After having shared the draft with the P3, USUN should table the resolution to the rest of the Council NLT [...]
2008-12-10 00:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE129531GUIDANCE FOR DECEMBER 11 CONSULTATIONS ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should draw from the statement in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Guinea-Bissau December 11. 2. Begin Statement: I would like to thank Under Secretary General Pascoe for briefing the UNSC on the situation in Guinea-Biassau. Toda [...]
2008-12-10 00:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SNAR PU XA XY
08STATE129677DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the ILEA Advanced Management Course scheduled for Janua [...]
2008-12-10 15:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR CB
08STATE129841DEMARCHE: PROSPECTS FOR REFORM IN 2009 SAUDI
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) With Saudi Arabia scheduled to appoint a new Majlis al-Shoura in April 2009 and to hold municipal elections in June 2009, the Department is formulating an elections strategy per the framework of post,s democracy strategy. [...]
2008-12-10 19:58:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM SA
08STATE13003REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (LEAHY) VETTING DEFENSE
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of February, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officers listed below: Name; Mrs. Lauratu N.((JOHNSON)) Budget Analyst DOB: 17 August 1971 POB: Freetown, Sierra Leone Governm [...]
2008-02-07 20:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDSL PHUM
08STATE130223DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY REQUEST - JUSMAG
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate to participate in a DAO Advanced Security Cooperation/Executive Course at the [...]
2008-12-11 16:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE130311DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates for attendance in an APCSS Advance Security Cooperation 09-1 training course schedu [...]
2008-12-11 19:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE130313DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates for attendance in a Defense Resource Management Training Course from January 3-30, [...]
2008-12-11 19:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE130314DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates for attendance in a Defense Resource Management Course training course from January [...]
2008-12-11 19:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE130315DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates for attendance at a Combined Strategic Intelligence Training Program course schedul [...]
2008-12-11 19:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE130393HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for the individual be filed with as much t [...]
2008-12-11 21:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE130444CORRECTED COPY - KIRIBATI: RESETTLEMENT OF UIGHUR DETAINEES
[...] (S) In November 2008, pursuant to instructions from the Department, Post initiated discussions with the Government of Kiribati (GoK) regarding the possible resettlement in Kiribati of up to 17 Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay (GTMO). GoK President Tong indicated a willingness to discuss th [...]
2008-12-11 22:13:00Secretary of StateSECRETPTER PREL PHUM PINS TN KR AS NZ CH
08STATE130459GUIDANCE FOR DECEMBER 15 UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should draw from the talking points in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Zimbabwe December 15. USUN should also address the press after the UNSC briefing to summarize the key points from the U.S. statement. 2. (U) Begin points: O [...]
2008-12-11 22:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU KDEM
08STATE130489SOMALIA: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY
[...] This is an action cable. Posts are instructed to demarche host governments at a high level about our draft Security Council resolution on Somalia piracy currently being debated in the Security Council. USUN may use points and background provided in this cable in the experts meeting on the re [...]
2008-12-12 03:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE130491SOMALIA: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY
[...] This is an action cable. Posts are instructed to demarche host governments at a high level about our draft Security Council resolution on Somalia piracy currently being debated in the Security Council. USUN may use points and background provided in this cable in the experts meeting on the re [...]
2008-12-12 03:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE130492SOMALIA: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY
[...] This is an action cable. Posts are instructed to demarche host governments at a high level about our draft Security Council resolution on Somalia piracy currently being debated in the Security Council. USUN may use points and background provided in this cable in the experts meeting on the re [...]
2008-12-12 03:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE130496SOMALIA: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY
[...] This is an action cable. Posts are instructed to demarche host governments at a high level about our draft Security Council resolution on Somalia piracy currently being debated in the Security Council. USUN may use points and background provided in this cable in the experts meeting on the re [...]
2008-12-12 03:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE131183THANK YOU FROM THE SECRETARY FOR NEA VOTES ON
[...] (U) This is an action message for action addresses. See para 6. 2. (U) Summary: NEA posts' outreach to host countries, at all levels, paid off November 21 when the UN General Assembly's Third Committee adopted three top priority resolutions on the human rights situations in North Korea, [...]
2008-12-15 16:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOPDC PHUM PREL UNGA
08STATE131242DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for a JUSMAG Title X Advanced Security Cooperation course scheduled f [...]
2008-12-15 17:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE131250DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for a JUSMAG IMET Manpower Personnel Officer course starts January 30 [...]
2008-12-15 17:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE131254DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the units and commanders identified below. These units and commanders are candidates for a JUSMAG Teak Piston 09-1 Teak Piston 09-1, wh [...]
2008-12-15 17:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER KCRM SNAR MARR RP
08STATE131255DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is a candidate for the FBI's Post Blast Investigations Course, which starts January 30 [...]
2008-12-15 17:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER SNAR MARR RP
08STATE131256DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is a candidate for an FBI National Academy Session, which starts April 5, 2009 and end [...]
2008-12-15 17:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER SNAR MARR RP
08STATE131411HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AFRICAN CENTER FOR
[...] (SBU) The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 15, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officer listed below: Name: Butera, Gerald Rank: Major Position: Director of Training Unit: RW Defense Forces He [...]
2008-12-15 20:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PHUM RW
08STATE131552ADVISING RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR OF CONCERN FOR CIVIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 9, DRL A/S David Kramer called Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak in to the Department to discuss civil society in Russia. Kramer expressed his condolences for Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Patriarch Alexiy II's death. Kramer then gave Kislyak a copy of the Departme [...]
2008-12-16 13:53:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL RS
08STATE131600HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING:
[...] (SBU) The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 16, 2008, it posssesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officers listed below: Name: Kayenga Mugumwa Rank: Captain DOB: Augfust 28, 1972 Unit: EMG/LOG Name: Djafae [...]
2008-12-16 15:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PHUM CG
08STATE131616HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PARTICIPATION IN
[...] (SBU) The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 16, 2008, it possesses no credible information of grosss violations of human rights by the officers listed below: Name: Nokl Akebayeri Rank: Petty Officer 1st Class United/Organization: Navy Radar System Su [...]
2008-12-16 15:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PHUM GB
08STATE131918DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY REQUEST - JUSMAG
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate to participate in JUSMAG THAI courses: UH 60 Aviator Qualification, AVN Maint [...]
2008-12-17 00:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE131919DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates for attendance at an Intelligence in Combating Terrorism training course from Janua [...]
2008-12-17 00:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE131920DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for an ILEA-Bangkok Clandestine Lab Investigations course scheduled f [...]
2008-12-17 00:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER SNAR MARR RP
08STATE131921DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates to attend the ILEA Bangkok Clandestine Laboratory Investigations C [...]
2008-12-17 00:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE131922DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates to attend the ILEA Bangkok Chemical Control Course from January 19 [...]
2008-12-17 00:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE131979GREAT LAKES: TALKING POINTS FOR DECEMBER 17
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN may draw from the points in para 2 and 3 during the UN Security Council consultations on the Great Lakes December 17. 2. Begin points: -- I would like to thank UN Special Envoy Chissano for his briefing on the state of the Juba Peace Process and the c [...]
2008-12-17 13:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG CT CD SU RW XA XW ZF
08STATE131994OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON RUSSIA
[...] Post is authorized to present the following statement at the Permanent Council in Vienna on December 18. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On December 14, Police in Moscow and St. Petersburg detained over 200 peaceful protestors at demonstrations, for which permission was not granted, l [...]
2008-12-17 13:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS OSCE
08STATE132208RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 8, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. 1 Ali Atta al-Sayed Mughrabi Gaza 07/14/1965 914988076 2 Mamun Shafi,a K [...]
2008-12-17 20:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08STATE132209OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON BROADCASTING
[...] Post is authorized to present the following statement at the December 18, 2008 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Mr. Chairman, The United States shares the concerns of OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Haraszti regarding the difficulties being encountered in the [...]
2008-12-17 20:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM OSCE MD
08STATE132210RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 9, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. Name POB DOB ID 1 Yasir Ali Muhammad Hamayal [...]
2008-12-17 20:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDASEC KPAL PHUM IS
08STATE132212RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR ADDED
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 15, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. Name POB DOB ID 1 Saddam Mahmud Mustafa Hammad [...]
2008-12-17 20:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08STATE132216RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 15, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. Name POB DOB ID 1 Hikmat Sami Ali Ghnaymat [...]
2008-12-17 20:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDASEC KPAL PHUM IS
08STATE132226DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individual listed below. This individual is a candidate for attendance at an Aerospace Medicine Primary training course from January 30, 2009 [...]
2008-12-17 20:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE132279ITALY: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP (2008-2009)
[...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 1 when host governments are fully meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Remaining on Tier [...]
2008-12-17 21:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG IT
08STATE132294OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the December 18, 2008, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council: Begin Text: Mr. Chairman, The United States welcomes the Government of Turkmenistan's decision to hold parliamentary elections on December 14. For the first time, the G [...]
2008-12-17 22:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TX
08STATE132299OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON BELARUS
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the December 18, 2008 Per1. Post is authorized to present the following statement at the Permanent Council in Vienna on December 18. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States takes note of the efforts of the governme [...]
2008-12-17 22:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BY OSCE
08STATE132759PREPARING THE NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (U) This is an action message for all posts. See paras 12-29. This cable describes the annual reporting requirement for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and provides instructions for posts' contributions. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, as amended, requires the Department t [...]
2008-12-19 03:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF
08STATE132923DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals below. These individuals are candidates for the ILEA Bangkok Post Blast Investigations Course from January 12-23, [...]
2008-12-19 16:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE132985UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON ICTR STATUTE
[...] This is an action cable. USUN is instructed to join consensus December 19 on the draft UN Security Council resolution in para 2 below on ICTR statute amendments. 2. Begin Text: The Security Council, Recalling its resolutions 955 (1994) of 8 November 1994, 1165 (1998) of 30 April 1998 [...]
2008-12-19 17:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM XA
08STATE133170DENMARK: TIP ACTION GUIDE TO COMBAT TIP
[...] This is an action request (see para 5). 2. The 2008 Trafficking in Persons Report rates countries as Tier 1 when host governments are fully meeting the minimum standards to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) as defined by the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). Remaining on Tier [...]
2008-12-19 22:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL SMIG DA
08STATE133189INSTRUCTION: ADOPTION OF UNSC PRST ON THE LRA -
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council Presidential Statement on the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to be adopted on December 22 (para 2). USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the PRST to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. 2. Beg [...]
2008-12-19 23:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG CT CD SU RW XA XW ZF
08STATE133238OBTAINING A COMMITMENT FROM THE GOK TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-20 07:02:00Secretary of StateSECRETPHUM PTER PREL PINR KDRG KR
08STATE13331DEMARCHE REQUEST: SUPPORT FOR THE MANDATE OF THE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The seventh regular session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) (March 3-28, 2008) will continue addressing the role of country specific mandates in the HRC. Since the elimination of the special mandates on Cuba and [...]
2008-02-08 15:21:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM UNHRC CG
08STATE13345TALKING POINTS ON IRAN: ELECTIONS, THIRD
[...] (SBU) Over the next two months, a number of key events related to Iran will take place: the UN Security Council is expected to adopt a third Chapter VII sanctions resolution on Iran; the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General ElBaradei will issue a late February report on [...]
2008-02-08 15:39:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALIR KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UNSC IAEA
08STATE1335SUBJECT: SUDAN - SUPPORT FOR JOINT INTEGRATED
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (U) Sudan,s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),signed on January 9, 2005, calls for the formation of Joint-Integrated Units (JIUs) comprised of forces from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan People,s Liberation Army (SPL [...]
2008-01-07 13:38:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL SU
08STATE133682HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for the individual be filed with as much t [...]
2008-12-22 21:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE133683HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for the individuals be filed with as muc [...]
2008-12-22 21:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE133685HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for the individual be filed with as much t [...]
2008-12-22 21:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE133686HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for the individuals be filed with as muc [...]
2008-12-22 21:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE134206HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CAMEROONIAN POLICE
[...] (SBU) The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 4, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officers listed below: Name: Hamadou, Abdoulaye Rank: Lieutennant Colonel DOB: January 1, 1957 Nationality: Camer [...]
2008-12-23 22:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PHUM CM
08STATE134353DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the RSO - ILEA Bangkok-Post Blast Investigations Course [...]
2008-12-24 15:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE134354DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates to attend the ILEA Bangkok ATA-6885 Identifying and Developing Inv [...]
2008-12-24 15:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE134355DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates to attend the DEA Bangkok - International Asset Forfeiture Seminar [...]
2008-12-24 15:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE134356DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the RSO - ILEA Bangkok-Post Blast Investigations Course [...]
2008-12-24 15:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE134357DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates for attendance at a Multinational Logistics training course from January 19, 2009 t [...]
2008-12-24 15:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE134358DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR MALAYSIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross human rights violations for the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates for attendance at an Aerospace Medicine Primary training course from January 30, 20 [...]
2008-12-24 15:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR MARR KCRM MY
08STATE134950DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR THAILAND LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates to attend the ILEA Bangkok Tactical Safety and Planning Course: Se [...]
2008-12-29 22:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM TH
08STATE135068DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the ICITAP Maritime Security Development Project Comman [...]
2008-12-30 14:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE135293DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates to attend the COBRA GOLD 09 Command Post Exercise scheduled from February 4, [...]
2008-12-30 23:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PGOV PREL SNAR ID
08STATE135294DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is a candidate to attend the ODC-APCSS Pacific Rim Defense and Security Conference scheduled f [...]
2008-12-30 23:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PGOV PREL SNAR ID
08STATE135296DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is a candidate to attend the ODC - George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies and [...]
2008-12-30 23:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PGOV PREL SNAR ID
08STATE135298DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual received a nomination to participate in the Special Operations Combating Terrorism Cou [...]
2008-12-30 23:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL SNAR KCRM CB
08STATE135299DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR LAOS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - ILEA
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for the "Clandestine Lab Investigations/Chemical Control" course hosted by t [...]
2008-12-30 23:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PHUM PREL PGOV MARR KCRM LA
08STATE135300DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR LAOS LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - ILEA
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for the "Post Blast Investigations" course hosted by the International Law E [...]
2008-12-30 23:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PHUM PREL PGOV MARR KCRM LA
08STATE135301DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR HONG KONG LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates to attend the ILEA Bangkok - Clandestine Lab Investigations/Chemical Con [...]
2008-12-30 23:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PHUM ASEC KCRM SNAR HK TH
08STATE135302DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR HONG KONG LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below. These individuals are candidates to attend the ILEA Roswell - Advanced Management Course, January 12, 200 [...]
2008-12-30 23:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PHUM ASEC KCRM SNAR HK TH
08STATE135445DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR VIETNAM LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights committed by the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for the ILEA Bangkok Clandestine Lab Investigation/Chemical Control [...]
2008-12-31 18:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER SNAR MARR KCRM VM
08STATE135506DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual identified below. This individual is a candidate for participation in a USAID sponsored ASEAN-WEN Support Project Wildlife Enfor [...]
2008-12-31 19:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PREL SNAR ID
08STATE135507DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the units and commanders identified below. These units and commanders are candidates to attend the ODC - Joint Combined Exercise and Training ( [...]
2008-12-31 20:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PGOV PREL SNAR ID
08STATE135508DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CAMBODIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for participation in the ILEA Supervisory Criminal Investigators Course sche [...]
2008-12-31 20:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR CB
08STATE135509DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR PHILIPPINES LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and found that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates for an ILEA Bangkok Post Blast Investigations course scheduled from J [...]
2008-12-31 20:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR PREL PTER SNAR MARR RP
08STATE135510DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR INDONESIA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST -
[...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, to date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individuals identified below. These individuals are candidates to attend the ODC-APCSS Advanced Security Course 09-1 scheduled from January [...]
2008-12-31 20:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MARR KCRM PINR PGOV PREL SNAR ID
08STATE14088REVISED INSTRUCTION CABLE ON INITIATING ASSURANCE
[...] (SBU) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST: Post is requested to make the points in paragraphs 7 and 8 to appropriate interlocutor(s) in the Rwandan Government. 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND: Rwandan citizens Leonidas Bimenyimana, Gregoire Nyaminani, and Francois Karake were brought to the United States in 2003 [...]
2008-02-11 18:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PTER
08STATE14246DEMARCHE REQUEST: URGING PORTUGAL TO ACTION AS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3-5. SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Post is requested to approach the MFA at the appropriate levels to urge their strong leadership of the Community of Democracies (CD) and to solicit their views on priorities for their Chairmanship over t [...]
2008-02-11 22:11:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA PO AO
08STATE14270LIBYA: REQUEST FOR ROUTINE ACCESS TO REPATRIATED GUANTANAMO
[...] (S/NF) Department remains concerned about the GOL's past failure to provide Post with timely access to returned Libyan detainees Muhammad Abdallah Mansur al-Rimi (ISN 194) and Ben Qumu Abu Sufian Ibrahim Ahmed Hamouda (ISN 557),and believes that under the circumstances it is important to insti [...]
2008-02-11 22:54:00Secretary of StateSECRET//NOFORNPTER PREL PHUM PINS LY
08STATE14888MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR AMY OSTERMEIER FOR
[...] (SBU) Department requests mission clearance for the following individual to attend meetings with the UN Democracy Fund staff on Thursday, February 14th and to meet with Mission personnel on Friday, February 15. NAME:Amy A. Ostermeier CLEARANCE LEVEL: TS/SCI DATES AT USUN Feb. 14 - Feb. 15. [...]
2008-02-13 18:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM
08STATE15418USUN STRATEGY ON BURMA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-14 18:40:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE15620SOMALIA -- TALKING POINTS FOR FEBRUARY 15
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points during their February 15 consultations on Somalia. Begin points: -- The United States continues to have the utmost concern over the ongoing crisis in Somalia. -- The United States is grateful to the AU Mission in Somalia for [...]
2008-02-14 22:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM KCRM PBTS PHSA EWWT SO XA XW
08STATE15648APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE FEBRUARY
[...] (U) Classified by William Lucas, Office Director, EUR/ERA. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 13. 3. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Brussels on February 18- [...]
2008-02-14 23:23:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEUN PHUM PREL PGOV KV IS IR CD BM
08STATE15778DEMARCHE ON INCARCERATION POLICIES IN RUSSIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Department requests Post express at an appropriate level our serious human rights and humanitarian concerns about certain issues regarding incarceration practices in Russia. For USOSCE, Post should understand that the current demarche is intended to be raised in the course of our [...]
2008-02-15 14:16:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOSCE PHUM RS
08STATE15895HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. If at any time Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents that could be deemed to [...]
2008-02-15 17:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE17204SOMALIA -- INSTRUCTION CABLE ON AMISOM RESOLUTION
[...] USUN is instructed to vote in favor of the following Security Council Resolution on AMISOM slated to be adopted on February 20: Begin text The Security Council, PP1 Recalling its previous resolutions concerning the situation in Somalia, in particular resolution 733 (1992),resolution [...]
2008-02-20 20:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM KCRM PBTS PHSA EWWT SO XA XW
08STATE18211TALKING POINTS FOR U/SYG HOLMES BRIEFING ON KENYA
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the February 25 briefing on Kenya to the Security Council by Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes. Begin points: -- We would like to thank Under Secretary General Holmes for this briefing today on h [...]
2008-02-22 22:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM KE XA XY
08STATE18784BOSNIA - ONE YEAR POST ICJ VERDICT, MUCH PROGRESS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In February 2007, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict that genocide was committed in and around Srebrenica in July 1995 unleashed pent-up Bosniak anger about the 1992-1995 war. Bosniak political leaders exploited the verdict in order to advance their own narrow, nati [...]
2008-02-25 21:23:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KCRM KAWC KDEM PHUM BK
08STATE18943HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. If at any time Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents that could be deemed to b [...]
2008-02-26 12:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE19188DRC: REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.
[...] (SBU) The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of February 20, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the officers listed below: Name: Mutamba, Kanza Nicole Rank: Captain Position: National Police DOB: June 10, 1962 [...]
2008-02-26 17:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM KJUS PGOV PHUM CG
08STATE19737OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON UZBEKISTAN
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the February 28, 2008, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States welcomes the limited progress made recently by Uzbekistan toward fulfilling its Helsinki Commitments. [...]
2008-02-27 17:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE UZ
08STATE21168KUDOS FOR RANGOON'S REPORT ON BIODIVERSITY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-29 21:22:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALSENV PHUM PREL BM
08STATE22378SOMALIA-- TALKING POINTS FOR MARCH 5 BRIEFING
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following points for the March 5 briefing on Somalia and Kenya: Begin points: ------- Somalia ------- -- We would like to thank the Secretariat for their briefing today on the situation in Somalia and Kenya. -- The United States is deeply concern [...]
2008-03-05 00:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SO XA XW
08STATE22554OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO HEAD OF THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-05 15:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL OSCE HR
08STATE22794OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO SERBIA ON
[...] Should Serbia or another OSCE participating raise the International Steering Group (ISG) for Kosovo during the March 6 Permanent Council meeting, Post is authorized to present the response at paragraph 2, either as an individual country statement or as a joint statement with other ISG members [...]
2008-03-05 19:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM KV SR
08STATE23123DRC- INSTRUCTIONS FOR DRC EXPERTS MEETING ON FDLR
[...] Action Request: USUN is instructed to seek the changes in paragraph 2 on the draft resolution on the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) (draft text provided in paragraph 4). USUN may draw from the talking points in paragraph 3 in its efforts to secure the changes. If the [...]
2008-03-06 15:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG AZ ZF
08STATE24749DRC-- INSTRUCTION CABLE ON FDLR RESOLUTION FOR
[...] Action Request: USUN is instructed to seek the changes in paragraph 2 on the draft resolution on the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) Revision 1 (draft text provided in paragraph 4). USUN may draw from the talking points in paragraph 3 in its efforts to secure the changes [...]
2008-03-10 18:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG XA ZF
08STATE2476OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO INCOMING
[...] Post is authorized to present the following statement at the January 10 Special Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: We are honored to welcome Foreign Minister Ilkka Kanerva to the Permanent Council as the Chairman in Office for 2008. The United States fully supports the object [...]
2008-01-09 16:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OSCE PHUM CFED FI
08STATE25582OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO BELARUS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-11 22:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL OSCE BO
08STATE2577HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. If at any time, the Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents which could be credi [...]
2008-01-09 18:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE25858OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO CIO SPECIAL
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the Permanent Council meeting in Vienna on March 13. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States greatly appreciates the diligent efforts of Ambassador Heikki Talvitie, the special envoy of the Chairman in Office, t [...]
2008-03-12 16:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAM KDEM MO OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL
08STATE26036SECOND TRANCHE OF FAST TRACK COUNTRIES FOR LEAHY
[...] This cable announces the second tranche of countries for fast track treatment for Leahy vetting. Fast track treatment for selected countries with good human rights records was established in 2007 (reftel A) to alleviate workload and time required. Fast track policy is applicable to both Depa [...]
2008-03-12 20:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM PINR PREL SNAR MASS ASEC
08STATE26159DRC-- INSTRUCTION CABLE ON FDLR RESOLUTION
[...] Action Request: USUN is instructed to join consensus and co-sponsor the resolution (text below) on the Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) scheduled for adoption in the Security Council on March 13. Begin text: The Security Council, Recalling its previous resolutions, in [...]
2008-03-13 01:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG XA ZF
08STATE2731PREPARING THE EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN
[...] This an action message for all posts. See paras 17-30. This cable describes the annual reporting requirement regarding Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and provides instructions for posts' contributions to the Department's eighth annual TIP report. The Department is required by the Trafficking Vi [...]
2008-01-09 23:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG XX
08STATE27905INSTRUCTIONS FOR BURMA BRIEFING AND GROUP OF
[...] (U) ACTION REQUEST AND SUMMARY: Special Advisor for Burma Gambari will present a report to the Security Council on his latest visit to Burma March 18 at 5:00 PM, preceded by a meeting of the Burma Group of Friends at 3:00 PM. USUN's objective should be to assure that Gambari provides the Sec [...]
2008-03-18 00:52:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE28930SOMALIA-- TALKING POINTS FOR MARCH 20 OPEN DEBATE
[...] This is an action message. See paragraph 2. USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for their March 20 open debate on Somalia. Begin points: -- The United States would like to thank the Secretary General for his thorough March 14 report on the situation in Somalia [...]
2008-03-19 23:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SO XA XW
08STATE28931BELARUS:DEMARCHE REQUEST
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. Embassy Minsk has requested Department guidance on the demand outlined in Refs A through C that the U.S. reduce the number of U.S. diplomatic staff at Embassy Minsk to 17 or face expulsion of embassy staff. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has given a dea [...]
2008-03-19 23:55:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM AMGT ODIP OFDP BO
08STATE28948AFGHANISTAN - INSTRUCTION FOR UNAMA MANDATE
[...] The Department instructs USUN to join consensus and vote in favor of the resolution renewing for one year the UN Mission in Afghanistan's mandate, to be considered by the Security Council on Thursday, March 20. 2. Begin resolution text: The Security Council, PP1 Recalling its previous [...]
2008-03-20 02:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PHUM PGOV PREL MARR AF
08STATE29525HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. If at any time Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents that could be deemed to be credible i [...]
2008-03-21 11:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE30007DEMARCHE REQUEST TO EU MEMBER STATES ON BELARUS
[...] (C) Department requests addressees to seek support at the highest appropriate level from all EU member states as the Government of Belarus attempts to reduce the U.S. diplomatic presence in Minsk. Your conversations should promote continued U.S.-EU unity in our policy toward Belarus. You sho [...]
2008-03-21 22:04:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALBO EU PHUM PREL
08STATE30490ACTION REQUEST: UNDEF ADVISORY BOARD CHAIR
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Department requests Mission as soon as possible - and before the close of business on Thursday, March 27 - to demarche at an appropriately senior level to the office of the Secretary General and to UN Democracy Fund Executive Director Roland Rich to convey: a) [...]
2008-03-24 23:36:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM
08STATE30502FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS ON TIBET STATEMENT AT HRC
[...] (C) SUMMARY and ACTION REQUEST: U.S. Mission Geneva is requested to continue discussions with the Slovenian delegation at the Human Rights Council (HRC),on behalf of the Presidency of the European Union (EU),and other allies and urge them to move forward with a statement on Tibet during the [...]
2008-03-25 00:36:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM
08STATE30504APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE MARCH 28-29
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold an informal meeting (GYMNICH) in Ljubljana on March 28-29. We expect the agenda to include: Western Balkans (Serbia/Kosovo),Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Lebanon-Syria, China/Tibet, and [...]
2008-03-25 01:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM EUN ZL IS SY LE RS CH
08STATE31432SOMALIA-- DRAFT ELEMENTS FOR POSSIBLE UNSCR ON
[...] (SBU) This is an action request for USUN, Embassy London, Paris, and Panama City. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. USUN is instructed to provide to its British, French and Panamanian counterparts draft elements of a UN Security Council Resolution (paragraph 12) to combat piracy off the Somali [...]
2008-03-26 23:02:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE31971GUIDANCE: UN DEMOCRACY FUND ADVISORY BOARD
[...] (U) This is an action request with guidance for USUN to participate in the March 28 UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) Advisory Board meeting. Please see para 4 for action requested. 2. (SBU) Per reftel A, the March 28 Advisory Board meeting will include a discussion of: a) the second funding round [...]
2008-03-27 23:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL
08STATE32356SOMALIA-- TALKING POINTS FOR 03/28 EXPERTS MEETING
[...] This is an action message, see paragraph 2. 2. USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points and seek elements in paragraph 3 for a PRST on Somalia in response to the March 14 Secretary General (SYG) report on Somalia. Begin points: -- The United States believes the Ma [...]
2008-03-28 19:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE32527SOMALIA- TALKING POINTS FOR MARCH 31 ARRIA STYLE
[...] This is an action message. See paragraph 2. 2. USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the March 31 Arria style meeting on Somalia. Begin points: -- The United States would like to thank the UK Permanent Mission for organizing this Arria-style meeting. We wo [...]
2008-03-28 22:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW
08STATE33088DEMARCHE ON WESTERN SAHARA POLICY
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN is directed to deliver a demarche to the UN Secretariat and the French mission to the United Nations in accordance with the objectives in paragraphs 2 and 3. Embassy Paris should deliver a demarche to appropriate officials in accordance with objectives in [...]
2008-03-31 21:08:00Secretary of StateSECRETPREL PGOV UNSC MO WI FR PHUM PREF PBTS
08STATE33523OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO OSCE SG ON
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the response at paragraph 2 at the Permanent Council meeting in Vienna on April 3. 2. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States read with interest the report of the Secretary General following his observation of the First SIPDIS Annua [...]
2008-04-01 19:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL KISL KIRF OSCE
08STATE34313GEORGIANS LOOK TO MAY 21 ELECTIONS
[...] (U) Summary: A Presidential decree on March 21 set the date for upcoming parliamentary elections on May 21. Against the backdrop of campaign preparations, events are unfolding quickly. The ruling National Movement (UNM) party replaced its Secretary General, effectively sidelining a leading r [...]
2008-04-03 02:38:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GG
08STATE34314OPCAT--GEORGIA WORKS ON IMPROVING PRISON CONDITIONS
[...] (SBU) In June 2007 The Government of Georgia created an Inter-agency Coordination Council to address the issue of torture in prisons and other closed facilities. On March 31, this council met for the first time since September 2007 to discuss the action plan to implement the Optional Protoco [...]
2008-04-03 02:41:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL GG
08STATE34317WELCOME TO THE WORLD'S NEWEST DEMOCRACY: BHUTAN
[...] (SBU) Demonstrating a strong commitment to a transition to democracy, Bhutan went to the polls on March 24 to provide a lop-sided victory for the Druk Pheuensum Tshogpa (DPT),one of the two parties in contention. DPT president Jigme Y. Thinley is expected to be sworn in as Prime Minister sho [...]
2008-04-03 02:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PREF PGOV PHUM PREL PINR IN BT
08STATE34320SERBIA: REFUGEE COORDINATOR WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: MARCH
[...] (SBU) On March 27, refcord met with UNHCR Serbia Senior Program Coordinator Angelita Cecere to discuss country operations planning. Cecere told refcord UNHCR Serbia submitted a two year budget (2008-2009) plan in March 2007 and this year planned only a few revisions to the original submission [...]
2008-04-03 03:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL KV SR
08STATE3611RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of January 4, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the members of the Palestinian National Security Forces listed below. Ashraf Musa Mahmoud Jamal POB: Hebron (al-Khalil) DOB: [...]
2008-01-11 20:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC IS WE KPAL MASS MARR
08STATE36718DEMARCHE TO SPECIAL ADVISOR GAMBARI
[...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: USUN is instructed to seek a meeting at the earliest possible date with UN Special Advisor for Burma Ibrahim Gambari to convey the concern of the United States that Gambari's public statements overestimating minimal concessions made by the regime in response to the UN Good [...]
2008-04-09 00:09:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE37076OSCE GUIDANCE: DRAFT DECISION ON THE AGENDA,
[...] The Department authorizes USOSCE to join consensus on the draft decision on the Agenda, Timetable and Modalities of the Huamn Dimension Seminar (PC.DD/11/08/Rev.1),with the changes outlined in paragraph 2. 2. Post should seek the following changes to the text as transmitted to the EUR/RP [...]
2008-04-09 18:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM OSCE PHUM PREL
08STATE38413HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the members of the Iraq Security forces listed below. If, at any time, Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents that could be deemed to be cred [...]
2008-04-11 18:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE40176OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO HEAD OF
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the April 17th, 2008 meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ambassador Radicati, welcome back to the Permanent Council. Often when we discuss countries that have experienced a confli [...]
2008-04-16 22:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE MK
08STATE40380DEMARCHE: US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. SUMMARY: Department requests action addressees to demarche respective Foreign Ministries to urge co-sponsorship of the attached country-neutral declaration on prisoners of conscience. END SUMMARY - - - - - Background - - - - - [...]
2008-04-17 15:30:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEUN PHUM PREL
08STATE40386DEMARCHE: US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
[...] (U) this is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. SUMMARY: Department requests action addressees to demarche respective Foreign Ministries to urge co-sponsorship of the attached country-neutral declaration on prisoners of conscience. END SUMMARY ---------- BACKGROUND 3. (C) [...]
2008-04-17 15:33:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEUN PHUM PREL
08STATE40480RESPONSE TO DAMASCUS REFUGEE SITREP 1
[...] (SBU) Department appreciates Post's update on Iraqi refugee resettlement (reftel). 2. (SBU) PRM and DHS/USCIS authorize GSO or a contractor to drill additional tennis ball-sized holes in the Plexiglass in each interview room to facilitate better communication. We understand this will cos [...]
2008-04-17 17:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIZ SY PHUM PREF PREL
08STATE41097HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the members of the Iraq Security forces listed below. If, at any time, Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents that could be deemed to be cred [...]
2008-04-18 16:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE41964REPORT OF POLICE ADVISOR FOR TIMOR-LESTE
[...] ACTION REQUEST: The Core Group for Timor-Leste will receive the report of the UN Police Advisor for Timor-Leste, Commissioner Andrew Hughes, on April 22. USUN is instructed to draw on material in para 2 below in responding to Hughes's report. End Action Request. 2. Talking Points: [...]
2008-04-21 20:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNSC TT
08STATE4237DEPARTMENT RESPONSE TO YEREVAN 1421: REQUEST FOR
[...] As requested in reftel, the Department has reviewed its files and, of this date, finds no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the following member of the Government of Armenia, nominated for training by the Ministry of Defense. The start date of training is January 18 [...]
2008-01-14 22:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDASEC MASS PGOV PHUM AM
08STATE4344OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON UZBEK
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the January 17, 2008 meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council: Begin Text: Mr. Chairman, The United States is concerned about the conduct of the Uzbek presidential election on December 23rd, which, according to ODIHR, fell short of mee [...]
2008-01-15 14:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE UZ
08STATE44254RESPONSE TO KYRGYZ GOVERNMENT QUESTION ON
[...] (SBU) In response to the information sought by Kyrgyz Minister of Justice Kaiypov regarding Kyrgyz citizen Abdubakh Abdykanov, born October 17, 1958 (as reported in reftel),Department authorizes post to provide a response by diplomatic note that includes the following text. 2. (SBU) (Begin [...]
2008-04-25 20:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PHUM PREL PTER KG
08STATE46997MAY 21 - DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBAN PEOPLE
[...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph 2. Baghdad and Triopli are excused from this request. 2. (U) The Department asked Posts to consider ways to promote the May 21 "Day of Solidarity with Cuba" (reftel). At Deputy Secretary Negroponte's request, Posts should report their plans b [...]
2008-05-03 00:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PHUM PREL EUN CU
08STATE47531UNSC RESOLUTION ON SOMALI PIRACY
[...] (C) This is an action request. Posts are requested to approach host governments to explain the basis for the draft Security Council resolution on piracy off the coast of Somalia and seek their support. As consultations on the draft resolution are already underway in New York among Security [...]
2008-05-05 22:42:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM UNSC SO XW
08STATE47888OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON BELARUS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-06 19:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL OSCE BO
08STATE47909MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR CHRISTOPHER
[...] (SBU) Department requests mission clearance from USUN for Christopher N. Camponovo to travel to New York from May 6 through May 8 to assist in lobbying efforts for the Prisoners of Conscience declaration and to meet with U.N. officials about the Asia Pacific Democracy Partnership. Traveler,s [...]
2008-05-06 19:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM
08STATE48027HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the member of the Iraq Security Forces listed below. If, at any time, Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents that could be deemed to be credi [...]
2008-05-06 20:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE48047HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the member of the Iraq Security Forces listed below. If, at any time, Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents that could be deemed to be credi [...]
2008-05-06 20:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE48118OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON RELIGIOUS
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the May 8 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin Text: Mr. Chairman, The United States is concerned about recent reports that reflect a disturbing trend in Kazakhstan regarding religious freedom. While Kazakhstan has prid [...]
2008-05-06 22:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM OSCE KZ
08STATE48119SIERRA LEONE: TALKING POINTS FOR MAY 7 BRIEFING
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the May 7 UN Security Council briefing and consultation on Sierra Leone. Begin points: -- The United States commends the work of UNIOSIL and the UN Country Team in Sierra Leone for all the support they have provided to the go [...]
2008-05-06 22:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SL XA XY
08STATE48273OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO OSCE PROJECT
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the May 8, 2008, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States welcomes Ambassador Venczel to the Permanent Council in his new role as the OSCE Project Coordinator in Uzbeki [...]
2008-05-07 14:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE UZ
08STATE49110ACTION REQUEST: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTIONS
[...] (C) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 5. Three of the five regional groups will have contested elections for the UN Human Rights Council: Eastern Europe, WEOG, and the Asia Group. Mission is requested to assess the likely outcome of a) the six candidacies for four Asia g [...]
2008-05-08 18:53:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNFR PHUM SP UK
08STATE4939INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPECIAL ENVOY GAMBARI'S UNSC
[...] SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Special Advisor on Burma Ibrahim Gambari is scheduled to report to the UN Security Council on the situation of the "good offices" mission to Burma during informal consultations of the Security Council on Thursday, January 17. USUN is instructed to draw from the po [...]
2008-01-16 17:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE49794SOMALIA--TALKING POINTS FOR MAY 12 BRIEFING BY
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the May 12 UN Security Council briefing on Somalia by Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordination Sir John Holmes. Begin points: -- We would like to thank U/SYG Holmes for his informativ [...]
2008-05-09 22:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SO XA XW
08STATE49813DEMARCHE: FRENCH UNSC RESOLUTION ON BURMA
[...] (SBU) The Department requests action addressees to contact host governments (with the exception of France) immediately at an appropriately high level to urge them to consider a draft resolution prepared by France describing the humanitarian situation in Burma and calling on the regime to remov [...]
2008-05-10 01:07:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE50293RESPONSE TO REQUEST HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of May 12, 2008 it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed below: COL Dan Efrony Deputy Military Advocate General Israel Defense Forces Date of Birth: 17 November 1958 [...]
2008-05-12 20:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIS MARR MASS PHUM
08STATE50323GUIDANCE FOR THE REPORT OF SRSG TO TIMOR-LESTE
[...] (U) ACTION REQUEST: The Core Group for Timor-Leste will receive the report of the Secretary General's Special Representative for Timor-Leste, Atul Khare, at 10:00 on May 13. USUN is requested to draw on material in para 3 below in responding to Khare's report. End Action Request. 2. (U) [...]
2008-05-12 22:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNSC TT
08STATE50330GUIDANCE: ICTY/ICTR WORKING GROUP MEETING, MAY 13
[...] (U) This is an action message. USUN is authorized to draw from the points in para 2 below during consultations by the ICTY/ICTR Working Group on residual issues, currently scheduled for May 13. 2. (U) Begin points: -- We would like to thank the Belgian mission for the work in chairi [...]
2008-05-12 23:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC ICTY ICTR PHUM PREL
08STATE5085INSTRUCTIONS FOR SPECIAL ENVOY GAMBARI'S UNSC
[...] SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Special Advisor on Burma Ibrahim Gambari is scheduled to report to the UN Security Council on the situation of the "good offices" mission to Burma during informal consultations of the Security Council on Thursday, January 17. USUN is instructed to draw from the po [...]
2008-01-16 20:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE51212OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO OSCE HEAD OF
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the May 15, 2008, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States welcomes Ambassador Djikic back to the Permanent Council and thanks him for his comprehensive report on the OS [...]
2008-05-14 15:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TX
08STATE51285OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON DRAFT
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the May 15, 2008, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States shares the concern of the Representative of Freedom Miklos Haraszti as he expressed in a May 13th press releas [...]
2008-05-14 16:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKG OSCE PGOV PHUM PREL
08STATE51536FOLLOW-UP MAY 21 - DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBAN
[...] (U) This is an action message; see paras 3-9. 2. (SBU) Per reftels, Embassies have been asked to undertake activities and encourage host governments and NGOs to undertake activities for a day of solidarity with the Cuban people on May 21. For post information only, President Bush is expec [...]
2008-05-15 00:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI CU
08STATE5157RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of January 16, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed below. LAST NAME: Elgad FIRST NAME: Rotem Rafael GENDER: Male DOB: 30 October 1975 RANK/SERVICE: Major [...]
2008-01-16 21:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC IS WE KPAL MASS MARR
08STATE51671VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: GEORGIAN UNGA IDP AND
[...] (U) This is an action message. USUN is authorized to vote in support of UN General Assembly Agenda Item 16 resolution on the "Status of Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia," in para 2 below, which is scheduled for a vote on May 15. 2. (U) Begin resolution: [...]
2008-05-15 13:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PHUM GE
08STATE51795VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: GEORGIAN UNGA IDP AND
[...] (U) This is an action message. USUN is authorized to vote in support of UN General Assembly Agenda Item 16 resolution on the "Status of Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia," in para 2 below, which is scheduled for a vote on May 15. 2. (U) Begin resolution: [...]
2008-05-15 16:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PHUM GE
08STATE53071SECRETARY GENERAL BAN'S TRIP TO BURMA
[...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: During a scheduled meeting with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on May 19, USUN is asked to stress our support for Ban's announced trip to Burma later this week and to strongly recommend that he not only push to see senior members of the Regime and visit UN operations in affe [...]
2008-05-19 16:13:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE53182BURMA - NEXT STEPS ON HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
[...] (U) This is an action message requesting the Mission to meet with senior UN officials to follow up on Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's meeting with donor, ASEAN and Security Council Permanent Representatives on May 14 to request recommendations for further UN engagement in and with Burma. [...]
2008-05-19 18:34:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL BM UN
08STATE53419HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the members of the Iraq Security Forces listed below. If, at any time, Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents that could be deemed to be cred [...]
2008-05-20 12:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE53921RESPONSE TO REQUEST HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of May 13, 2008 it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below: COL Nadav Padan Current IDF Attache in Washington, D.C. Israel Defense Forces Date/Place of Birth: Sep [...]
2008-05-20 21:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIS MARR MASS PHUM
08STATE53934KOSOVO: REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for Department of State-funded training. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the nominees in reftels and possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights as of May 19, 2008. Please note that if Post subsequ [...]
2008-05-20 21:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID MASS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KV
08STATE53968A/S BOUCHER'S TRIP TO ASHGABAT: DEMOCRACY AND
[...] Action request. See paragraph 2. 2. In advance of Assistant Secretary Boucher's visit to Turkmenistan next week, post is instructed to deliver to the Government of Turkmenistan the non-paper in para 3, which outlines some of the democracy and human rights points that Assistant Secretary B [...]
2008-05-20 22:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV PHUM PREL TX
08STATE53984VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
[...] (U) This is an action request. This cable contains voting instructions for the May 21 election of Member States to the UN Human Rights Council. 2. (U) There are nineteen announced candidates for fifteen seats divided among five regions. The voting is by secret ballot. Votes will be cast b [...]
2008-05-20 23:49:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM UNGA
08STATE5452RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of January 15, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the members of the Presidential Guard listed in the referenced cables. 2. Post is permitted to provide the following statement [...]
2008-01-17 17:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC IS WE KPAL MASS MARR
08STATE54639APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE MAY 26-27
[...] (U) Classified by William Lucas, Office Director, EUR/ERA. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 27. 3. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Brussels on May 26-27. [...]
2008-05-21 22:01:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEUN PHUM PREL PGOV ZL IR IZ IS SY LE SO
08STATE5491SUDAN: RESPONSE TO DUTCH QUESTIONS CONCERNING
[...] (SBU) The United States welcomes The Netherlands, willingness to providing training to Joint Integrated Units (JIU),as well as financial support for airlift. (Reftel a) We recognize Khartoum,s historic opposition to military support from the international community. The recent agreement betw [...]
2008-01-17 18:45:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL SU NL
08STATE54978LEAHY VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of May 22, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officer listed below: POGIBA, YURI, COL Unit: Special Forces Alpha Unit, State Committee on National Security, Kyrgyz Re [...]
2008-05-22 17:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KG
08STATE55385DEMOCRACY STRATEGY AND GOALS: OMAN
[...] (SBU) The Department approves Embassy Muscat,s proposed democracy strategy for the next twelve to eighteen months as discussed on May 6 via video conference. This cable summarizes the new strategy, which is an update to Embassy Muscat,s previous democracy strategy (ref A). ---------------- [...]
2008-05-23 13:45:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM SCUL PGOV PREL MU
08STATE56959AUTHORIZATION FOR NORTH KOREAN REFUGEE REFERRAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-28 17:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CB KN KS PHUM PREF PREL
08STATE56975OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON ACCESS TO
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the May 29, 2008 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin Text: Mr. Chairman, The United States shares the concerns expressed by our Special Representative on Freedom of the Media that Internet users in Kazakhstan and other [...]
2008-05-28 17:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM OSCE KZ
08STATE56979OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO OSCE HEAD OF
[...] (U) Post is authorized to present the following statement at the May 29, 2008 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Ambassador Pryakhin, welcome back to the Permanent Council and thank you for your comprehensive report on the OSCE,s activities in Tajiki [...]
2008-05-28 17:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL OSCE TJ
08STATE57134"NO ONE TO TURN TO"-SAVE THE CHILDREN REPORT OF
[...] This is an action request. Department requests USUN to approach appropriate UN Secretariat officials regarding the recent Save the Children UK report, &No One to Turn To,8 which details sexual exploitation and abuse of minors by UN peacekeepers and aid workers in southern Sudan, Cote d,Ivoire, [...]
2008-05-28 23:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KPKO PHUM KCRM HA IV SU
08STATE59132JUNE 2008 SECURITY COUNCIL THEMATIC DEBATE AND
[...] Security Council member states have been invited to participate at a ministerial level in a thematic debate on sexual violence in situations of armed conflict, to be chaired on June 19 by Secretary Rice (reftel A). USUN will introduce and circulate a draft resolution (reftel B) on this topic [...]
2008-06-03 00:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAORC UN UNSC KWMN PHUM
08STATE59652OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON MACEDONIA,S
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the June 5, 2008 meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States notes with serious concern developments surrounding the June 1st parliamentary election in Macedonia. ODIHR,s p [...]
2008-06-03 21:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE MK
08STATE59717INSTRUCTIONS FOR COSTA RICA DRAFT PRST ON ICC
[...] ACTION REQUEST - Costa Rica has circulated the draft text of a Presidential Statement (PRST) in connection with the ICC Prosecutor's report pursuant to UNSCR 1593 on Darfur. USUN should explore with the Costa Ricans and others the option of returning to the text put forward by UKUN last Decemb [...]
2008-06-04 02:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KJUS UNSC SU
08STATE5991RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of January 18, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the members of the Presidential Guard listed in the referenced cables. 2. Post is permitted to provide the following statement [...]
2008-01-18 20:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC IS WE KPAL MASS MARR
08STATE60216DEMARCHE REQUEST: ATTENDANCE AND DONATIONS FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph three. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Department requests action addressees to urge host governments to send high-level representatives to the donors' conference to be held in Vienna June 23 and to contribute generously to the joint appe [...]
2008-06-04 20:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PREL PHUM LE UNRWA
08STATE60218OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO HIGH
[...] Post is authorized to present the following statement at the June 5 Permanent Council meeting in Vienna in response to the report by the High Representative and EU Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ambassador Lajcak. Begin text: Mr. Chairman, The United States welcomes [...]
2008-06-04 20:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL OSCE BO
08STATE60581VETTING RESPONSE FOR OPDAT FINANCIAL
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for OPDAT Financial Investigations Seminar in Zajecar (6/9-10/2008). 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory information as of May 29, 2008: (A [...]
2008-06-05 17:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM PEL SR
08STATE60586VETTING RESPONSE FOR OPDAT FINANCIAL
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for OPDAT Financial Investigations Seminar in Zrenjanin (6/16-17/2008). 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory information as of June 2, 2008: (1 [...]
2008-06-05 17:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PREL SR
08STATE60838OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING: REQUEST FOR EMBASSY
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: The OSCE will conduct its annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) from September 29 through October 10 in Warsaw. The HDIM is the OSCE's annual review of participating States, implementation of their OSCE commitments to human rights and fundament [...]
2008-06-05 21:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM OSCE KDEM PREL
08STATE61888U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO THE UN ELECTORAL ASSISTANCE
[...] This is an action request. The Department instructs USUN to deliver the letter in para 2 below to the UN Electoral Assistance Division as soon as possible. No original will follow. A follow-up letter will be supplied once the funds can be formally obligated. The follow-up letter will incl [...]
2008-06-09 18:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE62009JUNE 2008 SECURITY COUNCIL THEMATIC DEBATE --
[...] For Embassies Vienna and Monrovia: Please deliver the following letters to Foreign Minister Plassnik of Austria and Foreign Minister King-Akerele of Liberia. No signed originals will be forthcoming. Reftel gives details about the June 19 Security Council thematic debate on sexual violence i [...]
2008-06-09 22:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAORC UN UNSC KWMN PHUM OPDC PREL
08STATE62450APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE JUNE 16-17
[...] (U) Classified by Jeffrey Giauque, Senior Political Officer, EUR/ERA. Reasons: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 24. 3. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Brussels on Jun [...]
2008-06-10 18:57:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEUN PHUM PREL PGOV ZL ZK IR IZ IS SY LE
08STATE62605U.S. STATEMENT FOR UNSC INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS ON
[...] This is an action request. USUN may draw from the talking points in para 2 below during UNSC informal consultations on the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe on June 12. USUN should also draw on these points in speaking to the press after the consultations. 2. Begin talking points: - [...]
2008-06-10 23:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNSC XA ZI
08STATE62767DEMARCHE REQUEST: INDIA'S ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) India has a longstanding position at the UN against the use of country-specific language in resolutions and it seems they are extending that position to statements issued by the Community of Democracies (C [...]
2008-06-11 13:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA IN ZI SF PO CA
08STATE63183SEEKING A SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON ZIMBABWE
[...] (SBU) Action request: Action addresses are asked to demarche host governments at the highest possible level on an urgent basis and report back to contacts listed below in advance of the Security Council informal consultations on the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe, scheduled for 10 a.m. on [...]
2008-06-12 01:12:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNSC ZI
08STATE63412VETTING RESPONSES FOR IMET TRAINING FOR SERBIA
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftels for various IMET courses. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory information as of June 9, 2008: NAME: Vladan Milinkovic (Ref A) DOB: 18/01/19 [...]
2008-06-12 15:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MAR MASS PREL PHUM SR MW
08STATE63413VETTING RESPONSE FOR IMET TRAINING FOR SERBIA
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for a CTFP IMET course beginning July 1, 2008. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individual listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory information as of June 10, 2008: NAME: Goran Radosavljevic D [...]
2008-06-12 15:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MAR MASS PHUM PREL SR
08STATE63902DEMOCRACY STRATEGY AND GOALS: YEMEN
[...] (SBU) The Department approves Embassy Sana,a,s proposed democracy strategy for the next twelve to eighteen months as discussed March 26 via video conference. Because Embassy Sana,a is on ordered departure, the original time line for implementing these strategies may have to be altered due to [...]
2008-06-13 13:54:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM SCUL PGOV PREL YM
08STATE63968PRESS STATEMENT ON US-EU PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 2. 2. (U) Department requests action addressees to approach respective Foreign Ministries to thank them for their support for the prisoners of conscience declaration and provide a courtesy copy of a draft press statement the USG plans to issue [...]
2008-06-13 15:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEUN PHUM PREL
08STATE63983RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of June 3, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. Mujahid M H Rabaia 02 Jul 1970 Maythalun Police Wasim M M al-Jayusi 04 J [...]
2008-06-13 15:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KPAL PHUM IS
08STATE6466038TH OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY: COLOMBIA SCORES A WIN
[...] (SBU) Summary. The 38th OAS Regular General Assembly, held June 1-3 in Medellin, Colombia, focused positive international attention on the Colombian Government's progress in restoring "Democratic Security" in previously-violent areas and helped promote regional support for Colombia's efforts [...]
2008-06-16 18:58:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOAS PREL PHUM ETRD CO
08STATE64671INVITATION TO JUNE 19 ROUNDTABLE ON ZIMBABWE
[...] This is an immediate action request. USUN is requested to immediately pass the invitation in para 2 below to SYG Ban; the invitation in para 3 below to UNSC members; and the invitation in para 4 below to the UN missions of the following African states: Senegal, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria [...]
2008-06-16 19:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNSC XA ZI
08STATE6468438TH OAS GENERAL ASSEMBLY: COLOMBIA SCORES A WIN
[...] (SBU) Summary. The 38th OAS Regular General Assembly, held June 1-3 in Medellin, Colombia, focused positive international attention on the Colombian Government's progress in restoring "Democratic Security" in previously-violent areas and helped promote regional support for Colombia's efforts a [...]
2008-06-16 19:10:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOAS PREL PHUM ETRD CO
08STATE64760OSCE: DECISION ON MANDATE FOR OSCE MISSION IN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-16 21:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDTI OSCE PHUM PREL
08STATE65258OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON UZBEK
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the June 19, 2008, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States is deeply concerned about a television broadcast aired on state-owned Ferghana Regional TV and Namangan TV s [...]
2008-06-17 21:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE UZ
08STATE65266AWARD LETTER FOR U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO THE UN
[...] This is an action request. The Department instructs USUN to deliver the award letter in para 2 below to the UN Electoral Assistance Division (EAD) as soon as possible. Original will follow via fax that includes authorizing signature. USUN should advise EAD that the funds will be transferred [...]
2008-06-17 22:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE65284URGENT DEMARCHE REQUESTED -- JUNE 19, 2008
[...] This cable contains an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. Summary: Embassies Beijing, Moscow, Hanoi, and Jakarta are urgently requested to demarche host governments at the highest possible level to support consensus adoption on Thursday, June 19, of a U.S. resolution in the Security [...]
2008-06-18 00:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAORC UN KWMN PHUM
08STATE65778A/S SHANNON'S 6/12 MEETING WITH SALVADORAN
[...] (C) Summary: On June 12, 2008, WHA A/S Tom Shannon met with Salvadoran Ambassador Rene Leon. Leon requested the meeting to follow-up on themes discussed during the Deputy Secretary,s June 3-6 trip to Central America. Leon highlighted that the best strategy for the United States in the run-u [...]
2008-06-18 21:01:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL ECON ES
08STATE66189VETTING RESPONSES FOR OPDAT TRAINING IN ZLATIBOR
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for OPDAT Money Laundering and Financing Training in Zlatibor (6/27-28/2008). 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory information as of June 18, 2008 [...]
2008-06-19 19:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PREL SR
08STATE66190VETTING RESPONSES FOR OPDAT TRAINING IN PALIC
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for OPDAT Money Laundering and Financing Training in Palic (6/21-22/2008). 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory information as of June 18, 2008: [...]
2008-06-19 19:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PREL SR
08STATE66299RESPONSE TO THE RECENTLY APPROVED TUNISIA
[...] (S) SUMMARY: DRL understands Embassy Tunis,s concerns with the two Global Human Rights Defenders Fund (&Defenders Fund8) cases in Tunisia. We strongly weighed your concerns when we deliberated on these cases, and in paragraph 3, we explain why we decided to approve these cases. DRL also app [...]
2008-06-19 20:36:00Secretary of StateSECRETPHUM PREL TS
08STATE66362GREAT LAKES: TALKING POINTS FOR JUNE 19 BRIEFING
[...] USUN is instructed to deliver the following points during the June 20 briefing by the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for LRA Affected Areas. Begin points: -- I would like to thank the Special Envoy for his briefing on the state of the Juba Peace Process and the current activity o [...]
2008-06-20 00:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM CG CT CD SU RW XA XW ZF
08STATE66451GUIDANCE FOR SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON ZIMBABWE
[...] This is an action request. USUN may draw from the talking points in para 2 below during the UNSC formal meeting on the situation in Zimbabwe. USUN should also draw on these points in speaking to the press after the meeting. 2. Begin talking points: -- We appreciate (Under Secretary Gene [...]
2008-06-20 13:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE66840UN/ECOSOC COMMITTEE ON NGOS -- ACTION ON THE
[...] At its June 2008 session, the UN NGO Committee of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) rejected the Human Rights Foundation's application for ECOSOC consultative status. Department concurs with USUN's recommendation that the United States should try to overturn the Committee's decisio [...]
2008-06-21 00:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAORC UN NGO PHUM
08STATE66915URGENT REQUEST FOR DEMARCHE ON JUNE 23 UNSC
[...] This is an action request. See Paragraph 2. Objective --------- 2. The UN Security Council will be discussing Zimbabwe June 23. Action addressees are requested to demarche host governments at an appropriately senior level, as soon as possible, to attain strong support for a Presidenti [...]
2008-06-23 02:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI
08STATE674RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of January 3, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the Palestinian National Security Forces (NSF) officers listed below. First name, last name Mahmoud Jalal Mahmoud Khaleel POB: [...]
2008-01-03 20:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC IS KPAL MARR MASS PGOV PHUM WE
08STATE67965FOLLOW-UP MECHANISM TO SOCHI COMMITMENTS: GOOD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Department requests Post relay at a high level a proposal to the Russian government to initiate a follow-up mechanism for our joint commitments to respect the rule of law, international law, human rights, tolerance of diversity, political freedom, and a free market approach to eco [...]
2008-06-24 21:35:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM RS
08STATE68463OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: RESPONSE TO OSCE HIGH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-25 20:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE
08STATE68478EGYPT: HEADING OFF FUTURE FORCIBLE RETURNS OF
[...] (C) Dept greatly appreciate's Embassy Cairo's efforts on behalf of Eritrean asylum seekers in Egypt and welcomes the proposed talking points. Slight modifications are suggested below from NEA and PRM. 2. (C) Proposed talking points: -- We recognize that Egypt is both a destination [...]
2008-06-25 20:43:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL EG ER
08STATE68503INSTRUCTIONS FOR TIMOR-LESTE CORE GROUP MEETING
[...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN is instructed to draw from points in para 3 at the meeting of the UN Core Group for Timor Leste, scheduled for Thursday, June 26 at 3:30 PM. End Action request. 2. BACKGROUND: The security situation in Timor-Leste has been comparatively quiet since the death of reneg [...]
2008-06-25 21:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNSC TT
08STATE68509INSTRUCTION CABLE FOR EXPERTS MEETING ON LRA
[...] This is an action cable. USUN is instructed to seek the changes in paragraph 2 to the PRST on the Lord's Resistance Army (full text in paragraph 3). USUN is instructed to report back immediately the results of the experts meeting on the issue slated for June 25 at 2pm. USUN is also instruct [...]
2008-06-25 22:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM UG XA XW
08STATE68780THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL
[...] This is an action request for response by July 8. Please see paragraph 8. 2. The Department is preparing its Congressionally mandated semi-annual report to Congress on measures to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and trafficking in persons (TIP) involving UN peacekeeping personne [...]
2008-06-26 16:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPKO PHUM UN SE KCRM KWMN
08STATE69048INSTRUCTIONS ON JUNE 27 CONSULTATIONS ON BONUCA
[...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN is instructed to draw from talking points in para 2 below during June 27 consultations on the semi-annual report of the UN Peacebuilding Office in the Central African Republic (BONUCA). End action request. 2. Begin points: The United States strongly supports Speci [...]
2008-06-26 22:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PREF PHUM PBTS CT
08STATE69301STATE LEAHY AMENDMENT VETTING IN IRAQ
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. SUMMARY ------- 2. The Leahy Amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act (FAA) prohibits units of security forces from receiving assistance if the Department has credible evidence of gross human rights violations by such units. This cable [...]
2008-06-27 15:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM
08STATE69672UNSC DRAFT PRESS STATEMENT AND RESOLUTION ON
[...] This is an action request. USUN is instructed to share with the British and other missions as appropriate the draft elements of a Chapter VII sanctions resolution on Zimbabwe as outlined in paragraph 3 below. Adoption should be sought as soon as possible. USUN should report back results of [...]
2008-06-27 22:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNSC XA ZI
08STATE70801DEMARCHE REQUEST ON HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION --
[...] This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. BACKGROUND. In June 2008, the Committee on NGOs (CNGO) of the UN Economic and Social Council rejected the application for ECOSOC consultative status of a U.S. NGO called the Human Rights Foundation (HRF). Cuba -- with [...]
2008-07-01 21:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAORC UN NGO PHUM
08STATE70829PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE PUBLIC AFFAIRS EVENT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 2. OBJECTIVES ---------- 2. (U) Department requests action addressees to approach respective Foreign Ministries to seek support for a prisoners of conscience public affairs event at the United Nations in New York during the final week of the [...]
2008-07-02 00:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEUN PHUM PREL KDEM
08STATE70836URGENT REQUEST FOR DEMARCHE ON UNSC CHAPTER VII
[...] (C) Action Requests: (1) Action addressees in UNSC capitals should pass the text of the draft UN Security Council resolution and annex on Zimbabwe in para 5 below to their host governments. Action addressees are requested to demarche host governments at an appropriately senior level, as soo [...]
2008-07-02 02:58:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI
08STATE70882URGENT REQUEST FOR DEMARCHE ON UNSC CHAPTER VII
[...] (C) Action Requests: (1) Action addressees in UNSC capitals should pass the text of the draft UN Security Council resolution and annex on Zimbabwe in para 5 below to their host governments. Action addressees are requested to demarche host governments at an appropriately senior level, as soo [...]
2008-07-02 11:30:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI
08STATE71576HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-07-03 12:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE71583HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED KING AIR
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-07-03 12:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE71786DEMOCRACY STRATEGY AND GOALS: SAUDI ARABIA
[...] (SBU) The Department approves Embassy Riyadh,s proposed democracy strategy for the next twelve to eighteen months as discussed on April 9 via video conference. This cable summarizes the Department's understanding of the new strategy, which is an update to Embassy Riyadh,s previous democracy [...]
2008-07-03 16:38:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KMPI EAID SA
08STATE71795HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-07-03 16:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE71963DEMARCHE: SUSPENSION OF MILITARY ENGAGEMENTS
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Demarches were made to the GON by Ambassador Allen (Ref. A),and Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Moss (Ref. B) insisting on a credible and open investigation into extrajudicial killings by the Nigerien military in December 2007. To date, we have not received any evidence of [...]
2008-07-03 20:08:00Secretary of StateSECRETPREL MASS MARR PHUM PGOV NG
08STATE71974BUILDING MOMENTUM FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (U) Summary. The European Union,s recent policy statements on Cuba provide an opportunity to discuss respect for human rights and the need for democratic change in Cuba in Western Hemisphere countries. The EU placed respect for hum [...]
2008-07-03 20:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM EUN CU
08STATE72336VETTING RESPONSE FOR IMET TRAINING (AMEDD)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for IMET Couse at the AMEDD at Ft Sam Houston, July 27 to November 21, 2008. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individual listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory information as of July 1, 2008: [...]
2008-07-07 13:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM SR
08STATE72686HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-07-07 21:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE72696ZIMBABWE: TALKING POINTS FOR JULY 8 BRIEFING
[...] Action Request: USUN is instructed to draw on the points in para 2 below during the July 8 UNSC meeting in which D/SYG Migiro and A/SYG Menkerios will provide briefings on the situation in Zimbabwe. If the UNSC votes on the draft resolution during this same meeting, USUN may use these point [...]
2008-07-07 22:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE73173URGENT DEMARCHE SEEKING SUPPORT FOR UNSC
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action request: On July 8, the U.S. will table a draft Security Council resolution on Zimbabwe and seek a vote on July 9. The draft resolution condemns the government-sponsored violence that made it impossible to hold free and fair elections in Zimbabwe and imposes an arms [...]
2008-07-09 02:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE73514OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: STATEMENT ON NORWEGIAN
[...] Post is authorized to make the following statement at the July 10, 2008, meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna: Begin Text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States joins Norway in expressing its deep concern about recent actions taken by Kyrgyz authorities against the Nor [...]
2008-07-09 17:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE KG
08STATE74375URGENT DEMARCHE ON ZIMBABWE NEGOTIATIONS IN SOUTH
[...] (U) Summary and Action request: On July 8, the U.S. tabled a draft Security Council resolution on Zimbabwe. The vote planned for July 9 was postponed for procedural reasons. While not yet scheduled, the vote is likely on the morning of July 11. The Russians and the Chinese continue to oppos [...]
2008-07-10 22:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE74376SAUDI-PROPOSED UNGA SPECIAL SESSION ON RELIGION
[...] (U) Action request: In response to reftel request by the SYG for U.S. views on a possible UNGA Special Session on the political and religious components of interfaith dialogue, USUN should seek to signal encouragement of interfaith dialogue and seek details of the make-up, agenda items, and fo [...]
2008-07-10 22:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNGA USUN KIRF KISL SP SA
08STATE74681INVITATION TO PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-11 17:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OPDC PHUM EZ
08STATE74872EGYPT: HEADING OFF FORCIBLE RETURNS OF ASYLUM
[...] (C) Neither Embassy Cairo's repeated demarches on the Egyptian Government to allow UNHCR access to Eritrean asylum seekers and to urge no deportations to Eritrea given threats to safety and life of returned asylum seekers nor U.S. Delegation's intervention calling for same at the UNHCR (Offic [...]
2008-07-11 21:41:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PREL EG ER SU IS LY
08STATE74922(U) Secretary Rice's June 26-27 Participation in
[...] (U) Classified by: Uzra Zeya, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State, Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). 2. (U) June 27, 2008 at 18:00, and June 28, 2008 at 09:30; Kyoto, Japan. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary U/S Bill Burns A/S Christopher R. Hill, EAP Lt. Gen. Wil [...]
2008-07-12 14:20:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALOVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL PHUM KNNP KWBG
08STATE75400RESPONSE TO WG ON ARBITRARY DETENTION'S REQUEST
[...] Mission is requested to convey to the Chairperson-Rapporteur for the Working Group on arbitrary detentions the text of the letter in paragraph 2. This is in response to Manuela Carmena Castrillo s letter of May 26, 2008 regarding the Working Group's reply on proposed dates for a country visit [...]
2008-07-14 20:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL
08STATE75446USUN GUIDANCE: SOMALIA MONITORING GROUP
[...] Somalia UN Mission Charge Idd Mohamed has raised his opposition to the appointment of Matt Bryden as chair of the Monitoring Group for the UNSC Somalia Sanctions Committee multiple times, including by Press Release. U.S. Special Envoy Yates previously spoke with the Somali Transitional Federa [...]
2008-07-14 23:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PHUM PREL SO XA XW UNSC
08STATE75702APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE JULY 22-23
[...] (U) Classified by Jeffrey Giauque, Senior Political Officer, EUR/ERA. Reasons: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 12. 3. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Brussels on [...]
2008-07-15 14:27:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEUN PHUM PREL PGOV IR SO SU CD ZI UP
08STATE76050INSTRUCTIONS FOR JULY 18 UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON
[...] The Department requests that USUN draw on the points below during the July 18 UNSC consultations on the report of Special Representative of the Secretary General Ian Martin concerning the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN). End Action Request. 2. Begin points: -- Mr. President, the United S [...]
2008-07-15 23:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNSC NP
08STATE76294OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: The OSCE will conduct its annual Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) from September 29 through October 10 in Warsaw. Based in part on embassies' input (reftel),which the Department appreciates, this demarche conveys USG concerns on host government [...]
2008-07-16 15:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PREL PHUM KDEM
08STATE76371UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION ON EXTENSION OF
[...] This is an action cable. USUN is instructed to join consensus on the draft UN Security Council resolution in para 2 below that extends the term of office of ICTR judges. If there are substantial changes to the text of the resolution USUN is requested to seek additional instruction prior to a [...]
2008-07-16 17:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM XA
08STATE7679APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE JANUARY 28-
[...] (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 Brussels on January 28-2 [...]
2008-01-24 23:34:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEUN PHUM PREL PGOV KV IR IZ IS SU
08STATE77761UN HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN ZIMBABWE --
[...] (C) On the margins of the OCHA Donor Support group High-Level Meeting in New York July 14, State PRM/MCE Office Director Margaret Pollack and USAID/DCHA/OFDA Director Ky Luu discussed USG concerns about the performance of the OCHA office and Humanitarian Coordinator in Harare with Under Secre [...]
2008-07-18 22:10:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM ZI
08STATE78372SOMALIA: TALKING POINTS FOR JULY 23 CONSULTATIONS
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the July 23 UN Security Council consultations on Somalia. Begin points: -- I would like to welcome Somali Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Jama to the Council today (or if the Prime Minister, I would like to welcome back to the C [...]
2008-07-21 23:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SO XA XW
08STATE78858SECURITY COUNCIL CONSULTATION AND FRIENDS GROUP
[...] ACTION REQUEST - The Burma Group of Friends will meet on July 23, with SYG Ban presiding. The Security Council will receive a report on the political situation in Burma from the UN Department of Political Affairs (DPA) on July 24. USUN is instructed to draw on the points in para 2 below in i [...]
2008-07-22 21:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNSC BM
08STATE79981SEEKING UN SECRETARIAT BRIEFING ON ZIMBABWE AND
[...] (U) This is an action request, see para 2. Department would like to see Haile Menkerios appointed as the UN,s &Special Envoy8 to the Zimbabwe negotiations or at least continue his work as the Secretary General's envoy on Zimbabwe, and for Menkerios to brief the Council as soon as possible. [...]
2008-07-24 19:35:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNSC XA ZI
08STATE80088DEMARCHE REQUEST ON NATO MEMBERS AND ASPIRING
[...] (SBU) The department requests that action addressees pursue the following objectives with regard to host government's potential attendance at the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Foreign Ministers meeting in Tehran, July 27-30, 2008. Posts should: -- Determine from host governments wheth [...]
2008-07-24 22:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNATO PREL PHUM PTER IR
08STATE80278HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-07-25 13:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE80631SUBJECT: VETTING RESPONSE FOR SEARCH AND RESCUE
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for Armed Forces of Malta Search and Rescue Training to be held July 22 to Augues 14, 2008, in Malta. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory informa [...]
2008-07-25 21:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SR
08STATE80632RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING OF NATIONAL
[...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of July 23, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. 1 Ahmad Mustafa Ahmad Tazaz'a Jenin 14/12/1989 850739590 2 Ala'a Nabil Fathi a [...]
2008-07-25 21:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08STATE80657PRELIMINARY RESPONSE TO SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON
[...] Mission is requested to convey to the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions the text of the letter in paragraph 2. This is a preliminary response to several of Mr. Alston,s 2006 and 2007 inquiries, to which we have not responded. The text of this letter will [...]
2008-07-25 22:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL
08STATE81253GUIDANCE FOR UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON ZIMBABWE JULY
[...] This is an action request. USUN may draw from the talking points in para 2 during the July 29 UNSC consultations on the situation in Zimbabwe and briefing by UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Haile Menkerios. USUN should also draw on these points in speaking to the press [...]
2008-07-29 00:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU
08STATE83017EUR DAS MERKEL,S JULY 1 MEETING WITH UKRAINE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the margins of the Batumi GUAM Summit, Ukrainian Foreign Minsiter Ogryzko told EUR DAS Merkel that the most important factors affecting Ukraine,s NATO aspirations are Germany and Russia. The Foreign Minister said that Ukraine is trying to work with Russia but will not accept a [...]
2008-08-01 16:13:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO UP RS BO GM PHUM PGOV MARR
08STATE83103VETTING RESPONSE FOR GCMC RESIDENT COURSE SSTAR 02
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for GCMC resident course Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstruction Course 02, scheduled from 3-19 September, 2008, in Garmisch, Germany. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individual listed in reftel [...]
2008-08-01 18:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SR
08STATE83124VETTING RESPONSE FOR IMET COURSE
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for FMS-1 Course Squadron Officer School, scheduled for 08 September, 2008, to 12 December, 2008, at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individual listed in reftel and possess [...]
2008-08-01 19:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SR
08STATE83130VETTING RESPONSE FOR IMET COURSE IN YORKTOWN, VA
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for IMET Couse at the US Coast Guard Training Center in Yorktown, VA, from September 24, 2008, to December 05, 2008. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individual listed in reftel and possesses no credible der [...]
2008-08-01 19:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SR
08STATE83134VETTING RESPONSE FOR IMET COURSE IN FT BENNING, GA
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for IMET Course Basic Officer Leader Course Bolc 11, scheduled for 31 October, 2008, to 20 December, 2008, at Infantry School in Ft Benning, Georgia. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individual listed in reft [...]
2008-08-01 19:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SR
08STATE84386RESPONSE TO ARAB LEAGUE "SOLUTION PACKAGE" FOR
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Yousef presented Post with the Arab League's "solution package" for Sudan on July 28. Department requests Post convey to Yousef that the State Department has no comment on the package at this time. Post should also stress to Yousef the imp [...]
2008-08-06 15:40:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM SU AL EUN
08STATE85170INSTRUCTION TO SEEK A UNSC STATEMENT ON MAURITANIA
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should immediately urge African Security Council members' to take the lead in the drafting of a Presidential Statement or Press Statement on the situation in Mauritania. USUN should draw from the following points when recommending text for the statement. [...]
2008-08-08 12:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL XA XY MR PHUM
08STATE85356DEMOCRACY STRATEGY AND GOALS: UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
[...] (SBU) The Department approves Embassy Abu Dhabi,s proposed democracy strategy for the next twelve to eighteen months as discussed on June 4 via secure telecon. This cable summarizes the new strategy, which is an update to Embassy Abu Dhabi,s previous democracy strategy (ref A). ----------- [...]
2008-08-08 17:26:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM SCUL KMPI EAID AE
08STATE86600MAURITANIA REVISED INSTRUCTION TO SEEK A UNSC
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should seek a Presidential Statement (PRST) on the situation in Mauritania. USUN should work with African members of the Council and France drawing from the following points. 2. (U) Begin points: -- The Security Council strongly condemns the Mauritan [...]
2008-08-12 23:57:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL XA XY MR PHUM
08STATE86740RESPONSE TO SANTO DOMINGO 1251 LEAHY VETTING
[...] The Department has reviewed the relevant data sources and found no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed in paragraph 2, who have been selected to participate in U.S.-sponsored training. 2. The candidates for training are: NAME: CEDULA: DOB: [...]
2008-08-13 13:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM OTRA MARR SD
08STATE87417HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-08-14 15:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE87433HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-08-14 15:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE89026INSTRUCTION FOR UNSC RENEWAL OF AMISOM MANDATE
[...] This is an action cable. USUN should join consensus on the UNSC resolution renewing AMISOM's mandate (para 2) set for adoption on August 19. USUN should also co-sponsor this resolution. Should the text of the resolution change prior to adoption, Department requests Mission seek further guid [...]
2008-08-19 16:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM SO XA XW
08STATE89155HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING IN
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-08-19 19:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE8918INSTRUCTION CABLE: PRST ON GOMA AGREEMENT
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the draft PRST on the Goma Agreement scheduled for adoption on January 29. Full text of the PRST to follow. Begin text: The Security Council congratulates President Kabila and the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the o [...]
2008-01-29 15:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM
08STATE89724HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR TOGOLESE NAVY OFFICER
[...] Embassy Lome requested human rights certification for one Togolese Navy officer to attend Navy/Coast Guard training from 03 September to 05 December 2008. International Crisis Command and Control: 03-19 September 2008 International Leadership and Management: 19-26 September 2008 Inte [...]
2008-08-20 20:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM TO
08STATE89736HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED FMS
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-08-20 21:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE90314DEMARCHE ON VISA SERVICES FOR AFGHAN NATIONALS
[...] (U) This is an action request - Embassy Islamabad see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Background: On July 17, 2008, the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul delivered a diplomatic note to Embassy Kabul. In that note, the government of Pakistan announced that henceforth "it will not issue Pakistani visas [...]
2008-08-21 21:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT CVIS PHUM PK PREL AF
08STATE90979DEMARCHE: NOTIFICATION OF U.S. TRANSPORTATION OF
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Embassy Moscow is requested to inform immediately appropriate senior Russian officials concerning U.S. ships in the Black Sea transporting humanitarian assistance to Georgia. Currently, USS McFaul is scheduled to reach the Georg [...]
2008-08-23 17:46:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEAID GG MARR PHUM PREL RS
08STATE91786RESPONSE TO SANTO DOMINGO 1332 LEAHY VETTING
[...] The Department has reviewed the relevant data sources and found no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed in paragraph 2, who has been selected to participate in ALP course training. 2. The candidates for training are: PINA DULUC, JUAN 03DEC1984 [...]
2008-08-26 20:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PGOV PHUM DR
08STATE92039HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-08-27 13:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE92040HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-08-27 13:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE93272APPROACHING THE EU ON NON-GEORGIA TOPICS IN
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold an informal "Gymnich" meeting in Avignon on September 5-6. We expect the agenda to include: Georgia and EU/Russia relations, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, updating the 2003 EU Security [...]
2008-08-29 21:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEUN PREL PGOV PHUM GG RU
08STATE9395HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. If at any time Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents that could be deemed to [...]
2008-01-30 14:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE93981ACTION REQUEST: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY THIRD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The United States has an ambitious agenda for the upcoming UN General Assembly (UNGA) Third Committee session and will need the support of capitals to win key votes, which include resolutions on the human rights situations in Iran, Burma, and DPRK, as well as possible initiativ [...]
2008-09-03 00:18:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UN
08STATE94464OSCE/PERMANENT COUNCIL: REACTION TO RELEASE OF
[...] Post is authorized to present the following statement at the Permanent Council meeting in Vienna on September 4. Begin text: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The United States welcomes the August 20 release of the last two Belarusian prisoners of conscience, Andrey Kim and Syarhey Parsyukevich. [...]
2008-09-03 20:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV OSCE KDEM BY
08STATE94532OSCE PERMANENT COUNCIL: KILLING OF JOURNALIST IN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-03 21:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV OSCE PREL PHUM RU
08STATE9474HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S. SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. If at any time Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents that could be deemed to [...]
2008-01-30 15:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE94797SUBJECT: VETTING RESPONSE FOR ICITAP STATEMENT
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for the ICITAP Statement Analysis Course to be held at the Avala Training Center in Serbia from September 15-19, 2008. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible [...]
2008-09-04 17:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SR
08STATE94832SUBJECT: VETTING RESPONSE FOR GCMC COURSE PASS
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for the George C. Marshall Center resident course Program on Advanced Security Studies (PASS 08-7),scheduled for September 26-December 19, 2008, in Garmisch, Germany. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individ [...]
2008-09-04 17:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SR
08STATE9486TALKING POINTS FOR DPA BRIEFING ON KENYA
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points for the January 30 DPA briefing on the situation in Kenya: Begin points: -- The United States would like to thank Under Secretary-General Pascoe (or other DPA briefer) for their SIPDIS briefing today on the situation in Keny [...]
2008-01-30 16:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM
08STATE95000SUDAN - RESPONSE TO NORWEGIAN/US OIL INITIATIVE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 5. 2. (C) The Department is interested to learn more about Norway,s thoughts on a potential joint Norwegian/United States initiative in Sudan aimed at developing an Abyei and post-2011 oil revenue sharing agreement. We agree that such [...]
2008-09-04 20:24:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SU
08STATE95334CORRECTED COPY - DUE DATE, PARAGRAPH REFERENCES,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The United States has an ambitious agenda for the upcoming UN General Assembly (UNGA) Third Committee session and will need the support of capitals to win key votes, which include resolutions on the human rights situations in Iran, Burma, and DPRK, as well as possible initiative [...]
2008-09-05 18:45:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UN
08STATE95572HUMANITARIAN SECURITY IN EASTERN CHAD -- NEED FOR
[...] (C) Objectives: Security for humanitarian operations and civilians in eastern Chad will be a top priority with the impending end of the rainy season and the need to renew the MINURCAT mandate which expires in September. The international community needs urgently from the Government of Chad [...]
2008-09-05 22:01:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM CD
08STATE96598APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE SEPTEMBER
[...] (U) Classified by Bill Lucas, Office Director, EUR/ERA. Reasons: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 14. 3. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Brussels on September 15-1 [...]
2008-09-10 02:34:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALEUN PHUM PREL PGOV ZL ZI SO YI TU GG RS
08STATE96873ADDITIONAL EXCEPTION TO USG DISENGAGEMENT AT HRC
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. This cable supplements guidance to Geneva for exceptions to the U.S. policy of disengagement at the UN Human Rights Council during the September 8-26 Ninth Regular Session (reftel C). 2. (SBU) Department appreciates Mission's reporti [...]
2008-09-10 16:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM
08STATE96997HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-09-10 19:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STATE97116GUIDANCE FOR SRSG GAMBARI UNSC BURMA BRIEFING,
[...] (U) This is an action message. 2. USUN should draw from the points in para 4 , from the objectives in para 5, and from the background in paras 7-9 in response to SRSG Ibrahim Gambari's UNSC briefing on Burma, currently scheduled for September 11, as well as Gambari's scheduled September 12 [...]
2008-09-10 23:42:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KPAO UNSC BM
08STATE97574APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE SEPTEMBER
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Brussels on September 15-16. We expect the formal agenda to include: Zimbabwe, Somalia, Serbia, Turkey, and Georg [...]
2008-09-11 21:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEUN PHUM PREL PGOV GG RS
08STATE97575LEAHY VETTING CLEARANCE FOR MONTENEGRO ATTENDEES
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for the following individuals to participate in a USCG Boarding Officer Course to be conducted at the Port of Bar, Montenegro from 22-26 September. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the following individuals listed in refte [...]
2008-09-11 21:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMW ASEC KCRM KJUS PHUM PREL SNAR
08STATE98685LEAHY VETTING CLEARANCE FOR MONTENEGRIN ATTENDEES
[...] (U) This cable responds to the guidance request in reftel for the following individuals to participate at the Manpower Managament Workshop to be held September 22-24, 2008 in Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina, and at the Program on Advanced Security Studies to be held in a USCG Boarding Officer [...]
2008-09-15 21:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM KJUS MW PHUM PREL
08STATE99175DJIBOUTI-ERITREA: TALKING POINTS FOR SEPTEMBER 17
[...] USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points during their September 17 briefing on the Djibouti-Eritrea border situation. Begin points: -- The United States would like to thank Mr. Honwana for his briefing today and the members of the Djibouti-Eritrean Fact Finding Missio [...]
2008-09-16 22:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM DJ ER XA XW
08STATE99202GUIDANCE FOR UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON ZIMBABWE
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN should draw from the points in para 2 during the UN Security Council consultations on Zimbabwe September 19. 2. (U) Begin points: I would like to thank Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs Haile Menkerios for his briefing on the situ [...]
2008-09-17 00:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU KDEM
08STATE99505HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for both individuals be filed with as much t [...]
2008-09-17 18:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDIZ MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS PREL
08STOCKHOLM117MUSLIM IMMIGRANT CHALLENGES IN SWEDEN: INFORMAL
[...] (U) In Gothenburg on January 24-25, the DCM met with city officials and Muslim community leaders to discuss integration. Immigrants comprise nearly one quarter of Gothenburg's population of half a million. Most live in segregated neighborhoods on the city's northern outskirts, and crime and [...]
2008-02-14 13:33:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR PREL KISL KPAO ECON OIIP SW
08STOCKHOLM213SWEDISH GOVERNMENT PROPOSES IMAM TRAINING
[...] (C) Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg told EUR Senior Advisor Farah Pandith at a March 6 meeting that his controversial proposal for the Swedish state to establish and fund an imam training program was in response to concerns about radicalization in Sweden's Muslim com [...]
2008-03-13 17:47:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL ECON OIIP KISL KPAO
08STOCKHOLM225DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON REFERENDUM IN BURMA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-20 13:47:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM BM SW
08STOCKHOLM240DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON BELARUS: SWEDEN SUPPORTS
[...] (C) On March 27 poloff delivered reftel demarche on EU support for the U.S. to the current to Balkan and Caucuses Desk Officer Anna Hamarlund Blixt. She said Sweden is in line with the USG that political prisoners, including Kazulin, should be released unconditionally and permanently. Sweden [...]
2008-03-27 15:44:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALBO EU PHUM PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM298MAYOR OF SWEDEN'S REFUGEE CAPITAL MEETS WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 18, Ambassador Wood held meetings in Sodertalje (a Stockholm suburb of 83,000 with about 26,000 Iraqi immigrants) to discuss immigration problems of Christian Iraqis. Sodertalje's Mayor said there has been a steep spike in Iraqi Christian asylum-seekers over the past t [...]
2008-04-23 11:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL PGOV IZ SE
08STOCKHOLM340Media Reaction - Israel and Palestinian Refugees
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-07 07:54:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM343Media Reaction - Inauguration of President Medvedev
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-08 09:13:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM354SWEDEN PREPARED TO SUPPLY HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-09 15:19:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM SW
08STOCKHOLM364Media Reaction - China and Burma
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-15 07:20:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM377Media Reaction - Lebanon and Hezbollah
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-22 07:28:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM390Media Reaction - Stockholm ICI Conference
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-29 06:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM391Media Reaction - Stockholm ICI Conference
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-02 06:45:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM420Media Reaction - President Bush's Trip to Europe
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-10 09:34:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM442SWEDISH RESPONSE: DEMARCHE REQUEST: ATTENDANCE AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-19 10:58:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PREL PHUM LE UNRWA SW
08STOCKHOLM458NO SWEDISH FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR IN THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-25 12:45:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI SW
08STOCKHOLM475Media Reaction - Mugabe and Zimbabwe
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-30 10:34:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM501Media Reaction - G-8 Summit Meeting
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-11 09:05:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM557MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT IN SWEDEN
[...] (U) Muslim immigrants have achieved substantial but uneven success in Sweden. They represent four to five percent of Sweden's population of nine million people, comprised of Iraqis (100,000),Iranians (56,000),Bosnian Muslims (40,000),Turks (38,000),Somalis (35,000),and smaller numbers fr [...]
2008-08-08 09:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KISL KPAO OIIP PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM559Media Reaction - Georgia/Ossetia/Russia
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-11 12:01:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM562Media Reaction - Russia
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-12 08:03:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM574TFGG01: Swedish media coverage of Georgia crisis; Embassy
[...] Over the weekend and Monday, August 16-18, Swedish media reported extensively on the crisis in Georgia, with correspondent reports from the region, analytical articles and editorials. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Tbilisi, during which a six-point peace agreement was signed, r [...]
2008-08-18 14:28:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM59SWEDEN ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SPECIAL SESSION ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-24 10:51:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM592TFGG01: Media Reaction - Georgia
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-27 07:14:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM594TFGG01: Media Reaction - Russia and Georgia
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-28 14:31:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM604TFGG01: Media Reaction - Russia
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-04 07:23:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM638Media Reaction - Financial Market Crisis
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-22 09:18:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM640Media Reaction - South Africa, Mbeki Resignation
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-23 08:59:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM646SWEDEN PAYS DAMAGES TO SECOND EXPELLED EGYPTIAN
[...] (U) On September 19, the Swedish government settled with Ahmed Agiza, an Egyptian national, to pay around USD 500,000 in damages--a large amount in Swedish courts--related to the circumstances of his deportation to Cairo. The award was not directly related to his claims of torture by U.S. agen [...]
2008-09-25 15:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PHUM PREF PGOV PREL EG SW
08STOCKHOLM653Media Reaction - Financial Crisis
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-01 10:13:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM67APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE JANUARY 28-
[...] (U) On January 25, 2008, Poloff met with Anna Norell, MFA Deputy EU Correspondent, regarding the upcoming January 28-29 EU Foreign Ministers GAERC meeting. Comments on Kosovo, Iran, and the Isreali-Palestinian peace process were highlighted: KOSOVO ------ 2. (C) Sweden felt bound by UN [...]
2008-01-25 17:38:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEUN PHUM PREL PGOV KV IR IZ IS SU
08STOCKHOLM711BALTIC SEA STATE COUNCIL: A KEY PLAYER DURING
[...] On October 20, Acting Economic Counselor attended the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) 10th anniversary of the establishment of its Secretariat in Stockholm, Sweden. The CBSS was founded in 1992 to handle environmental, economic and labor issues in the Baltic Sea region. CBSS could ass [...]
2008-10-22 14:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON ECIN EPET ENRG ETRD ELAB PHUM KNEI KOCI
08STOCKHOLM716OPPORTUNITY FAIR ATTRACTS HUNDREDS OF PARTICIPANTS
[...] (U) Summary: On October 16, Sdertdlje, the Swedish town of 75,000 persons, about one third of whom are Iraqi born, collaborated with Embassy Stockholm to host the Sdertdlje Opportunity Fair "USA 2009." The fair was designed to provide information and advice on the myriad opportunities for peo [...]
2008-10-27 12:44:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL SCUL SW IQ
08STOCKHOLM722SWEDEN ON PALESTINIAN DETAINEE AT GUANTANAMO
[...] (S) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (S) Summary: The Swedish Migration Board (SMB) appears interested in learning more about Detainee 049 based on comments made in an October 27 meeting with Emboffs. A "formal" written request is more effective within the Swedish bureauc [...]
2008-10-29 15:17:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS KAWK KISL KPAO SW
08STOCKHOLM738SWEDEN -- FAST TRACK LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] Per reftel, Post has reviewed the records of the below named Swedish military personnel and found no derogatory information: --Sweden: COL Lars-Olof Corneliusson, Naval Attache, Washington, D.C., DOB: November 9, 1959. --Sweden: LTC Michael Andersson, Senior Swedish Officer, CENTCOM (CCC),Ma [...]
2008-11-05 07:28:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEZ PGOV PHUM PM PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM781SWEDEN ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
[...] (S) This is an action request, please see para 4. 2. (S) On November 20, DCM had a pull-aside, after a meeting on other issues (septel),with MFA State Secretary Frank Belfrage on Sweden,s willingness to accept Guantanamo detainees. 3. (S) Belfrage said: --Closing Guantanamo is an imp [...]
2008-11-20 15:40:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS KAWK KISL KPAO SW
08STOCKHOLM796Media Reaction - Secretary of State nomination
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-02 10:03:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM801DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OSCE MINISTERIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-02 15:24:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU SW
08STOCKHOLM833SWEDEN INDICATES CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR UN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-15 11:02:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNGA KDEM
08STOCKHOLM849VIOLENT UNREST OVER VACATED SWEDISH MOSQUE
[...] (U) Summary: In an immigrant neighborhood in Malmo, on December 15, police forcibly vacated three Muslim protesters for illegally squatting in an office space formerly used as an Islamic cultural center for 15 years. The youth were protesting the decision by city officials not to renew the lea [...]
2008-12-19 13:24:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PINR PGOV KISL SW
08STPETERSBURG135PANDEMONIUM ERUPTS AT PUBLIC HEARING ON OKHTA CENTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: The June 27th public hearing on the proposed construction of the Okhta Center degenerated into chaos shortly after its start. An estimated 75% of the audience was recruited by authorities in order to stage enthusiastic public support of the project. Civic and political activi [...]
2008-07-02 11:14:00Consulate St PetersburgUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SOCI SCUL KDEM RS ECON PGOV
08STPETERSBURG189MEMORIAL ST. PETERSBURG RAIDED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a December 4 raid on the headquarters of Memorial, an organization dedicated to the documenting and exposing of communist-era human rights violations, the local St. Petersburg prosecutor's office confiscated documents and computer drives while providing thin justification for [...]
2008-12-05 15:46:00Consulate St PetersburgUNCLASSIFIEDRS PGOV PHUM
08STPETERSBURG192OPPOSITION AND HUMAN RIGHTS THIS WEEK IN ST. PETERSBURG
[...] SUMMARY. St. Petersburg was the scene of another Dissenters March December 14, conducted mostly peacefully, but well outside the city center and under control of overwhelming security forces. Some 60 persons were arrested. Human Rights Day December 10 was marked by dueling conferences - one [...]
2008-12-15 16:48:00Consulate St PetersburgUNCLASSIFIEDRS PGOV PHUM
08STPETERSBURG194CODEL DELAHUNT VISIT TO ST. PETERSBURG
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 9-10, Representatives William Delahunt and Dana Rohrabacher met with several diverse groups of Russian interlocutors in St. Petersburg. Our interlocutors were pleased to be able to meet with such high-level representatives of the U.S. government. ---------------- [...]
2008-12-16 10:44:00Consulate St PetersburgUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL ECON RS
08STPETERSBURG197MURMANSK - PROSPERING, BUT WITH PROBLEMS
[...] (SBU) During a December 17-18 visit to Murmansk, DPO and Poloff saw a city relatively unscathed by the world economic crisis, and in fact saw a city hoping to capitalize on opportunities arising from the crisis and building on its recent economic growth. However, despite the apparent prosperi [...]
2008-12-23 16:04:00Consulate St PetersburgUNCLASSIFIEDRS PGOV ECON EINV EIND EPET EWWT PHUM OPRC
08SURABAYA109EAST NUSA TENGGARA: WHERE CHILDREN STARVE, A FAMINE OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: East Nusa Tenggara Province (NTT),at the extreme southeastern edge of Indonesia's archipelago, has long lacked food security and chronic malnutrition persists. While a flurry of spring 2008 media reports gave the impression that hunger is more acute than in previous years, loc [...]
2008-09-22 10:22:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTT PGOV PHUM ID PREF EAGR
08SURABAYA119WEST NUSA TENGGARA: LIFE FOR LOMBOK'S AHMADIYAH SECT CHANGES
[...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 16 visit by Office of International Religious Freedom (IRF) representative and Surabaya Pol/Econ Officer to Mataram, Ahmadiyah refugees described their difficult living conditions and frustrations trying to generate government action to improve their situation. [...]
2008-10-24 07:18:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ID KIRF PHUM
08SURABAYA127NORTH MALUKU: NONE INJURED BY THREE BOMBS LINKED TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesia's official news agency reported that there were no injuries from "low-magnitude explosions" at three locations in North Maluku's provincial capital Ternate early in the morning of November 3. The blasts hit the North Maluku Governor's residence, the North Maluku regi [...]
2008-11-03 10:09:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ID KISL PTER PHUM
08SURABAYA133WEST NUSA TENGGARA: HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR CHANGE FROM THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Elected on an anti-corruption platform, recently inaugurated Governor of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Muhammad Zainul Majdi remains extremely popular among the local population of Mataram, the provincial capital. Political observers, however, are skeptical that he has the skills or [...]
2008-11-20 07:49:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KIRF PHUM KISL EINV ID
08SURABAYA39EAST NUSA TENGGARA: EASTER STABBING OF EAST TIMORESE REFUGEE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Easter stabbing of an East Timorese refugee and the subsequent revenge destruction of 11 houses in a local village highlight the continuing tensions between communities in West Timor. The deployment of hundreds of police backed up by army soldiers restored order to the area. [...]
2008-03-25 05:19:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM ASEC ID
08SURABAYA63BALI: CONTINUED PRESSURE CAUSES AHMADIYAH MEMBERS TO SEEK
[...] (U) Six representatives of the Islamic religious sect Ahmadiyah now resident in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) sought but failed to gain political asylum at the Australian Consulate and German Honorary Consulate in Bali on May 15. The six claimed to represent 195 Ahmadiyah members still in Lo [...]
2008-05-23 10:13:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KIRF PINS ID PHUM KISL
08SURABAYA70NORTH MALUKU: GOLKAR, PRESIDENTIAL PROXY FIGHT OVER
[...] Summary: (SBU) Violence has flared again between the supporters of candidates for North Maluku Governor. Local ethnic friction and Jakarta party politics have made this far flung governor's race drag on for almost six months now. The latest round of violence was reportedly triggered by the J [...]
2008-06-10 01:02:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KISL KCOR ID
08SUVA100FIJI: QARASE COURT CASE; CHAUDHRY TAX ISSUE; FIJI
[...] (C) Deposed Fiji Prime Minister Qarase's court case against Commodore Bainimarama's December 2006 coup seems to be rapidly drawing to a close. The Interim Government's (IG's) hand-picked judges will apparently start writing their decision shortly. An appeal is expected to follow, whatever th [...]
2008-03-12 16:44:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CJAN PHUM PINR MARR FJ
08SUVA109A TONGA ELECTION PREVIEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Seventy-one candidates are running for the nine seats in Tonga's parliament reserved for People's Representatives(PRs) in the April 23-24 elections. While Tonga law has no provision for candidates to register their political affiliation, at least 30 are associated with the pro- [...]
2008-03-19 15:04:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TN
08SUVA13FIJI: "LAND" ISSUE; ELECTORAL BOUNDARIES; PEOPLE'S
[...] (C) Interim Finance Minister Chaudhry has proposed that he and interim PM Bainimarama can resolve Fiji's racially charged "land" issues. That vision has raised intense concern among ethnic-Fijians, most of whom trust neither Bainimarama nor Chaudhry to handle the issue. The interim governmen [...]
2008-01-15 17:11:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PHUM FJ
08SUVA135NAURU GOVERNANCE PROBLEMS RECUR
[...] (C) Tiny Nauru has slid into another period of political instability. The landslide re-election of the reformist Scott government in August 2007 brought a sense of hope (Ref A); but leadership battles since have pushed Nauru back into seesaw political squabbles that we had hoped were history. [...]
2008-04-07 13:24:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM NR
08SUVA143FIJI POLICE ARREST TIBET PROTESTERS
[...] (U) Fiji police arrested 17 NGO human rights activists who took part in a silent protest across the street from the Chinese embassy in Suva April 10. No charges have been laid. Several NGOs have questioned police grounds for breaking up a peaceful demonstration. The Chinese Embassy condemned [...]
2008-04-15 02:55:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL FJ CH
08SUVA144NO BEND (YET) IN FIJI'S BAINIMARAMA
[...] (C) A visit to Fiji by PNG Prime Minister Somare and Tonga PM Sevele to meet with interim PM Bainimarama late last week reportedly left Somare and Sevele still feeling uncomfortable about Fiji political developments. Bainimarama gave assurance that he intends elections in March 2009, but only [...]
2008-04-15 05:07:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR MARR FJ
08SUVA145BAINIMARAMA'S NATIONAL COUNCIL PROPOSES DRAMATIC
[...] (SBU) The National Council for Building a Better Fiji (NCBBF),co-chaired by Interim PM Bainimarama, put forward to President Iloilo late April 15 a resolution calling for dramatic changes in Fiji's electoral system. Iloilo will undoubtedly endorse the resolution. According to the resoluti [...]
2008-04-16 03:34:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM FJ
08SUVA147FIJI'S PREPARATIONS FOR THE PLANNED 2009 ELECTIONS
[...] (C) While the Fiji Interim Government (IG) continues to give mixed signals about a March 2009 election, preparations are starting at a pace slower than donor countries would like. After months of delays, a New Zealand lawyer was named Supervisor of Elections April 17, to take up the job in e [...]
2008-04-18 03:12:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM FJ
08SUVA153FIJI CHIEFS PLEAD FOR FOREIGN HELP
[...] (C) Embassy Suva has received a hand-delivered "private and confidential" letter from the highest chiefs of Fiji laying out a series of complaints against interim PM Bainimarama and the "immigrant race" (the ethnic Indians). The letter is also addressed to the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and E [...]
2008-04-20 17:36:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR MARR FJ
08SUVA155FIJI ELECTION POSTPONEMENT IN THE WORKS?
[...] (C) Several indicators suggest Fiji interim PM Bainimarama does not really intend to fulfill his pledge to Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) leaders to hold free and fair elections by March 2009. Bainimarama reportedly indicated as much to the PNG and Tonga PMs recently. In addition, the interim g [...]
2008-04-23 17:28:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR MARR FJ
08SUVA171Fiji: Unapologetic Bainimarama Calls in the Media
[...] (SBU) Interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama met with media editors and news directors yesterday to insist them that his government would uphold media freedom but warned that the media have to report the truth, avoid politics and exercise balance. The meeting followed the May 2 exp [...]
2008-05-05 17:33:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV FJ
08SUVA174TONGA: PLOTTING THE FUTURE AFTER THE PEOPLE
[...] (C) Most everyone in Tonga accepts an April 24 election signaled the vast majority want rapid democratic reform. Prime Minister Sevele was shocked by the result. He thought an onslaught of ads tying veteran People's Representatives (PRs) to a riot in November 2006 would sway voters. He was w [...]
2008-05-07 13:57:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CVIS PHUM SOCI KJAN TN FJ
08SUVA176FIJI -- DEATH THREAT AGAINST AUSTRALIAN HIGH
[...] (U) On the evening of May 7, someone delivered a written statement to the Australian High Commission in Suva that reportedly threatened the life of High Commissioner James Batley. The Aussies immediately increased their internal security and brought in the Fiji Police, who have begun an inves [...]
2008-05-07 14:33:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC CASC PGOV PHUM PINR MARR FJ
08SUVA184FIJI INTERIM AG COMPLAINT THAT USG DENIED VISA FOR
[...] (U) Fiji's interim Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum phoned Suva media from Vienna on Friday, May 9, to make public his unhappiness at Embassy Suva having denied him a visa to transit Los Angeles to and from a U.N conference in Vienna. He also complained that the U.S. denial came at "the e [...]
2008-05-11 12:53:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR CVIS FJ
08SUVA185FIJI INTERIM GOVERNMENT SEEKS UN, COMMONWEALTH
[...] (C) Fiji's President Iloilo has asked the UN and the Commonwealth for immediate help to create a forum to address reform of Fiji's electoral system in anticipation of elections in 2009. Iloilo seeks funds and expertise. He suggests names for eminent people to oversee the effort, and specific [...]
2008-05-11 15:38:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR CVIS UN FJ
08SUVA19FURTHER EVIDENCE OF POST-COUP PROBLEMS IN FIJI
[...] (C) One of Fiji's best judges, Roger Coventry (protect) has resigned early because of intense frustration about how other judges have "hijacked" the judiciary to their personal agendas in support of the December 2006 coup. Coventry has confirmed to us a long series of affronts to justice that [...]
2008-01-24 10:47:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CJAN PHUM FJ
08SUVA204FIJI: BAINIMARAMA, QARASE MEET; PR EFFORT IN
[...] (C) Fiji interim Prime Minister Bainimarama met with deposed PM Qarase on May 19, a first since the December 2006 coup. Little of substance was reportedly discussed, but they agreed to meet again. Interim Attorney General Sayed-Khaiyum announced that the interim government (IG) is now willing [...]
2008-05-19 16:13:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR FJ
08SUVA224FIJI'S BAINIMARAMA -- WITHOUT PRETENSIONS. ALSO
[...] (C) During a meeting of the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) in Vanuatu last week, and in a media interview on the side, interim PM Bainimarama made clear publicly that he sees himself as the Ataturk of Fiji, the military man who has the vision to right the nation's wrongs and build a bright f [...]
2008-06-01 16:56:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR FJ
08SUVA250A FRUSTRATED FIJI INTERIM GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) The PIF-Fiji Joint Working Group held its 30th meeting this morning, with interim AG Sayed-Khaiyum present. We are told S-K made very clear the IG view that the next elections must be under a reformed electoral system, and election timing will depend on electoral-reform progress. He indi [...]
2008-06-19 05:07:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR FJ
08SUVA266FIJI, TONGA, KIRIBATI, NAURU, AND TUVALU: A STATUS
[...] (C) The five small Pacific nations within Embassy Suva's bailiwick all are of interest to the United States, not least because each has a vote in the UNGA. In Fiji, Commodore Bainimarama's December 2006 coup has discolored the bilateral relationship. He is frustrated at not achieving legitima [...]
2008-07-02 04:47:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR MARR SENV EAID FJ
08SUVA33FIJI: SLOW PREP FOR ELECTION; PEOPLE'S CHARTER
[...] (C) The interim government is beginning to put out signals that preparations for a March 2009 election are lagging. From what we hear, the problems are of the IG's own making, and IG officials have been reluctant to accept offers of outside help. The 35 people chosen for the People's Charter [...]
2008-01-28 16:11:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM FJ
08SUVA365EMBASSY SUVA'S REPLY RE UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHE
[...] Post delivered reftel talking points to the five countries of accreditation (Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Tonga and Tuvalu) and requested further direct discussions with each country concerning the upcoming UNGA Third Committee meeting in New York. While no response from any of the governments has [...]
2008-09-18 03:40:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UN
08SUVA40FIJI UPDATE: BAINIMARAMA FUDGES ELECTION DATE
[...] (C) Fiji interim Prime Minister Bainimarama told a radio reporter Jan. 31 that an election could take place in 2009 (as he has promised regional leaders) or ten or fifteen years from now, depending on God's plan and contingent on achievement of a pathway to progress and stability. Bainimarama [...]
2008-01-31 15:27:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CJAN PHUM FJ
08SUVA450OUTCOMES OF THE 38TH SPC CRGA MEETING IN NOUMEA, NEW
[...] Summary: Institutional growth and change were the dominant themes of this year's annual SPC meeting in New Caledonia where members endorsed the SPREP Meeting decision on regional institutional restructuring and discussed other sweeping changes, including creation of a new Public Health Division [...]
2008-12-01 03:09:00Embassy SuvaUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EAID PHUM EFIS SOCI XV SPC
08SUVA474FIJI: BAINIMARAMA FIRMLY IN CHARGE; NO PATH YET TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. Bainimarama remains firmly in control of Fiji,s government. While he originally intended the President,s Political Dialogue Forum as a mechanism to further delay elections, the process has taken on a life of its own. While some within the Interim Government remain opposed to [...]
2008-12-22 02:47:00Embassy SuvaSECRETPGOV PHUM FJ
08SUVA475KIRIBATI CABINET AGREES TO OFFER ASYLUM TO UIGHURS
[...] (S) On December 20, Embassy delivered points reftel to Kiribati Foreign Secretary Tessie Lambourne. Embassy also forwarded a cover note in conjunction with the non-paper. The Kiribati cabinet had not been privy to earlier discussions between governments. Embassy wanted to help President Tong [...]
2008-12-22 03:00:00Embassy SuvaSECRETPHUM PTER PREL PINR KDRG FJ
08SUVA5FIJI: INTERIM CABINET RESHUFFLE; PEOPLE'S CHARTER
[...] (C) Interim PM Bainimarama has announced the replacement of over half the interim cabinet. The net result is even more of a military, Fiji Labor Party (FLP),and National Alliance Party (NAP) flavor. The stated aim is to rationalize governance; an unstated aim is to reduce frictions among th [...]
2008-01-06 16:23:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PHUM PINR FJ
08SUVA60FIJI UPDATE: BAINIMARAMA TO INDIA; CJ FATIAKI
[...] (C) Fiji interim Prime Minister Bainimarama departed Suva today for medical consultations in India. His departure suggests he does not consider current dissent within the military to be overly threatening. The interim government (IG) tribunal created to consider allegations against suspended [...]
2008-02-12 17:05:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CJAN PHUM FJ
08SUVA71TONGA UPDATE -- DISCONTENT; ROYAL LIFESTYLE;
[...] (C) Conversations in Tonga Feb. 6-9 revealed that discontent continues. The economy is doing poorly; the King's lifestyle and his extravagant plans for an August 1 coronation rankle; allegations of official corruption are gaining currency; and pro-democracy elements hanker for more rapid prog [...]
2008-02-18 17:57:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CJAN PHUM TN
08SUVA72FIJI UPDATE -- SCENESETTER FOR EAP PDAS DAVIES
[...] (C) Fiji interim Prime Minister Bainimarama, currently in India, has issued a decree reforming the Great Council of Chiefs, putting himself in control of yet another institution. The move has generated heated reactions at all levels of the ethnic-Fijian community. Bainimarama's recent effort [...]
2008-02-19 17:55:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CJAN PHUM FJ
08SUVA75FIJI UPDATE -- CHAUDHRY PROBLEMS; BAINIMARAMA ON
[...] (C) Fiji newspapers confirmed over the weekend that interim government (IG) Finance Minister Chaudhry is the minister who allegedly engaged in tax evasion related to income from around US$1 million placed in Australian bank accounts by sources in India in the years after Fiji's 2000 coup. In [...]
2008-02-24 16:04:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PHUM FJ
08SUVA85EAP PDAS DAVIES FEB 27 VISIT TO SUVA
[...] (C) EAP PDAS Davies met with the key players in Fiji on Feb. 27, including interim PM Bainimarama. Davies stressed to all the U.S. continuing interest in a return to legitimate, democratically-elected governance as soon as possible. The shocking expulsion of the Fiji Sun publisher had taken [...]
2008-03-02 09:20:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CJAN PHUM FJ
08SUVA89FIJI - BAINIMARAMA "NO" ON REEVES' DIALOGUE;
[...] (C) Fiji interim Prime Minister Bainimarama has declined a proposal to meet with deposed PM Qarase and others, under the auspices of Commonwealth Secretariat envoy Sir Paul Reeves. Bainimarama said the Military Council objected, but Reeves reportedly puts the blame on interim Finance Minister [...]
2008-03-06 14:18:00Embassy SuvaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CJAN PHUM PINR MARR FJ
08TAIPEI1384PRC ASYLUM SEEKERS IN TAIWAN TREATED ADEQUATELY
[...] (C) Summary: The Taiwan authorities provide haven (in theory temporary but in practice indefinite) and modest subsistence to PRC asylum seekers they determine are bona fide political dissidents who would face persecution if repatriated. Without a refugee law, the government here says it cann [...]
2008-09-19 09:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV PREL CH TW
08TAIPEI1579TAIWAN CAUTIOUS ON DPRK HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary: During recent meetings with a visiting U.S. envoy, Taiwan government and NGO officials displayed little understanding or concern about human rights issues in North Korea. While willing, in principle, to expand cooperation with the United States, local thinktank Taiwan Foundation [...]
2008-11-07 08:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALCH KN KS PGOV PHUM PREL
08TAIPEI1648TAIWAN'S NATIONAL IMMIGRATION AGENCY STRENGTHENS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan is taking concrete steps to strengthen anti-trafficking efforts, including, for example, implementing measures to protect victims and allow them to obtain temporary work and residency permits, emphasize National Immigration Agency (NIA) officials. Moreover, Taiwan's Exec [...]
2008-11-24 08:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL ELAB TW
08TAIPEI1700"WILD STRAWBERRY" STUDENT PROTEST DRAWS TO A CLOSE
[...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's "Wild Strawberry Student Movement" staged a peaceful march Sunday (Dec. 7) to demand revisions to Taiwan's Assembly and Parade Law, apologies from President Ma Ying-jeou and Premier Liu Chao-shiuan and resignations of Taiwan police and security chiefs for the police violen [...]
2008-12-08 10:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM TW
08TAIPEI1728DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS: TAIWAN TO (AGAIN) SEEK
[...] (SBU) Summary: Taiwan's executive branch will request the Legislative Yuan to ratify the UN International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, despite Taiwan's lack of standing in the UN, President Ma Ying-jeou announced at a December 10 ceremony m [...]
2008-12-15 06:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH PGOV PHUM PREL TW
08TAIPEI1758LEGISLATIVE SPEAKER WANG JIN-PYNG ON DOMESTIC
[...] (C) Summary: Legislative Yuan (LY) Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (KMT) assured the Director on December 16 that he would support speedy action by the LY to approve Taiwan's accession to the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). Wang discussed plans for his upcoming visit to Washington for the [...]
2008-12-19 06:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR ECON ETRD PHUM CH TW
08TAIPEI1912008 G/TIP INCLE AND ESF FUNDING PROPOSALS: TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Per G/TIP instructions, AIT submits five trafficking in persons project proposals for ESF and INCLE funding. One proposal is from a Taiwan university, three proposals are submitted by Taiwan non-governmental organizations (NGOs),and one proposal is submitted by the Department of Just [...]
2008-02-12 08:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM ELAB PHUM PREL SMIG ASEC TW
08TAIPEI399PART TWO - 2008 TIP REPORT - TAIWAN
[...] (SBU) This is part two of AIT/T's three-part 2007-8 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. The report is presented according to reftel sections, beginning with paragraph 27 A. Part one contains Paragraphs 27 A-B. Paragraphs 27 A through 29 D are contained in part two. Paragraphs 29 E through 3 [...]
2008-03-20 09:30:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TW
08TAIPEI400PART THREE - 2008 TIP REPORT - TAIWAN
[...] (SBU) This is part three of AIT/T's three-part 2007-8 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. The report is presented according to reftel sections, beginning with paragraph 27 A. Part one contains Paragraphs 27 A-B. Paragraphs 27 A through 29 D are contained in part two. Paragraphs 29 E through [...]
2008-03-20 09:30:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TW
08TAIPEI401PART ONE - 2008 TIP REPORT - TAIWAN
[...] (SBU) This is part one of AIT/T's three-part 2007-8 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. The report is presented according to reftel sections, beginning with paragraph 27 A. Part one contains Paragraphs 27 A-B. Paragraphs 27 A through 29 D are contained in part two. Paragraphs 29 E through 3 [...]
2008-03-20 22:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TW
08TAIPEI561AIT RECEIVES ASYLUM REQUEST FROM PRC NATIONAL
[...] (C) On April 2, PRC citizen Cai Lujun sent an email to AIT's American Corner library in Taichung, requesting political asylum or refugee status in the U.S. The email was forwarded to the AIT political section on April 7. 2. (C) In his email, Cai claimed he was imprisoned in the PRC for th [...]
2008-04-23 10:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL CVIS ASEC PGOV PINR PHUM TW CH
08TAIPEI773TAIWAN ACCEPTS TIP RANKING, PLEDGES CONTINUED
[...] (C) On June 4, AIT delivered the Taiwan TIP Report narrative and related non-paper to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General of North American Affairs Harry Tseng. Tseng welcomed the report, and promised to disseminate it to relevant agencies as soon as the embargo was lifted. Tseng no [...]
2008-06-05 07:19:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALKWMN KCRM ELAB PHUM PGOV KPAO SMIG TW
08TAIPEI799TAIWAN RENDERING APPROPRIATE AID TO PRC ASYLUM
[...] (C) PRC citizen Cai Lujun first contacted AIT via email on April 2, 2008. In his email, Cai requested political asylum or refugee status in the U.S. Cai also complained that because the Taiwan immigration authorities forbade him from working, he was in serious financial distress. On April 11 [...]
2008-06-09 06:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL CVIS ASEC PGOF PINR PHUM TW CH
08TALLINN158ESTONIA: OUTREACH TO DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS AND DISSIDENTS
[...] (SBU) As requested in reftel A and B, Embassy Tallinn has continued to reach out to democracy and human rights activists in Estonia. On March 2, 2008, Acting DCM joined Vice Speaker of the Estonian Parliament Kristiina Ojuland in a panel discussion at the first Congress of the New Belarusian [...]
2008-05-06 11:05:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEN LH PHUM PREL
08TALLINN164 ESTONIA: DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE CUBAN PEOPLE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-15 13:32:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI CU EN
08TALLINN183ESTONIA: BURMA DONORS CONFERENCE RESPONSE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-23 09:04:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM BM EN
08TALLINN186 ESTONIA: NO FORCED LABOR OR CHILD LABOR IN
[...] Estonia has been a member of the European Union since 2004, and complies with all relevant EU and ILO treaties and standards regarding labor and working conditions. Post has no evidence of any forced or child labor in the production of goods in Estonia. DECKER [...]
2008-05-27 13:21:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EN
08TALLINN232 TV CO-OP ON ALASKA GENERATES MAJOR INTEREST PLUS ITS OWN
[...] Summary. A team of award-winning reporters from the Estonian television program "Subboteya" spent three weeks in Alaska exploring the history of Alaskan Russians, the challenges faced by Alaska's natives, and the lives of Alaskan-Americans. Not only did their documentary air on Estonian TV a [...]
2008-07-07 14:03:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM EN
08TALLINN241THE DECLINE OF ESTONIA'S ETHNIC RUSSIAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although ethnic Russians make up about one-third of Estonia's population, they have failed to achieve any significant influence over Estonian politics. Support for Russian parties continues to decline, with most Russians supporting the mainstream Center Party. The small Russia [...]
2008-07-14 13:06:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM SOCI RS EN
08TALLINN25ESTONIA TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR CERD
[...] (SBU) On January 11, Veikko Kala of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affair's International Organizations and Regional Cooperation Division informed Poloff that the Government of Estonia will support U.S. candidate Pierre Prosper for the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discriminatio [...]
2008-01-14 12:53:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDUNGA PHUM PREL EN
08TALLINN323ESTONIA ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (SBU) Poloff discussed points in reftel with Tiina Krevald, UN Desk Officer at the Estonian MFA. According to Krevald, Estonia's four priority initiatives for the UNGA Third Committee, which they share with the EU, are the abolishment of the death penalty, a resolution on the defamation of re [...]
2008-09-18 08:19:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPGOV UNGA PHUM EN
08TALLINN358ESTONIA SAYS NO TO PALESTINAIAN DETAINEE
[...] (C) On October 20, 2008, Poloff met with Juri Kahn, Division Director for the Middle East at the Estonian MFA to discuss the points in reftel. Kahn reported that after consulting with the Estonian Office of Migration, the Government of Estonia has decided they are not able to accept a Palesti [...]
2008-10-21 07:08:00Embassy TallinnCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO EN
08TALLINN372ESTONIA: NOMINATION FOR 2009 SECRETARY'S
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Embassy Tallinn is pleased to nominate Sergeant-Major Jaune Engel for the 2009 Secretary's International Women of Courage (IWOC) Award. As a member of the Estonian Defense Forces ('ESTCOY-4') unit deployed in southern Afghanistan, Jaune Engel has shown remarkable courage by volu [...]
2008-10-27 14:14:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWMN PREL KPAO PHUM EN
08TALLINN388ESTONIA: RUSSIAN SCHOOLS INCREASE COURSES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The government's plan to achieve more Estonian-language instruction in Russian-language high schools has proceeded smoothly in Estonia. In September, Russian-language high schools began teaching the second of five (mandated) courses in Estonian. There are indications that a major [...]
2008-11-05 14:34:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV EN
08TALLINN423ESTONIA: PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) On December 11, in accordance with reftel request, Ambassador sent a letter to Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Paet asking him to participate in the proposed Pakistan Donor's Conference. FM Paet's office responded to the Ambassador's letter by phone the same day, highlighting FM Paet's [...]
2008-12-15 12:16:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM EFIN IBRD IMF PK EN
08TALLINN427ESTONIA: DCM VISITS WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 10, DCM visited the Women's Shelter of Tartu and the Tartu Child Support Center to mark International Human Rights Day and the 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence. DCM toured both facilities and met staff, psychologists and social workers for discussions on do [...]
2008-12-16 06:09:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM EN
08TALLINN52ESTONIAN REPRESENTATION FOR UN.GIFT VIENNA FORUM
[...] (SBU) On February 1, Polecoff delivered reftel points to Veikko Kala of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' International Organizations and Regional Cooperation Division. Kala responded that the Government of Estonia (GOE) will participate in the 2008 United Nations Global Initiative to [...]
2008-02-06 13:40:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN PREF SMIG EN
08TALLINN91ESTONIA - EIGHTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING REPORT
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Tallinn's Anti- Trafficking Report for Estonia. Responses are keyed to the checklist (Ref A). Post's points of contact on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) are Political Officer Alamanda Gribbin (Email: GribbinAL@state.gov; tel: +372-668-8291) and Political Assistant [...]
2008-03-04 14:20:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EN
08TASHKENT1024UNICEF PLANS INFORMAL CHILD LABOR ASSESSMENT
[...] (C) Summary: On August 27 Charge and poloff met with UNICEF Representative in Uzbekistan Mahboob Shareef to discuss plans to assess the extent of child labor during the cotton harvest season as well as the agenda for the upcoming September 16-18 Executive Board Meeting in New York. Shareef re [...]
2008-09-03 05:15:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ELAB SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1034ACTING CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERAL DEMPSEY MEETS
[...] (C) Summary: During a visit to Tashkent on August 28, Acting CENTCOM Commander General Martin Dempsey met separately with First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ilkhom Nematov and Director of the National Drug Control Center Kamol Dusmetov. He also conducted mil-to-mil meetings with Ministe [...]
2008-09-05 03:21:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR PHUM EAID PINR AF PK GG RS UZ
08TASHKENT1035ACTING CENTCOM COMMANDER GENERAL DEMPSEY MEETS
[...] (C) Summary: On August 28 visiting Acting CENTCOM Commander General Martin Dempsey met with Yves Giovannoni, the ICRC Head of the Regional Delegation in Central Asia, and Raffaello Muller, the Deputy Head. The meeting, which itself sent a strong signal of USG interest to the Uzbeks, focused o [...]
2008-09-05 03:27:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KCOR PINR KZ KG TI TX UZ
08TASHKENT1036UPDATE ON STATUS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS MUTABAR
[...] (C) Poloff spoke with German First Secretary Ewe Berndt on September 3 about the health of human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva, who was released from prison in June (ref A). Berndt confirmed that the German Embassy has provided financial support to Tojiboyeva for a medical exam and treatm [...]
2008-09-05 12:11:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT104CENTCOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL FALLON MEETS ICRC IN
[...] (C) On January 25 visiting Central Command (CENTCOM) Commander Admiral William J. Fallon, accompanied by the Ambassador, met with Rafaello Muller, Country Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This meeting was an opportunity to discuss the importance of a substantiv [...]
2008-01-28 12:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV ICRC UZ
08TASHKENT1060UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for one Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) official scheduled to attend the Program for Advanced Security Studies at the Marshall Center in Garmisch, Germa [...]
2008-09-15 07:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT1070REFORMING USG HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-18 07:08:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASIG APER EAID KCRM KPAO KIRF MARR MASS
08TASHKENT1074CABLE RECALL: REFORMING USG HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-18 10:56:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASIG APER EAID KCRM KPAO KIRF MARR MASS
08TASHKENT1085PRESIDENT KARIMOV SIGNS TIP CRIMINAL CODE
[...] (U) Summary: On September 16 President Islam Karimov signed long-awaited criminal code amendments into law specifically criminalizing trafficking in persons and outlining stricter punishments of up to 12 years in prison for convicted traffickers. In adopting the amendments, the Government of [...]
2008-09-19 11:44:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KTIP KCRM KWMN PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT1086GOVERNMENT ADOPTS NATIONAL ACTION PLAN ON CHILD
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Uzbek government recently adopted a National Action Plan on implementing two International Labor Organization (ILO) anti-child labor conventions. According to contacts and press reports, the Prime Minister also warned regional governors not to mobilize schoolchildren to pic [...]
2008-09-19 12:37:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1113ARCENT COMMANDER MEETS NEW UZBEK DEFENSE MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: ARCENT Commander Lieutenant General James Lovelace met with newly-appointed Defense Minister General-Major Kabil Berdiyev during a September 23-24 visit to Uzbekistan. Berdiyev, who is believed to favor greater cooperation with the U.S., thanked LTG Lovelace for support in the w [...]
2008-09-29 09:34:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM PHUM MARR PINR UZ
08TASHKENT1127UZBEKISTAN: PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUPPORTING
[...] (C/NF) Summary: The imperative of establishing new supply routes to support Coalition forces in Afghanistan necessitates continued inter-agency deftness and consensus on our approach to Uzbekistan. We have important equities at stake here, particularly in advancing human rights, religious fre [...]
2008-09-30 10:27:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PHUM MARR UZ
08TASHKENT1138UZBEKISTAN: PROTESTANT RELEASED; ACTIVIST GRANTED
[...] (C) Summary: In the past week, Uzbek authorities have dropped religious extremism charges against Protestant Aimurat Khayburahmanov and issued an exit visa for human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva to receive medical treatment abroad. Forum 18, which first reported Khayburahmanov's release [...]
2008-10-06 12:32:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1149UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST DETAINED AFTER PROVIDING TOUR
[...] (C) Summary: During a five-day trip to Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan on September 29 - October 3, G/TIP Foreign Affairs Officer Megan Hall met with human rights activists monitoring the use of child labor during the annual cotton harvest in Syrdarya province. Despite the government's rec [...]
2008-10-08 05:16:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1155UZBEKISTAN: EU DIPLOMATS EXPECT SANCTIONS TO BE
[...] (C) Summary: During a six-day visit to Uzbekistan, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rachel Waldstein on September 23 participated in an informal roundtable at the Embassy with diplomats from the German, French, Italian, and Latvian Embassies in Tashkent. The diplomats reported that the EU would mo [...]
2008-10-09 11:41:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EUN PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT1156UZBEKISTAN: UNICEF DISCUSSES CHILD LABOR ACTION
[...] (C) Summary: During a six-day visit to Uzbekistan, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rachel Waldstein met on September 23 with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Child Protection Officer Siyma Barkin to discuss the government's recent adoption of a National Action Plan on child labor. Barkin [...]
2008-10-09 11:50:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1163UZBEKISTAN: JOURNALIST RECEIVES 10-YEAR SENTENCE
[...] (C) On October 10, a court in Uzbekistan's Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan convicted journalist Salidjahon Abdurakhmanov of possessing narcotics with the intent to distribute (criminal code article 273) and sentenced him to ten years' imprisonment. His lawyer Rustam Tulyganov told polo [...]
2008-10-10 09:56:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1173UZBEKISTAN: RED CROSS CAUTIOUSLY EXPLORING
[...] (C) Summary: On September 30, Poloff and Deskoff met with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) representative Simon Yule, who discussed ICRC plans to provide assistance to the Government of Uzbekistan's (GOU) security forces. Yule believes that this engagement may reduce the risk o [...]
2008-10-14 12:13:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALASEC PREL MOPS MCAP PGOV PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT1176UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for two Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend a Counternarcotics Conference at the Marshall Center in Garmisch, Germany October 26-29, [...]
2008-10-15 09:59:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT1188UZBEKISTAN: INVESTIGATION CONCLUDES THAT ACTIVIST
[...] (U) On October 14, a court in Karakalpakstan announced that an investigation had determined that the health of human rights activist Akzam Turgunov did not suffer as a result of a police officer pouring boiling water on his back during pre-trial detention. Turgunov was originally arrested in [...]
2008-10-16 09:05:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1189UZBEKISTAN: LEADING ACTIVIST CRITICIZED BY EXILES
[...] (C) Summary: On October 10, poloff met at the Embassy with human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva, who told poloff that she favored engagement with the Uzbek government and was personally against sanctions, which she believed would cutoff dialogue with the government. However, she reported b [...]
2008-10-16 09:15:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KWMN PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT1197UZBEKISTAN: NGOS RECEIVE PERMISSION FOR HUMAN
[...] (C) Summary: Two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) receiving Embassy Democracy Commission grants have been recently granted permission by authorities to conduct human rights trainings at schools and with law enforcement officials. Their success in engaging local officials on human rights [...]
2008-10-20 05:54:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID KIRF KWMN PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT12YUSUF JUMAEV AND SON BOBUR ARRESTED; HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary: Independent websites and human rights contacts reported that dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev and his son Bobur were arrested on December 17 by National Security Service (NSS) officers in Tashkent. Meanwhile, Jumaev's son Mashrab remains in pre-trial detention in Bukhara, where he is [...]
2008-01-04 11:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT1200UZBEKISTAN: THREE POLITICAL PRISONERS RELEASED
[...] (C) Summary: On October 20, sources reported that three political prisoners in Uzbekistan have been recently released: human rights activist and opposition party member Dilmurod Mukhiddinov; human rights activist Mamarajab Nazarov; and independent journalist Jamshid Karimov, the nephew of Pre [...]
2008-10-20 12:13:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1217UZBEKISTAN: SANJAR UMAROV'S WIFE DESCRIBES PRISON
[...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with poloff at the Embassy on October 21, Indira Umarova - the wife of imprisoned political oppositionist Sanjar Umarov (and a recently naturalized AmCit) - described her visit to her husband in prison and his poor health condition. What Umarova told poloff roug [...]
2008-10-21 10:45:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1222UZBEKISTAN: KARAKALPAKSTAN'S COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
[...] (C) Summary: On October 2, Deputy Chairman Abdijaliev of Karakalpakstan's Council of Ministers discussed conditions in Karakalpakstan--Uzbekistan's only autonomous republic--with us in Nukus. The Deputy Chairman repeatedly asserted Karakalpakstan's "sovereignty," citing a series of its own in [...]
2008-10-22 12:56:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON SOCI SENV PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT1225UZBEKISTAN: OFFICIALS CITE AREAS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary: During a six-day visit to Uzbekistan, DRL Foreign Affairs Officer Rachel Waldstein met on September 22 with the Human Rights Ombudsman, the National Human Rights Center director, and Ministry of Interior officials. The officials emphasized legal reforms the government had undert [...]
2008-10-24 03:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1226UZBEKISTAN: PROSECUTOR GENERAL PUBLISHES MAJOR
[...] (U) On October 17 Uzbekistan Prosecutor General Rashitjon Qodirov prominently published a major 3,000 word report on trafficking in persons (TIP) in the state-controlled newspaper "Narodnoe Slovo" (People's Word). This is the first high-profile action by Qodirov in his capacity as the Chairma [...]
2008-10-24 08:25:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN UZ
08TASHKENT1227KAZAKHSTANI NGOS DISCUSS LABOR MIGRATION,
[...] (C) Summary: During a five-day trip to Uzbekistan and southern Kazakhstan on September 29 - October 3, G/TIP Foreign Affairs Officer Megan Hall met with Kazakhstani NGOs to discuss labor migration, human trafficking, and child labor issues. The president of an anti-trafficking NGO in Shymkent [...]
2008-10-24 12:43:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ECON ELAB KWMN KCRM SOCI KZ UZ
08TASHKENT1234UZBEKISTAN: NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF
[...] (SBU) Post is honored to nominate human rights defender Mutabar Tadjibayeva from Uzbekistan for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage (ref A). A fearless and unfailing critic of human rights abuses in Uzbekistan, Tadjibayeva was imprisoned for speaking out against the gove [...]
2008-10-27 09:55:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KPAO KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1235UZBEKISTAN: MEDICAL COMMISSION TO EXAMINE
[...] (C) Summary: On October 22, the Ambassador met with Indira Umarova, the AmCit wife of imprisoned political oppositionist Sanjar Umarov, who described her recent visit to see her husband in prison on October 17 and his deteriorating health condition (reftel). Afterwards, the Ambassador drafte [...]
2008-10-27 10:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM CASC ICRC PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1247UZBEKISTAN STILL PLAYING HARD TO GET ON RULE OF
[...] (C) Summary: On October 10 we received a diplomatic note declining a proposal to use INL funds on a rule of law project that would have been implemented by the American Bar Association - Rule of Law Initiative (ABA-ROLI). This is the latest in a series of recent setbacks on efforts to invest i [...]
2008-10-28 12:02:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC PHUM KCRM EAID PINR UZ
08TASHKENT1253UZBEKISTAN: INTER-MINISTERIAL RIVALRIES SEEN AS
[...] (C) Reftel pointed to puzzling instances of rejection by Uzbek authorities of certain U.S. programs in such areas as rule of law, health and education -- puzzling because the proposed programs on the face of it do not appear threatening and because the general tenor of U.S.-Uzbek relations has [...]
2008-10-29 10:30:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PHUM EAID UZ
08TASHKENT1256UZBEKISTAN: UNICEF SHARES RESULTS OF CHILD LABOR
[...] (C) Summary: During a recent meeting with foreign diplomats, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) office in Tashkent announced that an informal assessment of child labor conducted by its employees found that students were still being mobilized for the cotton harvest, despite the governm [...]
2008-10-30 08:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAGR ECON ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1257UZBEKISTAN: ACTIVIST SENTENCED TO TEN YEARS'
[...] (C) Summary: On October 23, a court in Uzbekistan's Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan sentenced human rights activist Akzam Turgunov and another defendant to ten years' imprisonment on politically motivated charges of extortion. Turgunov's trial had been temporarily interrupted following [...]
2008-10-30 10:40:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1258UZBEKISTAN: POLICE OFFICERS ON TRIAL FOR DEATH IN
[...] (U) In two recent articles from October 20 and October 27, the independent Uznews.net website reported that a trial has begun at the Tashkent regional criminal court for four police officers charged with beating and killing Muzaffar Tuychiyev, a 30-year resident of the town of Angren in Tashk [...]
2008-10-31 04:11:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1259UZBEKISTAN HOSTS CONFERENCE ON ELECTIONS AND
[...] (C) Summary: On October 15-16, Uzbekistan's Foundation for Regional Policy (FRP)--an "NGO" with close ties to the Presidential Apparat--hosted an international roundtable entitled "Elections to Representative Bodies and Issues of Increasing the Political Culture of the Electorate" in Tashkent. [...]
2008-10-31 05:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SOCI PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT126FURTHER AMNESTIES OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
[...] (C) Summary: In the past week, poloff has conversed with several human rights contacts who expressed optimism that additional high-profile political prisoners would soon be amnestied. Those reportedly in line for amnesty include Ezgulik activist Dilmurod Muhidinov, Pentacostalist pastor Dmit [...]
2008-01-30 13:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT1265UZBEKISTAN: OFFICIALS DESCRIBE EFFORTS TO
[...] (U) Summary: On September 29-30, poloff and a visiting officer from the Department's Office to Combat and Monitor Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) met with Uzbek officials from the Ministries of Internal and Foreign Affairs, the Office of the General Prosecutor, and the National Women's Committee [...]
2008-11-03 09:20:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN UZ
08TASHKENT1266UZBEKISTAN: "THE MAHALLA," PILLAR OF UZBEK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Mahallas are a uniquely Uzbek social unit that serves as an intermediary between government and citizen. In a recent meeting the chairman of the Charitable Fund "Mahalla" described the role of the mahallas in Uzbek society and the work of his non-governmental fund. Both a ch [...]
2008-11-03 09:42:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SOCI PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT1269UZBEKISTAN: IMPRISONED ACTIVIST REPORTEDLY
[...] (C) Summary: On November 3, the Deputy Chairman of the Ezgulik human rights group confirmed internet reports of the alleged suicide attempt by imprisoned Ezgulik member Abdurasul Khudoynazarov. According to the Deputy Chairman, Khudoynazarov attempted suicide after enduring frequent mistreat [...]
2008-11-04 05:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT127ACTIVISTS RECEIVE PERMISSION TO VISIT JUMAEV IN
[...] (C) Summary: Two members of the Rapid Reaction Group have received written permission from the Bukhara province Ministry of Internal Affairs to visit imprisoned dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev, who has been accused of striking a policeman with his car during a protest in December. Meanwhile, the [...]
2008-01-31 06:03:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ICRC PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT1279UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING CLEARANCE FOR
[...] (SBU) Post has conducted a review of its files and has found no evidence of human rights violations committed by Shavkat Holmatov, Djonrid Kudratkhodjaev, or Marat Sooltonov, who have been nominated to participate in the NATO-Russia General Training Course to be held at the Domodedovo Center o [...]
2008-11-06 03:13:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT1288"WHIRLPOOL OF DEATH:" UZBEK TV REPORTS ISLAMIC
[...] (C) Summary: On October 31, Uzbek state-controlled television broadcasted a 20-minute program claiming that members of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization had recruited Uzbeks in the town of Khonobod in Andijon province and facilitated their travel to Pakistan to train in militant camps. [...]
2008-11-07 10:41:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PTER KIRF KISL PINR PGOV PREL SOCI PK UZ
08TASHKENT129UZBEK MIGRANTS EYE VISA-FREE TURKEY
[...] (C) Summary: On January 13 poloff, who previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bukhara, learned that his Uzbek former counterpart teacher was departing immediately -- and possibly forever -- for Turkey. Having been frustrated at recent attempts to find work abroad in Russia, Cyprus, a [...]
2008-01-31 07:43:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CVIS KCRM KWMN ECON SOCI TU UZ
08TASHKENT1304UZBEKISTAN: AUTHORITIES TO OPEN REHABILITATION
[...] (U) On November 11, the state-controlled UzReport.com website reported that - in line with a resolution of President Karimov's from November 5 - the Ministry of Labor will open a national rehabilitation center in Tashkent to assist and protect human trafficking victims. According to the webs [...]
2008-11-13 11:35:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB KTIP KWMN KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1305UZBEKISTAN: EX-POLICE OFFICERS JAILED FOR
[...] (C) Summary: In three recent cases, government officials have been punished or tried for alleged wrong-doing. On November 10, the state-controlled Uzbek Television First Channel reported that a group of six former Uzbek police officers from Tashkent were recently convicted of kidnapping a loc [...]
2008-11-13 11:40:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM PGOV SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1306UZBEKISTAN: AFGHAN REFUGEES STILL ENDURE
[...] (C) Summary: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) office in Tashkent reports that Afghan refugees with United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) mandate status in Uzbekistan continue to face harassment and occasional deportation at the hands of authorities. According to U [...]
2008-11-13 11:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI UNDP UNHCR AF TI UZ
08TASHKENT131GOU AND CIVIL SOCIETY: ON THE ROAD TO NORMALCY
[...] (C) Summary: In the past few weeks, the government has taken several positive steps on the civil society front, including: signaling that it will register a German non-governmental organization (NGO); opening three new resource centers for local NGOs; and awarding 22 grants to NGOs through th [...]
2008-01-31 12:41:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT1313UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING FOR NATO-RUSSIA
[...] (SBU) Post has conducted an internal review of its files and has found no evidence of human rights violations committed by Amirtemirkhon Musaev, Khurshid Shukurov, Anatoli Milyukov, or Nordirbek Mamadeliev, who have been nominated to participate in the NATO-Russia counternarcotics training to [...]
2008-11-14 10:57:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT1314UZBEKISTAN: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-17 09:12:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ELAB KTIP KWMN KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1322UZBEKISTAN: EMBASSY HOSTS ROUNDTABLE FOR
[...] (C) Summary: While the atmosphere in Uzbekistan's majority Muslim community has improved somewhat over the past year, some smaller Christian evangelical groups - particularly those which are unregistered and have ethnic Uzbek members - continue to endure frequent raids, harassment, and the de [...]
2008-11-18 09:56:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1325UZBEKISTAN: FORMER OFFICIAL COMMENTS ON FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: On November 13, Furkat Sidikov (a former official who remains affiliated with the Government of Uzbekistan) discussed a range of political and security issues with Poloff and expressed interest in developing bilateral cooperation. Sidikov asserted that Uzbekistan is curious about [...]
2008-11-18 10:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC KISL PINS PTER PHUM SOCI AF UZ
08TASHKENT1351UZBEKISTAN: AUTHORITIES REPORT ON HEALTH OF IMPRISONED OPPOSIT
[...] (C) Summary: On November 18, the MFA delivered to the Embassy the results of a medical commission that was established by President Karimov on October 24 to examine the health of imprisoned oppositionist Sanjar Umarov (ref A). The report stated that Umarov suffered from "no significant patholo [...]
2008-11-24 11:56:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT1379UZBEKISTAN: NEW LEGAL CLINICS TO OPEN, BUT BAR ASSOCIATION
[...] (C) Summary: The Tashkent Legal Clinic Director reported that authorities have approved the opening of three new legal clinics in Uzbekistan and have granted a six-month Uzbek visa to the AmCit American Bar Association (ABA) office director in Almaty, who is currently in Uzbekistan attending tr [...]
2008-11-26 12:34:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1380UZBEKISTAN: UPDATE ON TIP AND LABOR MIGRATION
[...] (C) Summary: In a November 22 article, BBC Monitoring reported that Uzbekistan's state-controlled media has launched a human trafficking awareness campaign, which tracks with poloff's observation that over the past few months, human rights-related articles have appeared in the state-controlled [...]
2008-11-26 12:45:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECON ELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PREL SOCI KZ UZ
08TASHKENT142WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER OPENS IN BUKHARA WITH
[...] (C) Summary: During a visit to Bukhara province on January 10 and 11, the Ambassador visited the "Oydin Nuri" ("Moonlight") Women's Crisis Center for victims of domestic violence, which recently opened in November 2007 with support from an Embassy Democracy Commission grant. During his visit [...]
2008-02-01 13:49:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KWMN PGOV SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1420UZBEKISTAN: DEMARCHE ON THE HELSINKI OSCE MINISTERIAL
[...] (C) Pol-Econ Chief discussed reftel points with Uzbek MFA UN and International Organizations Division Head Karomiddin Gadoev on December 3.Karomiddin noted that, for the first time in three years (i.e. since Andijon),Uzbekistan would be represented in Helsinkiat the ministerial level byForeign [...]
2008-12-04 13:21:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL OSCE PHUM KDEM UZ
08TASHKENT1429UZBEKISTAN: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR ONE GOU PARTICIPANT
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. Post has been provided with one additional name of an officer nominated to participate in the Senior Executive Seminar 09-1 at the Marshal Center in Garmisch, Germany. The training program is funded by and arranged by the Marshal C [...]
2008-12-05 10:29:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ASEC PGOV PREL SNAR UZ
08TASHKENT143GOU: BLUSTER ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: There are signs of progress on some aspects of our human rights agenda with Uzbekistan, especially concerning civil society (ref A),but the issue of political prisoners remains the toughest nut to crack. We and the French have encountered visceral reaction at the Ministry of For [...]
2008-02-01 14:53:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM MARR PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT144BUKHARA AUTHORITIES DETAIN, THEN RELEASE HUMAN
[...] (C) Summary: Authorities in Bukhara released without charge two Human Rights Alliance activists on January 30 after holding them in detention for approximately eight hours. The two activists were initially detained as they tried to hold a protest in front of the Bukhara Province Criminal Cour [...]
2008-02-01 14:59:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT1454UZBEKISTAN: ATMOSPHERE SLOWLY IMPROVING FOR ACTIVISTS
[...] (C) Summary: In the past weeks, independent human rights activists have held two human-rights related events attended by government officials. On November 28, the independent Ezgulik human rights group held a conference evaluating the government's recent legal reforms with several other indepen [...]
2008-12-12 06:43:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1463Tashkent Tidbits December 15, 2008
[...] (SBU) Recently, a member of the Ezgulik human rights group's Syrdarya province branch observed that his organization has received a response from law enforcement officials regarding complaint letters they had sent over an incident in October when a police officer threatened and hit Ezgulik memb [...]
2008-12-15 12:35:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KDEM PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT1472UZBEKISTAN: STAFFDEL MEETS WITH MINISTRY OF DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary:During a meeting with Colonel Rustamov of Uzbekistan's Ministry of Defense on December 15, House Foreign Affairs Committee staffers discussed a range of defense and security issues.Rustamov voiced support ofinternational efforts to promote stability in Afghanistan and was pleased th [...]
2008-12-17 09:59:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS ASEC MASS PINS PTER PHUM SNAR UZ
08TASHKENT1473UZBEKISTAN: FOUR POLICE JAILED OVER FATAL TORTURE
[...] (U) On December 12, the Tashkent provincial Criminal Court sentenced four police officers to between eight and 17 years' imprisonment for torturing to death Muzaffar Tuychiev in the town of Angren in March, according to a December 16 article by Agence France Presse (refs A and B). The article f [...]
2008-12-17 11:34:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT1480UZBEKISTAN: NEW LAW ENHANCES RIGHTS OF DEFENDANTS, LAWYERS,
[...] (C) Summary: In December, Uzbekistan's Parliament adopted a new law on defense attorneys which significantly increases protections for defendants, their lawyers, and witnesses. The former Chairwoman of the Tashkent Bar Association, who provided poloff with a copy of the law, described it as "r [...]
2008-12-22 11:25:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM EAID KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT152AMNESTY FOR IKHTIYOR HAMROEV AND UMIDA NIYAZOVA
[...] (U) On February 3, the Uzbek language website of Radio Free Europe (www.ozodlik.org) reported that Ikhtiyor Hamroev, the son of well-known human rights defender Bakhtiyor Hamroev, had been amnestied and released from prison. The December 2007 amnesty was also applied to former Human Rights Wa [...]
2008-02-04 12:54:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT1522Uzbekistan: CENTCOM Deputy Commander Lt. General Allen
[...] (C) Summary: On December 19 CENTCOM Deputy Commander Lt. General John Allen met separately with Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov and Defense Minister Kabul Berdiyev in Tashkent. Lt. Gen. Allen's visit laid the groundwork for a planned visit by CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus in J [...]
2008-12-24 08:52:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS ETRD PINR PHUM ECON KCOR TI AF UZ
08TASHKENT1538UZBEKISTAN: "ACCESS" PROJECT SUPPORTS THE RIGHTS OF THE
[...] (U) Earlier this year, the Uzbek Ministry of Labor announced that it signed an agreement to participate in an ACCESS (Accessibility, Civic Consciousness, Employment, and Society Support for Persons with Disabilities) project with several international partners - including UNDP, UNICEF, UNESCO, [...]
2008-12-30 13:20:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KPAO OIIP PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT1539UZBEKISTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ACCUSED OF FRAUD
[...] (U) On December 31, Radio Free Europe's Uzbek-language Ozodlik.org website reported that Ezgulik human rights activist Karim Bozorboev has been accused of fraud by law enforcement officials in Gulistan in Syrdarya province. According to the article, Bozorboev was accused of swindling a 60-year [...]
2008-12-31 09:05:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECON KCRM PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT155ANDIJON-BASED ACTIVIST SAIDJAHON ZAYNABIDDINOV
[...] (U) On February 5, the independent Harakat.net website reported that Andijon-based human rights activist Saidjahon Zaynabiddinov had been amnestied and released from the Zangi Ota correctional camp in Tashkent province on February 2. The article reported a telephone conversation Zaynabiddinov [...]
2008-02-05 11:37:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT157STATE-CONTROLLED PAPER RUNS FULL-PAGE HUMAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 1 a full-page article highlighting trafficking-in-persons appeared in the Pravda Vostoka, one of three major newspapers in Uzbekistan. The prominent placement and lengthy detail of the article in a widely circulated, state-controlled publication is noteworthy and a [...]
2008-02-06 05:17:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN AE UZ
08TASHKENT165HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST ATTACKED AT TASHKENT TRAIN
[...] (C) On February 5, Human Rights Alliance member Elena Urlayeva was reportedly attacked by five unknown women, one wielding an iron bar, at Tashkent's train station as she was attempting to board a train to Bukhara. On February 6, poloff spoke with Urlayeva by telephone, who said she was assau [...]
2008-02-07 05:24:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT167GOU AMNESTIES MORE POLITICAL PRISONERS
[...] (C) Summary: In a press release on February 5, Human Rights Watch (HRW) announced that the Uzbek government on February 4 and 5 had amnestied two additional political prisoners, Dilmurod Muhitdinov and Bahodir Mukhtarov, though Ezgulik Chairperson Vasila Inoyatova has been unable to confirm t [...]
2008-02-07 05:53:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT173CONTROLS ON TRANSFERS AND WITHDRAWALS OF CASH
[...] (SBU) Summary: A December 2007 Central Bank order has resulted in delays for those trying to access foreign currency transfers. Simultaneously, local currency withdrawals have become more difficult as the Central Bank has further limited cash supplies. The two developments appear to be unrelate [...]
2008-02-07 13:18:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN BEXP ECON EAID EIND EINV ETRD PHUM
08TASHKENT176HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH REOPENS IN TASHKENT
[...] (SBU) Human Rights Watch (HRW) reopened its Tashkent office with the arrival of its new Uzbekistan country director, Igor Vorontsov, on February 6, shortly after a visit by EU Commission members to Tashkent (ref A). As a Russian citizen (from Saint Petersburg),Vorontsov did not need a visa [...]
2008-02-08 11:55:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT177DIPLOMATS PONDER HOW TO LIFT EU SANCTIONS ON
[...] (C) Summary. The French, British and German Ambassadors in Tashkent were pleasantly suprised by a "qualitative improvement" in the Uzbek government's handling of human rights during a Feb. 5-6 visit by Commission representatives. These ambassadors (protect) uniformly endorse termination of [...]
2008-02-08 12:41:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR MARR EAID EU EUN NATO UZ
08TASHKENT183UZBEK LEGAL REFORM CONFERENCE TO DRAW "POWER
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uzbekistan agreed to substantially upgrade the scope of an upcoming March conference on law enforcement and human rights. The two-day conference is being organized by the USAID-funded Open Dialogue Project in conjunction with Eastern Kentucky University, the In [...]
2008-02-12 04:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KCRM EAID UZ
08TASHKENT198TURKEY'S BID TO WIN CENTRAL ASIAN HEARTS AND MINDS
[...] (C) Summary. Paving the way for the Turkish outreach effort to Central Asia outlined reftel, Turkish MFA Deputy Under Secretary Unal Cevikoz held eight hours of political consultations in Tashkent on February 12. He told diplomats the visit was successful in improving the political dialogue [...]
2008-02-13 10:13:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ENRG EPET EINV TU UZ
08TASHKENT209NOMINATION FOR TRAINING ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-14 12:26:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ELAB OTRA PHUM
08TASHKENT210MIXED PICTURE ON AMNESTIES FOR PROTESTANTS
[...] (C) Summary: In contrast to several recent amnesties of human rights defenders, the government recently refused to amnesty imprisoned Pentecostal Pastor Dmitry Shestakov. On the other hand, authorities recently amnestied two other Protestants, Salavat Serikbayev and Nikolai Zulfikarov, who h [...]
2008-02-14 12:43:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT211SANJAR UMAROV'S HEALTH REPORTEDLY DETERIORATING IN
[...] (C) On February 14, poloff met with opposition Free Farmers Party leader Nigara Khidoyatova, who reported that the health of opposition Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov continues to deteriorate in prison. Visibly upset, Khidoyatova began to cry and had difficulty speaking through part [...]
2008-02-14 12:50:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT219UZBEKS ON REGIONAL TRADE, AFGHAN ELECTRICITY
[...] (C) Summary: SCA Special Advisor for Economic Integration Bob Deutsch met in Tashkent January 29 with senior Uzbek officials, to discuss provision of electricity to Afghanistan and prospects for this year's Trade and Investment Framework Agreement meetings. The Uzbeks underscored the importanc [...]
2008-02-19 06:56:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ENRG ETRD PGOV PHUM AF UZ
08TASHKENT22GOU AMNESTIES HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST BOZORBOEV
[...] (U) On January 4, the Associated Press reported that Syrdarya province Ezgulik Deputy Chairman Karim Bozorboev, who was convicted of fraud and sentenced to three and half years' imprisonment in November (ref A),was amnestied and released from prison. 2. (C) On January 7, Ezgulik Deputy C [...]
2008-01-07 13:59:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT223STALEMATE CONTINUES ON ICRC PRISON VISITS IN
[...] (C) Rafaello Muller, Country Director of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Uzbekistan, told poloff that, while lines of communication remain open, there is still no progress in "achieving a dialogue" with the Government of Uzbekistan regarding previously submitted prison m [...]
2008-02-19 13:31:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT234UNICEF LAYS OUT IDEAS FOR UZBEKISTAN TO ADDRESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The new head of UNICEF in Uzbekistan told the Ambassador that the Uzbek Government is concerned about international accusations regarding child labor in the cotton industry and has asked UNICEF and the International Labor Organization (ILO) for advice in addressing the problem. [...]
2008-02-21 10:28:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV ECON ELAB SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT235UZBEKISTAN: RELEASE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS REPORTED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Independent and opposition websites report the release of two human rights activists, Bobomurod Mavlanov and Sanjar Umarov. The reports have not yet been independently verified. End summary. Bobomurod Mavlanov ------------------ 2. (SBU) Post reported reftel that human r [...]
2008-02-21 11:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT236UZBEKISTAN: RELEASE OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS REPORTED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Independent and opposition websites report the release of two human rights activists, Bobomurod Mavlanov and Sanjar Umarov. The reports have not yet been independently verified. End summary. Bobomurod Mavlanov ------------------ 2. (SBU) Post reported reftel that human r [...]
2008-02-21 11:34:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT253UZBEKS AND ICRC REACH AGREEMENT ON RESTARTING
[...] (C) Summary: On February 26 the Ambassador met with Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alisher Sharafutdinov who, in the course of discussions on the human rights situation (septel),stated that the Government of Uzbekistan has reached an agreement with the International Committee of the Red [...]
2008-02-26 12:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ICRC UZ
08TASHKENT254DEPUTY INTERNAL AFFAIRS MINISTER OF UZBEKISTAN ON
[...] (C) Summary: On February 26 the Ambassador met with Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Alisher Sharafutdinov to discuss recent progress and next steps on human rights, legal reform, and ICRC prison visits. The Uzbek side invited journalists to the meeting and interviewed the Ambassador on c [...]
2008-02-27 13:47:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM ICRC EAID UZ
08TASHKENT266ICRC PRESIDENT TO VISIT UZBEKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Regional Delegation in Central Asia Yves Giovannoni and Deputy Head Raffaello Muller requested a meeting with the Ambassador on February 28 to discuss ICRC's new agreement with the Government of Uzbekistan to resume prison v [...]
2008-02-28 11:50:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL EAID ASEC MCAP SOCI ZK AF KG
08TASHKENT267AUTHORITIES REPORTEDLY OFFER SANJAR UMAROV FREEDOM
[...] (C) On February 28, poloff met with opposition Free Farmers Party leader and Sunshine Coalition member Nigara Khidoyatova to discuss what she had described as a recent development in the case of Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov, who was imprisoned in March 2006 on politically-motivated [...]
2008-02-28 13:30:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT270UZBEKISTAN: SUBMISSION FOR EIGHTH ANNUAL
[...] (SBU) Post,s submission for the eighth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report begins in paragraph 4. Per reftel, this information covers the period from April 2007 to March 2008. The information provided in the report has been gathered from numerous sources, including the Government of U [...]
2008-02-29 13:05:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB UZ
08TASHKENT281AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FREED SON OF HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary: As part of a one-day visit to Jizzakh province on February 29, the Ambassador met with human rights activist Bakhtiyor Hamroev and his son Ikhtiyor, who was amnestied and released from prison on February 2 (ref A). Ikhtiyor told the Ambassador that his release was the result of t [...]
2008-03-04 11:45:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PINR PREL UZ
08TASHKENT290JIZZAKH PROVINCE -- THE "FARGO" OF UZBEKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: During a one-day trip to Jizzakh province on February 29, the Ambassador met with the acting provincial Hokim (governor) Musa Anarbaev, toured a battery production plant operated by an U.S.-Uzbek joint venture, had lunch with alumni of US government exchange programs, and visited [...]
2008-03-06 06:45:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PBTS PHUM SCUL SOCI TI UZ
08TASHKENT299BUKHARA COURT CONVICTS 13 INDIVIDUALS OF RELIGIOUS
[...] (C) Summary: On March 6, poloff met with Saidazam Askarov, the brother of Salihiddin Askarov, who was convicted along with 12 other defendants of being members of a religious extremist cell by a Bukhara court in late February and sentenced to between 16 and 20 years' imprisonment each. Accord [...]
2008-03-10 11:24:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT300HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER IN UZBEKISTAN DESCRIBES
[...] (C) Summary: In between sessions of an international human rights conference in Tashkent devoted to Uzbekistan's abolishment of the death penalty and adoption of what is referred to as the "habeas corpus" law, the Ambassador met with the Swiss Ambassador and a local human rights lawyer, who d [...]
2008-03-10 12:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT303CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS LETS WESTERN EXPERTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The USAID-funded Open Dialogue Project, under the auspices of the Institute for New Democracies (IND) and the University of Eastern Kentucky, in conjunction with the state-supported Foundation for Regional Policy, sponsored an international conference in Tashkent on March 5-6 fo [...]
2008-03-11 14:21:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC KCRM EAID PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT307UZBEK FOREIGN MINISTER: HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT MAY
[...] (C) Summary: On March 12, the Ambassador was summoned to a meeting with Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to the release of the 2007 U.S. State Department Human Rights Report on March 11. Norov was swift to condemn the report, which he characterized [...]
2008-03-12 13:56:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT312NOT QUITE HABEAS CORPUS, BUT A GOOD STEP
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 6 a visiting U.S. Federal Judge met on the margins of a USAID-funded conference on human rights and law enforcement in Tashkent with Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs (MVD) Alisher Sharafutdinov and Tashkent State Law Institute Professor Umida Tukhtasheva. The priva [...]
2008-03-13 10:41:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM EAID PREL KCRM PGOV PINR ASEC UZ
08TASHKENT313FORMER MUFTI: RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST THREAT WEAKENING
[...] (C) Summary: Muhammad Sodiq Muhammad Yusuf, the former Mufti of Uzbekistan and Central Asia, received pol-econ chief and poloff at his Tashkent home on March 4. Muhammad Sodiq shared his view with Emboffs that religious extremism in Uzbekistan has become less of a threat now than before, whic [...]
2008-03-13 11:54:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIPR KIRF PGOV PINR PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT314PARLIAMENTARIAN RESIGNS AMIDST HUMAN TRAFFICKING
[...] (C) On March 10 an article on the news website centrasia.ru reported that Ms. Matlyuba Burxanova, a member of the Oliy Majlis, the lower house of Parliament, resigned over allegations of human trafficking. Embassy LES Political Assistant confirmed this information with Marifdjon Usmanov (plea [...]
2008-03-13 12:42:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM KCOR UZ
08TASHKENT324ICRC RESUMES PRISON VISITS IN UZBEKISTAN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) On March 13 the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) publicly announced that it had resumed visits to detainees in Uzbek prisons as part of a six-month trial period of renewed engagement. In the statement (e-mailed to [...]
2008-03-14 11:33:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL ICRC UZ
08TASHKENT330EMBASSY HOSTS ROUNDTABLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT
[...] (C) Summary: On March 13, the Embassy hosted the rollout of the 2007 U.S. State Department's Human Rights Report. In stark contrast to last year's rollout, when several invitees were detained and harassed (ref A),this year's event went forward without any interference from the government. A [...]
2008-03-14 13:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT344UPDATE ON ICRC PRISON VISITS IN UZBEKISTAN
[...] (C) On March 17 Charge d'Affaires and poloff met with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Regional Delegation Yves Giovannoni to get a status report on the recently announced prison visits in Uzbekistan (reftel). ICRC will only be able to visit some of the approximately 200 [...]
2008-03-19 14:18:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM PINR UZ
08TASHKENT351LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT PASSES ANTI-TRAFFICKING
[...] (C) Summary: On March 18 the Oliy Majlis, the lower house of the Uzbek parliament, passed a draft anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) law on the third and final reading. The next step is for the Senate to approve the law, which is listed as the number one agenda item for the upcoming March 27 p [...]
2008-03-20 12:01:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM KCOR UZ
08TASHKENT362FOR SECOND YEAR, FEW DISTURBANCES AT JEHOVAH'S
[...] (C) Summary: On March 24, the Ambassador met with the Jehovah's Witnesses AmCit General Counsel and two of their regional representatives from Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. The General Counsel reported that, for the second year in a row, there were few reported disruptions of the Jehovah's Witn [...]
2008-03-24 13:14:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT364AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRAISES UZBEKISTAN FOR
[...] (U) Summary: On March 26 the government-run press published a letter from an Amnesty International official praising UzbekistanQs recent steps to formally abolish capital punishment. The article noted UzbekistanQs actions were consistent with the requests specified in a 2007 United Nations r [...]
2008-03-26 12:54:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PINR UZ
08TASHKENT365UZBEK LOWER HOUSE ADOPTS INTERNATIONAL LABOR
[...] (C) Summary: On March 13, a state-controlled website reported that the lower house of Uzbekistan's Parliament adopted International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 138 (Minimum Age for Employment) and ILO Convention 182 (Elimination of Worst Forms of Child Labor). In separate conversation [...]
2008-03-26 13:19:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT366UNODC REQUESTS EXPERT PARTICIPATION IN UZBEKISTAN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (U) Summary: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),which is sponsoring an anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) conference in Tashkent on May 14-15 in conjunction with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Eur [...]
2008-03-26 13:23:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM KCOR UZ
08TASHKENT371EU CONSENSUS FORGED IN TASHKENT ON HEADS OF
[...] (C) The on-again, off-again consensus (reftels) among EU heads of mission (HOM's) in Tashkent on a report to EU ministers regarding human rights and sanctions on Uzbekistan is apparently back on. French Ambassador Hughes Pernet and British Ambassador Iain Kelly (protect) told Ambassador Marc [...]
2008-03-28 02:24:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EU UZ
08TASHKENT403SANJAR UMAROV'S SON REPORTS FATHER IN NEAR
[...] (C) Summary: On April 3, poloff met with Arslan Umarov, the son of Sunshine Coalition leader Sanjar Umarov, who was imprisoned in March 2006 on politically-motivated charges of tax evasion and illegal commodities trading. Arslan reported visiting his father in prison with his aunt on March 26 [...]
2008-04-04 14:00:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT405LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL CENTER SENIOR
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph two. 2. Post requests Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for two Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend a Marshall Center Senior Executive Seminar on April 16-23, 2008 in Garmisch, Germany. Post unders [...]
2008-04-07 06:28:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR ASEC UZ
08TASHKENT431ICRC: IMPROVING UZBEK PRISON CONDITIONS LIKELY TO
[...] (C) Summary: During a five-day visit to Uzbekistan on March 27 - April 1 (septels),Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Pamela Spratlen SIPDIS met on March 31 with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Regional Delegation Yves Giovannoni t [...]
2008-04-14 14:08:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT432UZBEKISTAN: RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE AND MFA
[...] (C) Summary: During a five-day visit to Uzbekistan on March 27 - April 1 (septels),Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Pamela Spratlen SIPDIS visited the Tashkent main Madrassah and the Jewish community in Bukhara. She also met with Ministry of Foreign Af [...]
2008-04-14 14:52:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PREL TI UZ
08TASHKENT441UZBEKISTAN: SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OFFER THE
[...] (C) Summary: Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (A/DAS) Pamela Spratlen, Ambassador Norland and Emboffs participated in a series of meetings with high-ranking Government of Uzbekistan (GOU) officials March 28-31 in Tashkent and Bukhara. GOU authorities agreed to all requested meetings [...]
2008-04-16 05:02:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI ECON UZ
08TASHKENT442PRESIDENT KARIMOV SIGNS LAW RATIFYING ILO
[...] (C) On April 8 President Karimov signed the law ratifying the International Labor Organization's (ILO) Convention 182 on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor. The information appeared in state-controlled press on April 14 and was also posted on official government websites. As r [...]
2008-04-16 05:06:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ELAB PGOV PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT444A/DAS DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN
[...] (C) Summary: During her March 27 - April 1 visit to Tashkent and Bukhara (septels),Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (A/DAS) for South and Central Asia and SIPDIS Public Diplomacy Pamela Spratlen held meetings with a diverse array of human rights and civil society representatives. [...]
2008-04-16 05:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT445UZBEKISTAN: SENIOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS OFFER THE
[...] (C) Summary: On March 31, A/DAS, accompanied by the Ambassador and DCM, met with Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for nearly two hours. Norov covered a wide range of topics from human rights to security and economic issues. He welcomed an invitation for his D [...]
2008-04-16 05:50:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC PHUM ECON EINV SOCI SNAR AF UZ
08TASHKENT446UZBEKISTAN: NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL CHIEF
[...] (C) Summary: On March 31, A/DAS, Ambassador, and DCM met with Secretary of the National Security Council (NSC) Murat Ataev. Like FM Norov (septel) and Parliamentarian Tashmukhamedova (septel),Ataev greeted the U.S. side warmly and announced that the GOU's Ministries and the NSC are ready fo [...]
2008-04-16 07:57:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC ELTN KISL PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PINS
08TASHKENT447UZBEKISTAN APPROVES MAJORITY OF OSCE PROJECTS
[...] (C) Summary: On April 14 Bernard Rouault, Senior Project Officer at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Project Coordination Office in Tashkent, informed poloff that the Government of Uzbekistan approved 14 of the 19 proposed projects submitted for 2008 after a long [...]
2008-04-16 08:12:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL OSCE PHUM UZ
08TASHKENT452UZBEKISTAN: ENCOURAGING EFFORT TO FIGHT
[...] (C) Summary: During her March 29 - March 30 visit to Bukhara, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (A/DAS) for South and Central Asia and Public Diplomacy Pamela Spratlen held meetings with a diverse array of civil society representatives, including U.S. Government-sponsored exchange pr [...]
2008-04-16 13:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KWMN KCRM OEXC EAID UZ
08TASHKENT462PRESIDENT KARIMOV SIGNS ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING LAW
[...] (U) On April 17 President Karimov signed Uzbekistan's first comprehensive anti-trafficking in persons legislation into law. This marked the final step in a surprisingly rapid legislative process. The bill was introduced in January, passed by the lower chamber on March 13, and by the Senate on [...]
2008-04-18 12:23:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM UZ
08TASHKENT463DISSIDENT POET JUMAEV SENTENCED TO INTERNAL EXILE
[...] (C) On April 15 Reuters reported that dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev was found guilty in a Bukhara court of discrediting the authorities, resisting arrest, and harming a police officer. The charges stem from a December incident in which Jumaev, who was protesting his son's arrest, allegedly drove [...]
2008-04-18 12:41:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT464DENMARK DELIBERATING A CARROT VERSUS STICK
[...] (C) Summary: Visiting Danish First Secretary Ulrik Birk-Petersen met with the Ambassador and poloffs on April 16 to discuss the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. The Moscow-based Birk-Petersen was in town to gather current information ahead of the EU's April 28 sanctions debate. He opin [...]
2008-04-18 12:45:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI DA UZ
08TASHKENT465DENMARK DELIBERATING A CARROT VERSUS STICK
[...] (C) Summary: Visiting Danish First Secretary Ulrik Birk-Petersen met with the Ambassador and poloffs on April 16 to discuss the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. The Moscow-based Birk-Petersen was in town to gather current information ahead of the EU's April 28 sanctions debate. He opin [...]
2008-04-18 13:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI DA UZ
08TASHKENT476UZBEKISTAN: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS RESPONDS
[...] (C) Summary: On April 11, the Ambassador used a meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Nematov to pursue our dialogue with Uzbekistan on human rights as a follow-on to A/DAS Spratlen's March meetings with senior Uzbek officials and an array of human rights representatives (reftel). Nematov noted [...]
2008-04-22 11:50:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT49THIRD STRIKE FOR FORMER DEFENSE OFFICIAL ERKIN
[...] (C) Summary: On January 14, the independent Ferghana.ru website posted an open letter from the wife of Erkin Musaev, a former Uzbek Ministry of Defense and UNDP official who was sentenced to a total of 20 years' imprisonment in 2006 and 2007 for espionage and corruption in three separate trials [...]
2008-01-15 11:58:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM MASS PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT494LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for four Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend a Marshall Center-sponsored event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany May 12-August 9. [...]
2008-04-28 05:03:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT495LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR MARSHALL
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) Post requests that Department conduct a human rights review and Leahy vetting for three Government of Uzbekistan officials scheduled to attend a Marshall Center-sponsored event in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany May 23-June 27. [...]
2008-04-28 05:05:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT500JEHOVAH'S WITNESS SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS'
[...] (C) Summary: On April 25, the Samarkand City Criminal Court sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses congregant Olim Turayev to four years' imprisonment on charges of illegally teaching religion and organizing a religious organization. Poloff was able to observe the trial. The Jehovah's Witnesses plan [...]
2008-04-28 12:44:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT501HIGH-PROFILE PRISONERS REPORTEDLY TREATED AT
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 26, an independent website reported that the health of recently imprisoned dissident poet Yusuf Jumaev had sharply deteriorated, and that as a result, he had been brought to the Bukhara province hospital's cardiology department for treatment on April 24. On April 28, p [...]
2008-04-28 12:51:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT507FORENSIC LABORATORY PROJECT IMPROVES CAPACITY AND
[...] (U) SUMMARY: An ongoing project to upgrade the Main Forensic Laboratory of the Ministry of Health, funded by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) with implementing support from the Department of Justice Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICI [...]
2008-04-29 11:48:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR ASEC PHUM PREL KCOR KCRM UZ
08TASHKENT508HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH DIRECTOR STILL WAITING FOR
[...] (C) Summary: More than two months after applying for accreditation with the Ministry of Justice, Human Rights Watch Director Igor Vorontsov still has not received any indication from the Ministry on whether he will be accredited or not. According to a Cabinet of Ministers resolution from 200 [...]
2008-04-29 12:37:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT51POSITIVE RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE: UZBEKISTAN TO
[...] (SBU) Post followed up with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department on Uzbekistan's position on the upcoming vote for the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (reftel A). Durbek Amanov, the Chief of the Department, confirmed that Uzbekistan [...]
2008-01-16 07:52:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNGA UZ
08TASHKENT517AMCIT RABBI AND JEWISH-AMERICAN NGO FACE
[...] (C) Summary: In the past month, the Ministry of Justice has refused to renew the accreditation of an AmCit Rabbi, who heads the World Wide Lubavitch Movement in Uzbekistan, and threatened the registration of the Joint Distribution Committee, a Jewish-American humanitarian organization. In ad [...]
2008-05-02 12:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM ECON EAID KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT524UZBEKISTAN/DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBAN PEOPLE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-05 13:24:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KDEM PREL UZ
08TASHKENT525UZBEKS REACT TO EU SANCTIONS DECISION
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Norov called in Ambassador on May 5, to discuss the April 28 EU decision to continue suspension of visa sanctions. Norov downplayed the EU's recognition of human rights steps the Uzbeks have taken and focused instead on the EU's continued criticism, which he said [...]
2008-05-06 02:15:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PHUM PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT526UZBEKS REACT TO EU SANCTIONS DECISION
[...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Norov called in Ambassador on May 5, to discuss the April 28 EU decision to continue suspension of visa sanctions. Norov downplayed the EU's recognition of human rights steps the Uzbeks have taken and focused instead on the EU's continued criticism, which he said [...]
2008-05-06 02:15:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PHUM PGOV UZ
08TASHKENT531STRANGE AND CONTRADICTORY EVENTS: PAVING THE WAY
[...] (S) Summary: Cutting oddly across the grain of recent rapprochement with the U.S. and the West, the government of Uzbekistan has taken a number of controlling measures which could simply reflect disregard for our sensibilities on reform or, more likely, portend deeper disarray and looming p [...]
2008-05-07 11:32:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPGOV PHUM PREL UZ
08TASHKENT532UZBEKISTAN: OUTREACH TO DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS
[...] (C) Summary: Per reftel requests, we have summarized below efforts to implement the President's Freedom Agenda in Uzbekistan through outreach to democracy activists and dissidents. Democracy and human rights remain at the forefront of our agenda with the Uzbek government. The Ambassador and [...]
2008-05-08 02:10:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT547UZBEKISTAN: POST'S LEAHY VETTING CLEARANCE FOR
[...] (U) Embassy Tashkent has reviewed its files on intended Uzbekistani participants Ilkhombek Kazakov, Shawkat Gafurov, and Rahiboy Bekhchanov in the NATO-Russia Counternarcotics Training event at the Domodedovo Center in Russia, May 13-28, and has found no derogatory information. NORLAND [...]
2008-05-13 11:52:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL MARR UZ
08TASHKENT549ACTIVIST REPORTS DEATH OF JASLYK INMATE
[...] (C) Summary: In recent days, we have received conflicting reports on prison conditions from human rights activists. On May 8, Reuters reported that a prisoner at the Jaslyk prison in Karakalpakstan died, possibly from torture. Local human rights activist Surat Ikramov, most likely the source [...]
2008-05-13 13:33:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT550ACTIVIST BRIEFLY DETAINED IN NAMANGAN; POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: On May 8, the independent Centrasia.ru reported that human rights activist and former Radio Liberty correspondent Nosir Zokirov was arrested in Namangan for allegedly insulting a police officer. On May 12, the independent Harakat.net website reported that Zokirov had been release [...]
2008-05-13 13:35:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT552HUMAN RIGHTS IN UZBEKISTAN: THE CASE AGAINST
[...] (C) Ambassador's introduction: The U.S. faces a decision in June on possible sanctions against Uzbekistan given ongoing concerns about the government's poor performance on human rights. Reftel cites upcoming leadership transition issues as a key factor in this decision, arguing that now is [...]
2008-05-14 13:36:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT563UPDATE: UZBEKISTAN/DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-19 10:04:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PHUM PREL UZ
08TASHKENT578IOM QUIETLY MAKING NEW EFFORT TO REGISTER IN
[...] (C) Summary: International Organization for Migration (IOM) Chief of Mission in Kazakhstan Mahmoud Naderi met with poloff on the margins of a major international workshop on trafficking in persons (TIP) in Tashkent on May 14-15. Naderi confirmed that IOM executives in Geneva have discreetly a [...]
2008-05-21 08:39:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT580INTERNATIONAL ANTI-TIP WORKSHOP IN TASHKENT SETS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) co-sponsored a major international anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) workshop on May 14-15 in Tashkent. Visiting American participants included a Congression [...]
2008-05-21 09:42:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT585UZBEKISTAN: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH DIRECTOR DENIED
[...] (C) Summary: One week before planned visits by Ambassador-at-Large for Religious Freedom John Hanford and Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher, the Uzbek government, with its usual perfect timing, denied accreditation to Human Rights Watch's director in Tashkent and threatened to deport an AmCi [...]
2008-05-22 11:52:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT594UZBEKISTAN: SCENESETTER FOR A/S BOUCHER'S MAY-JUNE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Your trip to Tashkent offers a chance to cement recent improvements in U.S.-Uzbek cooperation, particularly on counter-narcotics and border security, and to offer the Uzbeks candid advice on the necessity of translating recent positive messages on human rights into actual improv [...]
2008-05-23 14:10:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC KCRM MOPS PGOV PHUM PINS SNAR UZ
08TASHKENT608UZBEKISTAN: GRANT SUBMISSIONS FOR FY 2008 TAFT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post solicited and received two submissions for the FY 2008 Taft Fund for Refugees (formerly the Ambassadors' Fund for Refugees) announced in reftels, one from the International Professional Education Development Assistance Center (PROFED) proposing to assist Afghan and Tajik re [...]
2008-05-30 12:57:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT609FORMER OPPOSITIONIST SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS'
[...] (C) Summary: The grandson of a prominent oppositionist was recently sentenced to four years' imprisonment for assaulting two individuals with a knife, but we do not believe that he was targeted because of his previous involvement in opposition politics. On May 23, the independent Harakat.net [...]
2008-05-30 13:21:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT610AMBASSADOR'S MAY 28 MEETING WITH UZBEK
[...] (C) Summary: Inoyatov told the Ambassador on May 28 that Mutabar Tojiboyeva might be released on medical grounds, that Sanjar Umarov would not be released anytime soon, that Human Rights Watch's office in Uzbekistan would remain open but its current representative would not receive accredit [...]
2008-05-30 13:25:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR CASC UZ
08TASHKENT620AMCIT RABBI TOLD TO LEAVE UZBEKISTAN IMMEDIATELY
[...] (C) On June 4, the Ministry of Interior and Visa and Registration Department (OVIR) informed Rabbi David Gurevich, a dual American-Israeli citizen whose accreditation and visa expired on April 1 (ref A),that he must leave Uzbekistan immediately. According to Gurevich, the OVIR official told [...]
2008-06-04 12:30:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT623BOUCHER AND SENIOR UZBEKS REVIEW OBSTACLES AND
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher visited Uzbekistan May 30-June 3, stopping in Samarkand and Tashkent. In separate meetings June 2 with Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov and National Security Council Secretary Ataev, Assistant Secretary Boucher di [...]
2008-06-05 10:57:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPREL ASEC ELTN PBTS PGOV PHUM PINR PINS ECON
08TASHKENT624KARIMOV TO BOUCHER: PROGRESS POSSIBLE, BUT NOT
[...] (S) Summary. Meeting at the Presidential Palace in Tashkent on June 2, Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher and Uzbekistan President Islom Karimov agreed that the U.S. and Uzbekistan share important interests on Afghanistan, on political, economic [...]
2008-06-05 10:58:00Embassy TashkentSECRETPREL PGOV PHUM PINR UZ
08TASHKENT627TOJIBOYEVA RELEASED FROM PRISON; VOWS TO CONTINUE
[...] (U) Human rights activist Mutabar Tojiboyeva, who was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment on politically-motivated charges in 2006, was released from prison on health grounds on June 2. Tojiboyeva was not amnestied and remains subject to the terms of a three-year suspended sentence. Tojib [...]
2008-06-05 12:07:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT629ANTI-TIP MOMENTUM CONTINUES WITH WORKSHOP IN
[...] (U) Summary: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office for Central Asia sponsored an anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) workshop on May 30-31 in Tashkent, following up on a UNODC anti-TIP workshop co- sponsored with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Eur [...]
2008-06-05 12:30:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT632UZBEKISTAN: INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD
[...] Summary: Per reftel request, post is providing the following information on the use of child labor and forced labor in the production of specific goods in Uzbekistan. Numerous credible sources report the widespread use of child labor in Uzbekistan during the annual cotton harvest, a practice [...]
2008-06-06 11:09:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON EIND ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI UZ
08TASHKENT633UZBEKS RELEASE RELIGIOUS PRISONER, SON OF HUMAN
[...] (C) On June 6, Human Rights Watch director Igor Vorontsov confirmed that Hamidullo Madmarov, one of the sons of Margilan-based human rights activist Ahmadjan Madmarov, had completed his seven-year prison sentence and was released from custody. Ahmadjan Madmarov still has two other sons and tw [...]
2008-06-06 11:27:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF PGOV PREL UZ
08TASHKENT634UZBEKISTAN'S OLDEST "POLITICAL PRISONER" RELEASED
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 4, authorities released from prison 83-year old Akhmadjan Adilov, a highly controversial figure whom some human rights activists considered to be Uzbekistan's oldest political prisoner. Adilov, who operated Uzbekistan's largest agro-industrial complex in Namangan provin [...]
2008-06-06 12:46:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL UZ
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