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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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06VIENNA514USG CONCERNS OVER AUSTRIAN BANKING OPERATIONS
[...] (S/NF) In view of continued Washington questions about the operations of Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) and Bank Austria Creditanstalt (BA/CA) in several areas, this cable attempts to consolidate all the information that this Mission has regarding allegations and GoA responses. Embassy would [...]
2006-02-17 19:38:00Embassy ViennaSECRETPARM PREL EFIN MNUC KCRM KTFN KNNP AU
06VIENNA515USG CONCERNS OVER AUSTRIAN BANKING OPERATIONS
[...] (S/NF) In view of continued Washington questions about the operations of Raiffeisen Zentralbank (RZB) and Bank Austria Creditanstalt (BA/CA) in several areas, this cable attempts to consolidate all the information that this Mission has regarding allegations and GoA responses. Embassy would apprecia [...]
2006-02-17 19:38:00Embassy ViennaSECRETPARM PREL EFIN MNUC KCRM KTFN KNNP AU
06VIENNA540AUSTRIAN EU PRESIDENCY JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Austrians have organized a broad range of law enforcement and counterterrorism-related meetings and seminars during their EU Presidency from January - June 2006. The recently adopted (December 6, 2005) EU Council paper on "A Strategy for the External Dimension of JHA: Global [...]
2006-02-22 10:39:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER KCRM SNAR EFIN ETTC AU EUN
06VIENNA678AUSTRIA: SIXTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] Entire cable is sensitive but unclassified; please treat accordingly. 2. Below please find Embassy Vienna's submission for the annual TIP report. Responses are keyed to reftel. BEGIN TEXT: I21. OVERVIEW ------------ A. Austria as a Country of Transit and Destination Police, M [...]
2006-03-06 15:00:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ALAB AU
06VIENNA764MARCH 2-3 U.S.- EU SENIOR LEVEL TALKS ON JUSTICE,
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Senior Level U.S.-EU Informal Meeting on Justice, Freedom, and Security (JLS) was held in Vienna March 2 and 3, and covered the full range of JLS issues on migration, borders and visas, counter-terrorism and security, and law enforcement cooperation. Among the key outcom [...]
2006-03-14 08:36:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER EUN KCRM SNAR EFIN ETTC AU
06VIENTIANE1141A SAD ANNIVERSARY: WHERE ARE THE 26 CHILDREN AS WE
[...] (U) This message contains an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph 16. 2. (C) Summary: The case of the 26 missing children has been unresolved since December 2005. Since then, there have been rumors that the children may have been secretly deported back to Thailand or ev [...]
2006-11-28 08:03:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALKCRM KWMN LA PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TH
06VIENTIANE298DEPUTY HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES' LAO VISIT
[...] (C) UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Wendy Chamberlin's March 28-30 visit offered some promise of a positive resolution to Laos' continued detention of 27 Hmong deportees. Chamberlin met with Politburo member Pany Yathoteu, and ethnic Hmong, and with Deputy Foreign Minister Phongsava [...]
2006-03-30 06:53:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KCRM TH LA
06VIENTIANE316AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL INFO ON LOCATION OF MISSING
[...] (C) Amnesty International analyst Brittis Edman (please protect),in Thailand recently to gather details about the deportation and subsequent disappearance of the 27 Hmong, called us from Bangkok March 30 to report on her visit to Petchaboon province, where she met with family members of the c [...]
2006-04-03 10:50:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF KCRM TH LA
06VIENTIANE321MORE DETAILS ON LOCATION OF MISSING HMONG CHILDREN
[...] (C) Embassy spoke to two sources today who provided additional details about the location of the missing group of 27 Hmong deported from Thailand (reftel). Although there are inconsistencies between the two reports, together they lead us to believe that the 22 girls in the group are likely stil [...]
2006-04-04 10:39:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PHUM PREL KCRM TH LA
06VIENTIANE894CASE OF 26 MISSING HMONG CHILDREN STILL OF CONCERN
[...] (C) This cable requests the Department pass an action request to Embassy Luxembourg; please see paragraph 14. It also has kudos for USUN and Embassy Sweden which we request the Department pass on; please see paragraph 15. 2. (C) Summary: &Like-minded8 senior diplomats met to discuss the c [...]
2006-09-14 10:42:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALKCRM KWMN LA PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG UNDP
06VILNIUS198LITHUANIA 2006 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuania is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking in persons (TIP). The government of Lithuania (GOL) estimates that between 1,000 and 1,200 women leave Lithuania every year to engage in prostitution, basing their calculations on 2003 Europol data. There [...]
2006-02-27 15:44:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF LH
06VILNIUS355RUSSIAN BANKER BABENKO'S PRISON TIME EXTENDED;
[...] A Vilnius court extended the imprisonment of former Russian banker Igor Babenko for three months on April 7. After the Vilnius court ruled on September 8, 2005, to extradite Babenko (reftel),the Migration Department subsequently granted asylum status on January 30. The Prosecutor General app [...]
2006-04-12 10:27:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ENRG EFIN KCRM KJUS PHUM LH RS
06VILNIUS473DISTRICT COURT OVERTURNS RUSSIAN BANKER BABENKO'S
[...] Vilnius District Administrative Court revoked on May 22 the Migration Department's decision granting Russian banker Igor Babenko asylum in Lithuania. Babenko has seven days to appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court. Barring an appeal, the ruling sets the stage for the Vilnius Appeals Co [...]
2006-05-23 12:54:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ENRG EFIN KCRM PHUM LH RS
06VILNIUS5202006 TIP REPORT DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) We delivered Lithuania's 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) narrative and tier ranking to Lina Gubreviciute of the MFA's Americas Section on June 5. Gubreviciute thanked us for the courtesy copy and reiterated Lithuania's commitment to combat trafficking in persons. She said that Lithu [...]
2006-06-06 12:57:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL LH
06VILNIUS591LITHUANIA RESPONSIVE TO TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Our interlocutors here positively appraised the 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report and reftel points. The report,s recommendations have already inspired the GOL to implement measures to improve anti-trafficking efforts. The GOL is also working on a comprehensive strateg [...]
2006-06-23 09:20:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PHUM PREL PGOV SMIG LH
06VILNIUS82 VILNIUS'S LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSE TO INFLUX OF
[...] This is the first cable in a two-part series detailing efforts law enforcement in Lithuania's capital of Vilnius are taking to meet the increased demand upon its services by a burgeoning tourist industry, and a review of Vilnius's local criminal justice facilities. 2. Summary. More touri [...]
2006-01-26 11:42:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDCASC CMGT KCRM PGOV LH
06WARSAW1570OPERATION PROMISED LAND - ITALIANS AND POLES TAKE
[...] Summary: On July 18, Polish and Italian police made simultaneous arrests of 25 individuals allegedly involved in the trafficking and forced labor of an estimated 1000 Polish citizens in the Apulia region of southern Italy. PolOff and LegAtt met with the Polish police officers involved in the [...]
2006-08-02 08:49:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KJUS KCRM PGOV PL
06WARSAW2511POLAND: GOVERNMENT STEPS UP EFFORTS VS. FORCED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the months since stories broke of Poles trafficked to Spain and Italy for forced labor (Reftel) the Polish government has stepped up efforts in the fight against human trafficking. The Polish National Police (PNP) has supplemented the five person Central Anti-Trafficking Uni [...]
2006-12-06 15:45:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KJUS KCRM PGOV IT PL SP SW UK
06WARSAW634POLAND: GOP PREPARES FOR FATF EVALUATION
[...] (SBU) Contacts at Poland's Ministry of Finance reported to Econoff that the Ministry is preparing for a Financial Action Task Force evalution that will occur in May. Ministry of Finance contacts stated that they expect results to be issued within six months of the visit, and that the Ministr [...]
2006-04-05 14:46:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN KCRM PTER PREL PL
06WELLINGTON160TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS - NEW ZEALAND 3/2006
[...] (SBU) Following are responses for the Trafficking in Person report for New Zealand, keyed to reftel: Begin responses: 21. Overview of a country's activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: A. New Zealand has been a country of destination for internationally trafficked women in th [...]
2006-03-01 03:47:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB NZ
06WELLINGTON714NZ FAVORS USG CONSULTATIONS ON RECAAP PIRACY
[...] (C) PE Couns discussed GNZ views on the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against ships in Asia (ReCAAP) with Michael Swain, Deputy Director of the Security Policy Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). Despite reftel observation that [...]
2006-09-10 21:19:00Embassy WellingtonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEWWT IN KCRM KTIA MY PBTS PHSA PREL SNAR UK
06YEREVAN1019A PROSTITUTE'S STORY: SEX AND TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (C) Poverty and desperation are the largest factors contributing to trafficking in persons in Armenia, according to prostitutes, police and NGOs in Vanadzor, Armenia's third-largest city. We met them during a July 14 trip to the city, where prostitutes gather after dusk in the traffic circle outsid [...]
2006-07-28 12:32:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALHSTC KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL PGOV AM
06YEREVAN1091AMBASSADOR PUSHES PROSECUTOR GENERAL ON TRAFFICKING CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS
[...] (C) Ambassador, DCM and Poloff met with Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan August 8 about allegations of investigative misconduct and abuse in connection with a human trafficking case. The underlying case involves three prostitutes who allege they were trafficked from Armenia to Turk [...]
2006-08-09 13:15:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALKTIP KWMN KCRM PREL PGOV PHUM HSTC AM TU
06YEREVAN1101APPARENT REPRISAL: TAX POLICE INSPECT ANTI-TIP NGO
[...] (C) An anti-trafficking NGO reported a surprise visit from tax inspectors August 10, two days after the Ambassador pushed the Armenian Prosecutor General (PG) Aghvan Hovsepyan to investigate allegations of investigative corruption the "Hope and Help" NGO had raised with the Embassy (reftel). A [...]
2006-08-11 11:49:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KCRM KTIP HSTC AM
06YEREVAN1161PROSECUTOR GENERAL'S NEW ANTI-TIP NGO COMMITTEE
[...] (C) On August 21, the Prosecutor General (PG) announced the formation of an NGO committee to assist it in its anti- TIP efforts. Anti-TIP NGO leaders generally feel the creation of such a team is a good idea, as long as it is allowed to function fully and does not become a tool for the PG to [...]
2006-08-25 12:32:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM
06YEREVAN139ARMENIA CONVICTS MORE TRAFFICKERS
[...] (SBU) On January 12 the first instance court of Kotayk Region sentenced Gayane Mirzoyan and Avetis Kiziriyan to four and a half years of prison under charges of Trafficking in Persons (TIP). The defendants worked for a notorious pimp in Dubai, Anahit Malkhasyan, who died in a car accident on [...]
2006-01-31 12:50:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC
06YEREVAN1419ARMENIA NARROWLY AVOIDS A MAJOR MISSTEP IN PROPOSED LEGAL
[...] (SBU) A recent attempt by the Armenian Ministry of Justice to propose judicial reforms in the chaotic area of expert witnesses came perilously close to making a bad situation worse in criminal, civil, and administrative legal proceedings. During the week of September 11-15, 2006, representativ [...]
2006-10-11 09:11:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS AM
06YEREVAN1524PROSECUTOR-GENERAL'S TIP-MISCONDUCT INVESTIGATION
[...] (C) An internal probe of allegations of misconduct with human traffickers by two investigators in the Prosecutor General's (PG) Office is apparently over, and the investigators reportedly cleared of all charges. No results have been released publicly. Sources within the PG's Office and some [...]
2006-10-31 04:07:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM
06YEREVAN1548POST'S ANTI-TIP FULL-COURT PRESS
[...] (C) Post delivered a major push on trafficking in persons this week, meeting a number of senior government officials to discuss the GOAM's anti-trafficking efforts. In each meeting, we delivered a strong message: Armenia risks another year on the Tier 2 Watch List, or worse, if the GOAM doesn' [...]
2006-11-02 14:04:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM
06YEREVAN1597ARMENIA'S TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT
[...] (SBU) Armenia has improved its record on four of the five interim assessment indicators provided to post by G/TIP. There have been no positive developments so far this year for the fifth indicator, "vigorously investigating and prosecuting officials for complicity in trafficking." However, we [...]
2006-11-14 06:17:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYHSTC KCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG AM
06YEREVAN1667RESULTS OF POST'S ANTI-TIP FULL-COURT PRESS
[...] (C) A November 27 meeting with the Prosecutor General (PG) suggests our series of "straight talk" interventions with GOAM officials in late October and early November (ref B) may be bearing fruit. The PG was more forthcoming than in previous meetings, foreshadowing changes to the PG anti-TIP u [...]
2006-12-01 11:17:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALHSTC PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG AM
06YEREVAN1715RESULTS OF PG'S TIP INVESTIGATION
[...] (C) Although we believe the Prosecutor General's (PG) Office's internal probe into allegations of investigatorial misconduct was less than thorough, we were pleased to learn December 11 that the PG's order to restructure his Anti-TIP Unit includes the reduction in status and transfer of the ac [...]
2006-12-13 13:28:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALHSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM
06YEREVAN1716ARMENIA PROSECUTES FIRST LABOR TRAFFICKING CASE
[...] (SBU) On December 12, a court in Gyumri ruled on the first-ever labor trafficking case in Armenia, sentencing the trafficker to five years of imprisonment and financial compensation for the victims. According to testimony, the victims had been trafficked to Russia to work construction near Alme [...]
2006-12-13 13:31:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM
06YEREVAN214USG'S TIP REPORT: DRIVING ARMENIA'S ANTI-TIP
[...] (SBU) On February 9 the State Inter-Agency Anti- Trafficking Commission met to discuss GOAM efforts on combating trafficking in persons (TIP) throughout 2005 in advance of the submission of the USG annual TIP Report. Members of the Commission representing state bodies (Ministry of Justice, Mi [...]
2006-02-13 12:34:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC
06YEREVAN267PROSECUTOR GENERAL LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OF
[...] (SBU) On February 17, Prosecutor General Aghvan Hovsepyan created a commission to investigate allegations against his employees including the investigator of his Anti-Trafficking Unit, Aristakes Yeremyan (see paragraph 6). In a meeting with the DCM, Hovsepyan was notably upset about Armenia's [...]
2006-02-23 13:47:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PGOV PREL AM KTIP HSTC
06YEREVAN56TRAFFICKER SENTENCED IN FIRST CASE OF ARMENIA
[...] (SBU) On January 8, the first instance court of Artashat sentenced Sos Meliksetyan, charged under the trafficking statute (Article 132) with aggravating circumstances (reftels),to two years of corrective labor. Under this verdict Meliksetyan, who exploited three women and a minor girl from U [...]
2006-01-13 11:45:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP HSTC
06YEREVAN761DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 2006 TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) DCM presented reftel points and the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report summary for Armenia to Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian and Valery Mkrtumyan, head of Armenia's interagency Anti-TIP Commission, during a June 5 meeting. Mkrtumyan said the Anti-TIP Commission would take ou [...]
2006-06-05 12:01:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN PREL PGOV SMIG AM
06YEREVAN836TIP RATING CATCHES KOCHARIAN'S ATTENTION
[...] (C) Armenia's second consecutive ranking on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Tier 2 Watchlist seems to have touched a nerve in the highest levels of Armenian government. During a June 20 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian confirmed news reports that Preside [...]
2006-06-21 09:59:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AM
06YEREVAN840TOP ADVISER CLAIMS KOCHARIAN ORDERED TOUGHER
[...] (C) Presidential National Security Adviser Garnik Isaghulyan told us June 21 that President Kocharian ordered law enforcement officials to toughen court verdicts for human traffickers and ensure that criminals are sentenced to the fullest extent of the law. This instruction was delivered at a [...]
2006-06-22 03:08:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG TU AE AM
06YEREVAN895ARMENIA RELEASES ANTI-TIP MANUALS FOR ITS OVERSEAS
[...] At the release of a USG-funded anti-trafficking in persons manual for Armenian consular officials overseas, GOAM officials pledged to improve their track record in identifying and protecting trafficking victims and to strengthen Armenia's interagency Anti-TiP Commission. End Summary. 2. [...]
2006-07-03 06:17:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AM
06YEREVAN960ARMENIA DRAMATICALLY INCREASES PENALTIES FOR
[...] (SBU) Recent changes in Armenia's Criminal Code significantly increase penalties for trafficking in persons (TIP),making them commensurate with penalties for crimes such as rape. The Prosecutor General initiated the amendments, which took effect July 16. The changes attempt to distinguish be [...]
2006-07-19 06:48:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HTSC AM
06ZAGREB1TWO YEARS IN POWER: RESILIENCE AND STABILITY OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During his second year in office, PM Ivo Sanader led his Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) through domestic difficulties and over critical Euro-Atlantic integration hurdles. At the same time, he sustained a government coalition whose unquestionable stability defies th [...]
2006-01-01 15:17:00Embassy ZagrebCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KAWC KCRM PHUM PREF HR
06ZAGREB1261 GOC CONTINUES ENERGETIC FIGHT AGAINST TRAFFICKING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: GOC officials and Croatian NGOs presented a coherent and well-structured approach to fighting trafficking in persons (TIP) to visiting G/TIP Foreign Affairs Officer Jennifer Donnelly in late September. Although NGOs praised the government's anti-trafficking laws, pol [...]
2006-10-18 07:20:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PHUM PREL HR TRAFFICKING
06ZAGREB1315CROATIAN BORDER POLICE NAB 53 ALBANIANS AT SLOVENE
[...] On October 24, Croatian border police discovered a group of 53 Albanian citizens, including 25 minors, trying to cross the Croatian-Slovene border hidden in a truck with Croatian license plates allegedly driven by a 27-year-old Croatian citizen. The Croatian and Slovenian press reported on the [...]
2006-10-30 12:01:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL HR KCRM TRAFFICKING
06ZAGREB1338CROATIA INCSR 2006 - PART ONE
[...] (U) Below please find per reftel request, part one of post's submission for the annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report. Part two on money laundering will be submitted septel. I. Summary Croatia is not a producer of narcotics. However, narcotics smuggling, particularly heroi [...]
2006-11-06 14:52:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PREL KJUS KCRM HR
06ZAGREB1428CROATIA ASKED TO EXTEND POLICE TRAINERS IN JORDAN THROUGH
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-01 14:46:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM HR IZ
06ZAGREB1438CROATIA HAS EXTENDED POLICE TRAINERS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-04 13:58:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KCRM HR IZ
06ZAGREB183NEW JUSTICE MINISTER INHERITS SOLID JUDICIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-10 16:08:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KAWC PGOV PREL HR
06ZAGREB298 ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) Post is pleased to submit its Annual Anti- Trafficking in Persons Report. Last year, Croatia was ranked as a Tier 2 country and Post recommends retaining that ranking for this reporting period. The GOC is making a concerted effort to take a proactive stance against TIP. Towards that g [...]
2006-03-06 11:37:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB HR
06ZAGREB319POLICE AND PROSECUTORS TO ESTABLISH
[...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: After months of negotiations, the Ministry of Interior and the Deputy Attorney General confirmed to Embassy Zagreb's SEED-funded ICITAP (International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program) organized crime advisor March 8 their firm plans to establish an inv [...]
2006-03-09 14:26:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCRM HR
06ZAGREB384NEW CROATIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY LATEST
[...] (SBU) On March 16 the GoC approved and sent to the Sabor for ratification a new Strategy for the Battle Against Corruption. In presenting the Strategy to the public the previous week, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader emphasized that the battle against corruption is a permanent war that the Governme [...]
2006-03-22 14:20:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCRM HR
06ZAGREB475CROATIA,S ANTI-TIP AND POLICE REFORM EFFORTS GET
[...] (U) Ambassador Frank and Minister of Interior Ivica Kirin gave Croatia,s anti-TIP efforts a strong push on April 11 with a public ceremony to mark the handover of FBI-funded computer equipment to the Croatian police (MUP). Most of the major print media covered the donation, and several local [...]
2006-04-13 13:14:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KJUS PHUM PREL ETTC HR
06ZAGREB526CROATIA SEEKS POLICE COOPERATION AGREEMENT
[...] (U) This is an action request for EUR/SCE. SUMMARY and ACTION REQUEST -------------------------- 2. (C) In an April 11 meeting, Minister of Interior Ivica Kirin asked the Ambassador to support the signing of a bilateral police cooperation agreement. As per ref A which provided the Depar [...]
2006-04-26 11:16:00Embassy ZagrebCONFIDENTIALKJUS KCRM PTER PREL ASEC HR
07ABIDJAN1094THE COUNTERFEIT DOLLAR AFFAIR - GBAGBO ENTOURAGE
[...] (C) Summary. On October 11, police and prosecutors made public allegations that a counterfeit US dollar ring had been broken up in Abidjan. Three high-level officials close to the President were implicated by the accused owner of the premises in which the evidence had been found. The next [...]
2007-10-26 07:49:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL KCRM IV
07ABIDJAN1265EFFORTS TO COMBAT WEST AFRICAN DRUG TRAFFICKING
[...] (SBU) The Government of Cote d'Ivoire has the will to combat drug trafficking, but lacks the capacity. Also, as it concentrates on steering the country out of its five-year political crisis, its attention is focused on other priorities. The Inter-ministerial Committee to Combat Drug Traffick [...]
2007-12-31 16:33:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID KCRM PREL SOCI SNAR IV
07ABIDJAN465COTE D'IVOIRE: FY-2007 TIP PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] Embassy Abidjan is pleased to submit two proposals to strengthen and expand Cote d'Ivoire's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) in response to reftel. The proposed projects, listed in order of funding priority, will address key areas of concern in the fight to end trafficking in Co [...]
2007-05-04 17:54:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG IV
07ABUDHABI1539MIXED PICTURE FROM ACTIVISTS ON UAE ANTI-TIP
[...] (C) Summary: Recent conversations with Ansar Burney (head of a Pakistani trust who focuses on the camel jockey issue in the UAE) and Sharla Musabih (who runs a shelter for abused women in Dubai),highlight the complex nature of the TIP problem in the UAE, as well as positive yet limited offi [...]
2007-09-13 13:14:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN AE
07ABUDHABI1542UAE TIP ACTION PLAN SHARED WITH MFA
[...] (SBU) PolChief discussed the TIP action plan with MFA Director for International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani September 11, having shared ref A points earlier in the week. Al-Hosani, who represents MFA on the new Committee for Combating Human Trafficking (ref B),said the Committee was prep [...]
2007-09-13 17:00:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM KCRM ELAB AE
07ABUDHABI1568UNICEF FOCUSED ON "PHASE TWO" OF CAMEL JOCKEY
[...] (C) Summary: UNICEF's new Chief of Child Protection in Abu Dhabi has ambitious goals regarding the implementation of "phase two" of the camel jockey repatriation program, which he hopes will involve mapping of the camel farms and better tracking of victims. He commended the UAEG for the suc [...]
2007-09-20 05:51:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN AE
07ABUDHABI1687AMABASSADOR LAGON'S VISIT TO UAE KEEPS SHARP FOCUS
[...] (C) During a September 24 through 25 visit to Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Ambassador Mark Lagon, Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),addressed USG concerns regarding UAEG's progress in combating trafficking in persons (TIP) with both Federal and Emirate level [...]
2007-10-10 05:33:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN AE
07ABUDHABI1820UAE TIP COMMITTEE ISSUES REPORT AMID REQUESTS FOR TIP
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UAEG provided Post a previously-promised report on its anti-TIP efforts, which emphasizes UAEG intent to combat trafficking while also acknowledging the long term challenges and trining needs of an effective program. Separately, he UAE has requested G/TIP training support [...]
2007-11-01 11:59:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN AE
07ABUDHABI1838UAE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON ILLICIT CASH
[...] (C) Summary: Post has worked with the UAEG to have it focus on the issue of bulk cash smuggling. DHS/ICE has twice provided training to customs officials and DOJ/OPDAT will be providing money laundering prosecutorial training this December (which will have a bulk cash smuggling component). The USG [...]
2007-11-05 10:25:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PTER KCRM PREL AE
07ABUDHABI18402007-08 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-05 10:57:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM AE
07ABUDHABI1883JUSTICE MINISTRY REQUESTS SPECIFIC TIP TRAINING
[...] This is an action request cable. 2. Summary: The UAE Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has requested specific training for judges and prosecutors in implementing of its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) law. For a training workshop in February, 2008, MoJ is looking for advice from practitioners with [...]
2007-11-14 13:06:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL ELAB KCRM PGOV AE
07ABUDHABI1891INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT: ABU DHABI
[...] (SBU) Summary: This cable responds to ref A request for interim assessment of UAEG efforts toward advancement of TIP goals. As confirmed by Ambassador Lagon's September visit (ref D),the UAE seeks to gain respect for its compassionate treatment of foreign workers and build institutions to s [...]
2007-11-15 16:38:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB UN AE
07ABUDHABI230UAE INTERIOR MINISTER TROUBLED BY TIP REPORT
[...] (C) Ambassador called on Interior Minister Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al-Nahayan on February 8 and requested his assistance in preparing for the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report. Ambassador informed him of the reporting deadlines and requested his ministry's assistance in providing statistics reg [...]
2007-02-12 13:13:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG AE
07ABUDHABI368UAE 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] (U) Following is Post's submission of the 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report for the United Arab Emirates, covering the reporting period of April 2006 through March 2007. Responses under each section heading are keyed to the relevant sections of reftel paragraphs 27-30. Embassy TIP point o [...]
2007-03-05 15:27:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC AE
07ABUDHABI383UAE BREAKS-UP DRUG MONEY LAUNDERING RING
[...] (C) In a move widely reported by the UAE press on February 26, Dubai police broke up an international money laundering ring using the UAE's financial system. Ahmed Al-Qamzi, Head of the Central Bank's Anti Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit's International Division told econchief that [...]
2007-03-08 06:47:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALSNAR KCRM EFIN CASC AE
07ABUJA1007 ILEA GABORONE - Train the Trainer on Fraudulent Documents
[...] The following 4 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Immigration Service, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and National Agency on Prohibition of Traffic in Persons respectively are nominated to attend the above referenced ILEA Training. Tanko Nuhu DOB - 09 January 1962 Gender - Male Ra [...]
2007-05-22 14:59:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA1506 ILEA GABORONE - Law Enforcement Executive Development
[...] The following 10 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Customs Service, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Nigeria Police Force, State Security Services and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Name - Chikan Eli [...]
2007-07-13 11:32:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA1576 ILEA GABORONE - Small Arms Trafficking Course, August
[...] The following 4 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Customs Service, Nigeria Police Force, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Name - Yunana Ayuba Dickson DOB - 02 December, 1971 Gender - Male Rank - [...]
2007-07-24 15:32:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA2098 ILEA GABORONE - Document Fraud and Document Examination
[...] The following 4 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Immigration Service, Nigeria Customs Service and the State Security Services are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Name - Nongo Samuel DOB - 05 Feb 1963 Gender - Male Rank - Superintendent of Immigration Curr [...]
2007-09-28 11:28:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA212SHOOTOUT IN PORT HARCOURT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The shootout in Port Harcourt January 28 occurred as policemen detained the leader of a group known as the "Outlaws" at his church on Sunday morning. His detention was soon communicated to both the state commander of the Mobile Police and to the detainee's supporters. The ensu [...]
2007-02-01 15:25:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PHUM KCRM NI
07ABUJA220CROSS RIVER GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE ON THE STATE
[...] (C) Action Congress (AC) Gubernatorial candidate Emmanuel Ibeshi discussed his campaign and the state of Cross River with Polcouns on January 31, highlighting the need for local government initiatives to "rescue" the state. He outlined his proposal to build development "communities" based o [...]
2007-02-02 13:47:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KCRM NI
07ABUJA2439NIGERIA: SEEKS INCREASED COOPERATION DURING INL
[...] (SBU) Summary. During INL Assitant Secretary (A/S) Thomas Schweich,s November 4-6 visit to Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria, GON Law Enforcement Officials expressed a strong interest in increasing bilateral cooperation and an equally strong desire for a strengthened relationship in order to tackle th [...]
2007-11-26 15:48:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKCRM KJUS ECON PGOV SNAR NI
07ABUJA370 ILEA GABORONE - Financial Forensics Techniques Course
[...] The following 4 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Edozie, Hycenth Azuka DOB - 23 May 1966 Gender - Male Rank - Superintendent of Police [...]
2007-02-23 12:11:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA638 ILEA GABORONE - Personnel and Facility Security Course,
[...] The following 5 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Police Force are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Ohiozoba O. Ehiede DOB - 18 September 1965 Gender - Male Rank - Superintendent of Police Current Position - Staff Officer II Passport No - A3400336A Ex [...]
2007-04-03 16:58:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI
07ABUJA955ATTORNEY GENERAL BAYO OJO AND POLITICS AT NDLEA;
[...] (C) According to NDLEA,s Director General, Lanre Ipinmisho, the forced &retirement8 earlier this year of 71 NDLEA officers for various offenses has not been finalized. Ipinmisho claims that several of the 71, including Vincent Ossai, have complained to Attorney General Bayo Ojo protesting the [...]
2007-05-16 13:20:00Embassy AbujaCONFIDENTIALSNAR KCRM PREL PGOV PINR NI
07ACCRA2227GOG HAS LITTLE CONTROL OVER NARCOTICS FLOW THROUGH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff toured Kotoka International Airport on October 16 to survey GOG efforts to combat the transit of narcotics. The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has around seven overworked and underpaid officers patrolling the airport. Resources are scant and a NACOB official told poloff th [...]
2007-10-22 07:18:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV PREL KCRM PINR GH
07ACCRA2273RECENT NARCOTICS ARREST HAS GHANAIAN DRUG BARONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ghanaian criminal community is reeling after the well-publicized October 22 arrest of two Afghan nationals for narcotics trafficking (reftel),according to police and other contacts. Contacts have said the drug "barons" were very surprised to learn that DEA was actively conduc [...]
2007-10-25 16:43:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALASEC SNAR PREL PGOV PINR KCRM GH AF
07ACCRA2402UK DRAWS HARD LINE WITH GOG ON NARCOICS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 23-24, UK Foreign Office Minister of State Dr. Kim Howells visited Ghana and delivered a stern message on narcotics to President Kufuor, Minister of Interior Kwamena Bartels, and Attorney General Joe Ghartey. According to UK High Commission contacts, Howells told the GO [...]
2007-11-14 08:53:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPREL SNAR PGOV KCRM GH
07ACCRA2418PRESIDENT KUFUOR UNHURT AFTER CAR ACCIDENT
[...] (U) On November 14, as President Kufuor,s motorcade was traveling from his residence to "the Castle" (the presidential office building),a Mercedes Benz collided with Kufuor,s armored Mercedes Benz when the presidential motorcade sped through a major intersection. It appears that President Ku [...]
2007-11-15 17:24:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM GH
07ACCRA2420FBI DEPUTY DIRECTOR MEETS WITH BNI, GHANA POLICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on November 9 with the Director of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) and Ghana Police officials, FBI Deputy Director John Pistole emphasized the importance of mutual cooperation to more effectively combat transnational crime. The Director of BNI told [...]
2007-11-16 11:28:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM PINR GH
07ACCRA2533ONE YEAR LATER: NARCOTICS COMMITTEE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Just over a year ago, the GOG released the Georgina Wood Committee report in response to a public outcry after several embarrassing cocaine scandals in 2005. The GOG endorsed the report and pledged to quickly implement its proposals, but it has largely failed to do so. Most key [...]
2007-12-13 17:16:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALSNAR KCRM PGOV PREL GH
07ACCRA2534TWO CONVICTED FOR ROLE IN 2005 COCAINE SCANDAL
[...] (U) After a year long trial, an Accra court on November 28 sentenced both Kwabena Amaning, aka Tagor, and Alhaji Isaah Abass to 15 years hard labor in connection with the 2005 cocaine scandal involving the MV Benjamin. As reported in ref A, the 2005 cocaine scandal kicked off when five kilogr [...]
2007-12-13 17:16:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALKCRM SNAR PGOV PREL GH
07ACCRA2590GHANA RESPONSE TO EFFORTS TO COMBAT WEST AFRICAN
[...] (U) Post provides the following information keyed to ref A request. GOG efforts to addresses narcotics trafficking --------------------------------------------- - 2. (C) Ghana is increasingly becoming a significant transshipment point for cocaine from South America and heroin from Southwest Asi [...]
2007-12-21 13:02:00Embassy AccraCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV PREL KCRM GH
07ADDISABABA1000GHANAIAN DRUG COURIER ARRESTED IN ETHIOPIA WITH
[...] (SBU) On March 17, Ethiopian Federal Police arrested Ghanaian national Abubakari Yakubu (DPOB: 23 January 1972, Accra) for possession of heroin at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa. Mr. Yakubu, age 35, was transiting Bole International Airport en route to Lome, and had concealed the h [...]
2007-04-04 13:39:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM PTER ET GH EG AE TO IR
07ADDISABABA1221ETHIOPIA: COMBATING COUNTERFEITING AND MONEY
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In response to the discovery in Germany of counterfeit U.S. currency ("supernotes") from Ethiopia over two years ago, the Treasury Department in coordination with the Secret Service and the State Department began working with Ethiopia's central bank. In the near future, Treasur [...]
2007-04-19 15:04:00Embassy Addis AbabaSECRETEFIN KCRM SNAR KN ET GM
07ADDISABABA1281TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROPOSALS FOR
[...] Per reftel, Post submits the following anti-trafficking in persons project proposals for consideration of funding from FY 2007 INCLE and ESF appropriations. As a Tier Two country, Ethiopia is trying to combat a significant trafficking challenge, especially of women and children; ESF and INCLE [...]
2007-04-25 05:06:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG ET
07ADDISABABA2117ETHIOPIA: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. As in the previous year, neither host government officials nor Ethiopian media have reported significant sexual misconduct or trafficking in persons (TIP) attributable to UN peacekeeping personnel in Ethiopia. However, both NGOs and staff of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia [...]
2007-07-05 15:01:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALKPKO PHUM KCRM KWMN ET ER
07ADDISABABA2301ETHIOPIA: INCREASED HEROIN TRAFFICKING ORIGINATING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Since the March arrest of a Ghanaian national who had ingested nearly one kilogram of heroin from Iran, Ethiopian federal authorities have arrested 4 other Africans transiting Addis Ababa from Dubai with ingested heroin, and are randomly searching West Africans on suspect fligh [...]
2007-07-23 10:59:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ET GH KE TO IR
07ADDISABABA3283ETHIOPIA: RESPONSE ON ILLICIT CASH COURIERS
[...] SUMMARY: Per reftel, post is providing updated information on illicit cash couriers and the actions Ethiopia is taking to prevent bulk cash smuggling. Ethiopia has laws in place prohibiting cash smuggling and is in the process of developing forms requiring that cash be declared upon entry. Ho [...]
2007-11-08 14:14:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN KCRM PREL PTER ET
07ADDISABABA812ETHIOPIA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT (PART 2 -
[...] (U) Per reftel, Post provides the following input on trafficking in persons issues in Ethiopia. (Due to length of information reported, responses are being reported in two complementary cables.) 2. (U) Responses are keyed to questions in paragraphs 27-30 of reftel. 3. (SBU) QUESTION 29 [...]
2007-03-16 06:53:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ET
07ADDISABABA813ETHIOPIA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT (PART 1 - OVERVIEW
[...] (U) Per reftel, Post provides the following input on trafficking in persons issues in Ethiopia. (Due to length of information reported, responses are being reported in two complementary cables.) 2. (U) Embassy point of contact: Pol/Econ Officer Kimberly E. Wright, office: +251 (11) 517-41 [...]
2007-03-16 06:53:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ET
07ALGIERS1099CONTINUING TO ENGAGE GOA, MEDIA AND NGOS ON TIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the June 12 release of the 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, we are continuing to engage the Algerian government and the media on TIP. The GOA still maintains that Algeria has been maligned and says that the government is addressing the TIP issue. The differenc [...]
2007-08-04 10:53:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG
07ALGIERS1114CONTINUING TO ENGAGE GOA ON LEGAL REFORM AND TIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of GOA efforts on legal reform, Justice Minister Belaiz supports ABA's work in Algeria, stressing the need to train judges. Further, the justice and foreign ministries, along with the Ministry of National Solidarity, now appear to be working on TIP-related issues, includ [...]
2007-08-07 11:34:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM KWMN KCRM PREL AG
07ALGIERS1634REDOUBLED EFFORTS TO COMBAT BULK CASH SMUGGLING AS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Algeria criminalized bulk cash smuggling in 1996 and maintains strict reporting requirements and a non-convertible currency that limit most Algerians' access to foreign exchange. The value and frequency of smuggled cash interdictions dropped from 2005 to 2006, although this may [...]
2007-11-07 19:57:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER AG
07ALGIERS1777POSITIVE ALGERIAN GOVERNMENT MOVEMENT ON TIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After months of engaging the Algerian government and civil society on TIP, we are seeing evidence of incremental improvement. NGO SOS Femmes en Detresse reports that some illegal immigrants are now receiving medical care, with no harassment from authorities, although it is uncle [...]
2007-12-12 11:04:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG
07ALGIERS1794POSITIVE JUSTICE MINISTRY FEEDBACK ON MLAT
[...] (SBU) In a December 9 meeting Mohamed Amara, Director General of Judicial and Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Justice, was enthusiastic about the November 19-21 expert-level discussions in Washington on a possible Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) (ref A). DCM delivered the points contai [...]
2007-12-16 10:52:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPREL KTIA KCRM CJAN AG
07ALGIERS859MFA REACTION TO TIP TIER 3 RATING
[...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche June 16 to MFA Director General for the Americas Fatiha Selmane, who expressed surprise and discomfort that the 2007 Trafficking in Persons report placed Algeria in Tier 3 status. Selmane complained that Algeria had been pooled with countries that did [...]
2007-06-18 09:38:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG
07ALGIERS9ALGERIA 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-06 15:15:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC KPAO AEMR KCRM AG
07ALGIERS931CONTINUING TO ENGAGE NGOS AND MFA ON TIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the June 12 release of the 2007 Trafficking in Persons report, we are continuing to engage NGOs and the Algerian government on TIP. The GOA feels it has been unfairly lumped into Tier 3 status with countries whose TIP problem it considers to be more severe. The GOA in [...]
2007-07-02 08:00:00Embassy AlgiersCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM KWMN PREL AG
07AMMAN1963THREE PROPOSALS FOR PROGRAMS TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-07 15:03:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ELAB KCRM PREL SMIG JO
07AMMAN2537GOJ BRIEFED ON 2007 TIP REPORT; PLANS CONTINUED
[...] (SBU) Acting PolCouns briefed Thamer Adwan, Director of the Foreign Minister's private office, and separately Dr. Waleed Al-Saadi, Senior Advisor to the Foreign Minister on Human Rights, on the Jordan portion of Trafficking in Persons report on June 12. They agreed to review the report and pr [...]
2007-06-13 13:06:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KWMN ELAB PREL PGOV SMIG KPAO KCRM JO
07AMMAN2610JIPTC AMENDMENT SIGNED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-18 12:58:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR AFIN KCRM JO
07AMMAN2757GOJ PUBLICLY RESPONDS TO 2007 TIP REPORT; PLANS TO
[...] (U) Jordanian Minister of Labor Basim Al-Salim downplayed the recently released Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report in an interview with Jordanian daily Al-Ghad published June 21. He did not deny the report's contents, but said the ministry "previously addressed" many issues raised in the repor [...]
2007-06-26 13:15:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB PREL PGOV SMIG KPAO JO
07AMMAN968JORDAN'S CONTRIBUTION TO SEVENTH ANNUAL
[...] (U) Embassy point of contact on trafficking in persons is political officer Miriam Schwedt, phone number 202-536-4173, ext. 6597 or 962-6-590-6597, fax number 962-6-592-0159. Officer spent approximately 48 hours preparing the report. Political Analyst Manal Hashweh spent 16 hours preparing the [...]
2007-03-04 13:46:00Embassy AmmanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB JO
07ANKARA1379TURKEY HOSTS BSEC SUMMIT - USG ATTENDANCE?
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following up on Secretary Rice's March message to FM Gul promising participation by a senior State Department official in the June 25 BSEC Summit in Istanbul (ref B) is an important opportunity to emphasize USG support for BSEC and our bigger objective of encouraging economic a [...]
2007-06-04 14:36:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV KCRM TU
07ANKARA1492 PROPOSAL FOR INL-FUNDED IPR TRAINING FY 2007
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with USPTO. 2. (U) As requested ref A, this message provides a proposal for FY '07 INL-funded regional IPR training. PROJECT ------- 3. Program on Border Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights TARGET: Turkish Customs Service LOCATION: Turk [...]
2007-06-12 10:53:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR KCRM TU
07ANKARA1948TURKEY/IRAQ: DOD GENERAL COUNSEL HAYNES BRIEFS
[...] (U) This cable contains sensitive law enforcement information regarding ongoing investigations. Summary ------- 2. (S/NF) Summary: Department of Defense General Counsel Haynes briefed Turkish officials July 25 on the ongoing DOD investigation into corruption relating to the procurement [...]
2007-07-31 05:39:00Embassy AnkaraSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER MOPS KCRM IZ TU
07ANKARA2035TURKISH GENERAL STAFF PROVIDES LIST OF SERIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-09 13:01:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MARR KCRM IZ TU
07ANKARA2247MFA UNDERSECRETARY APAKAN INQUIRY ABOUT M-16S
[...] (U) Action request at para 4. 2. (C) Turkish MFA U/S Apakan and DG for Security Affairs Guven raised the issue of US-origin M-16s captured recently from PKK terrorists in Turkey during an August 29 meeting with Ambassador on various subjects. The Turkish General Staff had provided the MFA [...]
2007-08-31 14:57:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALASIG PREL MARR KCRM PTER IZ TU
07ANKARA2469TURKEY/IRAQ: DEFENSE AND STATE INSPECTORS GENERAL
[...] (C) Summary: During their September 28 visit to Ankara, DOD IG Kicklighter and DOS IG Krongard outlined for senior Turkish officials their mission to establish more effective controls and accountability for U.S. arms being provided to the security forces of Iraq and Afghanistan. They undersc [...]
2007-10-04 12:06:00Embassy AnkaraCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MOPS KCRM IZ AF TU
07ANKARA2745TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ON ILLICIT CASH
[...] We spoke with Ergin Ergul, Deputy Director General for Foreign Relations at the Justice Ministry. His comments related to questions in reftel are shown below. In addition, we have included information from the April 2007 Financial Action Task Force review of Turkey, which are relevant to th [...]
2007-11-09 08:19:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN KCRM EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
07ANKARA2754TURKEY: 2006 DOMESTIC REPORT ON COMBATING HUMAN
[...] (SBU) The GOT recently issued its 2006 Report on Combating Human Trafficking in Turkey. The report provides an overview of Turkey's anti-TIP legal framework, international cooperation mechanisms, TIP prevention and victim protection measures, and supporting 2006 statistical data. The report [...]
2007-11-09 16:32:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PHUM PGOV SMIG KCRM KWMN TU
07ANKARA367TURKEY SEEK TO REVITALIZE BSEC AS IT FETES 15 YEARS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Turkey aims to use its BSEC (Black Sea Economic Cooperation) chairmanship to revitalize BSEC as it commemorates its 15th anniversary at its Istanbul Summit on June 25. BSEC and Turkey urge high level participation at this event. BSEC hopes to highlight BSEC institutional refo [...]
2007-02-20 15:59:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SENV KCRM TU
07ANKARA458TURKEY 7TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: OVERVIEW AND
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 1 of 3 (septel). Embassy point of contact is Cathy Westley, telephone number 90-312-455-5555 X 2513, fax number 90-312-468-4775. Westley (FS-03) spent [...]
2007-03-01 09:42:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU
07ANKARA459TURKEY 7TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: INVESTIGATION AND
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 2 of 3 (septels). -------------------------------------------- Investigation and Prosecution of Traffickers ------------------------------------------ [...]
2007-03-01 09:43:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU
07ANKARA460TURKEY 7TH ANNUAL TIP REPORT: PROTECTION AND
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Post's responses are keyed to questions in Reftel A. This is part 3 of 3 (septels). ------------------------------------ Protection and Assistance to Victims ------------------------------------ A. (U) The GOT [...]
2007-03-01 09:44:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB TU
07ANKARA804TURKEY PLANS ITS BSEC SUMMIT BIRTHDAY PARTY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Turkish MFA held a meeting with Embassies April 4 to describe its planning for the June 25 BSEC (Black Sea Economic Cooperation) Summit meeting of heads of state and government. Turkey aims to use its chairmanship to revitalize BSEC as it commemorates its 15th anniversary a [...]
2007-04-09 05:06:00Embassy AnkaraUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV KCRM TU
07ANTANANARIVO161TACKLING SEX TOURISM IN NOSY BE, ROUND TWO
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy staff traveled to Nosy Be, an island off Madagascar's northwest coast notorious for its growing sex tourism, and Diego Suarez, a nearby port on the mainland, to follow up on Embassy Antananarivo's 2005 report on the nature of sex tourism and trafficking in persons (TIP) al [...]
2007-02-16 10:00:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM SMIG ELAB MA
07ANTANANARIVO221MADAGASCAR 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] SUMMARY: Madagascar is not a country of origin, transit or destination for internationally trafficked men and women. During the year, there were reports of trafficking within the country's borders. Madagascar has a confirmed child sex tourism problem. The domestic legal framework, cultural [...]
2007-03-06 14:07:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID
07ANTANANARIVO225 COMOROS 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) The Embassy Point of Contact for TIP is Political Officer Silvana Rodriguez. Ms. Rodriguez can be reached via email at RodriguezSD [at] state.gov, via telephone at 261.20.22.212.57, or via facsimile at 261.20.22.251.71. POLOFF Rodriguez spent approximately 1 hour preparing this report. [...]
2007-03-07 11:48:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID CN
07ANTANANARIVO402 MADAGASCAR TIP PROPOSALS FOR 2007 ESF AND INCLE FUNDS
[...] (U) Per reftel, Embassy Antananarivo is providing the following four proposals for 2007 ESF and INCLE funds for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) projects. The full text of the proposals, budgets and resumes are being forwarded via email to the appropriate G/TIP POC as requested. Post POC for all [...]
2007-04-24 13:21:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG MA
07ANTANANARIVO557LABOR TRAFFICKING VICTIMS RESCUED IN DIEGO SUAREZ
[...] SUMMARY: Embassy Antananarivo's reporting on trafficking in persons (TIP) has tended to focus on the conspicuous sex trafficking of minors in tourism hotspots along Madagascar's coast, namely on the island of Nosy Be (reftel). While the same kind of sexual exploitation exists in the northern [...]
2007-06-05 13:28:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM SMIG ELAB MA
07ANTANANARIVO723 PROSPECTS AND PROSTITUTION IN MINING BOOM TOWN
[...] SUMMARY: As Qit Madagascar Minerals (QMM) ramps up its mining activities in southeastern Madagascar, the former "ghost town" of Fort Dauphin is rapidly changing. Embassy staff consulted local officials and NGOs to assess the potential for human trafficking. While it is clear "trafficking in p [...]
2007-07-23 13:01:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM SMIG ELAB EAID MA
07ANTANANARIVO778MALAGASY SURPRISED BY TIP CONDITIONS IN SOUTH
[...] SUMMARY: In a July 25 meeting of the Human Rights Working Group, Embassy Antananarivo teamed up with multiple NGOs to present the issue of trafficking in persons (TIP) in the different regions of Madagascar. The fact that Malagasy participants were shocked to find out certain widespread pract [...]
2007-08-02 10:37:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM SMIG ELAB MA
07ASHGABAT1226 TURKMENISTAN 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] This is the 2007-2008 INCSR Part II report on Turkmenistan. The text is keyed to the questions in reftel. The Post's point of contact for the INCSR, Part II draft is Kristine Marsh, Economic Officer (MarshKA@state.gov). GENERAL 2. Turkmenistan is not an important regional financial ce [...]
2007-11-13 03:20:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EFIN SNAR KCRM KTFN TX
07ASHGABAT1387TURKMENISTAN'S GOVERNMENT PUBLISHES NEW LAWS ON
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet 2. (U) Turkmenistan's official Russian-language government newspaper, "Neutralnyy Turkmenistan," published two new laws on December 19 and 20: the 26-article "Law of Turkmenistan on State Guarantees of Equal Rights of Women" and the [...]
2007-12-20 12:08:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM KWMN TX
07ASHGABAT841FORMER AGRICULTURE MINISTER MEREDOV DISMISSAL
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Opposition Turkmenistani news website Gundogar reported August 8 that police arrested former Minister of Agriculture Paizugeldy Meredov for embezzlement and corruption. Well-known for his close personal relation [...]
2007-08-15 13:24:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR KCRM PGOV TX
07ASTANA1061KAZAKHSTAN RESOLVES TO IMPROVE TIP RESPONSE
[...] Summary: On April 3-4, Kazakhstani judges, police officers, and prosecutors brought together under an INL program to review Spring 2006 Anti-TIP legislation for a second time resolved to propose further improvements in anti-trafficking laws, including legislation to cover human exploitation; [...]
2007-04-25 10:24:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PINT KCRM KZ
07ASTANA1094NEW HEAD OF FINANCIAL POLICE ACADEMY IN
[...] (U) Summary: On March 29, the Chairman of the Financial Police appointed Major-General Ramazan Tleuhan to head the Kazakhstani Financial Police Academy located near Astana. The new Head of Financial Police Academy replaces Colonel/Professor of the Financial Police Academy, Marat Kogamov. End [...]
2007-04-26 03:39:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCOR KCRM KZ
07ASTANA1104KAZAKHSTAN: ANOTHER DELAY IN PASSING AML LAW
[...] Summary: The extension of the property legalization period until August 1 will cause yet another delay in the enactment of the anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing law (AML) currently under consideration in the Kazakhstani Mazhilis (lower house of parliament). The postponement [...]
2007-04-26 09:21:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR ASEC PREL KCOR KCRM KZ
07ASTANA1112KAZAKHSTAN: INL DESK OFFICER CHECKS OUT CAMELS, KAZAKHSTANI
[...] Summary: In addition to attending the quarterly meetings reported septel, INL desk officer viewed border intercepts at the Tazhen border post in Western Kazakhstan; visited the Anti-TIP Center in Karaganda; shared a Nauryz meal at the Financial Police Academy in Koschi; learned of the increase [...]
2007-04-26 10:38:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV KCRM KZ
07ASTANA1113KAZAKHSTAN: INL FIRST QUARTER 2007 MEETINGS
[...] Summary: Highlights of the INL Officer's quarterly meetings (accompanied by visiting INL/AAE desk officer) with GOK officials include a positive initial meeting with the new head of the MVD Drug Control Committee; agreement on scheduling of the opening of the MVD Anti-TIP Center; assurances of [...]
2007-04-26 10:38:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV KCRM KZ
07ASTANA1115KAZAKHSTAN: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS SOLICITATION FOR
[...] Summary: In response to the Solicitation for Proposals by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (G/TIP),Embassy Astana has reviewed and vetted three proposals addressing human trafficking in Kazakhstan. Post has selected one proposal for review and would welcome the opportunity to dis [...]
2007-04-26 10:38:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG
07ASTANA1126KAZAKHSTAN CONTACT FOR ILEA BUDAPEST
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-27 09:20:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC HU KZ
07ASTANA1147KAZAKHSTAN: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS DONOR COORDINATION
[...] Summary: On April 24, the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement office (INL) hosted the inaugural Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Donor Coordination Meeting in Astana. Participating organizations are listed in para. 12. INL Astana, as TIP Coordinating Office in the Emfaswy, invkted intern [...]
2007-05-02 00:57:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSMIG ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL
07ASTANA1148KAZAKHSTAN: INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON ANTICORRUPTION
[...] Summary: On April 24, the Academy of Public Administration hosted an International Seminar on "Anti-Corruption Strategy: Theory and Applications.". The one-day seminar generated 16 recommendations for Kazakhstan which if implemented would significantly combat corruption. Most significantly, [...]
2007-05-02 00:57:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR ASEC KCOR KCRM PREL KZ
07ASTANA1267KAZAKHSTAN: TWO SEX TRAFFICKERS GET SEVEN YEARS
[...] On May 4, a local procurator in Aktobe, Kazakhstan announced that two Uzbekistani traffickers working in Kazakhstan had been sentenced the previous week to seven years in prison. Post's contacts at the Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed the convictions. 2. Investigating based on a ti [...]
2007-05-14 00:33:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KCOR PREL PGOV KZ UZ
07ASTANA128KAZAKHSTAN: REACHING OUT TO THE U.S. ON REDUCING ILLEGAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: While discussing our non-paper on U.S. policy on testing secondary school students for drugs, the Head of Youth Policy at the Ministry of Education said that not only law enforcement agencies but MinEd too was now providing grants to NGOs to create anti-drug programs and implemen [...]
2007-01-17 08:16:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV KCRM KZ
07ASTANA1285KAZAKHSTAN: OSCE BORDER ASSESSMENT
[...] Summary: Post looks for the upcoming OSCE assessment to provide the basis for more cross-border security programs and to enhance interagency regional liaison. In-country cooperation on border security is working well. The Mission's Security Assistance Working Group coordinates individual off [...]
2007-05-14 09:16:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM PREL KZ
07ASTANA1324KAZAKHSTAN: SAVING THE LIVES OF POLICE OFFICERS
[...] Summary: INL conducted a Police Officer Survival Techniques Course on April 16-27 at the Ministry of Internal Affairs Academy in Almaty. Ten operations officers of the criminal police and 13 officers from regional anti-narcotics units participated in the course taught by personnel from the D [...]
2007-05-17 06:50:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV KCRM KZ
07ASTANA1642KAZAKHSTAN: MONEY LAUNDERING ACCUSATIONS COMPLICATE EFFORTS
[...] Summary: The Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC),an enormous Kazakhstani metals conglomerate, has been preparing since 2006 to list on the London Stock Exchange. A criminal investigation by Belgian authorities of alleged money laundering by the three billionaires who control 54.6% [...]
2007-06-15 08:01:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR ASEC PREL KCOR KCRM KZ
07ASTANA1762KAZAKHSTAN: ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COUNTER-NARCOTICS
[...] Summary: On June 18, the Embassy of the United Kingdom in Astana hosted a coordination meeting on anti-money laundering, adding an hour for discussing counter-narcotics assistance. Representatives of the World Bank, OSCE, UNODC, BOMCA/CADAP, and the Embassies of France and Germany provided br [...]
2007-06-27 08:57:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL PGOV KCOR KCRM KZ
07ASTANA1925KAZAKHSTAN: SIX TRAFFICKERS DO THE CRIME... AND GET TIME
[...] (U) Summary: On July 12, the town court in the western Kazakhstani city of Aktobe convicted and sentenced six people for torturing and using force to secure the labor and sexual services of 13 citizens of Uzbekistan. The Uzbek men and women had been held as slaves in a sauna complex. The poli [...]
2007-07-17 06:41:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM KCOR PREL PGOV KZ UZ
07ASTANA1973KAZAKHSTAN: BORDER SECURITY DONOR MEETING
[...] On July 16, Embassy Astana's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Section hosted a Border Security Donor Coordination Meeting. Participants included the Deputy Head of the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) from Tashkent, the European Union Border Management Program in C [...]
2007-07-23 02:06:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV KCRM KZ
07ASTANA1988KAZAKHSTAN: COUNTER NARCOTICS DONOR MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 16, the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Section of the US Embassy in Kazakhstan hosted another in a series of Counter Narcotics Donor Coordination meetings. Major General Nukenov, Chairman of the Committee on Combating Drug Trafficking (KBN) briefed partici [...]
2007-07-23 05:10:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV KCRM KZ
07ASTANA203KAZAKHSTAN: JOINING FORCES WITH THE U.S. TO COMBAT ILLEGAL
[...] Summary: A senior-level Kazakhstani interagency delegation visited Washington December 4-8 to meet with State, DHS, FBI, DOD, DEA, HHS, DOJ, and others to discuss bilateral collaboration to combat illegal narcotics supply, reduce societal drug demand especially among young people, combat addic [...]
2007-01-24 01:53:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM PREL KZ
07ASTANA2178KAZAKHSTAN: STRUCTURE OF THE BORDER GUARD SERVICE
[...] (SBU) Post continues to work with the Border Guard Service through programs to combat narcotics, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, and trafficking in persons. Programs are implemented by Department of State International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Office (INL) and Export Control and [...]
2007-08-09 07:40:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV KCRM KZ
07ASTANA2214KAZAKHSTAN DRUG AND CRIME REPORT
[...] Summary: According to the Agency of Statistics, law enforcement agencies documented 53,700 crimes during the first quarter of 2007. Economic crimes accounted for .07% (3,892) of the total. These crimes included fraudulent property legalization, illegal business activity, and other financial c [...]
2007-08-13 23:56:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN SNAR SOCI PREL PGOV KCOR KCRM AU KZ
07ASTANA2323KAZAKHSTAN COMPLETES PROPERTY LEGALIZATION CAMPAIGN
[...] Summary: The property legalization process, essentially an amnesty campaign, concluded on August 1 and earned approximately 59.64 billion tenge ($488.8 million) for the Government of Kazakhstan. This campaign was aimed to finally register the rightful owners of property that changed hands duri [...]
2007-08-27 08:54:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EFIN SOCI KCOR KCRM KZ
07ASTANA2575ILEA - CORE COURSE SCHEDULE FOR CY 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-18 05:52:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC HU KZ
07ASTANA2587ILEA - CORE COURSE SCHEDULE FOR CY 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-19 03:22:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC HU KZ
07ASTANA2686KAZAKHSTAN: URALSK COURT CONVICTS TWO WOMEN FOR TRAFFICKING
[...] (U) Summary: On September 19, the district court in the western Kazakhstani city of Uralsk convicted and sentenced two women for trafficking in minors. End summary. 2. (U) In December 2006 the oblast-level Department of Interior received information about two schoolgirls aged 15 and 16 who [...]
2007-09-26 04:34:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM KCOR PREL PGOV KZ UZ
07ASTANA2895Vision of the Future from the Forensics Director
[...] Summary: Newly appointed Head of the Forensic Center in Astana has ambitious plans to improve the work of his institution. He has received approval from the Prime Minister for the construction of a new building to house the National Forensic Center in Astana. He plans to establish a Regional [...]
2007-10-19 11:06:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR SOCI KCRM KZ
07ASTANA3082TWO ANTI-TRAFFICKING OPERATIONS IN KAZAKHSTAN RESULT IN
[...] Summary: Police closed brothels and arrested a number of individuals involved in human trafficking and forced prostitution during two week-long operations conducted recently to combat human trafficking in Kazakhstan. End summary. 2. During September 23 - September 30, the Organized Crime [...]
2007-11-09 12:05:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR SOCI KCRM KZ
07ASTANA3162KAZAKHSTAN TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT REPORT FOR 2007
[...] Post is pleased that Kazakhstan has made significant progress in addressing key deficiencies highlighted in June 2007 TIP report and is pleased to submit the following information in response to reftel A. All responses are keyed to reftel A. 2. PARA 6A (a): Three corrupt anti-TIP police o [...]
2007-11-20 11:58:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM SOCI KCOR PGOV KZ
07ASTANA3178KAZAKHSTAN: 2007-2008 INCSR, PART II, FINANCIAL CRIMES AND
[...] In response to reftel A, the text of Part II of the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR),Financial Crimes and Money Laundering for Kazakhstan follows. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. Kazakhstan, with its developed and modern banking system, has become a financia [...]
2007-11-23 08:36:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EFIN PGOV KCRM KCOR KZ
07ASTANA3182CORRUPT POLICE OFFICIAL CHARGED WITH PROTECTING A
[...] A senior police official has been charged with abuse of his professional functions and falsifying evidence in connection with his facilitating the illegal business activities of an Almaty madam. In March, the local newspaper Vremya began publishing a series of articles about the official and t [...]
2007-11-23 13:39:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR SOCI KCRM KZ
07ASTANA3207ADDITION TO KAZAKHSTAN TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT REPORT FOR
[...] The following is an addition to the TIP Interim Assessment Report (reftel B). The information was received from the GOK after the submission of retel B and is in response to reftel A. 2. Victims of trafficking are protected under a GOK law on the protection of participants of the criminal p [...]
2007-11-28 09:23:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM SOCI KCOR PGOV KZ
07ASTANA3287KAZAKHSTAN BORDER GUARDS VISIT U.S.
[...] Summary: From October 29 to November 7, General-Major (one star equivalent) Berkaliyev, the First Deputy Director of the Kazakhstani Border Guard Service (BGS),visited Washington, Miami, and Texas to familiarize USG officials with his strategy for the development of the BGS and to learn abou [...]
2007-12-11 09:30:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KCOR PREL KZ
07ASTANA3302KAZAKHSTAN: ASSESSMENT OF ANTI-DRUG CHECKPOINTS
[...] Summary: From November 24 through December 4, a joint UNODC/INL team and an independent expert assessed six internal ("Rubezh") checkpoints. The international expert will provide a report with recommendations to the donor community and the GoK in January, including proposals for training and [...]
2007-12-12 10:37:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KZ
07ASTANA3313KAZAKHSTAN TAKES STEPS TOWARDS RATIFICATION OF SLAVERY AND
[...] Kazakhstan has taken another step towards ratification of the Slavery Convention, Protocol of Changes and Amendments to the Slavery Convention, and the Additional Protocol on Slavery Abolishment (Slavery Convention). 2. The Slavery Convention was approved by the Mazhilis (the lower chamber [...]
2007-12-13 09:56:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM SOCI KCOR PGOV KZ
07ASTANA3355KAZAKHSTAN: BORDER INCIDENT UNDERSCORES LIMITATIONS
[...] Summary: On the evening of December 10, four people attacked border guards at the Karasu checkpoint on the Kazakhstani-Kyrgyz border. As a result of the conflict, the border guards killed one person, police detained two suspects, and the others escaped. The conflict with the border guards wa [...]
2007-12-21 10:26:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM PBTS PREL KG KZ
07ASTANA367KAZAKHSTAN: INL CONDUCTS ANTI-TIP TRAINING COURSE FOR LAW
[...] Summary. The International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) office, in cooperation with International Organization for Migration (IOM),conducted a four day training course for law enforcement, Border Guards, the Procuracy, and the Judiciary on prevention of trafficking in human beings and [...]
2007-02-12 04:28:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PINS PGOV PHUM KCRM KZ
07ASTANA578KAZAKHSTAN: INL CONDUCTS TRAINING COURSE FOR FINANCIAL
[...] Summary: Embassy Astana's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) office, in cooperation with the Financial Police Academy (FPA),conducted a five day training course on money laundering and financial investigative techniques for financial police investigators in Astana February 13-1 [...]
2007-03-03 09:42:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KCOR PGOV KZ
07ASTANA613KAZAKHSTAN SUBMISSIONS FOR 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] SUMMARY: Post is pleased to submit the following information in response to reftel request. ------------------- OVERVIEW (PARA. 27) ------------------- 2. (SBU) (27A) Kazakhstan is a destination, transit, and source country for people trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexu [...]
2007-03-07 12:05:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07ASTANA614KAZAKHSTAN SUBMISSIONS FOR 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] SUMMARY: Post is pleased to submit the following information in response to reftel request. ------------------- OVERVIEW (PARA. 27) ------------------- 2. (SBU) (27A) Kazakhstan is a destination, transit, and source country for people traffQked for the purposes of forced labor and sexua [...]
2007-03-07 12:06:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07ASTANA991NEW HEAD OF FINANCIAL POLICE ACADEMY IN KAZAKHSTAN
[...] (U) Summary: On March 29, the Chairman of the Financial Police appointed Major-General Ramazan Tleuhan to head the Kazakhstani Financial Police Academy located near Astana. The new Head of Financial Police Academy replaces Colonel/Professor of the Financial Police Academy, Marat Kogamov. End [...]
2007-04-18 06:25:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCOR KCRM KZ
07ASUNCION144PARAGUAY: PRESIDENT LOOKING AT "OVIEDO" OPTION
[...] (C) Summary. Paraguay's Presidential election in May 2008 dominates the political scene. Leftist priest Fernando Lugo is outpolling both of his closest competitors ) imprisoned coup-plotter Lino Oviedo and current President Duarte ) by a two to one margin. Ironically, all three face Cons [...]
2007-02-26 11:45:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KCRM PA
07ASUNCION158PARAGUAY: THE SEVENTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) This cable responds to the detailed questions regarding Anti-Trafficking in Persons efforts for Paraguay. OVERVIEW A. Paraguay is a source country for trafficked women and children, many of whom are smuggled across Paraguay's borders into the neighboring countries of Argentina, Boli [...]
2007-03-02 18:15:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PA
07ASUNCION18PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE DECEMBER
[...] (U) SUMMARY: -- Paraguayan Engineering Know How -- Threshold Program, First Ever Inter-Institutional Agreement -- Cuban National Arrives Safely in Miami -- First Class Graduation -- Paraguay Attracting Investment PARAGUAYAN ENGINEERING KNOW HOW 2. (U) An Anatov 124-100, the largest [...]
2007-01-11 22:00:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL ECON EINV EAIR KCRM KMCA CU PA
07ASUNCION242PARAGUAY: "OVIEDO" OPTION STILL IN SUSPENSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Paraguay's Attorney General has recommended that the conviction of imprisoned coup plotter Lino Oviedo be reviewed on the basis of new evidence. Supreme Court President then announced the entire court would take its decision on the question of review by mid-April. A decision t [...]
2007-03-26 11:25:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KCRM PA
07ASUNCION243PARAGUAY: PRESIDENT LOOKING AT "OVIEDO" OPTION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-26 11:26:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KCRM PA
07ASUNCION256PARAGUAYAN PRIEST LUGO'S CONVERSION TO POLITICS A
[...] (C) Catholic priest Fernando Lugo exploded onto the Paraguayan national political stage as a potential candidate for Paraguay's presidency in March 2006 as the keynote speaker at an anti-government demonstration. However, Lugo is hardly a novice to politics judging from his family's involve [...]
2007-03-29 20:57:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV KDEM KCRM PA
07ASUNCION262PARAGUAY: BATTLE ROYALE IN MAKING OVER VP
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Few politicians, including President Duarte, have responded in depth publicly to Vice-President Castiglioni's surprise announcement on March 28 of his presidential bid. In a hard-ball backroom maneuver, however, VP supporter Senator Argana has been warned that supporting Casti [...]
2007-03-30 18:17:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KCRM PA
07ASUNCION338PARAGUAY SCENESETTER FOR WHA A/S THOMAS SHANNON
[...] (C) Assistant Secretary Shannon, Embassy Asuncion warmly welcomes your visit as an opportunity to strengthen our relationship with Paraguay and promote U.S. interests focused on strengthening democratic institutions, promoting sound economic policies and good governance, disrupting criminal or [...]
2007-04-23 21:09:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KCRM SNAR PA
07ASUNCION394PARAGUAY: AN OUNCE OF DRUG DISRUPTION WORTH A KILO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Paraguay remains a major transshipment corridor for (mostly Bolivian) cocaine, Colombian FARC arms-for-drugs deals and regional money-laundering. But the combination here now of strong leadership, new infrastructure, strengthened legislation, beefed-up human resources and the be [...]
2007-05-16 23:04:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL PGOV KCRM PA
07ASUNCION420PARAGUAY TAKES MAJOR STEP ON TERRORISM LEGISLATION
[...] ACTION REQUEST: See para. 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Paraguay's House of Deputies voted May 3 to pass a Penal Code Reform bill that includes provisions to strengthen penalties for IPR violations and money laundering, and criminalizes ) for the first time ) terrorist financing. This bill will [...]
2007-05-23 15:03:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPTER KCRM PREL ECON PA
07ASUNCION431PARAGUAY: INVESTIGATIVE TEAM UNCOVERS LARGE FRAUD
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Controller General's investigative support unit, established with support from USAID/Paraguay, uncovered a scheme in the Education and Culture Ministry that involved the misuse and misappropriation of funds. Funds intended to provide basic food supplies for poor elementary sc [...]
2007-05-24 12:53:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KCRM KDEM PA
07ASUNCION451PARAGUAY POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC UPDATE MAY 26 -
[...] SUMMARY: -- TIP Consultant Quits Amid Threats -- Second Peacekeeping Force Deploys -- Director of Intellectual Property Leaving Post -- Civil Society Input for MCA -- Supporting Transparency in Local Leadership -- Support for Ethics Code Grows -- Court Backs Tax Compliance TIP CONSULT [...]
2007-06-04 15:40:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN KCRM PA MASS MOPS
07ASUNCION486PARAGUAY: RESPONSE TO MAJOR LIST / CERTIFICATION
[...] Below find Post's submission on the Government of Paraguay (GOP) cooperation on counter-narcotics and other drug-related issues. 2. The United States Government (USG) asked the GOP to keep pressure on major international drug organizations trafficking drugs through investigations, arrests [...]
2007-06-13 11:31:00Embassy AsuncionUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV KCRM PA
07ASUNCION515PARAGUAY: MONEY WELL SPENT; COPS ARRESTED
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The National Anti-Drug Secretariat (SENAD) seized the largest cocaine transshipmentin Paraguayan history in Pedro Juan Caballero (PJC),during a joint intelligence operation between the Brazilian federal police, DEA, and SENAD. SENAD confiscated 450 kg of cocaine and arrested si [...]
2007-06-20 18:47:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALKCRM PREL PINR SNAR PA BR
07ASUNCION647FIU CHIEF YEGROS RESIGNED
[...] (U) After weeks of speculation, President Duarte announced the removal of SEPRELAD (Paraguay's FIU) chief Carlos Yegros late August 7. Embassy contacts reported that Yegros resigned July 30, but that Minister of Industry and Commerce Jose Maria Ibanez did not immediately accept his resignation [...]
2007-08-08 17:20:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALEFIN KCRM PAC PTER SNAR PA
07ASUNCION650FIU CHIEF YEGROS FIRED
[...] (U) After weeks of speculation, President Duarte announced the removal of SEPRELAD (Paraguay's FIU) chief Carlos Yegros late August 7. Embassy contacts reported that Yegros resigned July 30, but that Minister of Industry and Commerce Jose Maria Ibanez did not immediately accept his resignation [...]
2007-08-08 17:22:00Embassy AsuncionCONFIDENTIALEFIN KCRM PAC PTER SNAR PA
07ATHENS1361GREECE: BSEC DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) On July 2, DepPolCouns, Econoff, and Poloff delivered BSEC environmental symposium demarche points to MFA B2 Directorate for Economic and Commercial Affairs Deputy Director Ioannis Metaxas. Metaxas responded that high-level officials from the Ministry of the Environment and the Minist [...]
2007-07-03 13:53:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PREL KCRM GR
07ATHENS1416GREECE SCORES VICTORY AGAINST INTERNATIONAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On July 8, Greek anti-trafficking police carried out simultaneous raids on 34 different locations in Athens, arresting 11 suspected members of an international trafficking ring and another 62 persons accused of facilitating vice and prostitution. Three women (out of 45 detaine [...]
2007-07-13 08:13:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KHUM KWMN KCRM SMIG GR
07ATHENS2335GREECE: STATUS OF EXTRADITION AND MLAT AGREEMENT
[...] (SBU) Embassy Political section and LEGATT discussed the status of the Greek ratification process of the 2003 U.S.-EU Agreements on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance with several contacts in the MFA and Ministry of Justice. Greek legal experts were of the opinion that the agreements@o be [...]
2007-12-11 14:26:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KTIA PREL KCRM KJUS EUN GR
07ATHENS2351GREECE: STATUS OF EXTRADITION AND MLAT AGREEMENT
[...] (SBU) Embassy Political section and LEGATT discussed the status of the Greek ratification process of the 2003 U.S.-EU Agreements on Extradition and Mutual Legal Assistance with several contacts in the MFA and Ministry of Justice. Greek legal experts were of the opinion that the agreements the [...]
2007-12-13 16:03:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KTIA PREL KCRM KJUS EUN GR
07ATHENS2380GREECE: TIP ACTION GUIDE DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) On December 19, DCM delivered reftel Action Guide to Combat TIP to Aristedes Agathocles, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Agathocles informed DCM that he was now the Coordinator of the Inter-Ministerial Group dealing with TIP issues for the GoG. DCM advised Agatholc [...]
2007-12-19 15:00:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG GR
07ATHENS413ANTI-TIP IN GREECE: NGO & GOG ASSESSMENT OF
[...] (U) In a series of meetings February 9-13 with visiting Cyprus/Greece/Turkey Desk Officer and Embassy PolOff, MFA officials repeatedly underscored their appreciation for U.S. cooperation in the battle against the "deplorable crime" of trafficking in persons (TIP). Officials stressed Greece's [...]
2007-02-26 08:25:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL ELAB GR
07ATHENS501GREECE PART 3: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2007
[...] (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the 2007 TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to Ref A request for "Investigation and Prosecution"Section . This is the third of four cables. 2. (SBU) INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF TRAFFICKERS: ------------------------------------ [...]
2007-03-09 09:13:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR
07ATHENS502GREECE PART 2: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2007
[...] (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the 2007 TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to Ref A request for "Prevention" Section. This is the second of four cables. 2. (SBU) PREVENTION: ----------- -- A. Does the government acknowledge that trafficking is a problem in tha [...]
2007-03-09 09:14:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR
07ATHENS503GREECE PART 1: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2007
[...] The following is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Protect Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Below are Embassy Athens' responses to the 2007 TIP report questionnaire. Text is keyed to Ref A request for "Overview" Section. This is the first of four cables. 3. (SBU) SUMMARY: Greece continues to [...]
2007-03-09 09:14:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR
07ATHENS504GREECE PART 4: TIP REPORT SUBMISSION 2007
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-09 09:15:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR
07ATHENS647GREECE: REACTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT
[...] (SBU) Following the pattern of recent years, the release of the Human Rights Report in Greece was generally reported with straightforward analysis of the issues. For the most part, newspapers avoided the hyperbolic tones that are often the watermark of Greek journalism - especially on any matt [...]
2007-03-29 13:25:00Embassy AthensUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREL PREF ELAB GR
07BAGHDAD1621PRT TIKRIT: TIKRIT LAW SCHOOL LEARNS ABOUT U.S.
[...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din (SaD) cable. 2. (SBU) In a first of its kind May 14 lecture, the PRT's Rule of Law Advisor, a Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor, gave an overview of the U.S. Justice system to over 40 law school students and faculty from the University of Tikrit's [...]
2007-05-19 11:56:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM KCRM IZ
07BAGHDAD2298MAJORITY GOVERNMENT NEEDED, PM MALIKI TELLS CODEL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An obdurate Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki told Senators McCain and Graham on July 3 that the national unity government was to blame for delays in passing much needed reform legislation and called for a majority government instead. He complained that his government partners were [...]
2007-07-11 12:30:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALIZ KCRM KDEM PGOV PHUM
07BAGHDAD3441PRT TIKRIT: MCC HOLDS FIRST TRIALS
[...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din reporting cable. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The key concern during the initial cases heard by the new ad Din Province Major Crimes Court was whether local judges would have the courage to carry out their duties or whether they would succumb t [...]
2007-10-16 18:14:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRS KCRM KJUS SNAR KWMN OTRA ECON IZ
07BAGHDAD3691ABDUCTORS RELEASE RADIO FREE LIBERTY-IRAQ
[...] (SBU) Jumana Take was released by her captors on October 31, 2007 after 9 days in captivity. Ms. Take is an Iraqi citizen freelance journalist employed at times by Radio Free Liberty-Iraq (RFL-I). 2. (SBU) According to Bill Key, Director of Corporate Security for RFL, Ms. Take called the R [...]
2007-11-07 14:12:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIZ KCRM PGOV PTER
07BAGHDAD970PRT TIKRIT: JUDICIAL CONFERENCE SUPPORTS MAJOR
[...] (U) This is a PRT Tikrit, Salah ad Din cable. 2. (SBU) On March 14 the PRT Rule of Law Team hosted the province's first judicial conference since the fall of the former regime. 25 of Salah ad Din's judges, prosecutors, and high ranking police officials gathered in Tikrit for a day-long dis [...]
2007-03-19 14:13:00Embassy BaghdadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KCRM IZ
07BAKU1112BAKU AIRPORT SECURITY OFFICIALS ARRESTED ON TIP
[...] (SBU) On September 6, police arrested Head of Baku Airport Security Emil Suleymanov and an unconfirmed number of other airport officials on charges of facilitating trafficking in persons. According to press reports, an anonymous source said that Suleymanov helped traffickers transport victims [...]
2007-09-07 12:29:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KCOR KCRM KWMN AJ
07BAKU1497AZERBAIJAN: 2007 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] Summary: Cooperation between Azerbaijan and the United States on counterterrorism predates the September 11, 2001 attacks and the first waiver of Section 907 of the FREEDOM Support Act in January 2002. Over the past five years, the GOAJ has continued to step up its efforts to combat terrorist [...]
2007-12-17 13:41:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EFIN KCRM KPAO PTER KHLS AEMR AJ KAPO
07BAKU252\\CORRECTED COPY - TAG ORDER\\ PART I OF II: AZERBAIJAN
[...] (U) As per reftel, paragraph 3 below begins Embassy Baku's submission on status of action the GOAJ has taken to combat human trafficking. Answers are keyed to questions in reftel. 2. (SBU) In preparing this report, the Embassy has undertaken extensive contacts with international organizatio [...]
2007-03-01 11:19:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF ASEC ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD SMIG AJ
07BAKU254PART II OF II: AZERBAIJAN 2007 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-01 11:41:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB AJ
07BAKU479AZERBAIJAN'S PROPOSALSFOR TIP SOLICITATION FOR
[...] Per retel, we are pleased to submit five proposals for consideration for the G/TIP-Managed FY 2007 ESF and INCLE funds. The Embassy's TIP team - comprised of Poloff, Resident Legal Advisor, Senior Law Enforcement Advisor, and Pol FSN - reviewed all received proposals, and determined these to be [...]
2007-04-20 13:23:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AJ
07BAKU511INVITATION TO NUCLEAR FORENSICS EXPERTS MEETING
[...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel invitation to the June 27-28, 2007, Nuclear Forensics Experts Meeting to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs Security Affairs depatment. MFA officers expressed an interest in atending and asked if there was funding available. Poloff said that, to his knowle [...]
2007-04-26 10:03:00Embassy BakuUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP KCRM MNUC ASEC ENRG PARM TRGY AJ
07BAKU533AZERBAIJAN'S BOOMING ENERGY SECTOR HIDES DIFFICULT
[...] (C) Summary: Azerbaijan's stunning GDP growth of 34 percent -- fueled largely by the energy sector -- is accompanied by severe corruption and weak rule of law, that since early 2006 appear to be having an increasingly negative impact on firms operating outside the protection of the energy sec [...]
2007-05-02 06:23:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD PREL KCOR EINV KCRM KJUS AJ
07BAKU95AZERBAIJAN: KIDNAPPING AND EXTORTION GANG LEADER
[...] (U) In a January 19 verdict, former Chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Criminal Investigation Division Haji Mammadov was sentenced to life in prison. Nine members of Mammadov's 26-member murder, kidnapping and extortion gang also received life sentences. One of the accused, the owner of [...]
2007-01-19 14:27:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI KCOR KCRM KJUS AJ
07BAMAKO717CHILD TRAFFICKERS AWAITING COURT DECISION
[...] Alleged Ivoirian child traffickers Bernard Assouman Yao and Simon Djehi Bi Ta remain in custody in Sikasso following their arrest in March 2007 for allegedly attempting to traffic 46 young men from Cote d'Ivoire to Europe. If convicted, they will be the first traffickers punished under Mali [...]
2007-07-03 13:08:00Embassy BamakoUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC ML
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN316BRUNEI REQUESTS TARGETED TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS TRAINING
[...] (SBU) This is an action request for ICE Singapore to organize a study visit to the U.S. for GoB anti-TIP personnel. See paragraph 2. ----------------------- ACTION REQUEST ----------------------- 2. (SBU) The Government of Brunei (GoB) has requested USG support in improving its abili [...]
2007-10-23 07:42:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KTIP BX
07BANDARSERIBEGAWAN87BRUNEI TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) Please find below Post's report in preparation for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Please note paragraph numbering is keyed to reftel questions: -------- OVERVIEW -------- A. Brunei is not a major destination for trafficked persons, nor is it a source or transit country. [...]
2007-03-09 06:43:00Embassy Bandar Seri BegawanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF BX
07BANGKOK16THAI FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES BOMBINGS
[...] (C) Thai Foreign Minister Nitya "Nit" Pibulsonggram told the Ambassador the cabinet was consumed with speculation about the New Year's Eve bombings and believed former Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh to be involved. Nit expressed low confidence that the RTG could build a case against the [...]
2007-01-03 10:31:00Embassy BangkokCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV PINS KISL KJUS KCRM ASEC TH
07BANGKOK247THAI MFA REQUESTS HELP WITH ABDUCTION IN SOMALIA
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) The Thai MFA has requested USG assistance in pressing Somali authorities to work with the Thai Government to secure the release of a Thai citizen held hostage in Somalia. On January 12, we spoke with Panyarak Poolthup, MFA Deputy [...]
2007-01-12 04:43:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM TH SO
07BANGKOK5011EMBASSY URGES GREATER RTG EFFORT ON LABOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: DCM and Emboffs voiced strong concern at the lack of progress on labor trafficking cases in Thailand in delivering reftel demarche to MFA DG for the Americas, Nongnuth Phetcharatana. DCM advised MFA that Thailand's record on labor trafficking threatens to overshadow continued [...]
2007-09-19 09:19:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM CVIS TH
07BANGKOK5436EMBASSY BANGKOK REQUEST FOR FY08 JIATF WEST SUPPORT
[...] (SBU/NF) This is a request for U.S. DoD operational support under section 1004, National Defense Authorization Act of 1991 as amended, for FY 2008 JIATF West training and construction support to Thai counterdrug law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and Thai military units with counterdrug roles. [...]
2007-10-16 10:12:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR MOPS TH LA KCRM
07BANGKOK55FURTHER REACTION TO BANGKOK BOMBS: SURAYUD
[...] (S/NF) Prime Minister Surayud publicly backed away from his January 1 assertion that opposition political figures had orchestrated the December 31 bombings. A leading Army General continued to implicate former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, however, and promised "harsh measures" against p [...]
2007-01-04 10:06:00Embassy BangkokSECRET//NOFORNPTER PGOV PINS ASEC KJUS KCRM TH
07BANGKOK5966THAILAND PROPOSALS FOR EAP WOMEN'S ISSUES FUND COMPETITION
[...] As requested in reftel, post supports the following proposals for the EAP/RSP Women's Issues Fund (WIF) Small Grants Competition. The information provided is as submitted by the organization. Proposals are listed in order of post's preference: PROPOSAL ONE ------------ a) Name of applica [...]
2007-11-28 11:29:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KWMN KPAO KCRM TH
07BANGKOK6234Prospects for Future USG Assistance to the Thai Anti-Money
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Visiting USDOJ Official Linda Samuel accompanied by Embassy Bangkok officers called on senior Thai Anti-Money Laundering Office officials and held a productive discussion of possible new USG-RTG cooperation and capacity building assistance. The visit responded to a recent RTG de [...]
2007-12-21 07:29:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KCRM SNAR TH
07BANGKOK6254Prospects for Future USG Assistance to the Thai Anti-Money
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Visiting USDOJ Official Linda Samuel accompanied by Embassy Bangkok officers called on senior Thai Anti-Money Laundering Office officials and held a productive discussion of possible new USG-RTG cooperation and capacity building assistance. The visit responded to a recent RTG de [...]
2007-12-26 07:31:00Embassy BangkokUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KCRM SNAR TH
07BANJUL306THE GAMBIA: 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) On June 11, Ambassador and Poloff met with Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Bai Ousmane Secka to inform him of the TIP Report narrative for The Gambia in advance of the Report's public release June 12. Providing copies of the narrative, points, and press guidance contained in reftel, [...]
2007-06-12 11:49:00Embassy BanjulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KPAO ELAB GA
07BARCELONA52HIGH LEVEL OFFICIAL ARRESTED IN IMMIGRATION SCANDAL
[...] (SBU) Eduard Planells, formerly the Spanish government's deputy representative to the region of Catalonia, was arrested July 16 in connection with Operation Wasp (Avispa),a Spanish National Police (SNP) operation targeting the Russian mafia. A national anticorruption court ordered the arrest [...]
2007-07-20 10:54:00Consulate BarcelonaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR KCRM RS GG IS SP
07BARCELONA55CG RAISES MONEYLAUNDERING, UNGA WITH NEW ANDORRAN FM,
[...] (SBU) Summary: CG traveled to Andorra July 26 to call on newly appointed Foreign Minister Meritxell Mateu, meet for the first time with opposition party leader Jaume Bartomeu, President of the Social Democrat group in the Andorran Parliament, and handle an ACS case. Mateu delivered a copy of a [...]
2007-07-27 17:47:00Consulate BarcelonaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UNGA KCRM SNAR SP
07BASRAH24ANOTHER IRAQI SLAIN FOR SERVING HIS COUNTRY
[...] (S/NOFORN) On the evening of April 7, Assaf Alnahi, a Basrah Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) locally engaged contractor (LES) was assassinated in central Basrah. In addition to his duties with the PRT, Assaf worked with the MND/SE legal office and was the judicial assistant to the Basrah [...]
2007-04-09 17:12:00REO BasrahSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER KCRM PHUM UK IZ
07BEIJING7446TIP: PRC RESPONSE TO USG CONCERNS PRIOR TO BEIJING COMMIT
[...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel points on the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative Against Trafficking (COMMIT) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Treaty and Law Division Deputy Director Xu Yu on December 3. 2. (SBU) Noting that he shared our points with the Ministry of Public Security and o [...]
2007-12-12 02:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL CH BU
07BEIJING7545TIP: COORDINATED MEKONG MINISTERIAL
[...] (SBU) At the Coordinated Mekong Ministerial Initiative against Trafficking (COMMIT) Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) and Inter Ministerial Meeting (IMM) in Beijing December 12-14, delegates from Burma, Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam discussed regional cooperation and coordination o [...]
2007-12-19 06:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN ELAB PGOV CH
07BEIRUT1005LEBANON: RIZK ON SPECIAL TRIBUNAL "HOMEWORK,"
[...] (S) Minister of Justice Charles Rizk told the Ambassador in a 7/5 meeting that he and PM Siniora had agreed that, at the beginning of next week, Siniora will send to the UN the candidates for judges and deputy prosecutor for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Rizk would like us to whisper qui [...]
2007-07-06 13:20:00Embassy BeirutSECRETPREL PTER KCRM LE SY
07BEIRUT121LEBANON: MARONITE PATRIARCH SEES CHRISTIANS
[...] (C) Ambassador Feltman and econoff met January 23 with Maronite Patriarch Sfeir, who expressed his concern that Lebanese Christians are fighting each other and did not appear engaged in trying to de-escalate the nationwide strike. The Patriarch agreed with the Ambassador's assessment that ex [...]
2007-01-23 17:11:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM PTER SY LE
07BEIRUT1482LEBANON: PM SINIORA: CABINET REAFFIRMS SUPPORT
[...] (C) Although details of the meeting make the LAF-GOL discussions sound tense, Prime Minister Siniora described as "very good" the seven-hour cabinet meeting on 9/24. The meeting focused, the PM reported, on stopping groups from across the political spectrum from rearming and tightening cabin [...]
2007-09-26 11:49:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KCRM PTER LE
07BEIRUT2OPTIONS FOR THE TRIBUNAL
[...] (S) As the Christmas-New Year and 'Eid al-Adha holidays come to an end, the Lebanese seem no closer to completing the approval process for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. None of the options available to the GOL guarantee success; most ideas are unrealistic. Within GOL circles, there is g [...]
2007-01-03 07:10:00Embassy BeirutSECRETPTER PREL KCRM LE SY
07BEIRUT207LEBANON: LAWYER FOR JAILED GENERAL JAMIL AS-SAYED
[...] (C) Akram Azoury, attorney for the jailed former head of Lebanon's Surete Generale, Jamil as-Sayed, met with DCM February 5 to present the case for as-Sayed's release from prison. Azoury, a respected human rights lawyer, said that the only basis for the Lebanese government's incarceration of [...]
2007-02-08 09:55:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM PTER SHUM LE SY
07BEIRUT251LEBANON: JUSTICE MINISTER READY TO WORK ON
[...] (C) Lebanon has reached a crossroads, Justice Minister Rizk told Ambassador Feltman, NEA/ELA Office Director Abercrombie-Winstanley, and Econoff on February 15. The March 14 coalition can now block political progress and let Hizballah take the blame, or restore national unity through the leg [...]
2007-02-15 15:53:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM PTER SY LE
07BEIRUT252LEBANON: BANKS COMMISSIONER WORRIED ABOUT BANKS,
[...] (C) In a February 13 meeting with the DCM and visiting NEA/ELA Office Director, the head of Lebanon's Banking Control Commission, Walid Alameddine, expressed concern about the effect of the summer war on banking sector stability. Alameddine believes the GOL should not expect a large contribut [...]
2007-02-15 16:03:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM PTER ECON EFIN LE
07BEIRUT253LEBANON: CITIBANK LEBANON DIRECTOR ANXIOUS FOR
[...] (U) This message may contain proprietary information. Please protect accordingly. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) In a February 13 meeting with the DCM and NEA/ELA Office Director, Citibank Lebanon's Director Walter Siouffi appeared shaken by the morning's bus bombings in Bikfaya, and viewe [...]
2007-02-15 16:16:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL KCRM PTER LE
07BEIRUT31LEBANON: ZAHLE MP DISSATISFIED WITH AOUN AND
[...] (C) Zahle Member of Parliament Illy Skaff (allied with Michel Aoun) in early January shared with Ambassador Feltman and emboff his disatisfaction from Aoun amidst continued frustration with the Hariris. Yet, asked about Hizballah, Skaff stated that Christian fears of Sunni fundamentalism and [...]
2007-01-05 16:24:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM LE SY
07BEIRUT37UPDATE ON TRIBUNAL: DOCUMENTS SIGNED, GOL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-08 12:29:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PTER LE SY
07BEIRUT39UPDATE ON TRIBUNAL: DOCUMENTS SIGNED, GOL
[...] (C) At a meeting with the Ambassador on 1/6, Minister of Justice Charles Rizk confirmed that MOJ Omar Natour signed the two English-language documents related to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon: the tribunal's statute and the agreement on its establishment between the UN and GOL. MOJ deli [...]
2007-01-08 12:36:00Embassy BeirutSECRETPREL KCRM PTER LE SY
07BEIRUT414LEBANON: UNIIIC SENIOR INVESTIGATOR SAYS STEADY
[...] (C) In a 3/19 meeting, UNIIIC chief investigator Peter Nicholson and senior investigator Rosemary Nidiry informed emboff that the Commission is now proceeding on the assumption that their mandate will be extended by the Security Council. Nicholson stated that the investigation has considera [...]
2007-03-21 09:28:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER KCRM LE SY IS
07BEIRUT430LEBANON: SINIORA DETAILS TRIBUNAL STRATEGY
[...] (C) In a 3/23 meeting, PM Siniora explained that he intends to take advantage of a flurry of diplomatic activity -- the upcoming visits to Beirut of Chancellor Angela Merkel, UNSYG Ban Ki-Moon, and U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as next week's Arab Summit -- to try to force the opposition [...]
2007-03-23 16:58:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER KCRM LE SY IS
07BEIRUT44LEBANON: TASHNAQ MPS DISTANCE SELVES FROM
[...] (C) Ambassador Feltman and Emboff met with Tashnaq Secretary General Hovig Mukhtarian and Members of Parliament SIPDIS Hagop Pakradunian and George Kassarji in early January. Tashnaq politicians distanced their party from the rest of the opposition, emphasizing their relative neutrality, ma [...]
2007-01-08 18:06:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM SY LE
07BEIRUT558PEDERSEN ON UN/OLA NICOLAS MICHEL VISIT:
[...] (C) Summary: Over lunch with the Ambassador on 4/23, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Geir Pedersen reported that, in his final meetings in Lebanon before departing 4/21, UN/OLA chief Nicolas Michel failed in his last attempts to get the Lebanese to agree to approve the Special Tribunal t [...]
2007-04-23 12:34:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KCRM PGOV LE SY
07BEIRUT58SENIOR STATESMAN YEARNS FOR "LOCKERBIE" SOLUTION
[...] (C) Octogenarian senior statesman Fouad Boutros hosted the Ambassador to a one-on-one lunch on 1/9. Boutros (who has held public positions from the 1940s until his recent stint as head of the electoral reform commission) expressed deep concern that Lebanon is being destroyed because of the [...]
2007-01-10 17:07:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM KCRM PTER LE SY
07BEIRUT666LEBANON: AOUN ADVISOR'S RECONCILIATION INITIATIVE
[...] (C) General Aoun's son-in-law and senior advisor Gebran Bassil provided details about Michel Aoun's anticipated initiative, which has yet to be publicly released. Bassil has been preparing the initiative for some time, but Aoun decided to wait until all of Lebanon's political players appeare [...]
2007-05-11 17:26:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER KCRM LE
07BEIRUT695LEBANON: PM SINIORA CONVOKES UNSC MEMBER STATE
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: PM Siniora summoned the chiefs of missions of all UNSC member embassies in Beirut at 6:00 PM on May 16 to make a pitch for UNSC adoption of a Chapter VII resolution on the Special Tribunal. Present were the ambassadors of Italy, Russia, China, and Belgium; Char [...]
2007-05-17 15:09:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KCRM LE
07BEIRUT699LEBANON: A/S WELCH VISITS FORMER PRESIDENT
[...] (C) In a May 16 meeting with visiting NEA A/S Welch and the Ambassador, former President Amine Gemayel stressed the need for a successful UN Security Council vote to establish the tribunal to try suspects in the death of former Prime Minister Hariri. Gemayel also hopes for a strongly-worded r [...]
2007-05-17 16:59:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALKCRM PGOV PREL LE SY
07BEIRUT967LEBANON: FBI DIRECTOR EXPLORES COUNTERTERRORISM
[...] (S) FBI Director Mueller on June 26 met with Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Elias Murr, Minister of Interior Hassan Sabaa, Head of the Internal Security Forces Ashraf Rifi, Minister of Justice Charles Rizk, and Chief Prosecutor Jean Fahd to offer FBI assistance to Lebanon's securit [...]
2007-06-29 09:01:00Embassy BeirutSECRETPGOV PREL PTER KCRM LE SY
07BELGRADE1065 VISAS DONKEY CORRUPTION 212 (F) SRM (MISKOVIC, Miroslav)
[...] (s) Summary: Miroslav Miskovic, dpob: 5 July 1945, Serbia, is the richest man in Serbia and, according to the most recent Forbes ranking, one of the richest in the world, with over $1 billion in wealth. He dominates banking, insurance, and consumer goods in Serbia after obtaining massive we [...]
2007-07-27 15:59:00Embassy BelgradeSECRETCVIS KCOR KCRM ASEC PGOV PREL ECON KFRD SR
07BELGRADE1612 VETTING FOR PROPOSED PARTICIPANTS FOR UPCOMING 2008
[...] The following candidates from Serbia are presented as nominees for attendance in the upcoming 2008 middle management and high level training courses at the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU) in Vincenza, Italy. Consistent with Department Policy as it relates to Leahy Ame [...]
2007-12-03 13:03:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDMASS KCRM PREL IT SR
07BELGRADE1709SERBIA: 2007-2008 INCSR II ON MONEY LAUNDERING
[...] Reftel requested post update for Serbia on efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Serbia is upholding all international commitments to eliminate money laundering and terrorist financing. END SUMMARY. SERBIA: Not a Financial Center ------------------------------ 2. [...]
2007-12-20 14:43:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR SR
07BELGRADE188WAR CRIMES ROUNDTABLE HIGHLIGHTS CROSS-
[...] (SBU) Summary: A war crimes conference held in Belgrade to commemorate the second anniversary of the 2005 signing of the Croatia-Serbia MOU on war crimes cooperation highlighted the significant achievements that have been made since the MOU in establishing cooperation and cross-border collab [...]
2007-02-08 14:40:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM ICTY PGOV PREL SR
07BELGRADE272SERBIA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] OVERVIEW --------------- A. Serbia is a country of origin, transit, and destination for internationally trafficked men, women, and children. The Agency for the Coordination of Protection of Victims of Trafficking recorded 62 TIP victims. Of these, there were 60 females and 2 males; 33 wer [...]
2007-02-28 14:29:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SR
07BELGRADE303EDUCATION MAFIA ARRESTED ON BRIBERY CHARGES
[...] (U) Serbian police have arrested 18 people, including 12 university teachers, in an ongoing investigation of rampant corruption at the Law Faculty of Kragujevac University. The arrests, all occurring since February 20, include Assistant Minister of Education Emilija Stankovic, Sveta Puric, rec [...]
2007-03-06 14:59:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KCRM KCOR PREL SR
07BELGRADE417 VETTING FOR PROPOSED PARTICIPANTS FOR MAY 2007 COESPU
[...] The following candidates from Serbia are presented as nominees for attendance in the May 2007 middle management and high level training courses at the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU) in Vincenza, Italy. Consistent with Department Policy as it relates to Leahy Amendmen [...]
2007-03-26 16:39:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDMASS KCRM PREL IT SR
07BELGRADE605RESPONSE TO OSCE PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] (U) After consulting with local OSCE officials in Belgrade, and internally with relevant Mission agencies, post recommends the following projects for funding. The projects selected represent a number of mission and OSCE priorities including democratization, counter-terrorism and the resolut [...]
2007-05-07 16:22:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDABUD AFIN EAID ECON KCRM KJUS OSCE PHUM PREL
07BELGRADE905 VETTING FOR PROPOSED PARTICIPANTS FOR UPCOMING 2007 COESPU
[...] The following candidates from Serbia are presented as nominees for attendance in the upcoming 2007 middle management and high level training courses at the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU) in Vincenza, Italy. Consistent with Department Policy as it relates to Leahy Ame [...]
2007-06-25 13:11:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIEDMASS KCRM PREL IT SR
07BELGRADE997DJINDJIC ASSASSINATION STILL POLITICAL FOOTBALL
[...] (SBU) Special prosecutor for organized crime Slobodan Radovinovic has opened an investigation into the political background of late Serbian PM Djindjic's assassination in response to competing accusations between the LDP and the DSS over who bore ultimate responsibility for creating the condit [...]
2007-07-16 06:02:00Embassy BelgradeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCRM SR
07BELMOPAN150 BELIZE - SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] (U) Responses are keyed to the checklist (paras 27-32) in Ref. A. 2. (SBU) Overview of BelizeQs Activities to Eliminate Trafficking in Persons A. Belize is a transit and destination country for internationally trafficked men, women, and children. Trafficking occurs within the countr [...]
2007-03-02 22:00:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BH
07BELMOPAN338 BELIZE RESPONSE - INL DELEGATED AUTHORITIES
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-16 22:10:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM BH
07BELMOPAN346BELIZE HOSTS SECOND CARICOM-SICA SUMMIT
[...] Summary: Belize hosted the Second Caribbean Community (CARICOM) ? Central American Integration System (SICA) summit in Belize City on May 12, 2007. Topics discussed included trade liberalization, social and cultural issues, energy, security, and governance. The group agreed to meet every t [...]
2007-05-18 22:30:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ETRD ENRG KCRM BH
07BELMOPAN43 Appointment of Director of Public Prosecution
[...] Summary: Ambassador and Consul called on Belize's newly-appointed Director of Public Prosecutions to review his plans for prosecution of several high-profile cases of interest to the USG. During the meeting the DPP expressed interest in training opportunities for his staff to improve skills [...]
2007-01-19 20:31:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM CASC PREL PINR KCRM BH
07BELMOPAN687 BELIZE REPLY TO G/TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT SURVEY
[...] Summary. The Government of Belize (GoB) continues to take significant steps to address human trafficking issues, primarily on the public awareness and investigative fronts. The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Committee (the Committee),continues to meet monthly and provides additional resources [...]
2007-11-29 21:18:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG SOCI BH
07BELMOPAN91 BELIZE: ANTI-TIP PROGRAM GETS MORE CASH
[...] Summary. On January 30, poloff met with Anita Zetina (Chair of the Belize Anti-Trafficking Committee and Chief Executive Officer at the Ministry of Human Development) and Ayesha Borland (Desk Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) to discuss the government's latest efforts in combating T [...]
2007-02-09 16:49:00Embassy BelmopanUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV KCRM KWMN BH
07BERLIN1190GERMANY - MFA RESPONSE TO 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] (U) CONTAINS REQUEST FOR ACTION -- PLEASE SEE PARA 6. 2. (SBU) Emboffs delivered demarche contained in ref and passed an advance copy of the 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report country narrative for Germany to Axel Kuechle, MFA Deputy Director for International Cooperation against Orga [...]
2007-06-13 15:36:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN KJUS SMIG ELAB PREL PGOV ASEC
07BERLIN1846GERMAN PROSECUTORS SUSPECT RUSSIAN
[...] (C) German prosecutors suspect Atomstroyexport, the Russian state-owned nuclear power equipment and services exporter, played a leading role in efforts to circumvent Germany's export control laws by diverting German-manufactured technology to Iran's nuclear program via Russian front companies [...]
2007-10-05 10:42:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALETTC KCRM KNNP PARM PREL MNUC KJUS IR RS GM
07BERLIN2015TIP - UPDATE ON GERMAN EFFORTS TO COMBAT
[...] In 2007, Germany's counter-TIP campaigns and awareness raising programs brought together high-level decision makers and NGOs. As a result of strengthened legislation penalizing labor exploitation, NGOs and government officials are starting to focus on improving awareness and counseling in thi [...]
2007-11-05 09:30:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC PGOV GM
07BERLIN2239GERMAN COURT TO RESUME TRIAL AGAINST A.Q.
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: A federal court in Stuttgart announced November 14 that trial proceedings would resume in early 2008 against Gotthard Lerch, a German citizen allegedly linked to the A.Q. Khan nuclear proliferation network. The trial was suspended in July 2006 pending resolution of jurisdictio [...]
2007-12-21 13:31:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM KNNP KJUS KCRM PREL MNUC ETTC GM
07BERLIN269GOVERNMENT AND NGO REPORTS EVALUATE GERMAN EFFORTS
[...] (U) Summary: Reports prepared by the German Federal Interior Ministry and Federal Family Ministry, as well as the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and key German anti-trafficking NGOs independently conclude there was no significant increase in trafficking in persons (TIP) during [...]
2007-02-09 15:19:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC PGOV GM
07BERLIN321REPORT OF FIRST G-8 LYON-ROMA MEETING OF GERMAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The first meeting of the G-8 Lyon-Roma Anti-Crime and Terrorism Group (LR/ACT) under the German Presidency was held in Berlin from February 12-15, 2006. The U.S. delegation was co-chaired by INL DAS Elizabeth Verville and S/CT Director for Trans-Regional Affairs Roopa Rangaswa [...]
2007-02-16 06:52:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM OTRA PTER UNGA KJUS GM
07BERLIN390GERMAN FAMILY MINISTRY RELEASES EVALUATION OF 2002
[...] (U) Summary: German legislation enacted in 2002 to improve the legal and social situation of prostitutes -- and create conditions for them to get out of prostitution -- has enjoyed only partial success, according to a 200-plus page Family Ministry report released in late January. The report [...]
2007-02-26 16:33:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC PGOV GM
07BERLIN459GERMANY - 2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) The following is Mission Germany's submission for the seventh annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The entire report should be treated as sensitive but unclassified. Mission points of contact are Craig Conway SIPDIS (email: conwaycm@state.gov; tel: 49-30-8305-2127) and Caroli [...]
2007-03-07 09:17:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN KJUS SMIG ELAB PREL PGOV ASEC
07BERLIN46GERMANY REVISITS ANTI-CORRUPTION MEASURES IN LIGHT
[...] Summary. The arrest of a former top Siemens board member brings to six those detained in a scandal drawing attention to German corporate governance. The Siemens case is the latest of a number of corporate scandals that include a Volkswagen prostitution and embezzlement ring and German activi [...]
2007-01-09 17:14:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD GM KCRM OECD
07BERLIN601GERMANY/TIP - POLICE INVESTIGATIONS HIGHLIGHT
[...] Summary: A number of TIP-related police investigations concluded in recent weeks highlight German efforts to prosecute German nationals allegedly engaged in child sex tourism and other forms of trafficking in South East Asian countries. Over the past two years, German law enforcement agenci [...]
2007-03-23 16:07:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC PGOV GM
07BERLIN806REPORT OF SECOND G-8 LYON-ROMA MEETING OF GERMAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The second meeting of the G-8 Lyon-Roma Anti-Crime and Terrorism Group (LR/ACT) under the German Presidency was held in Berlin from April 16-19, 2007. The U.S. delegation was co-chaired by INL DAS Elizabeth Verville and S/CT Deputy Coordinator Virginia Palmer and included repr [...]
2007-04-20 10:27:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KJUS OTRA PTER SNAR UNGA GM AF
07BISHKEK1371KYRGYZSTAN: 2007-2008 INSCR, PART II, FINANCIAL CRIMES AND
[...] (U) No report was published for the Kyrgyz Republic in the 2006-2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part II, Financial Crimes and Money Laundering. Embassy point of contact for this report is Resident Legal Advisor Irfan Saeed, e-mail: SaeedIA@state.gov. 2. (SBU) Follow i [...]
2007-11-16 06:57:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR PGOV KG
07BISHKEK526EMBASSY BISHKEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OSCE EXTRA
[...] Embassy Bishkek would like to endorse the following extrabudgetary proposals: 2. High Priority: -- Preparation of Guidebook for Controlled Deliveries (no project number): The issue of controlled deliveries is a hot topic in Central Asia, and is the most discussed aspect of any regional [...]
2007-05-08 11:55:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIEDABUD AFIN EAID ECON KCRM KJUS OSCE PHUM PREL
07BISHKEK527EMBASSY BISHKEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR OSCE EXTRA
[...] Embassy Bishkek would like to endorse the following extrabudgetary proposals: 2. High Priority: -- Preparation of Guidebook for Controlled Deliveries (no project number): The issue of controlled deliveries is a hot topic in Central Asia, and is the most discussed aspect of any regional [...]
2007-05-08 12:07:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIEDABUD AFIN EAID ECON KCRM KJUS OSCE PHUM PREL
07BISHKEK542DECENTRALIZATION SUCCESSES IN KYRGYZSTAN
[...] Summary: Since 1998 USAID has been helping Kyrgyz cities to become more transparent and accountable to their citizens and more effective leaders with skills in municipal property management, financial management, and service delivery. As a result, local leaders have accomplished many firsts, [...]
2007-05-11 10:36:00Embassy BishkekUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KJUS PGOV KMDR KG
07BOGOTA1109ELN NARCO ACTIVITIES INCREASINGLY APPARENT
[...] (S) There is growing evidence of ELN fronts' narcotics trafficking activities, and credible indications the ELN's Central Command (COCE) permits and benefits financially from the drug trade. Testimony from demobilized ELN fighters says some ELN fronts adre deeply involved in narco activities. [...]
2007-02-15 15:08:00Embassy BogotaSECRETPTER SNAR KCRM PHUM PGOV CO
07BOGOTA1457COLOMBIA'S SEVENTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (U) Embassy point of contact on trafficking in persons is human rights officer Scott Fagan, phone number (57-1) 383-2122, fax number (57-1) 315-2163. Officer spent 52 hours preparing report. 2. (U) Responses below are to questions in paragraphs 27-30 of reftel. ------- SUMMARY ------- [...]
2007-03-02 22:46:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CO
07BOGOTA1472SCENESETTER CHECKLIST FOR VISIT OF PRESIDENT BUSH
[...] (C) Your visit highlights the strength of our bilateral ties, and comes at a critical time for President Uribe. Seven months into his second term, Uribe is looking for a firm U.S. commitment to sustain high aid levels--as well as U.S. congressional approval of our bilateral Free Trade Agreeme [...]
2007-03-05 22:12:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER SNAR ECON ETRD PHUM KCRM CO
07BOGOTA1797POSITIVE GOC RESPONSE TO UNHCHR REPORT;
[...] (C) The UNHCHR office in Colombia released a balanced annual human rights report on March 13, citing numerous examples of significant progress over the past year. The report praised substantial reductions in homicides, kidnappings, torture allegations, and forced displacement, and said inves [...]
2007-03-20 15:50:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KCRM CO
07BOGOTA1925NEW CRIMINAL GROUPS REMAIN DECENTRALIZED, BUT GOC
[...] (C) The size and scope of the new criminal groups remained relatively constant in recent months, with some 22 groups comprising about 3,000 people. The groups remain largely decentralized, and former AUC leaders in Itagui maximum security prison--with the exception of Macaco and Don Berna-- [...]
2007-03-23 21:36:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPTER KCRM PGOV PHUM CO
07BOGOTA2283PRESSURE INCREASES ON ELN TO REACH PEACE DEAL WITH
[...] (C) The GOC, Catholic Church, guarantors, and international community are pressing the ELN to agree to a ceasefire and release its kidnap victims when the next round of talks resumes in Cuba on April 12. Peace Commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo said publicly on April 8 the ELN's failure to re [...]
2007-04-09 18:35:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PHUM KCRM CO
07BOGOTA2437CHARGE URGES GOC TO STRENGTHEN PROTECTION PROGRAMS
[...] (C) The Charge reiterated to Vice President Francisco Santos and Justice and Interior Minister Carlos Holguin the importance of strengthening GOC protection programs for victims participating in the Justice and Peace Law process. Santos and Holguin said the GOC shared our concerns and was tak [...]
2007-04-12 20:12:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KCRM CO
07BOGOTA2929SCENESETTER CHECKLIST FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY
[...] (C) Your visit follows President Uribe's May 2-4 visit to Washington. Uribe fears unsubstantiated claims in the Colombian Congress that he and his family are tied to the paramilitaries are undermining prospects in the U.S. Congress for continued high aid levels and ratification of the bilate [...]
2007-05-02 12:49:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM SNAR MARR PTER ECON ETRD KCRM
07BOGOTA4742SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE GATES
[...] (C) Your visit follows President Uribe's May and June visits to Washington. Uribe fears unsubstantiated claims that he and his family were tied to the paramilitaries are undermining prospects in the U.S. Congress for continued high aid levels and ratification of the bilateral Free Trade Agre [...]
2007-06-29 22:18:00Embassy BogotaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM SNAR MARR PTER ECON ETRD KCRM
07BOGOTA7110FLUSH WITH CASH--COLOMBIA'S RISING INFLOW OF
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Colombia's international reserves have topped USD 20 billion for the first time ever. Rising exports, foreign direct investment, and remittances, as well as increased international borrowing, have infused Colombia's financial system with dollars and solidified its debt-service ca [...]
2007-10-03 17:28:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD SNAR KCRM CO
07BOGOTA8170COLOMBIAN AND MEXICAN AUTHORITIES MOVING SWIFTLY IN WAKE OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Mexico (GOM) seized two large cocaine shipments that originated from Colombian seaports in October. In response to these seizures, the Government of Colombia (GOC) sought additional information from the GOM and initiated formal investigations of all involved [...]
2007-11-21 18:36:00Embassy BogotaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PREL KCRM PTER MX CO
07BRASILIA1772INL SUPPORT IN 2007 IS YIELDING RESULTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite a dramatic reduction in NAS Brasilia external activities since June 2006, while an internal re-organization and new overall program strategy were being developed, INL authorized the continued support of several projects. In cooperation with other USG agencies at post, N [...]
2007-09-17 16:21:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR
07BRASILIA1893NAS BRASILIA REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 2007
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NAS-supported activities during September -- though still limited in size and scope -- continued to produce results. In particular, two key NAS and DEA-supported operations carried out by the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF) resulted in several arrests and the seizure of signific [...]
2007-10-03 19:08:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR
07BRASILIA1907BRAZILIANS "DARE" TO STRENGTHEN DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION
[...] (U) The Brazilian National Anti-drug Secretariat (SENAD) and the National Public Safety Secretariat (SENASP) convened a national conference on September 27-28 to re-assess the U.S.-based Drug Abuse Resistance Education Program (D.A.R.E.),or PROERD as it is known in Brazil. The federal govern [...]
2007-10-04 20:18:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR
07BRASILIA2091DRAFT 2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT
[...] Following is a draft of Part I of the Brazil chapter of the 2007 INCSR. As requested in reftel B, the money laundering portion of the INCSR will be submitted separately. BRAZIL ---------- I. SUMMARY ---------- 2. Brazil is a major transit country for illicit drugs shipped to Euro [...]
2007-11-06 09:25:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR
07BRASILIA2158MINI-DUBLIN GROUP MEETING IN BRASILIA -- NOVEMBER 2007
[...] SUMMARY: On November 19, 2007, under the chairmanship of the Government of Spain, the Mini-Dublin Group convened at the Spanish Embassy to discuss counter narcotics assistance and cooperation between member countries and the Government of Brazil (GoB). This was the first time the group had g [...]
2007-11-21 14:54:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR
07BRASILIA2244NAS BRAZIL ACTIVITY REPORT, NOVEMBER 2007
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thanks to ongoing NAS support, the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF),with operational assistance from DEA Brazil, culminated operation "Fenix" an investigation that made significant progress toward dismantling a major drug trafficking organization run by Luis Fernando da Costa, a [...]
2007-12-10 13:06:00Embassy BrasiliaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR EAID KCRM PREL BR
07BRATISLAVA138SLOVAKIA ANNUAL REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (U) Embassy TIP Point of Contact: Name: Tanya Spencer Position: Political Officer Phone: 421 2 5922 3277 Fax: 421 2 5922 3109 E-mail: spencertk@state.gov Total time to complete TIP report: FSNs: 33 hours FS03: 40 hours FS02: 2 hours FS01: 1 hour --------------------------------- [...]
2007-03-06 19:59:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ASEC
07BRATISLAVA241TIP GRANT PROPOSALS FROM SLOVAKIA
[...] (SBU) First recommendation: Name of organization: Kulturne Zdruzenie Romov Slovenska (KZRS),(Cultural Association of Roma of Slovakia, an NGO) Name of primary contact: Andrea Buckova Requested funding amount from USG: USD 49,940 Total cost of project: USD 80,274 Project title: Prevention of [...]
2007-04-23 06:20:00Embassy BratislavaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM SMIG PHUM PGOV LO
07BRATISLAVA630NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT AT PRIBENIK, SLOVAKIA REF: 06 STATE 163201 Classified By: Lawrence R. Silverman, Deputy Chief of Mission, for reason 1.4 (b) and (d)
[...] (C) Summary: Slovak police authorities confirmed to the Embassy November 29 that Slovak and Hungarian police arrested three individuals in eastern Slovakia November 28, during a sting operation as the individuals attempted to sell 500 grams of Uranium 235 or 238. Slovak authorities are still testin [...]
2007-11-29 15:29:00Embassy BratislavaCONFIDENTIALASEC PARM PREL PTER MNUC KCRM KNNP HU UP LO
07BRATISLAVA648UPDATE ON NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT AT PRIBENIK, SLOVAKIA REF: A. 06 STATE 163201 B. BRATISLAVA 00630 Classified By: Lawrence R. Silverman, Deputy Chief of Mission, reason 1 .4(b) and (d)
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-06 14:29:00Embassy BratislavaSECRETASEC PARM PREL PTER MNUC KCRM KNNP HU UP LOG
07BRIDGETOWN1021ST. LUCIAN HOUSING MINISTER RICHARD FREDERICK MAY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: St. Lucian Housing Minister, Richard Frederick, returned for police questioning on July 18 as part of an investigation against Frederick's alleged customs violations. Various authorities and observers are concerned that the Director of Public Prosecutions will not pursue the cas [...]
2007-08-15 18:21:00Embassy BridgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM KJUS ST XL
07BRIDGETOWN1364MINI-WAVE OF VIOLENT CRIME HITS ANTIGUA
[...] (sbu) Our contacts confirm Antigua and Barbuda PM Spencer has called out security forces and instituted additional security measures in response to a recent string of violent crimes that have shocked many in Antigua. Our contacts in the police attribute the recent incidents - a string of th [...]
2007-10-26 18:59:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM ASEC CASC AC
07BRIDGETOWN1387ST. VINCENT: SPLINTERS OF AN OPPOSITION
[...] (SBU) Summary: In several meetings with leaders of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) opposition New Democratic Party (NDP),and in consultations with the party's sympathizers as well as Unity Labor Party (ULP) and former-ULP members, Embassy Bridgetown learned of growing discontent with [...]
2007-11-01 21:26:00Embassy BridgetownCONFIDENTIALCVIS EAID ECON EFIN ELAB KCRM PGOV PINR PREL
07BRIDGETOWN1415THE GRENADINES: THE INCREDIBLE DISAPPEARING RESORT
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy Bridgetown recently learned that the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (GOSVG) has repossessed land on Union Island that is owned by a long-term American investor in the Grenadines. Ambassador Ourisman raised this possible expropriation with Prime Minister Ralph [...]
2007-11-09 17:08:00Embassy BridgetownCONFIDENTIALCACM CDB CVIS EAID ECON EFIN ELAB ETRD KCRM
07BRIDGETOWN1499DEPORTEE DEBATE: FLOGGING OLD MYTHS
[...] (sbu) Summary: Objectivity continued to lose the battle against alarmism during a discussion of the criminal deportee issue at the December 4 inter-sessional meeting of the Association of Caribbean Chiefs of Police in Barbados. Local media keyed on an alarmist - and as yet unpublished - CA [...]
2007-12-07 15:39:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM SOCI PHUM PREL XL
07BRIDGETOWN1530THE SEX INDUSTRY AS A POTENTIAL AVENUE FOR
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Various government officials and NGO representatives are recognizing the possible existence of trafficking victims in St. Lucia, particularly in the commercial sex industry. Most foreign prostitutes fulfill some technical elements of trafficking, even if they are willing partici [...]
2007-12-14 15:26:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PGOV ELAB DR ST XL
07BRIDGETOWN1562DOMINICA: TRAFFICKING VICTIMS LIKELY EXIST, BUT NO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PolOff hosted a roundtable discussion on trafficking in persons, pulling together representatives from key government offices and NGOs. The discussion showed that, although many officials believe trafficking victims might exist among commercial sex workers, Chinese laborers, an [...]
2007-12-21 19:36:00Embassy BridgetownCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKCRM PHUM PGOV ELBA CN DR ST XL
07BRIDGETOWN1563ST. VINCENT: OPPOSITION LEADER SEEKS US ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) Summary: On December 20th, the St. Vincent and the Grenadines opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Arnhim Eustace called PolOff to express his concern that the current government is corrupted by the drug trade. In relation to the criminal charges filed against him for "making mal [...]
2007-12-21 19:44:00Embassy BridgetownCONFIDENTIALKCRM SNAR PGOV INRB PREL XL
07BRIDGETOWN196AMBASSADOR OURISMAN'S INTRODUCTORY VISIT TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Ourisman presented her credentials to the President of Dominica and called on both the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister on January 24. In her courtesy calls, the Ambassador and her interlocutors discussed both current and possible future USAID projects, the Adva [...]
2007-02-13 16:36:00Embassy BridgetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR EAID ENRG EINV MASS KCRM KPAO
07BRIDGETOWN262TIP SUBMISSION - DOMINICA
[...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding Dominica for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally [...]
2007-03-01 22:39:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF DO XL
07BRIDGETOWN263TIP SUBMISSION - ST. LUCIA
[...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Lucia for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationall [...]
2007-03-01 22:40:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF ST XL
07BRIDGETOWN264TIP SUBMISSION - ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES
[...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destinati [...]
2007-03-01 22:40:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF VC XL
07BRIDGETOWN265TIP SUBMISSION - ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
[...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding Antigua and Barbuda for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for int [...]
2007-03-01 22:42:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF AC XL
07BRIDGETOWN266TIP SUBMISSION - BARBADOS
[...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding Barbados for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally [...]
2007-03-01 22:42:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM ELAB KFRD ASEC KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG BB XL
07BRIDGETOWN267TIP SUBMISSION - ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
[...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Kitts and Nevis for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Post consulted with the Royal St. Christopher (Kitts) and Nevis Police Force, the Ministry of National Security, and NGOs and has received no reports [...]
2007-03-01 22:43:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SC XL
07BRIDGETOWN268TIP SUBMISSION - GRENADA
[...] Embassy Grenada provides its response for reftel questions in paragraph 2. 2. Begin text: SUMMARY: Post consulted with the Royal Grenada Police Force, Ministry of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Labour, and NGOs and has received no reports of any form of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) as def [...]
2007-03-01 22:44:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF GG XL
07BRIDGETOWN286AMBASSADOR OURISMAN'S INTRODUCTORY VISIT TO ST.
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Ourisman presented her credentials to the government of St. Lucia on February 20. In meetings with the Governor General, Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and leader of the opposition, the Ambassador discussed crime in St. Lucia, Article 98, Petrocaribe, the Advance Pa [...]
2007-03-05 23:11:00Embassy BridgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KCRM CASC ENRG EPET EFIN ASEC
07BRIDGETOWN369OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS FOR SAINT VINCENT'S OPPOSITION
[...] (C) Summary: The head of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) opposition party, Arnhim Eustace, has stepped up his criticism of Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves in the last three weeks. His most recent themes included Gonsalves' December pardon of a convicted drug dealer and Gonsalves' emb [...]
2007-03-26 17:12:00Embassy BridgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL SNAR KCRM VC VE XL
07BRIDGETOWN471 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROJECT PROPOSALS FOR G/TIP-MANAGED
[...] As instructed in reftel, Post is submitting the following four (4) project proposals for G/TIP-managed FY 2007 ESF and INCLE Funds. Full proposal narratives will be sent via email. 2. Name of Applicant: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) -- Office for the Eastern Caribbean Requeste [...]
2007-04-20 22:02:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG XL
07BRIDGETOWN472 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROJECT PROPOSALS FOR G/TIP-MANAGED
[...] As instructed in reftel, Post is submitting the following four (4) project proposals for G/TIP-managed FY 2007 ESF and INCLE Funds. Full proposal narratives will be sent via email. 2. Name of Applicant: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) -- Office for the Eastern Caribbean Requeste [...]
2007-04-20 22:04:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG XL
07BRIDGETOWN55COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO MCKENNA FOR TRAVEL TO
[...] Embassy Bridgetown welcomes and grants clearance to Wayne R. McKenna, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, to travel to St. Kitts and Nevis from Jan. 31 - Feb. 4 and to Barbados from Feb. 4 - 10, for the purpose of evaluating two law enforcement training programs fun [...]
2007-01-18 13:03:00Embassy BridgetownUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM OTRA SC
07BRIDGETOWN669ST. LUCIA: FREDRICK INVESTIGATION AND MLAT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a May 17 television talk show, a prominent news personality leaked the details of a standing evidence request made under the U.S.-St. Lucia Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) concerning Richard Fredrick, St. Lucia's Housing Minister suspected of ties to drug trafficking [...]
2007-05-25 21:21:00Embassy BridgetownCONFIDENTIALKCRM KJUS KTIA KCOR PREL PGOV PINR SNAR ST XL
07BRIDGETOWN740OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS LOUDER FOR ST. VINCENT'S
[...] (C) Summary: On Friday, June 8, opposition party leader, Arnhim Eustace, will lead another protest demonstration in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). This time, Eustace has managed to gain public support from several members of St. Vincent's private sector. However, Eustace's goals for t [...]
2007-06-07 20:26:00Embassy BridgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL SNAR KCRM VC XL
07BRIDGETOWN810ST. LUCIA HOUSING MINISTER FREDRICK HELD FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: St. Lucia Housing Minister Richard Fredrick was questioned on June 18 by St. Lucian authorities for his alleged involvement in customs duty evasion. After six hours, he was released and asked to return on July 18 for further questioning. Contacts stated that the Director of Pub [...]
2007-06-20 18:52:00Embassy BridgetownCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM KJUS KTIA ST XL
07BRUSSELS1948EU RECOGNIZES RESPONSIBILITY TO SAVE
[...] EU Interior Ministers in the June 12 JHA Council meeting in Luxembourg recognized their shared "responsibility" to save the lives of illegal migrants from Africa involved in tragic events in the Mediterranean. Ministers nevertheless offered little concrete help to frontline state Malta to h [...]
2007-06-14 07:28:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS PREL PREF SMIG KCRM SW EUN
07BRUSSELS2667U.S.- EUROPEAN UNION - RUSSIA TRILATERAL
[...] (U) A meeting of the United States - European Union (EU) - Russia Trilateral High Level Working Group on terrorism convened June 22 in fulfillment of a commitment made at the U.S.- EU - Russia Trilateral Ministerial Meeting in Berlin on April 4. Participants expressed support for the work of t [...]
2007-08-22 15:54:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KCRM PREL SNAR EU RU UN
07BRUSSELS2950EU COUNCIL EXPECTS FULL VISA RECIPROCITY BETWEEN U.S. AND
[...] EU ministers in the September 18 Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council heard a presentation of the Commission's third report on the visa reciprocity mechanism, including the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) with the U.S. Commission Vice-President Frattini and Portuguese Interior Minister/Council ch [...]
2007-09-20 09:03:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS PREL PREF SMIG KCRM SW EUN
07BRUSSELS3128DEA ADMINISTRATOR DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN DRUG
[...] (C) Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Karen Tandy discussed the drug situation in Afghanistan with Commission, Council Secretariat, and Political and Security Committee (PSC) Ambassadors during her September 30 to October 2 visit to Brussels. She emphasized close links betwe [...]
2007-10-12 12:33:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALKCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EU
07BRUSSELS3315NINE COUNTRIES TO JOIN SCHENGEN AREA ON DECEMBER 21
[...] EU ministers in the November 8 Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Council confirmed the abolition on December 21 of checks at internal land and sea borders with nine Member States that joined the EU in 2004. The ministers adopted the political decision after accepting an assessment that all nine [...]
2007-11-09 14:00:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS PREL PREF SMIG KCRM EUN
07BRUSSELS3501AMBASSADOR SCHWEICH DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN RULE OF
[...] (C) The U.S. Coordinator for Counter-Narcotics and Justice Reform in Afghanistan, Ambassador Thomas Schweich, discussed police training and counter-drug issues with several European Union (EU) officials at a November 28 meeting in Brussels. Officials on both sides agreed on virtually all polici [...]
2007-12-13 20:04:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIALKCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EU
07BRUSSELS3530U.S.-EU TROIKA MEETING GENERATES WIDE-RANGING
[...] (SBU) Officials from the United States and the European Union (EU) engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of drug issues at a US-EU Troika Meeting in Brussels on November 14. The U.S. Delegation, led by Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Christy McCampbell of the International Narcotics and Law En [...]
2007-12-21 10:22:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EU
07BRUSSELS541JHA COUNCIL "RECOGNIZES" SWEDEN'S PROBLEM
[...] EU ministers for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA Council) on February 15 "recognized" Sweden's "particular problem" with its number of Iraqi refugees. Commission Vice-President Frattini promised to look at the situation with a view to presenting proposals to the Council. The German Presidenc [...]
2007-02-16 16:06:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS PREL PREF SMIG KCRM SW EUN
07BRUSSELS694 Belgium 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report
[...] (U) The 2007 Trafficking in Persons follows in paragraph two. Embassy Point of Contact is Political Counselor Theodore H. Andrews, telephone (32) (2)508-2111/fax 513- 5333. Staff hours spent in preparation of this report: Political Counselor (FO-1): 3 hours Political Assistant (LES-10): 4 [...]
2007-03-02 14:19:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BE
07BRUSSELS848BELGIUM WILL NOT LEGALIZE INTERNET GAMBLING, FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOB will not legalize internet gambling, at least under the current government. In November 2006 the Belgian Federal Council of Ministers considered draft legislation that would have legalized internet gambling in Belgium (reftel). Current Belgian press reports cite "lega [...]
2007-03-14 10:58:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINT PGOV KCRM BE
07BRUSSELS941Last Belgian Budget Check Before Elections - Much
[...] (U) Summary. The much-heralded special Council of Ministers retreat in Leuven yielded little more than a cursory budget scrubbing and a few symbolic initiatives designed to garner votes in the June 10 elections. The earlier-agreed "green" revenue enhancement measure to tax packaging was down [...]
2007-03-22 15:21:00Embassy BrusselsUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EAIR SENV KCRM BE
07BUCHAREST237ROMANIA,S SEVENTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) OVERVIEW: ------------------- A. Romania is a country of origin and transit for trafficking in persons (TIP). While the majority of TIP cases pertain to international trafficking between Romania and Western Europe, there are cases of domestic trafficking as well. Victims - primar [...]
2007-03-01 15:36:00Embassy BucharestUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM PREF SMIG ELAB EAID KCRM KWMN
07BUDAPEST112006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM: HUNGARY
[...] (U) Hungarian authorities remain fully supportive of the GWOT, including through its deployment of a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan. The Hungarian government also supports USG initiatives against al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations both within its borders and abroad. Th [...]
2007-01-04 14:59:00Embassy BudapestUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KPAO KHLS KCRM EFIN AEMR ASEC HU
07BUDAPEST19342007 COUNTRY TERRORISM REPORT ON TERRORISM: HUNGARY
[...] Hungarian authorities remain fully supportive of the military, economic, and political aspects of the Global War on Terror. Hungary has made a long-term commitment to continue its leadership of a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan and is proceeding with plans to increase its deplo [...]
2007-12-11 06:31:00Embassy BudapestUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KPAO KHLS KCRM EFIN AEMR ASEC HU
07BUDAPEST19802007 COUNTRY TERRORISM REPORT ON TERRORISM: HUNGARY
[...] Hungarian authorities remain fully supportive of the military, economic, and political aspects of the Global War on Terror. Hungary has made a long-term commitment to continue its leadership of a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan and is proceeding with plans to increase its deplo [...]
2007-12-21 10:01:00Embassy BudapestUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KPAO KHLS KCRM EFIN AEMR ASEC HU
07BUDAPEST19812007 COUNTRY TERRORISM REPORT ON TERRORISM: HUNGARY
[...] Hungarian authorities remain fully supportive of the military, economic, and political aspects of the Global War on Terror. Hungary has made a long-term commitment to continue its leadership of a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Afghanistan and is proceeding with plans to increase its deplo [...]
2007-12-21 14:27:00Embassy BudapestUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KPAO KHLS KCRM EFIN AEMR ASEC HU
07BUENOSAIRES1030ARGENTINE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE SUPPORTS TIP AND
[...] (C) On May 22, Ambassador Wayne met with Argentine Speaker of the House Alberto Balestrini and Vice President of the House Patricia Vaca Narvaja. They underscored the importance of the bilateral relationship and continued cooperation in providing security to Argentines and Americans alike i [...]
2007-05-24 13:57:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPREL PRGOV ECON ELAB KCRM PHUM SMIG KWMN ASEC
07BUENOSAIRES1113EMBASSY BUENOS AIRES STUDENT SELECTION LIST: TRAFFICKING IN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-07 11:56:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN SNAR SMIG ELAB EAID PHUM AR
07BUENOSAIRES1185GOA REACTION TO TIP REPORT
[...] (C) Summary. While there has been no public GOA reaction yet, GOA private reaction to the USG's 2007 TIP report was very negative. Vicente Espeche Gil, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary for Bilateral Affairs, called the report "unhelpful" and Interior Minister Anibal Fernandez ex [...]
2007-06-15 22:19:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR
07BUENOSAIRES1208INTERIOR MINISTER MAKING PUSH ON COUNTERNARCOTICS
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Minister of Interior Anibal Fernandez is making a public push to enhance counternarcotics cooperation and effectiveness in Argentina, initiating such ideas as a sole national registry for collecting CN information and analyzing trends, creating a scientific advisory [...]
2007-06-21 17:06:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PREL KCRM AR
07BUENOSAIRES1245INTERIOR MINISTER ON STATUS OF ANTI-TIP LEGISLATION
[...] (C) Summary. On June 25, Ambassador Wayne called on Interior Minister Anibal Fernandez to discuss the status of TIP legislation and ongoing counternarcotics cooperation in the Tri-Border Area (TBA),the Department's offer to conduct a counterterrorism assessment of Argentina (reported septel [...]
2007-06-27 14:51:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR
07BUENOSAIRES1246GOA INTERIOR MINISTER ON COUNTERNARCOTICS AND
[...] (C) Summary. On June 25, Ambassador Wayne called on Interior Minister Anibal Fernandez to discuss ongoing counternarcotics (CN) cooperation in the Tri-Border Area (TBA),the Department's offer to conduct a counterterrorism (CT) assessment of Argentina, and status of TIP legislation (reporte [...]
2007-06-27 14:51:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PGOV AR
07BUENOSAIRES1248ARGENTINA: INVESTIGATION INTO SUSPECT WEAPONS
[...] (SBU) THIS INFORMATION IS LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE. 2. (SBU) Summary: A judicial investigation into a suspected tax evasion and, perhaps, arms smuggling case, involving Farmington, Connecticut-based company JLD Enterprises, continues here. Argentine customs and judicial authorities have [...]
2007-06-27 14:51:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KCRM PGOV PREL AR
07BUENOSAIRES1283ACTIVE ABROAD, STYMIED AT HOME; ARGENTINA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 26, Ambassador Wayne met with head of the Office of Anticorruption, Dr. Abel Fleitas Ortiz de Rozas to discuss possible increased cooperation on anti-corruption issues. Fleitas highlighted his office's very active participation in international anti-corruption conventio [...]
2007-07-02 17:58:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KJUS PGOV PTER SNAR AR
07BUENOSAIRES1302AMBASSADOR'S JULY 3 MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met July 3 with Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana before the signing of the CivAir Agreement (septel) to discuss a range of issues. Taiana noted that the GoA has focused its foreign policy primarily on regional issues and South American integration - a difficult task. He [...]
2007-07-06 09:56:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC PARM ETRD PTER KCRM
07BUENOSAIRES1353IOM COUNTRY REP ON IOM'S AND THE GOA'S ANTI-TIP
[...] (C) Summary. On June 29, Ambassador Wayne met with Eugenio Ambrosi, International Organization for Migration (IOM) Country Representative to talk about IOM's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) and improve the lives of migrant populations in Argentina. (Septel will cover Ambassa [...]
2007-07-16 12:12:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR
07BUENOSAIRES1448ARGENTINA: CONFIDENT THEY WILL COMPLETE UNCAC CHECKLIST BY
[...] (U) Nicolas Raigorodsky, the Director of Transparency Policies in the Office of Anticorruption, confirmed to post that he and his team have received the Spanish version of the checklist and that Argentina would complete the UNCAC checklist before the August 15 deadline. Raigorodsky expressed a [...]
2007-07-26 19:08:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KJUS PGOV PTER SNAR AR
07BUENOSAIRES1476ARGENTINA TO WORK CLOSELY ON TIP ISSUES
[...] (C) On July 30, poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Deputy Director for International Organizations Ana Berta and U.S. Desk Officer Hernan Santivanez. Berta stated that while the Argentine government does not appreciate the "paternalistic" nature of the TIP report, it is committed to work [...]
2007-07-31 18:55:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR
07BUENOSAIRES1723ARGENTINE TIP LEGISLATION STALLED IN CONGRESS
[...] (SBU) On August 27, Ambassador asked Argentine Minister of the Interior (MOI) Anibal Fernandez about the prospects for enacting comprehensive federal Trafficking in Persons (TIP) legislation in Argentina. Fernandez stated that it is ""very difficult"" to make progress in the Argentine Con [...]
2007-08-30 17:08:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG KWMN AR
07BUENOSAIRES1833ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO THE TRIBORDER AREA
[...] (S/NF) Summary: On September 11, top Argentine intelligence officials and analysts briefed Ambassador on their perspective of the terrorist threat in the Tri-Border Area (TBA). They noted that Hizballah maintains a real structure in the region, including experienced agents. They detailed adv [...]
2007-09-13 16:45:00Embassy Buenos AiresSECRET//NOFORNPTER EFIN KCRM PREL PGOV SNAR AR PA BR
07BUENOSAIRES1850Argentina's Anticorruption Office:
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite being ranked 93rd (low) on Transparency International's corruption perception index, Argentina has an active anti-corruption office. The office has both a policy-promotion mission and an investigatory function. Despite a heavy investigatory workload, the office has yet [...]
2007-09-14 19:45:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKCOR KCRM KJUS PGOV PTER SNAR AR
07BUENOSAIRES1964ARGENTINE JUSTICE MINISTER PROPOSES OVERHAUL OF
[...] (C) GoA Justice Minister Alberto Iribarne briefed the Ambassador September 26 on his draft proposal to reform the federal criminal justice system (other discussion topics reported Ref A and septel). The reforms, based on the recommendations of a Special Commission, aim to alter the rules of e [...]
2007-10-02 13:55:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON SNAR KJUS KCRM EAID KCOR PHUM
07BUENOSAIRES2065MOTHERS AGAINST PACO: ARGENTINE NOMINEE FOR INTERNATIONAL
[...] (U) Summary. Below is Post's nomination for the 2008 International Woman of Courage Award. In Argentina, women have led a number of social and political causes, such as struggles against trafficking in persons, human rights abuses, poverty, and drug abuse. AmEmb Buenos Aires' nomination rec [...]
2007-10-19 15:03:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN SNAR KCRM PHUM ASEC AR
07BUENOSAIRES2079POLICE REFORM AND CORRUPTION IN ARGENTINA'S BUENOS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with Federal Prosecutor Dr. Carlos Stornelli, who will likely be the next Minister of Security for the Province of Buenos Aires following October 28 elections. His first priority and greatest challenge will be the institutional and cultural reform of the notor [...]
2007-10-22 18:04:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM ASEC PREL PGOV SNAR AR
07BUENOSAIRES2095TIP ACTIVIST TRIMARCO LAUNCHES ANTI-TIP FOUNDATION
[...] (U) Summary. Ambassador Wayne delivered the keynote speech at the launch of Susana Trimarco's anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) foundation. In the Ambassador's remarks, he highlighted the need for comprehensive anti-TIP legislation and underscored USG commitment to fight TIP. He also annou [...]
2007-10-24 18:08:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDAR KWMN PHUM PREL KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC ELAB
07BUENOSAIRES2119ARGENTINE JUSTICE MINISTER DISCUSSES TIP, MONEY
[...] (C) Introduction: This cable covers and provides updates on issues that Justice Minister Alberto Iribarne and the Ambassador discussed during their recent meeting (reftels). They include: 1) status of Trafficking in Persons legislation and Justice Ministry efforts to push for its passage; 2) [...]
2007-10-26 16:43:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KTFN SNAR KJUS KCRM PHUM KWNM
07BUENOSAIRES2123 ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR FOCUSES ON SOCIAL ISSUES IN TUCUMAN
[...] (U) In an October 19 visit to Argentina's northwestern province of Tucuman, the Ambassador met with local members of the media. He toured an American-owned citrus company that has a progressive Corporate Social Responsibility project to educate off-season workers. The Ambassador was also a keyn [...]
2007-10-26 19:09:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR SMIG KFRD ASEC ELAB
07BUENOSAIRES2149ARGENTINA: AIRPORT POLICE CHIEF DISCUSSES
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador's October 22 meeting with GOA Airport Police chief Marcelo Sain (protect throughout) focused on common counter-terrorism goals and the need to continue working together on airport security issues. Sain thanked the Ambassador for recent FBI- and DHS-provided tra [...]
2007-10-31 08:02:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR PGOV CASC KCRM PREL KCOR AR
07BUENOSAIRES2211THEFTS OF BAGGAGE AT BUENOS AIRES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
[...] (SBU) Ambassador recently informed Argentina's Foreign Minister Taiana and Interior Minister Fernandez that the Embassy would be updating its Consular Information Sheet to include a warning to U.S. travelers about thefts at Argentina's Ezeiza International Airport. 2. (SBU) On October 24, Am [...]
2007-11-15 08:01:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDCASC EAIR PREL KCOR KCRM CMGT CJAN ASEC AR
07BUENOSAIRES2244ARGENTINA: 2007 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT
[...] (SBU) Post, through the combined efforts of the political section and ICE office, continues to coordinate with Argentine authorities to develop local capacity to investigate and prosecute trafficking crimes. We also continue to work with Argentine partners in government and civil society to [...]
2007-11-21 08:42:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR
07BUENOSAIRES2300ARGENTINA: CODEL SANCHEZ DISCUSSES ANTI-TIP AND CN EFFORTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Ambassador Wayne and U.S. Representatives Sanchez and Bartlett, Argentine Interior Minister Anibal Fernandez noted that anti-TIP legislation is still stuck in the national Congress, but expressed confidence that it would pass once President-elect Cristina Fernan [...]
2007-12-06 11:17:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM KWMN PREL SMIG SNAR KJUS PHUM AR
07BUENOSAIRES300ARGENTINA: NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE
[...] (U) Below is Post's response to reftel request for a woman of courage in Argentina. In Argentina, women have been leaders on a number of social and political issues, such as human rights abuses, drug abuse, poverty, and trafficking in persons. AmEmb Buenos Aires' nomination has faced danger [...]
2007-02-15 19:29:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PHUM PREL AR KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07BUENOSAIRES519ARGENTINA SUBMISSION FOR THE SEVENTH ANNUAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina is a country of origin, transit and destination for internationally trafficked men, women and children. Trafficking in persons (TIP) in Argentina primarily involves Argentines trafficked internally for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation, mostly from the [...]
2007-03-16 22:27:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF PGOV ELAB
07BUENOSAIRES754 ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE ON UN CORRUPTION AND CRIME
[...] ConOff delivered reftel talking points to Advisor Mauricio Alice of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Officer of the Legal Advisor (OLA). Alice stated that he would pass on our concern about the checklist and our offer of assistance to the agencies involved in the process. He noted that t [...]
2007-04-19 09:17:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KJUS PGOV PTER SNAR AR
07BUENOSAIRES793EMBASSY BUENOS AIRES PROPOSALS FOR G/TIP MANAGED FY 2007
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Buenos Aires's top priorities in strengthening Argentina's anti-trafficking efforts include 1) advanced training in investigating and prosecuting human trafficking cases; 2) the establishment of a dedicated and specialized assistance center for trafficking victims; and [...]
2007-04-24 13:33:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG
07BUENOSAIRES796ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH US-ARGENTINE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 17, Ambassador Wayne met with ten members of the US-Argentine Congressional Friendship Committee from the Legislature's lower house to discuss bilateral relations. Ambassador noted the positive cooperation in traditional areas, e.g. counterterrorism and counternarcot [...]
2007-04-24 15:38:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG PREF ELAB AR
07BUENOSAIRES799ARGENTINE FIRST LADY EXPECTS CONGRESS TO PASS
[...] (C) First Lady and Senator Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner told Ambassador on April 20 that she expects the Argentine Congress to pass draft legislation criminalizing trafficking in persons (TIP) by May or June at the latest, especially given that the Senate had already approved one version of [...]
2007-04-24 21:44:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR
07BUENOSAIRES814ARGENTINE MOJ CALLS ANTI-TIP LAW A PRIORITY;
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with Minister of Justice Alberto Iribarne on April 26 and sponsor of anti-TIP legislation, Deputy Stella Cordoba, on April 27, to underscore the importance of passing anti-TIP legislation. Ambassador urged Iribarne to lend his support to pass draft legislation no [...]
2007-04-25 22:19:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AR
07BUENOSAIRES838ARGENTINA'S INTERIOR MINISTER REQUESTS TIP
[...] (C) On April 30, Thomas Fuentes, the FBI's Special Agent in Charge of International Operations, and Ambassador met with Interior Minister Alberto Fernandez to discuss Fernandez's May 3-4 trip to Washington. Fernandez indicated that he would be interested in receiving a briefing on how the U [...]
2007-04-30 16:46:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR
07BUENOSAIRES862MEETINGS WITH ARGENTINE INTERIOR MINISTER AND
[...] (C) On April 30, Minister of Interior Anibal Fernandez met for over an hour with the Ambassador, FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of International Operations, Tom Fuentes and LEGATT to discuss trafficking in persons, upcoming USG training programs, and next steps on the AMIA case. Minister F [...]
2007-05-03 11:48:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV
07BUENOSAIRES965AMBASSADOR'S MEETS WITH TIP ACTIVIST TRIMARCO AND
[...] (C) Summary. On May 4, Ambassador Wayne met with Susana Trimarco, an activist fighting against trafficking in persons (TIP) in Argentina and recent State Department International Woman of Courage award winner (REF A). Part of the meeting was filmed by Pablo Milstein, a local award-winning [...]
2007-05-17 08:52:00Embassy Buenos AiresCONFIDENTIALASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PGOV AR
07BUENOSAIRES980ILEA LAT-AM IPR SESSION II - GOA WILL PARTICIPATE
[...] (SBU) Per reftel questions, there are numerous GoA entities responsible for intellectual property enforcement in Argentina - including federal and provincial (in 23 provinces) police, prosecutors and judges; federal Customs authorities; the Prefectura (roughly Coast Guard equivalent); and the [...]
2007-05-18 09:53:00Embassy Buenos AiresUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM ASEC SNAR AR
07BUJUMBURA479ALLEGED NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT IN BUJUMBURA,
[...] (C/NF) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftels that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in nuclear and/or radiological materials. This report came to posts attention via phone contact to the ARSO, XXXXXXXXXXXX on the mornin [...]
2007-06-27 16:23:00Embassy BujumburaSECRETKCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PTER ASEC BY
07BUJUMBURA515ADDENDUM TO ALLEGED NUCLEAR SMUGGLING IN BURUNDI
[...] (C/NF) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftels that it has received additional information regarding the incident of nuclear smuggling reported in Bujumbura cable 479 dated 06/27/2007. XXXXXXXXXXXX and I have met on XXXXXXXXXXXX additional occasions since that initia [...]
2007-07-17 14:48:00Embassy BujumburaSECRETKCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PTER ASEC BY
07CAIRO1097EGYPT MOVES AHEAD ON CHILD PROTECTION, SUPPORTED
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE's National Council for Childhood and Motherhood is drafting legislation for new child protection measures which include tough new anti-trafficking articles. USAID is poised to provide major technical and programmatic support to the Council and its partners as Egypt t [...]
2007-04-16 15:14:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPGOV KWMN KCRM EG
07CAIRO1406AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A MAY 10 MEETING WITH THE AMBASSADOR, MINISTER OF STATE FOR LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS MUFEED SHEHAB NOTED THAT THE GOE PLANS TO MOVE FORWARD ON REVISING THE CURRENT CHILDREN'S LAW TO INCLUDE TOUGH NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING PROVISIONS. SHEHAB WELCOMED CONSULTING WITH THE EMBAS [...]
2007-05-13 14:13:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KWMN KCRM PTER EG
07CAIRO1602AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A WIDE-RANGING MAY 29 MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR HABIB EL ADLY, THE AMBASSADOR AGAIN PUSHED THE GOE TO CHANGE ITS POLICY OF LISTING ONLY THREE RELIGIONS ON NATIONAL ID CARDS, AND ASKED THAT THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR (MOI) ENSURE THE SAFETY OF RECENTLY RELEASED CONVERT TO [...]
2007-05-30 17:58:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KIRF KDEM KWMN KCRM EG
07CAIRO1603AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A WIDE-RANGING MAY 29 MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INTERIOR HABIB EL ADLY, THE AMBASSADOR AGAIN PUSHED THE GOE TO CHANGE ITS POLICY OF LISTING ONLY THREE RELIGIONS ON NATIONAL ID CARDS, AND ASKED THAT THE MINISTRY OF INTERIOR (MOI) ENSURE THE SAFETY OF RECENTLY RELEASED CONVERT TO [...]
2007-05-30 18:05:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KIRF KDEM KWMN KCRM EG
07CAIRO1776EGYPTIAN RESPONSE TO 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] (C) MFA's working-level official responsible for Trafficking in Persons, First Secretary Amira Fahmy, told poloff in a June 11 meeting that the GOE was displeased that the 2007 TIP report (reftel) said that some Egyptian cities may be "sex tourism" destinations. Poloff explained that this s [...]
2007-06-11 14:58:00Embassy CairoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM ELAB SMIG KCRM KWMN EG
07CAIRO2536EGYPT: TIP ISSUES UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: This summer we have seen modest but genuine GOE progress on TIP. The GOE has announced the establishment of an inter-ministerial committee to combat TIP in Egypt. People's Assembly (PA) representative Georgette Qellini announced in June that she would introduce a draft law [...]
2007-08-15 14:12:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI PGOV KWMN KCRM EG
07CAIRO3031EGYPT: SIGNS OF STRONGER EFFORTS ON TIP
[...] (SBU) Summary: A new inter-ministerial committee on Trafficking In Persons (TIP),a proposed new child protection law with anti-TIP provisions, and a nascent public awareness campaign are signs that the GOE is moving towards awareness of, and eventually action on, TIP. Continued challenges wi [...]
2007-10-11 16:03:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KCRM KWMN EG
07CAIRO3258EGYPT: NTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT
[...] (U) Per ref A instructions, we providethe below input for the interim Trafficking-in-Pesons (TIP) assessment for Egypt. We note that te GOE inter-ministeial "National Committee to Comat and Prevent Trafficking in Persons" had its frst meeting in October 2007, representing a longawaited step to [...]
2007-11-14 15:39:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG AEMR EG
07CAIRO3560EGYPT: MIXED MESSAGES ON TIP
[...] (SBU) Summary: During G/TIP Reports and Political Affairs Officer Gayatri Patel's December 11 - 17 visit to Cairo, Egyptian officials at the Ministries of Interior (MOI),Justice (MOJ),and Social Solidarity (MOSS) asserted that Trafficking-in-Persons (TIP) is not an internal Egyptian problem, [...]
2007-12-31 14:54:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PREL PGOV PHUM SMIG AEMR EG
07CAIRO580EMBASSY CAIRO SUBMISSION FOR 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) This message responds to reftel. Embassy POC is poloff Roger Kenna, phone 20-2-797-2749, fax 20-2-797-2181, kennart2@state.gov. Poloff spent approximately 16 hours in the preparation of the TIP report. PA officer spent two hours; ECPO Minister Counselor spent two hours; DCM spent t [...]
2007-03-05 11:21:00Embassy CairoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SMIG PREF ASEC KFRD KCRM KWMN ELAB EG
07CARACAS1234ANTI-TIP NGO A.M.B.A.R. - FINAL REPORT
[...] (SBU) Poloff visited the local anti-trafficking NGO Women's Association for Well-Being and Reciprocal Assistance (A.M.B.A.R.) May 18, a recipient of an Economic Support Fund (ESF) Grant approved by the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),to receive the organization's f [...]
2007-06-21 20:27:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SNAR VE
07CARACAS2229VENEZUELA: VISIT OF G/TIP'S BARBARA FLECK
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Barbara Fleck, Reports Officer for the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),and Emboffs met with Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) officials and NGOs October 19-23 to discuss the government's anti-trafficking efforts. MFA officials agreed to facilitate [...]
2007-11-26 14:39:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN VE
07CARACAS2386PUBLIC REPORTING UNDERESTIMATES RISING HOMICIDE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Venezuelan newspaper, El Universal, reported that 315 violent deaths occurred in Caracas during the first two weeks of December, an average of 15.5 per day. The chief coroner (protect) at the Caracas morgue told Poloff that the actual rate was closer to one per hour. El Un [...]
2007-12-21 12:57:00Embassy CaracasCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM VE
07CARACAS787VENEZUELA: PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FOR G/TIP FUNDING
[...] (U) Per reftel, Post submits the following executive summary of an anti-trafficking in persons project proposal for G/TIP funding. -------------------- Project Information -------------------- 2. (U) Please find the requested project information below: -- Name of the applicant: Internat [...]
2007-04-20 21:12:00Embassy CaracasUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ELAB KCRM ASEC PREL SMIG VE
07CASABLANCA42MOROCCO: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) This cable responds to action request (ref A) for updated information on the Moroccan government's efforts to combat trafficking in persons from April 2006 to March 2007. --------------------------------- Morocco Remai [...]
2007-03-07 16:52:00Consulate CasablancaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB MO
07CHENNAI100BANGALORE CALM AFTER CAUVERY RIVER WATER VERDICT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Bangalore remained calm on February 6 following an interstate river water tribunal verdict on February 5 over a long-simmering dispute involving the sharing of water that flows through the southern states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Perceived injustice in Karnataka sparked impro [...]
2007-02-06 11:01:00Consulate ChennaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KWWT ASEC CASC SOCI KCRM ECON IN
07CHENNAI103ROOTING OUT TRAFFICKING IN ANDHRA PRADESH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 29, G/TIP Trafficking in Persons Coordinator Gayatri Patel and Embassy INL officer met with NGOs and law enforcement officials in Hyderabad, the capital of the south India state of Andhra Pradesh (AP),to review projects to combat the trafficking of women and children [...]
2007-02-07 11:12:00Consulate ChennaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWMN SOCI KCRM ELAB PHUM PREL IN
07CHENNAI445Plea from NGOs: Don't Downgrade India to Tier 3
[...] SUMMARY: During a July 3 visit to Hyderabad, Ambassador Mulford met with representatives of anti-trafficking NGOs to hear their views on India's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). The NGO representatives argued that the 2007 TIP report did not sufficiently or accurately acknowledge [...]
2007-07-09 10:55:00Consulate ChennaiUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI ELAB KCRM KWMN PREL PHUM IN
07CHENNAI541HYDERABAD TERROR GROUPS HAVE INTERNATIONAL LINKS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging conversation only days before the August 25 bombings in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh's Police Intelligence Chief told post that his office closely monitors 40 to 50 Indian nationals in Hyderabad who have links to Islamic terrorist groups. He said many of these y [...]
2007-08-29 10:47:00Consulate ChennaiCONFIDENTIALASEC IN KCRM KISL PGOV PREL PTER
07CHENNAI606 G/TIP VISITS RESCUED BONDED LABORERS IN TAMIL NADU
[...] (SBU) Summary: The director of the Department's office charged with combating human trafficking visited South India to hear first-hand accounts from victims of bonded labor and to witness government and NGO programs designed to help them. He also spoke with Karnataka's Chief Secretary, who do [...]
2007-09-28 09:50:00Consulate ChennaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PHUM ECON KCRM PGOV SOCI IN
07CHENNAI694 TAMIL NADU GARMENT INDUSTRY (MOSTLY) CHILD LABOR FREE BUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tirupur, a small city near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu's second largest city, is a remarkable economic success story. In the span of just a few decades, Tirupur's garment industry has grown to account for more than half of India's knitwear exports. With a rapid growth creating a de [...]
2007-11-28 11:31:00Consulate ChennaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PHUM ECON KCRM PGOV SOCI IN
07CHENNAI77TRAFFICKERS ARRESTED, GIRLS RESCUED IN ANDHRA PRADESH
[...] Summary: Since mid-October 2006, the Andhra Pradesh (AP) Police, assisted by local NGOs, have rescued 80 girls and arrested 94 traffickers from four districts in the state. Most of the traffickers have been booked under non-bailable charges. Most of the rescued girls were placed in shelter h [...]
2007-01-31 11:02:00Consulate ChennaiUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN SOCI KCRM ELAB IN
07CHISINAU1354TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT: SOME PROGRESS, BUT STILL NO
[...] (U) Post's interim assessment for EUR Special Watchlist countries is keyed to the questions in reftel para. 6B. 2. (SBU) According to the Center for Combating Trafficking in Persons (CCTIP),Government of Moldova (GOM) authorities opened 429 cases against traffickers (a 7.7% rise over the sa [...]
2007-11-13 07:22:00Embassy ChisinauUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG MD
07COLOMBO1031SRI LANKA: WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT SECRETARY ENGAGES
[...] (C) Summary. On July 10, Charge and Poloff called on Secretary of the Ministry of Child Development and Women's SIPDIS Empowerment Indrani Sugathadasa to brief her on Sri Lanka's Tier 2 Watch List status and discuss Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) efforts to address trafficking of women and [...]
2007-07-25 06:00:00Embassy ColomboCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM KWMN KPAO ELAB KCRM SOCI
07COLOMBO1546SRI LANKA: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT
[...] (SBU) After meeting with numerous officials from throughout the GSL, Post assesses that the Government acknowledges the trafficking problem in Sri Lanka and is committed to addressing it. However, resource constraints, a lack of coordination among concerned ministries, and systemic problems [...]
2007-11-15 10:13:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCRM KWMN PHUM SMIG CE
07COLOMBO1580 SRI LANKA: INCSR PART II 2007-2008 SUBMISSION
[...] The following is Embassy Colombo's International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part II regarding money laundering and financial crimes, per request in reftel. 2. Begin text: Sri Lanka Sri Lanka is neither an important regional financial center nor a preferred center for money [...]
2007-11-21 11:34:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR KMCA CE
07COLOMBO1688SRI LANKA: GOVERNMENT HOLDS SUCCESSFUL TIP
[...] On December 13, the Ministry of Child Development and Women's Empowerment hosted a four-hour roundtable discussion on trafficking in persons (TIP) with key stakeholders in the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL). The goal of the meeting was to share information and best practices, foster more effe [...]
2007-12-20 11:43:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV CE
07COLOMBO266ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 7 the Ambassador hosted a round-table discussion on trafficking in persons with 12 NGO representatives and three government officials working in related fields. Although there was no single working definition of "trafficking" or common assessment of the scope of th [...]
2007-02-12 13:26:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB ASEC PREF KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD CE
07COLOMBO367SRI LANKA: THE SEVENTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (U) Mission's submission for the seventh annual Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report for Sri Lanka follows. Responses are keyed to questions in Reftel. Mission point of contact is poloff Anamika Chakravorty, telephone +94-11-249-8822, fax +94-11-249-8820. Paragraph 27: Sri Lanka Overvi [...]
2007-03-05 12:04:00Embassy ColomboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB ASEC PREF KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD CE
07CONAKRY1244GUINEA 2007-8 INCSR REPORT DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-15 14:13:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR ECON GV
07CONAKRY1347RESPONSE - EFFORTS TO COMBAT WEST AFRICAN DRUG TRAFFICKING
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel request, Embassy provides the following analysis of drug trafficking in Guinea. In addition, reftels provide additional background information. 2. (SBU) The Government of Guinea (GoG) is engaged on drug trafficking issues and has a specialized police unit that [...]
2007-12-19 09:03:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCRM SNAR EAID SOCI GV
07CONAKRY267GUINEA 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over the past year, the Government of Guinea has made concentrated efforts to address trafficking in persons. Most importantly, it has successfully investigated and prosecuted a trafficking case, sentencing the perpetrator to time in prison. The judicial sector is plagued by [...]
2007-03-02 12:31:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF GV
07CONAKRY483 Anti-Trafficking in Persons Project Proposals -- Guinea
[...] Over the last several months, Guinea has been in a state of upheaval as a grassroots social movement for change rocked the country at the highest levels. In March, a consensus government was appointed. Guinea's cabinet is now entirely comprised of new ministers and thus new leadership on tra [...]
2007-05-03 11:59:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG GV
07CONAKRY831 Guinea 2007 TIP Report: Demarche to the Minister of Social
[...] (U) On June 29, as directed in Ref A, Poloff delivered demarche on the 2007 Guinea Trafficking in Persons Report to the Minister of Social Affairs Tete Nabe. Also present were several members of the minister's cabinet and senior officials charged with issues of protection, social development, [...]
2007-07-20 07:28:00Embassy ConakryUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN KPAO SMIG PREL ELAB ASEC GV
07COTONOU912BENIN: UPDATE ON GOB EFFORTS TO COMBAT CHILD TRAFFICKING
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Benin has made some progress in the past several months in the fight against child trafficking. The Ministry of Family, Women and Children's National Child Protection Coordination and Monitoring Working Group embarked on the planning of its 2008 activities and the approval of the t [...]
2007-11-29 11:21:00Embassy CotonouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCRM BN NI
07CURACAO938CURACAO: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] Aruba, the Netherlands Antilles, and the Netherlands together form the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The two Caribbean parts of the Kingdom have autonomy over their internal affairs, with the right to exercise independent decision making in a number of counter narcotics areas. The Government of [...]
2007-11-27 19:04:00Consulate CuracaoUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL PGOV KCRM NA AA
07DAKAR1348TIP REPORTS DELIVERED; UNODC AND EU WORKING WITH ECOWAS
[...] EmbOffs have delivered the 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) reports to the Governments of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, and the reports have been posted on the embassy Web site in English and French or Portuguese. In the course of related discussions, Embassy learned that the computer equipment [...]
2007-06-25 11:58:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM PU SG
07DAKAR2417IDENT REVIEW RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT SENEGALESE PASSPORT
[...] (U) Embassy Dakar recently reviewed the cases of refused Non-Immigrant Visa (NIV) applicants whose IDENT hits revealed mala fide identity changes. This review identified several instances when legitimate Senegalese documents were obtained using fraudulent information. Two patterns of identity [...]
2007-12-20 10:36:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS KCRM KFRD XY SG GA
07DAKAR299SENEGAL'S FIU (CENTIF) LAUNCHES NEW OUTREACH PROGRAM TO
[...] SUMMARY: NGouda Fall Kane, Director General of Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) the CENTIF, presided over a January 23 workshop, where he encouraged enhanced cooperation with different partners including the country's notaries public to strengthen the understanding and implementatio [...]
2007-02-06 12:42:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PTER ECON EAID PINR KCRM SG
07DAKAR309SENEGAL'S FIU (CENTIF) LAUNCHES NEW OUTREACH PROGRAM TO
[...] SUMMARY: NGouda Fall Kane, Director General of Senegal's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) the CENTIF, presided over a January 23 workshop, where he encouraged enhanced cooperation with different partners including the country's notaries public to strengthen the understanding and implementatio [...]
2007-02-07 08:49:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PTER ECON EAID PINR KCRM SG
07DAKAR456GUINEA-BISSAU: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) Guinea-Bissau is a source of children trafficked for forced agricultural work and begging, primarily in Senegal. Muslim Koranic teachers, known as marabouts, travel from Senegal or send intermediaries to convince parents to send children purportedly for a religious education. Those chi [...]
2007-02-28 12:51:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC PREF PU
07DAKAR501SENEGAL: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] SUMMARY: After being upgraded last year from Tier 2 Watch List to Tier 2 status, Senegal has continued to devote significant time and attention to the issue of trafficking in persons. Following passage of its first trafficking-in-persons (TIP) law in April 2005, police now maintain a compute [...]
2007-03-05 12:13:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC PREF SG
07DAKAR596SENEGAL: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT UPDATE:
[...] (SBU) According to Judicial Police Director Ndoye, Senegal has successfully prosecuted two traffickers under the 2005 TIP law. Two Senegalese marabouts, Serigne Mamadou Thiam and Abdou Faye, were each sentenced to 18 months for sending boys from Senegal to Mali, with the intention of sending [...]
2007-03-15 14:23:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC PREF SG
07DAKAR608COUNTER-NARCOTICS STRATEGY FOR GUINEA-BISSAU
[...] (S) Embassy, press and intelligence reporting over the past year have highlighted the growing problem of drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau (see refs). The international community watched and took no significant action as the GOGB lost sovereignty to drug traffickers. Now Guinea-Bissau is a h [...]
2007-03-16 12:08:00Embassy DakarSECRETSNAR KCRM PGOV PREL EAIR PU
07DAKAR649SENEGAL: NARCOTICS SEIZURES AND OTHER CRIME DATA FOR 2006
[...] On March 16, Leopold Diouf, the Director General for National Security in the Ministry of Interior and Local Government, released crime statistics for 2006. He noted that Senegalese police seized 29 kilograms of cocaine; 8,396 tons of marijuana, and 129,232 capsules of various psychotropic dr [...]
2007-03-21 11:08:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR ASEC KCRM SG
07DAKAR869GUINEA BISSAU: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROPOSAL
[...] Embassy,s trafficking in persons (TIP) project proposal for Guinea-Bissau follows. This year, G/TIP proposed to downgrade Guinea-Bissau to Tier Two Watch List in the annual Trafficking in Person,s Report. Guinea-Bissau has demonstrated improvement in its anti-trafficking efforts since it ap [...]
2007-04-20 12:00:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ASEC ELAB KCRM PREL SMIG PU
07DAKAR871SENEGAL: FY-2007 ESF AND INCLE PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] Embassy Dakar is pleased to submit four project proposals to strengthen and expand Senegal's commitment to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). The proposals, listed in order of funding priority, would provide training in trafficking for law enforcement and health officials, give social assi [...]
2007-04-20 12:30:00Embassy DakarUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ASEC ELAB KCRM SMIG SG
07DAMASCUS1155ACS IN SYRIA - DECEIVED, DETAINED AND DEPORTED
[...] (SBU) Summary. American Citizen Services (ACS) staff at Embassy Damascus had twenty cases of detention and/or abandonment of US citizens in the fourth quarter FY-2007. Six cases involved women fleeing their families due to abuse or to avoid arranged marriages. Four cases, some still ongoing, [...]
2007-12-06 15:18:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF CVIS ASEC KFRD KCRM KOCI KWMN SY
07DAMASCUS1171DAMASCUS FRAUD PREVENTION MANAGEMENT REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-13 10:31:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS CPAS KFRD KCRM CMGT ASEC SY
07DAMASCUS218SYRIA: 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) THE FOLLOWING IS POST'S SUBMISSION TO THE ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT. THE EMBASSY'S POINT OF CONTACT IS POLOFF MARIA D.G. OLSON. OFFICE TELEPHONE: (963) (11) 3391-3785. FAX: (963) (11) 3391-3999. OFFICER SPENT 40 HOURS IN PREPARATION OF THE REPORT, WHICH IS STRUCTURED TO [...]
2007-03-06 09:06:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07DAMASCUS22ADVISOR TO MFA SAYS SYRIANS REMAIN NERVOUS ABOUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: THE SYRIAN REGIME CONTINUES TO FEAR THE FORMATION OF A SPECIAL LEBANON TRIBUNAL, WORRYING THAT IT COULD FIND ITSELF UNDER SUSTAINED INTERNATIONAL OPPROBRIUM AND ISOLATION, EVEN IF SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE REGIME ARE NOT ACCUSED OF INVOLVEMENT IN THE ASSASSINATION OF LEBANESE PM RA [...]
2007-01-09 09:54:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM SY IR IS LE IZ
07DAMASCUS255SARG ANTI-CORRUPTION PROPAGANDA GROWS IN RUN-UP TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the past month, the SARG has publicly highlighted its purported efforts to crack down on corruption. This effort is the latest in a long line of sporadic SARG campaigns to manipulate the issue of combating corruption for internal political purposes. It is also part of a bro [...]
2007-03-13 13:56:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALKCRM ECON PGOV SY
07DAMASCUS293SYRIAN OFFICIALS PUBLICLY DENY REGIME ROLE IN AIN
[...] (SBU) In the past week, Syrian Interior Minister Maj. Gen. Bassam Abdul Majeed rejected suggestions that the regime was involved in the February 13 Ain Alaq bus bombings in Lebanon, despite the March 13 announcement by Lebanese officials of the arrest of four Syrian members of Fatah Islam in [...]
2007-03-25 14:06:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM LE BY
07DAMASCUS295SYRIAN ARAB AIRWAYS CONTINUES TO PURSUE A WET LEASE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Syria Arab Airways has reportedly signed an agreement to lease Boeing airplanes from a new company set up by Rami Makhlouf. End summary. 2. (C) As he has with nearly every other economic sector in Syria, we've heard from local contacts that Rami Makhlouf, President Asad,s [...]
2007-03-26 07:49:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON ETTC KCRM SY
07DAMASCUS417SYRIA: ANTI-TRAFFICKING PROJECT PROPOSAL
[...] (U) Post is submitting one project for the ESF Anti-Trafficking in Persons Projects from the International Office for Migration (IOM). 2. (SBU) The project is as follows: A. Title: Capacity Building on Identifying and Assessing Human Trafficking and Providing Protection to Victims of [...]
2007-05-03 14:49:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KWMN KCRM ASEC ELAB SMIG
07DAMASCUS480PRIVATE SYRIAN AIRLINE DEAL STILL TRYING TO GET
[...] (C) In a May 9 meeting, Syrian Arab Airlines (SAA) officials confirmed recent press reports that the newly-formed Cham Holding Company plans to partner with SAA and the Kuwaiti al-Aqeela company to establish a private airline in Syria, and acknowledged that some steps had already been taken. [...]
2007-05-21 08:28:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON ETTC KCRM SY
07DAMASCUS773DAMASCUS FRAUD PREVENTION MANAGEMENT REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-30 10:15:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS CPAS KFRD KCRM CMGT ASEC SY
07DAMASCUS796 CONSULAR OPERATIONS IN A STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM -
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-07 06:46:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CPAS KFRD KCRM SY IZ IR
07DAMASCUS797 CONSULAR OPERATIONS IN A STATE SPONSOR OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Consular Operations at Embassy Damascus are impacted by the fact that the Syrian Arab Republic is a State Sponsor of Terrorism, as well as by our growing Iraqi workload. This cable focuses on the salient features of conducting consular work in this special environment. End Sum [...]
2007-08-07 08:55:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CPAS KFRD KCRM SY IZ IR
07DAMASCUS932 CONSULAR SECTION ACTIVITIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the SARG's continuing efforts to restrict Embassy contact with large segments of Syrian society, the Consular Section continues to run an active outreach program. Below is a list of events in August and September. End Summary. 2. (SBU) Student Visa Talks -- Our NI [...]
2007-09-13 12:19:00Embassy DamascusUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CVIS CPAS KFRD KCRM SY IZ
07DARESSALAAM1183TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS UPDATE FOR TANZANIA
[...] (U) The Government of Tanzania (GOT),International Organization for Migration (IOM) and NGOs are addressing trafficking in persons (TIP) on a number of fronts. The Ministry of Health is working with IOM to increase awareness of TIP and IOM is finalizing the report of its 2006 research asses [...]
2007-08-21 14:23:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL HSTC SOCI EAID PREF PGOV KWMN SMIG KCRM
07DARESSALAAM1496TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON
[...] Status of host nation laws specifically criminalizing bulk cash smuggling: In January 2007 The Government of Tanzania (GOT) enacted the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2006. This law does not specify what constitutes bulk cash movement, but addresses the issue of seizure and sanctions and sta [...]
2007-11-14 03:19:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KCRM PTER KTFN PREL TZ
07DARESSALAAM1607TANZANIA: 2007 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) In 2007, there were no acts of international terrorism in Tanzania. With United States support, Tanzania continued to take steps to establish a National Counterterrorism Center, a major objective under our Mission Strategic Plan. The purpose of this Center will be to build Tanzania's inte [...]
2007-12-21 08:50:00Embassy Dar Es SalaamUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR TZ
07DHAKA1038HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR DISTINGUISHED VISITOR
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates has been selected for participation for the Distinguished Visitor Orientation Tour in the U.S. from July 29 to August 5, 2007. Post vetting was completed on June 20, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by July [...]
2007-06-24 07:27:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1039HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR SENIOR INTERNATIONAL
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Senior International Defense Management Course to be held in Monterey, California. Post requests that vetting be completed by July 5, 2007, to provide sufficient time for process [...]
2007-06-24 07:27:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1040HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Aircraft Maintenance Officer Course to be held at Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas from July 6 to October 12, 2007. Post vetting was completed on June 20, 2007. Post requests t [...]
2007-06-24 07:27:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1058GOVERNMENT ATTENTION FOCUSED ON ADDRESSING MIGRANT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Ministry of Expatriate Welfare pledged its cooperation with the Embassy in combating labor trafficking and tracking investigations and prosecutions of these cases. Deputy Secretary Datta outlined for us the various enforcement tools at their disposal, and described some of [...]
2007-06-26 08:22:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD KCRM KWMN KFRD PHUM BG
07DHAKA1071HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR 31ST PACIFIC ARMIES MGMT
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation for the 31st Pacific Armies Management Seminar to be held in Sydney, Australia, from August 6 to 10, 2007. Post vetting was completed on June 28, 2007. Post requests that vetting be c [...]
2007-07-02 01:04:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1076HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL DEFENSE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation for the International Defense Management Course to be held in Dhaka from July 15 to 26, 2007. Post vetting was completed on July 1, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by J [...]
2007-07-02 06:37:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1089HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING (ADDITIONAL NAMES) FOR
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following additional candidates have been selected for participation for the International Defense Management Course to be held in Dhaka from July 15 to 26, 2007. Post vetting was completed on July 1, 2007. Post requests that vetting be com [...]
2007-07-03 06:33:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1092RESPONSE TO INQUIRY RE. CLAIMS FACILITY FOR CAMEL
[...] (U) At request of Department (reftel),Post has requested information from the GOB on the facility being set up by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to compensate camel jockeys. Post addressed Department's questions to the Ministry for Home Affairs (MOHA),which oversees anti-trafficking programs [...]
2007-07-03 08:00:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KCRM KWMN AE SU PK MR BG
07DHAKA1115HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR EXERCISE KHAN QUEST, JULY
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in Exercise Khan Quest, in Ulaan Baatar, from July 24 to August 18, 2007. Post vetting was completed on July 8, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by July 19, 2007, to provid [...]
2007-07-09 01:58:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1162HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AIRBORNE & JUMPMASTER
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation for the Airborne & Jumpmaster course to be held at Fort Benning, Georgia from August 20 to October 5, 2007. Post vetting was completed on July 18, 2007. Post requests that vetting be co [...]
2007-07-18 09:38:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1163HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR EXERCISE KHAN QUEST, JULY
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in Exercise Khan Quest, in Ulaan Baatar, from July 24 to August 18, 2007. Post vetting was completed on July 17, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by July 27, 2007, to pro [...]
2007-07-18 09:39:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1164HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL CRISIS:
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in International Crisis: Command & Control Course, in York Town, Virginia, from September 5-21,2007. Post vetting was completed on July 18, 2007. Post requests that vetting be complet [...]
2007-07-18 09:39:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1186HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR UNITED NATIONS LOGISTICS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the United Nations Logistics Course to be held at Port Dickson, Malaysia from July 30 to August 17, 2007. Post vetting was completed on July 22, 2007. Post requests that vetting be [...]
2007-07-23 01:15:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA119ARRESTS OF ALLEGED JMB TERRORISTS CONTINUE
[...] (SBU) On January 14-18, the paramilitary Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) mounted new raids leading to the arrest of Jamaatul Mujahidin Bangladesh (JMB) operatives, this time at several locations near Dhaka based both on information developed from previous arrests (reftels) and on new information. [...]
2007-01-22 09:54:00Embassy DhakaSECRETPTER PGOV PREL KISL KCRM PHUM BG
07DHAKA1227HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PACIFIC AIR LIFT RALLY
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation for the Pacific Air Lift Rally course to be held Jakarta, Indonesia from August 20 to 24, 2007. Post vetting was completed on July 29, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed b [...]
2007-07-29 02:37:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1233HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING SQUADRON OFFICER SCHOOL,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation for the Squadron Officer School to be held at Maxwell Air Force base, Alabama from September 4 to December 7, 2007. Post vetting was completed on July 29, 2007. Post requests that vett [...]
2007-07-30 03:18:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1241HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR 18TH APCSS SENIOR
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation for the 18th APCSS Senior Executive Course course to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii from August 27-31, 2007. Post vetting was completed on July 30, 2007. Post requests that vetting be c [...]
2007-07-31 00:26:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1252HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR LEGAL ASPECTS IN
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Legal Aspects of Combating Terrorism Course in Dhaka, Bangladesh from August 12-16, 2007. Post vetting was completed on August 1, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed [...]
2007-08-02 02:14:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1316LEAHY VETTING FOR ASIA PACIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the ASIA PACIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY STUDIES EXECUTIVE COURSE from OCTOBER 16 to DECEMBER 5, 2007. Post vetting was completed on August 13th, 2007. Post requests that vetting be co [...]
2007-08-14 01:06:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1321BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO 2007 TIP REPORT:
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Embassy briefed Home Ministry and police officials on the 2007 Trafficking in Persons report. Most of the discussion focused on how to track labor migration abuse cases. The government agreed to include representatives of the Foreign and Expatriate Workers ministries in fut [...]
2007-08-14 07:58:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KCRM BG
07DHAKA1331LEAHY VETTING FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVE SEMINAR, AUGUST
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Senior Executive Seminar course to be held in Garmisch, Germany from August 22 to August 29, 2008. Post vetting was completed on August 13th, 2007. Post requests that vetting be [...]
2007-08-15 05:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1343BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT REPORTS ON ACTIONS TAKEN
[...] (SBU) The Expatriate Welfare Ministry, which regulates migrant labor issues in Bangladesh, provided updated statistics to the Embassy on actions it has taken against labor recruitment companies over the past three months, from May to July 2007. 2. (SBU) Bangladesh's labor export industry is [...]
2007-08-16 05:52:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KCRM BG
07DHAKA1384BANGLADESH FOREIGN MINISTRY TAKES MEASURES TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Officials of the Bangladesh Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently attended a briefing and training on the role of the ministry in combating human trafficking on August 18. In addition, the Ministry issued a circular with instructions for its missions abroad on how to combat traf [...]
2007-08-26 01:07:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM ELAB KCRM BG
07DHAKA1385LEAHY VETTING FOR GLOBAL AIR CHIEFS CONFERENCE,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Global Air Chiefs Conference to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, from September 22 to 29, 2007. Post vetting was completed on August 26, 2007. Post requests that vetting be compl [...]
2007-08-27 07:31:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1386LEAHY VETTING FOR LAND PORT IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Orientation Training for Land Port Immigration Officials on Combatting Human Trafficking scheduled for September 26-27 in Dhaka. Post vetting was completed on August 27, 2007. [...]
2007-08-27 08:46:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1387LEAHY VETTING FOR ASIA-PACIFIC INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Asia-Pacific Intelligence Chiefs Conference to be held September 4 to 7, 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Post vetting was completed on August 27, 2007. Post requests that vettin [...]
2007-08-27 08:47:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1455LEAHY VETTING FOR COUNTER-TERRORISM CONFERENCE IN
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Counter-Terrorism Conference to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, from September 18-20, 2007. Post vetting was completed on August 27, 2007. Post requests that vetting be complete [...]
2007-09-06 10:39:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1469LEAHY VETTING FOR GLOBAL AIR CHIEFS CONFERENCE,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Global Air Chiefs Conference being held in Washington, DC and Honolulu, HI from September 22 to 29, 2007. Post vetting was completed on September 9, 2007. Post requests that [...]
2007-09-10 10:55:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1470LEAHY VETTING FOR ASIA-PACIFIC CHIEFS OF DEFENSE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Asia-Pacific Chiefs of Defense Conference October 30 - November 2, 2007 in Honolulu, HI. Post vetting was completed on September 9, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed [...]
2007-09-10 11:10:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1471LEAHY VETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL SEA POWER
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the International Sea Power Symposium from October 16 to 19, 2007 in Newport, RI. Post vetting was completed on September 9, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed as soon as [...]
2007-09-10 11:15:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1474LEAHY VETTING FOR ASIA-PACIFIC CENTER FOR SECURITY
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) Executive Course to be held in Honolulu, HI from October 16 to December 5, 2007. Post vetting was completed on September 9, 2007 [...]
2007-09-10 11:39:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1512LEAHY VETTING FOR MILITARY AND PEACEKEEPING
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Military Peacekeeping Operations and Rule of Law training to be held in Newport, RI from October 3 to November 16, 2007. Post vetting was completed on September 14, 2007. Post [...]
2007-09-16 10:11:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1585LEAHY VETTING FOR NORTHEAST-SOUTH ASIA EXECUTIVE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Northeast-South Asia Executive Seminar scheduled to be held from October 24 to November 15, 2007 in Washington, DC. Post vetting was completed on September 30, 2007. Post reque [...]
2007-10-01 08:01:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1586LEAHY VETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL SEA POWER
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the 18th International Sea Power Symposium to be held in Newport, RI, from October 16 to 19, 2007. Post vetting was completed on September 30, 2007. Post requests that vetting be [...]
2007-10-01 08:04:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1625LEAHY VETTING FOR ATA VIP PROTECTION COURSE,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the ATA VIP Protection Course to be held at Rajarbagh Police Line in Dhaka from November 27 to December 21, 2007. Post vetting was completed on October 10, 2007. Post requests tha [...]
2007-10-09 10:26:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1670LEAHY VETTING FOR ENGINEERING CAPTAIN TRAINING
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Engineering Captain Training Course to be held at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri, from November 19, 2007 to June 11, 2008. Post vetting was completed on October 23, 2007. Post requ [...]
2007-10-23 03:36:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1685LEAHY VETTING FOR UNITED NATIONS STAFF OFFICERS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in United Nations Staff Officers course being held in Port Dickson, Malaysia, from December 3-14, 2007. Post vetting was completed on October 25, 2007. Post requests that vetting be com [...]
2007-10-25 09:26:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1768LEAHY VETTING FOR LEGAL ASPECTS IN COMBATTING
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Legal Aspects in Combatting Terrorism Conference to be held November 28 - December 14, 2007 in Newport, Rhode Island. Post vetting was completed on November 7, 2007. Post requ [...]
2007-11-08 11:30:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1769LEAHY VETTING FOR BALANCE BUFFALO 08-1 FROM
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following unit has been selected for participation in the Balance Buffalo 08-1 exercise from January 28 - March 7, 2008. Post vetting was completed on November 5, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by November 20, 2007, to provi [...]
2007-11-08 11:42:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1781TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON
[...] (U) The following is the response to an action request (reftel) for information on cash couriers from Bangladesh: 2. (U) Bangladesh has ratified the UN International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism. It also implements FATF Special Recommendation IX through its f [...]
2007-11-13 08:16:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDBG EFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN
07DHAKA1782LEAHY VETTING FOR NEAR-EAST SOUTH ASIA (NESA)
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Near-East South Asia (NESA) Combatting Terrorism Executive Seminar to be held December 5 - 19, 2007 in Washington, DC. Post vetting was completed on November 13, 2007. Post requ [...]
2007-11-13 09:30:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1783LEAHY VETTING FOR ASIA-PACIFIC COMPREHENSIVE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Asia-Pacific Comprehensive Security Responses (APCSS) to be held January 14 - February 13, 2008 in Washington, DC. Post vetting was completed on November 13, 2007. Post requests [...]
2007-11-13 09:32:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1784LEAHY VETTING FOR ADVANCE AEROSPACE MEDICINE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Advance Aerospace Medicine Course to be held January 4 - June 13, 2008 in Brooks City Base, Texas. Post vetting was completed on November 13, 2007. Post requests that vetting be [...]
2007-11-13 09:33:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1785DRAFT BANGLADESH PART I FOR 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL
[...] (U) The following is the draft text on Bangladesh of the first part (drugs and chemical control) for the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report: 2. (U) I. Summary: A Major narcotics bust in Dhaka in October 2007 supported law enforcement officials' claims of a sharp incr [...]
2007-11-13 09:39:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM BG
07DHAKA1794LEAHY VETTING FOR UNITED NATIONS STAFF OFFICERS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the United Nations Staff Officers Course to be held December 2 - 13, 2007 in Rajendrapur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Post vetting was completed on November 14, 2007. Post requests that ve [...]
2007-11-15 15:02:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1795LEAHY VETTING FOR UNITED NATIONS LOGISTICS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the United Nations Logistics Officers Course to be held December 2 - 13, 2007 in Rajendrapur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Post vetting was completed on November 15, 2007. Post requests tha [...]
2007-11-15 15:04:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1822ADDITIONAL LEAHY VETTING FOR UNITED NATIONS STAFF
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the United Nations Staff Officers Course to be held December 2 - 13, 2007 in Rajendrapur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Post vetting was completed on November 14, 2007. Post requests that vett [...]
2007-11-21 10:12:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1823ADDITIONAL LEAHY VETTING FOR UNITED NATIONS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the United Nations Logistics Officers Course to be held December 2 - 13, 2007 in Rajendrapur, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Post vetting was completed on November 15, 2007. Post requests that [...]
2007-11-21 10:12:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1884LEAHY VETTING FOR COMBINED STRATEGIC INTELLIGENCE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Combined Strategic Intelligence Course to be held January 10 - February 29, 2008 at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, DC. Post vetting was completed on December 3, 2007. P [...]
2007-12-03 10:07:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1899LEAHY VETTING FOR SIGNAL CAPTAIN CAREER COURSE,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Combined Strategic Intelligence Course to be held January 15 - July 10, 2008 at Fort Gordon, Georgia. Post vetting was completed on December 5, 2007. Post requests that vetting [...]
2007-12-06 10:30:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1900LEAHY VETTING FOR SPECIALISED ENGLISH LANGUAGE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Specialised English La.guage Training to be held January 9 - March 14 at Lackland Air Force Base, TX and the Expolsive Ordnance Disposal Course to be held March 15 - October 9, 2 [...]
2007-12-06 10:30:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1910ANTI-TERRORISM LEGISLATION FACES HURDLES,
[...] (C) Summary: Prepared with USG assistance, a series of amendments that would strengthen Bangladesh,s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Act and a draft Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) are being held up in the Law Ministry, in contravention of instructions from the Chief Adviser that they be enacted by the [...]
2007-12-09 09:39:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER PREL PGOV KCRM KTFN SNAR BG
07DHAKA1955LEAHY VETTING FOR SQUADRON OFFICER SCHOOL AT
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Squadron Officer School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama from February 20 - May 16, 2008. Post requests that vetting be completed by January 25, 2007, to provide sufficient tim [...]
2007-12-19 05:14:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1973LEAHY VETTING FOR MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CAPTAIN
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Military Intelligence Captain Career Course at Ft. Huachuca, Arizona from March 24 - September 22, 2008. Post vetting was completed on December 26, 2007.Post requests that vetti [...]
2007-12-27 02:26:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA1974LEAHY VETTING FOR ATA CRISIS RESPONSE COURSE,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following 24 candidates have been selected for participation in the ATA Crisis Response Course to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in January 2008. Post vetting was completed on December 23, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by Jan [...]
2007-12-27 02:33:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA275GOVERNMENT TAKES STEPS AGAINST LABOR TRAFFICKING,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Government officials and international organization representatives take seriously allegations of labor trafficking and migrant labor violations. The Home Ministry asked for more information on specific allegations, and agreed to follow up with the inter-ministerial anti-traffick [...]
2007-02-19 11:36:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCOR KDEM KCRM KWMN KFRD PREF ELAB BG
07DHAKA335BANGLADESH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] This Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report covers efforts by the Bangladeshi government (GOB) from March 2006 to March 2007, and address the questions submitted to Post by G/TIP (reftel). Paragraph two begins text. Embassy point of contact is Luke Zahner, Political Officer, telephone: 880- [...]
2007-03-01 02:10:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BG
07DHAKA349HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Military Intelligence Captain Career Course being conducted at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, from April 9 to September 24, 2007. Post vetting was completed on March 4, 2007. Post requ [...]
2007-03-04 08:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA35HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR BALANCED BUFFALO COURSE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following units have been selected for participation in the 2007 Balance Buffalo exercise in Sylhet, Bangladesh from April 23 to May 22, 2007. Post vetting was completed on January 3, 2007. Post requests the department conduct Leahy vettin [...]
2007-01-09 05:01:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA350HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Air Defense Artillery Captain Career Course being conducted at Fort Bliss, Texas, from April 16 to October 4, 2007. Post vetting was completed on March 4, 2007. Post requests t [...]
2007-03-04 08:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA351HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PACIFIC AREA SPECIAL
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Pacific Area Special Training Course being held in Honolulu, Hawaii from April 10-13, 2007. Post vetting was completed on March 4, 2007. Post requests that vetting be complete [...]
2007-03-04 08:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA352HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR APCSS COURSE, APRIL 11 -
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) Stability, Security, Transition and Reconstruction (SSTR) course to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, from April 11 - May 10, 2007. [...]
2007-03-04 08:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA353HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR EXECUTIVE SEMINAR ON
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Near East/South Asia Center (NESA) Executive Seminar on Combatting Terrorism to be held in Washington, DC, from April 10-25, 2007. Post vetting was completed on March 4, 2007. P [...]
2007-03-04 08:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA396TARIQUE RAHMAN AND OTHERS ARRESTED;
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-11 09:27:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM BG
07DHAKA445RIHS REGISTRATION RENEWED
[...] (SBU) On March 13, local media reported that the the NGO Affairs Bureau of the GOB has renewed for five years the registration of the local chapter of the Kuwait-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS). 2. (SBU) We are attempting to confirm this report with GOB officials. Meanwhil [...]
2007-03-15 09:53:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KCRM PREL BG
07DHAKA446RIHS REGISTRATION RENEWED
[...] (SBU) On March 13, local media reported that the the NGO Affairs Bureau of the GOB has renewed for five years the registration of the local chapter of the Kuwait-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS). 2. (SBU) We are attempting to confirm this report with GOB officials. Meanwhil [...]
2007-03-16 06:43:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KCRM PREL BG
07DHAKA447RIHS REGISTRATION RENEWED
[...] (SBU) On March 13, local media reported that the the NGO Affairs Bureau of the GOB has renewed for five years the registration of the local chapter of the Kuwait-based Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS). 2. (SBU) We are attempting to confirm this report with GOB officials. Meanwhil [...]
2007-03-16 06:43:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KCRM PREL BG
07DHAKA457BUSINESSMEN AND POLITICIANS REACTION TO SECOND
[...] (C) Summary. Businessmen are starting to express concern about the lack of transparency with the government's anti-corruption lists, particularly as they pertain to several well-regarded businessmen. Meanwhile, an Awami League politician says his inclusion on the lists is being used by senior [...]
2007-03-19 09:28:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KDEM PREL PGOV BD
07DHAKA459BUSINESSMEN AND POLITICIANS REACTION TO SECOND
[...] (C) Summary. Businessmen are starting to express concern about the lack of transparency with the government's anti-corruption lists, particularly as they pertain to several well-regarded businessmen. Meanwhile, an Awami League politician says his inclusion on the lists is being used by senior [...]
2007-03-19 23:49:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KDEM PREL PGOV BD
07DHAKA460BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT RENEWS RIHS REGISTRATION
[...] (SBU) On March 20, NGO Affairs Bureau Assistant Director A.K.M. Humanyun Kabir confirmed to us that his agency had renewed the registration of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA) gave its concurrence (reftel). Kabir said that the GOB never [...]
2007-03-20 10:21:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPTER KCRM PGOV PREL BG
07DHAKA476ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN DEFENDS
[...] (C) Summary: Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Hosain Mashhud Chowdhury unequivocally maintained that the ACC has a solid basis for investigating each of the 100 individuals identified in two lists of individuals suspected of corruption. During a March 19 meeting with the Ambassador and [...]
2007-03-22 07:35:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA485HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL MARITIME
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the International Maritime Officers Course scheduled for May 30-August 10, 2007 in Yorktown, Virginia. Post vetting was completed on March 25, 2007. Post requests that vetting be com [...]
2007-03-25 08:55:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA508HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ATA-EIC TRAINING COURSE,
[...] This is an action request. See para 3. 2. The following candidates has been selected for participation in the ATA-EIC training starting on April 9 - May 25, 2007. Post vetting was completed on March 28, 2007. Due to the start of the course on April 9, 2007, this list requires clearance by c [...]
2007-03-29 04:05:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PINR PINS PREL MASS KCRM SNAR BG
07DHAKA537HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR EXERCISE FLASH BUFFALO
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following units have been selected for participation in Exercise Flash Buffalo to be conducted in Chittagong, Bangladesh from May 20 to June 2, 2007. Post vetting was completed on March 29, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by A [...]
2007-04-02 04:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA577ANTI-CORRUPTION DRIVE - THE FIRST 90 DAYS
[...] (C) Corruption Top Priority: The Caretaker Government appointed following the State of Emergency declared January 11 made combatting corruption the cornerstone of its promise to prepare for and conduct free and fair elections. In its first 90 days, the government has had some notable succes [...]
2007-04-10 05:41:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA639HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR COUNTER-TERRORISM FELLOWS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Counter-Terrorism Fellows Program in Washington, DC from July 21 to September 30, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 15, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by M [...]
2007-04-17 09:21:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA640HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL LOGISTICS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in International Logistics Executive Advanced Development Course in Athens, Georgia from June 1 to July 27, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by May 10, 2007, to provide su [...]
2007-04-17 09:22:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA641HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AIR COMMAND AND STAFF
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Air Command and Staff College Course in Montgomery, Alabama from June 11, 2007 to June 9, 2008. Post etting was completed on April 15, 2007. Post requests that vetting be complet [...]
2007-04-17 09:22:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA642HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR AIR WAR COLLEGE COURSE,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Air War College Course in Montgomery, Alabama, from May 29, 2007 to May 27, 2008. Post vetting was completed on April 15, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by May 10, [...]
2007-04-17 09:24:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA643HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR COMBINED LOGISTICS
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in Combined Logistics Captain Course in Fort Lee, Virginia, from May 22 to November 2, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 15, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by May [...]
2007-04-17 09:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA644HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR SENIOR INTERNATIONAL
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Senior International Defense Management Course in Monterey, California from June 23 to July 20, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 15, 2007. Post requests that vetting be [...]
2007-04-17 09:25:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA654AMBASSADOR CALLS ON CHIEF ADVISOR
[...] (U) Ambassador Butenis and Econoff (note taker) met April 16 with Chief Advisor Fakhruddin Ahmed to discuss elections and political reform, governance, and anti-corruption. Fahim Munaim, Press Spokesman for the Chief Advisor, and Shahidul Islam, Director General Americas & Pacific Wing, Mi [...]
2007-04-18 09:51:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KCRM BG
07DHAKA656HOME SECRETARY ON SHEIKH HASINA, KHALEDA ZIA, AND
[...] (C) On the heels of a brief April 18 introductory call by the New Delhi based Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Legal Attache, the Home Secretary touched on Sheikh Hasina,s imminent return, rumors about Khaleda Zia,s imminent departure and continuing allegations of death and abuse attribut [...]
2007-04-19 11:09:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM PREL KCRM PGOV BG
07DHAKA673HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PEACE SUPPORT OPERATION
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates has been selected for participation in the Peace Support Operation Instructors Course at Monterrey, California, from May 6 to 18, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 23, 2007. Post requests that vetting be complete [...]
2007-04-24 04:12:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA711HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR BOARDING OFFICER COURSE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates has been selected for participation in the Boarding Officer Course in Charleston, South Carolina from July 4 to August 15, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 29, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by M [...]
2007-05-02 07:51:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA712HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR COMBAT ENGINEER OFFICER
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates has been selected for participation in the Combat Engineer Officer Course at Camp LeJeune from June 6 to October 1, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 29, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by May 20, [...]
2007-05-02 07:51:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA714HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR GROUND SUPPLY OFFICER
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates has been selected for participation in the Ground Supply Officer Course at Camp LeJeune from July 5 to September 8, 2007. Post vetting was completed on April 29, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by June 1, [...]
2007-05-02 07:51:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA725PARAMILITARY TRAINING EXERCISE - BALANCE BUFFALO,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following units have been selected for participation in Operation Balance Buffalo in May 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 1, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by May 15, 2007, to provide sufficient time for processing. [...]
2007-05-03 09:05:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA726HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR NEAR EAST/SOUTH ASIA
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Near East/South Asia Center for Strategic Studies Executive Seminar starting on May 30, 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 1, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed [...]
2007-05-03 09:11:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA727HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR NEAR EAST/SOUTH ASIA
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Near East/South Asia Center for Strategic Studies Executive Seminar starting on May 30, 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 1, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed [...]
2007-05-03 09:16:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA775 HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS COURSE, MAY
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Disaster Preparedness Course starting on May 23, 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 10, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by May 21, 2007, to provide sufficient t [...]
2007-05-10 08:44:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA795KIBRIA'S SON DISCOUNTS NEW INVESTIGATION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-15 09:21:00Embassy DhakaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER KCRM PGOV BG
07DHAKA889HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR INFANTRY CAPTAIN TRAINING
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Infantry Captain Training Course to he held at Fort Benning, Georgia, from June 27 to December 13, 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 30, 2007. Post requests that vetting [...]
2007-05-31 08:11:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA890HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PEACE SUPPORT OPERATION
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Peace Support Operation Instructors Course to be held in Dhaka from June 17 to 28, 2007. Post vetting was completed on May 30, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed by [...]
2007-05-31 08:11:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA912ADDITIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR PEACE SUPPORT
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following additional candidates have been selected for participation in the Peace Support Operation Instructors Course to be held in Dhaka from June 17 to 28, 2007. Post vetting was completed on June 3, 2007. Post requests that vetting be c [...]
2007-06-06 00:59:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA913HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR NAVAL COMMAND COLLEGE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Naval Command College Course to he held in Providence, Rhode Island from July 27, 2007 to June 28, 2008. Post vetting was completed on June 3, 2007. Post requests that vetting [...]
2007-06-06 01:05:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA914HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR NAVAL STAFF COLLEGE
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Naval Staff College Course to be held in Providence, Rhode Island, from July 25, 2007 to June 24, 2008. Post vetting was completed on June 3, 2007. Post requests that vetting b [...]
2007-06-06 01:07:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA915HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ARMOR CAPTAIN CAREER
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the Armor Captain Career Course to be held at Fort Knox, Kentucky, from August 3, 2007 to February 4, 2008. Post vetting was completed on June 3, 2007. Post requests that vetting b [...]
2007-06-06 01:09:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA919HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ASIA-PACIFIC CENTER FOR
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) Comprehensive Responses to Terrorism (CSRT) course in Honolulu, Hawaii, from July 31 to August 22, 2007. Post vetting was comp [...]
2007-06-06 02:32:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA971HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR USCENTCOM COMBINED
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the USCENTCOM Combined Planning Group training course in Tampa, Florida, from July 15, 2007 to Jaunary 14, 2008. Post vetting was completed on June 14, 2007. Post requests that vet [...]
2007-06-15 07:50:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA972HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR BOARDING OFFICERS COURSE,
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in Boarding Officers Course to be held in Charleston, South Carolina from July 4 to August 17, 2007. Post vetting was completed on June 14, 2007. Post requests that vetting be completed [...]
2007-06-15 07:53:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DHAKA973HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR INTERNATIONAL SHIPYARD
[...] This is an action request. See para three. 2. The following candidate has been selected for participation in the International Shipyard Management Course to be held in Honolulu, Hawaii from July 13 to September 7, 2007. Post vetting was completed on June 14, 2007. Post requests that vetti [...]
2007-06-15 07:59:00Embassy DhakaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM MASS MARR PREL KCRM BG
07DILI14SUSPECTED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKERS DETAINED
[...] (C) Summary: UNPOL has arrested a Nigerian and a Lebanese national in Dili suspected of involvement in an apparent attempt to traffic young Timorese women to Syria, possibly for prostitution. The Nigerian detainee, found in possession of a large number of fraudulent documents, is confirmed to [...]
2007-01-16 11:23:00Embassy DiliCONFIDENTIALPHUM KJUS KPKO KCRM ASEC UN SY NI LE TT
07DOHA260QATAR: INPUT FOR THE SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (U) The following is post's input for the seventh annual Anti-Trafficking in Persons Report. Answers are keyed to reftel questions. 2. (SBU) Paragraph 27. Overview of a country's activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: A. (SBU) Is the country a country of origin, transit, or des [...]
2007-03-08 09:25:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB QA
07DUBAI333RAS AL KHAIMA TO CONFISCATE ABANDONED VIKTOR BOUT AIRCRAFT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-16 14:40:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALECON EAIR ETTC PGOV PINS SOCI KCRM LI AE
07DUBAI394FORMER DUBAI DIAMOND EXCHANGE CEO ALLEGES SLACK CONTROLS ON
[...] This is an action request for EB/ESC, see paragraph 14. 2. (S) SUMMARY: The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE),Noora Jamsheer, expressed concern to ConGenoff about the integrity of the UAE's adherence to the Kimberly Process (KP) to stem the trade in co [...]
2007-06-20 10:08:00Consulate DubaiSECRET//NOFORNEFIN EMIN PTER ETTC KCRM VE IR AE
07DUBAI570PHILIPPINES TRAFFICKING CONCERNS IN DUBAI -- ABUSED VISITOR
[...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings with Philippine Labor Attache Virginia Calvez (September 11),Acting Consul General Maria Louella Duarte and Consular Officer Rafael Palencia, Jr. (September 18),Pol/EconOff discussed trafficking in persons concerns. While they claim that trafficking with l [...]
2007-09-30 19:08:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN RP AE
07DUBAI581ACTING PHILIPPINE CG BRIEFS AMBASSADOR LAGON ON TRAFFICKING
[...] (C) Summary: On September 25, Ambassador for Trafficking in Persons Mark Lagon met with Philippine Acting Consul General Vicente Bandillo and his staff at the Philippine Consulate General in Dubai to discuss trafficking concerns. CG Bandillo noted that easy access to UAE visitor visas compou [...]
2007-10-10 13:27:00Consulate DubaiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN RP AE
07DUBAI629ACRIMONIOUS BEGINNING FOR NEW DUBAI GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED
[...] (SBU) Summary. The much-anticipated opening of the Dubai Foundation for Women and Children (DFWC) shelter (the first official government-sponsored shelter for abused women and children in the UAE) and its merger with the unofficial City of Hope (CoH) shelter has been marred by acrimonious accu [...]
2007-11-15 13:08:00Consulate DubaiSECRETPREL PHUM KCRM ELAB CASC AE
07DUBLIN171IRELAND - SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ireland's awareness of and positive performance on trafficking in persons (TIP) issues increased significantly in 2006, while the overall estimated number of suspected trafficking victims remained small. Numerous public awareness campaigns, sponsored by the Government and NGOs [...]
2007-03-02 08:39:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAP EI
07DUBLIN871IRELAND PROACTIVELY ADDRESSING HUMAN TRAFFICKING
[...] Summary: Ireland is demonstrating firm commitment to meeting its international obligations on human trafficking, moving forward with key legislation and the creation of a new Government unit dedicated to combating trafficking in persons (TIP). End summary. 2. On November 27 poloffs met [...]
2007-11-28 12:50:00Embassy DublinUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG EI
07DUSHANBE1432TAJIKISTAN INL DUSHANBE 2007 SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT
[...] In the absence of INL regular quarterly reports, the Narcotics and Law Enforcement Section in Dushanbe herein reports on activities for the period of January - September 2007: ---------------------------------- Narcotics and Law Enforcement Activities --------------------------------- Jan [...]
2007-10-10 07:15:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR ASEC PREL KCOR KCRM TI
07DUSHANBE225CORRUPTION ON THE FOREFRONT OF TAJIKS' MINDS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: "Anti-Corruption" has become the Tajik government's new buzzword, as President Rahmonov and his cabinet publicly tout new initiatives to combat a problem that pervades every sector, ranging from health and education, to traffic police, to privatization and licensing. Despite the [...]
2007-02-09 12:57:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON KCRM TI
07DUSHANBE313TAJIKISTAN'S 2006-2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] Please note that Post's paragraph designation corresponds with reftel. OVERVIEW A. Tajikistan is an origin country for trafficking. International trafficking for the purposes of sexual and labor exploitation is a problem. The most common destination countries include the United Arab E [...]
2007-03-02 13:48:00Embassy DushanbeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PGOV TI
07DUSSELDORF24COLOGNE "TRAIN BOMBER" INDICTMENT REACHES D\SSELDORF HIGHER
[...] (U) Almost eleven months after two Lebanese nationals unsuccessfully tried to blow up two regional trains originating in Cologne, the Federal Public Prosecutor on June 11 brought criminal charges against one of the men, Youssef Mohammad El-Hajdib. German police arrested the 22-year old El-Haj [...]
2007-06-29 13:55:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KCRM MASS KOMC IR GM
07DUSSELDORF30DUESSELDORF COURT CARVES OUT NICHE IN TERRORISM CASE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Duesseldorf Higher Regional Court has emerged as one of Germany's major legal institutions for trying high profile terrorism and other sensitive cases (e.g. mafia, espionage). Following the "Caliph of Cologne" and al-Tawhid trials in recent years and an Al-Qaeda insurance f [...]
2007-10-05 16:05:00Consulate DusseldorfUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KJUS KLIG KISL KCRM KOMC IR GM
07FRANKFURT220FURTHER STEPS AGAINST PKK: RAIDS, ARREST, PRISON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: German efforts against the PKK were again apparent this past week in southwest Germany with targeted raids, an arrest of one suspected PKK leader, and the sentencing of another to two years in prison. END SUMMARY. Anti-PKK Raids and an Arrest ---------------------------- [...]
2007-01-17 08:46:00Consulate FrankfurtCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC KTFN KCRM GM TU
07FRANKFURT3233Lackluster NPD Demonstration in Frankfurt: "The Nation not
[...] SUMMARY: On July 7, 500 to 700 NPD supporters demonstrated in Frankfurt under the slogan "the Nation not Globalization," repeating themes of far-right protesters of the G-8 summit in Heiligendamm in early June. The Frankfurt city government licensed the demonstration in the Neue Borse, an indus [...]
2007-07-10 07:40:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KCRM ASEC GM
07FRANKFURT594RAF Parole/Clemency Bids Divide Body Politic, Legal System;
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the controversial parole bid of German "Red Army Faction" left-wing terrorist Brigitte Mohnhaupt -- a case with implications for other incarcerated RAF members -- the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe has recommended that the Stuttgart Regional Court grant Mohnhaupt pa [...]
2007-02-08 11:40:00Consulate FrankfurtUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KCRM ASEC GM
07FREETOWN165SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sierra Leone continues to make progress as it recovers from a devastating decade-long civil war that destroyed much of the country's infrastructure. In a little over a year, the level of awareness of trafficking in persons has risen considerably. However, trafficking remains a s [...]
2007-03-08 17:41:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SL
07FREETOWN376AMBASSADOR DELIVERS TIP REPORT
[...] On June 12, the Ambassador delivered reftel points and a copy of the 2007 report to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Ambassador Umaru Wurie. The Ambassador explained why Sierra Leone received a Tier Two ranking and encouraged the GOSL to continue its efforts against trafficking. Wu [...]
2007-06-13 15:33:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG ELAB SL
07FREETOWN42SIERRA LEONE: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] Sierra Leone is not a state sponsor of terrorism. During the reporting year, there were no judicial cases involving terror suspects. There were no developments that would impact U.S. counterterrorism efforts. 2. There was no significant support for international terrorism or for specifi [...]
2007-01-17 14:45:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EFIN KCRM KPAO PTER KHLS SL
07FREETOWN685SIERRA LEONE 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-19 14:11:00Embassy FreetownUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN SNAR SL
07GEORGETOWN1075INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, PART II
[...] (U) Post presents its 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part II, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. Begin text: Guyana is neither an important regional nor an offshore financial center, nor does it have any free trade zones. Money laundering is perceived as a serio [...]
2007-12-11 11:19:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR GY
07GEORGETOWN147Guyana Finally Moves Towards Machine Readable Passports
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After more than ten years of delays, Guyana will finally begin issuing machine-readable passports (MRPs) this summer. After having bid on the project eleven years ago, Canadian Bank Note (CBN) was awarded the contract in December 2006. The company says that they will be ready to [...]
2007-02-08 17:29:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS SNAR SMIG ASEC KFRD KCRM GY
07GEORGETOWN267SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2007 Annual Trafficking in Persons Report. --------------------------------------------- -- Begin Report: Overview of country's activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: ----------------- [...]
2007-03-12 20:47:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN KFRD GY
07GEORGETOWN283JAGDEO ON HUMAN RIGHTS, DRUGS AND VENEZUELA
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with President Bharrat Jagdeo in his office and at his request on March 15 to discuss the INCSR and Human Rights Report. Jagdeo objected to the methodology and tone of both documents, describing them as on-going irritants, and said he hoped to discuss their o [...]
2007-03-16 20:35:00Embassy GeorgetownCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON PBTS KCRM VE GY
07GEORGETOWN288Civil Document Vulnerability Compromises Visa Security -
[...] (U) Georgetown continues to wrestle with excessive fraud in all aspects of consular services. Longstanding issues such as sham marriages and engagements, corruption in the issuance of passports and civil documents, as well as more recent concerns involving fraud in HIV testing, complicate adjud [...]
2007-03-20 21:01:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS SMIG KCRM KFRD GY
07GEORGETOWN400DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN CORRUPTION AND CRIME
[...] Guyana: Charge raised the UNCAC and UNTOC April 19 with MFA Director General Elisabeth Harper and MFA Acting Director for Americas and Asia Audrey Wadell. Harper said the Cabinet sub-committee on governance discussed the UNCAC the week before. Wadell was aware of the UNTOC questionaires and s [...]
2007-04-24 20:36:00Embassy GeorgetownUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PTER PGOV KCRM KCOR CARICOM GY
07GEORGETOWN607GOVERNMENT THREATENED BY ANOTHER DRUG SCANDAL;
[...] (C) The GoG is threatened with yet another narco-trafficking scandal. An anonymous letter to the Commissioner of Police threatens to release audio and video surveillance recordings that link government and PPP figures to cocaine trafficking unless the Commissioner removes a corrupt senior pol [...]
2007-06-19 16:36:00Embassy GeorgetownSECRETSNAR PGOV PREL MARR PINR KCRM KCOR GY
07GRENADA164WHA/CAR DIRECTOR DE PIRRO VISITS TO GRENADA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: WHA/CAR Director Velia De Pirro met with a range of local government officials and community leaders during her November 12-13 visit to Grenada. In her meetings, De Pirro reiterated continued U.S. engagement in the region and stressed the importance of demonstrating support for [...]
2007-11-21 13:07:00Embassy GrenadaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV CASC CVIS KCRM EFIN ASEC GJ
07GUANGZHOU485Fuzhou - Fraud Capital of China - (1 of 2) A Detailed Look
[...] (SBU) Summary: An analysis of the past year's immigrant visa statistics, discussions with other units and consulates, and a deluge of unsolicited tips still point to the Fuzhou area of Fujian province (Fuzhou, Changle, Mawei, Lianjiang, Fuqing, and Putian) as the capital of visa fraud and illeg [...]
2007-04-23 10:03:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT ASEC CVIS KFRD CH KCRM INL HSTC
07GUANGZHOU486Fuzhou Alien Smuggler's advice - study in the U.S.
[...] (SBU) Summary: Through an aggressive outreach program, Post actively encourages Chinese students to attend colleges and universities in the United States. However, Post continues to encounter well-organized attempts by visa brokers and snakeheads to send applicants, primarily from Fujian, to t [...]
2007-04-24 01:39:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT ASEC CVIS KFRD CH KCRM INL HSTC
07GUANGZHOU487Fuzhou - Fraud Capital of China (2 of 2): 3 Days in Fuzhou
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Conoff from Guangzhou's Fraud Prevention Unit and a LES Investigator visited Fuzhou from January 29-31, performing 14 immigrant-visa field investigations. Of the 14, 12 were confirmed to involve fraud and one applicant could not be located. In many cases, neighbors and village [...]
2007-04-24 01:39:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT ASEC CVIS KFRD CH KCRM INL HSTC
07GUANGZHOU946Guangzhou -- A Hub for the Illegal Drug Trade
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an unusually candid late July meeting, senior provincial and municipal anti-drug officers briefed Poloff on the rising tide of drug trafficking in Guangdong Province. Centered on Guangzhou, growing numbers of foreign drug dealers and traffickers -- many from Africa and the Mid [...]
2007-08-23 08:04:00Consulate GuangzhouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM KJUS PGOV CH
07GUATEMALA1043GUATEMALA WITHDRAWS NOMINEE FOR INTER-AMERICAN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-29 22:12:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV SNAR KCRM KDEM KJUS OAS GT
07GUATEMALA1145DEMARCHE ON 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] (U) DCM delivered reftel demarche to Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Marta Altolaguirre, informing her of the June 12 release of the 2007 TIP Report and G/TIP's decision to place Guatemala on the Tier 2 Watch List this year based on criteria outlined in reftel. Altolaguirre acknowledged that [...]
2007-06-12 22:40:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN PREL PGOV SMIG KPAO GT
07GUATEMALA1148 GUATEMALA REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN
[...] (U) Embassy received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 11, notifying Embassy of Guatemala's candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council for 2010-2012 and requesting U.S. support for the elections in May 2010. 2. (U) Guatemala is currently an active member of the Co [...]
2007-06-12 22:54:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV KJUS KDEM KCRM GT
07GUATEMALA115GUATEMALAN UNION LEADER MURDERED
[...] (U) Summary: On January 15 unidentified gunmen assassinated Pedro Zamora, General Secretary of the Guatemalan Dock Workers Union of Puerto Quetzal (STEPQ),as he was driving home with his children. Zamora was shot 20 times and killed at point-blank range. At the time of his death, Zamora wa [...]
2007-01-19 18:50:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALELAB KCRM PHUM KJUS KDEM SNAR ASEC EAID GT
07GUATEMALA1199COALITION OF U.S.-BASED NGOS IN GUATEMALA
[...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador met with representatives of a coalition of U.S.-based NGOs with a significant presence in Guatemala to discuss human rights. The NGOs expressed concern over recent threats against human rights defenders and discussed the impact of mining in indigenous populated ar [...]
2007-06-18 19:23:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KJUS SNAR KCRM KDEM EAID GT
07GUATEMALA1208INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ASSISTS IN
[...] (U) Summary: International Justice Mission representatives discussed with us the organization's successes in assisting the Guatemalan Attorney General's Office in prosecuting child sexual abuse cases. They estimated a 90 percent conviction rate in Guatemala for the select group of cases it a [...]
2007-06-19 18:37:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KJUS EAID KDEM KCRM PGOV GT
07GUATEMALA1296GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT PROMISES COLLABORATION WITH
[...] (U) Summary: Embassy officer and representatives of a private sector IPR association met with the Ministry of Government (MOG) to express concerns over IPR violations and to urge greater collaboration among Guatemalan government agencies on enforcement operations. Minister Torrebiarte acknow [...]
2007-07-02 16:49:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR KCRM PGOV ECON ETRD GT
07GUATEMALA1328THREATS AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS IN GUATEMALA
[...] (U) Summary: The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) called for investigation of threats and other acts of intimidation against human rights defenders and protective measures during a presentation on the current situation of human rights defenders in Guatemala. Civil society repre [...]
2007-07-05 17:53:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KJUS EAID KCRM KDEM GT
07GUATEMALA1402GUATEMALA ESTABLISHES INTER-INSTITUTIONAL
[...] (U) Summary: An inter-institutional commission to combat trafficking in persons and related crimes was established by Executive Order on July 12. Under an initial mandate of two years, the commission will serve as an inter-institutional body for consultation, development, and consensus on in [...]
2007-07-13 18:42:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB EAID GT
07GUATEMALA1468MANO DURA DEFINED BY GUATEMALA'S PARTIDO PATRIOTA
[...] (U) Summary. Partido Patriota (PP) leaders discussed with us the candidacy of Otto Perez Molina and expressed concern over voter apathy, smear campaigns and possible election day violence as the result of a newly decentralized voting system. They also demystified PP's "mano dura" campaign sl [...]
2007-07-23 21:38:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM KDEM SNAR EAID PHUM SOCI GT
07GUATEMALA1515ELECTIONS: COLOM RETAINS LEAD IN FINAL STRETCH AMID VOTER
[...] Summary: As the election campaign enters its final 45 days, voter tendencies remain unchanged; Alvaro Colom (UNE) and Otto Perez Molina (PP) continue to maintain a significant lead in the polls over second-tier candidates, and there remains a large undecided segment of the electorate. A rece [...]
2007-07-30 22:38:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KJUS PREL KCRM SOCI GT
07GUATEMALA1517PARTIDO PATRIOTA'S PLAN OF GOVERNMENT AIMS TO RESTORE
[...] (U) Summary: Presidential candidate Otto Perez Molina of center-right Partido Patriota (PP) presented his plan of government July 26, focusing on five priority areas: democratic security and justice, economic development, rural development, health and food security, and education. He pledged [...]
2007-07-30 23:06:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM KJUS PREL KCRM SOCI GT
07GUATEMALA1518INTERNATIONAL LABOR DELEGATION CALLS FOR ACTION ON ZAMORA
[...] Summary: In a follow-up visit to Guatemala, an international labor delegation met with government officials and port authorities to press for resolution of the Pedro Zamora murder case (reftel) and greater security for union leaders and protection of labor rights at Puerto Quetzal. During a [...]
2007-07-31 13:43:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PHUM KDEM KCRM SOCI PGOV GT
07GUATEMALA1530COURT ORDERS DECLASSIFICATION OF MILITARY PLANS USED DURING
[...] (U) Summary: An appeals court affirmed a lower court ruling in favor of a local civil society group and ordered the declassification of four military plans carried out during the 1980s. Human rights activists hailed the decision as historic but voiced concerns over the physical integrity of t [...]
2007-08-01 14:12:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS MARR PHUM KDEM KCRM PGOV GT
07GUATEMALA1541GUATEMALAN CONGRESS APPROVES CICIG AS MATTER OF NATIONAL
[...] Summary: On August 1, the Guatemalan Congress voted to approve the GOG-UN agreement to establish the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) as a matter of national urgency. The agreement will be sent to the Executive for final approval by the president. End summary. [...]
2007-08-01 22:58:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM UN OECD PREL KDEM GT
07GUATEMALA1552LETTER TO WHA ASSISTANT SECRETARY SHANNON FROM
[...] Embassy received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) regarding the Central American Integration System (SICA) Vice Ministerial on regional security held in Guatemala July 17-18 (ref A). The MFA expressed appreciation for the participation of the U.S. delegation, in p [...]
2007-08-03 00:05:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SMIG KCRM SNAR GT
07GUATEMALA1802LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES OPTIMISTIC ABOUT
[...] (C) Summary: During a six-day pre-election trip, poloffs visited 14 municipalities in seven departments throughout western and southwestern Guatemala, including nine municipalities identified as "conflictive areas." TSE delegates expressed confidence in election preparations despite weather [...]
2007-09-07 17:38:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM SNAR KDEM SMIG PHUM ECON SOCI GT
07GUATEMALA184GUATEMALAN LABOR UNION AND HUMAN RIGHTS LEADERS
[...] (U) Summary: During a recent outreach visit by embassy officials to Quetzaltenango in western Guatemala, representatives of the local Chamber of Commerce, a Catholic bishop, labor union leaders, and human rights activists described the current situation of human rights and labor conditions. [...]
2007-01-30 22:35:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALELAB KCRM PHUM KJUS KDEM EAID GT
07GUATEMALA185LOBBYING FOR APPROVAL OF UN-LED INTERNATIONAL
[...] (U) Summary: Vice President Stein is leading highly visible efforts to obtain Congressional approval of the agreement establishing the UN-led International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) (reftel). Timing will be critical -- if CICIG is not approved by May at the latest, it [...]
2007-01-31 00:05:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM KDEM GT
07GUATEMALA1857TIP: NEW GOVERNMENT SHELTER FOR UNDOCUMENTED
[...] (U) The Guatemalan Government (GOG) announced on September 12 that it will open a new shelter in Guatemala City for undocumented aliens, including victims of trafficking in persons. The shelter, to open within 30 days, will house up to 240 persons. 2. (U) The four-level shelter will includ [...]
2007-09-13 23:04:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SMIG KCRM KWMN KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GT
07GUATEMALA1906DEMARCHE ON TIP TIER 2 WATCH ACTION PLAN (2007-08)
[...] Poloff delivered Ref A demarche and non-paper to Alma de Migoya, Chief of the Prosecutor's Office for Women, Unit of Adolescent and Child Victims, and Alexander Colop, prosecutor in charge of Trafficking in Persons (TIP),in the Attorney General's Office. Migoya said that her office as well as [...]
2007-09-20 21:39:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG GT
07GUATEMALA1907DEMARCHE ON TIP TIER 2 WATCH ACTION PLAN (2007-08)
[...] Poloff delivered Ref A demarche and non-paper to Alma de Migoya, Chief of the Prosecutor's Office for Women, Unit of Adolescent and Child Victims, and Alexander Colop, prosecutor in charge of Trafficking in Persons (TIP),in the Attorney General's Office. Migoya said that her office as well as [...]
2007-09-20 21:39:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG GT
07GUATEMALA1908DEMARCHE ON TIP TIER 2 WATCH ACTION PLAN (2007-08)
[...] Poloff delivered Ref A demarche and non-paper to Alma de Migoya, Chief of the Prosecutor's Office for Women, Unit of Adolescent and Child Victims, and Alexander Colop, prosecutor in charge of Trafficking in Persons (TIP),in the Attorney General's Office. Migoya said that her office as well as [...]
2007-09-20 21:39:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG GT
07GUATEMALA1916GUATEMALA'S INPUT FOR PRESIDENT'S 2007 UNGA HUMAN
[...] Per reftel, post submits the following information to help inform the discussion at the President's 2007 UNGA Democracy and Human Rights Roundtable. 2. Post strategy for promoting human rights and democracy in Guatemala focuses on helping the government strengthen its democratic institution [...]
2007-09-20 22:28:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL ELAB KCRM KJUS KDEM EAID SOCI PGOV
07GUATEMALA1941PEREZ MOLINA OUTLINES SECOND-ROUND STRATEGY
[...] (C) During a September 18 meeting with the Ambassador, center-right presidential candidate Otto Perez Molina of the Partido Patriota outlined his strategy for winning the November 4 run-off election with the support of voters of the center-right GANA. Perez Molina said he was "certain" that non [...]
2007-09-25 19:42:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KCRM SNAR PHUM GT
07GUATEMALA1967LEGISLATIVE REFORMS TO COMBAT VIOLENCE AGAINST
[...] Summary: Civil society representatives presented a proposal of legislative reforms to combat violence against women to the Guatemalan congressional Human Rights Committee. The result of coordination among public institutions, civil society groups, and international organizations, the proposal [...]
2007-09-30 22:37:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG SOCI GT
07GUATEMALA2016CICIG: NEWLY APPOINTED COMMISSIONER VISITS
[...] (U) Summary: The newly appointed head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) visited Guatemala September 17-23 to discuss initial steps for establishing CICIG. Commissioner Carlos Castresana met with President Berger, Vice President Stein, and other senior gove [...]
2007-10-09 13:35:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALKJUS PHUM PGOV EAID SNAR KCRM UN OECD KDEM GT
07GUATEMALA2017CICIG: NEWLY APPOINTED COMMISSIONER VISITS
[...] (U) Summary: The newly appointed head of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) visited Guatemala September 17-23 to discuss initial steps for establishing CICIG. Commissioner Carlos Castresana met with President Berger, Vice President Stein, and other senior gove [...]
2007-10-09 13:38:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALKJUS PHUM PGOV EAID SNAR KCRM UN OECD KDEM GT
07GUATEMALA2040GUATEMALA HOSTS USG-FUNDED SEMINAR ON TRAFFICKING
[...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted a regional seminar on trafficking in persons (TIP) October 3-4. The two-day seminar was organized by the OAS as part of its USG-funded project to combat TIP in the Western Hemisphere. Focused on "Legislation Against Trafficking in Persons in Central Ame [...]
2007-10-10 18:53:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB PGOV PREL SMIG GT
07GUATEMALA2070HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN OUTLINES FIVE-YEAR
[...] (U) Human Rights Ombudsman Sergio Morales highlighted his accomplishments during his first term in office and presented his strategic plan of action and priorities for the next five years to the international donor community at a recent forum. He thanked the community for its support and annou [...]
2007-10-15 16:06:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KJUS SNAR KCRM KDEM GT
07GUATEMALA2121PARLACEN MURDER UPDATE: 16 PRISON GUARDS RELEASED
[...] Sixteen prison guards, accused of facilitating the February 25 murder of four National Civil Police (PNC) officers in El Boqueron prison, were released for insufficient evidence. The four murdered PNC officers had been incarcerated in the maximum security prison in Santa Rosa as suspects in t [...]
2007-10-24 13:21:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM SNAR PGOV PHUM KJUS ASEC ES GT
07GUATEMALA2164CICIG ON TRACK FOR JANUARY INAUGURATION
[...] (U) Summary: During a second visit to Guatemala that concluded October 19, Commissioner of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) Castresana met with local authorities and the international community to advance preparations for installing CICIG. Castresana reviewed [...]
2007-10-30 18:28:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKJUS PHUM PGOV EAID SNAR KCRM UN KDEM GT
07GUATEMALA2172BANANA WORKERS UNION LEADER MURDERED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Banana workers union leader Marco Tulio Ramirez Portela was murdered on September 23 by unidentified assailants on a farm in Los Amates, Izabal owned by Bandegua, a subsidiary of Del Monte. Embassy Labor Officer met with SITRABI leaders and Bandegua management October 1-2 to di [...]
2007-10-31 17:09:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV GT
07GUATEMALA2186GUATEMALAN GOVERNMENT PROMISES ADDITIONAL SECURITY
[...] (U) Embassy Labor Officer met October 29 with the Secretary General of the Guatemalan food workers federation SIPDIS (FESTRAS),Secretary General of the Banana Workers Union of Izabal (SITRABI),Regional Secretary of the Geneva-based International Union of Food Workers (UITA),and AFL-CIO S [...]
2007-11-05 22:08:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV GT
07GUATEMALA2194SPECIAL PROSECUTORIAL UNIT TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING
[...] The Public Ministry announced November 1 that it will create a special unit in the Prosecutor's Office Against Organized Crime to investigate and prosecute trafficking in persons (TIP),including illegal adoptions. The new anti-TIP unit will investigate organized crime groups allegedly involv [...]
2007-11-06 21:56:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKOCI CASC CVIS KCRM PHUM PGOV SMIG SNAR GT
07GUATEMALA2206FORMER GANG YOUTH SEEK BETTER LIFE THROUGH
[...] On October 30, USAID, in collaboration with the major private sector organization CACIF, launched the second phase of its Youth Alliance Program's "Desafio 100: Peace for Guatemala" pilot project for former gang youth. This innovative project paired 44 young former gang members with 32 local [...]
2007-11-08 16:36:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM SNAR SOCI EAID PHUM KJUS KDEM GT
07GUATEMALA2213TIP: INTERIM ASSESSMENT OF GUATEMALA
[...] Post submits the following summary (keyed to ref A) of progress made by the GOG in combating trafficking in persons (TIP),specifically in the areas of legislative reform, enforcement, and identification and protection of trafficked victims. The GOG has undertaken serious efforts to address t [...]
2007-11-09 16:21:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN ELAB PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG GT
07GUATEMALA2238VIGILANTE GROUPS FILL PUBLIC SECURITY VOID IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Vigilante groups reportedly operate in the Santiago Atitlan area, targeting criminals and those suspected of engaging in witchcraft. According to UN representatives, these vigilante groups are not unique to Santiago, but operate in many areas of the country in response to inef [...]
2007-11-14 23:33:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIALPHUM KCRM SNAR ASEC PGOV SOCI KJUS GT
07GUATEMALA2270WHA/CEN DIRECTOR FEELEY BRIEFS SICA MEMBERS ON
[...] SUMMARY. On November 13, visiting WHA/CEN Director Feeley briefed the Vice Foreign Ministers of the SICA countries on the President's Merida Initiative. He stressed that the proposed $50 million request for Central America within the Merida Initiative was a direct response to the willingness [...]
2007-11-21 16:49:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SNAR KCRM GT
07GUATEMALA248GUATEMALA'S NOMINEE FOR SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR
[...] Per reftel request, Embassy is pleased to nominate Maria Eugenia Morales, Deputy Human Rights Ombudsman, as Guatemala's "Woman of Courage" for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage in recognition of her exceptional courage and leadership in advocating for women's rights and [...]
2007-02-08 23:54:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PHUM PREL KPAO KJUS KCRM KDEM GT
07GUATEMALA305GUATEMALAN FM ROSENTHAL WRITES THE AMBASSADOR
[...] Summary: Guatemalan Foreign Minister Rosenthal wrote the Ambassador urging the prompt investigation and prosecution of those responsible for the February 8 armed attack on a group of undocumented immigrants in a desert area near Tucson, Arizona. One Guatemalan was killed, while another Guatema [...]
2007-02-14 15:21:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KJUS KCRM PHUM SMIG GT
07GUATEMALA375GUATEMALA: POLICEMEN ARRESTED FOR ASSASSINATION
[...] (SBU) In a February 21 press conference, Guatemalan Minister of Government Carlos Vielmann announced the arrests of four members of the Guatemalan Civilian National Police (PNC) on charges of committing the brutal murders of three Salvadoran representatives to the Central American Parliament [...]
2007-02-22 20:02:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM PHUM KJUS ASEC PETER SNAR GT ES
07GUATEMALA403GUATEMALA: MURDER OF FOUR POLICEMEN ARRESTED FOR
[...] (SBU) Four members of the Civilian National Police (PNC) in detention for alleged involvement in the February 19 assassination of three Salvadoran parliamentarians (reftels) were brutally murdered in a Guatemalan prison on February 25. According to media reports, at least two of the PNC suspe [...]
2007-02-27 00:07:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM PHUM KJUS ASEC PTER SNAR GT ES
07GUATEMALA426CICIG AGREEMENT SENT TO GUATEMALAN CONGRESS FOR
[...] (U) Summary: In the wake of last week's highly publicized and brutal killings of three Salvadoran parliamentarians and four Guatemalan police officers suspected of carrying out the killings, the Berger Administration delivered to the Guatemalan Congress the agreement to establish the Internat [...]
2007-03-01 18:32:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KJUS SNAR EAID PTER ASEC KCRM GT ES
07GUATEMALA487CICIG AGREEMENT SENT TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
[...] (U) On March 6, the Guatemalan Congress sent the CICIG agreement (refs) to the Constitutional Court for an opinion on its legality, which will further delay ratification. At the request of the Foreign Relations Committee and with majority support of Congress, including representatives of ruli [...]
2007-03-07 22:45:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV SNAR EAID PTER ASEC KCRM KJUS GT
07GUATEMALA488GUATEMALAQS 2007 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) Embassy GuatemalaQs point of contact for trafficking in persons (TIP) is PolOff Lucy Chang, telephone [502] 2326-4635, fax [502] 2334-8474. Ms. Chang (FS-2) spent 25 hours on the preparation of this report. FSN Political Specialist Ronald Flores (FSN-9) spent 15 hours, and USAID FSN Pro [...]
2007-03-08 14:33:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID
07GUATEMALA528GUATEMALA'S 2007 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) Embassy Guatemala's point of contact for trafficking in persons (TIP) is PolOff Lucy Chang, telephone [502] 2326-4635, fax [502] 2334-8474. Ms. Chang (FS-2) spent 25 hours on the preparation of this report. FSN Political Specialist Ronald Flores (FSN-9) spent 15 hours, and USAID FSN Pro [...]
2007-03-14 15:32:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID
07GUATEMALA569LETTER TO THE SECRETARY REGARDING INVITATION TO
[...] This is an action request, see para 3. 2. We received from the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry a letter addressed to the Secretary that requests U.S. attendance at a regional conference on armed violence and development to be held in Guatemala on April 23-24. The conference, which is being o [...]
2007-03-20 18:54:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDPRELPLS PARM MASS EAID KJUS KCRM PHUM ASEC
07GUATEMALA612GUATEMALA: BERGER REPLACES MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) President Berger annnounced on March 26 that he had accepted the resignation of Minister of Government (Interior) Carlos Vielmann as well as those of Civilian National Police (PNC) Director General Erwin Sperissen and Prison System Director Victor Rosales. On March 27, Berger named Adel [...]
2007-03-27 21:59:00Embassy GuatemalaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV KCRM PHUM KJUS ASEC PTER SNAR GT
07GUATEMALA694GUATEMALA LABOR LEADER ARRESTED ON MONEY
[...] (U) Guatemalan labor leader Nery Barrios was arrested April 9 and detained on charges of money laundering, tax evasion, and embezzlement following four months of investigation by the Prosecutor General's Office. The charges allege that Barrios, leader of the Labor and Popular Action Unit (UAS [...]
2007-04-12 17:51:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM PHUM KJUS KDEM SNAR ASEC CVIS GT
07GUATEMALA696 NARCOPOLITICS THREATENS LOCAL ELECTIONS IN JUTIAPA
[...] (U) The eastern department of Jutiapa has become notorious for the deadliest electoral district in Guatemala as narco-tainted violence eliminated yet another pre-candidate. Jos Morn, the Guatemalan Republican Front's (FRG) pre-candidate for Mayor of Jutiapa, was gunned down in his home on Marc [...]
2007-04-12 18:46:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM ASEC SNAR KDEM PHUM PGOV GT
07GUATEMALA772INL DAS MCCAMPBELL MEETS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS LEADERS DURING
[...] (SBU) Summary: INL Deputy Assistant Secretary Christy McCampbell met April 18 with UNHCHR, the Myrna Mack Foundation, and the Human Rights Ombudsman's Office during a four-day visit to Guatemala that also included meetings with the National Civilian Police and the new Minister of Government (s [...]
2007-04-24 17:12:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM KDEM GT
07GUATEMALA859GUATEMALAN LABOR LEADERS AND WORKERS COMMEMORATE
[...] Summary: Guatemalan workers and labor activists commemorated International Labor Day with a march and speeches in the capital. Labor leaders demanded greater respect for their rights, improvement in labor conditions, and an end to political persecution against union leadership. Representat [...]
2007-05-04 19:53:00Embassy GuatemalaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KCRM PHUM KJUS KDEM GT
07HANOI11012007 TIP REPORT HANDED OVER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff delivered the Vietnam TIP report country narrative and Ref A talking points to the MFA on June 13. Our interlocutor was pleased that the USG acknowledged the GVN's progress on combating TIP during the reporting period, but disappointed that more details on the GVN's stron [...]
2007-06-13 10:03:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN ELAB PHUM PREL PGOV SMIG KPAO VM
07HANOI1133 INL-FUNDED COUNTERNARCOTICS TASK FORCE UNIT DELIVERS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Counternarcotics Task Force Unit (TFU) in Son La Province, set up as part of an INL-funded UNODC project, plays a key role in coordinating interagency efforts in the province's fight against drug trafficking. Although the project concluded in December 2006 (Ref A),the coord [...]
2007-06-20 02:32:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM PINS VM
07HANOI1594VIETNAM TO DRAFT NEW TIP LAW, IMPROVE INTER-AGENCY
[...] (SBU) On June 27, the GVN issued a new Directive to strengthen, midterm, the implementation of its six-year National Program of Action against Crimes of Trafficking in Women and Children. The new anti-TIP Directive calls for greater GVN inter-agency cooperation, greater scrutiny of export labo [...]
2007-09-07 09:06:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV TIP ELAB KWMN KCRM SMIG PREL VM
07HANOI2094VIETNAM: 2007 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-20 07:26:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC KCRM VM
07HANOI266 FULL YEAR STATISTICS FOR 2006-2007 INCSR - VIETNAM
[...] The following is an updated "Law Enforcement Efforts" paragraph with full year statistics for the Vietnam section of the 2006-2007 INCSR. 2. Law Enforcement Efforts. According to GVN statistics, during 2006, there were 10,783 drug cases involving 16,686 suspected traffickers. Total seizu [...]
2007-02-12 08:41:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV KCRM VM
07HANOI484 GVN OFFICIAL SAYS INL-FUNDED OPDAT TRAINING "IMPROVED
[...] (SBU) On March 7, Poloff discussed the results of INL-funded OPDAT training with Nguyen Hai Phong, Director of the Supreme People's Procuracy's Department for Crimes and Drug Cases. Phong is also a member of the National Assembly. The OPDAT training consisted of two week-long seminars held i [...]
2007-03-13 09:52:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM SNAR PGOV VM
07HANOI733VIETNAM ANTI-TIP PROPOSALS FOR G/TIP FY 2007
[...] (SBU) Mission Vietnam recommends the para 3's five anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) project proposals for G/TIP FY 2007 funding. 2. (SBU) Post will forward to G/TIP the proposal and budgetary materials related to the five proposals. Mission recommends full funding of all five of these str [...]
2007-04-20 07:03:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN VM
07HANOI815IPR PROGRAM REVEALS BASIS FOR CLOSER COOPERATION WITH THE
[...] (SBU) Summary. On April 3-6, USAID Star Vietnam and the United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) hosted a program in Hanoi focused on criminal enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) with the Supreme People's Procuracy. During the week, IPR experts from the U.S. Department of J [...]
2007-05-04 10:10:00Embassy HanoiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD ECON PGOV KCRM KJUS SNAR VM
07HARARE170TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT - ZIMBABWE
[...] (SBU) This is Embassy Harare's response to questions in paragraphs 27-30 of SECSTATE 202745. -------- Overview -------- -- A. (SBU) Zimbabwe is a country of origin, transit and destination for internationally and domestically trafficked persons. Women and young girls are the most at ris [...]
2007-03-07 13:25:00Embassy HarareUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB KFRD PREF SMIG
07HELSINKI122FINLAND: 2007 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING-IN-PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) The following responses are keyed to the checklist in ref A. Post's point-of-contact on TIP is Political Officer David Allen Schlaefer; SchlaeferDA2@state.gov; 358-9-6162-5482 or 358-050-322-7923. Overview of Trafficking in Finland ---------------------------------- 2. (SBU) [...]
2007-02-23 06:14:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB FI
07HELSINKI127FINNISH RESPONSE - FURTHER EXTENSION OF INTERNATIONAL POLICE TRAINERS (IPTS) AT THE JORDAN INTERNATIONAL POLICE TRAINING CENTER (JIPTC)
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-26 09:25:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDJO KCRM FI SNAR IZ SNAR
07HELSINKI246FINNISH RESPONSE - CONTINUED SERVICE BY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-03 11:26:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM MOPS PINS SNAR FI
07HELSINKI885FINLAND: STATUS OF EXTRADITION AND MLAT AGREEMENTS
[...] (U) On Dec. 11, the Finnish Parliament ratified the US-EU Agreements on Extradition and Mutual legal Assistance between the United States and the European Union, which had been signed in Washington on June 25, 2003. Parliament also approved the implementing bilateral instruments. Tuomo Antil [...]
2007-12-14 13:33:00Embassy HelsinkiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCRM KJUS CJAN KTIA EUN FI
07HOCHIMINHCITY874CONSULATES REPORT SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During the most recent law enforcement and security coordinating meeting among Consulates General in Ho Chi Minh City, law enforcement personnel from participating Consulates described the atmosphere for active cooperation with GVN authorities as difficult but considerably bette [...]
2007-08-24 04:53:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM SOCI CVIS VM
07HONGKONG1866G/TIP DIRECTOR VISITS MACAU
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Mark Lagon, Director, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP),and his Senior Coordinator for Reports, Mark Taylor, visited Macau on June 27 to discuss with Macau cabinet officials actions the Macau Special Administrative Region government (MSARG) s [...]
2007-07-16 08:29:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKCRM SMIG SOCI PGOV PHUM HK CH MC MG
07HONGKONG2360MACAU GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES COMMITTEE TO COMBAT
[...] (C) The Macau government, clearly making good on some of the commitments expressed by Chief Executive (CE) Ho to G/TIP director Ambassador Lagon in June (reftel),gazetted a directive yesterday to set up a "concern committee" on deterring human trafficking. The committee will consist of up t [...]
2007-09-11 10:35:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALKCRM SMIG SOCI PGOV PHUM HK CH MC MG
07HONGKONG2640MACAU WOMEN'S COMMISSION SEEKS TO ANSWER THE CALL
[...] (SBU) Macau Chief Executive Edmund Ho chaired a meeting of the Consultative Commission on Women's Affairs (CCWA) on October 10, wherein the Commission briefed the Chief Executive on recent activities, including its meeting in August to study ways to improve efforts to combat trafficking in pe [...]
2007-10-18 07:58:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALKCRM SMIG SOCI PGOV PHUM HK CH MC MG
07HONGKONG5832007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: MACAU
[...] (SBU) Per ref A, the following are post's contributions to the seventh annual Trafficking in Persons report for the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) of the People's Republic of China. (Note: Per instructions, subheadings, questions, and paragraph letters correspond to those in par [...]
2007-03-01 10:00:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN KFRD ASEC ELAB PHUM PINR PGOV PREF
07HONGKONG5842007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: HONG KONG
[...] (SBU) Per the ref, the following are post's contributions to the seventh annual Trafficking in Persons report for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) of the People's Republic of China. (Note: Per instructions, subheadings, questions, and paragraph letters correspond to those [...]
2007-03-01 10:07:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN KFRD ASEC ELAB PHUM PINR PGOV PREF
07IRANRPODUBAI26UNODC OFFICIAL VIEWS IRAN DRUG CHIEF REPLACEMENT A SIGN OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-23 16:01:00Iran RPO DubaiSECRET//NOFORNIR KCRM PGOV PREL PINR SNAR
07ISLAMABAD113DOMESTIC TERROR KILLS MORE THAN 900 IN 2006
[...] (U) SUMMARY: A well-regarded local think tank calculates that more than 900 Pakistanis died from terrorist-related attacks in 2006. In addition, more than 1,500 were wounded. The numbers, broken down by province and nature of the incidents, highlight the difficult domestic environment the gov [...]
2007-01-08 13:42:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM PTER PK
07ISLAMABAD2530 SUBMISSION OF G/TIP PROPOSALS -- PAKISTAN
[...] SUMMARY: Following are summaries of three anti-trafficking in persons proposals received by Embassy Islamabad for consideration for funding from G/TIP-managed FY07 funds to strengthen Pakistan's efforts in combating trafficking in persons. As requested, post forwarded the original proposals t [...]
2007-06-07 05:21:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KWMN PK
07ISLAMABAD2795NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OPPOSITION SUBMITS REFERENCE
[...] (C) Summary: On June 21, opposition National Assembly members submitted a disqualification reference (complaint) against Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz for financial misconduct. The reference comes on the heels of a similar reference against political leader (and former cricket star) Imran Khan, [...]
2007-06-23 05:55:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KCRM PK UK
07ISLAMABAD2889PAKISTANI RESPONSE TO CAMEL JOCKEY CONFERENCE IN
[...] SUMMARY: Poloff met with Khizar Hayat Khan, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of Interior, a GOP participant at SIPDIS the UAE-hosted Camel Jockey conference in Abu Dhabi, June 26-27. Khan is preparing a longer analysis of the GOP's expectations from the bilateral MOU for his Minister and p [...]
2007-07-02 12:36:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM KCRM AE SU BG MR PK
07ISLAMABAD4926TERRORIST FINANCE: PAKISTAN FOLLOW-UP TO ACTION REQUEST ON
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Islamabad's response to reftel request for additional information on illicit cash couriers. 2. (SBU) Pakistan places statutory limits on the international transportation of currency. The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) legally allows individuals to carry up to USD [...]
2007-11-20 01:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER PK
07JAKARTA1223PROGRESS IN THE MUNIR CASE
[...] (C) Summary. The Indonesian police have intensified their investigation into the murder of Indonesian human rights leader Munir, making new arrests and reopening the case against the Garuda airlines pilot already acquitted. It is headed by the recently appointed chief of the Internal Invest [...]
2007-05-01 07:18:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID
07JAKARTA1293TRILATERAL COUNTERTERRORISM MEETING, APRIL 27
[...] (C) SUMMARY: We hosted a trilateral counterterrorism (CT) meeting on April 27, with Australian and Japanese embassy counterparts. The three delegations agreed that Indonesian CT capacity had improved significantly, though the threat of terrorism would remain for the foreseeable future. Donor [...]
2007-05-08 06:50:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO ID
07JAKARTA163NEW MUNIR CASE EVIDENCE GIVES WIDOW HOPE
[...] (S) Summary: Suciwati, widow of murdered human rights activist Munir, asked the Ambassador January 18 about press reports that the FBI was examining cell phones connected to the Munir case to extract information. Ambassador Pascoe confirmed the FBI had indeed extracted information from the [...]
2007-01-19 08:58:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID
07JAKARTA1655GOI AGREES WITH MAIN POINTS OF 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary. On June 12, we delivered the 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report's narrative for Indonesia to Sumarni Dawam Raharjo, the specially appointed TIP law implementation task force leader from the Ministry of Women's Empowerment. We also relayed the talking points on Indonesia' [...]
2007-06-14 09:31:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB KCRM KWMN PREL PGOV SMIG KPAO ID
07JAKARTA168VISIT OF INDONESIAN POLICE CHIEF SUTANTO TO
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Indonesian National Police Chief General Sutanto's January 22-25 visit to Washington provides an excellent opportunity to reiterate U.S. support for his efforts to develop a more professional, effective, and transparent police force and to express appreciation for his close coope [...]
2007-01-19 10:42:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS ID
07JAKARTA1770INDONESIA: CT REWARDS PROGRAM UPDATE
[...] (S) On June 11, Post received the counterterrorism rewards payments requested in Ref A from the Department of Defense (DOD) rewards program at U.S. Pacific Command (USPACOM) for four Indonesian civilian rewards candidates. On June 20, senior Indonesian National Police (INP) CT investigators in [...]
2007-06-27 11:28:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPTER ASEC PGOV MOPS KCRM KPAO ID
07JAKARTA1909East Java - Joint Police Anti-Human Trafficking Operations
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ConGen Surabaya launched a joint operation with local police May 29 targeting East Java human trafficking (TIP) rings. The primary goal is rescuing some of the thousands of child prostitutes in Surabaya and arresting traffickers, pimps and child sex tourists. Operation XXX init [...]
2007-07-13 00:08:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PHUM ELAB EAID KJUS KCRM KCOR ID
07JAKARTA1934POSSIBLE ARREST OF FOUR INDONESIANS ALLEGEDLY
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-17 00:50:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC KCRM KPAO KVPR CVIS ID
07JAKARTA1935POSSIBLE ARREST OF FOUR INDONESIANS ALLEGEDLY
[...] (C) Reports that the Indonesian National Police (INP) arrested four suspects over the weekend of July 14 ) 15 linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) terror network remain unconfirmed by INP Counter-Terrorist units (CT). RSO Kevin Whitson, Consulate General Surabaya, received information that the [...]
2007-07-17 00:54:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC KCRM KPAO KVPR CVIS ID
07JAKARTA2122MUNIR CASE: ATTORNEY GENERAL FILES APPEAL BASED ON
[...] (S) Summary. The Attorney General's Office (AGO) has requested a case review of the December 2006 acquittal of Pollycarpus in the September 2004 murder of human rights leader Munir. While this appeal is unusual, the appeal cites case precedent as well as "the principal of justice," accordin [...]
2007-08-06 11:31:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID
07JAKARTA2201MUNIR CASE: SENATE STAFFER GETS UPBEAT APPRAISAL
[...] (SBU) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Indonesian police expressed optimism that new evidence they have submitted to the Attorney General's Office (AGO) in the case of murdered human rights leader Munir will lead to successful prose [...]
2007-08-13 09:30:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID
07JAKARTA2311MUNIR CASE: STUNNING REVELATIONS AT HEARING
[...] (C) Summary: Witnesses and documentation presented in court August 22 implicated the Indonesian Intelligence Agency (BIN) in a conspiracy to murder human rights activist Munir. Prosecutors still face an uphill battle in proving their case in the face of witnesses recanting previous statements [...]
2007-08-23 09:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KJUS ID
07JAKARTA2518 USG-supported Counter-Narcotics Center gains official GOI
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono has signed legislation officially recognizing the Joint Interagency Counter Drug Operations Center as part of the Indonesian National Narcotics Board. While USG assistance he [...]
2007-09-11 08:40:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SNAR PREL KCRM ID
07JAKARTA2564Request for DOD Counter-Drug Support
[...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified -- please handle accordingly. 2. (U) THIS IS A REQUEST FOR FISCAL YEAR 2008 DOD COUNTER-DRUG SUPPORT IN INDONESIA, TO BE PROVIDED UNDER SECTION 1004 OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1991 (AS AMENDED). 3. (SBU) INDONESIA IS VULNERAB [...]
2007-09-14 01:15:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SNAR PREL KCRM ID
07JAKARTA27DEMARCHE DELIVERED - TIP: UAE/UN-HOSTED CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-05 05:01:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KWMN SMIG XX KCRM PHUM ID
07JAKARTA292REQUEST APPROVAL TO TRAIN MOBILE BRIGADE PERSONNEL
[...] (U) This cable contains an urgent action request (see Para 8). 2. (C) Summary: Recent counterterrorism operations by Indonesian National Police (INP) units in Central Sulawesi highlight a deficiency in our approach to police training in Indonesia. Specifically, the 2003 ban on using Inter [...]
2007-02-02 08:24:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC KCRM KHLS KPAO PGOV PINS KJUS KISL
07JAKARTA3030COUNTERNARCOTICS -- INTELLIGENCE CENTER PROVES ITS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-30 09:03:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SNAR PREL KCRM ID
07JAKARTA3040COUNTERNARCOTICS -- INTELLIGENCE CENTER PROVES ITS
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified )- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The DCM visited the GOI's counternarcotics intelligence center, October 25. The center is located in Jakarta and was created with USG funds to assist the Indonesian government track and roll up [...]
2007-10-31 10:53:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SNAR PREL KCRM ID
07JAKARTA3129JAYAPURA - SPECIAL DETACHMENT 88
[...] (U) RSO recently accompanied the Ambassador to Jayapura in the province of Papua. The principal reasons for the visit was to meet Government of Indonesia (GOI) Officials and to visit the mining operations of Freeport McMoRan in Timika and BP in Babo (REF A). During the visit, the RSO inquir [...]
2007-11-09 10:05:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALASEC PTER EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO ID
07JAKARTA3140INDONESIA - INCSR II, MONEY LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL
[...] This report responds to reftel request for an anti-money laundering and financial crimes update for INCSR II. Background and Overview ----------------------- 2. Although neither a regional financial center nor an offshore financial haven, Indonesia is vulnerable to money laundering and t [...]
2007-11-13 08:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR ID
07JAKARTA3159COUNTERNARCOTICS: INDONESIAN POLICE--AIDED BY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: An Indonesian National Police (INP) drug task force--with intelligence assistance from the USG--raided a methamphetamine laboratory located on an Indonesian island near Singapore, October 20-21. The INP arrested two chemists from Taiwan and four Indonesian nationals. The total s [...]
2007-11-14 10:34:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV SNAR PREL KCRM ID
07JAKARTA3162JAKARTA - DS/ATA AND SPECIAL DETACHMENT 88
[...] (U) Begin Summary. Post appreciated the visit of DS/ATA Director Steve Brunette and DS/ATA Desk Officer Steve Hargrove. In addition to signing the Memorandum of Intent between the Embassy and the Indonesian National Police (INP),the visit provided useful ideas on improving the already suc [...]
2007-11-15 04:40:00Embassy JakartaSECRETASEC PTER EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO ID
07JAKARTA3163SEMARANG - SPECIAL DETACHMENT 88
[...] (C) RSO and DS/ATA Country Manager visited the Special Detachment (SD) 88 in Semarang, the Indonesian National Police (INP) anti-terrorism training center in Plantina and the Jakarta Center for Law Enforcement Cooperation (JCLEC) from 10/30 - 10/31. The main purpose of the visit was to inspe [...]
2007-11-15 06:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALASEC PTER EFIN KCRM KHLS ID KPAO
07JAKARTA3181COUNTERNARCOTICS STRATEGY REPORT (INSCR) PART II:
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia--the fourth largest country in population in the world--has historically has not been considered a major drug producing, consuming or transit country. However, in recent years Indones [...]
2007-11-16 07:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM SNAR AFIN PREL ID
07JAKARTA3304WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT -- JAKARTA SMALL GRANTS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Mission is pleased to recommend the following three proposals for EAP's 2007 Women's Issues Fund Competition for Small Grants. Mission closely reviewed and carefully weighed 45 applications in total before choosing these proposals. Each of the recommended projects would advanc [...]
2007-12-03 10:55:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN KPAO KCRM SOCI EAID ID
07JAKARTA3400INDONESIA - INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] Per reftel A, Embassy Jakarta has submitted its International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports (INCSR) on money laundering, financial crimes and counter-narcotics. Embassy's reports can be found in reftel B (submitted on 11/16) and reftel C (submitted on 11/13). HUME [...]
2007-12-14 08:49:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDID KCRM SNAR
07JAKARTA353FIRST ROUND OF U.S.-INDONESIA MLAT NEGOTIATIONS
[...] Summary. (U) On January 23-25, delegations from the U.S. and Indonesia met in Jakarta for a first round of negotiations aimed at conclusion of a mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT) between the two countries. The discussions were friendly and productive. All participants agreed that an MLA [...]
2007-02-09 02:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KCRM KJUS CJAN KTIA ID
07JAKARTA510CRIMINAL PROCEDURE REFORM PROCESS TAKES A NEW DIRECTION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY On February 21, Minister of Law and Human Rights Hamid Awaludin met with the DOJ/OPDAT Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) to discuss a more fundamental approach to revising the criminal procedure code. Awaludin expressed his belief that the current drafting efforts have been too cons [...]
2007-02-26 05:18:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM KJUS SNAR PHUM ID
07JAKARTA545INDONESIA'S DETACHMENT 88 HITTING ITS STRIDE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Since first emerging in the wake of the 2002 Bali terror attacks, Detachment 88 has begun to establish itself as the counterterrorism flagship of the Indonesian National Police (INP). A growing list of successful CT operations marks the Detachment's maturing capabilities. Recentl [...]
2007-02-27 23:45:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO ID
07JAKARTA590 INDONESIA ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] (SBU) Indonesia remained a major sending country for international trafficking in persons (TIP) and faced a very significant internal trafficking problem. Indonesia was also a receiving country for trafficked prostitutes, though their numbers were very small relative to Indonesian victims. [...]
2007-03-01 10:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07JAKARTA672 INDONESIA ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] (SBU) Indonesia remained a major sending country for international trafficking in persons (TIP) and faced a very significant internal trafficking problem. Indonesia was also a receiving country for trafficked prostitutes, though their numbers were very small relative t Indonesian victims. Th [...]
2007-03-08 10:08:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07JAKARTA698 INDONESIA ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] (SBU) Indonesia remained a major sending country for international trafficking in persons (TIP) and faced a very significant internal trafficking problem. Indonesia was also a receiving country for trafficked prostitutes, though their numbers were very small relative to Indonesian victims. [...]
2007-03-12 02:05:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07JAKARTA699 INDONESIA ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-12 02:05:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07JAKARTA700 INDONESIA ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-12 02:05:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07JAKARTA701 INDONESIA ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-12 02:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07JAKARTA706U.S. TEAM VISITS INDONESIA'S SULAWESI SEA AREA
[...] (C) Summary. In late January, a DS/ATA-led team of U.S. and GOI security officials sponsored by S/CT assessed the security needs along Indonesia's Sulawesi Sea border areas. The visit was part of the Border Control Assessment Initiative (BCAI) targeting the strategic Indonesia-Malaysia-Philip [...]
2007-03-12 08:50:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO ID
07JAKARTA754JUSTICE CONTINUES TO ELUDE VICTIMS OF 1998-1999
[...] (C) Summary: On March 7, the Indonesian parliament's (DPR) consultative council rejected the legal affairs committee's (Commission III) recommendation to set up an ad-hoc human rights court on the 1998-1999 killings of 29 civilian protestors by the Indonesian military (TNI) at Trisakti Univer [...]
2007-03-15 08:15:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KJUS KCRM ID
07JAKARTA778INDONESIA PASSES ANTI-TRAFFICKING BILL
[...] (U) On March 20, the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR) passed a comprehensive anti-trafficking bill during a morning plenary session. The bill enjoyed the full support of all ten political factions in the DPR and was ratified without a vote. Muhaimin Iskandar, the Deputy Chairman of [...]
2007-03-20 08:29:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL ID
07JAKARTA86MARITIME SECURITY IN NORTH SULAWESI
[...] (C) Summary. Indonesian officials in North Sulawesi are eager for bilateral security assistance to make up for Jakarta's meager investment in developing the area's maritime security assets. Foreign assistance and training programs are essential for Indonesia to develop effective maritime law [...]
2007-01-10 09:52:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO ID
07JAKARTA92MARITIME SECURITY IN NORTH SULAWESI
[...] (C) Summary: Indonesian officials in North Sulawesi are eager for bilateral security assistance to make up for Jakarta's meager investment in developing the area's maritime security assets. Foreign assistance and training programs are essential for Indonesia to develop effective maritime law [...]
2007-01-11 04:36:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS KPAO ID
07KABUL1006BANK SECURITY UPDATE - CRIME IS A GROWING PROBLEM
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-27 09:02:00Embassy KabulSECRET//NOFORNEFIN ECON PGOV PINS KCRM AF
07KABUL1045BROKERING ERADICATION CONSENSUS IN HELMAND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The environment for conducting poppy eradication in Helmand remains problematic. The USG-funded Afghan Eradication Force (AEF) has met repeated interference from local forces in Helmand, and each day brings a new round of negotiations in an effort to keep eradication going. How [...]
2007-03-29 15:04:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNSNAR PGOV KCRM AF
07KABUL1059ERADICATION CONTINUES AMID DEMONSTRATIONS AND
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Poppy eradication in Afghanistan on April 2 surpassed last year's total. Provisional calculations show 15,829 hectares of eradication this year compared to 15,300 hectares in 2006. In Helmand, the U.S.-funded Afghan Eradication Force (AEF) was back in the field after three day [...]
2007-04-02 14:03:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNSNAR KCRM AF
07KABUL1132ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS’ MARCH 17-20 VISIT TO
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Director of the Office of Drug Control Policy John Walters visited Afghanistan March 17-20 to discuss with senior Afghan and international officials this year's progress on reducing the poppy crop. Senior ISAF officials told Walters that although eradicating poppy would, in their estim [...]
2007-04-06 10:45:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNSNAR KCRM AF
07KABUL1154AEF FINISHES ERADICATION IN HELMAND; URUZGAN A
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The INL-funded Afghan Eradication Force (AEF) concluded poppy eradication operations in Helmand province on April 7 due to continued local civilian resistance and absence of political support. The AEF eradicated 7,573 hectares of poppy in the province since it started operation [...]
2007-04-08 13:27:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALSNAR PREL KCRM AF
07KABUL125DUBAI MEETING ON AFGHANISTAN JUSTICE COORDINATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The December 4-6 Justice Sector Coordination meeting in Dubai re-invigorated justice reform efforts in Afghanistan. The meeting resulted in a new initiative to organize international efforts over the next few months and to develop a consolidated framework for justice reform at t [...]
2007-01-13 09:31:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKJUS PREL PGOV PTER KCRM SNAR SOCI AF
07KABUL1352PRT QALAT: GOVERNOR LED ERADICATION IN ZABUL
[...] (U) Governor Led Eradication (GLE) is underway in Zabul province and is looking to expand and cut into what could be an increase in poppy production in Zabul this growing season. Through April 15, UNODC has verified 200 hectares of eradication in the province. PRTOff observed the eradication [...]
2007-04-21 13:13:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF SNAR KCRM
07KABUL1356PRT JALALABAD: WHAT NEXT FOR POPPY ERADICATION
[...] (SBU) Nangahar Governor Sherzai shared his plans for the future with officials from the PRT at a lunch on April 18, including what to do with so much poppy in the province. Sharzai indicated he will fire officials who do not support his eradication campaign and complained that even members of [...]
2007-04-22 08:16:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF SNAR KCRM
07KABUL1420GOA TELLS ISAF THAT ITS IO CAMPAIGN UNDERMINES
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Interior on April 24 convoked public information officials from ISAF and the UK Embassy to register disapproval over a series of IO products regarding poppy eradication that UK Task Force Helmand had disseminated during its Spring campaign. The IO products at [...]
2007-04-25 15:08:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL SNAR KCRM AF
07KABUL1426URUZGAN ERADICATION OFF TO ROCKY START; DUTCH MAY
[...] (C/NF) Summary: The Dutch may use the NATO informal ministerial in Oslo or other high-level opportunities to raise concern about Afghan-led poppy eradication efforts in Uruzgan province which the Dutch fear will jeopardize the security of their PRT operations and possibly the mandate of the [...]
2007-04-26 09:34:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKCRM PGOV PREL SNAR AF
07KABUL1455AFGHAN ERADICATION FORCE COMES UNDER HOSTILE FIRE
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: The U.S.-funded Afghan Eradication Force (AEF) came under hostile fire twice on April 29 during its deployment in Uruzgan province. The first time came at the beginning of the day when the AEF was initiating its operations. On the way back to base, the AEF encountered an am [...]
2007-04-29 13:40:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER SNAR PREL KCRM AF
07KABUL1542AFGHANISTAN - TRUCKER STRIKE DISRUPTS COMMERCE AND DELIVERY
[...] (SBU) A truckers' strike called by a Peshawar-based transport association has stopped containerized traffic from entering Afghanistan at the Torkham border crossing since April 27. The truckers are protesting taxes, bribes and illegal collections they have to pay on the highway between Torkha [...]
2007-05-07 11:36:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN ETRD MOPS PREL KCRM ELAB ASUP AMGT AF
07KABUL173AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES RULE OF LAW CONFERENCE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Ambassador and Embassy Rule of Law (ROL) Coordinator met January 15 with Italian Ambassador Sequi and a delegation from Rome led by Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Vernetti. The meeting produced an agreement that the upcoming Rome ROL Conference would be held in April with a [...]
2007-01-18 10:55:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KJUS PTER KCRM AF
07KABUL1931MORE HAWALA CLOSINGS; LICENSE APPLICATIONS UP
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-11 09:43:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC PTER SNAR KCRM ECON AF
07KABUL246REPEATED ROBBERIES COULD PRODUCE BANKING CRISIS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-24 12:49:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV PINS KCRM AF
07KABUL247REPEATED ROBBERIES COULD PRODUCE BANKING CRISIS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-24 12:51:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PGOV PINS KCRM AF
07KABUL275JCMB SUCCESS - ANDS PRODUCES PRIORITY PROJECT LIST IN
[...] On January 25, ANDS Executive Director Adib Farhadi passed to Deputy ECON Counselor the GOA's consolidated priority project list, which emerged from the recent round of JCMB Consultative Group meetings in which GOA officials and donor representatives participate. Post successfully negotiated i [...]
2007-01-27 06:29:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PREL PGOV SNAR KCRM AF
07KABUL3135HELMAND PROVINCE - POPPY ERADICATION FORCE'S PRE-PLANTING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Poppy Eradication Force (PEF) conducted a pre-planting outreach campaign in Helmand Province from August 29 through September 5, 2007. The PEF organized two well-attended Shuras with area elders and met with numerous farmers in the Lashkargah area. No security incidents o [...]
2007-09-18 12:26:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SNAR KCRM AF
07KABUL793AFGHANISTAN'S 2007 TIP QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally trafficked men, women, or children? Provide, where possible, numbers or estimates for each group; how they were trafficked, to where, and for what purpose. Does the trafficking occur within the country's b [...]
2007-03-07 14:00:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC
07KAMPALA1199UGANDA: CORRUPTION TRIAL POSTPONED
[...] (C) Summary: The Government requested a postponement of the high profile trial of former Ministry of Health officials involving the redirection of funds for immunization to political mobilization campains. The trial, which began on July 16, was delayed because the Government said it was not [...]
2007-07-24 08:10:00Embassy KampalaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KCRM UG
07KAMPALA1752NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT/PORTAL DETECTION IN
[...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in radiological materials. This report came to post's attention via a walk-in. Information concerning the report was relayed to PM [...]
2007-11-13 15:10:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PTER UG
07KAMPALA1774UGANDA: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] (SBU) Uganda is not a regional financial center or a major hub for narcotics trafficking and terrorism financing. Money laundering takes place in Uganda, but the GOU has no systematic research on its scope and magnitude. Recent efforts by GOU officials to address the smuggling of counterfeit [...]
2007-11-16 09:32:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR ASEC UG
07KAMPALA377 UGANDA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2007
[...] (U) Embassy POC for Trafficking In Persons (TIP) issues is Political/Economic Chief Kathleen FitzGibbon, Tel: 256-41-306-214, Mobile: 256-772-220-030, Fax: 256-41-345-144. To prepare this report, P/E Chief Kathleen FitzGibbon (FO-02) spent 30 hours and political assistant Gracie Jaasi spent 3 [...]
2007-03-05 10:58:00Embassy KampalaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB UG
07KAMPALA909UGANDA: CORRUPTION SCANDAL'S POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: The arrests of former health officials implicated in an immunization fund scandal has set in motion a chain of events with an uncertain outcome and potentially damaging implications for the Museveni family and other key political actors. Military and police arrested two former [...]
2007-05-29 10:04:00Embassy KampalaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPHUM PGOV KCRM UG
07KATHMANDU1373NEPAL: TIP REPORT DEMARCHE
[...] (U) In a series of meetings with officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry for Women and Social Welfare (MWSW),and the Ministry of Labor and Transport, Emboff delivered talking points and the final text of Nepal's country narrative from the 2007 Trafficking in Person (TIP) [...]
2007-07-18 10:07:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM SOCI KPAO EAID IP NP
07KATHMANDU1719NEPAL'S FIRST NATIONAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING DAY
[...] (U) The Government of Nepal and private groups took advantage of the first national Anti-Trafficking Day on September 6 to publicize the newly passed Human Trafficking Control Act. The day also witnessed commitments by politicians to fight trafficking. The U.S. Mission held its observation a [...]
2007-09-12 11:29:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ELAB EAID KCRM KJUS KWMN NP
07KATHMANDU1987NEPAL: DRAFT 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] Nepal is not a regional financial center and there are no indications that the country is used as an international money laundering center. The Government of Nepal (GON) has not yet criminalized money laundering. Draft anti-money laundering legislation has been prepared but has not yet pass [...]
2007-11-16 10:18:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR NP
07KATHMANDU2079NEPAL: 2007 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] Nepal experienced no significant acts of international terrorism in 2007; however, several incidents of domestic terrorism and politically-motivated violence occurred in urban areas and in the Terai. None was aimed at U.S. citizens or facilities. Nepal was not a state sponsor of terrorism, [...]
2007-12-17 03:02:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR NP
07KATHMANDU8082006 END-USE MONITORING REPORT FOR NEPAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-20 11:41:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR AFIN KCRM KWMN EFIN PGOV EAID NP
07KATHMANDU844NEPAL: G/TIP INCLE AND ESF FUNDING PROPOSAL
[...] Embassy Kathmandu is pleased to propose the following five projects, in rank order, for consideration for INCLE and ESF funding (reftel). Post emailed the full text of the proposals to G/TIP. Begin Projects -------------- Project 1 --------- Name of the Applicant: The Asia Foundatio [...]
2007-04-25 12:36:00Embassy KathmanduUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG NP
07KHARTOUM104SUDAN: CONDEMNING THE JAN. 24 HIJACKING INCIDENT
[...] (C) During a January 24 meeting of Charge Hume with Presidential Advisor Mustafa Osman Ismail to discuss reftel demarche, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs asked that the USG condemn the January 24 hijacking of an Air West aircraft in Darfur (details covered in septel),because it was a t [...]
2007-01-24 12:19:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM KPAO PTER EAIR US SU
07KHARTOUM1779SUDAN CHAPTER: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] Attached, below, is the draft text for the Sudan chapter of the INCSR, Part II, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. To our knowledge, this is the first time the report has been submitted for Sudan. POC at post for this report is Paul J Martin: email martinpj@state.gov; tel: (011-249-1-83- [...]
2007-11-15 15:03:00Embassy KhartoumUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR SU
07KHARTOUM939OFFER TO SELL RADIOACTIVE URANIUM
[...] (Secret) On May 31, 2007, ARSO Bleu Lawless was contacted by a Sudanese-American, identified as Abuobaida A. Mohed, who claimed to have access to radioactive uranium. During a subsequent interview conducted by ARSO Lawless and SIMO representatives, Mohed claimed that his uncle, who is a Sudane [...]
2007-06-14 07:12:00Embassy KhartoumSECRETASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PTER
07KIGALI212RWANDA TIP DRAFT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-01 16:08:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF ELAB ASEC KFRD SMIG KWMN PHUM KCRM RW
07KIGALI399RWANDA TIP PROPOSAL FOR G/TIP MANAGED ESF AND
[...] This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. Summary. Rwanda is a country attempting to focus on child prositution and other forms of trafficking in persons. Due in part to post's regular pressure on the GOR to address the problem, on 23 April the Rwandan National Police (RNP) su [...]
2007-04-27 11:04:00Embassy KigaliUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG RW
07KINGSTON110JAMAICA'S ELECTION-YEAR VIOLENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-23 14:18:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALKCRM SOCI PREL PGOV JM
07KINGSTON111JAMAICA'S ELECTION-YEAR VIOLENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-23 14:18:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALKCRM SOCI PREL PGOV JM
07KINGSTON1131JAMAICA: TRAFFICKING CASE PROMPTS INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) The Government of Jamaica (GOJ) is pursuing a particularly egregious case of labor exploitation under the recently passed Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Suppression and Punishment) Act, 2007 (reftel). GOJ officials have approached the International Organization of Migration (IOM),th [...]
2007-07-20 16:09:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB JM XL
07KINGSTON1462JAMAICA: CRIME AND CORRUPTION CHALLENGES FACING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-25 16:14:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SOCI SNAR PHUM ASEC KCOR KCRM KJUS
07KINGSTON1770JAMAICA: WAITING FOR A POLITICAL DECISION ON
[...] (SBU) on December 7, prompted by reports of the strident commentary from the Jamaican Ministry of National Security Special Advisor on Policy Anne-Marie Barnes (REFTEL),and by a continued lack of forward movement by the Government of Jamaica towards opening bilateral talks with the Internatio [...]
2007-12-10 20:17:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR JM
07KINGSTON199ILEA SAN SALVADOR - TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROGRAM
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-08 20:26:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM SNAR KWMN SMIG ELAB EAID PHUM
07KINGSTON287JAMAICAN CRIME UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-01 11:59:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC JM KCRM PGOV SNAR
07KINGSTON292JAMAICAN CRIME UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-01 18:07:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC JM KCRM PGOV SNAR
07KINGSTON343ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY: CONTRACTOR GENERAL OF
[...] Summary: Please see the action request in paragraph 12. Currently, the Mission is exploring mechanisms for encouraging the Government of Jamaica (GOJ) to curb corruption. In keeping with the Mission's evolving strategy plan on anti-corruption, we are meeting with heads of Jamaican governmen [...]
2007-03-12 20:01:00Embassy KingstonUNCLASSIFIEDJM KCOR KCRM KJUS PGOV
07KINGSTON380ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY: JAMAICA'S POLICE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-19 14:07:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALKCRM KJUS PGOV KCOR JM
07KINGSTON413MURDER MYSTERY TARNISHES JAMAICA'S CWC TRIUMPH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The death of Robert Woolmer, Pakistan's Cricket World Cup (CWC) coach and a British national, has been ruled a murder. At a press conference March 22, Jamaica Constabulary Force officials confirmed that Woolmer "died as a result of asphyxia due to manual strangulation." Publicly [...]
2007-03-23 18:42:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCRM
07KINGSTON588JAMAICA: MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNED
[...] (C) Summary: On Friday, April 20, Charge and NAS Director, along with the British and Canadian COMs, met with Peter Phillips, Minister of National Security at his request. In this session, one of an ongoing series of conversations with his international partners, (Reftels A and B) Phillips o [...]
2007-04-24 12:58:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALSNAR KCRM PREL KFIN JM
07KINGSTON589JAMAICA: MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNED
[...] (C) Summary: On Friday, April 20, Charge and NAS Director, along with the British and Canadian COMs, met with Peter Phillips, Minister of National Security at his request. In this session, one of an ongoing series of conversations with his international partners, (Reftels A and B) Phillips o [...]
2007-04-24 12:58:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALSNAR KCRM PREL KFIN JM
07KINGSTON89JAMAICA: OPPOSITION LEADER CLAIMS VENEZUELA GIVING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-18 18:04:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR SOCI ABLD AMGT ENRG KCOR KCRM
07KINGSTON927JAMAICA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 7TH ANNUAL TIPS
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered the 7th Annual TIP country report on Jamaica to the Government of Jamaica's (GOJ) National Anti-Trafficking Task Force at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) on June 11. The task force is headed by Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Justice Ca [...]
2007-06-13 16:55:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB JM XL
07KINGSTON953JAMAICA: MOUNTING POLITICAL TENSIONS WITH APPROACH
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-19 19:11:00Embassy KingstonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SOCI SNAR ASEC KCOR KCRM JM XL
07KINSHASA256DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO 2007 TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally trafficked men, women, or children? Yes. Does the trafficking occur within the country's borders? Yes. Does it occur in territory outside of the government's control? -- Child sold [...]
2007-03-01 15:07:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CG
07KINSHASA764CONGOLESE TRADER ON UN SANCTIONS LIST MURDERED IN
[...] (U) Congolese gold trader Kambale Kisoni Kidubai was shot and killed in Butembo, North Kivu by unidentified assailants at noon on July 5. He had been designated in March 2007, along with Butembo Airlines and Congocom Trading House, as subject to UN and U.S. sanctions for providing support to [...]
2007-07-06 11:44:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV KCRM CG
07KINSHASA779ACCUSED KILLERS OF NORTH KIVU TRADER APPEAR BEFORE
[...] (SBU) The six accused killers of Kambale Kisoni, a wealthy North Kivu businessman who had been designated by the U.S. and UN for violating UN arms embargoes, appeared before a military tribunal in Butembo July 6. Kisoni was shot and killed in the city July 5 (reftel). The chief military judg [...]
2007-07-10 09:32:00Embassy KinshasaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PGOV KCRM CG
07KOLKATA149ASSAM ROCKED BY TWO BOMB ATTACKS, 26 INJURED
[...] (U) On Friday May 4 and Sunday May 6 at least 26 persons were injured in two separate bomb attacks in India's Northeastern state of Assam. In both incidents, the bombs were improvised explosive devices (IEDs). The Assam Police suspect that ethnic separatist group the United Liberation Front o [...]
2007-05-07 11:25:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PTER ASEC IN
07KOLKATA154ANTI-NARCOTICS OFFICIALS DESTROY THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF OPIUM
[...] (SBU) On May 5, press reported a massive Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN) operation in West Bengal to destroy illicit and unlicensed opium crop in Murshidabad and Nadia districts worth Rs. 1,200 crore (USD 290 million). GOI awards licenses for legal opium cultivation in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya [...]
2007-05-10 06:31:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC SOCI EAGR IN
07KOLKATA166TERRORIST GROUP UNITED LIBERATION FRONT OF ASOM KILLS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16, ethnic Assamese terrorist group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) gunned down three Hindi-speaking market traders in two different incidents in Golaghat district in Upper Assam. These attacks came soon after ULFA's killing on the previous day, May 15, of six H [...]
2007-05-17 05:36:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN BG
07KOLKATA177SIX DEAD AS VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN ASSAM
[...] On Sunday May 27 six persons were killed and over 25 injured in a blast, suspected to have been triggered by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) at Athgaon in the capital district of Guwahati in Assam. A time device planted in an auto-rickshaw parked in a busy area went off around 10.4 [...]
2007-05-30 02:11:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN BG
07KOLKATA189SIX KILLED IN ASSAM BLAST
[...] (SBU) On June 23 six persons were killed and nine injured in a blast, suspected to have been triggered by the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA),in the capital city of Guwahati in the northeastern Indian state of Assam. The death toll included two minors. The blast, which took place in t [...]
2007-06-25 11:47:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PHUM ASEC KCRM IN BG
07KOLKATA191MAOISTS BLOCKADE JHARKHAND TRANSPORT
[...] Summary: (SBU) Beginning June 26 the two-day east India economic blockade called by the Communist Party of India-Maoist to protest against the setting up of special economic zones (SEZs),adversely affected the movement of all minerals from the mineral-rich state of Jharkhand. The majority [...]
2007-06-29 08:40:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PTER PHUM ASEC KCRM IN
07KOLKATA195NEW POLICE UNIT IN KOLKATA TO IMPROVE ENFORCEMENT OF HUMAN
[...] (U) Summary. On June 28, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in West Bengal launched the state's first Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) at its headquarters in Kolkata in a concerted effort to combat trafficking of persons in the state. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee inaugur [...]
2007-07-03 10:54:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PHUM ELAB SOCI IN NP BG
07KOLKATA196200 MAOIST INSURGENTS KILL SEVEN, INCLUDING FIVE POLICE, IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 30 an estimated 200 Communist Party of India - Maoist (Maoists) insurgents killed seven people, including five policemen, in separate but simultaneous attacks on two police stations in the Rohtas district of the eastern Indian State of Bihar. On the same day, the Bihar [...]
2007-07-05 11:46:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PHUM KCRM ASEC IN
07KOLKATA209MEGHALAYA STATE POLICE SEIZE 5 KILOS OF HEROIN
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 6 in Northeast India, Meghalaya state police reportedly recovered 5 kilograms of heroin in the state capital Shillong. Two persons have been arrested in connection with the seizure. One suspect is an Indian federal government employee, the other is Moulvi (Muslim prea [...]
2007-07-12 10:25:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER SNAR ASEC KCRM IN BG BM
07KOLKATA251W. BENGAL'S NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING HEAD OUTLINES PLANS FOR THE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: ON AUGUST 6 POLOFF SPOKE AT LENGTH WITH NEWLY-APPOINTED WEST BENGAL DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE (SPECIAL CELL) SANJOY MUKHERJEE. MUKHERJEE WILL RUN THE RECENTLY-CREATED ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING UNIT (AHTU) IN W. BENGAL. DURING THE MEETING, MUKHERJEE EXPLAINED IN DETAIL THE [...]
2007-08-21 12:50:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PHUM ELAB SOCI IN NP BG
07KOLKATA264WEST BENGAL POLICE CONCERNED BY RISING OPIUM CULTIVATION IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the past three months, West Bengal Police have recovered 13 kilograms of opium worth USD 600,000, reflecting an apparent increase in illicit narcotic activity in the state. According to police officials, farmers in the state's Nadia district, lured by the prospect of higher [...]
2007-08-31 13:00:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR SNAR KCRM IN BG NP
07KOLKATA66FORMULATION OF A NEW INTEGRATED ACTION PLAN TO COMBAT TIP
[...] (U) Summary: On February 1-2 approximately 50-75, lawyers, judges, NGO activists, and government officials from West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, and Jharkhand participated in the "Eastern Regional Workshop to Discuss the Proposed Plan of Action to Prevent and Combat Human Trafficking" organized b [...]
2007-02-22 06:33:00Consulate KolkataUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN SOCI KCRM PHUM PREL IN
07KUALALUMPUR1024DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MALAYSIA 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-12 07:47:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV ELAB KCRM KWMN MY
07KUALALUMPUR1145EMBASSY SENIOR-LEVEL ENGAGEMENT ON TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (C) Summary: Senior Malaysian officials are still smarting over the U.S. decision to rank Malaysia in TIP Tier 3 but they have expressed much more willingness to discuss the issue quietly than they did in the immediate aftermath of the USG decision of June 12. We have engaged with senior off [...]
2007-07-16 01:38:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV ELAB KCRM KWMN MY
07KUALALUMPUR1236MALAYSIA FORMALLY ENACTS A COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-TIP
[...] (SBU) Summary: Malaysia formally enacted its Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act after receiving royal assent on July 18 and publishing the new law in the Gazette of Malaysian Laws on July 26. With final enactment of the new law, Malaysia moved closer to opening its first two shelters for foreig [...]
2007-08-02 08:44:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KCRM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1290REASSESSING MALAYSIA'S EFFORTS TO COMBAT
[...] (C) The Malaysians have made significant progress in implementing items contained in the action plan we provided them in 2006, and we should return them from Tier 3 to the Tier 2 Watch List in connection with the September review. We recognize that trafficking in Malaysia remains serious. We [...]
2007-08-15 10:27:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KCRM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1557POLICE IN EAST MALAYSIA DISCUSS TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) Poloff met with police leaders in East Malaysia during the first week of October to discuss trafficking in persons (TIP) issues in their region. To date, police have prosecuted or detained local syndicates and "gangsters" involved in trafficking under various legal options not specific [...]
2007-10-23 09:53:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KCRM KJUS ID MY
07KUALALUMPUR1568GOM UPDATES ON ANTI-TRAFFICKING LAW, REQUESTS
[...] (SBU) A senior official in Malaysia's Internal Security Ministry told us October 22 that the Anti-Trafficking Council created by the new anti-trafficking in persons law would meet formally by mid-November. Enforcement of the law would begin in early 2008, as Malaysian authorities needed time [...]
2007-10-25 10:43:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KCRM MY
07KUALALUMPUR1609TERRORIST FINANCE: MALAYSIA DINGED ON ILLICIT CASH COURIERS
[...] Summary: This cable responds to reftel requesting information on cash couriers in Malaysia. The Financial Action Task Force Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (FATF/APG) conducted a Mutual Evaluation of Malaysia in February 2007. "Cross Border Declaration and Disclosure" of cash was the o [...]
2007-11-09 08:05:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER MY
07KUALALUMPUR1620WOMEN'S ISSUES FUND GRANT PROPOSAL FOR BURMESE REFUGEE
[...] Post recommends the following project for EAP/RSP Regional Women's Issues Fund Small Grants Program (SG) for Locally-based Organizations: A. Identifying Information: --------------------------- a) Name of project: Independence and Voice for Burmese Refugees in Malaysia b) Total budget [...]
2007-11-16 00:02:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWMN PREF KPAO KCRM SOCI XB MY
07KUALALUMPUR1655WOMEN'S ISSUES FUND GRANT PROPOSAL FOR WOMEN POLITICAL
[...] (U) Post recommends the following project for EAP/RSP Regional Women's Issues Fund Small Grants Program (SG) for locally-based organizations. This is an addition to Post's earlier submission (ref B). a) Name of organization: Education and Research Association for Consumers, Malaysia (ERA [...]
2007-11-29 05:14:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM EAID KWMN KPAO KCRM SOCI XB MY
07KUALALUMPUR1693MALAYSIAN IMMIGRATION REQUESTS TRAINING VISIT TO U.S. PORTS
[...] (SBU) This is an action request for ICE Singapore to organize a study visit to the U.S. for Malaysian Immigration officers, with a focus on inspection, detention, removal, and deportation of illegal immigrants; as well as trafficking in persons victim identification and protection. Malaysian [...]
2007-12-11 08:43:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PREF CVIS KCRM KJUS MY
07KUALALUMPUR1730TIP ACTION PLAN DELIVERED TO MALAYSIA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-19 11:02:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KCRM ELAB ASEC MY
07KUALALUMPUR398MALAYSIA'S SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Malaysia is a destination, and to a far lesser extent, a transit and source country for adults and minors trafficked for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation. The overwhelming majority of victims come to Malaysia seeking greater economic oppor [...]
2007-03-05 01:35:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB MY
07KUALALUMPUR653MALAYSIA'S CABINET APPROVES DRAFT TIP LAW
[...] (SBU) Ambassador-at-Large Ghazzali S.A. Khalid telephoned the Ambassador on April 11 in order to inform him that the Malaysian Cabinet, in its meeting earlier in the day, had approved the draft anti-trafficking in persons law. Ghazzali said the Malaysian Government intended to present the bil [...]
2007-04-11 09:31:00Embassy Kuala LumpurCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL KCRM MY
07KUALALUMPUR753MALAYSIA TABLES ANTI-TIP BILL IN PARLIAMENT, SEEKS
[...] (U) The Government of Malaysia tabled a comprehensive Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) bill in Parliament on April 24 and predicted speedy passage. After tabling the bill, de facto Law Minister and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mohamed Nazri bin Abdul Aziz told reporters the b [...]
2007-04-25 08:43:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KCRM MY
07KUALALUMPUR788PROPOSALS FOR G/TIP PROJECT FUNDING
[...] Post submitted to G/TIP via email four proposals for anti-trafficking projects on April 20, 2007. This cable summarizes our priority list for the submitted project proposals and provides our justification for funding the projects. 2. Post first recommends the proposal from the Internatio [...]
2007-04-30 00:45:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL KCRM MY
07KUALALUMPUR834MALAYSIA PASSES COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) Malaysia's House of Representatives on May 10 passed a comprehensive anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) law, representing a significant breakthrough for anti-trafficking efforts and the achievement of our highest priority objective in the U.S. action plan for Malaysia. The new law provide [...]
2007-05-10 08:18:00Embassy Kuala LumpurUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL KCRM MY
07KUWAIT1145GOK NOMINEES FOR FDIC COUNTERTERRORISM FINANCIAL
[...] (SBU) The following Government of Kuwait officials have been nominated for the FDIC Counterterrorism Financial Regulatory Training in Arlington, VA from August 6-10, 2007 (reftel): Abdullah Ali Al-Sabah Financial Controller and Acting Head of AML Section Central Bank of Kuwait DOB: unknow [...]
2007-07-18 13:36:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PTER ECON EFIN PREL
07KUWAIT1607TERRORIST FINANCE: RESPONSE TO FOLLOW-UP ACTION
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel post provides the following responses. 2. (SBU) Status of host nation laws specifically criminalizing bulk cash smuggling: On March 10, 2002, the Amir (Head of State) of Kuwait signed Law No. 35/2002, which criminalized money laundering. Law No. 35 crimina [...]
2007-11-08 15:15:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN
07KUWAIT1711GOK HOSTS AML/CTF CONFERENCE, DISCUSSES DRAFT
[...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: Several recent events in Kuwait have given some impetus to Kuwait's anti-money laundering capabilities. The Central Bank of Kuwait hosted a conference on anti-money-laundering and terror finance on December 2-3 attended by over 400 professionals from government, l [...]
2007-12-11 08:21:00Embassy KuwaitCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KCRM PREL PTER KTFN KU
07KUWAIT312KUWAIT: SEVENTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (U) Embassy Kuwait's submission for the 2007 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) follows. Responses are keyed to paragraphs 27-30 of reftel. -------- OVERVIEW -------- 2. (SBU) Please find below responses to questions in paragraph 27 of reftel: -- 27A: Kuwait is a destination count [...]
2007-03-04 07:58:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KU
07KYIV2753UKRAINE: PSI Eastern Shield Exercise, October 29-31, Odesa,
[...] (U) Summary: Ukraine and Poland sponsored a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Eastern Shield demonstration, with Romanian, Georgian, Moldovan, and Bulgarian participation, October 29-31 in Odesa, Ukraine. The demonstration, planned as the first PSI exercise in the Black Sea region, empl [...]
2007-11-06 09:24:00Embassy KyivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PTER KCRM PREL KNNP UP
07LAGOS185NIGERIA 2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) The following is Mission Nigeria's submission for the annual trafficking in persons (TIP) report. Paragraphs respond to questions in reftel. ------------------ 27. (SBU) Overview ------------------ -- A. Nigeria is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficked persons. [...]
2007-03-13 15:46:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
07LAGOS190CONGRESSMAN CHRISTOPHER SMITH REVIEWS LAGOS ANTI-TIP
[...] (U) Summary: Nigeria Trafficking in Persons (TIP) experts told Congressman Christopher Smith during his February 22-24 visit to Lagos that rehabilitation of TIP victims needs more resources and funding. Efforts in Lagos to work with TIP victims have been overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of vi [...]
2007-03-15 09:47:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM EAID ELAB PHUM SOCI KWMN SMIG KCRM NI
07LAGOS213EDO STATE MAKES PROGRESS AGAINST TIP, BUT THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A visit by Poloff with Global Trafficking in Persons Program Officer Amy LeMar to Edo State showed progress in combating trafficking in persons (TIP). Local organizations have been led by Idia Renaissance, founded by Edo State First Lady Eki Igbinedion. Igbinedion's anti-TIP [...]
2007-03-21 11:27:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KWMN ELAB KCRM SOCI SMIG NI
07LAGOS320NIGERIA SUBMISSIONS FOR G/TIP FY 2007 ESF AND
[...] Name of Applicant: Women's Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON) Executive Director, Bisi Olateru-Olagbegi 2. Requested funding amount: $101,890 3. Project title: Sensitization and Reintegration Program 4. Project duration: 2 years 5. Proposal abstract: The Women's Consortium of Nige [...]
2007-05-08 10:15:00Consulate LagosUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KCRM PHUM SMIG PREL
07LAGOS58TRAFFIC STOP OF FUGITIVE SOBOMA GEORGE LEADS TO
[...] (C) Summary: After the inadvertent arrest of their leader, Soboma George, a band of armed criminal militants attacked at least one police station in Port Harcourt. Details are sketchy and we have in hand conflicting reports whether George escaped. Apparently, the melee resulted in some casu [...]
2007-01-29 16:47:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALEPET ENERG ASEC PTER KCRM NI
07LAGOS62SITREP #5: SSS INVOLVEMENT IN NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) The Pivot-GIS Hostage Crisis Group met January 29. The Nigerian State Security Services (SSS) had been in contact with the kidnappers and reported that all three hostages were well. The Director of the SSS Alhaji Kola Adeshina, has been personally involved in the release negotiations and [...]
2007-01-31 16:30:00Consulate LagosCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CASC KCRM NI
07LAPAZ2758POTOSI: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE PERIPHERY
[...] (U) Potosi, Bolivia's south-western department (or state),with Argentina to the south and Chile to the west, is focused on mining and tourism as its best options for escaping the poverty that afflicts most of its population. Despite the historic wealth of the mining sector in Potosi, prospec [...]
2007-10-15 15:04:00Embassy La PazCONFIDENTIALECON EMIN EINV EIND PINR PGOV KCRM KIPR BL
07LIBREVILLE82DHRF-FUNDED RITUAL CRIMES CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS TABOO
[...] Summary: Post used DHRF funds to sponsor a one-day conference on ritual crimes organized by the local NGO "L'Association de Lutte Contre les Crimes Rituels" (ALCR). The objective of the conference was to focus attention on ritual crimes in Gabon and help develop a plan of action to fight the pr [...]
2007-02-14 13:57:00Embassy LibrevilleUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM SMIG PGOV OPRC EAID KCRM GB
07LILONGWE1612007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - MALAWI
[...] SUMMARY. Since achieving Tier 1 status in 2006, the Government of Malawi (GOM) has continued to make noteworthy progress in tackling trafficking in persons (TIP) despite its severely limited human and financial resources. Although TIP remained a relatively new concept for Malawians, the GOM [...]
2007-03-01 15:09:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB EAID
07LILONGWE792MALAWI: U.S. TRAINING SCORES A SUCCESS FOR PROSECUTORS;
[...] (U) Summary. A recent criminal case stands out as an example of the Malawi Prosecutor's Office's stated willingness to apply lessons learned from MCC/DOJ OPDAT assistance and utilize progressive western methods of prosecution. A DOJ OPDAT trained prosecutor scored a first ever in Malawian jur [...]
2007-10-23 07:21:00Embassy LilongweUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID KMCA KJUS KCRM KPAO MI
07LIMA1277NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR MARCH 2007
[...] (U) The key developments in March 2007: ** Eradication halted on March 11 for the rest of the month due to cocalero protests; 651 ha of coca eradicated to date. ** Agriculture Minister Salazar signs 10-point accord with cocaleros that halts eradication and criticizes USG policy. ** CORAH [...]
2007-04-05 20:48:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA1667NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR APRIL 2007
[...] (U) The key developments in April 2007: ** Eradication total of 894 hectares is low compared to this time last year; in April 2006 we had eradicated 3,120. ** Garcia embraced eradication as an important element of GOP policy; taking a tough line against cocaleros. ** CORAH worker killed [...]
2007-05-08 21:02:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA2017NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR MAY 2007
[...] (U) The key developments in May 2007: ** A total of 1,583 hectares of coca has now been eradicated and 10,752 square meters of seedbeds have been eliminated. ** A second eradication front in Ucayali is slated to start in early June. ** The U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) o [...]
2007-06-08 20:02:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA2344NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR JUNE 2007
[...] (SBU) The key developments in June 2007: ** A total of 2,616 hectares of coca has now been eradicated and 15,465 square meters of seedbeds have been eliminated. ** CORAH opened a second eradication front in Ucayali on June 12 until the end of July. ** An anti-drug prosecutor and 3 police [...]
2007-07-09 21:31:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA2362MASSIVE RAID ON NOTORIOUS PIRATED GOODS MARKET
[...] (U) Before dawn on July 8, hundreds of Peruvian National Police (PNP) officers and Public Ministry prosecutors raided one of Peru's largest markets, El Hueco, notorious for selling pirated medicines, music and movies. They seized about 900 sacks (each the size of a large garbage bag) filled [...]
2007-07-11 19:37:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD KCRM USTR PE
07LIMA2652NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR JULY 2007
[...] (U) The key developments in July 2007: ** Strikes, violent marches, roadblocks, and airport shutdowns require heightened security measures. ** Plan VRAE, the GOP development program for Peru's main coca growing--and most poverty ridden--area, is stalled because the security component remai [...]
2007-08-03 21:59:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA3016NAS MONTHLY REPORT, AUGUST 2007
[...] (U) The key developments in August 2007: ** Joint operations by the Peruvian National Police and Army have captured a total of 28 Shining Path terrorists. ** To date, CORAH has eradicated 5,480 hectares of coca and eliminated 29,595 square meters of seedbeds. ** In support of USAID, erad [...]
2007-09-06 23:20:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA3066BUILDING POLICE PRESENCE - AND BETTER FUTURES -
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-11 21:47:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA312NAS MONTHLY REPORT, JANUARY 2007
[...] (U) The key developments in January 2007: ** The 2007 Eradication Plan was signed by Minister of Interior Pilar Mazzetti on January 11. ** Eradication and interdiction operations are still stalled due to the ongoing reorganization of the police. ** NAS received the official list of the n [...]
2007-02-02 18:58:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA3163IEDS IN ERADICATION OPERATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-18 23:45:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALSNAR KCRM PTER PREL PE
07LIMA3273NAS MONTHLY REPORT, AUGUST 2007
[...] (U) The key developments in August 2007: ** Joint operations by the Peruvian National Police and Army have captured a total of 28 Shining Path terrorists. ** To date, CORAH has eradicated 5,480 hectares of coca and eliminated 29,595 square meters of seedbeds. ** In support of USAID, erad [...]
2007-09-28 12:09:00Embassy LimaCONFIDENTIALSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA3365NAS MONTHLY REPORT, SEPTEMBER 2007
[...] (U) The key developments in September 2007: ** IEDs in coca fields kill a coca farmer and seriously injure a 12-year-old boy. ** During eradication, 21 IEDs were either disarmed or exploded, injuring four eradicators and two police. ** As of September 30, CORAH has eradicated a total of [...]
2007-10-05 20:35:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA34NAS MONTHLY REPORT, DECEMBER 2006
[...] (U) The key developments in November 2006: ** CORAH ended the year with a total of 10,137 hectares of coca leaf eradicated. ** The GOP's 2007 Eradication Plan is still awaiting a final signature. ** CORAH completes many financial and management improvements this year. ** Regional era [...]
2007-01-05 20:01:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA3588NAS MONTHLY REPORT, OCTOBER 2007
[...] (U) The key developments in October 2007: ** Ambassador makes his inaugural trip to NAS-sponsored police and eradication facilities in Santa Lucia. ** Eradication total reaches 9,179 hectares of illegal coca and no booby traps (IEDs) encountered by eradicators. ** CORAH eradicated replan [...]
2007-11-07 18:01:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LIMA3776NAS MONTHLY REPORT, NOVEMBER 2007
[...] (U) The key developments in November 2007: ** CORAH surpasses the coca eradication goal of 10,000 hectares for CY 2007. ** President Garcia tells visiting ONDCP Director John Walters that he strongly supports controls on precursor chemicals, money laundering, and asset forfeiture. ** N [...]
2007-12-06 19:22:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PREL SNAR KCRM PE
07LIMA689Peru: 2007 Anti-Trafficking in Persons Report
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Peruvian Government demonstrated a strong commitment to comply with basic TIP standards by making significant efforts in the areas of prevention, prosecution, and protection. Its achievements include: -- One person was sentenced to 10 years in prison for trafficking i [...]
2007-03-08 19:15:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PE
07LIMA767NAS MONTHLY REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 2007
[...] (U) The key developments in February 2007: Eradication operations resumed; new PNP high command visit NAS-supported schools/bases en masse; CODEL inspects deforestation in drug producing area; F, Director of Foreign Assistance, helicopters to the field to see the nexus between eradication and [...]
2007-03-14 23:52:00Embassy LimaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE
07LISBON1388Portugal: INL DAS McCampbell Visit Analyzes European
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During INL DAS Christy McCampbell's May 11 visit to Lisbon, she met with several counterparts to discuss the increasing use of Portugal as a transshipment area for drugs. Portuguese interlocutors offered a brief analysis into the drug trafficking problem facing Portugal and Eur [...]
2007-05-18 17:19:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PREL KCRM PO
07LISBON607PORTUGAL: 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] The Monitoring Center for Trafficking in Persons; 2. The Portuguese Immigration Service (SEF); 3. The High Commission for Immigration and Ethnic Minorities (ACIME); 4. The Portuguese Association for Victim Support (APAV); 5. The International Organization for Migration (IOM); [...]
2007-03-09 16:31:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASCC PREF ELAB PO
07LJUBLJANA119SLOVENIA: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2007
[...] (U) This message transmits post's contribution to the Department of State's seventh annual report on Trafficking in Persons. Responses below are keyed to questions in paras 27-30 of reftel. Embassy POC is Pol/Econ Chief Colleen Hyland; tel. 386-1 -200-5708, fax 386-1-200-5650. Based on info [...]
2007-03-01 15:11:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG KRFD PREF SI
07LJUBLJANA178SLOVENIA: ITF ADVISORY BOARD HEARS USG POINTS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary. DCM Maryruth Coleman delivered talking points on allegations of impropriety in the Bosnian demining sector during the International Trust Fund for Demining (ITF) spring Advisory Board Meeting March 20. After an initial stumble in responding, ITF Director Goran Gacnik told the A [...]
2007-03-26 15:27:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MARR PREL KCRM BK SI
07LJUBLJANA660SLOVENIA'S PLANNED ASSISTANCE TO EU ESDP RULE OF
[...] (C) In an October 18 meeting, Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for Security Policy Stanislav Vidovic told us that Slovenia's offer to provide pre-mission training to the core group of 20-25 of the ESDP Rule of Law Mission was "on track." At the October 10-11 EUPT Conference in P [...]
2007-10-18 14:43:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM EAID EUN SI
07LJUBLJANA700SLOVENIA/INCSR: 2007 - 2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-06 14:32:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM SI
07LJUBLJANA718SLOVENIA: INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT
[...] (SBU) Slovenia has continued to make progress in 2007 in combatting trafficking in persons (TIP) through its actions on several fronts, per reftel. In September 2007, the Slovene court in Novo Mesto convicted four people for TIP-related offenses, including two citizens of Slovakia. Moreover, [...]
2007-11-16 13:56:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG SI
07LJUBLJANA81SLOVENES TALK DEMINING TROUBLES WITH PM/WRA OFFICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Recently, both International Trust Fund for Demining (ITF) and Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs staff expressed concern over the allegations of possible malfeasance in the Bosnian demining sector, but understood the importance of addressing them head on before the reputation [...]
2007-02-13 14:46:00Embassy LjubljanaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS KCRM PREL SI
07LJUBLJANA99SLOVENIA EXTENDS HEAD TRAINER AT THE JORDAN
[...] (U) PolMilOff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Security Policy staffer Igor Jukic and to Ministry of Interior European Affairs and International Cooperation Office Head Lilijana Sipec on February 14. On February 20, Ms. Sipec told PolMilOff that the GoS has approved th [...]
2007-02-21 11:38:00Embassy LjubljanaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM SNAR PREL SI
07LONDON1893(C) ROSUKRENERGO: HM TREASURY TO ALERT REGULATORS
[...] (C) Embassy delivered reftel demarche to the head of HM Treasury's Financial Crime Team Sean Byrne and to Foreign and Commonwealth Office desk officer Jasper Thornton. Byrne said that issues surrounding a possible initial public offering (IPO) for RosUkrEnergo "resonate well here," noting that [...]
2007-05-18 09:14:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALEFIN KCRM PREL UP UK
07LONDON4310INCSR VOL II FOR UK
[...] Following is post draft of Volume II of the UK INCSR for 2008. POC is Econ Couns John McNamara (mcnamarajf@state.gov) 2. (SBU) Begin Text: United Kingdom The United Kingdom (UK) plays a leading role in European and world finance and remains attractive to money launderers because of [...]
2007-11-20 18:47:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR UK
07LONDON4311POSSIBLE NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT/OFFER OF
[...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in and possible offer of nuclear and/or radiological materials. This report came to post's attention via call-in and email. Inform [...]
2007-11-21 08:54:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PTER UK
07LONDON667UK WILL NOT EXTEND TRAINERS AT JIPTC
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-21 17:06:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM SNAR UK IZ JO
07LUXEMBOURG465TREASURY OFFICIALS MEET WITH GOL AND CLEARSTREAM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On 8 November 2007, the U.S. Department of Treasury held consultations in Luxembourg with the Government of Luxembourg (GOL) and private sector as part of ongoing USG outreach highlighting the danger of doing business with Iran. The Treasury delegation met with senior Ministry of [...]
2007-11-16 14:50:00Embassy LuxembourgCONFIDENTIALTTFN EFIN PARM MNUC PREL KCRM ECON LU IR
07LUXEMBOURG80LUXEMBOURG: 2007 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING-IN-PERSONS REPORT
[...] (U) Embassy Luxembourg is pleased to present the following information regarding trafficking in persons in Luxembourg. Point of contact is Tom Boughter; tel: +352 46-01-23, ext. 2240. Political officer (FS-04) spent 20 hours meeting contacts and collecting information for this report. Acting [...]
2007-02-23 13:37:00Embassy LuxembourgUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KRFD ASEC PREF ELAB LU
07MADRID1150SPAIN/TIP REPORT: GOS PLEASED WITH ITS 2007
[...] (SBU) Polcouns and Poloff delivered reftel demarche on June 11 to officials in Spain's Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the Ministry of Interior, Emboffs met with Angel Melchor Celada and Maria del Puy Zaton, senior advisors in the MOI section dealing with TIP and the [...]
2007-06-12 07:50:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG ELAB SP
07MADRID2041SPAIN: NATIONAL COURT VOTES IN FAVOR OF THE
[...] (C) On October 26, the Fourth Section of the Criminal Division of the Spanish National Court made public its 2-1 vote to accept the extradition to the U.S. of Syrian arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar. Judge Teresa Palacios presided over the October 4 extradition hearing and voted against remanding [...]
2007-10-26 15:27:00Embassy MadridCONFIDENTIALCJAN CIVS KCRM PGOV PREL PTER SP
07MADRID2066SPAIN/INCSR: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-05 11:41:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM EFIN SP
07MADRID2072TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON
[...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassfied. 2. (SBU) The information provided in this message is keyed to the questions in reftel's para. 5. 3. (U) The June, 2006 Financial Action Task Force (FATF) mutual evaluation of Spain found that Spain's "structures for dealing with terrorist [...]
2007-11-06 15:30:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER SP
07MANAGUA1751MURDER OF NICARAGUAN NATIONAL POLICE COMMISSIONER
[...] (C) Summary: Comisionado Manuel Guillermo Obando, member of the Nicaraguan National Police (NNP) Vetted Unit, an anti-drug investigation unit supported by the US Embassy Managua INL and the Drug Enforcement Administration was found murdered July 12, 2007. Two of his neighbors are under poli [...]
2007-07-18 22:57:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALSNAR KCRM NU
07MANAGUA1904CATHOLIC CHURCH LEADER IN NICARAGUA ON HUMAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Monsignor Bernardo Hombach, Catholic archbishop of the diocese of Granada offered his assessment of the human rights situation in Nicaragua, citing a corrupt judicial system, a government run on political patronage, and illegal narcotics trafficking as the gravest challenges facin [...]
2007-08-13 22:49:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM KDEM PGOV NU
07MANAGUA2656NICARAGUA: RAISING AWARENESS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, HUMAN TRAFFICKING
[...] (U) Summary: Post marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and the 16 days of activism against gender-based violence from November 25 to December 10, by engaging with women's rights organizations, universities, civil society, the media, and the Nicaraguan pol [...]
2007-12-31 20:00:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KWMN KCRM NU
07MANAGUA436 SCENESETTER FOR CODEL NELSON
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Post welcomes members of CODEL Nelson to Nicaragua February 18 to 20. With the return of Daniel Ortega to the presidency and changes in the National Assembly, your visit comes at a most propitious time. The United States remains committed to supporting Nicaragua's democratic an [...]
2007-02-15 23:57:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL PTER SMIG SNAR NU
07MANAGUA796NICARAGUA'S 2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS SUBMISSION
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the April 2006 to March 2007 reporting period, the Nicaraguan government continued its efforts to combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP) mainly in the areas of prevention and detection, while progress in victim assistance and prosecution of traffickers was limited and overal [...]
2007-03-27 21:51:00Embassy ManaguaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF NU
07MANAGUA984RESIGNATION OF NICARAGUAN OFFICIAL FROM ANTI-TIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Maria Gabriela Zuniga, Program Director of the National Coalition Against Trafficking in Persons, tendered her resignation to the Ministry of Government last week, citing personal reasons for her decision. She confided to us that the working conditions and culture of secrecy und [...]
2007-04-19 15:46:00Embassy ManaguaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG ELAB NU
07MANAMA128BAHRAIN: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche February 8 regarding Bahrain's efforts to combat trafficking to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul Aziz stated that following the fall visit of International Organization for [...]
2007-02-11 13:09:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALKWMN PREL PHUM ELAB KCRM BA HUMRIT
07MANAMA206BAHRAIN: SEVENTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) Post's response to reftel follows. Answers are keyed to reftel questions. -------- Overview -------- 2. (SBU) 27A. Bahrain is a country of destination for men primarily as laborers and, to a much lesser extent, domestic workers, and women primarily as domestic workers, and to [...]
2007-03-05 13:34:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ASEC BA
07MANAMA448CABINET APPROVES DRAFT ANTI-TRAFFICKING LEGISLATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-17 13:55:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD KCRM BA HUMRIT
07MANAMA469MEASURES TAKEN BY GOB TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING
[...] (U) Post received the following information May 17 under the cover of diplomatic note with reference number 1/100/231-91978 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Bilateral Relations Directorate. 2. (SBU) Begin text of note: Update on the Measures Taken by the Kingdom of Bahrain to Comba [...]
2007-05-23 14:06:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD KCRM BA HUMRIT
07MANAMA548BAHRAIN: 2007 TIP REPORT AND TIER 3 ACTION PLAN
[...] (C) Poloff delivered the 2007 Trafficking-in-Persons Report and the Tier 3 short-term action plan for Bahrain (reftels) June 12 to MFA Assistant Undersecretary for Coordination and Follow Up and head of the Anti-Trafficking Task Force Shaikh Abdul Aziz Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, who expressed hi [...]
2007-06-13 13:41:00Embassy ManamaCONFIDENTIALKCRM KWMN ELAB PHUM PREL PGOV SMIG BA HUMRIT
07MANAMA745BAHRAIN: PROGRESS ON TIP SHORT-TERM ACTION PLAN
[...] (SBU) The following describes actions by the GOB since the end of the reporting period for the 2007 TIP Report, including the 60-day period of the Short-Term Action Plan following Bahrain's placement on Tier 3. In addition to activities initiated entirely by the GOB, International Organizati [...]
2007-08-02 11:11:00Embassy ManamaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN ELAB PHUM PREL PGOV SMIG HUMRIT BA
07MANILA1033ICITAP TRAINING PAYING OFF
[...] (U) Funded by State's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, staff from the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) of the Department of Justice has been in place in Manila since August 2006. Initially with only one Senior Law Enforc [...]
2007-03-30 08:44:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL EAID KCRM RP
07MANILA1098PENDING MOTIONS IN LANCE CORPORAL SMITH'S APPEAL
[...] (C) At the request of the Department of Foreign Affairs, new Solicitor General Agnes Devanadera and Assistant Solicitor General Amy Lazro-Javier on April 3 briefed Pol/C on the status of the legal case of Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, whom the Makati City Regional Trial Court convicted in Dec [...]
2007-04-04 08:41:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA1174APPEAL OF LANCE CORPORAL SMITH
[...] (U) The Court of Appeals has "directed" LCpl Daniel Smith to submit his "appellant's brief" on the actual appeal of his criminal conviction within fifteen days. Beginning from the date of receipt by the defense counsel on April 4, this would make the brief due on April 19. At the same time, [...]
2007-04-13 10:10:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR CASC KCRM RP
07MANILA1201MARINE CASE UPDATE 04/17/2007
[...] (C) Upon the urgent advice of Embassy medical staff, Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith entered the Makati Medical Center on April 16. Doctors describe his condition as non-life threatening but painful, and want to keep him under observation for a second night. He likely will return to Chancery [...]
2007-04-17 07:49:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA121MARINE CASE: NEXT LEGAL STEPS
[...] (C) In a meeting with a III MEF representative on January 10, the defense counsel for Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith outlined the timeline for upcoming legal steps in the appeal of the December 4 rape conviction by the Makati Regional Trial Court: -- the Makati Regional Trial Court is now [...]
2007-01-11 09:57:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR CASC KCRM RP
07MANILA1223MARINE CASE UPDATE 04/18/2007
[...] (C) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith was discharged from the Makati Medical Center April 18, after being admitted for a non-life threatening condition April 16 (reftel),and has returned to Chancery grounds. Smith, who was escorted throughout the hospital visit by personnel from the RSO, Phili [...]
2007-04-18 08:37:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA1276TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS PROJECT PROPOSALS FOR FY
[...] In response to the solicitation for anti-trafficking in persons project proposals from the Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) (ref A),Embassy Manila received 22 proposals from both government agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) for consider [...]
2007-04-20 06:29:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KCRM PHUM PREL RP
07MANILA1369MARINE CASE UPDATE 04/30/2007
[...] (SBU) Following his discharge on April 26 from Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Metro Manila, Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith returned immediately to his quarters on the Chancery grounds. During his two-day hospitalization, he underwent surgery for a non-life threatening condition. Person [...]
2007-04-30 07:47:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA15PRESIDENT ARROYO DEFENDS TRANSFER OF LCPL. SMITH
[...] (C) Summary. Facing intense criticism, President Arroyo publicly defended the government's transfer of custody of Lance Corporal Smith as in the Philippines' strategic interest in its "alliance with the United States to fight terror and poverty." Media commentary roundly condemned the Presi [...]
2007-01-03 09:35:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR CASC KCRM RP
07MANILA157FORMER JUSTICE SECRETARY PEREZ FACES GRAFT,
[...] (U) The Ombudsman, a body charged with investigating and prosecuting corruption by government officials, on January 8 filed graft, extortion, and falsification charges before the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court against ex-Justice Secretary Hernando Perez, a former aide of President Arroyo and [...]
2007-01-12 07:35:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM KCOR RP
07MANILA1642MARINE CASE UPDATE 05/18/2007
[...] (SBU) Attorneys for Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith confirmed on May 18 that they would submit Smith's appellate brief to the Court of Appeals before the May 19 deadline. The Philippine Solicitor General is aware of this development and had earlier indicated that her office will move to submit [...]
2007-05-18 08:10:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA1839FIGHTING TRAFFICKING FROM MANILA TO ABIDJAN AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The collaborative efforts of international organizations, the Philippine NGO Visayan Forum Foundation (VFF),and the USG led to the rescue of four Filipino trafficking victims in Abidjan and their return to Manila earlier this year. This successful operation demonstrates the ab [...]
2007-06-04 06:57:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN ELAB PHUM RP
07MANILA1924FIGHTING TRAFFICKING FROM MANILA TO ABIDJAN AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The collaborative efforts of international organizations, the Philippine NGO Visayan Forum Foundation (VFF),and the USG led to the rescue of four Filipino trafficking victims in Abidjan and their return to Manila earlier this year. This successful operation demonstrates the ab [...]
2007-06-08 00:50:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN ELAB PHUM RP
07MANILA2115MARINE CASE UPDATE 06/25/2007
[...] (SBU) Legal update: The Philippine Solicitor General on June 17 filed a petition with the Court of Appeals for a 90-day extension in filing the government's appellate brief in the Daniel J. Smith case. The Solicitor General confirmed to Pol/C on June 22 that Court approval was virtually aut [...]
2007-06-25 07:19:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA2349NEW STEPS AGAINST UNLAWFUL KILLINGS
[...] (U) Malacanang Palace announced on July 11 that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had on July 3 signed a new Administrative Order (No. 181) -- effective immediately -- that mandates "cooperation and coordination" between prosecutors and police from the outset of a political or media killing [...]
2007-07-12 02:27:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KCRM RP
07MANILA239MARINE CASE UPDATE 01/19/07
[...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith, back in U.S. custody on Chancery grounds since December 29, continues to be in good health and spirits. He continues to receive visits regularly from his Philippine pastors and his lawyers. 2. (U) Approximately 80 anti-VFA protesters calling themselves [...]
2007-01-19 09:29:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA2405AMBASSADOR BREAKS GROUND ON TWO SHELTERS FOR
[...] Summary. Ambassador joined NGO and government leaders in a July 11 groundbreaking ceremony for a new shelter for victims of trafficking in persons (TIP) at Manila's North Harbor, the largest port in the Philippines. The shelter will replace an earlier one built in 2001, and will be able to a [...]
2007-07-18 07:25:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM KWMN RP
07MANILA2409SUPREME COURT "SUMMIT" ON UNLAWFUL KILLINGS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Supreme Court Chief Justice Puno chaired a "summit" July 16-17 with approximately 250 government and NGO leaders to explore new options to combat the continuing unlawful killings. Speakers from Congress, academia, the legal community, law enforcement, the military, and NGOs pro [...]
2007-07-18 09:07:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KCRM RP
07MANILA2445MARINE CASE UPDATE 07/20/2007
[...] (SBU) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith remains in U.S. custody on the Chancery grounds and continues to receive regular visits from his Philippine pastors and lawyers. Smith's two brothers arrived on July 19 for a one-week visit. The brothers are staying at a local hotel and plan to visit Smith [...]
2007-07-20 09:25:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA2459LATEST TIP CONVICTION
[...] Summary: On July 20, a regional trial court in Cebu City convicted and sentenced two people to life imprisonment for trafficking in persons (TIP),the sixth conviction in the Philippines to result in a jail sentence and the first in Cebu. The judge also fined the defendants three million peso [...]
2007-07-23 08:26:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM KWMN EAID RP
07MANILA3166CASE OF U.S. MARINE LCPL SMITH: CURRENT STATUS;
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Appellate briefs have now been filed with the Court of Appeals in the case of U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith, who was convicted in December 2006 of raping a Filipino woman at Subic Bay. The Court of Appeals could issue a decision as early as January. Under the terms [...]
2007-09-19 03:58:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA3247COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOJ ICITAP ACTING DIRECTOR
[...] (U) Post welcomes the arrival of Acting Director R. Carr Trevillian, IV, USDOJ/ICITAP, to meet with Embassy officials, ICITAP Program Manager, and ICITAP Technical Advisors to review current projects of the ICITAP Philippines Law Enforcement Development Program from September 28 to October 4. [...]
2007-09-26 00:30:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDABUD AMGT AFIN KCRM RP
07MANILA3320AMBASSADOR AND MTV LAUNCH ANTI-TRAFFICKING AWARENESS
[...] Summary: On September 25, Ambassador Kenney, a local pop star, USAID Director, and executives from MTV launched the Philippine portion of "EXIT"(End Exploitation and Trafficking),an MTV-produced campaign against trafficking in persons (TIP) in Asia. EXIT's first release was a 30-minute anti-t [...]
2007-10-05 04:20:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KPAO KWMN KCRM RP
07MANILA3615PHILIPPINE VIEWS ON M/V GOLDEN NORI PIRACY
[...] (S) As relayed to Department via ref B telcon, poloff on November 2 delivered to the Department of Foreign Affairs reftel C points regarding the actions of U.S. naval vessels that responded to the Panamanian tanker M/V Golden Nori's call for assistance off the coast of Somalia. The DFA was u [...]
2007-11-07 08:38:00Embassy ManilaSECRETEWWT IMO KCRM PBTS PGOV PHSA PM PREL RP SO
07MANILA38MARINE CASE UPDATE 01/05/07
[...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith, back in U.S. custody on Chancery grounds since December 29 (reftel),is in good health and spirits and settling into a daily routine, including exercise. He is detained in the same quarters where he spent the last year. As before his conviction, represent [...]
2007-01-05 10:18:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR CASC KCRM RP
07MANILA393MARINE CASE UPDATE 02/02/2007
[...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith remains in U.S. custody on Chancery grounds and continues to be in good health and spirits. He receives regular visits from his Philippine pastors and his lawyers, and is able to exercise on the Embassy grounds. Four members of his family hope to visit in [...]
2007-02-02 09:10:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA4015MARINE CASE UPDATE: APPEALS COURT DECISION NO
[...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith remains in U.S. custody on the Chancery grounds and continues to receive regular visits from his Philippine pastors and lawyers. He is in good physical condition and follows a daily exercise routine. 2. (SBU) Commander Gary Hoyt, a psychiatrist, and Ch [...]
2007-12-21 09:41:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA458PROGRESS AGAINST POLITICAL KILLINGS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Philippine police have succeeded in filing additional cases in politically-related killings, leading to at least four convictions and dismissals of two police officials. They continue to investigate a large number of other deaths of leftists and journalists claimed by various [...]
2007-02-09 02:13:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KCRM RP
07MANILA465 NEAR PASSAGE OF MAJOR COUNTER-TERRORISM LEGISLATION
[...] (U) Summary. Passage of long-awaited counterterrorism legislation moved closer to adoption with the approval on February 8 by a bicameral committee of an agreed-upon version. The lower House will have to vote on it when Congress resumes in June, and the President, who expressed delight at t [...]
2007-02-09 08:30:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL KCRM RP
07MANILA467MARINE CASE UPDATE 02/09/2007
[...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith remains in U.S. custody on Chancery grounds and continues to be in good health and spirits. He receives regular visits from his Philippine pastors and his lawyers, and is able to exercise on the Embassy grounds. 2. (SBU) Department of Interior and Local [...]
2007-02-09 09:11:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA468MELO COMMISSION CALLS FOR COMMAND RESPONSIBILITY
[...] (C) Summary. The Melo Commission's report to President Arroyo emphasized the need to ensure command responsibility over errant military elements, and suggested some practical ways to do this. The Commissioners see their role as essentially over, with no additional budget or offices, apart [...]
2007-02-09 09:25:00Embassy ManilaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM MOPS RP
07MANILA560CONGRESS PASSES MAJOR COUNTER-TERRORISM LEGISLATION
[...] (U) In a special session called by President Arroyo, the House of Representatives on February 19 approved the bicameral conference version of the Human Security Act of 2007, major counter-terrorism legislation that gives the Philippine government greater ability to investigate and prosecute t [...]
2007-02-20 09:23:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL KCRM RP
07MANILA59MARINE CASEUPDATE 03/23/2007
[...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith remains inU.S. custody on Chancery grounds and continues t be in good health and spirits. He continues toreceive regular visits from his Philippine pastos and lawyers, and is able to exercise on the Embssy grounds. 2. (SBU) Smith's parents arrived n Man [...]
2007-03-23 09:21:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MANILA64MARINE CASE: NEW MOTION TO SUPREME COURT AND
[...] (U) The private prosecutor in the case of Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith (refs) on January 8 filed a petition with the Philippine Supreme Court requesting that it "nullify" the Philippine government's December 29 transfer of Smith to U.S. custody and declare Article V paragraph 6 of the Visiti [...]
2007-01-09 09:00:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR CASC KCRM RP
07MANILA688PHILIPPINES -- SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (U) Mission's seventh annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report follows below. The report covers the period from April 2006 to March 2007. Point of contact (POC) is Political Officer Barry Fullerton, FullertonTB@State.Gov, (632) 528-6300 x2350, fax (632) 523-1195. Rank of TIP action offic [...]
2007-03-01 11:20:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB RP
07MANILA752PRESIDENT ARROYO SIGNS LANDMARK COUNTERTERRORISM
[...] (U) At a highly publicized ceremony featuring half the Cabinet, Congressional leaders, senior military and police officials, and the diplomatic corps at Malacanang Palace on March 6, President Arroyo signed the final version of the "Human Security Act of 2007," long-awaited counterterrorism [...]
2007-03-08 08:11:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL PHUM KCRM RP
07MANILA779MARINE CASE UPDATE 03/09/2007
[...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith remains in U.S. custody on Chancery grounds and continues to be in good health and spirits. He continues to receive regular visits from his Philippine pastors and his lawyers, and is able to exercise on the Embassy grounds. 2. (SBU) Philippine governmen [...]
2007-03-09 07:55:00Embassy ManilaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
07MAPUTO1060 INFLUENTIAL DEPUTY PREDICTS PUBLICATION
[...] (U) Poloff met recently with Ossumane Aly Dauto, Chairman of the National AssemblyQs powerful Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee, to encourage the Mozambican government (GRM) to pass a comprehensive anti-trafficking law, which would be the first of its kind in Southern Africa. After be [...]
2007-09-04 06:50:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ELAB KFRD MZ
07MAPUTO1110 HOUSECLEANING IN ATTORNEY GENERAL'S
[...] (U) In the past two weeks President Guebuza fired Attorney General Joaquim Madeira and all deputy attorneys general in what some observers are calling an unprecedented display of housecleaning. Included in the firings are the former and current heads of the Central Office for the Combat of Co [...]
2007-09-14 06:08:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCOR KCRM PGOV PREL MZ
07MAPUTO1287MOZAMBIQUE: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] Mozambique is a transit country for illegal drugs such as hashish, herbal cannabis, cocaine, and heroin consumed primarily in Europe, and for mandrax (methaqualone) consumed primarily in South Africa. Some illicit drug shipments passing through Mozambique may also find their way to the United [...]
2007-11-06 09:45:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PREL PGOV SNAR MZ
07MAPUTO1349 MOZAMBIQUE: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT
[...] (U) Since March 2007, the Government of Mozambique (GRM) has made some progress in combating trafficking in persons. The comprehensive anti-trafficking in persons bill drafted jointly by the GRM and civil society was approved by the Council of Ministers in August. The head of the committee re [...]
2007-11-19 05:54:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN PGOV SMIG MZ
07MAPUTO143REQUEST FOR COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MR. LEONEL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-31 12:46:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KCRM OTRA SMIG MZ
07MAPUTO1475ANTI-TRAFFICKING SUCCESS STORY: FINAL REPORT ON
[...] (SBU) From July 2006 to July 2007 post allocated $12,000 in FY05 ESF funds to help start Mozambique's first shelter for victims of trafficking in persons. The majority of funds were used to furnish an onsite office, pay salaries, procure water, food, and medicines, and provide transport to and [...]
2007-12-17 15:48:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM MZ
07MAPUTO207MOZAMBIQUE: Update on Actions to Counter Trafficking in
[...] SUMMARY. The first few weeks of February were characterized by a flurry of government, NGO, and Embassy activity concerning trafficking in persons (TIP) in Mozambique. On February 6 the Norwegian Embassy hosted a TIP stakeholder forum for members of civil society, NGOs, media, donor representat [...]
2007-02-20 12:42:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ELAB KFRD MZ
07MAPUTO242MOZAMBIQUE: Update on Actions to Counter Trafficking in
[...] SUMMARY. The first few weeks of February were characterized by a flurry of government, NGO, and Embassy activity concerning trafficking in persons (TIP) in Mozambique. On February 6 the Norwegian Embassy hosted a TIP stakeholder forum for members of civil society, NGOs, media, donor representat [...]
2007-02-27 13:37:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ELAB KFRD MZ
07MAPUTO243MOZAMBIQUE: 2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) Mozambique is primarily a source country for men, women, and children trafficked to South Africa for forced labor and sexual exploitation. The use of forced and bonded child laborers is a common and increasing practice in rural areas, often with the complicity of family members. Women and [...]
2007-02-27 14:11:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ELAB KFRD ASEC PREF MZ
07MAPUTO464MOZAMBIQUE: FY2007 ESF TIP PROJECT
[...] Post proposes the following anti-trafficking in persons projects in response to reftel: A) Name of Applicant: Terre de Hommes Germany Southern Africa Coordinating Office B) Requested Funding: $558,180 C) Project Title: Combating Trafficking of Children in Southern Africa (Regional proje [...]
2007-04-20 09:00:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ELAB ASEC MZ
07MAPUTO886 TIP LEGISLATION FORWARDED TO NATIONAL
[...] (SBU) On July 24, Mozambican Government (GRM) representative Luis Covane announced that the Council of Ministers approved draft legislation on trafficking in persons. Covane said that the GRM accelerated its action on this legislation to respond to developments in Mozambique and the Southern [...]
2007-07-26 06:16:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG ELAB KFRD MZ
07MAPUTO949UPSURGE IN VIOLENT CRIME: POLITICAL QUAGMIRE FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Violent crime in metropolitan Maputo has increased significantly in recent weeks. Crime is a top domestic issue for the Guebuza government, and press coverage is increasingly critical of his administrationQs response to the wave. Interior Minister Jose Pacheco has publicly pro [...]
2007-08-10 12:50:00Embassy MaputoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV KCRM MZ
07MASERU147LESOTHO: 2007 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] There is no known trafficking in persons in Lesotho that meets the term as defined in REFTEL. Per REFTEL instructions, post has answered the questions 27 - 30. Post's primary sources are Inspector Masoabi Thosa, Child and Gender Protection Unit, Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS); Se [...]
2007-03-13 15:59:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF LT
07MASERU203HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR NOMINEES FOR ILEA GABORONE -
[...] Post submits the following information on the three candidates from Lesotho who are nominated to participate in REFTEL course. The candidates are from the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA),Customs Divsion and the Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Culture. a) Name: Khetsi MAPOTA Gen [...]
2007-04-03 13:35:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
07MASERU217HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR NOMINEES FOR ILEA GABORONE -
[...] Post submits the following information on the three candidates from Lesotho who are nominated to participate in REFTEL course. The candidates are from the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA),Customs Divsion and the Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Culture. a) Name: Khetsi MAPOTA Gen [...]
2007-04-10 06:22:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
07MASERU219LESOTHO NOMINEES FOR ILEA GABORONE - WILDLIFE INVESTIGATION
[...] Post submits the following three candidates from Lesotho who are nominated to participate in ref B course. The candidates are from the Lesotho Revenue Authority (LRA) Customs Division and from the Ministry of Tourism, Environment, and Culture. a) Name: Khetsi MAPOTA Gender: Male Da [...]
2007-04-10 13:21:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
07MASERU261LESOTHO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ILEA GABORONE NOMINEES -
[...] Post respectfully submits the following information to the Department for Human Rights vetting on the two candidates from Lesotho nominated to participate in REFTEL course. The candidates are from the Lesotho Revenue Authority (Customs Division) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (Department of [...]
2007-05-07 14:59:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
07MASERU288LESOTHO CANDIDATES FOR ILEA GABORONE - TRAIN THE TRAINER ON
[...] Post submits the following information on the two candidates from Lesotho nominated to participate in the "Train the Trainer on Fraudulent Documents" course (reftel C). The candidates are from the Lesotho Revenue Authority (Customs Division) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (Department of Imm [...]
2007-05-21 15:20:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
07MASERU297LESOTHO MAY 2007 ECONOMIC ROUNDUP: DIAMONDS, CORN, FISCAL
[...] SUMMARY: - Analyst: Fiscal Policy and Tax Base Key in Lesotho; - Diamond Mining in Lesotho: Implications; - Money Laundering Task Force Meets in Maseru; and - Lesotho's Maize and Sorghum Harvest Fails. END SUMMARY. --------------------------------------------- --- [...]
2007-05-22 15:34:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EFIN PGOV EAGR KCRM EAID LT
07MASERU302LESOTHO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ILEA GABORONE NOMINEES -
[...] Post respectfully submits the following information to the Department for Human Rights vetting on the three candidates from Lesotho nominated to participate in REFTEL course. The candidates are from the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offenses (DCEO) and the Lesotho Mounted Police Serv [...]
2007-05-24 12:01:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
07MASERU329LESOTHO NOMINEES FOR ILEA GABORONE - LAND BORDER
[...] Post submits the following information the two candidates from Lesotho nominated to participate in REFTEL course. The candidates are from the Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offenses (DCEO) and the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS). a) Name: Refiloe RAMOHOLI Gender: Male [...]
2007-06-06 12:28:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
07MASERU383LESOTHO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ILEA GABORONE NOMINEES -
[...] Post submits the following information to the Department for human rights vetting on two candidates from Lesotho nominated to participate in REFTEL course. Both candidates are members of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS). a) Name: Tsietsi N. JANKI Gender: Male Date of birth: [...]
2007-07-02 19:25:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
07MASERU409LESOTHO NOMINEES FOR ILEA GABORONE - SMALL ARMS TRAFFICKING:
[...] Post submits the following information on the two candidates from Lesotho nominated to participate in REFTEL course. Both candidates serve in the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS). a) Name: Tsietsi N. JANKI Gender: Male Date of birth: January 14, 1969 Passport no.: RA644651 [...]
2007-07-12 09:51:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR PHUM LT
07MASERU495EMBASSY MASERU POINTS OF CONTACT FOR ILEA PROGRAM
[...] Per reftel, the point of contact for the ILEA Program at Embassy Maseru is: Christopher Smith Public Diplomacy, Economic, and Political (PDEP) Officer Tel: +(266) 22312666 Fax: +(266) 22310116 Cell: +(266) 58883282 e-mail: SmithCM3@state.gov 2. Additional point of c [...]
2007-08-16 17:08:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC KCRM LT
07MASERU530LESOTHO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ILEA NOMINEES - LEED 25;
[...] Post submits the following personal information to the Department for human rights vetting on the seven (7) candidates from Lesotho nominated to participate in REFTEL course (October 8-November 16, 2007). All candidates are members of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS). A) LAST [...]
2007-09-20 14:40:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
07MASERU550LESOTHO: ILEA NOMINEES - LAW ENFORCEMENT EXECUTIVE
[...] Post submits the following information on the seven (7) candidates from Lesotho nominated to participate in REFTEL course. All candidates are members of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS). A) LAST NAME: MOKHELE OTHER NAMES: MASECHABA MOSELANTJA RANK: [...]
2007-10-01 12:35:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
07MASERU590LESOTHO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET NOMINEE LT. NTLELE
[...] Post submits the following personal information to the Department for human rights vetting on a candidate from Lesotho nominated to participate in an IMET-funded military training program at Fort Huachuca, AZ, commencing on November 26. This candidate is a member of the Lesotho Defense Force [...]
2007-10-31 05:32:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID KCRM KJUS LT
07MASERU611LESOTHO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET STUDENT
[...] Post submits the following personal information to the Department for human rights vetting on the Lesotho Defense Force (LDF) candidate who will pariticipate in the International Military Education Training (IMET) program on HIV/AIDS Strategic Planning and Policy Development Conference commenc [...]
2007-11-23 06:22:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC KCRM KJUS LT
07MASERU621LESOTHO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR IMET STUDENT
[...] Post submits the following personal information to the Department for human rights vetting on the Lesotho Defense Force (LDF) candidate who will attend the Captains Career Adjutant General's course which is a component of the International Military Education Training (IMET) program. Training [...]
2007-12-06 05:57:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC KCRM KJUS LT
07MASERU637LESOTHO: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ILEA NOMINEES - FINANCIAL
[...] Post submits the following information to the Department for human rights vetting on the two (2) candidates from Lesotho nominated to participate in REFTEL course. Both candidates are members of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS). a) LAST NAME: MOKULI OTHER NAMES: TS [...]
2007-12-17 05:56:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
07MASERU91NOMINEES FOR ILEA GABORONE - PERSONNEL AND FACILITY SECURITY
[...] Post submits the following information on the four candidates from Lesotho who are nominated to participate in REFTEL course. All candidates serve with the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS). a) Name: Tlala PHATELA Gender: Male Date of birth: 15 November, 1964 Passport no. [...]
2007-02-26 15:10:00Embassy MaseruUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ECON KCRM KJUS SNAR LT
07MEXICO1196SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT- MEXICO (PA
[...] (SBU) The mission's point of contact on the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Report is Poloff Walter R. Miller. He may be reached by telephone at (52) (55) 5080-2000, ext. 4806, or by fax at (52) (55) 5080-2247. Post requests that the names of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working wit [...]
2007-03-08 22:18:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM ELAB KFRD KWMN MX PHUM PREF SMIG
07MEXICO1200SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT- MEXICO (PA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-08 22:20:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM ELAB KFRD KWMN MX PHUM PREF SMIG
07MEXICO1201SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT- MEXICO (PA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-08 22:20:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM ELAB KFRD KWMN MX PHUM PREF SMIG
07MEXICO160COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVED FOR VISIT OF TIP
[...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Mark Taylor, Senior Coordinator for Reports in the Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (GTIP) for travel to Mexico City and Ciudad Juarez from January 14-17, 2007. Purpose of the visit to Mexico is to hold consultations [...]
2007-01-12 18:37:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN OTRA PHUM PREL MX
07MEXICO172COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVED FOR JANE NADY SIGMON,
[...] Post welcomes and grants country clearance to Jane Nady Sigmon, Senior Coordinator for International Programs in the Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (G/TIP) for travel to Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez, Tapachula, Mexico City and Cancun from January 14-20, 2007. The pu [...]
2007-01-12 22:53:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN OTRA PREL MX
07MEXICO1922DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING GOM PARTICIPATION IN
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-18 23:00:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC ASEC ENRG KCRM PARM TRGY MX
07MEXICO1996TIP PROJECT PROPOSALS FROM MEXICO FOR 2007 ESF AND
[...] (U) Embassy Mexico City established a committee to review 14 project proposals from non-governmental organizations in Mexico requesting funding support from FY2007 INCLE and ESF appropriations. The following sections of the Embassy were represented on the committee: Political, Public Affairs, [...]
2007-04-23 20:10:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG MX
07MEXICO2113MEXICO'S LOWER HOUSE OF CONGRESS APPROVES
[...] (SBU) On April 26, Mexico's lower house of Congress approved a bill criminalizing trafficking in persons (TIP) at the federal level, with 396 votes in favor and one abstention. This bill is a revised version of the one unanimously passed by the Mexican Senate in December 2005. Post's contact [...]
2007-04-30 13:01:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM ELAB KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG MX
07MEXICO3176MEXICO COMMEMORATES WORLD DAY AGAINST CHILD LABOR
[...] SUMMARY: In commemoration of the UN/ILO,s World Day Against Child Labor, the Lower House of the Mexican Congress and the CROC labor union (the country,s third largest labor federation) organized a highly publicized press event to highlight the gravity of the problem of child labor in Mexico. [...]
2007-06-18 20:04:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON PHUM EAGR KWMN SOCI PINR KCRM MX
07MEXICO3899DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN CONVENTION AGAINST
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-24 15:42:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM KJUS PTER SNAR PG
07MEXICO5243MEXICAN SENATORS PLANNING U.S. VISIT TO DISCUSS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Senior-level Mexican Senators are considering traveling to Washington for the purpose of meeting with their counterparts from the U.S. Congress. We understand President Calderon and PAN Party stalwarts in the Mexican Congress seek to use these trips to lay the groundwork for a [...]
2007-10-01 12:32:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALKCRM MX PGOV PREL SNAR
07MEXICO5395U.S. AND MEXICAN CONGRESSMEN SEEK COMMON GROUND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. CODEL Reyes met with representatives from Mexico's leading political parties October 8 to exchange views on enhanced USG/GOM security cooperation. Reyes understood the security package under consideration could come before the U.S. Congress within weeks but was ambivalent ab [...]
2007-10-10 22:22:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR KCRM MASS MX
07MEXICO5529CNDH DISCUSSES ITS RECOMMENDATIONS TO SEDENA
[...] On October 18, Poloff met with Dr. Javier Moctezuma Barragan, Executive Secretary in The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) to discuss the organization's recommendations to Mexico's National Defense Secretariat (SEDENA) and what steps SEDENA is taking to prevent human rights abuses from m [...]
2007-10-19 21:38:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KFRD KWMN MX PHUM PREF PREL SMIG
07MEXICO5891MEXICO: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Mexico (GOM) has shown significant and substantive progress in addressing its deficiencies in combating trafficking in persons (TIP) since the release of the June 2007 TIP Report, in particular by enacting comprehensive federal anti-TIP legislation to criminal [...]
2007-11-20 22:07:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDELAB KCRM KWMN MX PGOV PHUM PREL
07MEXICO5964SENATE STAFFER, GOM AUTHORITIES SHARE VIEWS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary. Carl Meacham, the Senior Advisor on Western Hemisphere Affairs to the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee briefed a wide array of GOM officials November 7 on the current political environment in Washington and what to expect from the legislative process in the U.S. as t [...]
2007-11-29 17:38:00Embassy MexicoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX
07MEXICO6128MEXICAN AND U.S. SENATORS DISCUSS MIGRATION,
[...] Summary. Mexican Senate President Santiago Creel extended a bipartisan U.S. delegation headed by Senator Harry Reid an official welcome on the floor of the Mexican Senate November 29. Afterwards, over a lunch hosted by Creel, the leaders of six of Mexico's seven political parties represente [...]
2007-12-12 15:51:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDECIN ECON ETRD KCRM MX OVIP PGOV PHUM PREL
07MEXICO6184PRESIDENT CALDERON SPEAKS TO ACHIEVEMENTS,
[...] Summary. In a series of interviews commemorating his first year in office, President Calderon touted the creation of 800,000 jobs and singled out narco-trafficking as one of Mexico's biggest challenges. The U.S. was assuming greater responsibility on drugs but needed to do more to reduce de [...]
2007-12-14 22:31:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KCRM SNAR SMIG ECON EINV KDEM PINR
07MEXICO6185MEXICO: ITQ,S DIFFERENT ON THE BORDER
[...] Summary. Deputy PolCouns recently traveled to several destinations on the Mexican border with the U.S. as part of an orientation trip. The visit reaffirmed the perception that life in the north of Mexico and, in particular on the border with the U.S., is different from any other place in Me [...]
2007-12-14 22:55:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KCRM SNAR SMIG ECON EINV KDEM PINR
07MEXICO6196CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE OVER JUSTICE REFORM MOVING
[...] Summary. The Mexican Senate passed judicial reform legislation that would facilitate transition to an oral trial system, give law enforcement officials broader search and seizure authority, allow consensual monitoring of telephone calls, and give police more responsibility for conducting inv [...]
2007-12-17 20:18:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCRM KJUS SNAR PHUM MX
07MEXICO6219CONCERNS ABOUT SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
[...] Summary: Concerns about human rights abuses and threats to security posed by drug trafficking collide in Mexico's southern state of Guerrero where Poloff met with a wide range of Mexican congressional representatives, government officials, human rights activists, NGOs and other members of c [...]
2007-12-19 12:23:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM SNAR ECON PINR MX
07MEXICO6228SUBJECT: NARCO-KILLINGS CONTINUE
[...] (SBU) Although estimates of the total number of organized crime-related killings in the first 11 months of 2007 vary between GOM sources and newspaper tallies -- ranging between approximately 2,200 to 3,200 -- Mexico has witnessed more of these types of killings this year, compared to an estima [...]
2007-12-19 20:55:00Embassy MexicoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SNAR KCRM PINR MASS MX
07MINSK1003EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - December 07, 2007
[...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - Opposition Activist Expelled From University (para. 2) - Lebedko Questions Prisoner Klimov's Health (para. 3) - Police Arrest Human Trafficker in Minsk (para. 4) - Loc [...]
2007-12-07 15:31:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ECON ENRG KCRM BO
07MINSK1025EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - December 14, 2007
[...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS Civil Society ------------- - GOB Registers Pro-Regime NGO Belaya Rus (para. 2) - GOB Adopts 2008-2010 Anti-TIP Program (para. 3) - Opposition Party Receives Warning (para. 4) - Signature Campaign [...]
2007-12-14 16:20:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM ECON ENRG KCRM BO
07MINSK1060IOM BULLISH ON GOB TIP COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) DCM, USAID, and poloffs met with Dejan Keserovic, Minsk Chief of Mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM),to discuss GOB cooperation with the organization's anti-trafficking efforts. Keserovic expressed a generally favorable attitude towards the GOB and government [...]
2007-12-28 13:22:00Embassy MinskCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL SMIG KCRM KWMN BO
07MINSK541USG Defends Belarus TIP Ranking Despite GOB Disappointment
[...] (SBU) Following the release of the Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, Ambassador hosted a digital video conference with G/TIP Ambassador Mark Lagon for those involved in combating TIP in Belarus. The participants discussed Belarus' Tier 2 Watch List (T2WL) placement, steps the [...]
2007-06-22 13:03:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN BO
07MINSK673TIP ACTION PLAN DELIVERED - GOB RESPONDS
[...] On July 31, Poloffs delivered reftel points to Oleg Anisimov, Counselor in the North American Division, and Andrei Taranda, Counselor in the Human Rights Division. Taranda promised to pass the information along to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for review, and offered a written commentary on [...]
2007-08-01 13:23:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PHUM PREL BO
07MINSK884BELARUS TIP STRATEGY PROPOSAL DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-18 12:48:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PREL KCRM UN AU BO
07MINSK944INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT FOR BELARUS
[...] This interim assessment (reftel) covers Belarus' continuing efforts against trafficking in persons (TIP) since April, 2007. GOB action on TIP has seen marked, if uneven, improvement in this period. The GOB has provided increased in-kind resources to TIP-related NGOs, and has improved relatio [...]
2007-11-15 15:33:00Embassy MinskUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL SMIG KCRM KWMN BO
07MONROVIA491LIBERIA: UPDATE ON HIGH PROFILE CORRUPTION
[...] (U) The Supreme Court heard oral arguments April 24 on a motion filed by attorneys for former National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) Chairman Guyde Bryant arguing that Bryant cannot be tried for "economic sabotage" (See Reftel A) because he enjoys immunity under Article 61 of the C [...]
2007-04-26 14:36:00Embassy MonroviaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KCRM KJUS LI
07MONTERREY377MONTERREY SEES BLOODIEST DAY EVER WITH NINE ASSASSINATIONS
[...] (SBU) During Monterrey's most violent 24 hours to date, nine people were killed in four separate incidents in Monterrey on March 28 and 29. The first incident took place on March 28 when an off-duty Nuevo Leon State Police Commander was shot and killed near his home in Monterrey. The second i [...]
2007-03-30 22:44:00Consulate MonterreyCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNSN KCRM KCOR KHLS KJUS PGOV PINS MX
07MONTERREY800TWO MONTH TRUCE HAS DRASTICALLY REDUCED NORTHERN BORDER DRUG
[...] (C) SUMMARY. There has been a dramatic reduction in the level of drug violence in Nuevo Leon over the last two months, apparently resulting from a nationwide "truce" between the two primary drug cartels. The truce has been described in press reports, including detailed descriptions of the ne [...]
2007-08-23 15:24:00Consulate MonterreyCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNSNAR ASEC KCRM ECON ETRD PGOV MX
07MONTERREY818MONTERREY LAW ENFORCEMENT UPDATE: AUGUST 2007
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Monterrey's law enforcement agencies remained busy during the month of August. In a victory against narco-traffickers, a Monterrey Special Agent assisted in placing three known Gulf Cartel kingpins on the U.S. Consolidated Priority Organizational Target list. Post continued [...]
2007-09-05 20:32:00Consulate MonterreyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM ASEC KCOR KHLS KJUS PINS CASC MX
07MONTERREY828NEW NUEVO LEON SECURITY DIRECTOR'S AMBITIOUS PLANS TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a September 5 meeting with Consulate representatives, Aldo Fasci, Nuevo Leon's new Secretary of Public Security, laid out his ambitious plans to combat corruption and low morale among the state's police force. His plans include measures to augment police officers' dismally l [...]
2007-09-07 15:28:00Consulate MonterreyCONFIDENTIALSNAR KCRM ASEC KCOR KHLS KJUS PHUM PINS PGOV MX
07MONTERREY95MONTERREY LAW ENFORCEMENT UPDATE: JANUARY 2007
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Consulate continued its outreach efforts with state and local authorities as the level of violence and drug-related killings increased. In the month of January, five police officers were killed and three others wounded, prompting the resignation of over 300 local police off [...]
2007-02-07 23:21:00Consulate MonterreyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM KCOR KHLS KJUS PINS PGOV MX
07MONTEVIDEO735AMMUNITION TRANSFER FROM VENEZUELA RAISES
[...] (S) Summary: The Uruguayan media has raised questions about the purpose and origin of a shipment of Venezuelan ammunition to Uruguay. The issue centers around an attempt by the Uruguayan Ambassador to Venezuela to have a UY naval vessel pick up two hundred kilograms of "materials" from Venezu [...]
2007-08-09 17:53:00Embassy MontevideoSECRETPGOV PREL PARM PINS PTER KCRM UY
07MONTEVIDEO956INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT
[...] (U) Following (in reftel requested format) is Uruguay's 2007-08 INCSR Part I. 2. (SBU) URUGUAY I. Summary Uruguay is not a major narcotics producing country. However, current areas of concern include increased trafficking of cocaine, marijuana, heroin and increasing local consumpt [...]
2007-11-06 17:42:00Embassy MontevideoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR EFIN KCRM KCOR UY
07MOSCOW1770RUSSIA: MEETING WITH XXXXXXXXXXXX
[...] (C) Summary: Emboffs met with XXXXXXXXXXXX. He described the new embezzlement and money laundering charges -- that Khodorkovskiy engaged in transfer pricing that harmed unwitting minority shareholders in Yukos' three production subsidiaries -- as a re-packaging of the charges in the first case. H [...]
2007-04-18 07:48:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALECON KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL RS
07MOSCOW2126RUSSIAN PARTICIPATION IN ITWG ANNUAL MEETING AND
[...] (U) We delivered non-papers to Russian officials and entities encouraging participation in the annual meeting of the Nuclear Smuggling International Technical Working Group (ITWG) that will be held in Sweden, June 27-28, and an upcoming (date TBD) ITWG-sponsored round-robin exercise in the fiel [...]
2007-05-08 14:07:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC ASEC ENRG KCRM PARM TRGY RS
07MOSCOW3527LUGOVOY DISPUTE: RUSSIAN RESTRAINT FOR NOW
[...] (C) Summary: The British decision to expel four Russian diplomats and take other diplomatic measures in response to Moscow's refusal to extradite Lugovoy in the Litvinenko murder case has elicited sharp commentary by Russian legislators and pundits. The official Russian reaction, by contras [...]
2007-07-19 07:31:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM KNUC UK RS
07MOSCOW4226SUSPECTS ARRESTED IN POLITKOVSKAYA CASE
[...] (C) Summary: On August 27, Prosecutor General Yuriy Chayka announced that ten people had been arrested for participation in the October 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Chayka alleged that the murder was committed by an organized crime group, and claimed that a known but unnamed [...]
2007-08-29 02:28:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCRM PHUM RS
07MOSCOW5387RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK: IRAN, MD, CFE, BILATERAL,
[...] (C) Summary : In a November 14 meeting (other topics septel),DFM Kislyak told the Ambassador that the postponed Solana-Jalili dialogue, potential Chinese FM visit to Tehran, and imminent IAEA report may have prompted Chinese cancellation of the November 19 P5 1 meeting. Kislyak expected l [...]
2007-11-15 10:03:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM MARR EAIR KCRM KJUS RS
07MOSCOW774RUSSIA: PROSECUTORS COMPLETE KHODORKOVSKIY
[...] (C) Summary. On February 16, the Russian General Prosecutor's Office announced that it had completed the preliminary investigation in the new criminal case against Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and Platon Lebedev (Reftel). The case file will now be turned over to the defendants and their lawyers for [...]
2007-02-22 14:07:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALECON KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL RS
07MUNICH218BECKSTEIN LEADS BAVARIA'S GET-TOUGH APPROACH TO ISLAMIC
[...] (SBU) Guenther Beckstein, Germany's longest-serving state Interior Minister and presumptive future Bavarian Minister President (REF A),has for years identified Islamic terrorism as the greatest risk to domestic security in Germany. According to Beckstein, about 50 people living in Bavaria ha [...]
2007-04-11 09:34:00Consulate MunichUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER KCRM KISL GM
07MUNICH325 MUNICH G-8 JUSTICE AND INTERIOR MINISTERS MEETING
[...] The below text is the concluding declaration from the G-8 Justice and Interior Ministers Meeting held in Munich May 23-25. The U.S. was represented at the meeting by Attorney General Gonzales and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jackson. 2. Begin text: During our meeting in Munich on [...]
2007-05-25 15:24:00Consulate MunichUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PTER KCRM KISL GM
07MUNICH409ANSAR AL-ISLAM MEMBERS CONVICTED BY BAVARIAN COURT
[...] (SBU) The Bavarian Supreme Court sentenced Ansar al-Islam member Farhad Kanabi Ahmad to five years and six months in prison on July 9 following the sentencing of Dieman Abdulkadir Izzat to three years and three months in prison on June 25. Prosecutors had asked for sentences of six years for [...]
2007-07-11 07:54:00Consulate MunichUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC ETTC PGOV PREL KCRM KISL KVPR GM
07MUNICH646PROPOSED BAVARIAN ISLAMIC ACADEMY HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (C) A controversial proposal for an Islamic academy in Munich illustrates some of the challenges of balancing integration and security concerns in a conservative German state. The academy, to be funded by the UAE, would be a first-of-its-kind proposal by IVLP grantee Imam Benjamin Idriz of t [...]
2007-12-18 11:18:00Consulate MunichCONFIDENTIALGE KCRM KISL PGOV PREL PTER SOCI
07MUSCAT1004FOREIGN WORKERS ENGAGE IN VIOLENT PROTEST
[...] (C) Summary: Low-skilled workers from India and Nepal employed by a Muscat-area cleaning company recently protested over alleged contract violations and poor living conditions in the company-owned and operated housing compound. The workers created a disturbance, and Omani security forces repo [...]
2007-10-31 08:02:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KMPI MU
07MUSCAT1046WORKERS INVOLVED IN LABOR PROTEST DEPORTED
[...] (C) Three weeks after a reportedly violent demonstration by 500-600 Indian and Nepalese workers of the al-Nebha cleaning company against alleged contract violations and poor living conditions (reftel),contacts report that there have been no further protests and that the situation at the comp [...]
2007-11-14 11:13:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB MU
07MUSCAT1116OMANIS HIRING MAIDS FROM THE UAE: FOLLOW-UP AND
[...] (C) Summary: Contacts in the embassies of labor-exporting countries report that some recruitment agencies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) continue to force women who have run away from their Emerati sponsors to accept employment in Oman. Omani sponsors hire the women in the UAE and transport [...]
2007-12-12 07:31:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG MU
07MUSCAT193OMAN PREPARING TO DRAFT ANTI-TIP LEGISLATION
[...] (C) The Ambassador and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi had a frank discussion on February 21 about trafficking in persons (TIP) and Oman's lack of progress in addressing the USG's TIP concerns. The Ambassador informed the Under Secretary that the Embass [...]
2007-02-27 07:48:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL SMIG KCRM KWMN MU
07MUSCAT206CORRECTED COPY - OMANIS HIRING MAIDS FROM THE UAE: PROBABLY
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy contacts report that Omanis are hiring domestic employees from recruitment agencies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and bringing them across the border into Oman. The practice of hiring maids from a third-country allegedly is legal, but a number of women who claim to h [...]
2007-03-03 08:23:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG MU
07MUSCAT219SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: OMAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Oman is beginning to display the political will to recognize and prevent trafficking in persons (TIP). There is no available data to accurately assess the size of the problem in Oman, but there are a number of populations in Oman at risk of being victims of trafficking. Since la [...]
2007-03-06 08:09:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF KCRM KWMN KFRD SMIG ASEC ELAB MU
07MUSCAT298MINISTER OF MANPOWER OUTLINES ANTI-TIP ACTIONS;
[...] (U) This message contains an Action Request (see paragraph 8). ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) During a meeting in early March with the Ambassador, Minister of Manpower Juma bin ali al-Juma shared elements of his Ministry's initial plans to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). In ad [...]
2007-03-25 11:31:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KMPI MU
07MUSCAT375MINISTER OF LEGAL AFFAIRS EXPECTS ANTI-TIP LAW
[...] (C) At an April 15 meeting at the Ministry, the Ambassador pressed Minister of Legal Affairs, Mohammad al Alawi, for information about Oman's proposed anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) legislation and a date when a law could be expected. The Minister stated that his Ministry has begun work on [...]
2007-04-17 12:59:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL SMIG KCRM KWMN MU
07MUSCAT651SPONSORSHIP SYSTEM CONTRIBUTES TO TRAFFICKING,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Contacts claim that the sponsorship system of recruiting and hiring low-skilled and domestic foreign workers contributes to trafficking in persons (TIP) in Oman. The system establishes conditions conducive to exploitation by making many workers dependent on their sponsors for the [...]
2007-06-26 12:59:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG MU
07MUSCAT778OMAN PROGRESS REPORT ON ANTI-TIP EFFORTS
[...] (SBU) Since being designated by the Department as a "Tier 3" country in the 2007 Trafficking in Persons report, the Omani government has drafted, with the assistance of a prominent U.S.-based expert, an anti-TIP law that both criminalizes the trafficking of individuals and establishes a nation [...]
2007-08-13 10:15:00Embassy MuscatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB MU
07MUSCAT822TIP GETS NEGATIVE PRESS COVERAGE; GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary: Throughout the summer, Oman's press has given negative coverage to the 2007 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report and Oman's Tier 3 designation, with multiple articles questioning the report's credibility and U.S. motives. Nevertheless, the government continues to make progress on [...]
2007-08-29 09:44:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KMPI MU
07MUSCAT879LABOR SENDING COUNTRIES DISCUSS TIP
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent luncheon hosted by the Ambassador, chiefs of mission (COM) from trafficking source country embassies in Oman asked for U.S. assistance in pushing the Omani government to improve conditions for foreign workers by: enforcing existing labor and immigration laws; ins [...]
2007-09-12 12:13:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KMPI MU
07MUSCAT920GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ASSURE AMBASSADOR LAGON OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Mark Lagon, Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP),visited Muscat on September 22 to engage Omanis on trafficking and encourage the government to execute measures in the USG's anti-TIP action plan for Oman. Top officials in the Roy [...]
2007-09-29 07:28:00Embassy MuscatCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KMPI MU
07NAIROBI1015AML BILL TO BE TOP GOK PRIORITY IN MARCH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya Anti-Money Laundering Task Force (AMLTF) officials say they adopted many of USDOJ's suggested amendments to the anti-money laundering bill, including the critical definition of criminal offense, and that the bill will be one of the Government of Kenya's top priorities in th [...]
2007-03-02 11:05:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN LE PREL PTER KCRM KE
07NAIROBI1026Kenya: New Central Bank Governor Appointed
[...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya has appointed a new Central Bank Governor, academic Njuguna Ndung'u. The 48-year old economic professor appears to have the credentials to run the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) effectively, and also has a reputation for integrity. That said, in an election year, he may face [...]
2007-03-05 07:41:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV KCRM KE
07NAIROBI1027Trafficking in Persons Donor Working Group a Success
[...] Summary: The Donor Working Group on Trafficking in Persons and Child Protection, established by the U.S. Embassy, UNICEF and the IOM, has greatly enhanced coordination within the donor and diplomatic community in assisting Kenyan government agencies and non-governmental organizations to develop [...]
2007-03-05 07:46:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDELAB GTIP KCRM ECON PHUM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI1136KENYA SUBMISSION FOR THE SEVENTH ANNUAL
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Nairobi's submission for the Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP). Information is keyed to the format provided in reftel. 2. (SBU) STATUS AND EXTENT OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN KENYA I. Overview A. Origin, Transit, and Destination Origin [...]
2007-03-09 10:57:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF KE
07NAIROBI1185Charterhouse Bank Winding Down
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Appeals Court rejected Charterhouse Bank's appeal of High Court rulings supporting the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK),which will next advise the Minister of Finance to finalize his Ministry's refusal to renew Charterhouse's license. Charterhouse Bank may still try to appeal to [...]
2007-03-14 11:14:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV KCRM KE
07NAIROBI1389QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - NAIROBI (CORRECTED COPY)
[...] (U) Summary. The following report replies to Ref G reinstitution of the quarterly fraud report covering the current condition of consular fraud in Kenya, with specific reference to fraud trends in non-immigrant visa, immigrant visa, and diversity visa applications as well as cases of American [...]
2007-03-28 07:04:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE
07NAIROBI1416AMBASSADOR-AT-LARGE FOR WAR CRIMES URGES KENYA TO
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson met privately with GOK Ministers to push for Felicien Kabuga's apprehension and also met with various Chiefs of Mission to discuss further cooperative strategies on the issue. It is widely believed that Kabuga, ICTR fugi [...]
2007-03-29 09:47:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KCRM RW KE
07NAIROBI1775Kenya: TIP Project Proposal Solicitation For G/Tip-Managed
[...] Kenya is a tier two watch list country because it is a source, destination and transit country for trafficking in persons (TIP). The GOK is making efforts to address most aspects of TIP, but suffers from resource constraints, both financial and human. It therefore relies heavily on internation [...]
2007-04-20 09:35:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KE
07NAIROBI1926MICHUKI LAUDS VISIT TO U.S., RELEASES JOINT
[...] (SBU) On Thursday May 3, Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security John Michuki called Ambassador to express his appreciation for his Qhighly constructiveQ visit to Washington. He said that he particularly appreciated the high level at which he was received. He to [...]
2007-05-04 07:09:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ASEC KCRM KE
07NAIROBI1951COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ICITAP DEPUTY
[...] Embassy Nairobi grants country clearance and welcomes RAYMOND RIVERA and MARK MOGLE. Country clearance is granted subject to the actual security situation at the time of proposed travel. The embassy switchboard number is 254-20-363-6000 and the after-hours number is 254-20-363-6170. Control [...]
2007-05-07 14:07:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKJUS KCRM ASEC SNAR KE
07NAIROBI2073RESPONSE TO INL MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT - DELEGATED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-16 06:16:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM SNAR KE
07NAIROBI219KIBAKI SIGNS BILLS THAT MAY SPUR ECONOMIC GROWTH
[...] (SBU) Summary: On New Year's Eve 2006, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki signed into law 11 more bills, including important laws with important implications for the financial and energy sectors. This tally adds to several economic development-related bills passed earlier in the parliamentary year a [...]
2007-01-12 08:03:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV EINV ENRG EFIN KCRM EPET KCOR KE
07NAIROBI2238MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FROM MUNGIKI-LAND: "I'M
[...] (C) Summary: Member of Parliament Elias Mbau recounts his own intimidation by the Mungiki in his constituency. He frankly admits that he was forced to change his tune after initially publicly opposing the criminal organization. He also confirms reports that the Mungiki have supporters in gov [...]
2007-05-25 09:58:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNASEC KCRM KDEM KE PGOV PINR PREL PTER
07NAIROBI2307FPU NAIROBI: FRAUD, FRAUD, EVERYWHERE
[...] Summary: Nairobi's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) sees a wide variety of NIV, IV, and ACS fraud on a daily basis. May 15, 2007 proved to be an excellent example of the depth and breadth of fraud encountered over and beyond the normal workload, and is illustrative of a day in the life of our FPU [...]
2007-06-04 12:12:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE
07NAIROBI2525MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KIBAKI
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a June 9 meeting, the Ambassador discussed with President Kibaki the expanding bilateral partnership, the problem of insecurity, governance issues, the elections set for later this year, and regional issues (Somalia and Sudan). Kibaki emphasized his desire to work closel [...]
2007-06-18 12:17:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALEAIR EFIN KCRM KE PINR PREL PTER SO SU
07NAIROBI2567 Trafficking in Persons: Ambassador?s Trip
[...] Summary. See para 8 for action request. The combination of the Ambassador?s visit to the Kenyan coast, the rollout of the GTIP annual report, and celebrations of the Day of the African Child cast a spotlight on the problems of trafficking and sex tourism in Kenya. As a result of the Ambassad [...]
2007-06-20 14:20:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG PREL PGOV KE
07NAIROBI2575 Ambassador's Visit to the Kenyan Coast
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-21 10:03:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KE PGOV KCRM KWMN SNAR PHUM PTER
07NAIROBI2754CENTRAL BANK OF KENYA GOVERNOR REPUTEDLY UNDER
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. For USG use only. 2. (SBU) Summary: Former Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) Bank Supervision Director Gerald Arita Nyaoma suggested to Economic Specialist on June 29 that he fears that President Mwai Kibaki and the State House are a [...]
2007-07-05 13:29:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV EINV KCOR KCRM PINR KE
07NAIROBI2771QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - NAIROBI
[...] (U) Summary. The following report replies to Ref I reinstitution of the quarterly fraud report covering the current condition of consular fraud in Kenya, with specific reference to fraud trends in non-immigrant visa, immigrant visa, and diversity visa applications as well as cases of American [...]
2007-07-06 06:56:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE
07NAIROBI2974KENYA POLICE: REFORMS APLENTY, BUT PERFORMANCE LAGS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Kibaki administration has implemented significant reforms of the Kenya Police Service and greatly increased its resources. The worst police abuses of the Moi-era have been eradicated. However, reforms and increased resources have not yet yielded a dramatic rise in police [...]
2007-07-19 12:45:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASIG KCRM KE PREL PTER
07NAIROBI3100Kenya Will Allow Somalia Flights, But Via Wajir Only
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Kenya (GOK) announced that, effective August 1, it would end its suspension of flights to/from Somalia, but that all flights from Somalia must stop first at Wajir Airport for immigration, customs and security processing before proceeding to their final Kenyan de [...]
2007-07-30 11:03:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR PTER KCRM ECON ETRD KE
07NAIROBI3118TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: KENYA ESTABLISHES NATIONAL STEERING
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Kenya (GOK) is increasing its efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) following a pivotal June 25 meeting of the National Steering Committee to Combat Human Trafficking. The Committee selected a task force of GOK agencies, NGOs and UN agencies to draft a [...]
2007-07-31 11:09:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KCRM ECON KE
07NAIROBI3231Kenya: Update on Charterhouse Money Laundering Scandal
[...] (C) Summary: The massive money laundering and tax evasion scandal involving Kenya's Charterhouse Bank remains stuck in legal limbo, but the momentum is with the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK),which is seeking to liquidate the bank once and for all. But doing so will be tricky in light of a seri [...]
2007-08-10 09:16:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKCOR KCRM PREF ECON EFIN KE
07NAIROBI3251COURT RULES FATHER KAISER'S DEATH HOMICIDE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The recent finding by a Kenyan court that the death in 2000 of an American priest, Father John Kaiser, was a result of homicide has stirred renewed interest in the case due to his prominence as a human rights activist and vocal opponent of the former Kenyan government. The Cour [...]
2007-08-13 11:20:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KCRM CASC KE
07NAIROBI373817 SEPTEMBER 2007 NAIROBI WALK-IN REPORTS URANIUM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 17 September 2007, at approximately 1300, an individual visited Embassy Nairobi claiming to have information of a security nature and provided a photo of an alleged "container of uranium stolen from Germany or Belgium". Reporting Assistant Regional Security Officer (ARSO) co [...]
2007-09-21 07:24:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNASEC KCRM KE KNNP MNUC PARM PTER
07NAIROBI3958Pace of Anti-Trafficking Activities Quickens in Kenya
[...] (U) Summary: The pace of anti-trafficking activities in Kenya quickened in the last week of September, with the first Africa-Wide Conference on Child Sexual Abuse, the regular meeting of the National anti-TIP Steering Committee, a briefing for 15 new Kenyan Ambassadors on TIP and victim assista [...]
2007-10-04 14:29:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB GTIP KCRM PHUM PGOV KE
07NAIROBI4045QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - NAIROBI
[...] (U) Summary. The following report replies to Ref J reinstitution of the quarterly fraud report covering the current condition of consular fraud in Kenya, with specific reference to fraud trends in non-immigrant visa, immigrant visa, and diversity visa applications as well as cases of American [...]
2007-10-11 11:55:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE
07NAIROBI4050QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - NAIROBI
[...] (U) Summary. The following report replies to Ref J reinstitution of the quarterly fraud report covering the current condition of consular fraud in Kenya, with specific reference to fraud trends in non-immigrant visa, immigrant visa, and diversity visa applications as well as cases of American [...]
2007-10-11 11:59:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KCRM KE
07NAIROBI4120NAIROBI TRANSPORT BOSS ON CRIME, CORRUPTION &
[...] (C) Summary: The Chairman of Nairobi's private transportation association describes how the city's criminal organizations and police feed off the cash-rich sector. He also expresses concerns about a possible Raila Odinga presidency and mild support for Kibaki remaining in office. End Summary [...]
2007-10-17 12:20:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALASUP KCRM KE PGOV PHUM PINR
07NAIROBI4178Kenya: NGO Board Offers Prize to Encourage Best Practices
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 17, Kenya's NGO Coordination Board (NGO Board) and the NGO Resource Alliance of the UK launched their new "NGO of the Year" awards to be presented in July 2008 to NGOs that demonstrate competence and integrity with their service recipients and their donors. Separately [...]
2007-10-23 10:57:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PHUM PGOV KCRM EFIN KTFN KCOR KE
07NAIROBI4416KENYA TERRORIST FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ACTION REQUEST ON
[...] (SBU) In response to ref A, the situation in Kenya regarding cash smuggling has not improved or changed from that described in ref B. The 2007 INCSR text remains accurate: Kenya has little in the way of cross-border currency controls. GOK regulations require that any amount of cash above $5,000 [...]
2007-11-09 08:23:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN KCRM PREL PTER KE
07NAIROBI4569NAIROBI WALK-IN REPORTS URANIUM INFORMATION -
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 06 November 2007, at approximately 1100, Assistant Regional Security Officer/Investigator (ARSOI) and Post officials coordinated a follow-up interview of Subject detailed in RefTel to answer additional questions regarding the alleged "container of uranium" for sale. Reportin [...]
2007-11-27 10:21:00Embassy NairobiSECRET//NOFORNASEC KCRM KE KNNP MNUC PARM PTER
07NAIROBI4630LOOKING FOR MR. KABUGA: POSSIBLE SIGNS OF
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Chief Prosecutor Jallow of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) met on 29 November with Kenyan Foreign Minister Tuju. FM Tuju promised Jallow that he would press for the Kenyan government to increase its cooperation with the ICTR's efforts to find and apprehen [...]
2007-12-03 07:50:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALKCRM KE PGOV PHUM PREL
07NAIROBI588ACTION REQUEST: IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE TO PROMOTE
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Increased violent crime over the past several months -- highlighted by the January 27 killing of two American Mission family members in a carjacking -- has heightened my concern about the Government of Kenya's ability to adequately respond to both criminal and [...]
2007-02-05 11:22:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC PINS KCRM PTER KE
07NAIROBI875Kenya Terrorist Finance: Illicit Cash Couriers
[...] (SBU) Summary: Kenyan officials share USG concern over cash couriers and money laundering, partly because of cash smuggling over the Somali border. Kenya's draft anti-money laundering (AML) bill contains provisions requiring declaration of monetary instruments over USD 5,000, criminalizes will [...]
2007-02-23 10:04:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER KCRM KE
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