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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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08MADRID1231SPAIN: ASSESSING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RECENT ETA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French police and Spanish Guardia Civil (GC) paramilitary forces conducted a joint raid in Cauterets, France early on the morning of November 17 in which they arrested ETA members Mikel Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina (aka "Txeroki" in Basque or "Cherokee" in English) and Leire Lopez Zu [...]
2008-11-24 17:34:00Embassy MadridSECRETPINR PINS PREL PTER SP FR
08MADRID56MADRID WEEKLY ECON/COMMERCIAL/AG UPDATE - JANUARY
[...] (U) The FT,s Leslie Crawford says: International financial gridlock has destroyed the country,s recent bout of economic euphoria. The article describes December,s bad inflation and unemployment numbers, the international credit squeeze, lower growth estimates and signs of falling house prices [...]
2008-01-22 08:39:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET SCUL SOCI FR SP
08MADRID569SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PETERSON VISIT TO MADRID
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Madrid warmly welcomes your visit. The Government of Spain (GOS) shares your interest in the development of renewable energy, including biofuels. However, what once promised to be a booming industry with plans for construction of 30 biodiesel and 20 ethanol plants, ha [...]
2008-05-23 07:18:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT ASEC BEXP OREP AFIN SP FR PO
08MOSCOW1052RUSSIANS EXPLAIN VIEWS ON UNSCR 1540 COMMITTEE
[...] (C) Summary. Together with UK and French colleagues, we delivered reftel demarche April 16 to Aleksandr Deyneko, Senior Counselor in the MFA Department of Disarmament and Security Issues, responsible for UNSCR 1540 issues. Deyneko stressed that, as a co-sponsor of UNSCR 1540, Russia was very [...]
2008-04-16 13:49:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC UK FR RS
08MOSCOW1624 ANNUAL OECD/NEA MULTILATERAL NUCLEAR ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) The annual OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Multilateral Nuclear Environment Program in Russia (MNEPR) Committee Meeting took place May 13 in Moscow. Russian officials reviewed the status of the new Rosatom State Corporation. Participants also reviewed the Strategic Master Plan for Nort [...]
2008-06-06 12:46:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG OTRA TRGY TECH FR RS
08MOSCOW3097MTCR PAPER DELIVERED: U.S. REPORT ON CONTACTS WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-21 10:12:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL KSCA TSPA ETTC FR AS RS
08MOSCOW783TWO-STEP REQUEST TO DEMARCHE KHARTOUM AND N'JAMENA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-21 14:45:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALCD CH FR LY PGOV PREL RS SU UK KPKO
08MOSCOW867GOR NOTIFIED OF MISTAKEN SHIPMENT OF MISSILE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-31 06:08:00Embassy MoscowSECRETPARM MTCRE PREL TW CH JA RU FR AU KS UK
08MUNICH100BMW ON EU CO2 RULES, FRENCH INFLUENCE, AND FUTURE OF THE
[...] (SBU) A senior BMW official told ConGen Munich that proposed EU rules on auto carbon emissions would not only be ineffective, but represent French "industrial policy," rewarding manufacturers of low-tech small cars and punishing Germany's manufacturers of larger, more carbon-efficient, vehicle [...]
2008-03-07 11:34:00Consulate MunichUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PGOV EINV PREL FR GM
08MUNICH136EADS OFFICALS WARY OF TANKER DEAL REVIEW,
[...] (SBU) In a meeting with ConGen Munich, senior EADS officials expressed concern about the potential outcome of Boeing,s protest of the U.S. Air Force aerial refueling tanker award to the Northrop Grumman-EADS consortium, particularly given the political dimension the issue has taken-on in the [...]
2008-04-04 13:01:00Consulate MunichUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM
08MUNICH175AUDI ON EU CO2 RULES, THE FUTURE OF THE AUTOMOBILE, AND THE
[...] (SBU) Senior Audi officials told ConGen Munich they share BMW's view that proposed EU CO2 rules represent nothing less than French industrial policy. Going a step further, they made the questionable argument that the EU rules would effectively "kill" the European auto industry while achieving [...]
2008-05-14 05:30:00Consulate MunichUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PGOV EINV PREL FR GM
08MUNICH94EADS' TANKER WIN - ANATOMY OF A (VERY BIG) DEFENSE
[...] (SBU) THE FEBRUARY 29 ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THE U.S. AIR FORCE WOULD AWARD A USD 40 BILLION CONTRACT FOR AERIAL REFUELING TANKERS TO A CONSORTIUM FORMED BY EADS AND NORTHROP GRUMMAN, A DEAL THAT DEFENSE EXPERTS HAD BEEN ALL- BUT-CERTAIN WOULD GO TO BOEING, LANDED LIKE A BOMBSHELL AT EADS' CO-HEADQU [...]
2008-03-03 18:04:00Consulate MunichUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM
08NAIROBI2231SOMALIA - PUNTLAND RESPONSE TO A/S FRAZER'S PIRACY
[...] Post forwarded A/S Frazer's reftel letter urging more be done on piracy to Mohamed Muse Hersi, President of Somalia's semi-autonomous Puntland region. Hersi's response follows in paragraph 3. 2. Separately, poloff shared A/S Frazer's letter with Ali Abdi Aware, Puntland's foreign relatio [...]
2008-09-22 13:50:00Embassy NairobiUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EWWT FR PGOV PINS PREL SO
08NAIROBI238EC AMBASSADOR MICHEL'S VISIT
[...] (C) EC Commissioner Louis Michel made a one-day visit January 19 to press for a political solution to the electoral crisis. According to the French Ambassador (who is representing the EU presidency in the absence of Slovenia),Michel had consulted with Kofi Annan before visiting in order to e [...]
2008-01-22 17:14:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KE FR SI
08NDJAMENA299MINURCAT - SRSG SEEKS USG SUPPORT TO KEEP IT IN
[...] (U) This is an Action Message: See Para 6. 2. (C) SRSG Victor Angelo (PROTECT) asked me yesterday in confidence yesterday for USG assistance regarding the renewal of MINURCAT,s mandate, required before 25 September. Angelo asked for USG help (A) in overcoming reticence within the UN bure [...]
2008-07-18 10:48:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF MARR KPKO UN EU FR SU CD
08NDJAMENA334LIBYAN AMBASSADOR BRIEFS ON TRIPOLI'S "TRILATERAL
[...] (C) Libyan Ambassador Emhemmed Shlback briefed me on Libya,s recent &Trilateral Initiative8 to bring peace between Chad and Sudan August 5. Shlback said that Qaddafi believed that the time was now ripe to try to bring the two feuding leaders back to the more productive relationship they once [...]
2008-08-06 10:53:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF UNAUS EU SU LY FR CD
08NDJAMENA336LIBYAN AMBASSADOR BRIEFS ON TRIPOLI?S
[...] (C) Libyan Ambassador Emhemmed Shlback briefed me on Libya?s recent ?Trilateral Initiative? to bring peace between Chad and Sudan August 5. Shlback said that Qaddafi believed that the time was now ripe to try to bring the two feuding leaders back to the more productive relationship they once [...]
2008-08-06 15:31:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF UN EU SU LY FR CD
08NDJAMENA384LIBYAN AMBASSADOR RESPONDS TO USG OFFER TO BE
[...] (C) I met with Libyan Ambassador Shlback on Thursday, August 14. He said he wanted to respond to my request for Tripoli's thinking on how the United States might usefully support Libya's recent "Trilateral Initiative" to bring peace between Chad and Sudan. He said that he had spoken to Dr. A [...]
2008-09-03 13:17:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL LY SU FR EU IR IS SA ER CD
08NDJAMENA491SRSG ANGELO ON MINURCAT CURRENT AND FUTURE:
[...] (C) UN SRSG Angelo told Ambassador October 21 that MINURCAT I was up to 750 of its authorized 900 personnel; that it was about to deploy the first of 450 Chadian police and gendarmes it has trained along with their UNPOL mentors to refugee camps in eastern Chad; and that Chadian President De [...]
2008-10-23 13:13:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL UN PKO MARR PINR SU LY FR EU CD
08NDJAMENA494FRENCH SEE RESPITE FROM EARLY REBEL ASSAULT,
[...] (C) The French here doubt that Chad rebels, discouraged and disunited, will attack in force before the New Year, and believe that of the rebel formations, only the Ouaddaian UFCD group led by Hassabalah was stronger than in February. Intra- Chadian diplomacy had undermined the Erdimi's Zaghaw [...]
2008-10-27 16:34:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF MARR UN SU LY FR ASEC CD
08NDJAMENA517CHADIAN OPPOSITION PARTIES COMPLAIN GOC NOT
[...] (SBU) The main association of Chadian opposition parties, the CPDC, complained to the Ambassador that the GoC is not implementing the August 13 Accord (the electoral reform agreement signed in August 2007) in good faith, and that therefore credible elections could not be held in 2009. They m [...]
2008-11-07 11:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF EU FR AU UN CD
08NDJAMENA518FRENCH SUPPORT COORDINATION ON UN FOLLOW-ON
[...] (SBU) EMBASSY SUPPORTS THE DEPARTMENT'S EFFORTS TO COORDINATE WITH THE FRENCH ON CHAD POLICY IN GENERAL AND ON PKO ISSUES IN PARTICULAR. 2. (SBU) FROM OUR PERCH HERE, THE FOLLOWING SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS KEY OBJECTIVES OF SUCH COORDINATION REGARDING THE UN FOLLOW-ON FORCE (MINURCAT II) [...]
2008-11-10 10:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PGOV PKO PREF PREL FR CD
08NDJAMENA519 WORLD BANK ENDS CHAD VISIT ON HIGH NOTE, POINTING TOWARD
[...] (SBU) The World Bank delegation finished its visit to Chad on a high note, if not the highest possible note, this week. In a presentation to the diplomatic corps November 7 by the GOC Ministers of Finance and Economy and the Bank delegation head, the visit was portrayed as "positive" and "co [...]
2008-11-10 13:34:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL EPET IBRD UN IMF PGOV FR CD
08NEWDELHI297DELHI DIARY, JAN 21-28
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-29 11:32:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KWMN PBTS IN FR
08NEWDELHI338SARKOZY'S VISIT TO INDIA LONG ON DRAMA, SHORT ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Sarkozy made a two-day stop in India amid a whirlwind of media speculation regarding whether his famous girlfriend, supermodel Carla Bruni, would accompany him. Sarkozy's visit stimulated both governments to officially confirm that they have finalized their civil nuc [...]
2008-02-01 12:04:00Embassy New DelhiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS KNNP KOMC KUNR FR IN
08NEWDELHI343DELHI DIARY, JAN 21-28
[...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for January 21-28, 2008 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- New HP Government Gets Moving -- Prime Minister Singh to Visit Indo-Chinese Border Areas -- French President's Visit Raises Turban Is [...]
2008-02-01 13:09:00Embassy New DelhiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PBTS SOCI KWMN CH IN FR
08NIAMEY267PRICE OF NIGERIEN URANIUM
[...] (U) the Government of Niger and the French energy company Areva signed an agreement on January 13 which among other things sets the price of the uranium (ref A). At the time, the GON announced that the new price represented a 50 percent increase, but did not specify what the price actually was [...]
2008-03-06 12:23:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEMIN ENRG FR NG
08NIAMEY45AREVA SIGNS URANIUM CONTRACT WITH NIGER
[...] (U) The government of Niger and the French energy company Areva have concluded a contract concerning Areva's mining and purchase of Nigerien uranium, according to press reports and an Areva press release. The contract reportedly calls for the development of the Imouraren uranium mine at a tota [...]
2008-01-14 14:24:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIALEMIN ENRG EINV PREL FR NG
08NIAMEY625NIGER: UPDATE ON FRENCH HOSTAGES
[...] (U) The MNJ has claimed on its website that the GON delayed for 48 hours giving authorization to the ICRC travel to the north to pick up the four French uranium workers kidnapped on June 22 (reftel). It also claims that early in the morning of June 24 the Nigerien Armed Forces used recently a [...]
2008-06-24 12:14:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC MOPS FR NG
08NIAMEY629NIGER: UPDATE ON FRENCH HOSTAGES
[...] (U) The MNJ reports on its website that it has turned the four French uranium workers (refs A and B) over to the ICRC, along with a message addressed to the French government and AREVA. It says that Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) MI-24 helicopters bombed the villages of Tadek (just north of Ifer [...]
2008-06-26 07:29:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC MOPS FR NG
08NIAMEY633NIGER: FRENCH HOSTAGES FREED
[...] The four French uranium workers kidnapped the morning of June 22 (reftel) have been freed and repatriated to France. The MNJ turned the three French men and one woman over to the ICRC which transported them to Agadez by road on June 27. They were flown to France that night. 2. The ICRC als [...]
2008-06-27 08:56:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC MOPS FR NG
08NIAMEY739NIGER: GOVERNMENT SUSPENDS MSF-FRANCE OPERATIONS
[...] (U) The Nigerien Interior Ministry in a decree dated July 18 suspended the operations of Medecins Sans Frontieres-France (MSF-F) in Niger. 2. (SBU) In a July 29 meeting with the DCM, the head of the French chapter of MSF in Niger, Emmanuel Lavieuville, explained that, contrary to press rep [...]
2008-07-29 10:45:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM SOCI FR NG
08NIAMEY97NIGER: ENGAGEMENT WITH FRANCE IN TSCTP COUNTRIES
[...] (U) Following is in response to ref b e-mail request for information regarding engagement with France in TSCTP counties. 2. (C) French security interests in Niger are far greater than our own: -- There are more French than American citizens in Niger. Any security incident is therefore m [...]
2008-01-24 09:23:00Embassy NiameyCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV NG FR
08NOUAKCHOTT745FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON CURRENT STATE OF PLAY
[...] (C) Summary: The French Ambassador sees no movement towards a resolution with General Aziz proceeding with a transparently manipulated "democratic transition" and President Abdallahi offering no political alternative. With no prospects for an early resolution, the French are re-engaging on [...]
2008-12-18 13:24:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR MR
08OTTAWA435CANADIANS EXPECT FRANCE, OR U.S., TO DEPLOY TROOPS
[...] (C) Summary: Canada has redoubled its efforts to convince France to deploy a reinforced battle group to the Kandahar region of Afghanistan by February 2009. The Canadians are especially working to allay French concerns about improvised explosive devices (IEDs),which have emerged from milit [...]
2008-03-31 11:58:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF FR CA
08PARIS1004France on Food Security
[...] (SBU) Summary: Econ Counselor raised reftel points on the President's global food security initiative with Francois Giovalucchi, advisor to Cooperation Minister Joyandet, and Florence Lasbennes, Cooperation Economic and Agricultural Development Office Chief, on May 19. Giovalucchi and Lasben [...]
2008-05-28 09:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO FR
08PARIS1005SUDAN/CHAD: FRENCH WILL CONSIDER SANCTIONING FOUR
[...] (C) GOF MFA Sudan desk officer Frederic Bouvier on May 28 said that the French would seriously consider joining us in seeking sanctions against the four individuals named in reftel. He said that the GOF would have to study reftel demarche before coming to a decision but he indicated that, a [...]
2008-05-28 11:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU FR
08PARIS1011S/CRS HERBST DISCUSSES CIVIL-MILITARY COOPERATION
[...] (C) On May 16, S/CRS John Herbst met with French Government and OECD officials to brief on S/CRS activities and discuss potential areas for cooperation. At the MFA, Jean-Hughes Simon-Michel, PDAS for Strategic Affairs, discussed French activities to promote civil-military cooperation within [...]
2008-05-28 13:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMCAP PGOV PREL KCRS AF FR
08PARIS1024FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE DRAFT AGENDA PASSED TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-29 15:42:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINS MARR MOPS KDEM EAID ECON FR IZ
08PARIS1026UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION FOR GOVERNMENT OF
[...] (U) Per reftel para 5 here below updated contact information for key French government officials as requested. HEAD OF STATE ------------- 2. (SBU) President of the French Republic Nicolas SARKOZY - Office telephone number 011 33 1 42 92 81 00 - Residence telephone number 011 33 1 42 92 [...]
2008-05-29 15:47:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT PGOV FR
08PARIS1035NON-PAPER ON U.S. RESPONSE TO LATEST IAEA REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-30 15:39:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL KNNP MNUC IAEA FR IR
08PARIS1054UNESCO - ISRAEL AMBASSADOR'S VISIT 28 MAY
[...] (U) Israeli Ambassador to UNESCO Kornbluth met with Ambassador Oliver on May 28 to review possible issues of concern that might be raised during the upcoming World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec next month. Negative Sites on the World Heritage List 2. (SBU) Ambassador Kornbluth b [...]
2008-06-03 13:08:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNESCO SCUL KPAL XF FR IS JO
08PARIS1070IOM DG CANDIDATE AMBASSADOR BILL SWING:
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-04 12:35:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PREF PREL SMIG FR
08PARIS1071 FRENCH BIOTECH FINALLY ADOPTED - MORE TO COME
[...] Summary: On May 22, France adopted a biotech bill after weeks of rancorous debate within the Parliament. The bill theoretically guarantees French farmers and consumers the right to produce and consume with or without GMOs. However, ministerial decrees implementing the legislation will define [...]
2008-06-04 14:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
08PARIS1078AIRBUS: FEARS OF DEFENSE TRADE CONTROLS HURT U.S. EXPORTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In spite of significant efforts to accelerate processing of export control licenses at the State Department, U.S. and European aerospace companies continue to be sharply critical of the USG export control system. Their perception affects a major American export industry -- U.S. a [...]
2008-06-05 15:54:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND ECON ETTC KOMC ETRD EAIR PREL FR
08PARIS1083FRANCE URGES INCREASED PRESSURE ON BURMA TO SPEED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 15:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM BM FR
08PARIS1084FRENCH SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WILL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-06 15:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDAORC UN UNSC SWMN PHUM FR
08PARIS1085 FRENCH EU PRESIDENCY: AGRICULTURAL POLICY GOALS
[...] Summary: France hopes to have the CAP health check reforms passed during its EU presidency and will initiate discussions on a post 2013 CAP policy and budget. The GOF's three main objectives will be to maintain EU food sovereignty; maintain the economic and territorial health of EU agricultur [...]
2008-06-06 16:42:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD PGOV WTRO EUN FR INR
08PARIS1086USDP DISCUSSES LEBANON, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN AND
[...] (S) Summary. On May 29, Eric Edelman, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, met with French interlocutors including Gerard Araud, Political Director at the MFA, Michel Miraillet, Director of Strategic Affairs at the MOD and Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor at the Elysee, to discus [...]
2008-06-09 07:52:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL MOPS MCAP AF LE PK IR SY FR
08PARIS109FRANCE CRITICIZE ARRESTS OF SYRIAN ACTIVISTS BUT
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to French MFA Syria desk officer Jean-Christophe Auge on January 14. He did not have an immediate response and stated he would have to get back to us. We used a January 17 meeting between visiting Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Securit [...]
2008-01-22 17:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM KMPI FR SY
08PARIS1100FRANCE AGREES WITH USG APPROACH ON RWANDAN FDLR
[...] (S) MFA Great Lakes desk officer Laurent Chevallier on June 9 told AF/C Director Wycoff that France agreed with the USG approach to Rwandan FDLR sanctions as expressed reftel (other aspects of the discussion reported separately). Chevallier said that seven of the eight names on the U.S. list [...]
2008-06-10 12:21:00Embassy ParisSECRETETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC XA FR
08PARIS1101AL-SHABAAB: FRANCE OPEN TO SANCTIONS BUT NEEDS TO
[...] (S) MFA Somalia Desk Officer Thierry Caboche on June 10 said, in response to reftel, that France would study further our case for imposing UN sanctions on the al-Shabaab organization based in Somalia. (NOTE: DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal our normal interlocutor on such an issue, is out of t [...]
2008-06-11 06:04:00Embassy ParisSECRETPTER ASEC PREL PGOV KCRM SO BG FR
08PARIS1104SUDAN/CHAD: FRANCE STILL OPPOSED TO USG APPROACH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French Presidential AF-advisor Romain Serman on June 9, 10, and 11 reiterated France's opposition to the USG position on sanctioning four individuals in connection with Sudan and Chad, particularly with respect to Daoussa Deby Itno, indicating that sanctioning Daoussa was a vir [...]
2008-06-11 11:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU CD FR
08PARIS1116DJIBOUTI/ERITREA: FRENCH MFA ASSESSMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-12 14:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PINS ER DJ FR
08PARIS1117ZIMBABWE: FRENCH AMENABLE TO FORMAL UNSC MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-12 15:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNSC ZI FR
08PARIS1130FRENCH GAERC RESPONSE: CUBA, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA
[...] (C) Summary. On June 13, MFA Deputy Office Director for CFSP Mathieu Carmona said Cuba will be the primary focus of the June GAERC. Carmona said that the COREPER meeting ran late into the evening of June 12 and that some of the resulting agenda items were a surprise; he commented that the S [...]
2008-06-13 16:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EUN ZI SO IR IZ IS CU FR
08PARIS1131PREVENTING ASSET FLIGHT FROM BANK MELLI IN THE EU3
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-13 16:18:00Embassy ParisSECRETKNNP EFIN ETTC PARM PTER FR
08PARIS1132FRENCH GAERC RESPONSE: CUBA, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA
[...] (C) Summary. On June 13, MFA Deputy Office Director for CFSP Mathieu Carmona said Cuba will be the primary focus of the June GAERC. Carmona said that the COREPER meeting ran late into the evening of June 12 and that some of the resulting agenda items were a surprise; he commented that the S [...]
2008-06-13 16:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KPAL EUN FR ZI IR IZ IS CU
08PARIS1138ENERGY SECURITY: FRANCE WANTS EU ENGAGEMENT WITH CASPIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Steven Mann, Coordinator for Central Asian Energy Issues met May 29 with GOF officials, who outlined French plans to promote energy security during its upcoming presidency of the EU Council. Specific ideas included greater political engagement with Caspian countries, [...]
2008-06-16 14:13:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ZK PREL FR
08PARIS1139FRENCH PRESIDENCY READOUT ON GUEANT/LEVITTE JUNE
[...] (C) French presidency NEA adviser Boris Boillon gave us a quick readout June 16 of the visit made to Damascus a day earlier by Elysee SecGen Claude Gueant, Diplomatic Adviser Jean David Levitte, and Boillon. The trio met with Syrian President Bashar al-Asad for about an hour, followed up by [...]
2008-06-16 14:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM FR SY LE
08PARIS114SARKOZY, KOUCHNER ADVISERS ON NATO, RUSSIA, IRAN,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 16, Joseph Wood, Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, met with Philippe Errera, strategic affairs adviser to FM Kouchner, and Francois Richier, strategic affairs adviser to President Sarkozy. Errera and Richier provided their views on [...]
2008-01-23 14:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR NATO FR RU IR GG UP AG
08PARIS1144FRANCE WILL ATTEND VIENNA CONFERENCE ON NAHR
[...] (U) Embassy passed reftel message on the Vienna conference on Nahr al-Barid to the French MFA's equivalent to the NEA bureau as well as to the staff of French Cooperation Ministeron Alain Joyandet June 9. The French MFA had already publicly saluted the Austrian initiative in a June 5 statem [...]
2008-06-17 07:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM KPAL UNRWA FR LE
08PARIS1160FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON BERLIN CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-19 15:30:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PBTS PHUM KPAL EUN FR IS
08PARIS1168NEA A/S WELCH DISCUSSION OF LEBANON/SYRIA AT
[...] (C) Summary: Lebanon/Syria dominated NEA-themed discussions between visiting NEA A/S Welch and his French MFA counterpart, Jean Felix-Paganon, June 12. Felix-Paganon and members of his team voiced relative satisfaction with the situation in Lebanon after the Doha accord but were watching c [...]
2008-06-20 12:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM FR LE SY IS IR IZ
08PARIS1169NEA A/S WELCH DISCUSSION OF IRAN AT THE FRENCH
[...] (SBU) NEA A/S Welch held extensive bilateral consultations on key NEA issues with French MFA counterparts in Paris on June 12. This cable focuses on Iran; other topics reported septel (notal). Participants included: USG --- --NEA A/S David Welch --Deputy Legal Adviser Jonathan Schwar [...]
2008-06-20 12:50:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER ETTC MNUC KNNP EUN FR IR IZ
08PARIS1170NEA A/S WELCH DISCUSSION OF IRAQ AT FRENCH MFA,
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-20 13:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PTER PINS EUN FR IZ IR
08PARIS1174NEA A/S WELCH DISCUSSION OF WESTERN SAHARA, UNION
[...] (SBU) NEA A/S Welch held extensive bilateral consultations on key NEA issues with French MFA counterparts in Paris on June 12. This cable focuses on Western Sahara and the Union for the Mediterranean; other topics reported septel (notal). Participants included: USG --- --NEA A/S Davi [...]
2008-06-23 06:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN FR AG LY SY MO
08PARIS118INFORMAL FRENCH RESPONSE TO S/I SATTERFIELD'S
[...] (U) See action request in the second sub-tick of para 3. 2. (C) French MFA Iraq desk officer Olivier Masseret on January 8 gave us an "informal" response to the paper S/I David Satterfield passed to the Elysee and the MFA on December 28. Masseret explained that we would receive an "off [...]
2008-01-23 16:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KDEM FR IZ
08PARIS1183FRANCE ACCEPTS IN PRINCIPLE SEEKING A PRST ON
[...] (SBU) We passed reftel points to the French MFA early on June 23, including to the AF and IO/UNP equivalents. DCM subsequently raised the subject with French MFA Political Affairs Director (P-equivalent) Gerard Araud. He stated general French agreement with our points and general assessmen [...]
2008-06-23 16:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC FR ZI
08PARIS1187FRANCE -- INFORMATION ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD
[...] (U) Post conferred with French Ministry of Labor officials who track allegations of forced labor and child labor. They confirmed (ref (A) para 2) that, in France, "there is no record of forced labor or child labor in the production of goods." Please visit Paris' Classified Website at: htt [...]
2008-06-24 10:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDELAB SOCI FR
08PARIS1188FRENCH REQUEST FOR U.S. DEMARCHE TO EU MEMBERS ON
[...] (U) Action request in para 5. 2. (C) Toward the end of a June 23 meeting DCM had with French MFA Political Director Gerard Araud (P-equivalent) focused on Iran and Zimbabwe (septels),Araud brought up the prospect of the EU rescinding its designation of the MEK as a terrorist group. Ar [...]
2008-06-24 11:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER FR IR
08PARIS120S/WCI AMB WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH FRENCH MFA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA legal advisor Edwige Belliard met with S/WCI Ambassador Williamson on January 7 to discuss the possible transfer of releasable Guantanamo detainees to EU countries, the debate within the ICC Assembly of States Parties (ASP) on the Crime of Aggression, and the future out [...]
2008-01-23 17:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALUNSC PGOV PREL PHUM FR
08PARIS1200POLDIR PROPOSES FURTHER TARGETED IRAN SANCTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 23, Political Director Gerard Araud summoned DCM to talk about Iran. He said his guess was that little would change in the coming months so the question was how to avoid the extremes of acquiescing or resorting to military force. He advocated a two-pronged approach invo [...]
2008-06-25 13:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETTC PREL KNNP MNUC EFIN PGOV PHUM IR FR
08PARIS1201 PARIS CLUB: June 2008 Session, Private Sector Meeting,
[...] Summary: At the Paris Club's June 10-12 session, the tour d'horizon addressed Burundi, Central African Republic, Grenada, Iraq, Libya, Moldova, Sudan and Togo. Germany requested an informal update on Argentina; Russia sought resolution of its promissory note issue. As for methodological iss [...]
2008-06-25 15:10:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS1202AF/C DIRECTOR WYCOFF'S JUNE 9 PARIS CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In June 9 meetings with AF/C Director Wycoff, French Presidency and MFA officials reiterated French differences with the U.S. on sanctions regarding Chad and Sudan, with the French arguing for pressure on all parties (including sanctions and the threat of sanctions) to encour [...]
2008-06-25 15:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC PTER PINR SU CD CT RW FR
08PARIS1203PARIS SUPPORT CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN: DONORS
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: International pledges totaled more than $20 billion at the Paris Support Conference for Afghanistan on June 12. This amount doubled the pledge total achieved at the 2006 London Conference and demonstrated th [...]
2008-06-25 16:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PREL PGOV AORC FR AF XB XF XG XR
08PARIS1221FRENCH MFA DAS-EQUIVALENT FOR THE LEVANT ON
[...] (C) Summary: French MFA DAS-equivalent Ludovic Pouille on June 26 provided a rundown of key issues in his area of responsibility, most notably Sarkozy's visit to Israel, French views of where Israel is with Syria and Lebanon, Syria and the July 13 Paris summit, rumors of a Sarkozy visit to [...]
2008-06-27 16:03:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL FR IS SY LE SA
08PARIS1227SOLICITING PLEDGES TO FUND THE NUCLEAR THREAT
[...] (SBU) On June 27, ESTH Counselor and ESTH Officer delivered to Martin Briens, Director of the Office of Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation, reftel demarche regarding the need to raise matching funds to support the proposal under the Nuclear Threat Initiative to create a nuclear fuel ban [...]
2008-06-30 06:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYFR KNNP IAEA ENRG
08PARIS123S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON'S MEETING WITH A/S
[...] (C) SUMMARY:On January 7, Ambassador Williamson met with acting A/S-equivalent for international organizations Marc Giacomini and Christian Bernier, Special Assistant for international tribunals, to discuss various war crimes issues, particularly the International Criminal Court (ICC) and res [...]
2008-01-24 10:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM FR
08PARIS1240 FRENCH SEEK TO INCORPORATE SOCIETAL PREFERENCES INTO EU
[...] Summary: In a memorandum submitted to the European Council on June 23, France moved forward with its plans to require that imported products conform to standards for EU production. The stated goal is to offset higher costs of European producers due to EU "societal" standards for food producti [...]
2008-06-30 16:48:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD PGOV WTRO PINR FR
08PARIS1241FRANCE "REGRETS" U.S. DECISION REGARDING THE UN
[...] Post delivered reftel demarche to MFA PDAS equivalent for International Organizations, Marc Giacomini, on June 16. Giacomini expressed France's "regret" for the U.S. decision to no longer participate in HRC sessions or activites and noted France's desire to continue working with the U.S. to ad [...]
2008-07-01 07:37:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDFR PHUM PREL
08PARIS1242FRANCE: SIX-PARTY TALKS SECOND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-01 07:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PREL PARM FR
08PARIS1245UNSCR CHAPTER VII ON ZIMBABWE: FRENCH SUPPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-01 14:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KEDM UNSC ZI FR
08PARIS1248UNSC/ZIMBABWE: FRENCH CONTINUE TO AGREE WITH U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-02 14:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI FR
08PARIS1261FRANCE/SYRIA: WAITING FOR BASHAR
[...] (C) In addition to what was reported in ref, French Presidency NEA adviser Boris Boillon discussed Syria and Lebanon with us July 2. French President Sarkozy, according to Boillon, raised the status of the indirect dialogue between Syria and Israel via Turkey with Israeli PM Olmert. The Isr [...]
2008-07-03 18:03:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM FR SY LE IS SA
08PARIS1267FINANCING THE U.S. NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE: FRANCE PUSHES FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: French Trade Minister Anne-Marie Idrac told visiting Senators Murkowski and Craig June 30 that France would like to see DoE tender investment guarantees more expeditiously, and proposed making French export financing available to help fund nuclear reactor construction in the U.S [...]
2008-07-07 16:02:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EIND ETRD PREL FR
08PARIS1284SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: FRENCH URGE USG AGREE TO
[...] (C) During a conversation mostly focused on Syria/Lebanon (reported septel),French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille on July 8 asked that the USG consider negotiations on the wording of a UNSCR based on the Libyan draft currently in play. He understood the draft had not bee [...]
2008-07-08 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC FR PA IS
08PARIS1285SUDAN: FRENCH CONCERNED ABOUT POSSIBLE ICC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA Sudan Desk Officer Frederic Bouvier on July 7 expressed concern that ICC Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo might soon seek to indict Sudan President Bashir for war crimes, which the French believe could have a negative impact on events in the region. Bouvier said France woul [...]
2008-07-08 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINS SU FR
08PARIS1286ZIMBABWE: FRANCE FAVORS SANCTIONING GIDEON GONO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-08 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC ZI FR
08PARIS1287SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: FRENCH URGE USG AGREE TO
[...] (C) During a conversation mostly focused on Syria/Lebanon (reported septel),French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille on July 8 asked that the USG consider negotiations on the wording of a UNSCR based on the Libyan draft currently in play. He understood the draft had not bee [...]
2008-07-08 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC FR PA IS
08PARIS129TOGO: COOPERATION MINISTER BAWARA'S VISIT TO PARIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo Cooperation Minister Bawara focused on restarting bilateral and multilateral development assistance programs for Togo during his January 16-18 visit to France. According to MFA Desk Officer Daniel Westerink, Togo has developed a possible roadmap that could result in the r [...]
2008-01-24 16:15:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM EAID EFIN MARR TO FR
08PARIS1291FRANCE SUPPORTS ADDITIONAL MEASURES ON IRISL CARGO
[...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper July 7 to Martin Briens, Office Director for Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation at the MFA. Briens was highly supportive of the U.S. approach, noting that France had been behind the original listing of the two Iranian companies in UNSC [...]
2008-07-09 12:00:00Embassy ParisSECRETPARM PINR PREL KNNP EUN FR
08PARIS1292FRENCH MFA ON KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT, PARIS DONORS
[...] (SBU) We informed French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille July 8 of the substance of reftel demarche on assistance to the Palestinian Authority. Pouille agreed with our assessment that Arab contributors tend to be the laggards in terms of meeting pledges they made at last D [...]
2008-07-09 13:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL KWBG EAID ECON FR IS
08PARIS1293AID FOR HORN OF AFRICA: FRANCE DISCUSSING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-09 13:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF DJ ER ET KE SO FR
08PARIS130PRESIDENT SARKOZY ARTICULATES HIS FRAMEWORK FOR
[...] (U) In this annual New Year's message to the Diplomatic Corps on delivered on January 18, President Sarkozy laid out a theoretical justification for recasting France's role on the international scene in the twin challenges before the international community: climate change and the "return of [...]
2008-01-24 16:36:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV FR
08PARIS1304ZIMBABWE/UNSCR: FRENCH "REASONABLY OPTIMISTIC" OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 10:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM ZI XA ZU UK FR
08PARIS1305STRONG FRENCH SUPPORT FOR ADDITIONAL EU SANCTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of France (GOF) is pressing EU counterparts to adopt a "Common Position" that transposes UNSCR 1803 in a forward-leaning way, including tougher measures on export credits, dual use exports, financial due diligence, and cargo inspections. The French hope this poli [...]
2008-07-10 12:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN ETTC PARM PINR KNNP IR FR
08PARIS1306HORN OF AFRICA: FURTHER ON FRENCH ASSISTANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 14:13:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF DJ ER ET KE SO FR
08PARIS1315EMISSIONS CONSENSUS WITH A GMO KICKER CLAIMED FOR EU ENERGY/ENVIRONMENT MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-10 16:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV EAGR EU FR
08PARIS1316FRANCE NONCOMMITTAL ON PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on Prisoners of Conscience Public Affairs event to the French MFA on July 2 but did not receive a substantive response. After multiple follow-ups, DAS-equivalent for Human Rights Jacques Pellet told PolOff on July 10 that the GOF is still consulting EU par [...]
2008-07-10 17:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EUN PHUM KDEM
08PARIS1317FRANCE REQUESTS SUPPORT FOR SHAB'A FARMS MENTION
[...] (C) In consecutive meetings at the French MFA July 8 and 9, officials in the NEA bureau-equivalent have asked for U.S. support for French mention of Shab'a Farms in the draft PRST the French mission to the UN will present in response to the UNSYG's latest report on UNSCR 1701. DAS-equivalent [...]
2008-07-10 18:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER UNSC FR LE SY IS
08PARIS1318LIBYAN DRAFT UNSCR ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS:
[...] (C) Unaware of fast-moving events in New York (per ref A),we met late July 9 with French MFA NEA A/S-equivalent Patrice Paoli to discuss the Libyan draft UNSCR and other topics (reported separately). Paoli noted his earlier conversation the same day with NEA A/S Welch. We presented Paoli [...]
2008-07-10 18:15:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC FR IS LY
08PARIS1323SYRIAN FM MU'ALLIM VISITS PARIS
[...] (C) Summary: Syrian Foreign Minister Mu'allim visited Paris July 4 -- the same day Ingrid Betancourt triumphantly returned to France following her liberation from captivity in Colombia -- and met French FM Kouchner as well as French presidency officials (including a drop by from an otherwise [...]
2008-07-11 11:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER FR SY LE IS
08PARIS1325THALES PRELIMINARY RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN END USE CHECK
[...] (SBU) On July 10, Thales Alenia Space President/CEO Reynald Seznec and Thales Group Senior VP for EU and NATO cooperation met with Econ Mincouns and Econoff in response to Embassy's letter relaying DTCC request for information (reftel). They previewed their pending written response, leaving a [...]
2008-07-11 11:39:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC FR
08PARIS1326French Rhetoric on WTO Doha Negotiations - Rebuttal
[...] (U) This is an Action Request for State and USTR. 2. (C) Summary and Action Request: French Trade Minister Idrac will chair a special EU Council meeting July 18 and seek to "rebalance and set the line" for the European Commission prior to the WTO mini-Ministerial July 21. In addition to Pr [...]
2008-07-11 15:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL WTO FR
08PARIS1329FRENCH MFA ON MIDEAST PEACE ISSUES AT THE JULY 13
[...] (C) During a July 9 discussion of the pending Libyan draft UNSCR on Israeli settlements, French MFA NEA A/S-equivalent Patrice Paoli observed that the impasse over the UNSCR underscored how such short-term annoyances took away from the relatively good prospects for peace over the longer term [...]
2008-07-11 16:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL EUN FR IS SY
08PARIS1330 SARKOZY'S PRIORITIES FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY DURING
[...] (U) Summary: France has made energy and climate change the top priority for its EU Presidency. The EU Work Program, recent actions by the European Parliament, and the meetings of Environment and Energy Ministers from the 27 member countries shed further light on the French Presidency's objecti [...]
2008-07-11 16:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV FR EU
08PARIS1331BETANCOURT "INSIDER" HINTS AT FUTURE PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A Board Member of the Committee in Support of Ingrid Betancourt told Poloff on July 11 that former hostage/presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt will focus her energy on securing the release of all remaining FARC and ELN hostages in Colombia and he strongly hinted Betancourt wo [...]
2008-07-11 19:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM FR EUN PGOV PTER PREF CO SP
08PARIS1333COUNSELOR COHEN ENGAGES FRENCH ON PAKISTAN,
[...] (C) Summary. On July 8 and 9, State Department Counselor Eliot Cohen discussed Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel-Palestine, terrorism, ESDP, and the French Defense White Paper with officials from the French MFA, Elysee, MOD, and Secretariat General of National Defense (SGDN). MFA interloc [...]
2008-07-15 10:13:00Embassy ParisSECRETMCAP PGOV PREL EUN AF PA IR IZ FR
08PARIS1337FRENCH SUPPORT FOR UNSCR 1816 (SOMALIA PIRACY)
[...] (SBU) In response to ref A, MFA Horn of Africa Desk Officer Thierry Caboche reviewed assistance France has been providing to Africa (refs B-C),particularly France's engagement in naval patrols to counter piracy in the Horn of Africa and its efforts to engage Denmark, the Netherlands, and Sw [...]
2008-07-15 15:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT KCRM KCRS KJUS PHAS PREL SO XA XW FR
08PARIS135FRENCH HAVE NO INFORMATION ON THE FATE OF MISSING
[...] (SBU) The embassy passed reftel message concerning missing Amcit Robert Levinson to French MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf Franck Gellet as well as Iran desk officer Arnaud Pescheux on December 13. We stressed the request for any information the GOF or its embassy in Tehran [...]
2008-01-25 10:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CASC PHUM FR IR
08PARIS1351AMBASSADOR STAPLETON PRESSES FRENCH MFA ON CUBA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-16 15:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR PGOV
08PARIS1353FRENCH TRADE MINISTER GIVES NO GROUND ON DOHA - EXPRESSES
[...] (C) Summary: French Trade Minister Idrac gave Ambassador Stapleton no indication that France is prepared to support a WTO agreement at this time. She described the July 18 Special EU Council meeting as "normal" in advance of the July 21 mini-Ministerial on Doha, and underlined that France will [...]
2008-07-16 17:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV PREL WTO EU FR
08PARIS1358THE SYRIA/LEBANON SIDESHOW LARGELY UPSTAGES THE
[...] (C) Summary: The GOF is pleased with what it considers to have been a major diplomatic triumph by using Syrian President Bashar al-Asad's participation in the recent Paris summit on the Mediterranean to achieve a public commitment from the Lebanese and Syrian presidents to normalize relatio [...]
2008-07-17 15:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM PBTS ECON FR SY LE IS IR
08PARIS1360FRENCH VIEWS ON NATO TRAINING MISSION - IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-17 17:03:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO IZ FR
08PARIS1366FRANCE/ZIMBABWE: FRENCH TO PROPOSE STRENGTHENING
[...] (U) This is an action request (para 4). 2. (C) MFA Zimbabwe Desk Officer Isabelle de Boisgelen said on July 17 that France would propose to EU partners at the July 22-23 GAERC that the EU strengthen existing sanctions against Zimbabwe in the wake of the sham election and the failure to [...]
2008-07-18 13:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETTC PREL KDEM ZI FR
08PARIS1367DRC: PRESIDENT KABILA'S VISIT TO FRANCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DRC President Kabila's July 16-17 visit to Paris went smoothly, MFA DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal reported on July 17, with an emphasis on economic issues centered on reducing or canceling DRC's IFI debts. Debt reduction has been complicated by new debts DRC has incurred with C [...]
2008-07-18 13:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EFIN PINS CG FR
08PARIS1368SUDAN: ICC ISSUE DOMINATES ALL OTHERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal said that the possible ICC prosecution of Sudan President Bashir was dominating the Sudan/Darfur debate, reinforced during Sudan FM Deng Alor's July 16 consultations with the French in Paris. This was the only subject he discussed, seeking ways [...]
2008-07-18 13:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PINR MOPS SU FR
08PARIS137CUBAN MIGRANTS DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-25 15:39:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREF SMIG FR IC UK
08PARIS1372FRENCH HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT THE 63RD UN
[...] . (C) Post raised reftel demarche with newly-appointed MFA Americas Director Elizabeth Beton-Delegue, who replied both President Sarkozy and FM Kouchner would take part in the 63rd UNGA. FM Kouchner would seek a bilateral meeting with Secretary Rice at UNGA. The MFA provided no additional [...]
2008-07-18 16:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA FR
08PARIS1376FRENCH MFA PUBLICLY ENDORSES THE PRINCIPLE OF UN
[...] (U) French MFA spokesperson Eric Chevallier told reporters July 15 that France supported in principle the option of placing the disputed Shab'a Farms territory in southern Lebanon under UN supervision. The context of his exchange with reporters leading to this subject is unclear from the tr [...]
2008-07-18 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS FR LE SY IS
08PARIS1377A NEW BURST OF FRENCH ACTIVISM ON
[...] (C) Summary: Immediately following the July 13 Paris summit on the Mediterranean, French FM Kouchner has called on the EU to reflect at an early September meeting in Avignon (informal EU FM meeting or "gymnich")on how it can play a more active role in Middle East peace negotiations. He cla [...]
2008-07-21 11:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV KPAL PBTS KWBG FR IS
08PARIS138FRANCE CONSIDERING WTO IMPLICATIONS BEFORE BANNING
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on January 24 to MFA desk officer Jeremy Petite. Petite responded that France is currently considering WTO implications of a ban and will make a decision in line with EU partners. When questioned about France's willingness to sanction the three Burmese [...]
2008-01-25 15:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD PHUM BM FR
08PARIS1380FRENCH VIEWS ON JULY GAERC: UKRAINE, ZIMBABWE,
[...] (C) Summary: On July 18, MFA Deputy Office Chief for Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona reviewed the agenda items for the July GAERC meeting. Carmona said that the French Presidency had, at FM Kouchner's request, proposed a reduced list of topics, but that other member [...]
2008-07-21 15:25:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV EUN IR SO SU CD IZ UP GG FR
08PARIS1385FRANCE SUPPORTS SENDING HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-21 16:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EUN NGO PHUM UN AORC
08PARIS1386FRANCE SUPPORTS OAS LANGUAGE TO KEEP PRESSURE ON
[...] (C) On July 18, Poloff delivered the reftel demarche to French MFA Colombia and Venezuela desk officer Lionel Paradisi. While the GOF was in agreement with the USG regarding efforts to free the remaining hostages, end the guerilla movement of the FARC, and close the drug trade, GOF views do n [...]
2008-07-21 17:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EUN PTER COLOMBO PLAN VE HR AF SNAR
08PARIS1391Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation - July 16-18
[...] (U) On July 6-8, Federal Transit Deputy Administrator Sherry E. Little led a delegation of Federal Transit Administration (FTA) officials, Congressional Representatives, and private sector participants to a conference in Lyon that FTA co-sponsored with the GOF on public-private partnerships (PP [...]
2008-07-22 17:33:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN ETRD EAIR EWWT FR
08PARIS141FRANCE 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] Investment Climate Statement Contents A. French Investment Regime A1. Openness to Foreign Investment A2. Conversion and Transfer Policies A3. Expropriation and Compensation A4. Dispute Settlement A5. Performance Requirements and Incentives A6. Right to Private Ownership and Establis [...]
2008-01-28 14:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ELAB PGOV KTDB OPIC USTR FR
08PARIS1412 GOF CONSULTING ON ANIMAL CLONING
[...] Summary and Background: The French Ministry of Agriculture (MinAg) is currently holding consultations on animal cloning in order to prepare a national regulatory framework on the issue. The MinAg is using the French Advisory Committee on Food (in French, "Conseil national de l'Alimentation", [...]
2008-07-23 16:51:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
08PARIS1423 PARIS CLUB - JULY 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's July 7-8 session, the Vice Chairman briefed creditors on his recent meetings in Kinshasa with the Ministers of Economy and Finance, noting concern that a proposed infrastructure deal involving a DRC sovereign guarantee was at odds with the Paris Club's project [...]
2008-07-24 16:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS1424FRANCE LOOKS BEYOND 1803 IMPLEMENTATION
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The GOF supports using insurance to put further pressure on Iran, including its shipping, and is prepared to meet July 25 in Paris to begin work with a handful of like-minded countries on actions of this sort. Senior officials see as "possible" the adoption of an EU Common Pos [...]
2008-07-24 17:26:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KNNP PARM EUN IR FR
08PARIS1426FRENCH MFA RECEIVES DEMARCHE ON DEALING WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 23 Poloffs delivered reftel points to French MFA Syria desk officer Jean-Christophe Auge and European Affairs officer Anne Predour. Auge said a Sarkozy visit to Damascus was highly likely but subject to a last-minute cancellation depending on events in Lebanon and whether [...]
2008-07-25 15:31:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM FR SY LE PHUM
08PARIS1436GOF HOSTS INFORMAL MEETING ON GLOBAL FOOD
[...] (SBU) Summary: On 7/23 FranceQs Ministry of Agriculture hosted an informal meeting with international partners to further thinking on a Qglobal partnership for food and agriculture.Q The proposal fleshes out an initiative initially raised by President Sarkozy at the June 3 High-level Food S [...]
2008-07-28 16:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EAGR ECON FR
08PARIS1439S/E CUMBER'S JULY 21 MEETINGS IN PARIS
[...] (SBU) Special Envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Sada Cumber stressed the importance of Muslim integration, social cohesion and individual accountability during his visit to Paris July 21. At the Institute of the Arab World, he outlined the U.S. Government's effort to [...]
2008-07-29 07:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KIRF FR
08PARIS1446FRANCE PROMISES A "MORE VOCAL" EU PRESIDENCY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: State DRL and IO officials met with French MFA International Organizations and Human Rights officials on July 17 to discuss upcoming resolutions, declarations and strategy for the 63rd UN General Assembly in New York. French International Organizations A/S-equivalent Sylvie Berman [...]
2008-07-29 15:46:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EUN NGO PHUM UN
08PARIS1447SPECIAL ENVOY WOLCOTT'S NUCLEAR ENERGY SUPPLY
[...] (U) Summary. On July 20-21, Ambassador Jackie Wolcott, Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Special Assistant Marc Humphrey traveled to Paris for consultations on civil nuclear supply criteria in light of the anticipated expansion in nuclear energy. Meetings were held with officia [...]
2008-07-29 16:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALENRG TRGY KNNP PREL ETTC IAEA FR
08PARIS1464EU-SOUTH AFRICA SUMMIT: NO BREAKTHROUGHS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There were no breakthroughs at the July 25 EU-South Africa Summit in Bordeaux. As was expected, the two sides did not reach agreement on an EU-South Africa Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) because of South Africa's insistence that it be accorded certain privileges available [...]
2008-07-31 08:19:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL ECON PHUM ETRD EUN SF FR
08PARIS147FRENCH ANTICIPATE MAJOR PUSHBACK ON NEXT UNSCR ON
[...] (C) At the end of a late January 25 meeting on Iraq (septel),we informed French MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf Franck Gellet that we were mobilizing to begin talking to non-P-5 members of the UNSC on elements for a new UNSCR on Iran. Gellet said he appreciated the informat [...]
2008-01-29 06:20:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP UNSC FR IR
08PARIS149MFA AND PRESIDENCY VIEWS ON COLOMBIAN HOSTAGE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA A/S for the Americas Daniel Parfait described an uncertain way forward to secure the release of FARC hostages following the January 21 visit of Colombian President Uribe to France. While a determined President Sarkozy continues to press the MFA for proposals to obtain Ingrid [...]
2008-01-29 13:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM FR CO VZ SP SZ VT
08PARIS15A/S SILVERBERG'S MEETING WITH FRENCH MFA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Kristen Silverberg met in Paris on December 21 with her French counterpart, Sylvie Bermann. They discussed a range of issues currently before the UN Security Council (UNSC). Bermann pushed for a UNSC endorsemen [...]
2008-01-04 17:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALAORC KWMN PHUM PREL UNGA EUN UNHRC FR
08PARIS1501FRANCE'S CHANGING AFRICA POLICY: PART I
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The revised Africa policy President Nicolas Sarkozy announced after taking office in May 2007 is taking shape. This new policy features a reduction and consolidation of France's military presence to align it more closely with Africa's regional structures, more "business-like" rela [...]
2008-08-01 15:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PINR ECON MARR PHUM XA FR
08PARIS1513ECONOMIC AND LABOR REFORMS THAT WILL CHANGE THE
[...] (SBU) The French National Assembly has adopted four key economic and labor reforms that will ease many services and labor market constraints, boost purchasing power, promote entrepreneurship, and allow individual firms to negotiate overtime hours with their employees. The fours laws in questi [...]
2008-08-04 17:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EINV ETRD ELAB PGOV FR
08PARIS1519SUDAN/DARFUR: EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITY OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French have discussed with Sudan FM Deng Alor things that Sudan could do, in its own interests, that might alleviate pressure stemming from a possible ICC indictment of President Bashir, but have not promised that if Sudan behaved in a certain way that France would try to st [...]
2008-08-06 07:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KJUS PHUM UNSC SU FR
08PARIS1529FRANCE: MEASURED APPROVAL FOR NEW U.S. BURMA
[...] (C) France welcomes new U.S. sanctions on Burma and is open to strengthening existing EU sanctions as long as they do not interfere with provision of humanitarian aid, Burma Desk Officer Jeremie Petit said August 6 in response to reftel points. He added that EU experts are reviewing Europe's [...]
2008-08-07 08:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV ETRD FR BM
08PARIS1545UPCOMING CHANGES IN FRENCH INTERNATIONAL MEDIA IDENTITY
[...] (SBU) Changes President Sarkozy has set in motion to revitalize the public television industry will likely have a significant impact on France's international media presence. Reforms will consolidate France's internationally broadcast public networks under a new holding company modeled after t [...]
2008-08-11 08:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO OPRC FR
08PARIS155FRENCH MFA EMPHASIZES THAT IRAQ'S PROBLEMS ARE
[...] (U) Action request at para 7. 2. (C) At the end of a January 25 briefing by visiting Washington analysts on transition/security issues in Iraq, French MFA DAS-equivalent for Iran, Iraq, and the Gulf Franck Gellet expanded on French reluctance to host the next meeting on the Iraq Compact [...]
2008-01-29 16:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM FR IZ UN
08PARIS156FRANCE AND IPR - OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENGAGEMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: As France prepares for its 2008 EU Presidency, President Sarkozy is placing a high priority on Intellectual Property Rights, pushing forward several initiatives that could influence the global evolution of online IPR. The Olivennes Commission Report on digital piracy, commission [...]
2008-01-29 17:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIPR ETRD PGOV FR
08PARIS1561WORKING WITH FRANCE TO ADVANCE A SOLUTION TO THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-13 07:19:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALUNSC PGOV PREL PBTS EUN FR GE RU GG
08PARIS1568FRANCE’S CHANGING AFRICA POLICY: PART II (FRENCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France's new Africa policy has received mixed reviews from Africans uncertain as France moves away from the "France-Afrique" model. Some Africans seem to accept the outlines of the new policy, some have expressed misgivings about replacing the familiar with the unknown, and some have p [...]
2008-08-13 17:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR ECON MARR PHUM XA FR
08PARIS1584RWANDA: FRENCH REACTION TO GENOCIDE ACCUSATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Acting MFA Rwanda desk officer Claude Blevin said on August 14 that France was waiting to see if Rwanda would act on the recent Rwandan report accusing France of involvement in the 1994 genocide. He said the report was politically motivated and an attempt by Rwanda to have Fran [...]
2008-08-18 16:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPINR KJUS RW FR
08PARIS1587TFGG01: FRENCH EFFORTS TO RESOLVE CRISIS IN GEORGIA
[...] (C) Summary: Since President Sarkozy and Foreign Minister Kouchner met with Secretary Rice on August 14, President Sarkozy has maintained high-profile efforts to implement the Russia/Georgia six-point cease-fire accord he negotiated in his capacity as EU President -- especially the main p [...]
2008-08-18 18:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN
08PARIS16FRENCH FM KOUCHNER'S JANUARY 1-2 VISIT TO PAKISTAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. As the first high-level Western official to visit Pakistan since Benazir Bhutto's death, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner carried a strong message to President Musharraf that free and fair elections must go forward as soon as possible. While in Pakistan January 1- 2, Ko [...]
2008-01-04 18:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER PARM SHUM IN PK FR
08PARIS1600TFGG01: AUGUST 20: FRENCH PRESIDENCY ON SITUATION
[...] (C) We met August 20 with Boris Boillon, who normally covers NEA issues but was filling in for a colleague who covers Russia and the CIS, at the Elysee to discuss the missing copy of the six-point cease-fire accord with Russian President Medvedev's signature. Boillon handed over a Russian la [...]
2008-08-21 10:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN
08PARIS1601TFGG01: AUGUST 20: FRENCH PRESIDENCY ON SITUATION
[...] (C) We met August 20 with Boris Boillon, who normally covers NEA issues but was filling in for a colleague who covers Russia and the CIS, at the Elysee to discuss the missing copy of the six-point cease-fire accord with Russian President Medvedev's signature. Boillon handed over a Russian la [...]
2008-08-21 10:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN
08PARIS1616TFGG01: FRENCH VIEW OSCE MONITORS IN GEORGIA AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 21, French Elysee Advisor Boris Boillon and MFA A/S for Eurasia Roland Galharague, who traveled with FM Kouchner to the region, provided us with a consistent interpretation of the arrival of OSCE monitors: the new monitors are responding to the emergency situation; they [...]
2008-08-21 18:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM MOPS OSCE UNSC FR GG RU RS UN
08PARIS1625FRENCH RESPONSE ON SUPPORTING AFGHANISTAN'S
[...] (C) We delivered reftel message on supporting Afghanistan's candidacy for the MESA seat on the IAEA Board of Governors (BOG) to French MFA DAS-equivalent for Levantine affairs Ludovic Pouille on 19 August. Prior to that meeting, we had previewed the pitch we would be making on August 13 to [...]
2008-08-22 14:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MNUC IAEA FR SY IR AF
08PARIS1626 THE GOF TURNS TO DEFICIT CUTTING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although part of the Sarkozy teamQs campaign platform, fiscal adjustment was put on the back burner in favor of other reform priorities following the 2007 elections. Now under considerable budgetary pressure, the GOF has ruled out further tax cuts (with an exception for reform [...]
2008-08-22 16:17:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV FR
08PARIS1627NO SUBSTANTIVE FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-22 17:31:00Embassy ParisSECRETEFIN ECON PREL PARM PINR PTER KNNP FR SY IR
08PARIS163TWO-MONTH TARGET TO PRIORITIZE FRENCH MILITARY
[...] (S) Summary. French military and civilian authorities are "feeling the pressure" to step up France's military engagement in Afghanistan and are actively reviewing options that they plan to announce at the NATO summit in Bucharest. In addition to planning associated with President Sarkozy's [...]
2008-01-30 14:58:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL MOPS NATO FR AF
08PARIS1647FRENCH ON SERBIA: QUIET OPPOSITION TO ICJ, AND
[...] (C) On August 28, MFA desk officer for Serbia Felix Buttin, along with Kosovo desk officer Herve Boisguillaume, provided updates in French thinking on the Serbian proposal for an ICJ resolution, progress in the EU's interim trade agreement with Serbia, and the lifting of the Karadzic family's [...]
2008-08-29 15:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA UN KV FR
08PARIS1648FRENCH VIEW PAKISTAN THROUGH PRISM OF AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA desk officer Nicolas Bergeret told Poloff on August 28 that while the GOF is not necessarily sad to see President Musharraf depart, they hope the new Pakistani president to be elected on September 6 commits to strengthening democratic institutions and respect for the ru [...]
2008-08-29 16:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PHUM PTER PGOV FR PK
08PARIS1649TREASURY D/S KIMMITT AND MINFIN LAGARDE DISCUSS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-29 17:20:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL FR
08PARIS1650TREASURY D/S KIMMITT, FRENCH NSA LEVITTE ON IRAN,
[...] (C) Summary: On August 29 President Sarkozy,s Diplomatic Advisor Jean-David Levitte and Deputy Advisor for Security Affairs Francois Richier outlined for Treasury D/S Robert Kimmitt GOF thinking on &quick, effective and sharp8 next steps on Iran. The GOF would present its ideas more fully in [...]
2008-08-30 12:48:00Embassy ParisSECRETECON EFIN FR PREL RS IR
08PARIS1660FRANCE SUPPORTS EXPANSION OF AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) On September 2 we conveyed reftel demarche in support of the expansion of the Afghan National Army from 86,000 to 134,000 at the September 10 Joint Coordination Board Meeting in Kabul to Nicolas Niemtc [...]
2008-09-03 11:08:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MCAP AF FR
08PARIS1671SUDAN: FRENCH OFFER NO "DEAL" BUT BELIEVE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French Presidency official Romain Serman on September 4 said that Sudanese officials seemed to be acknowledging reality and the need for them to change their behavior following consultations in Khartoum that Deputy Diplomatic Advisor Joubert and Serman held on September 2 with [...]
2008-09-04 17:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC SU FR
08PARIS1672FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR GYMNICH
[...] (C) Summary: On September 4, MFA CFSP Deputy Mathieu Carmona shared his expectations for the September 5-6 Gymnich meeting of EU Foreign Ministers, responding to reftel demarches A and B. Carmona advised that Friday's discussion will focus on Transatlantic Relations, with an emphasis on mai [...]
2008-09-05 11:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM GG RU FR
08PARIS1694FUTURE U.S.-EU RELATIONS AND GEORGIA/RUSSIA
[...] (C) Summary: Gathered in Avignon for the Gymnich informal September 5-6, EU Foreign Ministers, the High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP),and European Commission members discussed the future of U.S.-EU relations, updating the European Security Strategy, the Georgia [...]
2008-09-08 17:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN FR
08PARIS1696SARKOZY PLANS ON GEORGIA-RUSSIA CONFLICT
[...] (S/NF) Summary. In a September 5 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker, Francois Richier, the Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy, discussed EU plans for the September 8 meeting with Russian President Medvedev (other topics will be reported septel). Present for the Sep [...]
2008-09-09 08:36:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS RU GG FR UN
08PARIS1697U.S. AMBASSADOR TO NATO DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN,
[...] (U) This message contains an action request -- please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary. On September 5-6, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker met with Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy and Michel Miraillet, the Director of Strategic Affairs at the MOD, to di [...]
2008-09-09 08:58:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPREL NATO FR AF PK SO
08PARIS1698FRANCE'S CHANGING AFRICA POLICY: PART III
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France's new Africa policy may have its most immediate impact on France's military presence in Africa. The French are planning to consolidate their military presence and want to orient it towards cooperation with Africa's sub-regional groupings (e.g., ECOWAS, SADC, et al.) and awa [...]
2008-09-09 16:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR ECON MARR PHUM XA FR
08PARIS1703ELYSEE READOUT OF SARKOZY'S SEPTEMBER 3-4 VISIT TO
[...] (S) Summary: During his September 3-4 visit to Damascus,President Sarkozy told Syrian President Bashar al-Asad that in order to establish a relationship of trust with France, Syria would need to honor its commitments and respect certain principles (e.g., Lebanon's sovereignty and the International [...]
2008-09-09 18:13:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR LE UNSC PREL
08PARIS1704THE FRENCH EU PRESIDENCY: INSTITUTIONAL GOALS IN
[...] (C) Summary. French Presidency EU Advisor Fabien Raynaud provided his views on the first months of France's EU Presidency in an mid-August introductory meeting. Setting external issues aside to focus on internal EU cooperation, he said that the GOF is encouraged by progress thus far on its [...]
2008-09-10 16:50:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN FR
08PARIS1707IRAQ COALITION DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-11 17:02:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR PREL MOPS IZ
08PARIS1708FRENCH READOUT OF EU MISSION TO MOSCOW AND NEXT
[...] (C/NF) Summary. On September 10, Political M/C met with Damien Loras, Advisor to President Sarkozy on Russia and the Caucasus, who provided a readout of President Sarkozy,'s September 8 trip to Moscow and the reasoning behind the provisions in the final agreement on Georgia. Despite the dif [...]
2008-09-11 17:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL GG RU FR EU
08PARIS1709DEMARCHE ON SNIPER RIFLES DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-11 17:14:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR PARM PREL MASS ETTC FGM AU IR
08PARIS1715FRANCE CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTIVE OF EXPANDING ON ISAF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-12 17:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF FR
08PARIS1716MFA THINKING ON IRAN AND IRAQ
[...] (C) Summary: Franck Gellet, MFA DAS-equivalent for Iraq, Iran, and the Arabian Peninsula, acknowledged progress over the past year in Iraq and said that as a result, France had moved away from its previous idea of convening an international conference to promote Iraqi national reconciliation. [...]
2008-09-12 17:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR IZ IR
08PARIS1717FRENCH BELIEVE THAT ASSASSINATION OF SYRIAN
[...] (S/NF) As Washington readers and others ponder French policy toward Syria, and as an expansion of para 3 in reftel, we pass along the previously unreported views of two of our GOF interlocutors from meetings in late August on the mysterious assassination earlier in the month of Syrian brigad [...]
2008-09-12 17:57:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINS PINR FR SY LE
08PARIS1718FRENCH EXPECT A PRODUCTIVE SEPTEMBER GAERC
[...] (C) Summary. On September 12, MFA deputy for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Mathieu Carmona said the September 15-16 GAERC will focus on implementation of next steps on Georgia, including deployment of the EU observer mission by October 1. The GAERC will also decide the mandate and n [...]
2008-09-12 18:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN RS GG ZI SO SR TU FR
08PARIS1721SOMALIA: UNSC SANCTIONS AND PIRACY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Somalia desk officer Thierry Caboche said on September 12 that France favored a 12-month time limit to the UNSC Somalia sanctions resolution now under consideration in New York, to allow the Security Council to maintain closer supervision over the sanctions process than wou [...]
2008-09-15 09:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC EUN MOPS SO FR
08PARIS1726SUDAN/ICC/SANCTIONS: "WE ARE NOT NEGOTIATING WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent for Sudan Helene Le Gal stressed on September 12 that "we are not negotiating with Sudan" concerning its recent discussion with the Khartoum regime during which the French explained to the Sudanese the things Sudan needed to do to improve its standing in the [...]
2008-09-15 17:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC SU CD FR
08PARIS1728FRANCE CONSIDERING CONTRIBUTIONS FOR AFGHAN
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche on September 15 to Francois Delmas, who is responsible for NATO and Afghanistan issues in the Strategic Affairs bureau at the MFA. Delmas said that the GOF was expecting this demarche soliciting contributions for the Afghan National Army and is currently cons [...]
2008-09-16 08:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL NATEU MOPS MARR FR AF
08PARIS1740FRENCH REACTION TO ENGAGING EUORPEAN COUNTRIES ON
[...] (SBU) Per reftel request, Post shared points on Argentina investment disputes with French Ministry of Finance officials on August 19. Emboff followed up with Finance Ministry officials September 16 and met with Hugo Hanne, Head of the Americas Division and Vanessa Gouret, Deputy Head of Servic [...]
2008-09-17 12:24:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KIDE AR FR
08PARIS1745MORE FROM EU SPECIAL REP FOR GEORGIA AND FRENCH
[...] (C) Summary: EU Special Representative for the Georgia Crisis Pierre Morel took a few minutes from intensive preparations for the EU/Central Asia forum to discuss his thinking about preparations for the mid-October Geneva meeting on Georgia. As noted in reftel, he plans to visit New York a [...]
2008-09-17 17:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PBTS MARR FR GG RS EU UN
08PARIS1746BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON
[...] (U) Embassy contacted Defontaine planning and logistics chief, Pascal Boutin (Tel: +33-02 40 67 89 07; email: pascal-boutin@defontaine.com) and MOD Directorate General for Armements U.S. Desk officer Maj. Eng. Damien LOUISE (Tel: + 33 1 46 19 67 00; email: damien.louise@dga.defense.gouv.fr) for [...]
2008-09-18 13:45:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC FR
08PARIS1750FRANCE AND RUSSIA: PRIME MINISTERS TO MEET IN
[...] (C) Late on September 17, FM Kouchner's adviser on Russia/Georgia/the Balkans Isabelle Dumont told us that a French FM Fillon would go to Sochi September 19-20 for a "governmental seminar" in Sochi where he would also meet Russian PM Putin. The event, scheduled before the Georgia crisis, was [...]
2008-09-18 16:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL RS GG FR
08PARIS1751USDP EDELMAN DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN,
[...] (C) Summary. On September 12, USDP Edelman and Counselor Eliot Cohen met with Philippe Errera, Strategic Affairs Advisor to FM Kouchner; Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy; and Michel Miraillet, Director of Strategic Affairs at the MOD, to discuss Afghanistan, P [...]
2008-09-19 09:17:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS NATO AF PA GG RU FR
08PARIS1753FRENCH UPDATES ON COUNTER-PIRACY; EU COORDINATION
[...] (C) Summary. France has not yet identified another nation to take over escorting World Food Program shipments (which the French call "Operation Alcyon") once Canada's scheduled escort duty stops on September 27, according to MFA desk officers Samer Melki and Guillaume Dabouis during a Septem [...]
2008-09-19 14:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EUN
08PARIS1761SUDAN: GATHERING FRENCH SUPPORT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: S/WCI Ambassador Clint Williamson met with French presidential advisor Bruno Joubert in Paris on September 12 to discuss the results of Joubert's September 2 visit to Khartoum and gather support against Sudanese efforts to gain an Article 16 suspension in the UN Security Council ( [...]
2008-09-22 09:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC SU FR UN
08PARIS1769FRENCH WARILY BACK CONTINUED UN-LED TALKS ON
[...] (C) France supports in principle a continuation of the UN-led talks on Western Sahara but was not prepared to commit to another round until it was clearer how the talks would proceed according to Nathalie Loiseau, PDAS-equivalent in the MFA's NEA who responded to Ref B demarche on September 1 [...]
2008-09-22 14:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PGOV UNSC FR MO AG WI
08PARIS1771AIRBUSQSYRIA TALKS ON AIRCRAFT LEASE
[...] (U) This is an action cable. See paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Recent press reporting has speculated on the possible sale or lease of Airbus aircraft to Syria's state carrier. While the GOF has downplayed the reports, speculation has centered on ways in which a deal could be structured to sidestep [...]
2008-09-22 15:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND ECON ETRD EAIR PREL FR
08PARIS1777ENERGY SECURITY: FRENCH GOALS ON CENTRAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a September 17 meeting with MFA Director for Economic Affairs Christian Masset, Special Envoy for Eurasia Energy C. Boyden Gray shared concerns over Caspian Basin supply diversification issues and the need for greater EU engagement with Central Asia. Masset told Gray the is [...]
2008-09-23 16:27:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ZK PREL FR EU
08PARIS1785DEMARCHE TO GOF ON RUSSIAN INITIATIVE TO ALLOW
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-24 15:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC FR RU GG
08PARIS1791FRANCE JOINS U.S. IN OPPOSING NICARAGUAN
[...] (C) The GOF shares USG opposition to Nicaragua's recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia according to French MFA desk officer Philippe Garcia de la Rosa who spoke to poloff on September 22. Garcia said the GOF agrees with all points in reftel and further rejects efforts to liken the indepe [...]
2008-09-25 09:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL EUN GG NU RU FR
08PARIS1793FRANCE SUPPORTS U.S. ON PNG DECISION BY BOLIVIA
[...] (C) The French Government agrees with the U.S. position from reftel demarche on the decision by Bolivia and Venezuela to declare our ambassadors persona non grata (PNG),according to MFA desk officers Aurelien Lepine-Kouas and Lionel Paradisi who spoke to poloff on September 22. The MFA noted [...]
2008-09-25 15:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM BL ASEC FR
08PARIS1805FRENCH GOVERNMENT TAKING A HARD LINE ON COUP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Romain Serman, Counselor on Africa at the French Presidency, on September 19 provided a frank assessment of the situation in Mauritania in the aftermath of the August 6 coup to Ambassador Mark Boulware, stating that the French are prepared for a "divorce" with Mauritania if P [...]
2008-09-26 16:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR KDEM PINS MR FR
08PARIS1817PRELIMINARY FRENCH RESPONSES TO UN FIRST COMMITTEE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-30 17:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC UNGA CDG FR
08PARIS1822FRANCE CONSIDERING HUMAN RIGHT TO BROADBAND
[...] (SBU) In a speech set for October 13, President Sarkozy will announce a major policy initiative on the future of the digital economy that may include support for a human right to internet broadband access. 2. (SBU) In discussions September 30 - October 1 with Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S [...]
2008-10-01 17:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PHUM ETRD KIPR FR
08PARIS1826EUROPEAN G-8 HEADS OF STATE TO DISCUSS FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] (SBU) The heads of France, Germany, Britain, Italy, the Eurogroup, the European Commission and the European Central Bank will meet in Paris Saturday to "prepare the contribution of European members of the G8 to the upcoming meetings of this group devoted to the international financial crisis." [...]
2008-10-02 14:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL FR
08PARIS1828FRANCE: S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON DISCUSSES WAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: S/WCI Ambassador Williamson met with French MFA officials on September 12 to discuss human rights abuses in Georgia and the status of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda (ICTY and ICTR),the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL),the Khmer Rouge Tribunal [...]
2008-10-03 09:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC FR UN
08PARIS1845FRENCH PLAN FOR RATIFICATION OF NATO ENLARGEMENT
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) The MFA wants the French Parliament to approve NATO membership for Croatia and Albania before the April 2009 NATO summit in Strasbourg-Kehl, according to DAS-equivalent for the Balkans, Thierry Guichoux, who discusse [...]
2008-10-06 16:09:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNATO PARM MARR PREL KTIA FR AL CR
08PARIS1846FRANCE CONSIDERING HUMAN RIGHT TO BROADBAND
[...] (SBU) In a speech set for October 13, President Sarkozy will announce a major policy initiative on the future of the digital economy that may include support for a human right to internet broadband access. 2. (SBU) In discussions September 30 - October 1 with Ambassador David A. Gross, U.S [...]
2008-10-07 08:31:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PHUM ETRD KIPR FR
08PARIS1853GENERAL PETRAEUS DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN,
[...] (C) Summary. During a September 25-26 visit to Paris to receive military honors, General David Petraeus met with French interlocutors including DefMin Herve Morin, PM Franois Fillon, Secretary-General of the MFA Gerard Errera (D-equivalent) and President Sarkozy's diplomatic advisor Jean-Dav [...]
2008-10-07 17:31:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPREL MOPS FR AF PA SY LE IR
08PARIS1855MARCH 14 SHOOTS ITSELF IN FOOT DURING ELYSEE VISIT
[...] (S) Summary: A March 14th delegation led by Lebanese MP Marwan Hamadeh that met October 2 with senior French officials may have done more harm than good, at least so far as relations with the Elysee are concerned. "What world are they living in?" Boris Boillon, Counselor for Middle East Affairs at [...]
2008-10-08 10:11:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR PREL PGOV KDEM PINS LE SY
08PARIS186INDIA: SARKOZY VISIT INCREASES BILATERAL
[...] (C) Summary. President Sarkozy's January 25-27 official visit to India was political rather than commercially focused, according to DAS-equivalent Didier Leroy January 29. Leroy highlighted that France initialed a civil nuclear agreement, increased environmental cooperation, signed bilateral [...]
2008-02-01 17:59:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR IN
08PARIS1862SUDAN: NAFIE FAILS TO IMPRESS FRENCH, WHO HAVE NO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During his October 6 Paris meetings, Sudanese Presidential Advisor Nafie Ali Nafie failed to convince French officials that Sudan had made progress in areas of concern that would warrant a shift in France's position, according to MFA desk officer Frederic Bouvier. The Sudanese d [...]
2008-10-08 15:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PHUM SU FR
08PARIS1863FRENCH SUPPORT STREAMLINING U.S. COMMAND AND
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified - Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) During the recent visits to Paris of USDP Eric Edelman (ref B) and General David Petraeus (ref C),both men raised with their French interlocutors the recent designation of General McKiernan as ISAF as well as OEF co [...]
2008-10-08 16:24:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF FR
08PARIS1869FRENCH ESDP INITIATIVES POST-DEAUVILLE DEFENSE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. On October 1-2, European Union (EU) defense ministers decided on common directions for capacity-building initiatives and EU military operations at an informal ministerial in Deauville, France. As an informal ministerial, Deauville produced no formal decisions, rather [...]
2008-10-10 13:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MCAP MOPS EUN FR
08PARIS187BURKINA FASO/COTE D'IVOIRE: FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's January 27 visit to Burkina Faso focused on Cote d'Ivoire and the need to remain engaged on ensuring free and fair elections there, according to the MFA desk officer responsible for both countries. The main priority is to enable the e [...]
2008-02-01 18:20:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM UV IV FR
08PARIS1872 PARIS CLUB - SEPTEMBER 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's September 17 session, Club Chairman Musca briefed creditors on recent contacts with the Government of Argentina (GOA),which revealed that Argentina intends to clear arrears excluding late interest and resume debt service on future installments. Creditors in [...]
2008-10-10 14:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS1874FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-10 16:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDMCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC FR
08PARIS1875FRENCH EU PRESIDENCY: GAERC PREPARATIONS STILL IN
[...] (C) Summary. On October 10, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona provided an overview of French expectations for the October GAERC. In addition to Zimbabwe, Georgia, and Belarus, the topics of the U.S. demarche, Uzbekistan and Moldova, wil [...]
2008-10-10 17:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV ZI UZ BO GG RS FR EUN
08PARIS188FRANCE/DRC/RWANDA: FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Rwanda and its troubled relations with France emerged as the key element of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner's January 25-26 to the DRC and Rwanda, according to Laurent Chevallier, the MFA desk officer for both. Kouchner made a sincere, good-faith effort to display to [...]
2008-02-01 18:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CG RW FR
08PARIS1884AIRBUS ON SYRIA DEAL AND USG EXPORT CONTROLS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Airbus confirmed its commitment to acquiring U.S. export licenses, as necessary, for any aircraft sales to Syria. Apart from the proposed sale of 50 aircraft to Syria, Airbus expressed continuing frustration over the complicated U.S. export control and licensing procedures that [...]
2008-10-14 15:24:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND ECON ETRD EAIR PREL SY FR
08PARIS1886CUBA ALSO BLOCKS FRENCH BILATERAL HURRICANE
[...] (C) The United States is not the only country or group of countries whose aide has been refused by Havana after a series of deadly hurricanes ravaged the Caribbean nation (ref a),said French MFA desk officer Anne Suard. Suard told poloff on October 14 the Cuban government is still retaliati [...]
2008-10-15 14:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL CU FR
08PARIS1890BEIJING OLYMPICS FAIL TO IMPROVE FRENCH VIEWS ON
[...] (SBU) The French public watched the Beijing Summer Olympics in large numbers and with interest but came away without an appreciable change in their generally downbeat views on China. Our reading from contacts in discussions since the August 24 closing ceremony is that in the current context [...]
2008-10-15 15:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH FR
08PARIS1893FRANCE PROPOSES INFORMAL MEETING OF AFGHANISTAN'S
[...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary. On October 15, Pol M/C met with Philippe Errera, Strategic Affairs advisor to FM Kouchner, to discuss the French proposal for a meeting to discuss regional cooperation among Afghanistan's neighbors. Errera apologized that t [...]
2008-10-15 17:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL AF FR UZ TI TX IR PK
08PARIS1894 CLONES AND CLONE PRODUCTS DENOUNCED BY FRENCH ADVISORY
[...] Summary: The release on the market of products sourced from cloned animals and their offspring should be prohibited according to the October 14 conclusions of the French Advisory Committee on Food (Conseil national de l'Alimentation.) The CNA is an official advisory body. Its conclusions were [...]
2008-10-15 18:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
08PARIS1895FRENCH SEEK FUNDAMENTAL REFORM OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL
[...] (C) The French Government's objective for the summit proposed in President Sarkozy's speech to the UN General Assembly is to set an agenda for rethinking the international financial system with a view to assuring stable global growth over the long term, according to a working-level GOF contac [...]
2008-10-16 08:34:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN PREL EUN FR
08PARIS1896C.A.R.: FRENCH SHARE U.S. WORRIES ON C.A.R.'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the Presidency, MOD, and MFA shared U.S. concerns about the Central African Republic (C.A.R.) during Ambassador Frederick Cook's October 14 and 15 consultations in Paris. These concerns centered on the almost complete lack of good governance in C.A.R., Pres [...]
2008-10-16 08:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR PGOV MARR ECON CT FR
08PARIS1902AMBASSADOR-LEVITTE DISCUSSION ON CAMP DAVID MEETING
[...] (C) In an October 16 meeting, Elysee Diplomatic Advisor Levitte told Ambassador he sees the October 18 meeting between President Sarkozy, European Commission President Barroso and President Bush as a brainstorming session on the summit recently agreed to by the G8. The French objective for the [...]
2008-10-17 08:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN PREL EUN FR
08PARIS1908FRENCH PRESIDENCY REACTS TO GENEVA MEETING ON
[...] (C) French presidency adviser for Russia, Central Asia, and the Americas Damien Loras on October 16 provided DCM an update on French thinking about Russia and Georgia following the October 15 meeting in Geneva. He argued that France preferred to regard the Russian withdrawal from areas adja [...]
2008-10-17 12:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD EUN FR RS GG
08PARIS1914FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES GENEVA CONFERENCE ON
[...] (C) MFA A/S-equivalent for Continental Europe, Galharague told us October 17 that the fact that the Geneva meeting took place qualifies it as a success for the French. No one had any illusions that the Geneva meeting would be easy, given the Russian threat not to participate if South Ossetia [...]
2008-10-17 15:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS PINR PHUM EUN FR RS GG
08PARIS1917GLOBAL SUMMIT ON FINANCIAL SYSTEM: MFA DAS DISCUSSES GOF
[...] (C) On October 16, Elysee Diplomatic Advisor Levitte gave Ambassador the broad-brush French position on when, where and why the GOF wants an international summit on the financial system. He avoided going much into the substance, arguing that he is not an expert in international finance. To get [...]
2008-10-17 17:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN PREL EUN FR
08PARIS1927FRANCE PREPARES TO ENGAGE NEW US ADMINISTRATION ON
[...] (S/NF) Summary/comment: France's foreign policy establishment plans to engage the new U.S. administration as soon as possible (even, perhaps, before the formal inauguration) on a range of Middle East issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Iran, and Syria/Lebanon. In the hope [...]
2008-10-20 16:55:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNFR PREL PGOV MEPP
08PARIS1930IO DAS ANDERSON DISCUSSES UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: IO DAS Anderson discussed UN issues on October 10 with French MFA IO-DAS equivalent Marc Giacomini who expressed GOF support for the Immediate Plan of Action reform package being proposed at the FAO conference in Rome on November 19. He noted the importance of presenting a unifie [...]
2008-10-21 11:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC FR UN
08PARIS1936CHAD: CONTINUED HIGH FRENCH ENGAGEMENT IS KEY TO
[...] (C) Deputy Presidential Diplomatic Advisor Bruno Joubert told U.S. Ambassador to Chad Louis Nigro on October 20 that 2009 could be a "pivotal year" in Chad's history. Joubert said that French priorities in Chad centered on (a) electoral reform to achieve credible elections in Chad in 2009 an [...]
2008-10-21 15:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PINR MARR CD FR
08PARIS1942USDP EDELMAN'S CONSULTATIONS IN PARIS, OCTOBER 16
[...] (C) Summary. On October 16, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USDP) Eric Edelman met with GOF officials Michel Miraillet, Director of Strategic Affairs at the Defense Ministry, and Philippe Errera, Strategic Affairs Advisor to Foreign Minister Kouchner. They agreed on the importance of [...]
2008-10-22 16:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS AF PA IS IZ LE SY IR TU FR
08PARIS1946MAURITANIA/FRANCE: "ISOLATE AZIZ, MAKE HIM LEAVE"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French are attempting to isolate Mauritania coup leader General Aziz, in order to force his resignation, which would lead to the return of constitutional government, Presidential AF Counselor Romain Serman said on October 22. Serman said that the GOF had had some success in [...]
2008-10-23 13:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PINS ETTC MR FR
08PARIS1947FRENCH PRESIDENCY INSIDER ON HOW TO GET THINGS
[...] (SBU) President Sarkozy's activist approach to the financial crisis is playing well with the public because the French see him as focused and statesmanlike, State Secretary for Parliamentary Affairs Roger Karoutchi told the Ambassador at a working lunch October 20. A governing UMP party ins [...]
2008-10-23 17:19:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON FR
08PARIS1948FRENCH MFA "PRUDENT" ON MOSKALENKO CASE, CITES
[...] (C) MFA desk officer for Russian internal issues Arnaud Migoux told us October 23 that the French are paying close attention to the alleged poisoning of Russian human rights lawyer Karina Moskalenko in the eastern French city of Strasbourg where she lives. However, French investigators are [...]
2008-10-23 17:20:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM PGOV PINS PINR FR RS
08PARIS1949A EUROGROUP COUP FOR SARKOZY?
[...] (C) Summary: President Sarkozy,s October 21 speech before the European Parliament in Strasbourg, touching on a number of issues related to the financial crisis, is being interpreted by some observers here as a trial balloon for a Sarkozy presidency of a transformed (head-of-state) Eurogroup. [...]
2008-10-23 18:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PGOV FR
08PARIS1951FRANCE IN THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] (U) Per ref tasking, this message provides an initial read on France and the financial crisis, including immediate credit/liquidity concerns, the longer macroeconomic outlook, government actions in response to the crisis, expected domestic impact and possible effects on U.S.-French relations. [...]
2008-10-24 07:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL FR
08PARIS1958SUDAN/QATAR: FRENCH INTERESTED BUT NOT OPTIMISTIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal on October 23 said that France was not optimistic that the Qatar process on Sudan/Darfur would produce results, although France was interested in and supportive of Qatar's effort. In Qatar, French envoy Issa Maraut has helped convey the French m [...]
2008-10-24 15:20:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PGOV SU AL QA FR
08PARIS1960THE POLITICS OF NYET: RUSSIA, GEORGIA, AND THE COE
[...] (C) Russian intransigence, lack of EU unity for meaningful action, general European desire for dialogue with Moscow at almost any price, and a cautious Council of Europe (COE) Secretariat combine to provide little hope that even minimal COE monitoring of Russia and Georgia will succeed. Incom [...]
2008-10-24 15:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM COE FR GG RU
08PARIS1961FRENCH RESPONSE TO GICNT: GI INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-24 17:00:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDMCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC FR
08PARIS1973A EUROGROUP COUP FOR SARKOZY?
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-28 11:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PGOV FR
08PARIS1975BOUCHER AND FRENCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS AFGHAN
[...] (C) Summary. During an October 21-22 visit to Paris, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs, Richard Boucher discussed with numerous French officials the next steps of the UN "Friends of Pakistan" group and U.S. efforts to tighten security by supporting police and trainers i [...]
2008-10-28 15:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL AF FR UZ TZ CH TA
08PARIS1976SARKOZY WANTS TO TALK SUBSTANCE NOVEMBER 15
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 9. 2. (C) Summary: European Affairs Minister Jouyet's Chief of Staff Denis Simonneau and economic affairs advisors told EMIN not to underestimate President Sarkozy's commitment to "refounding capitalism" during the upcoming series of summits. The Fr [...]
2008-10-28 15:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL FR
08PARIS1978CHAD: FRENCH EAGER TO DISCUSS MINURCAT II
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 5. 2. (C) SUMMARY: French MFA officials suggest a conference telephone call between the Department and the French MFA on Friday, October 31, at 4:00 pm Paris time (11:00 am EDT) to allow interested parties on both sides to discuss specifics con [...]
2008-10-28 16:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS MARR UN CD FR
08PARIS1979DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES DISCUSSES UNGA RESOLUTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: DRL DAS Barks-Ruggles met with French MFA Human Rights Director Jacques Pellet (Please Protect Throughout) in Paris on October 23 to discuss United Nations General Assembly Third Committee resolutions and other UN issues. The French agree on the need for a strong Iran resolution, [...]
2008-10-28 18:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC FR UN
08PARIS1980FRENCH CIVILIAN NUCLEAR: CURRENT AMBITIONS AND FUTURE
[...] (SBU) Summary. In 10/16-17 meetings French officials and private sector representatives told Special Representative Frank Mermoud that France wants its national energy industrial groups to be leaders in the "nuclear renaissance". Expansion is being driven by energy security and climate change [...]
2008-10-29 11:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALENRG ETRD PREL FR GM
08PARIS1983FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL TALKS ABOUT GEORGIA DONORS,
[...] (C) French MFA DAS-equivalent for Eurasian Affairs Alexandre Vulic told us that the Georgia donors conference in Brussels on October 22 served as confirmation that the European Union has addressed the conflict in Georgia from every angle. All pledged money will be controlled by either the E [...]
2008-10-29 18:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ECON EUN FR RU GG
08PARIS1984FRANCE AND THE OSCE: HDIM DISCUSSIONS IN PARIS
[...] (SBU) U.S. delegation head at the recent OSCE Human Development Implementation Meeting in Warsaw Ambassador Robert Pearson, in his October 13 meeting with French MFA Director for Human Rights and International Relations Sylvie Bermann, focused on the U.S. desire to work with Europe to deline [...]
2008-10-29 18:17:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PGOV OSCE FR
08PARIS1986FRENCH MFA ECON DIRECTOR ON ENERGY SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary: In a 10/28 meeting MFA Economic Affairs Director Christian Masset provided an informal reaction to points contained in the President,s 10/21 letter to President Sarkozy on energy security issues. Masset said French and U.S. thinking was broadly in line on key issues. The French [...]
2008-10-29 18:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON PREL FR
08PARIS1987BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON
[...] Embassy met with Eurotradia International Services Division Chief Charles de Montesquieu (Tel: +33 1 40 76 26 50; email:cdemontesquieu@eurotradia.fr) for clarification of subject shipment. 2. Montesquieu informed us that Eurotradia (established as Office Generale de l'Aeronautique I 1920) is [...]
2008-10-30 08:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC FR
08PARIS1994FRENCH G8 FASS ON DOHA, GLOBAL ISSUES AND THE
[...] (C) In response to pre-GAERC points on Doha (reftel),MFA Econ Director Christian Masset told EMIN on 10/28 that the "parameters (of Doha) had changed." In the current context it would be impossible to return to the deal with a business-as-usual approach. Getting Doha back on track would req [...]
2008-10-30 13:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EFIN FR
08PARIS1996FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES RELATIONS WITH
[...] (C) French MFA DAS-equivalent for Eurasian affairs Alexandre Vulic told us October 24 that, although the recent elections in Belarus did not meet any democratic standards, the EU intends to proceed with small steps to ease Belarus' isolation in response to other gestures Minsk has taken, most [...]
2008-10-30 16:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EFIN EUN FR BO
08PARIS1997FRENCH EU PRESIDENCY: EU DIPLOMATS COMMENT ON
[...] (C) Summary. Halfway through its six-month French EU presidency, it seems fair to say that Paris seized the opportunity for a global leadership role offered by several unexpected crises on its watch, while still making progress on its previously cited goals. Early concerns about the penchan [...]
2008-10-30 17:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR EUN FR
08PARIS1998MEDITERRANEAN UNION DOMINATES MUBARAK VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: Unresolved issues with the Mediterranean Union -- participation of the Arab League, location of the Union's secretariat, ensuring continuing EU engagement during the Czech EU presidency (or an extension of the French co-presidency),and agreement on a declaration for the November [...]
2008-10-30 18:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR EG
08PARIS2003 UNEXEPCTED DIFFICULTIES IN PARIS CLUB NEGOTIATION WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary. What should have been easy negotiations with Djibouti during the second day of the October 2008 Paris Club meeting turned out to be unexpectedly difficult due to a knotty problem of inter-creditor equity and to Djibouti's last-minute desire to exclude some loans that had already [...]
2008-10-31 17:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID FR DJ
08PARIS2004 PARIS CLUB - OCTOBER 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The October 2008 Paris Club Tour d'Horizon included Argentina, Congo-B, Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, DRC, Iraq, Liberia, the Seychelles, and Togo. Paris Club Co-Chairman Coeure reported that, in an earlier conversation with the Paris Club Secretariat, Argentine Minister Fernandez had re [...]
2008-10-31 17:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS2005FLIRTING WITH DISASTER: FRANCE PREPARES FOR THE
[...] (C) As Paris moves into the weekend before the Union for the Mediterranean (UPM) ministerial in Marseille 3-4 November, great uncertainty about its outcome and prospects for making good on the grand vision for the UPM sketched out in Paris last July prevail. A senior-level contact at the Fr [...]
2008-10-31 18:12:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN XT XF FR EZ EG IS SW AL
08PARIS2012DRC/FRANCE: "NO NEW TROOPS -- FOR NOW"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DRC deskoff Laurent Chevallier on November 3 said that France did not at present support sending new forces to DRC. Instead, MONUC should be reorganized and redeployed to address security concerns in North Kivu. The French are working to promote EU-AU consultations that w [...]
2008-11-03 17:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREF PINS PINR MARR CG FR
08PARIS2016S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON DISCUSSES GUANTANAMO
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: S/WCI Ambassador Williamson met with French MFA officials on October 27 to discuss possible resettlement of Guantanamo Bay detainees in France. Williamson noted there are approximately 25 detainees considered low-threat whom the U.S. wants to release but cannot return to their [...]
2008-11-04 13:06:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO FR
08PARIS202FRENCH MFA ON WESTERN SAHARA BEFORE VAN WALSUM'S
[...] (C) Summary: French MFA DAS-equivalent for North Africa Nathalie Loiseau indicated January 29 that France is increasingly impatient with UN-led talks on Western Sahara and believes the process may even be moving backward. She blamed part of French frustration on UN Personal Envoy Peter van [...]
2008-02-04 16:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER FR MO AG MR WS
08PARIS2023MEDITERRANEAN UNION MINISTERIAL ENDS UP A SUCCESS
[...] (SBU) The Marseille ministerial on the Union for the Mediterranean concluded November 4 amid wrangling over organizational details to include in the final declaration continuing well past the allotted time for the working plenary session. French FM Kouchner and Egyptian FM Abu al-Ghayt, how [...]
2008-11-05 14:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ECON EUN FR EG CZ IS AG TU
08PARIS2024FRANCE: INTERIOR MINISTER PLEDGES "RETURN
[...] (SBU) Summary: French Interior Minister Alliot- Marie made an impassioned case for the "return of the state" in economic governance and a law enforcement approach to economic security at a recent high-level business colloquium. Ambassador Stapleton was invited to speak on security and global [...]
2008-11-05 15:14:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD PREL FR
08PARIS2033NOVEMBER 6 MEETING WITH PLO REPRESENTATIVE HIND
[...] (C) Summary: Palestinian Authority (PA) Prime Minister Salam Fayyad will visit Paris during the week of November 9 for meetings with PM Fillon and FM Kouchner, according to PLO Representative Hind el-Khoury. She noted that the Palestinian delegation was "very pleased" with the results of the [...]
2008-11-06 17:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR
08PARIS2055MFA PREVIEWS PART OF FM KOUCHNER'S MESSAGE WITH
[...] (C) Summary: During his November 11 visit to Washington, FM Kouchner will share the long-awaited EU paper on the Trans-Atlantic Partnership, MFA DAS-equivalent Ludovic Pouille told EUR PDAS Marcie Ries November 7. Specifically, Kouchner, whose intended audience is President-elect Obama and hi [...]
2008-11-07 17:26:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR PREL
08PARIS2056FRENCH VIEWS ON THE NOVEMBER 10 EU GAERC
[...] (SBU) French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Mathieu Carmona responded on November 7 to reftel points on the upcoming EU GAERC. He began by observing that this one would be the most complicated of the current French presidency, since it would also involve a joint [...]
2008-11-07 17:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR EAID XA FR RS LE CG CH IZ BK
08PARIS2079FRENCH OFFICIALS: NATO UNITY REQUIRES NO DECISION
[...] (C/NF) Summary. During PDAS Marcie Ries' meetings on Friday, November 7 with French officials Philippe Errera, Strategic Affairs Advisor to FM Kouchner; Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy; and Jacques Audibert, Director of Strategic Affairs at the MFA; all of he [...]
2008-11-10 15:10:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO FR RU
08PARIS2087HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTION ON IRAN: FRENCH RESPONSE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-12 13:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM FR
08PARIS2088EUR PDAS RIES DISCUSSES EU/RUSSIA RELATIONS,
[...] (C) Summary: On November 10, French presidency adviser on Russia, Damien Loras, confirmed that the EU/Russia summit will conclude November 14 with the announcement that talks on a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) will resume, a decision Loras argued was not a "big step" and the mo [...]
2008-11-12 17:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PBTS MARR UNSC EUN FR RS GG
08PARIS2089FRENCH REACTION TO NOVEMBER 9 QUARTET MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: The November 9 Quartet meeting reaffirmed the international consensus on the need to continue the Annapolis process "exactly as we expected," said French NEA A/S-equivalent Patrice Paoli on November 12. Paoli said he was struck by an informal consensus among Arab attendees that H [...]
2008-11-12 17:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR
08PARIS2092CAMEROON HOSTAGES: MFA PROVIDES BACKGROUND
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: MFA Cameroon desk officer Daniel Westerink (PROTECT THROUGHOUT) on November 12 briefed on the Cameroon hostage incident that ended with the release of the hostages on November 11. While affirming that the GOF did not pay a ransom, Westerink strongly implied that the company [...]
2008-11-13 09:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PTER CM FR
08PARIS2099RWANDA/FRANCE: ROSE KABUYE'S ARREST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French expect that Rwandan official Rose Kabuye will be extradited to France from Germany by November 21 at the latest. In France, she will testify before French judges investigating the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The judges will decide, in effect, either to dismiss the case [...]
2008-11-14 08:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KJUS RW FR
08PARIS2101COTE D'IVOIRE: FRENCH RESIGNED TO DELAYED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Cote d'Ivoire desk officer Marie Audouard on November 14 said that France was resigned to the fact that elections in Cote d'Ivoire would not be possible by the November 30 target date, but hoped that they would take place before the beginning of the 2009 rainy season. She [...]
2008-11-14 14:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MARR IV FR
08PARIS2108PARIS: SOMALIA PIRACY DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-17 16:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW FR
08PARIS2122INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT
[...] Summary France continues to be a major transshipment point for drugs moving through Europe. Given France,s shared borders with trafficking conduits such as Spain, Italy, and Belgium, France is a natural distribution point for drugs moving toward North America from Europe and the Middle Ea [...]
2008-11-19 09:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL FR
08PARIS2127 FRENCH GOVERNMENT PROMISES FINANCIAL PACKAGE TO ADDRESS
[...] Summary: Following large-scale farmer demonstrations throughout France on November 7, the French Minister of Agriculture proposed a 250 million euro financial assistance package for the French farm sector. The package encompasses a wide range of programs, including direct payments to the Frenc [...]
2008-11-20 08:03:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD PGOV EUN FR
08PARIS2129U.S./FDA ORPHAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GRANT AWARD FOR ECTOPIC
[...] ESTH Office has review the proposed research and Embassy Paris find no objection to the proposed research grant entitled "Ectopic Cushings Syndrome". STAPLETON [...]
2008-11-20 10:40:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO OTRA TPHY FR
08PARIS2130U.S./FDA ORPHAN PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT GRANT AWARD FOR
[...] ESTH Office has review the proposed research and Embassy Paris find no objection to the proposed research grant entitled "Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy". STAPLETON [...]
2008-11-20 11:23:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO OTRA TPHY US UK PO FR SW AR BR
08PARIS2134P3 CONSULTATIONS ON NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT IN PARIS
[...] (C) Summary. On November 7, Acting U/S John Rood met in Paris with his French and British counterparts Jacques Audibert and Mariot Leslie, respectively, to discuss a broad range of nonproliferation, arms control, and disarmament issues. Topics included regional issues (Iran, North Korea, and Syria) [...]
2008-11-21 08:21:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL PARM MARR KACT FR UK CH RU KN SY IR
08PARIS2135FRANCE TO CALL FOR NICARAGUA VOTE RECOUNT
[...] (C) France shares U.S. concerns about the November 9 municipal elections in Nicaragua and will issue a new statement within days calling for a recount, Nicaragua Desk Officer Philippe Garcia de la Rosa told Poloff November 20 in response to reftel points. The new MFA statement, which is in t [...]
2008-11-21 09:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR NU
08PARIS214FRANCE SUPPORTS PRIVATE SECTOR OUTREACH AND THE
[...] (SBU) Embassy poloff delivered reftel demarche together with Russian Federation terrorism expert Artem Studennikov on February 6 to Thomas Guibert, French MFA Strategic Affairs desk officer for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. Guibert expressed France's support in principle [...]
2008-02-06 15:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PTER KGIC IAEA FR
08PARIS2140EGYPT GRIPING TO FRENCH ABOUT SOMALIA ANTI-PIRACY
[...] (C) Egypt has been pressing French authorities about the geographic scope of EU anti-piracy operations, according to both the French MFA and the Egyptian Embassy. AF DAS-Equivalent Helene Le Gal complained November 18 to Africa Watcher about Egypt,s unhelpful stance and noted that Yemen, too [...]
2008-11-21 10:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS SO FR
08PARIS2141FRENCH TO ABSTAIN ON ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-21 12:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNGA IS PA LE SY FR
08PARIS2142FRENCH CAUTIOUS ON IAEA SYRIA REPORT
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche November 20 to Arnaud Mentre, action officer for Iran in the MFA's ISN-equivalent. Mentre was phlegmatic about the IAEA report on Iran, noting that Iran's enrichment seems to be on "autopilot" for the moment. As for Syria, Mentre offered as an initial impr [...]
2008-11-21 12:45:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR TRGY FR
08PARIS2146FRENCH ENVIRONMENT NEGOTIATOR UNDERSTANDS US ENGAGEMENT IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: French climate negotiator Brice Lalonde told EMIN that he understands that the new administration will need time to organize and he looks forward to working with Under Secretary Dobriansky in Poznan. EMIN also explained our position on the EU Renewable Fuels Directive, especiall [...]
2008-11-24 10:37:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG EU FR
08PARIS2149FRANCE/ZIMBABWE: MORGAN TSVANGIRAI'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe visited France November 17-19, beginning in Strasbourg at the EU meeting on development. He met with FM Kouchner in Strasbourg and traveled in Kouchner's plane to Paris. In Paris on November 18, he met with Claude Gueant (Secretary-General at th [...]
2008-11-24 14:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM ZI FR
08PARIS215FRENCH INTEREST IN IOSEA (TURTLE) MOU
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-06 15:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDFR SENV TBIO
08PARIS2150FRANCE/RWANDA: KABUYE CASE MAY OFFER A CHANCE TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential AF Counselor Romain Serman on November 24 said that France and Rwanda were taking steps to use Rwandan official Rose Kabuye's arrest as a basis for cooperation on resolving issues relating to the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Rwanda may allow French investigators to visit [...]
2008-11-24 15:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KJUS RW FR
08PARIS2151TOGO: PRESIDENT FAURE GNASSINGBE'S VISIT TO PARIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Togo President Faure Gnassingbe's visit to Paris the week of November 17 was largely uneventful but allowed the two sides to touch base, and provided France the opportunity to remind Faure of the importance of carrying out democratic reform and holding meaningful dialogue with th [...]
2008-11-25 10:12:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV SNAR TO BN FR
08PARIS2156EU DIPLOMATS PREDICT LITTLE PROGRESS WITH TURKEY
[...] (C) Summary. A quick survey of EU diplomats in Paris in November 2008 produced consensus that expectations for Turkey-EU relations in 2009 should be modest. Though the incoming Czech and then Swedish EU presidencies are more pro-Turkey than President Sarkozy's France, our contacts agree wit [...]
2008-11-26 12:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN TU FR
08PARIS2158SENIOR FRENCH ADVISOR DISCUSSES THE FINANCIAL AND
[...] (SBU) Senior advisor in the office of the French President Damien Loras and House Armed Services Committee Chairman Skelton and colleagues engaged in a lively discussion of the financial and economic crisis during a meeting November 24. They also briefly discussed relations with Russia. Part [...]
2008-11-26 14:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL OREP FR
08PARIS216LATEST ELYSEE TAKE ON LEBANON
[...] (C) French Presidency adviser on NEA affairs Boris Boillon told us February 1 that France has run out of "levers, carrots, and sticks" to use in resolving the continued political impasse in Lebanon. The word from the French embassy in Damascus, he added, was that Syrian President Asad has s [...]
2008-02-06 16:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY
08PARIS2162FRENCH CONSIDERING SUPPORT FOR THE EXPANSION OF
[...] (C) On November 26, Post delivered reftel demarche supporting the expansion of the Afghan National Army at the NATO Foreign Ministerial meeting to Nicolas Niemtchinow, Sous-Director (DAS-equivalent) of Strategic Affairs at the MFA. Niemtchinow appreciated our comments and noted general Frenc [...]
2008-11-26 15:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MARR MOPS AF FR
08PARIS2178BURMA: FRANCE CONCERNED ABOUT BANK MEASURES IN EU
[...] (C) France wants to adjust EU sanctions on Burma to address banking sector concerns but will not accept any weakening of measures against the Junta, MFA DAS- equivalent for Southeast Asia Frederic Laplanche told us December 1 in response to reftel points. With respect to restructuring specif [...]
2008-12-02 12:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EREL ETTC EFIN FR EU MY
08PARIS2182FRANCE: SARKOZY'S JANUARY COLLOQUIUM
[...] (C) Summary: Eric Besson, the Junior Minister organizing the recently announced January 8-9 Paris Conference (now titled "New World: New Capitalism; Values, Development and Regulation"),dropped by a scheduled Embassy meeting with his staff December 2 to underline that this conference is "not a [...]
2008-12-02 17:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL WTO EU FR
08PARIS2183FRENCH WELCOME BIOFUELS "SUSTAINABILITY" DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy delivered reftel points to French Ministries of Agriculture, Economy and Environment. The Agriculture Ministry told us that the EU is still discussing the biofuels sustainability and criteria issue, and that they still hope to resolve the issue by the end of the French P [...]
2008-12-03 07:39:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN EU FR
08PARIS2184FRENCH ENVIRONMENT NEGOTIATOR UNDERSTANDS US ENGAGEMENT IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: French climate negotiator Brice Lalonde told EMIN that he understands that the new administration will need time to organize and he looks forward to working with Under Secretary Dobriansky in Poznan. EMIN also explained our position on the EU Renewable Fuels Directive, especiall [...]
2008-12-03 07:40:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG EU FR
08PARIS2195FRANCE PREPARES FURTHER ACTION AGAINST IRAN
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The GOF is preparing to require financial institutions to report all transactions with Iran, and is also examining the possibility of banning or further restricting such transactions. The Senior Elysee diplomatic advisor urged increased pressure on Iran and deferral of any nego [...]
2008-12-04 10:10:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNEFIN KNNP PTER PARM EUN UNSC IR UZ FR
08PARIS2196FRANCE-RUSSIA RELATIONS: DIALOGUE IS KEY
[...] (C) The France-Russia relationship has been rather turbulent since France assumed the rotating EU presidency in July. The short August war between Georgian and Russian troops heightened tensions in the region and presented President Sarkozy with the perfect opportunity to showcase both his [...]
2008-12-04 12:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR RS
08PARIS2203EU AVIATION AND ENVIRONMENT SUMMIT ON EMISSIONS TRADING
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the November 17-19 EU Aviation Summit in Bordeaux the GOF gave no signs of backing off commitments to include aviation in ETS, but it provided no guidance on regulating international flights. Opponents of ETS including aviation called for greater reliance on ICAO for emissio [...]
2008-12-05 07:33:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR KGHG SENV EIND ETRD FR
08PARIS2212FRENCH SAY SYRIA DELIVERING ON ALL FRONTS
[...] (S) Summary: "We think Syria is delivering on the key dossier," French Presidency Advisor for the Middle East Boris Boillon said December 5, as he recapped his November 30 visit to Damascus with Presidency Secretary General Claude Gueant and NSA-equivalent Jean-David Levitte. In contrast to his col [...]
2008-12-05 18:18:00Embassy ParisSECRETPGOV PREL FR
08PARIS2213French welcome Biofuels "sustainability" Demarche
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel, the Embassy has reached out to French Government officials in the Ministries of Agriculture, Economy and Environment. The Agriculture Ministry told us that the EU is still discussing the biofuels sustainability and criteria issue, and that they still hope [...]
2008-12-08 07:04:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN EU FR
08PARIS2222FRANCE PUSHES RENEWABLE ENERGIES DESPITE COUNTERCURRENTS
[...] Summary. France has unveiled an ambitious national plan to double the share of renewables in total energy consumption to 23 percent by 2020. At present, hydropower accounts for 12 percent. Apart from biofuels for transportation, the new renewable electricity plan will target photovoltaic (PV) [...]
2008-12-08 17:31:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG SENV ENRG TRGY EU FR
08PARIS2223French Agriculture Minister's Letter to Commerce Secretary
[...] (SBU) French Agriculture and Fisheries (MAP) Minister Barnier sent a letter to US Commerce Secretary Gutierrez responding to the Embassy's demarches requesting information for the January 2009 Magnuson-Stevens Act report now being prepared by the Commerce Department's National Marine Fisheries [...]
2008-12-08 17:32:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIS ETRD SENV ICCAT EU FR
08PARIS2225FRENCH MFA ON CHAD; SEES LIBYA ANGLING TO DELIVER
[...] (C) Summary: Chad President Deby's military gains have outpaced consolidation of his political position, French AF DAS-Equivalent for Western and Central Africa Christine Fages commented in a brief December 5 meeting with AF/SPG Director Timothy Shortley and Africa Watcher. A Deby-Bashir mee [...]
2008-12-09 10:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KPKO SU CD FR
08PARIS2226FRANCE AND CUBA: RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION
[...] (C) The following paragraphs are responses to the request for information on the relationship between France and the Cuban government and the implementation of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act(ref a): 2. (C) Has France, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and hu [...]
2008-12-09 11:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU FR
08PARIS2229FRENCH MFA IN A BIND OVER EGYPTIAN UNESCO CANDIDACY
[...] (S/NF) IO A/S-Equivalent Sylvie Berman, expressing a personal view that she suggested many colleagues shared, conceded to Pol M/C that the candidacy of Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni for UNESCO Director-General (DG) was a "shocking nomination" but she stressed France was in awkward st [...]
2008-12-09 18:25:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNUNESCO FR
08PARIS2249 FRENCH BIOTECH AUTHORITY CREATED AS ECJ FINES FRANCE
[...] Summary: On December 7, France announced the creation of a new biotech evaluation authority in the French Official Journal. The declaration of the new "competent authority," called The High Biotech Committee, preceded, but did not halt, the imposition of a 10 million euro fine by the European C [...]
2008-12-11 14:33:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
08PARIS2250ZIMBABWE/FRANCE: AU SHOULD RE-ASSERT OWNERSHIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Romain Serman, AF advisor at the French Presidency, on December 10 said that the African Union should try to re-assert control over the Zimbabwe issue, with SADC and Mbeki having failed to mount unified and firm pressure on Mugabe to leave, which was the only course available gi [...]
2008-12-11 15:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ZI FR
08PARIS2251SUDAN/DARFUR: DECEMBER 5 P-3 CONSULTATIONS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The President's Special Envoy to Sudan, Ambassador Richard Williamson, met with P-3 counterparts in Paris on December 5 and, separately, with AU-UN Mediator Djibril Bassole to discuss Sudan, Darfur, and the Qatar process. In the P-3 meeting, the UK and France agreed with Willi [...]
2008-12-11 15:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KJUS PINR SU FR
08PARIS2252SUDAN/FRANCE: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR NOTES EROSION
[...] (C) Romain Serman, AF advisor at the French Presidency, on December 10 reviewed Sudan-related issues (discussions of Mauritania and Zimbabwe reported septels). Serman said that ICC prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo had consulted with the GOF earlier the same day. Moreno-Ocampo predicted that the ICC [...]
2008-12-11 16:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KJUS SU FR
08PARIS2253MAURITANIA/FRANCE: POLITICAL PROCESS AT AN
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Romain Serman, AF advisor at the French Presidency, said on December 10 that the political process in Mauritania was blocked, with neither Aziz, President Abdallahi, nor opposition leader Amed Ould Daddah willing to compromise to reach a solution. Serman said that internal GOF [...]
2008-12-11 16:39:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL PTER PINR KDEM MR FR
08PARIS2256P-3 PLUS GERMANY DISCUSS COUNTER-PIRACY AND THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: At a 12/2 meeting hosted by the French MFA on combatting piracy off the Horn of Africa, the P-3 plus Germany agreed in principle to the creation of an international Contact Group (CG) and deliberated on the timing of its roll-out with respect to a planned UNSC Ministerial Mee [...]
2008-12-12 10:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPTER MARR EWWT KPKO UNSC FR PHSA
08PARIS2259FRANCE: SARKOZY'S JANUARY COLLOQUIUM - INVITATION TO NEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy has received a formal invitation from the GOF inviting Ambassador Stapleton and representatives of the new U.S. Administration to participate in the recently announced January 8-9 Paris Colloquium on: New World, New Capitalism. Copies of the invitation and draft program [...]
2008-12-12 14:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL WTO EU FR
08PARIS2272FRENCH REAFFIRM SUPPORT FOR SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-16 15:03:00Embassy ParisSECRETPGOV PREL FR
08PARIS228THE ATTALI REPORT: A NEW PATH TO REFORM AND GOVERNING
[...] (SBU) President Sarkozy on January 23 pledged to enact -- with three exceptions -- recommendations for spurring economic growth devised by a commission headed by Jacques Attali, former political adviser to Socialist President Mitterrand. These proposals range from boosting competition in the r [...]
2008-02-08 15:03:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EINV ETRD ELAB PGOV FR
08PARIS2284RUSSIA/GEORGIA: FRENCH PRESIDENCY OFFICIAL SEEKS
[...] (C) During a December 16 meeting with Pol MC, French Presidency (Elysee) advisor for Russia and the Americas Damien Loras asked for our assistance dealing with Georgia. Per Loras, President Sarkozy used the coming end of the French EU presidency to write to Russian President Medvedev in earl [...]
2008-12-17 17:19:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MCAP MARR FR GG RU
08PARIS2285FRANCE'S PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY SAYS BIOTECH, GENERICS KEY
[...] (U) Summary: Lack of innovation, due in part to pricing and information controls, has caused the French pharmaceutical industry, once a world leader, to fall behind its competitors. The French government has taken steps to support the industry, rewarding innovators and promoting research and [...]
2008-12-18 09:28:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD FR
08PARIS2302FRANCE GOES GLOBAL --REFORM AT THE QUAI D'ORSAY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Proposed reform at the French Ministry of Foreign and European affairs (MFA) will create a new "globalization" directorate (to be headed by E equivalent Christian Masset),designed to encourage proactive policy in dealing with global issues. In development, the MFA will focus o [...]
2008-12-19 17:02:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID ECON AMGT SENV PREL FR
08PARIS2304GOF STRUGGLES OVER EGYPTIAN UNESCO CANDIDATE;
[...] (C) Summary: IO A/S-Equivalent Berman confirmed December 11 to IO A/S Hook, CDA and Pol M/C the grave reservations at the MFA about the Egyptian candidate for UNESCO Director-General, whom she labeled an anti-Semite. She spoke frankly of the difficulties stemming from Sarkozy's 2007 commitme [...]
2008-12-19 17:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNESCO KPKO FR
08PARIS2309STAFFDEL WEIL MEETINGS IN PARIS ON PUBLIC OUTREACH
[...] Lynne Weil, Communications Director for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, received a comprehensive overview of Embassy Paris' active Muslim and diversity outreach programs in a series of meetings with embassy, government, NGO and media representatives December 8-10. Public Affairs progra [...]
2008-12-22 15:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SCUL SOCI FR
08PARIS2317SANCTIONS ON EU PRODUCTS DUE TO HORMONE-BEEF BAN
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Embassy Paris recommends modification of proposed list of French exports targeted under revised sanctions. Country Team believes that, to be effective, sanctions need to target major corporate interests with political clout. Sanctions that target artisanal p [...]
2008-12-23 13:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR FR
08PARIS2319FRENCH MEETING ON AGRICULTURE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA FOCUSES
[...] (SBU) Summary: The French EU Presidency hosted a December 8 high-level meeting on Investing for Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. The following day, a seminar on West African regional agricultural policy launched discussion of a regional agricultural policy (ECOWAP) modeled on the EU's Commo [...]
2008-12-23 13:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EAID FR
08PARIS2322FRENCH SUPPORT SOMALIA PIRACY CONTACT GROUP
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-23 15:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER UNSC SO FR
08PARIS2325FRENCH COOL ON SOMALIA PKO DRAFT, OPEN FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-24 11:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO UNSC SO FR
08PARIS2328FRANCE AGRICULTURAL BIOTECH OUTREACH PROPOSAL
[...] Economic Minister-Counselor, Agricultural Minister-Counselor, Public Affairs Minister-Counselor and Science Counselor present this joint request for support from EEB FY 2009 biotech outreach funds for critical public outreach in France. France remains an influential country both in the EU and [...]
2008-12-24 12:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON TBIO ETRD KPAO FR
08PARIS234THE SOCIETE GENERALE DEBACLE: SOME POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS
[...] (U) The release of Finance Minister Lagarde's report on Societe Generale's 4.9 billion euro loss by a "rogue" trader confirms details that we have heard from banking contacts and which have now been widely and well reported in the financial press. Insiders comment that "rogue traders happen" a [...]
2008-02-11 11:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV FR
08PARIS2341FRANCE ON POSSIBLE RUSSIA - UKRAINE GAS SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS
[...] (SBU) Econ Counselor raised reftel points on the Russia/Ukraine gas dispute with MFA Acting Director for Economic and Financial Affairs Philippe Meunier on 12/30. Meunier said guidance issued by the MFA on 12/22 remained extant: France had been in touch with other EU member states as well as t [...]
2008-12-30 16:50:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET ECON PREL UP EU FR
08PARIS2343FRANCE AND THE WAY FORWARD ON GEORGIA'S SEPARATIST
[...] (SBU) We conveyed ref a points December 29 to French MFA acting DAS-equivalent for Russia/CIS Affairs Eric Millet and to the office of vacationing French presidency adviser for Russia/the Americas Damien Loras. Millet said he would distribute the points among interested offices at the MFA bu [...]
2008-12-30 16:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR GG RS
08PARIS2344 PARIS CLUB - DECEMBER 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The December 2008 Paris Club Tour d'Horizon included Argentina, Burundi, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iraq, Pakistan, the Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and Togo. Argentine Economy Minister Fernandez had told the Secretariat that repayment was [...]
2008-12-31 08:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS235FRANCE AGRICULTURAL BIOTECH OUTREACH PROPOSAL
[...] (U) Economic Minister-Counselor, Agricultural Minister-Counselor, Public Affairs Minister-Counselor and Science Counselor present this joint request for support from EEB FY 2008 biotech outreach funds for critical public outreach in France. In the wake of late 2007 GOF broad-based environmenta [...]
2008-02-11 11:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON TBIO ETRD KPAO FR
08PARIS243FRENCH RESPONSE TO MESSAGE ON CONDEMNING THE
[...] (SBU) The GOF, per ref A, responded rapidly to the January 28 arrest of Riad Seif and other activists with a public statement the next day condemning the action and calling on Syria to respect its commitments under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. As previously repo [...]
2008-02-11 17:34:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM KMPI FR SY
08PARIS244FRENCH RESPONSE ON SUPPORTING LEBANON NOW
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-12 07:00:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR LE SY
08PARIS245P3 MEETING ON NONPROLIFERATION AND DISARMAMENT
[...] (S) Summary. On February 7, Acting U/S John Rood and his delegation met his French and British P3 counterparts, Philippe Carre and Mariot Leslie respectively, to discuss a broad range of nonproliferation, arms control and disarmament issues. Unusually, the French were closer to the U.S. than were t [...]
2008-02-12 10:58:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL NATO PARM MARR KACT FR UK CH EG IN RU
08PARIS247MGCD01: CHAD: FRENCH SUPPORT TO RESUME OPERATION
[...] (C) Embassy Pol Counselor delivered reftel demarche on February 8 and followed with verbal clarifications that day and over the weekend of February 9-10. MFA Chad desk officer Loic Mizon on February 12 provided a formal response to acting Africa-watcher concerning assistance requested of Fr [...]
2008-02-12 14:22:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR ASEC CD FR
08PARIS258FRANCE LOBBYING OSCE CAPITALS ON KOSOVO ISSUE
[...] (C) Camille Grand, MFA DAS-equivalent for OSCE affairs, thanked the U.S. on February 13 for its engagement with capitals on efforts to prevent Serbia from invoking the Berlin Mechanism at the OSCE over the Kosovo issue. Grand explained that Paris began similar demarches in OSCE capitals last [...]
2008-02-13 16:59:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNAUS UNMIK PGOV YI EU OSCE FR
08PARIS265 PARIS CLUB - JANUARY 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's January 22-24 session, the U.S. and other creditors signed an accord with Guinea to resume interim debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. The Paris Club (PC) also granted The Gambia 100 percent cancellation of its [...]
2008-02-14 09:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON OECD EAID FR XA XB XF XM
08PARIS267FRENCH RESPONSE ON MACEDONIA'S NATO ASPIRATIONS
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche discussing Macedonia's NATO candidacy and the name dispute with Greece to Philippe Carre, Director of the Strategic Affairs bureau at the MFA (A/S equivalent). Carre said that France had been worried that Macedonia was treating the name dispute with Greece too [...]
2008-02-14 14:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALNATO MARR PREL GR MK FR
08PARIS272FRANCE EVALUATING EU SANCTIONS ON UZBEKISTAN; FM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France is currently working with its EU partners to review the utility of ongoing EU sanctions on Uzbekistan, MFA officials told us on February 12. The sanctions come up for official review in May 2008. While France does not believe that the Karimov regime has made a radically p [...]
2008-02-15 13:00:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR EU EUN UZ FR
08PARIS273CHAD/SUDAN: FRENCH IDEAS ON POSSIBLE WAY FORWARD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French Presidential AF-advisor Romain Serman on February 14 sketched out possible next steps concerning Chad and Sudan jointly to acting Africa Watcher and UK Emboff. Serman prioritized stabilizing Chad, promoting reconciliation between Deby and the rebels, improving Chad-Suda [...]
2008-02-15 16:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PINS CD SU FR
08PARIS279BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE
[...] (U) Embassy contacted Francois-Regis Boulvert, international cooperation chief at CELAR, the foreign end-user. (Reftel stated that CELAR is an "unfamiliar foreign party" but according to post files, we have handled other license checks where CELAR was the end-user, e.g., 05-1001124.) He con [...]
2008-02-15 17:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC FR
08PARIS284BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE
[...] (U) Embassy contacted Major Karin Sonier of Flotte Transport Ecoles, Simmad Base Aerienne 217, the end user (Tel: +33-1-69-23-86-40; fte.simmad@inet.air.defense.gouv.fr). She confirmed that the Portugese firm OGMA Industria Aeronautica is the base's sole supplier of C-130 parts and accessor [...]
2008-02-19 07:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC FR
08PARIS294FRANCE SUPPORTS UNSCR ON THE FDLR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-19 17:58:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC ASEC ETTC RW FR
08PARIS295FRANCE TO CONSIDER U.S. IDEAS ON SOMALIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-19 18:02:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PGOV SO FR
08PARIS3PAKISTAN: AMBASSADOR STAPLETON DELIVERS POINTS TO
[...] (SBU) On December 31, in a telephone conversation with Foreign Minsiter Kouchner, Ambassador Stapleton delivered reftel demarche. Without responding directly to the points, Kouchner indicated his overall agreement with them. The next day, January 1, Kouchner departed for a two day visit to [...]
2008-01-02 17:40:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER SHUM PK FR
08PARIS300S/I SATTERFIELD DISCUSSES LEBANON/SYRIA WITH
[...] (C) During meetings in Paris February 14-15 largely devoted to Iraq, S/I David Satterfield discussed Lebanon and Syria at the French Presidency and the MFA. Diplomatic adviser to the French president Jean-David Levitte on February 14 said that France has tried everything but was not present [...]
2008-02-20 16:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM FR LE SY SA
08PARIS304S/I SATTERFIELD DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH FRENCH
[...] (C) Summary: S/I Satterfield discussed Iraq at the French Presidency and the MFA February 14 and 15. The French provided their formal response to the paper Satterfield had presented at the end of December. In addition to briefing the French on our view of the situation in Iraq, Satterfield [...]
2008-02-21 13:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM EAID EFIN SHUM FR IZ
08PARIS305GOF: U.S. PUSHING FOR "TOO MUCH, TOO SOON" ON
[...] (S) Summary. In two meetings on February 14, one with Philippe Carre, the Director of Strategic Affairs bureau at the MFA and the second with Philippe Errera, the Strategic Affairs Advisor to FM Kouchner, the French expressed disappointment that an agreement that they understood had been rea [...]
2008-02-21 14:04:00Embassy ParisSECRETMARR MOPS NATO PREL FR EZ PL
08PARIS308COMOROS: FRANCE SUPPORTS MILITARY ACTION AGAINST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA officials told us on February 20 that France would support military action by the Union of the Comoros to take control of Anjouan from Colonel Mohamed Bacar, should Bacar not heed the counsel of the multinational mission preparing to meet with and deliver to him an u [...]
2008-02-21 15:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS ASEC CN FR
08PARIS31S/I SATTERFIELD'S DECEMBER 28 MEETINGS PRECEDE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-08 12:12:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY
08PARIS327FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON CHINA, INDIA
[...] (SBU) EEB A/S Daniel Sullivan raised reftel demarche points with MFA Director for Economic and Financial Affairs Christian Masset February 13. Masset said he believed the beginnings of a GOF consensus on the issue were emerging. As a general principle President Sarkozy was in favor of greater [...]
2008-02-25 13:44:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV IEA ENRG FR
08PARIS328UN COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) French MFA contacts told us that France supports the U.S. position on the upcoming UN discussions on the Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism, and, like the U.S., intends to avoid providing a formal response to the Greek proposal until after having the benefit of considering [...]
2008-02-25 14:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER FR
08PARIS33FRENCH PETROLEUM INSTITUTE - RESEARCHING SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
[...] SUMMARY. ESTH officers visited the French Petroleum Institute (Institut Francais du Petrole or 'IFP'),a public research center focused on industrial R&D research in energy and transportation. The visit's purposes were to assess IFP's strategic priorities, obtain an understanding of its researc [...]
2008-01-08 16:31:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG TRGY FR
08PARIS338SARKOZY PROMISES UKRAINE POSITIVE SIGNAL AT
[...] (C//NF) SUMMARY: Damien Loras, President Sarkozy's Counselor for Ukraine (as well as Russia, Central Asia, the Balkans, the Caucasus and the Americas),told us on February 25 that Sarkozy told Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko during their meeting in Paris on February 20 that he will seek [...]
2008-02-26 16:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNNATO MARR PREL UP FR
08PARIS34S/I SATTERFIELD'S DECEMBER 28 MEETINGS PRECEDE
[...] (C) Summary: S/I and NEA PDAS David Satterfield on December 28 urged French Presidency diplomatic adviser Levitte and MFA NEA A/S-equivalent Felix-Paganon in separate meetings to strengthen the Siniora government in Lebanon pending election of a president and to consider using the Arab Leag [...]
2008-01-08 18:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY
08PARIS341FRANCE: INPUT FOR ENERGY REPORT TO CONGRESS
[...] (SBU) The following information provides input on post's energy-related activities per reftel. 2. (SBU) Which section or sections of the Embassy handle energy matters? What is the total number of staff in this section or sections? Environment, Science, Technology & Health (ESTH) 5 staff [...]
2008-02-26 16:56:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV APER ABUD FR
08PARIS342FRENCH PRESIDENT SARKOZY ADVOCATES EARLY CAP REFORM,
[...] Summary: At the opening of the annual Paris Agricultural Show on Saturday February 23, French President Sarkozy gave a major address on agricultural policy announcing his intention to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as early as 2009. He also reiterated his opposition to any WTO agr [...]
2008-02-26 17:17:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD PGOV WTRO EUN FR INR
08PARIS344ELYSEE READOUT ON LEBANESE PM SINIORA'S FEBRUARY
[...] (C) French Presidency NEA adviser Boris Boillon on 26 February provided a quick readout of Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora's February 21 meetings with French President Sarkozy and Prime Minister Fillon. Boillon stressed that the main message was one of French support to Lebanon's head of go [...]
2008-02-27 09:59:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM EASS EFIN FR LE SY
08PARIS348COMOROS: FRANCE TO ASSIST TANZANIA, NOT SENEGAL;
[...] (C) In response to ref A demarche, Beatrice Lederle (acting MFA Comoros desk officer) said on February 27 that France would provide transportation and logistical support to Tanzanian troops slated to participate in military operations against Colonel Bacar in Anjouan. She said that France wo [...]
2008-02-27 15:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR CN FR
08PARIS354FRENCH SENATOR ON BIOTECH: FRANCE WILL SEEK TO BROADEN
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 20, EMIN and AGR officers met with French Senator Jean-Francois Le Grand to discuss French perspectives on biotech. Le Grand, who played a key role in the QGrenelle consultative process that ultimately resulted in French invocation of the safeguard clause on MON810 [...]
2008-02-28 13:10:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
08PARIS360RECENT FRENCH MFA PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON IRAN/IAEA
[...] (SBU) We passed non-paper texts in reftels February 28 and 29 to the relevant French MFA officials in the Strategic Affairs and Middle East/North Africa directorates. Although the MFA has not offered any comments on the non-papers, we would note in the interim that the French have been very [...]
2008-02-29 18:03:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PARM PREL MNUC FR IR
08PARIS361FRENCH OPEN TO REFORMING THE SOMALIA INTERNATIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-03 06:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PGOV SO FR
08PARIS362FRENCH VIEWS ON SOMALIA AND PIRACY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French MFA is generally favorable to the notion of UNSC action on Somalia and piracy (reftel). However, the French would hope that a UNSC mandate would contain specifics setting forth clearly the legal basis of any resulting operation and the responsibilities of, and limita [...]
2008-03-03 06:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKCRM PBTS PREL UN UNSC IMO XA XW SO FR
08PARIS365GOF WANTS TO IMPROVE NATO-EU COOPERATION
[...] (C) On February 29, Political M/C met with Philippe Carre, A/S-equivalent for Strategic Affairs at the MFA, to discuss the demarche on improving NATO-EU cooperation (reftel). Carre was pleased to receive our message, because the current impasse has been both frustrating and worrisome for the [...]
2008-03-03 11:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS EU FR TU CY
08PARIS382CONCURRENCE FOR INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANCE
[...] The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Attache, Paris, France requests the assistance of the Regional Security Office, Nouakchott, Mauritania in support of the investigation of Samba SALL, an asylee in the U.S. who may have misrepresented his former occupation in Mauritania. If th [...]
2008-03-04 16:10:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PHUM FR XY
08PARIS383FRANCE: ONE MONTH FROM NATO SUMMIT IN BUCHAREST
[...] Summary. (C) With the NATO summit in Bucharest only a month away, the French are solidifying their positions and anxious to find consensus on the key issues on the agenda: NATO enlargement, missile defense and Afghanistan. GOF officials believe that the Bucharest summit, President Sarkozy' [...]
2008-03-04 16:26:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL MARR MOPS NATO FR AF GG UK
08PARIS384NON-PAPER ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL'S ADOPTION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-04 16:47:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM MNUC FR IR
08PARIS386FRENCH RECEPTIVE TO A/S SULLIVAN'S PITCH ON TEC
[...] (U) Embassy Action Request Para 14. 2. (SBU) Summary: In February 13-14 meetings French Trade Minister Novelli, MFA Economic Director Masset and PM Diplomatic Advisor Lapouge told A/S Dan Sullivan they would be supportive of the Trans-Atlantic Economic Council (TEC) as an important part of [...]
2008-03-04 17:56:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD ENRG PREL EAGR EUR FR
08PARIS398FRENCH PLANS FOR AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Afghanistan Coordinator Patrick Moon met MFA DAS for South Asia Didier Leroy on February 27 to discuss next steps in Afghanistan, including an Afghanistan Donors conference and potential increases in French military contributions to the security effort. Leroy noted the Afghan D [...]
2008-03-05 14:46:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR EAID NATO AF FR
08PARIS400FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON SEEKING BALANCED
[...] (C) We conveyed points in reftel to the NEA and IO directorates at the French MFA on March 5. DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille responded that France was "in accord" with us on the substance (Hamas' fundamental responsibility for the current situation and the importance of not d [...]
2008-03-05 15:43:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL FR IS
08PARIS401FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON SEEKING BALANCED
[...] (C) We conveyed points in reftel to the NEA and IO directorates at the French MFA on March 5. DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille responded that France was "in accord" with us on the substance (Hamas' fundamental responsibility for the current situation and the importance of not d [...]
2008-03-05 15:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL FR IS
08PARIS404UNMEE: FRANCE AGREES WITH U.S. BUT CAN'T IDENTIFY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French agree with U.S. views on UNMEE (reftel),MFA Eritrea/Ethiopia desk officer Thierry Caboche told us on March 4. He said, however, that finding useful leverage to use against Eritrea to encourage cooperative behavior was difficult, given Eritrea's self-imposed isolati [...]
2008-03-05 17:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KPKO ER ET FR
08PARIS408FRANCE'S MUNICIPAL AND CANTONAL ELECTIONS --
[...] (U) In a two-round election Sunday March 9 and Sunday March 16, France's voters will go to the polls to elect the municipal councils of their -- nearly 37,000 - communes of residence. These communal (also called municipal) councils in turn elect, from among their members, the country's nearly [...]
2008-03-06 16:31:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV FR
08PARIS409FRANCE - SPECIAL 301 2008 ANNUAL REVIEW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post has reviewed PhRMA's Special 301 submission on France and recommends against inclusion of France on the 2008 Special 301 Watch List. Cost containment efforts on the part of the national healthcare system create a challenging environment for the pharmaceutical industry, bu [...]
2008-03-06 17:13:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD EUN FR
08PARIS416FRANCE ON TAIWAN AND THE OECD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-07 17:15:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL OECD CM TW FR
08PARIS431DEATH OF EUFOR SOLDIER IN SUDAN: FRENCH
[...] (C) Romain Serman, AF-advisor at the French Presidency, briefed acting AF-watcher and UK Embassy Paris AF-watcher Lucy Joyce on March 10 concerning Chad/Sudan/EUFOR. Septels will report other parts of the briefing. Serman provided a detailed account of the death of the EUFOR solider in Suda [...]
2008-03-10 17:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS KPKO UNSC AU SU CD EU FR
08PARIS432FRANCE/SOUTH AFRICA: SARKOZY'S VISIT AND HIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French President Sarkozy's February 28-29 visit to South Africa was a success, with both sides taking steps to further the strategic partnership they seek to develop, MFA South Africa deskoff Frederic Chole said on March 6. Sarkozy set forth his vision of France's policy towar [...]
2008-03-10 17:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR ECON SF FR
08PARIS452FRENCH ATTENDANCE AT MARCH 14 CONFERENCE IN BEIRUT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-11 18:04:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV FR LE
08PARIS455NOMINATION OF ANTI-TIP HERO JEAN CLAUDE MBVOUMIN
[...] (U) Post nominates Jean Claude Mbvoumin as a 2008 anti-TIP hero. Mr. Mbvoumin founded and runs the Soccer Culture Solidarity Association (Associate Culture Foot Solidaire (CFS)),which seeks to raise awareness and combat trafficking in young soccer players from Africa. As a former soccer pl [...]
2008-03-12 15:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF USAID FR
08PARIS456"LUKE-WARM" FRENCH-RUSSIAN MARCH 11 SECURITY
[...] (C//NF) In a meeting on March 12, French MFA officials characterized French/Russian March 11 security talks as "luke-warm," and producing almost no results. Alexandre Vulic, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia, told us that the day-long annual talks between foreign and defense ministers, know [...]
2008-03-12 16:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPARM PGOV RU CD SU FR
08PARIS460BETANCOURT HOSTAGE SITUATION RENDERS "POOR"
[...] (C) On March 6, Colombian Ambassador to France Fernando Cepeda Ulloa described Franco-Colombian relations as "poor" in a breakfast meeting with Ambassador Stapleton and WHA PDAS Craig Kelly. Cepeda encapsulated the current distrust between the two governments by suggesting that the GOF considers Co [...]
2008-03-12 18:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL FR CO
08PARIS461CHAD/SUDAN/EUFOR: FRENCH PRESIDENCY ON SARKOZY’S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Romain Serman, AF-advisor at the French Presidency, on March 10 reviewed Sarkozy's February 28 visit to Chad and discussed possible next steps. In Chad, Sarkozy stressed to Deby the importance of determining the fate of the missing opposition leaders and to develop a meaningful politic [...]
2008-03-13 06:12:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN MARR PHUM CD SU FR
08PARIS468FRENCH MFA VIEWS ON IMMINENT IRANIAN PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (C) We passed reftel message to French MFA Iran desk officer Arnaud Pescheux, along with NEA/IR's draft press statement, on March 12. In his response on March 13, Pescheux noted the following: --France shares fully our concern about the selection of candidates. French estimates of the nu [...]
2008-03-14 08:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM FR IR
08PARIS481FRENCH MFA VIEWS ON IMMINENT IRANIAN PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (C) We passed reftel message to French MFA Iran desk officer Arnaud Pescheux, along with NEA/IR's draft press statement, on March 12. In his response on March 13, Pescheux noted the following: --France shares fully our concern about the selection of candidates. French estimates of the nu [...]
2008-03-17 10:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM FR IR
08PARIS498MINIMAL FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR FOURTH ROUND OF
[...] (C) French MFA DAS-equivalent for North Africa Nathalie Loiseau told us March 12 that the GOF continued to have extremely low expectations for the fourth round of UN-sponsored talks on Western Sahara set for early next week in Manhasset. Indeed, the French are so pessimistic that they hope [...]
2008-03-17 16:31:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER FR MO AG SA
08PARIS500FRANCE: CIVIL NUCLEAR EXPORTS BOOM
[...] (SBU) French President Sarkozy has announced contract signings or preliminary discussions for the eventual export of French nuclear technology during several recent trips abroad. Both France's nuclear powerhouse Areva (reftel) and French government officials emphasize that the export boom is f [...]
2008-03-17 17:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EIND ETRD KNNP PREL FR
08PARIS501LATIN AMERICA: FRENCH SHARE SENSE OF POSITIVE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. PDAS Craig Kelly reviewed Latin American priorities with MFA PDAS for Latin America Jean-Marc Laforet and DAS for Central America Jose Gomez on March 6. They concurred with Kelly,s assessment that the democratic governance and regional cooperation were improving across the regi [...]
2008-03-18 08:43:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM FR CO EC BR CU
08PARIS513CHAD/SUDAN: FRENCH AGREEABLE TO P5+1 DEMARCHE BUT
[...] (C) MFA DAS-equivalent for East Africa Helene Le Gal informed us on March 14 that France was agreeable to the two-step P5 1 demarche sequence set forth in Ref A involving Chad and Sudan in order to persuade both to cease supporting the other's rebel factions. However, she said that she doub [...]
2008-03-18 16:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CH UK LY RS CD SU KPKO FR
08PARIS514AGRICULTURAL TRADE IMPLICATIONS OF UPCOMING FRENCH EU
[...] SUMMARY: France will seek to use its considerable influence on agricultural policy to affect the direction and pace of CAP reform as well as to broaden the consideration of biotech dossiers at the EU level. France's influence could have negative trade implications for U.S. agriculture in sever [...]
2008-03-18 17:08:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD PGOV WTRO EUN FR INR
08PARIS538BURMA REFERENDUM: FRANCE SEEKS P-3 UNITY BEFORE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-20 15:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM FR BR
08PARIS550FRANCE'S MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN THE LYON CONSULAR DISTRICT
[...] (SBU) In the March 9 and 16 municipal elections (ref),the left maintained control of the major cities in the Lyon consular district: Lyon, Dijon, Grenoble, and Clermont Ferrand. The winning incumbents in these cities are business-friendly moderates who retained public support because of their [...]
2008-03-21 17:50:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV FR
08PARIS555FRENCH STRESS MARKETS IN DEPSEC KIMMITT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 13, Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt met with Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer, Elysee diplomatic and economic advisors and private sector bankers to discuss the Transatlantic Economic Council, financial market turmoil, [...]
2008-03-25 11:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN EINV ETTC PARM IR FR
08PARIS572FRENCH THINKING ON LEBANON PRIOR TO THE ARAB
[...] (C) Summary: The French MFA has publicly repeated its concern over the continuing political impasse in Lebanon but seems to have few ideas about what to do next to elect a new president or address the what appears to be an increasingly tense situation in that country. DAS-equivalent for the [...]
2008-03-27 10:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM MARR FR LE SY IS
08PARIS574SOMALIA: FRENCH SUPPORT ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS, MAY
[...] (C) France continues to support anti-piracy efforts concerning Somalia, MFA Somalia desk officer Thierry Caboche said on March 27, in response to reftel. He expressed appreciation for reftel's detailed points and for the USG's understanding of France's activities in the region. Caboche sai [...]
2008-03-27 14:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALUNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM SO XA XW FR
08PARIS575CHAD-SUDAN AGREEMENT: BORDER CONTROL OPERATION
[...] (C) In response to reftel, MFA AF DAS-equivalent Christine Fages (responsible for Chad) said on March 27 that the most important step in ensuring the effectiveness of the Dakar Chad-Sudan Peace Agreement would be the formation and deployment of a border monitoring operation. She said that s [...]
2008-03-27 14:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CF CT CD SY SG FR
08PARIS589COMOROS: EXILE OR EXTRADITION FOR BACAR?
[...] (C) MFA Comoros desk officer Jacques Biau on March 27 said that renegade Anjouan leader Colonel Bacar had requested political asylum in France. Comoros has also requested Bacar's extradition to stand trial. Biau said that Bacar fled Anjouan when it became apparent that Union of the Comoros [...]
2008-03-28 14:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS KDEM PHUM PINR CN FR
08PARIS599COMOROS/FRANCE: MARCH 31 UPDATE ON BACAR'S
[...] (C) MFA Comoros desk officer Jacques Biau on March 31 provided an update on former Anjouan leader Col. Bacar. Biau reported that Bacar and his 22-member entourage were in French custody at an airbase in Reunion. Biau said that there were three separate but related legal proceedings in prog [...]
2008-03-31 16:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS KDEM PHUM PINR CN FR
08PARIS614 FRENCH TV FILM ATTACKS US BIOTECH REGIME
[...] Summary: On March 11, French public TV channel ARTE broadcasted a film entitled "The World According to Monsanto," by freelance journalist Marie-Monique Robin. A book by the same name was released soon thereafter. Given the wide publicity generated by this film (for sale on line on ARTE's w [...]
2008-04-02 15:09:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
08PARIS624FRENCH PRESIDENCY THINKING ON LEBANON AND SYRIA
[...] (C) Summary: The recent Arab summit in Damascus was a "failure" but the French still have no ideas about how to move the situation in Lebanon forward, according to French Presidency NEA adviser Boris Boillon. He told us April 1 that the status quo seems to suit everyone for different reaso [...]
2008-04-04 10:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PTER FR LE SY
08PARIS628FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON WESTERN SAHARA
[...] (S) Summary: The French generally reacted favorably to reftel message on Western Sahara in meetings we held with the French Presidency and the MFA April 1 and 2. The key first priority seems to be engaging UNSYG Personal Envoy Peter van Walsum and other key Secretariat officials to encourag [...]
2008-04-04 14:16:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL PGOV PBTS PHUM PREF MARR UNSC FR MO AG
08PARIS630FRENCH SUPPORT CONSOLIDATED EU AND MULTILATERAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOF supports the P-3,s ongoing efforts to have a PRST issued on Burma to bring more universal pressure to bear on the regime. It presumes the EU will renew its current bilateral sanctions measures at the upcoming GAERC, and will subsequently consider further measures and/ [...]
2008-04-04 16:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC PHUM MY FR
08PARIS633 PARIS CLUB - MARCH 2008 DISCUSSION OF POLICY AND
[...] (SBU) The Paris Club met on March 13 to discuss 16 countries and other policy and methodological issues. Creditors reported on contacts with the new Argentine government, which has been arguing against an IMF agreement and for minimizing external payments in seeking a Paris Club deal. The IM [...]
2008-04-07 10:37:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON OECD EAID FR
08PARIS662JAPAN'S GROWING DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN AFRICA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan's diplomatic presence in Africa is growing, with new embassies in Mali, Botswana, Malawi, Mauritania, and Burkina Faso in 2008-2009. Hiroki Nakamura, the new Africa-watcher at Japan's embassy in Paris, told us on April 8 that this was an effort to raise Japan's profile i [...]
2008-04-10 08:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC EAID XA JA FR
08PARIS663FRANCE: OFFICIALS SPELL OUT EU PRESIDENCY ENERGY OBJECTIVES
[...] (SBU) In a March 28 meeting with MFA Director for Economic Affairs Christian Masset, U/S Reuben Jeffery underscored the need for cooperation in addressing potential intermediate-term bottlenecks on global energy markets. Masset sketched out French EU presidency energy priorities designed in p [...]
2008-04-10 09:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG PREL FR
08PARIS671SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR IRAQI REFUGEES FOLEY MEETS
[...] (SBU) Summary: French MFA officials told Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugees James Foley on March 31 that France expects to receive perhaps 500 Iraqi refugees this year via UNHCR referrals in Jordan and Syria as well as processed directly by the French embassy in Baghdad. Defining criteri [...]
2008-04-11 10:44:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM FR IZ JO SY LE
08PARIS674FRANCE OFFERS VIEWS ON FAO, UNESCO, UNDP, IAEA AND WIPO
[...] (SBU) IO DAS Gerry Anderson met with MFA Deputy Director for United Nations and International Organization Affairs Marc Giacomini and several staffers April 10 for a tour d'horizon of a number of current IO issues, including financing, reform and upcoming elections at FAO, UNESCO, UNDP, IAEA [...]
2008-04-11 14:44:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL FAO UNESCO UNDP IAEA WIPO FR
08PARIS676SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR IRAQI REFUGEES FOLEY MEETS
[...] (SBU) Summary: French MFA officials told Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugees James Foley on March 31 that France expects to receive perhaps 500 Iraqi refugees this year via UNHCR referrals in Jordan and Syria as well as processed directly by the French embassy in Baghdad. Defining criteri [...]
2008-04-11 14:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM FR IZ JO SY LE
08PARIS677SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR IRAQI REFUGEES FOLEY MEETS
[...] (SBU) Summary: French MFA officials told Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugees James Foley on March 31 that France expects to receive perhaps 500 Iraqi refugees this year via UNHCR referrals in Jordan and Syria as well as processed directly by the French embassy in Baghdad. Defining criteri [...]
2008-04-11 15:10:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM FR IZ JO SY LE
08PARIS678SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR IRAQI REFUGEES FOLEY MEETS
[...] (SBU) Summary: French MFA officials told Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugees James Foley on March 31 that France expects to receive perhaps 500 Iraqi refugees this year via UNHCR referrals in Jordan and Syria as well as processed directly by the French embassy in Baghdad. Defining criteri [...]
2008-04-11 15:19:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM FR IZ JO SY LE
08PARIS679FRENCH MFA RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO DEMARCHE ON
[...] (C) French MFA desk officer Olivier Masseret on April 9 took note of the main points of our latest message on Iraq (reftel) and said he would include them in briefing papers being assembled for FM Kouchner, who will represent France at the upcoming Iraq neighbors meeting in Kuwait. He indica [...]
2008-04-11 15:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF FR IQ
08PARIS680FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON THE APRIL 13 IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-11 15:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER PINS FR IR SY
08PARIS681SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR IRAQI REFUGEES FOLEY MEETS
[...] (SBU) Summary: French MFA officials told Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugees James Foley on March 31 that France expects to receive perhaps 500 Iraqi refugees this year via UNHCR referrals in Jordan and Syria as well as processed directly by the French embassy in Baghdad. Defining criteri [...]
2008-04-11 15:27:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM FR IZ JO SY LE
08PARIS682FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON THE APRIL 13 IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-11 15:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER PINS FR IR SY
08PARIS683SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR IRAQI REFUGEES FOLEY MEETS
[...] (SBU) Summary: French MFA officials told Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugees James Foley on March 31 that France expects to receive perhaps 500 Iraqi refugees this year via UNHCR referrals in Jordan and Syria as well as processed directly by the French embassy in Baghdad. Defining criteri [...]
2008-04-11 15:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM FR IZ JO SY LE
08PARIS684FRENCH MFA RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO DEMARCHE ON
[...] (C) French MFA desk officer Olivier Masseret on April 9 took note of the main points of our latest message on Iraq (reftel) and said he would include them in briefing papers being assembled for FM Kouchner, who will represent France at the upcoming Iraq neighbors meeting in Kuwait. He indica [...]
2008-04-11 15:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF FR IQ
08PARIS685FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON THE APRIL 13 IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-11 15:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER PINS FR IR SY
08PARIS686FRENCH MFA RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO DEMARCHE ON
[...] (C) French MFA desk officer Olivier Masseret on April 9 took note of the main points of our latest message on Iraq (reftel) and said he would include them in briefing papers being assembled for FM Kouchner, who will represent France at the upcoming Iraq neighbors meeting in Kuwait. He indica [...]
2008-04-11 15:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF FR IQ
08PARIS687SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR IRAQI REFUGEES FOLEY MEETS
[...] (SBU) Summary: French MFA officials told Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugees James Foley on March 31 that France expects to receive perhaps 500 Iraqi refugees this year via UNHCR referrals in Jordan and Syria as well as processed directly by the French embassy in Baghdad. Defining criteri [...]
2008-04-11 15:48:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM FR IZ JO SY LE
08PARIS688SENIOR COORDINATOR FOR IRAQI REFUGEES FOLEY MEETS
[...] (SBU) Summary: French MFA officials told Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugees James Foley on March 31 that France expects to receive perhaps 500 Iraqi refugees this year via UNHCR referrals in Jordan and Syria as well as processed directly by the French embassy in Baghdad. Defining criteri [...]
2008-04-11 15:48:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM FR IZ JO SY LE
08PARIS689FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON THE APRIL 13 IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-11 16:10:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PTER PINS FR IR SY
08PARIS690FRENCH MFA RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO DEMARCHE ON
[...] (C) French MFA desk officer Olivier Masseret on April 9 took note of the main points of our latest message on Iraq (reftel) and said he would include them in briefing papers being assembled for FM Kouchner, who will represent France at the upcoming Iraq neighbors meeting in Kuwait. He indica [...]
2008-04-11 16:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF FR IQ
08PARIS713STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT WITH FRANCE: FORMAL
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) On April 7, the diplomatic advisor to Defense Minister Morin, Frederic Mondoloni, sent a letter to the Political Minister-Counselor to respond formally to the November 2006 USG request for a Status of Forces Agreemen [...]
2008-04-15 13:49:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MCAP MOPS PAC PREL FR
08PARIS714 FOOD FIGHT IN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OVER BIOTECH BILL
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 9 the National Assembly adopted a new biotech bill by a vote of 249 to 228 (the narrowest margin since President Sarkozy took office) after 36 hours of tense debate. The bill, which will now go to the Senate for a second reading, establishes a framework for biotech app [...]
2008-04-15 14:44:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
08PARIS72CHAD/C.A.R. PKO: FRANCE TO PROVIDE MISSING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France will provide helicopters and additional troops, heretofore lacking, that will enable the EU-led peacekeeping mission to deploy to Chad and the Central African Republic (C.A.R.),MFA DAS-equivalent Christine Fages informed us on January 10. She said the EU would discuss [...]
2008-01-11 16:49:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR EUN PINS CD CT FR
08PARIS720FM KOUCHNER'S TRIP TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Summary. The main goals of FM Kouchner's April 11-12 visit to Afghanistan were to advance preparations for the upcoming Afghanistan support conference, scheduled for June 12 in Paris, and to intensify contacts with Afghanistan's regional neighbors. The trip was also designed to showcase [...]
2008-04-15 15:50:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON FR AF
08PARIS735AUSTRALIA GROUP: 2008 INFORMATION EXCHANGE (IE)
[...] (S) The following describes highlights of the Information Exchange (IE) portion of the annual meeting of the Australia Group (AG),which met in Paris, April 12-18, 2008 (Report on AG Plenary provided septel). The IE included 30 presentations by twelve AG member states. The US provided 10 of the 30 [...]
2008-04-17 16:41:00Embassy ParisSECRETPARM PREL CBW ETTC AS FR
08PARIS741SUDAN/DARFUR: SPECIAL ENVOY WILLIAMSON'S APRIL 14
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with Foreign Minister Kouchner and other GOF officials during April 14 consultations in Paris, Sudan Special Envoy Richard Williamson stressed the need to accelerate deployment of UNAMID and to exploit the possibility that the Khartoum regime might be willing to seek [...]
2008-04-18 11:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MARR MOPS UNSC SU FR
08PARIS745FRENCH PROMOTE COMPROMISE, BUT WON'T PRESSURE
[...] (C) In response to reftel, Post has raised with various French officials the need to urge the Greeks to renew their commitment to finding a mutually acceptable solution to the Macedonia name issue. However, in the post-Bucharest environment, French officials have not retreated from their ear [...]
2008-04-18 13:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO PGOV MK GR FR
08PARIS749CENTRAL ASIA: A/DAS SPRATLEN'S CONSULTATIONS WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In April 4 meetings with French officials responsible for Central Asia, SCA A/DAS Pamela Spratlen was briefed on GOF plans for future engagement in the region, including FM Kouchner's April 10-11 visits to Ashgabat and Dushanbe as well as France's priorities for the region during [...]
2008-04-18 16:25:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ZK UZ TI KZ KG TX FR
08PARIS750AUSTRALIA GROUP: PLENARY MEETING, PARIS, APRIL 14-18, 2008 REF: A. 07 MOSCOW 5535 B. 07 PARIS 2593 Classified By: ESTH/NP COUNSELOR ROBERT W. DRY FOR REASONS 1.4 (B),(D),(E),and (H). -------------------- SUMMARY AND OVERVIEW --------------------
[...] (C) The Australia Group (AG) held its 2008 plenary in Paris from April 14-18. In addition to approving several updates to the AG's Guidelines and control lists, the Group discussed Russia's continued interest in membership. AG members continued to express concern about Russia's implementation of ex [...]
2008-04-18 16:41:00Embassy ParisSECRETPARM PREL ETTC AS FR RS CBW
08PARIS751 RESPONSE : IMPACT OF RISING FOOD / COMMODITY PRICES -
[...] SUMMARY: The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Ministry of Agriculture (MinAg) recently announced the creation of a working group on the global food security issue. This working group will present to the Government of France (GOF) proposals for both immediate actions and medium and [...]
2008-04-18 16:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ETRD PGOV WTRO EUN FR INR
08PARIS753FRANCE SUPPORTS OSCE PROJECTS INSIDE AFGHANISTAN;
[...] (C) French MFA officials responsible for OSCE affairs told us on April 18 that, in principle, France now supports the idea that training activities for Afghan border security should take place on the border of and/and inside Afghanistan. The GOF clarified, however, that the projects should be [...]
2008-04-21 09:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALBMGT GM GR SP RS OSCE PGOV PTER FR
08PARIS763AFTER THE NATO SUMMIT: GOF LOOKS AHEAD
[...] (C) Summary. President Sarkozy is reportedly "very satisfied" with his first NATO summit, a meeting which demonstrated to the world the change in France's approach to the Alliance. President Bush's endorsement of a strong European defense in Bucharest gave the GOF the green light it wanted [...]
2008-04-22 09:10:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MARR MOPS FR AF GG UP UK MK GR
08PARIS766PRIME MINISTER FRANCOIS FILLON'S VISIT TO U.S. MAY
[...] (C) France's Prime Minister Francois Fillon will travel to the U.S. May 1 - 2. The current focus of Fillon's visit is the international economy -- and how it affects France's domestic reform program. He is set to meet with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Bernanke, Secretary of the Treasury P [...]
2008-04-22 13:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALSOCI PTER PGOV PINR ECON EUN FR
08PARIS77USDP EDELMAN AND COUNSELOR COHEN DISCUSS
[...] (S) On January 8, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Eric Edelman, and Dr. Eliot Cohen, Counselor for the Department of State, met with Philippe Carre, Director of the Strategic Affairs bureau at the French MFA, and Michel Miraillet, Director of Strategic Affairs at the Ministry of Defens [...]
2008-01-14 13:52:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL PARM MARR MOPS NATO FR RU CH GG AF IR
08PARIS78FRANCE TO INVOKE SAFEGUARD CLAUSE AGAINST MON 810
[...] (SBU) On the evening of January 11 the office of the Prime Minister issued a press release initiating the safeguard clause against MON 810 in France until a reevaluation of this variety occurs at the European level. The GOF justified this action by applying the precautionary principle, which i [...]
2008-01-14 17:28:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR SENV ECON ETRD KPAO EU FR
08PARIS781SOMALIA ICG MEETING: FRANCE TO ATTEND AS PART OF
[...] (SBU) In response to ref A demarche, MFA acting Somalia desk officer Frederic Bouvier said on April 23 that the French had been in discussion with the Norwegian organizers of the April 30 Somalia International Contact Group meeting. Bouvier said that France would attend, but only as part of [...]
2008-04-24 09:00:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID PGOV SO FR
08PARIS79CONCURRENCE FOR INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANCE
[...] The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Attache, Paris, France requests the assistance of the Regional Security Office, Freetown, Sierra Leone in support of the investigation of Alhaji Kabba SACCOH, a citizen and national of Sierra Leone who is believed to have been a previous membe [...]
2008-01-15 07:19:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PHUM FR XY
08PARIS81SUDAN/KENYA/RWANDA: MFA DAS PROVIES OVERVIEW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal (Central and East Africa) on January 11 said that France was highly concerned about renewed Chad-Sudan fighting but that the arrival in February of the EU's PKO in Chad and C.A.R. could help ease tensions. France renewed Abdulwahid el-Nur's res [...]
2008-01-15 11:50:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS PINS PHUM SU CD CT KE RW FR
08PARIS819ZIMBABWE AT THE UN: FRANCE SUPPORTIVE BUT NOT
[...] (C) French MFA IO and AF desk officers (Franck Paris, Isabelle de Boisgelin) said on April 28, in response to reftel demarche, that France very much supported the idea of a formal UNSC session on Zimbabwe but said they were not sure that there would be Council agreement to hold one or that it [...]
2008-04-28 15:49:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC XA AU ZI FR
08PARIS82 FRENCH ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND REFORM IN 2007
[...] SUMMARY: The scope of Sarkozy's reform agenda remains ambitious, but despite much jawboning, progress is slow. With weaker than predicated growth and considerable economic uncertainty, reform becomes both more important and more difficult. This cable reviews France's 2007 economic performance [...]
2008-01-15 14:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PGOV FR
08PARIS824FRANCE ON SYRIA'S CLANDESTINE NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points April 24 per an exchange of cables reported separately. 2. (U) The French MFA reported the following exchange at its April 25 press briefing between reporters and its spokesperson, Pascale Andreani (the English translation comes from the French MFA's w [...]
2008-04-28 16:09:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KNNP PARM IAEA DPRK FR SY
08PARIS826 PARIS CLUB - PARIS CLUB - APRIL 2008 TOUR D'HORIZON AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Paris Club's April 16-17 session, the U.S. and other creditors signed an accord with Liberia to begin interim debt relief under the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. During the Tour d'Horizon, France, Germany, and the U.S. reported on recent bi [...]
2008-04-29 07:14:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
08PARIS83S/I SATTERFIELD DISCUSSES IRAQ WITH FRENCH
[...] (C) Summary: Visiting S/I David Satterfield on December 28 provided an overview to French Presidency diplomatic adviser Levitte and French MFA NEA A/S-equivalent Felix-Paganon of U.S. efforts to promote Iraqi national reconciliation. He also provided a paper outlining U.S. ideas on how Fra [...]
2008-01-15 17:25:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM FR IZ IR
08PARIS832ZIMBABWE/UNSC: U.S. POSITION CONVEYED TO GOF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-29 12:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC XA ZI FR
08PARIS850AIRBUS -- FORGING A CORPORATION FROM A CONSORTIUM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Airbus, a division of the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS),continues to face growing pains as it evolves from a business cobbled together from national champion aviation companies in France, Germany, Spain, and the UK into a fully integrated multinational. S [...]
2008-04-30 14:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND ECON ETRD EAIR PREL FR
08PARIS855FRENCH EOV ON MINURSO RESOLUTION WILL NOT CALL
[...] (C) The French MFA's IO desk officer covering the Western Sahara, Jay Darmadhikhari, informed us April 30 that France would present an explanation of vote following the UNSC's extension of MINURSO. That statement, however, would not echo the USG's contention that the option of an independen [...]
2008-04-30 16:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS UNSC FR MO AG WI
08PARIS859SUDAN/DARFUR: SPECIAL ENVOY WILLIAMSON'S APRIL 15
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Special Envoy for Sudan Richard Williamson met with a seven-member JEM delegation from the UK, France, Chad, Egypt, and Darfur in Paris on April 15 as part of a three-track approach to making progress in Sudan: 1) engagement with the government of Sudan (GOS) on improving U.S./ [...]
2008-05-02 14:47:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL PHUM MARR MOPS PINS UNSC SU FR
08PARIS860SUDAN/DARFUR: SPECIAL ENVOY WILLIAMSON'S APRIL 14
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Sudan Special Envoy Richard Williamson met with SLM/AW leader Abdul Wahid Al Nur and his associate Ahmed Abdalla in Paris on April 14 as part of a three-track approach to making progress in Sudan. USG objectives are to: 1) engage with the Government of Sudan (GOS) on improving [...]
2008-05-02 14:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MARR MOPS PINS UNSC SU FR
08PARIS861DJIBOUTI/ERITREA: MFA SAYS NOT TO
[...] (C) MFA AF/E DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal said on May 2 that the French were not in favor of Djibouti's bringing Eritrea's recent border incursion (reftels) before the African Union, Arab League, or UN Security Council, despite the fact that the Arab League is going to discuss the matter on [...]
2008-05-02 15:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PBTS PHSA ET ER FR
08PARIS865ZIMBABWE/UN COMMISSION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
[...] (C) MFA Zimbabwe desk officer Isabelle de Boisgelin on May 2 said that France would send "senior representatives" (but not at ministerial level) to the May 5-16 meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD-16),to be chaired by Zimbabwe's Minister of Environment and Tourism, [...]
2008-05-05 11:46:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALSENV AORC PREL EAGR EUN EAID ECON ZI FR
08PARIS866GLOBAL INITIATIVE EXERCISE PLANNING GROUP FIRST
[...] (SBU) Summary: As part of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, the Initiative co-chairs held the first Exercise Planning Group (EPG) meeting on April 15 in Paris to begin coordinating the development and execution of international exercises aimed at combating the threat posed by [...]
2008-05-05 16:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKGIC MCAP PINR PTER PARM IAEA FR
08PARIS867GLOBAL INITIATIVE EXERCISE PLANNING GROUP FIRST
[...] (SBU) Summary: As part of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, the Initiative co-chairs held the first Exercise Planning Group (EPG) meeting on April 15 in Paris to begin coordinating the development and execution of international exercises aimed at combating the threat posed by [...]
2008-05-05 16:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKGIC MCAP PINR PTER PARM IAEA FR
08PARIS874UNSCR/SOMALI PIRACY: FRENCH INFORMED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-06 13:21:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM UNSC SO XW FR
08PARIS877UNESCO - ISRAEL AMBASSADOR'S VISIT 5 MAY
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNESCO DG Matsuura is planning a trip to Israel and Ramallah in mid-June. It will be the DG's first visit to Palestine. The Israelis have asked the DG to send Deputy DG Barbosa to Quebec in July to assist with the World Heritage Committee negotiations on World Heritage sites i [...]
2008-05-06 14:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNESCO SCUL KPAL XF FR
08PARIS887KOUCHNER TO URGE DELAY IN BURMESE REFERENDUM
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-07 16:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD PHUM BM FR
08PARIS888FRANCE: G8 INITIATIVE ON TERRORIST ABUSE OF CHARITIES
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-09 11:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PREL PTER FR
08PARIS898COMOROS: BACAR DENIED ASYLUM, FRANCE SEEKS 3RD
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-09 15:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PHUM CN FR
08PARIS899COMOROS: BACAR DENIED ASYLUM, FRANCE SEEKS 3RD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France has denied political asylum to Colonel Mohamed Bacar, who fled to French territory in March after being driven from Anjouan in the Comoros. However, the GOF agency that ruled on his asylum request determined that he could neither stay in France nor be returned to the Co [...]
2008-05-09 15:34:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PHUM CN FR
08PARIS900BURMA: FRANCE SUPPORTS SECURITY COUNCIL FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-09 15:44:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ETRD PHUM BM FR
08PARIS901INITIAL FRENCH RESPONSE ON ATTENDANCE AT STOCKHOLM
[...] (SBU) French MFA Iraq desk officer Olivier Masseret told us late May 7 that the GOF had not yet decided who would lead its delegation to the ICI ministerial in Stockholm at the end of May. As he has previously indicated, Masseret said that FM Kouchner would like to attend, but Kouchner's sch [...]
2008-05-09 16:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN EINV PREL PGOV FR IZ
08PARIS908SOMALIA/DJIBOUTI: MFA DAS PROVIDES OVERVIEW ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent Helene Le Gal on May 7 provided succinct overviews of Somalia and Djibouti. On Somalia, she said that the draft UNSC anti-piracy resolution was running into opposition and that it might be best first to adopt the UK's separate draft resolution, covering broad [...]
2008-05-12 11:45:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV PINR DJ SO FR
08PARIS909FRENCH MFA ON LATEST LEBANON CRISIS
[...] (C) We passed reftel points on Lebanon early in the day May 9 to French MFA DAS-equivalent Ludovic Pouille. In a subsequent meeting, Pouille stated that French FM Kouchner was engaged in active telephone diplomacy with Lebanese political faction leaders to urge restraint and respect for the [...]
2008-05-12 14:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM FR LE SY
08PARIS91CONCURRENCE FOR INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANCE
[...] The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Attach, Paris, France requests the assistance of the Regional Security Office, Algiers, Algeria in obtaining information on Mohamed Farid SI LARBI. SI LARBI is a citizen and national of Algeria who was granted Refugee status and allowed to en [...]
2008-01-17 16:39:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PHUM FR AG
08PARIS92CONCURRENCE FOR INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANCE - ICE
[...] U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) requests the assistance of the Regional Security Offices in Accra, Ghana and Lome, Togo in support of a Human Trafficking / Forced Child Labor investigation involving young females trafficked to the U.S. from Togo and Ghana. Three targets have be [...]
2008-01-17 16:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDASEC CVIS PHUM FR XY
08PARIS936FRENCH ACCEPT USG DECISION ON UNAMID VEHICLES FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-15 14:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL FR
08PARIS94DEFMIN MORIN ON HIS TRIP TO THE U.S., AFGHANISTAN,
[...] (C) Summary. On January 16, the Ambassador met with Defense Minister Herve Morin to discuss Morin's upcoming trip to the United States. Morin offered views on the situation in Afghanistan and strongly advocated the French strategy of strengthening European defense capabilities "along side [...]
2008-01-18 10:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO FR AF
08PARIS942 FRANCE: AVIATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT: FOLLOW-UP ON
[...] (SBU): Following last fall's Grenelle environmental consultation France adopted a number of measures to fight greenhouse gases and noise from aviation. As they prepare to assume the EU presidency, in spite of some misgivings the French appear ready to follow an EU consensus toward adoption o [...]
2008-05-16 12:36:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON ETRD SENV FR
08PARIS948FRENCH FULLY SUPPORT ARAB LEAGUE AGREEMENT ON
[...] (SBU) We made reftel points to the French MFA Syria desk officer Jean-Christophe Auge May 16 and passed relevant parts of press guidance and extracts from the May 15 Department press briefing to DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille and others in his "Lebanon cell." Auge, who noted [...]
2008-05-16 16:51:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL PGOV PTER KDEM FR LE SY IR
08PARIS959WESTERN SAHARA: FRENCH RECEIVE DEMARCHE ON
[...] (C) FRENCH MFA DAS-EQUIVALENT FOR NORTH AFRICA NATHALIE LOISEAU ON MAY 16 EXPRESSED GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH THE MAIN ELEMENTS OF OUR PROPOSED MESSAGE TO MOROCCO ON FOLLOWING UP UNSCR 1803 ON WESTERN SAHARA. --LIKE US, FRANCE IS WAITING FOR MOROCCO (ALONG WITH POLISARIO AND ALGERIA) TO DECID [...]
2008-05-20 08:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM FR MO AG WI
08PARIS960FRENCH FM KOUCHNER WILL NOT/NOT ATTEND ICI
[...] (SBU) Further to ref a, French MFA desk officer Olivier Masseret informed us May 19 that French FM Kouchner would not lead his country's delegation to the May 29 ICI ministerial in Stockholm. Instead, MFA Secretary General Gerard Errera (essentially a D-equivalent) would replace Kouchner as [...]
2008-05-20 09:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID ECON EINV EFIN FR IZ
08PARIS964SUDAN: FRENCH URGE U.S. TO PROMOTE KHARTOUM-REBEL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential AF-advisor Romain Serman on May 19 urged the USG to support dialogue between the Government of Sudan and rebel factions, especially JEM, as a way to breaking the cycle of rebel attacks against Khartoum and N'Djamena. He said that the budding political dialogue bet [...]
2008-05-20 15:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINS SU CD FR
08PARIS965FRANCE/ANGOLA: MAY 23 SARKOZY TRIP A STEP IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials said that President Sarkozy's May 23 trip to Angola was intended as a further step in improving relations and in moving the relationship beyond the Falcone Affair and other legacies of the past. The French hope to establish new assistance programs in Angola tha [...]
2008-05-20 15:59:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID AO FR
08PARIS969NO CHANGE IN FRENCH POLICY TOWARD HAMAS, DESPITE
[...] (C) Summary: French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille denied on 20 May any change in French policy toward Hamas following erroneous reports that the GOF had resumed contacts with Hamas. No dialogue or official contacts, beyond "technical" ones related to security carried ou [...]
2008-05-21 10:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KPAL FR IS
08PARIS970FRANCE/RUSSIA: WHERE IS MEDVEDEV? PUTIN TO VISIT
[...] (C) Alexandre Vulic, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia, told us on May 20, that FM Kouchner was en route to Moscow for talks with both President Medvedev and FM Lavrov. Publicly, the focus of the "last-minute" visit is to share EU Presidency priorities with the Russian government and to disc [...]
2008-05-21 10:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RU FR
08PARIS973FRANCE DECLINES INVITATION TO ATTEND FRIENDS OF
[...] (U) We passed a copy of the invitation in reftel to French MFA desk officer Olivier Masseret on May 16. Masseret on May 20 informed us that FM Kouchner's private office had decided, as it had last October, that France would decline the invitation (the original of which, Masseret noted, had [...]
2008-05-21 15:10:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS FR IZ
08PARIS976FOSG PARIS MEETING MAY 2008
[...] (C) Summary: During a May 8 meeting in Paris, the Western Friends of the Secretary General on Georgia (FOSG),consisting of the U.S., UK, France, and Germany, enthusiastically endorsed EUR DAS Matt Bryza's proposal for reviving the Abkhazia peace process. Bryza laid out a new three-pronged ap [...]
2008-05-22 11:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS XH RS GG GM UK ZJ FR
08PARIS978FRANCE: ICAO AVIATION SECURITY PANEL DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche May 16 to Alexandre Crozat, Head of the Office for Civil Aviation Security Measures at the French Civil Aviation Authority (DGAC). Crozat stressed that France would wish to hear the ICAO discussions before coming to final decisions on these issues. Non [...]
2008-05-22 14:30:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR PREL ICAO PTER FR
08PARIS98GROWING CRITICISM IN FRANCE ON GM SAFEGUARD
[...] (U) Summary : France's decision to initiate the safeguard clause against Mon 810 (Reftel A),has been widely criticized by a growing number of scientists, parliamentarians and farm organizations as lacking scientific basis. A number of press articles have echoed their criticisms that the GOF's [...]
2008-01-18 15:40:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
08PARIS983France on Food Security
[...] (SBU) Summary: Econ Counselor raised reftel points on the President's global food security initiative with Francois Giovalucchi, advisor to Cooperation Minister Joyandet, and Florence Lasbennes, Cooperation Economic and Agricultural Development Office Chief, on May 19. Giovalucchi and Lasben [...]
2008-05-23 09:32:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO FR
08PARIS988FRANCE/LEBANON: FRENCH PRESIDENCY POSITIVE BUT
[...] (C) French Presidency NEA adviser Boris Boillon told us May 22 that the GOF regarded the recently Doha accord on Lebanon as mostly favorable to the March 8 opposition but not entirely so. Most important, he stressed, the agreement stopped the fighting and got the political process for addressi [...]
2008-05-23 13:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER KDEM KPAL FR LE SY IS
08PARISFR2105UNESCO HOSTS EDUCATION CONFERENCE ON IRAQ
[...] Summary: On October 30 - November 1, 2008 UNESCO and the First Lady of Qatar, Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned, hosted the International Conference on the Right to Education in Crisis-Affected Countries entitled "Stop Jeopardizing the Future of Iraq" in Paris. Director General Matsuura op [...]
2008-11-14 17:44:00Mission UNESCOUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC UNESCO KEDU FR IZ QA JO USAID
08PARISFR2119 UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL RACE: OBTAINING FRENCH SUPPORT
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of France (GOF) does not want the Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Hosni to become UNESCO's next Director General and are looking for a way to escape from President Sarkozy's informal statements of support made to President Mubarak in the autumn of 2007. Reiteration [...]
2008-11-18 18:20:00Mission UNESCOCONFIDENTIALPREL UNESCO FR EG
08PARISFR2144LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNESCO DIRECTOR-GENERAL RACE
[...] (C) Summary: The Egyptian Ambassador to UNESCO has asked for meetings with the Japanese and French Ambassadors to UNESCO to find out if the Government of Japan (GOJ) and the Government of France (GOF) are supporting the Egyptian candidate for the next Director General of UNESCO. The results o [...]
2008-11-21 16:00:00Mission UNESCOCONFIDENTIALUNESCO PREL FR JA EG IS NO
08PARISFR2202UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL SUCCESSION: CONVERSATIONS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: The Mexican and Swedish UNESCO Ambassadors told Ambassador Oliver that their respective countries will oppose the candidacy of Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouq Hosni for the position of Director General of UNESCO. The Mexican Ambassador also expressed misgivings about the pos [...]
2008-12-04 17:01:00Mission UNESCOCONFIDENTIALUNESCO PREL FR SW MX BR
08PARISFR2209UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL SUSSESSION: CONVERSATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: UNESCO's Assistant Director General for Africa told Ambassador Oliver that he does not believe that African countries will endorse Egypt's candidate for Director General of UNESCO Farouk Hosni at the African Union Conference in mid-January. Ambassador Oliver also discussed the [...]
2008-12-05 15:09:00Mission UNESCOCONFIDENTIALUNESCO PREL FR CH SP PK KU
08PARISFR2227 UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL CAMPAIGN: JORDANIAN AND INDIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting with Ambassador Oliver, the Jordanian Ambassador to UNESCO said that Egypt will move ahead with its candidate for the next Director General (DG) of UNESCO unless it decides that its candidate, Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, would have serious difficulty gettin [...]
2008-12-09 16:39:00Mission UNESCOCONFIDENTIALPREL UNESCO JO FR EG IN CU VE BR RS AR
08PRETORIA440WESTINGHOUSE STILL IN THE GAME AFTER SARKOZY SPLASH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: French President Nicholas Sarkozy led a senior commercial delegation on his state visit to South Africa February 28-29. He succeeded in catalyzing a media campaign of announcements of French cooperation and deals focused on the troubled energy sector, thereby seeking to advanc [...]
2008-03-04 10:45:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG TRGY BEXP PREL KNNP SF FR
08PRETORIA516SARKOZY AND MBEKI DISCUSS IRAN, MIDDLE EAST, G-8
[...] (C) During their February 28 meeting in Cape Town, French President Sarkozy and South African President Mbeki discussed the Iranian nuclear issue, the Middle East peace process, the situation in Darfur, and the "democratization" of international institutions, specifically the expansion of the [...]
2008-03-12 14:03:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL SF FR
08PRETORIA548SOUTH AFRICA SUPPORTS FINAL PEACE EFFORT IN COMOROS
[...] (C) South Africa is involved in "one final effort" to resolve the Anjouan issue peacefully, according to Department of Foreign Affairs Chief Director Graham Maitland. Maitland confirmed to PolOff March 14 that South Africa had received a letter from Anjouan's Colonel Bacar promising to hold e [...]
2008-03-14 15:33:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL AU SF CN FR
08QUITO433CORREA ADMINISTRATION COUNTEROFFENSIVE ON
[...] (C) Summary: In the lead-up to the May 15 release of the Interpol report on the seized FARC computers, the Correa government is trying to strengthen its position through accusations against Colombia and the United States, a European trip aimed at garnering support for Ecuador's stance, and an angry [...]
2008-05-15 12:38:00Embassy QuitoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MOPS EC CO SP FR BE NU
08RABAT324MOROCCO TO SEND EMBASSY OFFICER TO GI PLANNING
[...] (SBU) On April 14, 2008, the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Head of United Nations Division Azzedine Farhane informed Embassy Poloff that the Government of Morocco intends to send an officer from its Embassy in Paris to the Exercise Planning Group meeting for the Global Initiative for C [...]
2008-04-14 15:28:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIEDMCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC FR MO
08RABAT371FILLON VISIT HIGHLIGHTS MOROCCO-FRANCE ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) Summary: French Prime Minister Francois Fillon's April 17-18 visit to Morocco for the 9th meeting of heads of government of the two countries brought signature of a range of contracts, particularly in the field of transport, but little else of note. Fillon was accompanied by an extensive [...]
2008-04-25 15:04:00Embassy RabatCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON MO FR
08RIODEJANEIRO346READOUT OF BRAZIL-EU SUMMIT, DECEMBER 22-23, 2008
[...] (U) Summary: Brazilian President Lula hosted the second European Union (EU) - Brazil Summit in Rio de Janeiro on December 22-23, 2008. The EU was represented by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Durao Barroso. The international financial and economic c [...]
2008-12-24 17:04:00Consulate Rio De JaneiroUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM ENRG EPET SENV FR RS EU BR
08RIYADH102SARKOZY IN SAUDI ARABIA
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. French President Nicholas Sarkozy's visited Saudi Arabia on January 13-14 to make clear that Saudi Arabia is now "at the top" of the French Middle East policy list. Pres. Sarkozy met with Saudi King Abdullah, addressed the Shura council and spoke briefly with Saudi business leaders. [...]
2008-01-26 11:36:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETFR PGOV PINR PREL SA
08RIYADH1190SAUDIS SLOWLY MOVING TOWARD KOSOVO RECOGNITION
[...] (S) SUMMARY. According to the no. 3 official in the Saudi Foreign Ministry, the Saudi Arabian Government (SAG) is slowly moving toward official SAG recognition of Kosovo. He ascribed the SAG's reluctance to recognize the newly independent Balkan republic heretofore to concern over Russian se [...]
2008-08-04 10:37:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETEU EUN FR GR KPKO PGOV PREL RS SA UNC KV YI
08RIYADH37SARKOZY INTENDS TO OFFER SAUDI ARABIA PEACEFUL
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. French President Nicholas Sarkozy will arrive in Saudi Arabia January 15 and depart the next day. French Embassy contacts have confirmed that Sarkozy will discuss the transfer of peaceful nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and may present a formal offer to be signed during the [...]
2008-01-08 05:25:00Embassy RiyadhSECRETOVIP PREL PINR FR SA
08SARAJEVO202BOSNIA: ABU HAMZA SUPPORTERS RALLY TO OPPOSE
[...] (C) A rally in support of former mujahedeen Imad al Husein AKA Abu Hamza took place in Zenica over the weekend. The rally occurred in the wake of a State Court decision upholding the revocation of Abu Hamza's Bosnian citizenship. The demonstration featured an address by Abu Hamza in which he [...]
2008-02-04 16:37:00Embassy SarajevoCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PREL PTER BK FR
08SOFIA98BULGARIA TO FOLLOW EU POSITION ON ARREST AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-15 13:29:00Embassy SofiaSECRETPREL XF XG KMPI NSC SY EUN FR SI RO EZ GR
08STATE104207UPDATE ON IRAN SPECIFIC EXPORT CONTROL OUTREACH
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ---------- BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND: On May 15, Washington provided all Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Participating Governments (PGs) with detailed information regarding critical commodities Iran will require to [...]
2008-09-30 15:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PREL PARM IR MNUC UK GM FR BE IT SZ CH JP
08STATE104822MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): THE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "The Perchlorate Family of Chemicals" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) f [...]
2008-10-01 15:28:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS
08STATE105029MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): NORTH
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "North Korea's Missile Program" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) for d [...]
2008-10-01 19:50:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS
08STATE105103MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): IRAN,S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (S) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Iran's Ballistic Missile Program" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) for [...]
2008-10-01 21:43:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS IR
08STATE105132MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): CHINA'S RECORD ON CONTROLLING MISSILE-RELATED EXPORTS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-01 22:02:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS CH
08STATE105464MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): SYRIA'S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Syria's Ballistic Missile Program and Foreign Suppliers" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Po [...]
2008-10-02 17:12:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS
08STATE106288MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- U.S.
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: Request Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared "U.S. Proposal on Machine Tools" in paragraph 3 below and the interagency cleared "U.S. Proposal on Technical Outreach" in paragraph 4 below t [...]
2008-10-03 20:54:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC PREL PARM KSCA FR AU
08STATE107020MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Shipping and Proliferation: Industry Operations and Their Benefits to Proliferators" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technol [...]
2008-10-07 14:10:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS
08STATE109138MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): "RISK
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "Risk (Uncontrolled) Technologies Useful to Ballistic Missile Programs" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Re [...]
2008-10-10 20:11:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS
08STATE109148MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Paris please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Guidance for use by the Embassy REP to the October 16, 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) meeting is provided in paragraph 3. 3. (C) BEGIN GUIDANCE: NOTE: Embassy REP [...]
2008-10-10 20:24:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC FR
08STATE109154MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Paris please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Guidance for use by the Embassy REP to the October 16, 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) meeting is provided in paragraph 3. 3. (C) BEGIN GUIDANCE: NOTE: Embassy REP [...]
2008-10-10 20:30:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC FR
08STATE109845MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): "BROKERING CONTROLS IN THE UNITED STATES ON DUAL-USE ITEMS" Classified By: ISN/MTR DIRECTOR PAM DURHAM FOR REASONS 1.4 (B),(D),AND (H).
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-14 20:03:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS NL
08STATE110013MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): U.S.
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Action request: The non-paper in paragraph 3 below provides a brief summary of Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR)-related contacts between the U.S. and non-MTCR countries since the November 2007 Athens MTCR Plenary. As [...]
2008-10-15 12:05:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL KSCA TSPA ETTC FR AS
08STATE112053MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): U.S.
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "U.S. Paper on Dual Use Machine Tool Exports" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contac [...]
2008-10-21 18:25:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR NE AS
08STATE112061MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): "SBIG'S
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) ACTION REQUEST: Department requests Embassy Paris provide the interagency cleared paper "SBIG's Efforts to Procure Environmental Test Chambers: A Case Study" in paragraph 3 below to the French Missile Technology Control Regi [...]
2008-10-21 18:40:00Secretary of StateSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR UK AS
08STATE113010FOLLOW UP: BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END-USE
[...] According to our records, we have not yet received responses to the subject Blue Lantern request regarding the export of CH-47 helicopter spare component parts (License # 050081672) to the United Arab Emirates. This request was sent over 120 days ago. We request updates from Embassies Abu Dh [...]
2008-10-23 17:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC AE FR
08STATE114559COORDINATING WITH FRENCH ON UN FOLLOW-ON PRESENCE
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Department requests Embassy Paris to engage with the Government of France (GOF) on ways to move forward on ensuring a sufficient United Nations peacekeeping mission to replace the current United Nations Miss [...]
2008-10-28 14:07:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PGOV EU PREF CD FR PKO CT CM
08STATE116304U.S. AND EU DISCUSS DEVELOPMENTS IN EAST ASIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: U.S. and EU officials held their biannual discussions on East Asia (termed COASI, or Consultations on Asia) in Washington on October 3. In addition to a general review of developments in the region, this session included an exchange of views on the future of India, China, and ASEA [...]
2008-10-31 14:10:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL FR EU XB NK CH
08STATE116428NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT): BILATERAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the margins of the UN General Assembly,s First Committee meeting in New York, ISN/MNSA Director Marguerita Ragsdale, joined by Deputy Director Scott Davis, held informal bilaterals on Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) issues October 13-15 with Australia, Brazil, Canada, [...]
2008-10-31 15:45:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALAORC AS BR CA CH EG ENRG FR ID JA KNNP MNUC NZ
08STATE117974LAUNCH OF SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION STS-126
[...] SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION STS-126, ENDEAVOR (OV-105),WILL LAUNCH FROM KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (KSC),FLORIDA, NO EARLIER THAN NOVEMBER 14, 2008. THE LAUNCH WINDOW OPENS AT 7:51 PM (1951 EST),NOVEMBER 14 (24:51 UTC/GMT) AND IS 10 MINUTES LONG. NOMINAL END OF MISSION LANDING AT KSC IS SCHEDULED FO [...]
2008-11-05 19:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDTSPA FR SP AIN
08STATE118592U.S.-EU DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES: DEMARCHE
[...] (U) Summary: Embassy Paris is requested to approach host government officials at the appropriate level to seek information regarding the upcoming COREPER discussion on November 12 of the U.S.-EU High Level Contact Group on data protection principles, and more generally of the French EU Presid [...]
2008-11-06 22:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEUN FR PREL PTER
08STATE124950INSTRUCTION - MINSK GROUP RESPONSE TO SYG RE:
[...] The Department instructs USUN to deliver the response below to the Secretary General. The response was jointly drafted and agreed upon by the Co-Chairs of the Minsk Group (United States, Russia and France). The Co-Chairs agreed that the U.S. would deliver the joint response under U.S. cover [...]
2008-11-25 19:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDAJ FR PREL RS ZJ XJ
08STATE129720BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK
[...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on application 050115687 for the export of night vision device (NVD) component parts to Algeria. Post is r [...]
2008-12-10 15:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC AG FR
08STATE13105JANUARY 30 MEETING OF THE G-8 GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The first G-8 Global Partnership Working Group meeting (GPWG) of the Japanese G-8 Presidency, which took place on January 30, 2008 in Tokyo, focused on expanding the geographic scope of GP activities and developing benchmarks to ensure that current pledges for GP projects in Rus [...]
2008-02-07 22:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL ETTC KNNP CBW TRGY GM JA RS CA UK FR
08STATE134228U.S. RESPONSE TO FRENCH GLOBAL INF PROPOSAL
[...] (U) This is an Action Cable for Embassy Paris, see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Background: During a P-3 meeting in Paris on November 7, 2008 (Ref A),the French provided Acting Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, John Rood, a draft French proposal to globalize the INF Tr [...]
2008-12-24 01:10:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPARM KACT JCIC START INF RS US FR
08STATE134297IRAN'S UAV PROGRAM SEEKING GERMAN-ORIGIN ENGINES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) We want to inform French authorities that as of mid-November 2008, a procurement official affiliated with Iran's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program was seeking German-origin engines via the French intermediary Technical As [...]
2008-12-24 13:40:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IR FR GM
08STATE135040BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK ON
[...] This is an action message. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post assistance in conducting a post-shipment check for the export of T100 gyroscopes to Vietnam via France. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lantern [...]
2008-12-30 14:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC FR KOMC VM
08STATE135041BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK ON
[...] This is an action message. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post assistance in conducting a post-shipment check for the export of AWACS aircraft spare parts to France. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lantern c [...]
2008-12-30 14:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC FR KOMC
08STATE14230DUBAI CITES FATF IRAN STATEMENT IN WARNING TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph six. ------------------ SUMMARY/BACKGROUND ------------------ 2. (U) On January 7, 2008, the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) issued an advisory to all Senior Executive Officers of DFSA-regulated firms regarding dealings w [...]
2008-02-11 21:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC IR GM UK FR XF ZP AE
08STATE2034MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR): RESULTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the November 5-9, 2007 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Plenary meeting in Athens, the 34 MTCR Partners reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening missile-related export controls and thereby discouraging missile activities and programs of concern. They discussed [...]
2008-01-08 20:42:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA FR GR
08STATE2342BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-09 13:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC FR
08STATE23874BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK
[...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on application 050091259 for the export of a KC-135 spare part to the French Air Force. Post is requested t [...]
2008-03-07 16:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC FR
08STATE27694MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Paris please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND AND ACTION REQUEST: In keeping with established practice, we want to urge the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Partners to present proposed Information Exchange (IE) topics and try to come t [...]
2008-03-17 17:45:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA FR
08STATE29096IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FINANCIAL PROVISIONS OF UNSCR 1803
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. ---------------------- SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND ---------------------- 2. (U) On March 3, 2008, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1803, imposing further Chapter VII sanctions on Iran in response to its failure to comply [...]
2008-03-20 14:42:00Secretary of StateSECRETAS AU BA BR CA CH ECON EFIN EG ETRD EUN FR GM GR
08STATE33088DEMARCHE ON WESTERN SAHARA POLICY
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN is directed to deliver a demarche to the UN Secretariat and the French mission to the United Nations in accordance with the objectives in paragraphs 2 and 3. Embassy Paris should deliver a demarche to appropriate officials in accordance with objectives in [...]
2008-03-31 21:08:00Secretary of StateSECRETPREL PGOV UNSC MO WI FR PHUM PREF PBTS
08STATE34976MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) --
[...] (C) This message provides guidance for the U.S. delegation to the MTCR Reinforced Point of Contact (RPOC) meeting in Paris on April 10-11, 2008, and the small-group meeting on April 9. /////////////////// Small Group Meeting /////////////////// 2. (C) Per REF A, on April 9, France wil [...]
2008-04-04 00:45:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPARM MTCRE PREL MNUC TSPA KSCA FR
08STATE35962MARCH 26 MEETING OF THE G-8 GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
[...] (SBU) AT THE MARCH 26 G-8 GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP WORKING GROUP MEETING (GPWG),RUSSIA POURED MORE COLD WATER ON THE PROPOSAL TO EXPAND GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP (GP) ACTIVITIES BEYOND RUSSIA AND THE REST OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (FSU) -- THE PROPOSAL SUPPORTED BY ALL OTHER G-8 MEMBERS AND THE MAJOR GP [...]
2008-04-07 20:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA CBC ETTC FR GM JA KNNP PARM PREL RS TRGY UK
08STATE44438MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR)
[...] (C) The Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) held a productive Reinforced Point of Contact (RPOC) meeting in Paris on April 10, 2008. French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for Disarmament and Nonproliferation Martin Briens chaired the meeting. RPOC discussion focused on r [...]
2008-04-28 11:52:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM KSCA ETTC MTCRE FR
08STATE49110ACTION REQUEST: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTIONS
[...] (C) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3 and 5. Three of the five regional groups will have contested elections for the UN Human Rights Council: Eastern Europe, WEOG, and the Asia Group. Mission is requested to assess the likely outcome of a) the six candidacies for four Asia g [...]
2008-05-08 18:53:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNFR PHUM SP UK
08STATE49721BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK ON
[...] This is an action message. See paragraphs 2-7. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests post assistance in conducting a post-shipment check regarding the export and use of satellite components. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lantern che [...]
2008-05-09 20:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC FR KOMC
08STATE55375ORAL MESSAGE URGING FM KOUCHNER TO ATTEND
[...] (C) This is an action request: see para 4, below. 2. (C) Per reftel State 43799, Sweden is hosting the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) Ministerial Meeting in Stockholm on May 29. The Swedish Foreign Minister of State has requested USG support for Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's [...]
2008-05-23 13:36:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID FR IZ SW EUN
08STATE5584FOLLOW-UP: BANK MELLI ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE A
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) In November, REF A cautioned that Iran's Bank Melli has reached an agreement in principle to purchase a Turkish bank. Other recent press reports have noted that Iran is actively working to expand [...]
2008-01-17 20:48:00Secretary of StateSECRETKNNP MNUC IR GM UK FR TU EFIN ETTC
08STATE58446THE WAY FORWARD ON UNMEE
[...] This is an action request. Department requests action addressees in London, Paris, Moscow, and Brussels, to approach host governments, as UN Security Council (UNSC) Members, to discuss our proposed way forward on the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) and a potential follow-on UN pres [...]
2008-05-30 23:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ET ER BE FR UK RS
08STATE60442PREVENTING ASSET FLIGHT FROM BANK MELLI IN THE EU3
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ------------------ SUMMARY/BACKGROUND ------------------ 2. (S) The U.S. recently shared information with Pakistan, the EU3 and Israel that Bank Melli may be seeking to establish a branch in Pakistan (REF A). We understand (REF B) [...]
2008-06-05 14:22:00Secretary of StateSECRETECON EFIN ETTC KNNP PARM PTER FR UK GM IR
08STATE63355BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK
[...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Embassies, assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 050081672 for the export of CH-47 helicopter spare component parts to the United Arab Emira [...]
2008-06-12 14:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC AEC FR
08STATE63960ACTION REQUEST:P5+1 REFRESHED PACKAGE FOR IRAN
[...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para 2. 2. (SBU) ACTION: In advance of Javier Solana,s planned June 14 trip to Iran to present the updated P5 1 incentives package, action posts should immediately brief senior host government officials drawing upon the talking points in paragr [...]
2008-06-13 15:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIR PREL UNSC KNNP PARM FR UK CH RS BA KU MO JO TS
08STATE66363G-8 HEALTH INITIATIVES DEMARCHE
[...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 5-6. 2. SUMMARY. During his trip to Europe, the President emphasized the importance of G-8 members following through on pledges on health assistance made at past G-8 summits. The President also asked for our partners' support for new G-8 initia [...]
2008-06-20 01:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDCA EU FR GM IT PREL RS SENV TBIO WHO
08STATE67437MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- NEXT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassies Berlin, Canberra, London, Paris, and Tokyo, please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: As follow-up to the April 9 small group meeting held on the margins of the April 10, 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Reinforced [...]
2008-06-23 21:23:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA AU FR GM JA UK
08STATE68633CORRECTED COPY: REQUEST TO ENGAGE JAPAN ON
[...] (U) This is an Action Request, please see paragraph 3. ---------- Background ---------- 2. (C) The Government of Japan (GOJ) is actively considering possible contributions to support NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) security operations in Afghanistan (REFS A [...]
2008-06-26 13:10:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALPREL SMIL MARR MOPS NATO AF AS CA GM IT FR JA
08STATE69339IMPLEMENTATION OF THE IRISL CARGO INSPECTION
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. ---------------------- SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND ---------------------- 2. (U) On March 3, 2008, the U.N. Security Council adopted Resolution 1803, which imposed further Chapter VII sanctions on Iran in response to its failure to c [...]
2008-06-27 15:56:00Secretary of StateSECRETAG AS AJ BE CH CY EG FR GM IN IR IT JA LY MY MT
08STATE70895MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR):
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassy Paris please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Guidance for use by the Embassy REP to the July 8, 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Point of Contact (POC) meeting is provided in paragraph 3. 3. (C) BEGIN GUIDANCE: NOTE: Embassy REP shou [...]
2008-07-02 12:02:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC FR
08STATE77357T LETTER OF THANKS TO MFA ASSISTANT SECRETARY
[...] SUMMARY: French MFA Assistant Secretary for Strategic Affairs, Security and Disarmament Philippe Carre led the opening panel of the Senior-Level Meeting for all states endorsing the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) held May 28, 2008, in Washington, DC, on the occasion of the PSI's Fif [...]
2008-07-18 13:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC PARM PREL FR
08STATE77739ISN LETTER OF THANKS FOR PSI PRESENTATION
[...] SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND: On May 29, 2008, the United States hosted a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Outreach Workshop in Washington, attended by representatives of 21 countries that have not yet endorsed the PSI, as well as most of the 92 PSI participating states. The workshop provi [...]
2008-07-18 21:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL KNNP MNUC FR
08STATE78036BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK
[...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Embassy's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 05-050097262 for the export of Rafael aircraft engine spare parts and related technical data [...]
2008-07-21 14:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC FR
08STATE80034MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- NEXT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassies Berlin, Canberra, London, Paris, and Tokyo, please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: As follow-up to the April 9 small group meeting held on the margins of the April 10, 2008 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Reinforced [...]
2008-07-24 20:17:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR GM JA UK
08STATE85940MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) -- NEXT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Embassies Berlin, Canberra, London, Paris, and Tokyo, please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) BACKGROUND/ACTION REQUEST: Per Ref C, the U.S. circulated to MTCR small group members in June a suggested proposal on Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) outreach t [...]
2008-08-11 16:53:00Secretary of StateCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR GM JA UK
08STATE91332AFTER-ACTION REPORT FOR DEMETER'S RESILIENCE, THE
[...] (U) Summary: Following the recommendations of the G8 Bioterrorism Experts (BTEX) Group in 2005, a series of G8 workshops dealing with decontamination, food defense and public health/law enforcement cooperation was organized. "Demeter,s Resilience" was the second G8 food defense event and was [...]
2008-08-25 20:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCA EUN FR GM IT JA PTER RS TBIO UK
08STATE95843VISIT OF ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) Representatives of an Iranian underground construction company affiliated with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) planned to visit underground equipment manufacturers in Germany an [...]
2008-09-08 15:50:00Secretary of StateSECRETKNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN UK IS FR
08STATE96555TTWG -- SNIPER RIFLES OFFERED TO IRAN'S MINISTRY
[...] This is an Action Request - Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Summary: We have information that in mid-May 2008 the Iranian Ministry of Defense was offered 40 German-made Unique Alpine sniper rifles and associated equipment by the French company TAC International. We believe that the rifles w [...]
2008-09-09 21:54:00Secretary of StateSECRETPARM PREL MASS ETTC GM FR AU IR
08STATE97389REVISED: VISIT OF ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (S) Representatives of an Iranian underground construction company affiliated with the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) planned to visit underground equipment manufacturers in Germany an [...]
2008-09-11 16:49:00Secretary of StateSECRETEFIN FR GM IR IS KNNP MNUC PARM PREL SZ UK
08STATE99666CRITICAL EQUIPMENT NEEDS FOR IRAN,S NEW IR-2
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND: Washington provided all Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Participating Government (PGs) with detailed information regarding the critical commodities Iran will require to support the deployment of the next generation [...]
2008-09-17 21:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP TRGY PREL PARM IR MNUC AORC IAEA UNSC UK GM FR
08TASHKENT641FRENCH AMBASSADOR PURSUES KOUCHNER/RICE PULL-ASIDE
[...] (C) Summary. Praising Uzbek Foreign Minister Norov in Paris for releasing political prisoner Mutabar Tojiboeva could encourage the Uzbeks to do more of the same in coming weeks. This in turn would facilitate efforts to cooperate with Uzbekistan on ground transit of supplies to U.S. forces [...]
2008-06-10 10:16:00Embassy TashkentCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR FR UZ
08THEHAGUE252Netherlands Blue Lantern: Post-Shipment End-Use Check on
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Post verified AD-S' role as a foreign intermediary for the French Air Force (FAF) and the company appeared to be a responsible recipient of USML items. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Emboffs met with Peter de Smalen, Director, AD-S on March 3 to conduct reftel post-shipment verificatio [...]
2008-03-14 12:28:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC FR NL
08THEHAGUE419CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): PARIS SEMINAR
[...] (U) The French Ministry of Defense through its Delegation for Strategic Affairs and its Foundation for Strategic Research sponsored a seminar limited to Australia Group members plus China and Russia March 25 and 26 at the Ecole Militaire in Paris. The seminar was held to provide background in [...]
2008-05-16 14:16:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC FR
08TOKYO1011NUCLEAR ENERGY: JAPAN AND FRANCE REAFFIRM SHARED
[...] (SBU) Prime Minister Fukuda and French Prime Minister Fillon reaffirmed Japan and France see a prominent role for nuclear energy in achieving sustainable growth and energy security in their respective countries at their meeting in Tokyo April 11. Their joint Declaration on Cooperation in th [...]
2008-04-11 09:33:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP ENRG PREL IAEA MNUC FR JA
08TOKYO117AUSTRALIA GROUP: TOKYO ON PROPOSED RUSSIAN PLENARY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-15 08:23:00Embassy TokyoSECRETPARM PREL GM IT UK AS FR RS JA
08TOKYO1508PM FUKUDA BEGINS EUROPE TRIP
[...] (C) Summary: PM Fukuda began a five-day trip to Europe June 1, with meetings scheduled with his German, British, French and Italian counterparts, as well as an address to the Food and Agricultural Organization's food security conference and talks with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. During h [...]
2008-06-02 08:35:00Embassy TokyoCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAGR GM IT UK FR
08TRIPOLI368LIBYA: TOTAL'S OFFSHORE OIL WELL SHUT DOWN
[...] (SBU) Summary: A recent drilling accident brought drilling and production operations in an offshore wellfield operated by French oil company TOTAL to a halt. Although there were no injuries or environmental damage, production (the field produces about 45,000 barrels/day) will likely be halted [...]
2008-05-07 07:24:00Embassy TripoliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EPET FR LY
08TRIPOLI374LIBYA'S NSC SOLICITS U.S. VIEWS ON CIVILIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION & LETHAL MILITARY EQUIPMENT SALES REF: A) TRIPOLI 340, B) TRIPOLI 372
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-08 14:11:00Embassy TripoliSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL ETTC KNNP MASS PINR TRGY LY RU FR
08TRIPOLI541EUROPEANS ENGAGE GOL ON BOUFAYED HUMAN RIGHTS CASE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-08 16:05:00Embassy TripoliCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL FR LY SZ DA
08TRIPOLI566LIBYA SIGNS CIVILIAN NUCLEAR DEAL WITH FRANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-14 06:34:00Embassy TripoliCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP ETTC ENRG FR LY
08TRIPOLI597EUROPEAN OIL COMPANIES EXTEND CONTRACTS IN LIBYA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) has signed extensions for a pair of exploration and production sharing agreements (EPSAs) with Spain's Repsol, France's Total, Austria's OMV, and Norway's Saga Petroleum, continuing its policy of redefining old contracts under the new EPSA I [...]
2008-07-23 18:06:00Embassy TripoliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EPET NO SP FR AU LY
08TRIPOLI819SELF-DESCRIBED REGIME CRITIC IDRISS BOUFAYED RELEASED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-14 17:19:00Embassy TripoliCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL FR LY SZ DA
08UNVIEVIENNA478FRIENDS OF AFGHANISTAN TAKES SHAPE IN PREPARATORY MEETING
[...] (U) Representatives from Afghanistan, France, Italy, U.K., and U.S. met at the Italian mission in Vienna on August 27 to discuss the structure and format of the proposed "Friends of Afghanistan" group. Charge delivered guidance points from reftel, which were well received across the board. [...]
2008-08-27 15:12:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR UN AF FR UK IT CA AS NL GM DA NO TU RS PK
08UNVIEVIENNA523VIENNA'S FRIENDS OF AFGHANISTAN ON COMPACT AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-25 11:48:00UNVIECONFIDENTIALAF AS AU CA EAID FR IT KCRM NL NO PREL
08UNVIEVIENNA666 UNODC MAJOR DONORS MEETING TACKLES UNGASS REVIEW, PIRACY
[...] (SBU)INL A/S David T. Johnson led the USDEL to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Major Donors meeting, December 5. Discussion with the other 20 donor countries included (1) a proposal for UNODC action to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia, (2) the funding situation of UNODC, and (3) [...]
2008-12-22 13:31:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM UN PGOV AORC AF SW SZ GM FR CA IN IT
08USEUBRUSSELS248P3 DISCUSSES 1540 COMMITTEE FEBRUARY 5
[...] (U) Summary. UK hosted a P3 discussion on continuation of the 1540 Committee on February 5 in response to REF A demarche at its EU Mission with U.S. 1540 Coordinator and French MFA reps. Both UK and Fance expressed their appreciation for the U.S in taking the lead to draft essential eleen [...]
2008-02-13 16:30:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC KPAO UNSC UK FR
08USNATO90WELCOME TO NATO FOR STAFFDEL KENNETH MYERS, MARCH
[...] Mission welcomes Senior Professional Staff Member for the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Kenneth Myers III to Brussels for meetings at USEU and USNATO on March 19 - 21, 2008. USNATO Control officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer, Peter Chisholm, work tel:(32) [...]
2008-03-10 13:40:00Mission USNATOUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NATO EUN FR BR
08USUNNEWYORK140UNSC CALLS FOR INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) Radhika Coomaraswamy on February 12 urged the Council to implement targeted measures against persistent violators against children. She also called for the Council to add rape/sexual violence as a trigger to list a country in the ann [...]
2008-02-14 14:05:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PGOV PHUM PREF UNSC BM FR
08USUNNEWYORK431HANDICAPPING UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTIONS
[...] (U) Action requested: please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) In our view, Japan, South Korea and Pakistan are likely to prevail in the May 21 General Assembly elections to the Human Rights Council. All have the benefit of incumbency. Pakistan's UN Mission tells us the OIC (56 or 57 votes) has e [...]
2008-05-13 19:07:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALFR SP UK PHUM UNGA AORC
08USUNNEWYORK549UNSCR 1540: EU MEMBERS BRAINSTORM ON COOPERATION
[...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: USUN Legal Officer met with UK and French representatives to the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) ("1540 Committee") on June 18 to share information concerning U.S.-European Union coordination to promote implementation of resolution [...]
2008-06-23 14:59:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC KPAO UNSC KNNP UK FR
08USUNNEWYORK766UNSC: FRENCH RESIST ADDING PREAMBULAR LANGUAGE TO
[...] (U) Action request in paragraph 4. 2. (C) Ambassador Wolff spoke August 22 with French Charge Jean-Pierre Lacroix to emphasize the U.S. request (contained in ref) to add a preambular paragraph to the current draft French text that would reiterate the 12th preambular paragraph in UNSCR 177 [...]
2008-08-25 20:20:00USUN New YorkCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO UNSC IS LE FR
08USUNNEWYORK864AT UN, HEADS OF STATE BEGIN 63RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[...] SUMMARY: The United Nations General Debate opened on September 22 with several heads of state taking the floor. Most speakers mentioned the global food crisis, and many spoke on peace-building, energy issues, global warming, the financial crisis, and human rights. UN reform was another commo [...]
2008-09-25 22:24:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ECON BR US FR RP QA LI TU AR MA
08USUNNEWYORK93UNSCR 1540: DEMARCHES ON MANDATE RENEWAL
[...] (SBU) Begin Summary: Per reftel, Mission delivered the demarche providing U.S. objectives for the renewal of the 1540 Committee's mandate to the UK and French representatives to the Committee. While emphasizing that they did not have reactions from Paris or London, both welcomed the U.S. in [...]
2008-01-31 23:10:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC KPAO UNSC OAS KNNP UK FR
08VIENNA1796FRENCH CONSIDERING RENEWED APPROACH TO AUSTRIA ON
[...] (C) Summary. Incoming French Embassy DCM reported Dec. 5 that France is considering a joint approach together with the UK, Germany, and perhaps the U.S., to Austria on several aspects of Austrian-Iranian relations: possible gas activities, to include the Nabucco pipeline, lack of support for [...]
2008-12-05 15:32:00Embassy ViennaCONFIDENTIALPREL IR FR AU
08VIENTIANE225HMONG PROTECTION ISSUES: CONVERSATION WITH THE
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with MFA DG Yong Chanthalangsy (strictly protect) to raise the case of three missing Hmong Americans and to discuss the first group of 11 Hmong returned from Thailand at the end of February -- ten of whom are now resettled within Laos. The Ambassador pressed Yo [...]
2008-04-10 10:34:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALCASC FR LA PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
08VIENTIANE360LAO OFFICIAL ANTICIPATES RAPID RESETTLEMENT OF
[...] (C) Summary: The senior Lao official responsible for Hmong resettlement told the Ambassador that the 837 Hmong returned from Thailand on June 22 had proper shelter and food available at their temporary processing site and would begin returning to their villages next week. He claimed that the [...]
2008-06-25 10:21:00Embassy VientianeCONFIDENTIALCASC FR LA PGOV PHUM PREF PREL TH
08YEREVAN931LUNCH AT THE EC: CONCERN ABOUT POLITICAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Over a welcome lunch for Ambassador with Ambassadors representing European Commission member countries in Yerevan, EC Ambassador Raul de Luzenberger provided a briefing on the November 5-6 visit of President Sargsian to the European Commission in Brussels. French Ambassador Ser [...]
2008-11-18 14:12:00Embassy YerevanCONFIDENTIALPOGV PHUM PREL ASEC KDEM EUN FR AJ TU AM
08ZAGREB319CROATIA RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE
[...] The invitation to participate in the EPG was delivered to Sanja Bujas-Juraga, Head of the International Security Department at Croatia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 9, 2008. Bujas-Juraga reported that Croatia would like to participate in the EPG and would try to send appropriate rep [...]
2008-04-18 07:23:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDMCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER FR
09ABUDHABI1092UAE - UN SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS FOR PEACEKEEPING
[...] (SBU) On November 19, DCM and French Deputy Head of Mission Vincent Floreani delivered reftel demarche to Mohammed Rashed Al Absi, Deputy Director of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Al Absi asked several questions about the current assessment scale and associate [...]
2009-11-19 10:44:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA AORC FR AE
09ABUDHABI145UAE PLANS BIG SPLASH TO OPEN FRENCH NAVAL PRESENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UAE leadership will send a loud message with the May opening of a French naval facility in Abu Dhabi, amplified by the presence of headliners like French President Sarkozy. Adding a new military presence to the strategic equation reasserts the UAE's welcome to Western partn [...]
2009-02-10 03:59:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MOPS MASS FR AE
09ABUDHABI529FRENCH KISS - SARKO'S PUBLIC DISPLAY OF AFFECTION FOR ABU
[...] (SBU) Summary: French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the UAE May 25-26. Key events, apart from considerable media frothiness, included the opening of a French naval facility and laying the foundation stone for Abu Dhabi's Louvre. Highlighting how a strong friendship was good for the comm [...]
2009-05-28 10:15:00Embassy Abu DhabiCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS FR AE
09ADDISABABA354AU SUMMIT -- AF ACTING A/S CARTER MEETS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: AF Acting Assistant Secretary met with French Ministry of Foreign Affairs AF A/S-Equivalent Stephane Gompertz, Presidential Advisor for African Affairs Remi Marechaux, and Ambassador Jean-Christophe Belliard February 2 on the margins of the African Union Summit. On Sudan, the Fr [...]
2009-02-09 16:12:00Embassy Addis AbabaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR XA AU
09AITTAIPEI1077FRENCH SEEK U.S. COORDINATION ON STALLED BID FOR
[...] (U) This telegram contains an action request for T/ISN in para 4. Â [...]
2009-09-03 04:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALENRG SENV TRGY FR TW
09AITTAIPEI1230TAIWAN RESPONSE TO ADVANCED REACTOR RESEARCH
[...] (U) This message is a response to Ref A action request. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Taiwan has no official programs in the field of advanced nuclear reactor research, and nuclear officials here are cool to the prospects of Generation IV reactor technology to play any role in Taiwan's nuclear industry [...]
2009-10-15 07:37:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiCONFIDENTIALSENV ECON PARM ENERG KNNP TRGY FR TW
09ANTANANARIVO198France's Last African Colony Votes
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The island of Mayotte, governed by France but claimed by the Union of the Comoros since independence in 1975, will vote March 29 in a "consultation" to become a French Overseas Department. Most observers expect the overwhelming majority of Maorais to vote in favor of becoming a [...]
2009-03-23 09:20:00Embassy AntananarivoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV EAID CN FR
09ANTANANARIVO887ICG-M IN ADDIS ABABA: BACKGROUND AND TALKING POINTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 6, members of the International Contact Group on Madagascar (ICG-M) will meet in Addis Ababa to discuss the international community's response to recent developments in Antananarivo. This cable contains suggested talking points for use by the U.S. delegation to the ICG- [...]
2009-12-29 12:11:00Embassy AntananarivoCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MA FR ET
09ASHGABAT334 THREE-DAY PRESIDENTIAL JUNKET IN TURKMENISTAN'S OUTBACK
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet publication. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In the course of a well publicized three day program beginning March 4, President Berdimuhamedov and a procession of government and diplomatic representatives traveled around Mary and Lebap Provinces to atten [...]
2009-03-13 15:14:00Embassy AshgabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EIND EINV ECON TX TU FR
09ASHGABAT496TURKMENISTAN: TOUGH TIMES FOR BOUYGUES
[...] (C) Following a meeting with his boss two weeks ago, one expatriate employee of French construction firm, Bouygues, was unexpectedly sacked by his boss by e-mail. Several expatriate employees at Bouygues (strictly protect throughout) have told Economic Officer in the past week about the "ter [...]
2009-04-20 05:49:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV EIND TX FR
09ASHGABAT86BOUYGUES APPEARS TO HAVE A SHELF LIFE IN
[...] (C) During a January 18 conversation with XXXXXXXXXX, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX shared the following comments about Bouygues's relations with the Turkmen government and its business prospects in the country: -- It is well known in the company that Minister of Construction, Shamuhammet Durdylyev, and f [...]
2009-01-20 13:21:00Embassy AshgabatCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR EIND CIS FR TX
09ASTANA1858 KAZAKHSTAN: ENERGY DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN BRIEFED ON
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 6, during the visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Astana, the government of Kazakhstan signed a memorandum of understanding with a consortium of French companies to study construction of a 730- [...]
2009-10-16 05:19:00Embassy AstanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EPET EINV FR KZ
09ASTANA1900 KAZAKHSTAN: DEPUTY SECRETARY OF ENERGY PONEMAN'S MEETING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a meeting between Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman and Prime Minister Karim Masimov in Astana on October 8: -- Poneman urged rapid forward movement on the final steps for the full decommissioning of the BN-350 fast-breeder nuclear reactor at Aktau, as well as [...]
2009-10-21 09:16:00Embassy AstanaCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG KNNP FR IR KZ
09BAGHDAD3042RIDING HIGH AFTER THE CONFERENCE: IRAQ'S NATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: Dr. Sami al-Araji, the chairman of Iraq's National Investment Commission (NIC) and our organizational partner for the October 20-21 U.S.-Iraq Business and Investment Conference (BIC) in Washington, outlined for us his plans to capture the momentum from Iraq's investment conference [...]
2009-11-18 13:40:00Embassy BaghdadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV ETRD IZ PREL FR GM PL
09BAKU186AIRBUS PUSHING AZERBAIJAN AND CENTRAL ASIANS TO
[...] (U) This is an action/ guidance request: see paragraph 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Boeing Regional Sales Director told Econoff that due to recent aggressive action by Airbus and the Government of France (GOF),Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) may soon cancel an order for four 737-900s (part of an August [...]
2009-03-10 14:48:00Embassy BakuCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON EINV AJ FR NL
09BEIJING1064BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON HIGH-LEVEL
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing April 17, German Ambassador Michael Schaefer told the group that a Bundestag delegation had been able to hold a dinner meeting with Charter '08 writers and signers after the German Embassy informed the MFA and asked the Chinese government [...]
2009-04-21 09:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF EFIN ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING1094APRIL 23 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: Yasukuni Shrine, Dalai Lama,
[...] Key points at the April 23 MFA press briefing: -- A "correct and proper handling" of historic issues is the bedrock of Sino-Japanese relations, and Japan should take appropriate steps to safeguard the relationship following Prime Minister Taro Aso's sending an offering to the Yasukuni Shrine. [...]
2009-04-23 09:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF CH JA FR KN KS
09BEIJING1136APRIL 28 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: UIGHUR DETAINEES, SWINE FLU,
[...] Key points at the April 28 MFA press briefing: -- The Uighur detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay are "members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement" and "should be handed over to China." -- China takes the swine flu issue "seriously" and has "jump started" a program to respond to the t [...]
2009-04-28 22:57:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER PHUM CH JA FR MX
09BEIJING1170APRIL 30 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK, Visas, Japan, Visits
[...] Key points at the April 30 MFA press briefing: -- China hopes that all parties involved can safeguard the Six-Party Talks. China and Japan are both willing to increase communication and coordination for peace and prosperity in East Asia and the world. -- Foreign reports that China is tigh [...]
2009-04-30 09:30:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MNUC CH JA FR KN KS SP MX
09BEIJING1247BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON DPRK, GTMO
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing May 8, French DCM Nicholas Chapuis reported that State Councilor Dai Bingguo told visiting former French President Chirac that the West would not gain from more sanctions on North Korea. Dai reportedly said that "the lever of economic d [...]
2009-05-08 10:39:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING1299MAY 14 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: H1N1, DEFENSE POLICY,
[...] Key points at the May 14 MFA press briefing: -- China continues to work to monitor and contain H1N1 influenza, dismissing as "irresponsible" allegations that the United States and Canada have not taken sufficient measures to contain the virus's spread. -- Regarding press reports of a USG o [...]
2009-05-14 23:09:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV CH FR AS KN PK BR CA MX
09BEIJING1353MAY 19 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S. AMBASSADOR TO CHINA, BOC
[...] Key points at the May 19 MFA press briefing: -- -- China "hoped the new U.S. Ambassador to China would play a positive role in promoting friendship between the two countries." -- China "welcomed the verdict" convicting two former Bank of China employees who "committed embezzlement and then [...]
2009-05-19 11:18:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH FR AS KN PK BR IN KS XG BM RS
09BEIJING200January 22 MFA Press Briefing: President Obama's Inaugural
[...] Key points at the January 22 MFA Press Briefing: -- MFA Spokesperson was "not aware" of President Obama's inaugural speech having been censored when broadcast on Chinese media, adding that the media in China enjoyed their "own editing right." -- China hopes the "relevant parties" will adher [...]
2009-01-22 10:31:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD CH KN FR IR XF BM
09BEIJING2062BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON XINJIANG,
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing July 17, French Ambassador Ladsous reported that during French National Day, he spoke with a Chinese Vice Minister who said Xinjiang was "just like Tibet" and implied France "best keep quiet." On Rio Tinto, Ladsous reported that he hea [...]
2009-07-20 09:31:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING2617BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON JAPANESE
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing on September 11, Japanese Ambassador Miyamoto stated that while the recent elections in Japan were "significant," he does not expect major changes in Japan's foreign policy. British Ambassador William Ehrman said the United Kingdom was " [...]
2009-09-11 11:57:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KIRF ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING332FEBRUARY 10 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: SECRETARY VISIT, MIDDLE
[...] Key points at the February 10 MFA Press Briefing: -- China hopes Secretary Clinton's visit will "strengthen dialogue, increase mutual trust, broaden cooperation and push China-U.S. relations on a track of healthy and stable development." -- China "hopes U.S. Middle East policy can help ease [...]
2009-02-10 23:11:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM SENV CH CA FR IR XF IT SA
09BEIJING366FEBRUARY 12 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: TIBET, ICC INDICTMENT,
[...] Key points at the February 12 MFA Press Briefing: -- Tibet is a matter of China's internal affairs and has been a part of China since the 13th century. China continues to strive to improve its system of regional autonomy and to safeguard the interests of all ethnic groups. -- The Chinese [...]
2009-02-12 09:51:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH SU ZI FR
09BEIJING477BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON SINO-FRENCH
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing February 20, French Ambassador Herve Ladsous reported that a sequence of events is being taken to repair Sino-French relations and that several visits are planned in the near future to that end but no apologies would be forthcoming. The [...]
2009-02-25 06:18:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING545March 3 MFA Press Briefing: Bosworth Visit, Afghanistan,
[...] Key points at the March 3 MFA press briefing: -- U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy Amb. Bosworth will meet both FM Yang Jiechi and VFM Wu Dawei this week. China hopes to exchange views on issues of common interests. The spokesperson reiterated China's hope that recent diffi [...]
2009-03-03 10:35:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KS KN AF FR EU IN CH
09BEIJING613BEIJING-BASED G-5 CHIEFS OF MISSION ON SINO-FRENCH
[...] (C) At the regular meeting of G-5 Ambassadors in Beijing March 6, French Ambassador Herve Ladsous reported that Sino-French talks are "still in the doldrums." France suspects that the Chinese government is behind the Chinese antique collector who bid on the Chinese cultural relics at a Paris [...]
2009-03-10 10:48:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EFIN ECON CH FR JA GM UK
09BEIJING666PREMIER ADDRESSES FINANCIAL CRISIS, TIBET, TAIWAN,
[...] (SBU) Premier Wen Jiabao set the tone for his annual press conference at the conclusion of the National People's Congress (NPC) by noting on March 13 that this year's NPC session had been convened in the midst of the global financial crisis and therefore had focused on China's financial stimul [...]
2009-03-13 18:14:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PREL EFIN CH TW KN KS FR
09BEIJING713March 19 MFA Press Briefing: The Impeccable, AmCits on the
[...] Key points at the March 19 MFA press briefing: -- The United States violated Chinese and International Law by conducting activities in China's Exclusive Economic Zone. -- China is investigating the incident involving American Citizens on the DPRK border. -- Ambassador Wu Sike, the Chines [...]
2009-03-19 23:00:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EFIN MARR MASS PHUM CH KS KN FR JA ES
09BEIJING778SARKOZY-HU MEETING AT G-20 STILL A POSSIBILITY
[...] (C) Summary: A meeting between the Chinese and French Presidents at the London G-20 summit is still a possibility despite press reports to the contrary, according to a French Embassy contact. However, Chinese insistence on France taking "concrete steps" to resolve the continuing contretemps [...]
2009-03-25 09:27:00Embassy BeijingCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KIRF CH FR SF
09BEIJING807MARCH 26 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: MILITARY POWER REPORT, TIBET,
[...] Key points at the March 26 MFA press briefing: -- The recently released China Military Power Report "contains gross distortions of fact" and China has expressed its "resolute opposition" and "made representations" to the United States. -- The "Dalai Clique premeditated and coordinated" the [...]
2009-03-26 10:52:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MARR PHUM EINT CH KS KN JA RS AF FR TW
09BEIJING858MARCH 31 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: HACKING, NORTH KOREAN ROCKET,
[...] Key points at the March 31 MFA press briefing: -- China "resolutely opposes the damaging of computer networks including through hacking." -- "Relevant parties should stay calm, exercise restraint and do more to ensure peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in East Asia." -- Afg [...]
2009-03-31 23:05:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM EINT CH KS KN JA AF FR IN AS NZ VE
09BEIJING885APRIL 2 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: U.S.-CHINA SUMMIT, DPRK
[...] Key points at the April 2 MFA press briefing: -- President Hu Jintao "explained China's principled position" on the March 8 USNS Impeccable incident in the South China Sea to President Barack Obama. Both sides were committed to promoting continued development of bilateral military-to-militar [...]
2009-04-03 00:04:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH KS KN JA FR IN VE
09BEIJING923APRIL 7 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: NORTH KOREA LAUNCH, SOMALI
[...] Key points at the April 7 MFA press briefing: -- The UN Security Council should "make a prudent response" to the North Korea rocket launch and a satellite launch is "different than a missile launch or nuclear test." -- China has been "working to rescue the crew" of a ship from "Chinese Tai [...]
2009-04-07 11:41:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM CH KS KN JA FR VE TW
09BEIJING953APRIL 9 MFA PRESS BRIEFING: DPRK LAUNCH, IRAN DIALOGUE,
[...] Key points at the April 9 MFA press briefing: -- China believes "pressure will not help" the situation in North Korea, "diplomatic efforts" need to be continued and all parties should "exercise calmness, restraint and caution." -- China "takes note of" North Korea's announcement of having [...]
2009-04-09 23:08:00Embassy BeijingUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PARM EFIN KNNP KCRM CH KS KN FR IR
09BEIRUT29LEBANON: PRESIDENT SARKOZY'S TRIP TO LEBANON
[...] (C) According to a diplomat from the French Embassy, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's January 6 visit to Lebanon was bogged down by the events in Gaza. Little attention was given to Lebanese-specific issues, including Ghajar and Sheba'a Farms. Sarkozy met with government officials, but did [...]
2009-01-08 16:11:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PINR UNSC FR LE SY
09BEIRUT534LEBANON: PM: GHAJAR WITHDRAWAL WOULD SHOW THAT
[...] (C) In a May 9 meeting with NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David Hale, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora expressed the need for March 14's leaders to come together in the run-up to the June 7 parliamentary elections. Siniora added that the release of the four generals would not [...]
2009-05-14 08:05:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PTER PREF UNSC FR IR IS LE SY
09BEIRUT764LEBANON: SAFADI DESCRIBES FOREIGN INTERVENTION IN
[...] (C) In a June 9 meeting with the Ambassador, Tripoli Sunni leader and caretaker Minister of Economy Mohammad Safadi said the Saudis had made a serious negotiating mistake in accepting the Syrian demand for a pre-government formation meeting of Lebanese political leaders with the Saudi King and [...]
2009-07-09 13:55:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR ECON SY SA FR QA LE
09BEIRUT786LEBANON: GERMAN AND FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTERS
[...] (C) Lebanese reaction to German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier's July 7 visit to Beirut, followed by a July 10-11 visit by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was muted. Lebanese contacts asserted that while the show of support was appreciated, the visits amounted to little mor [...]
2009-07-14 14:16:00Embassy BeirutCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR LE GM FR
09BERLIN1003AUSTRALIA GROUP: GERMANY INFORMED ON US
[...] (SBU) On August 12, EconOff delivered ref A non-paper to MFA Export Control Division Deputy Office Director, Markus Klinger, informing Germany of the US intention to submit a proposal for a "Chemical Micro-Reactor Systems Experts Group" at the September 2009 Australia Group (AG) Plenary in Pa [...]
2009-08-14 16:34:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC PARM PGOV PREL PINR TBIO KSTC FR GM
09BERLIN1030AUSTRALIA GROUP DEMARCHE: ESTABLISHING MINIMUM
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-25 15:35:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM ETTC PREL FR GM
09BERLIN1031AUSTRALIA GROUP NONPAPER DELIVERED: CLARIFYING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-25 15:37:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM ETTC PREL FR GM
09BERLIN1032AUSTRALIA GROUP NONPAPER DELIVERED: CLARIFYING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-25 15:40:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM ETTC PREL FR GM
09BERLIN1033AUSTRALIA GROUP NONPAPER DELIVERED: CHEMICAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-25 15:44:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM ETTC PREL FR GM
09BERLIN1070US 2009 MTCR PLENARY PROPOSALS DELIVERED TO GERMANY
[...] (C) On September 1, EconOff delivered ref A non-paper to MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer, Nancy Reck, regarding US "small group" proposals for the 2009 MTCR Plenary in Rio de Janeiro. Reck thanked the USG for the non-paper and said she would deliver it to the appropriate authorities [...]
2009-09-03 13:05:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR JA UK GM
09BERLIN1071AUSTRALIA GROUP: GERMAN RESPONSE ON US
[...] (SBU) On September 3, MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer, Nancy Reck, relayed to EconOff German Federal Office of Economics and Export Control's (BAFA) views on the US Australia Group (AG) proposal to establish an experts working group on micro-reactor systems (MRS). Reck said Germany [...]
2009-09-03 13:11:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM ETTC PREL FR GM
09BERLIN1116GERMAN INTELLIGENCE VIEWS ON OPTICAL RECONNAISSANCE CAPABILITIES
[...] (S//NF) SUMMARY: The German Intelligence Service (BND) expressed confidence that Germanys proposal for a High Resolution Optical System (HiROS) reconnaissance satellite program "will be realized regardless of the outcome of the German general elections this month" and is advocating for a US partner [...]
2009-09-10 15:46:00Embassy BerlinSECRETETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL JP FR SP UK TSPA
09BERLIN1130GERMAN OPTICAL SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING: THE PATH FORWARD
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-11 16:21:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA IT KS FR GM
09BERLIN1275MTCR INFORMATION EXCHANGE PROPOSALS SHARED WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-13 16:05:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA BR FR GM
09BERLIN1319GERMAN SPACE AGENCY FLOATS A MERGED GPS AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A senior German Space Agency (DLR) official informally floated the idea of aligning the security aspects of the US Global Positioning System (GPS) and the European Galileo Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) under the framework of NATO within the next ten years. [...]
2009-10-22 10:15:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA FR UK GM
09BERLIN1324OHB-SYSTEM CEO CALLS GALILEO A WASTE OF GERMAN TAX PAYER MONEY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-22 15:40:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA FR GM
09BERLIN1372MTCR: U.S. REPORT ON CONTACTS WITH NON-PARTNERS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-30 16:25:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALKSCA ETTC MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA FR BR GM
09BERLIN14(S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONTINUED IRANIAN INTEREST
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-07 14:24:00Embassy BerlinSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA IR FR GM
09BERLIN1429MEDIA REACTION: POTUS IN ASIA, AFGHANISTAN, ARMISTICE DAY,
[...] Lead Stories Summary 2. President Obama in Asia 3. Strategy on Afghanistan 4. Armistice Day 5. Muslims in Germany  [...]
2009-11-12 11:53:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO AF CH JA FR EU GM
09BERLIN1476OHB-SYSTEM TO BUILD GERMAN OPTICAL SPY SATELLITE; LOOKING AT U.S. MARKET
[...] (C) SUMMARY: OHB-System, Germanys top satellite manufacturer and third largest in Europe, will be the prime contractor on Germanys planned High Resolution Optical Satellite (HiROS) reconnaissance system -- a system that France would like to see not happen because it would directly compete with its [...]
2009-11-20 15:34:00Embassy BerlinSECRETETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA CH FR GM
09BERLIN155MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ, GUANTANAMO, MSC, ISRAEL, ECONOMY,
[...] Lead Stories Summary 2. Iraqi Reconstruction 3. Fate Of Guantnamo Detainees 4. Munich Security Conference 5. Upcoming Israeli Elections 6. U.S. Economy -- Protectionism 7. Sarkozy Speech 8. Nuclear Energy 9. U.S. Healthcare Insurance 10. Vatican Controversy [...]
2009-02-06 11:40:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO GM IZ US IS XF FR VT
09BERLIN1574MEDIA REACTION: Nobel Peace Prize, COP15, Finance;BERLIN
[...] Lead Stories Summary 2. Nobel Peace Prize 3. Climate Change 4. Levy on Bonuses  [...]
2009-12-11 19:29:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO NO DA KGHG UK FR US
09BERLIN181GERMANY SEEKS U.S. PARTNER TO DEVELOP OPTICAL SPACE IMAGERY CAPABILITIES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-12 17:16:00Embassy BerlinSECRET//NOFORNETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA FR GM
09BERLIN192GERMANY WELCOMES U.S. NONPROLIFERATION ASSURANCES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-13 17:27:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDETTC ENRG KNNP KSCA PARM TRGY FR GM
09BERLIN218MEDIA REACTION: G20, CLINTON, GUANTANAMO, NATO, ECONOMICS,
[...] Lead Stories Summary 2. G-20 Preparatory Meeting 3. Secretary Clinton's Trip to Asia 4. Guantnamo 5. France's Return to NATO's Structures 6. U.S. Budget Deficit, Efforts to Fight Financial Crisis 7. Former Chancellor Schroeder's meeting with President Ahmadinejad 8. Fo [...]
2009-02-23 15:25:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO GM US CH FR IR IS XG
09BERLIN286MEDIA REACTION: AFGHANISTAN, NATO, MIDEAST, IRAN, SYRIA,
[...] Lead Stories Summary 2. New Strategy on Afghanistan 3. France's Return to NATO Command Structure 4. Mideast and Iran Policy 5. Financial Crisis 6. Relaxation of U.S.-Cuban Relations 7. ICC Arrest Warrant for Bashir 8. Eastern European Economic Problems  [...]
2009-03-12 11:46:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO GM AF US FR IR XF XH SU CU SY
09BERLIN324MEDIA REACTION: AIG, EU, PAKISTAN, NATO, KOREA, POPE,
[...] Lead Stories Summary 2. AIG Controversy 3. EU Summit 4. Financial Crisis 5. U.S. Strikes in Pakistan 6. French Return to NATO Command 7. Climate Protection 8. North Korean Missile Test 9. Papal Visit to Africa  [...]
2009-03-19 12:38:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO GM XG US KN PK FR VT
09BERLIN328MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, EU SUMMIT, FED, FRANCE,
[...] Lead Stories Summary 2. President Obama's Video Message to Iran 3. New U.S. Strategy on Afghanistan 4. EU Summit, Financial Crisis, G-20 5. Fed Policy 6. General Strike in France 7. Papal Visit to Africa 8. Iraqi Refugees in Germany  [...]
2009-03-20 12:06:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO GM US IR AF XG FR VT IZ
09BERLIN351GERMANY UNDERSTANDS CANCELLATION OF OAK RIDGE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-25 15:30:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC ENRG KNNP KSCA PARM TRGY FR GM
09BERLIN399(C) GERMANY INFORMED ON USG VIEWS REGARDING PARIS
[...] (C) On March 31, EconOff delivered ref nonpaper to German MFA Export Control Division Desk Officer Nancy Reck. Reck said that the information in the ref nonpaper looks good and that she only had a few comments pertaining to the "Machine Tools" and "Interdiction" topics. 2. (C) Reck point [...]
2009-04-03 09:47:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA FR GM
09BERLIN45(S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UAE FRONT COMPANY FOR IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-14 06:45:00Embassy BerlinSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MTCRE KSCA FR IR AE GM
09BERLIN561(S) GERMANY EXPANDING OVERHEAD RECONNAISSANCE PROGRAMS AND EYE CLOSER USG PARTNERSHIP
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-14 16:24:00Embassy BerlinSECRETETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA FR GM
09BERLIN601GERMAN COMPANY MARKETING SATELLITE IMAGERY TO US DESPITE FRENCH OPPOSITION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-20 16:50:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL TSPA FR KZ AE TU GM
09BERLIN621GERMAN VIEWS ON FRENCH REINTEGRATION INTO NATO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Germans say they welcome French reintegration into the NATO military command structure as an historic event and a symbolically important political accomplishment. They also hope it will lead to some concrete benefits, like improved NATO-EU relations. When pressed, however, t [...]
2009-05-22 13:24:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO EUN FR GM
09BERLIN631MEDIA REACTION: NUCLEAR TEST, GITMO, AFPAK, IRAN, RUSSIA,
[...] Lead Stories Summary 2. North Korean Nuclear Test 3. Guantnamo Detainees 4. Pakistan, Afghanistan 5. Iran and the Middle East 6. EU-Russia Meeting 7. New French Base in UAE Â [...]
2009-05-26 11:45:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO GM US KN PK AF IR XF RS FR AE
09BERLIN637MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, SUPREME COURT, MIDEAST,
[...] Lead Stories Summary 2. North Korean Nuclear Threat 3. Supreme Court Nomination 4. Israeli Settlements 5. Climate Protection 6. New French Base in UAE Â [...]
2009-05-27 11:52:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO GM KN US IS XF FR AE
09BERLIN751MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, FRANCE, SOMALIA, CLONE MEAT
[...] Lead Stories Summary 2. Aftermath of Iranian Elections 3. Western Reactions to Iran 4. French President Sarkozy's State of the Union 5. Somalia 6. Clone Meat  [...]
2009-06-23 12:35:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO GM IR FR SO US
09BERLIN788GERMAN SATELLITE START-UP RAPIDEYE GATHERING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: German satellite imagery provider RapidEye AG, which began selling its imagery products in January of this year (see ref A),has established its first contracts with France and Lithuania. In the next few years, RapidEye is confident that its customer base will expand by ten, [...]
2009-07-01 07:25:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PINR CH BR FR LH GM
09BERLIN939(C) GERMANY LIKELY TO DELIVER ADDITIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-04 15:10:00Embassy BerlinCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA BR FR GM
09BERLIN992AUSTRALIA GROUP: GERMANY TO SUBMIT PROPOSAL FOR
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARA 4. 2. (SBU) On August 11, MFA Export Control Division Deputy Office Director, Markus Klinger, provided EconOff with a German proposal for Australia Group (AG) "Best Practice Guidelines for Implementing End-Use Controls." Germany intends to [...]
2009-08-13 15:02:00Embassy BerlinUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC PARM PGOV PREL PINR TBIO KSTC FR GM
09BISHKEK1147DOOR TO MANAS MAY BE OPENING FOR FRENCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following on an unsuccessful meeting between the French Charge and Foreign Minister Sarbayev, French Special Representative Thierry Mariani appears to have tempted the Kyrgyz back to the Manas negotiating table with the offer of a Paris visit for President Bakiyev and the upgra [...]
2009-10-23 09:10:00Embassy BishkekCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KG FR SP
09BISHKEK1182FRENCH ON MANAS: SHOULD WE STAY OR SHOULD WE GO?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Outgoing French Ambassador Alain Couanon told the Ambassador that Special Representative Thierry Mariani's recent proposals for renegotiating an agreement for French troops at Manas Transit Center have little chance of winning French political approval. Couanon suggested that [...]
2009-11-04 08:56:00Embassy BishkekCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KG FR
09BRAZZAVILLE101BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - APRIL 2, 2009
[...] French President's visit 2. Pointe-Noire port improvements to begin in October 3. Bilateral US-Congo trade 4. Venezuela Opens Embassy 5. First Conviction for Chimp Trafficking 6. Tibet, Anyone? 7. Who's in Charge? SARKOZY'S VISIT --------------- Â [...]
2009-04-02 16:36:00Embassy BrazzavilleUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PREL PGOV PHUM BEXP SENV CF CH FR VE
09BRAZZAVILLE228SUBJECT : OVERVIEW OF FRENCH AID TO THE REPUBLIC OF THE
[...] (U) Summary: In a detailed press interview, Nicolas Normand, French Ambassador to the ROC, described the major areas of GOF aid efforts in the ROC. Currently, the GOF has a multi-faceted aid program that focuses on intervention in infrastructure development, cultural advocacy, environmental is [...]
2009-07-30 11:02:00Embassy BrazzavilleUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL CF FR
09BRUSSELS1277EU/DPRK SANCTIONS: OPPORTUNITY TO INFLUENCE
[...] (U) Action Request: Please see paragraph 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C//NF) European Union contacts expect to formalize any unilateral DPRK sanctions over the next several weeks. The deadline for the Swedish Presidency's call for proposals has now passed, but key EU members are s [...]
2009-09-22 11:44:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNETTC KNNP EFIN KCRM KHLS UNSC PINR FR UK EUN
09BRUSSELS1515UN TERRORISM SANCTIONS: REFORM SEMINAR
[...] (C) On October 15-16, Belgium sponsored a &Seminar on Strengthening the UN Targeted Sanctions through Fair and Clear Procedures8 to discuss with UNSC Members and select Member States (mostly from the EU) options for reforming the UNSCR 1267 (Al-Qaida and Taliban) sanctions regime. Many semin [...]
2009-11-10 17:20:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNBE CH EFIN ETTC EUN FR KTFN PTER SZ UK UNSC
09BRUSSELS1532DPRK DEMARCHE DELIVERY TO EU COUNCIL SECRETARIAT
[...] (C//NF) SUMMARY: USEU discussed DPRK sanctions non-paper with the EU's Council Secretariat. Staffers welcomed non-paper but cautioned that EU Member States ("EUMS") were unlikely to take suggested actions immediately. EUMS are politically keen to differentiate their autonomous DPRK program [...]
2009-11-17 15:22:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEFIN ETTC EUN FR KCRM KHLS KNNP PINR UK UNSC
09BRUSSELS1566GENERAL HENRI BENTEGEAT SHARES HIS VIEWS AT THE
[...] (C//NF) SUMMARY: General Henri Bentegeat welcomed DASD Jim Townsend to his office on 27 October in Brussels for a final meeting before his 4 November departure. The one-hour meeting covered a range of topics. Handing Allied Command Transformation to France was "a bold, great move" said Bente [...]
2009-11-23 10:44:00USEU BrusselsCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR EUN FR
09BRUSSELS524 USEU DELIVERY OF SSA NON-PAPER TO EU COMMISSION
[...] (SBU) OES DAS Jeff Miotke deivered the reftel Non-Paper to Paul Weissenberg, EU Commission Director for Aerospace, Defense, and Security Industry in DG Enterprise, on March 25. Weissenberg told DAS Miotke that he was pleased with the Non-Paper because it was "NATO light" and because it propose [...]
2009-04-07 15:02:00USEU BrusselsUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYESA EUN EZ FR GM MCAP NASA PARM PREL TSPA
09BUDAPEST760LOCAL GOVERNMENT SEIZURE OF WATER UTILITY FURTHER
[...] (C) Summary: The Pecs city government has used a commercial dispute with France's Suez, the strategic investor and operator of the city's water plant, to basically expropriate the public utility. The move was orchestrated by the newly-elected Fidesz mayor and has raised serious concerns in bo [...]
2009-10-16 15:08:00Embassy BudapestCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KCOR FR HU
09BUDAPEST909FOREIGN INVESTORS JITTERY OVER ACTIONS OF FIDESZ
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Two recent actions by opposition party Fidesz mayors against private utility companies have rattled Hungary's foreign investors. Senior Fidesz advisors claim these are local incidents and emphasize their party has no policy to re-nationalize privatized utilities. END SUMMARY. [...]
2009-12-30 10:15:00Embassy BudapestCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EINV KCOR FR HU
09BUJUMBURA79ASSESSMENT OF BURUNDIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Burundi (GOB) faces significant challenges in reforming its security sector, including a lack for training for mid-level officers within the Burundian National Police (PNB) and a pervasive culture of impunity. The GOB is willing to partner with international [...]
2009-02-17 13:25:00Embassy BujumburaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SOCI KCRM ASEC FR BE NL BY
09CANBERRA879MTCR: AUSTRALIA REQUESTS COPY OF PAPER: INTANGIBLE
[...] (C) Embassy Canberra requests a copy of the interagency cleared paper "Intangible Technology Transfers: Foreign National Vetting" for delivery to Gerry McGuire, Director of the Counter-Proliferation Section of the Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch of Australia's Department of Forei [...]
2009-09-23 06:17:00Embassy CanberraCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR AS
09CANBERRA905MTCR: AUSTRALIA REQUESTS COPY OF PAPER: ENHANCING
[...] (S) Embassy Canberra requests a copy of the interagency cleared paper "Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Scud B Missile System" for delivery to Gerry McGuire, Director of the Counter-Proliferation Section of the Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch of Australia's Department of Foreig [...]
2009-10-01 07:01:00Embassy CanberraSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR AS
09CONAKRY64FRENCH POLOFF SHARES INSIGHTS ON GUINEA'S POLITICS
[...] (S) SUMMARY. Over the course of a 25 January meeting, the French Political Attache, who may be an agent with French External Security, shared France's perspective with DATT on a wide range of topics related to recent events in Guinea. Contact addressed maneuverings inside the CNDD, Guinea's e [...]
2009-01-27 11:47:00Embassy ConakrySECRETPGOV PTER KDEM FR GV
09DAMASCUS10GAZA: SARKOZY LOOKING FOR SARG SUPPORT OF
[...] (C) Summary: French DCM Nicolas Suran (strictly protect) confirmed January 4 that President Sarkozy would visit Damascus January 6 for three hours (approximately 10 am to 1 pm). Sarkozy would arrive after spending the previous day in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Ramallah. Sarkozy would then dep [...]
2009-01-05 13:27:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALPREL KWBG KPAL FR SY
09DAMASCUS807FRENCH AMBASSADOR UPBEAT ON ASAD TRIP TO PARIS,
[...] (C) Summary: The French ambassador to Syria characterized Syrian President Bashar al-Asad,s recent visit to Paris as a &PR success8 for Damascus that allowed Asad to make positive impressions on all his interlocutors. The main focus was Middle East peace and other regional issues. Contrary to [...]
2009-11-19 13:26:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIALFR PGOV PREL SY
09DAMASCUS89RE-ENGAGING WITH SYRIA: THE FRENCH EXPERIENCE
[...] (C/NF) Summary: Aware that relations with the SARG are under review in Washington, French Ambassador Michel Duclos, who played a key role in restoring French-Syrian bilateral relations offered his recommendations for re-engaging: ignore rhetoric and focus on actions, understand the Syrians' [...]
2009-01-28 16:58:00Embassy DamascusCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL FR SY
09DJIBOUTI1031DJIBOUTI/SOMALIA: TFG FORCES BEGIN WEAPONS TRAINING; FRENCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Military recruits for Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG),undergoing training by Djibouti's armed forces (FAD),have nearly reached the midpoint of their anticipated three-month program of instruction, which includes a human rights component as well as collective trai [...]
2009-08-06 20:42:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRET//NOFORNMASS MOPS KPKO PREL SO DJ UG FR
09DJIBOUTI1057DJIBOUTI/SOMALIA: TFG OFFICIALS REITERATE REQUEST TO THE USG FOR MILITARY EQUIPMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Officials from Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) hail recent senior USG engagement with the TFG, but highlight the need for military assistance: whether future instruction by U.S. trainers, or material support for nearly 500 TFG troops being trained by Djibouti (refs [...]
2009-08-18 15:48:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALMASS MOPS KPKO PREL SO DJ UG FR
09DJIBOUTI1099DJIBOUTI/SOMALIA: FRENCH-TRAINED TFG FORCES TO RETURN TO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-10 14:23:00Embassy DjiboutiSECRET//NOFORNPINS MASS PREL DJ SO FR
09DJIBOUTI1103DJIBOUTI PRESIDENT APPEALS AGAIN FOR USG TO EQUIP SOMALI
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-12 10:38:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALMASS PINS PREL DJ SO FR
09DJIBOUTI1203DJIBOUTIAN CANDIDACY FOR UNESCO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. Djibouti requests USG support for its candidacy for the UNESCO Executive Board. According to UNESCO's website, the election of Members of the Executive Board will occur on October 14, with ballots distributed the evening of October 13. Post strongly recommend [...]
2009-10-13 16:58:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL UNESCO DJ FR XA
09DJIBOUTI150FRENCH FM KOUCHNER'S VISIT FOCUSES ON DJIBOUTI-ERITREA,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. FM Kouchner's surprise February 21-22 visit to Djibouti focused on Djibouti-Eritrea, Somalia, and countering Somali piracy, but did not address bilateral issues, according to the French Ambassador. Despite the expiration of the 5-week deadline imposed by UNSCR 1862 for Eritrea [...]
2009-03-01 08:40:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL PHSA PBTS MOPS KPKO FR SO DJ RS
09DJIBOUTI335DJIBOUTI: MARCH ECON-ESTH ROUNDUP
[...] (U) This March 2009 Djibouti Economic-ESTH roundup includes: --Djiboutian President Guelleh visits U.S.-led salt mining project at Lac Assal --Progress underway on Djiboutis new Commercial Code --France and Djibouti sign investment risk convention --France approves USD 30 million in loans t [...]
2009-04-20 12:53:00Embassy DjiboutiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN EAID ENRG ECPS PGOV BEXP SENV FR DJ
09DJIBOUTI951DJIBOUTI/SOMALIA: TFG TRAINING UPDATE; USG SUPPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-17 11:46:00Embassy DjiboutiCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS DJ SO FR
09DOHA355DOHA DARFUR TALKS SITREP TWO (P3 Meeting)
[...] (SBU) The President's Special Envoy for Sudan, Gen. Scott Gration, met on May 26 with the special envoys of France and the UK, over a working dinner hosted by the French Ambassador in Qatar. British Special Envoy Michael O'Neill emphasized the need to review all potential incentives and penalt [...]
2009-05-31 09:21:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SU QA FR UK CH
09DOHA358DOHA DARFUR TALKS SITREP THREE (E6 MEETING)
[...] (U) Each representative gave an opening statement during a plenary meeting open to the press. Highlights of the statements follow. Qatar ----- 2. (U) Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (and GOQ Sudan lead) Ahmed Al-Mahmoud opened the public session by thanking the E6 represen [...]
2009-05-31 09:24:00Embassy DohaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SU CD QA UK RS FR CH EUN UN AU
09EFTOLONDON2884P3 DISCUSS UNSCR 1540 WAY AHEAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 15, representatives of the P3 (France, the UK, and the U.S.) who handle UNSCR 1540 implementation met in London for an agreed update on the Comprehensive Review outcome, the USG proposal for a 1540 Voluntary Fund, and to identify objectives for the 2010 Program of Wo [...]
2009-12-23 13:39:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PTER AORC UNSC KPAO RS CH FR UK
09HALIFAX25ATLANTIC CANADA ENERGY UPDATE
[...] Canadian federal government plans to develop an Atlantic energy gateway to the United States ignited a political war of words with the province of New Brunswick, which was already working on a similar concept with the State of Maine. The political wrangling, however, has had no effect on Newf [...]
2009-04-29 19:47:00Consulate HalifaxUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET PGOV PBTS PREL FR CA
09HOCHIMINHCITY104POST RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END USE CHECK ON
[...] (SBU) This cable responds to State 135040 requesting that Post contact the foreign end user in the course of a "Blue Lantern Post-Shipment End Use Check" on license GC109608. 2. (SBU) On January 21, Post contacted Mr. Vi Cong Dung, the director of Southern Services Flight Company (SSFC),w [...]
2009-02-13 07:42:00Consulate Ho Chi Minh CityUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC FR KOMC VM
09JAKARTA606STAFFDEL BLANK VISIT TO INDONESIA COUNTRY
[...] Embassy Jakarta welcomes Professional Staff Member, Mr.Jonah Blank Professional Staff Member (PSM) to travel to Indonesia from April 4-19, 2009. The only member of the delegation is as follows: Mr. Jonah Blank, PSM, Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. 2. Point of conta [...]
2009-04-03 09:03:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN AMGT ASEC FR ID OREP
09JAKARTA622STAFFDEL BLANK VISIT TO INDONESIA - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
[...] This is an action request please see Paragraph 4. 2. Dr. Blank's current itinerary based on his input and approval is as follows: Sunday, April 5 09:40 AR Jakarta 18:45 LV Jakarta 21:50 AR Balikpapan RON Hotel Novotel Balikpapan Monday, April 6 10:30 LV Balikpapan to 11:10 AR Bera [...]
2009-04-06 10:11:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN AMGT ASEC FR ID OREP
09KABUL1352FM KOUCHNER REITERATES FRENCH COMMITMENT TO
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, Pierre Lallouche, France's Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Ambassador Jean d'Amecourt May 14 to discuss increased military and civilian engagement in Afghanistan, elections and bilateral coordi [...]
2009-05-30 11:21:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MOPS MARR FR AF
09KABUL1902UPDATE ON OBSERVER PRESENCE FOR AFGHAN ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) At a July 13 press conference, the European Union officially launched its observer mission to the Afghan elections, which will deploy 86 observers around Afghanistan, including 50 short-term observers, down slightly from earlier figures. Post is negotiating grants with four implementers [...]
2009-07-16 11:22:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV PREL AF IR FR
09KABUL3981ACTION REQUEST: ENGAGING COALITION PARTNERS TO QUICKLY
[...] This message contains an action request in para 4 2. (U) Begin Summary. Embassy Kabul continues to engage with coalition partners with Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) to press for conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Life, Security and Mobility Support. We understand c [...]
2009-12-10 09:27:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID UK NO SW GM HU CA NL LH FR SP IT NZ EZ PL TU AF
09KABUL4152STATUS UPDATE: MOU WITH COALITION PARTNERS ON LIFE,
[...] (U) This message contains an action request in para 4 2. (U) Begin Summary. Embassy Kabul continues to engage with coalition partners who lead Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT) in order to press for conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Life, Security and Mobility Support. [...]
2009-12-28 10:06:00Embassy KabulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAF CA EAID FR GM HU IT LH NL NO NZ PGOV SP SW UK
09KABUL751FRENCH SPECIAL ENVOY: FRANCE TO INCREASE ITS
[...] (C) French Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Pierre Lellouche visited Kapisa province on March 24 where he participated in a shura of Afghan leaders and received briefings on the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and combined US-French military operations. Lellouche indicated tha [...]
2009-03-27 13:55:00Embassy KabulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM EAID AF AADP FR
09KHARTOUM1278FRENCH DIPLOMAT CALLS FOR RETURN TO NAIVASHA-STYLE
[...] (C) Summary: In an October 21 meeting with Polchief and Poloff, French Deputy Chief of Mission Denis Douveneaux praised Chadian President Idris Deby as a "peacemaker," and placed the blame squarely on Libya for arming and funding insurgents in the Darfur region. He expressed doubts that unity [...]
2009-11-15 06:32:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINS CH FR SU
09KHARTOUM1284PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR GHAZI REPORTS PRODUCTIVE
[...] (C) Summary: In a November 16 meeting, Presidential Advisor Dr. Ghazi Salaheddin told CDA Whitehead that he was encouraged by French officials' support for Chad-Sudan rapprochement during Ghazi's recent trip to France. He welcomed the upcoming visit of US Special Envoy (SE) Scott Gration to Su [...]
2009-11-16 09:29:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PINS PREL CH FR SU
09KHARTOUM1288GOS MILITARY OFFER TO COOPERATE ON SEVERAL FRONTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting on November 14 with the Inspector General of the Sudanese Armed Forces, General Ismat Abdelraman Zaineabdeen informed Charge Whitehead that the Government of Sudan (GoS) is willing to "fully cooperate" to assist with Darfur rebel unification. Abdelraman asked for [...]
2009-11-16 16:12:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR CH SU
09KHARTOUM904CHARGE MEETING WITH CHADIAN REBEL LEADERSHIP
[...] (C) On August 4, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) Whitehead met with Union des Forces de la Resistance (UFR) President Timane Erdimi to deliver talking points as requested by AF/C. Erdimi was accompanied by UFR Second Vice President Abdelwahid Aboul Makaye, Secretary General Abakar Tollimi, former RFC [...]
2009-08-05 12:42:00Embassy KhartoumCONFIDENTIALPINS PREL UN AU SU EU FR
09KIGALI802RWANDA AND FRANCE RESTORE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS THE
[...] (C) Summary: The Governments of Rwanda (GOR) and France (GOF) announced November 29 that they had agreed to restore fully diplomatic relations between the two countries. Relations were ruptured in November 2006 after a French judge indicted senior GOR officials on charges - vehemently reject [...]
2009-12-01 06:28:00Embassy KigaliCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS FR RW
09KUWAIT511WELCOME CABLE FOR CODEL LEAHY(MAY 23-24, 2009)
[...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes CODEL Leahy to travel to post on May 23-24, 2009. 2. Visit Officer: An Embassy visit officer and a driver/expeditor will meet and assist you at the base. Embassy point of contact is: Kristina Weiss, ISU Liaison Office- (965) 2259-1170 Cell- (965)9721-5933 Ho [...]
2009-05-21 07:41:00Embassy KuwaitUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AF EI FR IZ PK KU
09KUWAIT643KUWAIT-FRANCE NUCLEAR COOPERATION
[...] (C) Summary: French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde visited Kuwait June 20-21 for the twelfth meeting of the Kuwait-France Joint Economic Committee. Local media and wires played up French-Kuwaiti nuclear cooperation both from her talks with the Amir and from the concurrent visit by represe [...]
2009-06-29 06:13:00Embassy KuwaitSECRETPREL EINV ETRD ECON ECIP ENRG KU FR
09LIBREVILLE220GABON AFTER PRESIDENT OMAR BONGO
[...] (C) Gabonese President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, Africa's longest-serving head of state, is gravely ill. Following is Embassy Libreville's analysis of the prospects for succession and stability in Gabon, and the likely impact on U.S. interests. End Summary. ------------------------------ [...]
2009-05-20 10:42:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR GB FR
09LIBREVILLE245GABON: REGIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS
[...] (C) Gabon is concerned about the future of the MICOPAX peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, maritime security, potential Hezbollah activity in West and Central Africa, and other issues, Defense Minister Ali Bongo Ondimba told the Ambassador in a wide-ranging conversation. End [...]
2009-06-02 16:22:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PINR GB FR
09LIBREVILLE246GABON: POLITICAL SCENE IN FLUX WITH PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Gabon's political scene remains in flux with President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba hospitalized with a serious illness in Spain and his son the Defense Minister (and possible heir-apparent) Ali Bongo visibly weakened after recent hospitalization for an intestinal problem. Ali's half-siste [...]
2009-06-02 16:22:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PHUM FR GB
09LIBREVILLE27GABON: EIGHT FRENCH SOLDIERS DIE IN HELICOPTER
[...] (U) A French military helicopter crashed off the Gabonese coast January 17, killing eight of ten French military personnel aboard. The Couger helicopter had just lifted off from the French amphibious assault ship La Foudre, in Gabon for a bilateral training exercise. French President Nicolas [...]
2009-01-20 12:53:00Embassy LibrevilleUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR PREL MASS CASC GB FR
09LIBREVILLE270PRESIDENT OMAR BONGO DEAD AT 1430 LOCAL
[...] (U) Gabonese officials have confirmed that President Omar Bongo Ondimba passed away on June 8 at 1430 Gabonese time. The Government of Gabon has announced a 30-day period of mourning. There are no details on the funeral yet. The Gabonese military is on alert, the international airport is clo [...]
2009-06-08 17:37:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL GB SP FR
09LIBREVILLE276GABON THE DAY AFTER: LIBREVILLE QUIET, SUCCESSION
[...] (U) The post-Omar Bongo era has begun. Prime Minister Eyeghe Ndong returned to Libreville from Barcelona to push along the constitutionally-mandated succession process. Following the articles of succession in the constitution, the Council of Ministers unanimously voted to refer the question o [...]
2009-06-09 16:49:00Embassy LibrevilleUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINS PREL GB FR SP TP
09LIBREVILLE288GABON: DYNAMICS OF OMAR BONGO'S FUNERAL
[...] (C) President Omar Bongo's funeral was a solemn event marked by the presence of fourteen African heads of state and French President Sarkozy. In separate meetings with Interim President Rose Rogombe and Defense Minister Ali Bongo, the U.S. Presidential delegation emphasized the importance of [...]
2009-06-17 18:25:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL GB FR
09LIBREVILLE87GABONESE GOVERNMENT LASHES OUT AT FRANCE
[...] (U) Gabon's foreign minister convoked the diplomatic corps March 6 to deliver a scathing indictment of the French "media campaign" against President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, which the foreign minister says threatens to seriously damage relations with France. He noted bitterly that the cam [...]
2009-03-06 10:40:00Embassy LibrevilleCONFIDENTIALPREL GB FR
09LISBON552PHARMA COMPANIES DISCUSS PORTUGAL MARKET ISSUES
[...] (C/NF) The Local American Working Group (LAWG) of the Pharmaceutical Association in Portugal hosted a September 24 breakfast meeting with diplomatic and company representatives to discuss strategies for addressing longstanding market access issues. Diplomatic participants opined that industry [...]
2009-10-22 11:14:00Embassy LisbonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON KIPR PGOV PO SZ EU UK FR GM
09LISBON588PORTUGAL PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES PLAN ROUNDTABLE
[...] (SBU) The Local American Working Group (LAWG) of the Pharmaceutical Association in Portugal hosted a November 10 meeting with diplomatic and company representatives to present the results of a recent market survey of pharmaceutical companies and to recount a recent LAWG meeting with Basilio H [...]
2009-11-20 16:00:00Embassy LisbonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KIPR PGOV PO SZ EU UK FR GM
09LONDON1318SUDAN: CONTACT GROUP WELCOMES SE GRATION'S
[...] (SBU) Summary. Sudan Contact Group delegations welcomed Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration's approach to supporting the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and the Darfur peace process at a May 29 meeting in London. Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) Chair Sir Derek Plumbly told Co [...]
2009-06-03 15:32:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID KDEM NO FR NL CA EU CD UK
09LONDON157SUDAN: P-3 DISCUSS WAY FORWARD ON ICC INDICTMENT
[...] (C) Summary. In a January 13 round of UK-France-U.S. (P-3) talks in London, Senior P-3 representatives held a shared assessment of the Darfur peace process: Darfur was at a stalemate and the situation on the ground deteriorated in 2008. The Sudan People's Initiative (SPI) as well as the Qata [...]
2009-01-21 16:06:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC PHUM SU FR UK
09LONDON1725HMG RESPONSE TO CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT (CD) DEMARCHE ON DELAY OF START OF WORK IN THE CD
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-28 16:04:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNAS CH FR MNUC PARM PK PREL RS UK
09LONDON2198U/S TAUSCHER’S MEETINGS WITH FS MILIBAND AND OTHER
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Under Secretary Tauscher held meetings in London on September 2-4 on the margins of the P5 Conference on Confidence Building Measures Towards Nuclear Disarmament with Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Simon McDonald, Head of the Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat at the Cabinet [...]
2009-09-22 14:13:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPARM KNNP PREL CH EG FR IN IR IZ JA KN PK
09LONDON2199(C/NF) P5 HEADS OF DELEGATION SIDE-MEETING ON NPT
[...] (C/NF) Summary: On Friday, September 4, in conjunction with the UK-hosted P5 Conference on Confidence Building Measures Towards Nuclear Disarmament, UK Del head, Mariot Leslie, convened a side meeting of the P5 heads of delegation (HOD) to discuss preparations for the UN Security Council Summit on [...]
2009-09-22 14:28:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PARM KNNP UK CH FR RS IR EG PK
09LONDON2214U/S TAUSCHER’S BILATERAL MEETINGS IN LONDON WITH
[...] (S/NF) Summary: U/S for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher and Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation Ambassador Susan Burk held bilateral consultations in London September 3-4, on the margins of the P5 Conference on Confidence Building Measures Towards Nuclear Disa [...]
2009-09-23 16:24:00Embassy LondonSECRET//NOFORNPREL PARM KNNP CH EG FR IN IR KN PK RS UK
09LONDON2678UK HOSTS P5 UN DEPUTY DIRECTORS MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: IO PDAS Gerald Anderson participated in a P5 UN Deputy Directors meeting at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London on November 23. The Deputy Director-level meeting was the first of its kind and covered Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding reform, Afghanistan and Paki [...]
2009-12-02 13:49:00Embassy LondonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKUNR PGOV PREL PTER UNSC KPKO KWMN CH FR RS
09LONDON2680DPRK: AMB BOSWORTH'S DEC 2 MEETINGS WITH UK
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Foreign Office junior minister Ivan Lewis and Asia Pacific Director Scott Wightman told Special Representative for North Korea Policy Ambassador Stephen Bosworth in separate December 2 meetings that the UK and EU want to support the USG's efforts to see North Korea return to multil [...]
2009-12-02 15:48:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PINR PGOV ECON SOCI KN CH KS FR UK
09LONDON2743MONUC/RWANDA: UK HOLDING TO SIX-MONTH RENEWAL, THOUGHTS ON RWANDA IN THE COMMONWEALTH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-09 16:21:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL UNSC KPKO PINR RW CG ZF FR UK
09LONDON811TURKISH PM ERDOGAN ON ECONOMY AND POLITICS
[...] (SBU) Turkish PM Erdogan spoke at a Chatham House event April 3, in which he commented on the accomplishments of the London Economic Summit, Turkey's economic progress, and his party's recent election "success." In response to questions from the audience, he was vague on Turkey's relations wi [...]
2009-04-03 16:34:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS EU NATO TY DA FR RS IZ IS AJ JA
09LONDON937SUDAN: THE UK'S "UNPRODUCTIVE" APRIL 21 MEETINGS
[...] (C/NF) Summary. On April 21 in Paris, the UK held bilateral meetings with the Sudanese, a trilateral with the Sudanese and French, and then a bilateral with the French. According to UK Special Representative for Sudan Michael O'Neill who attended all three meetings, Foreign Office Minister fo [...]
2009-04-23 09:20:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID KPKO SU FR UK
09LONDON955ZIMBABWE/UK/FRANCE: SANCTIONS AND LEADING IN THE EU
[...] (C/NF) At a April 21 meeting in Paris (reftel),French Deputy National Security Advisor Bruno Joubert, MFA Spokesperson Eric Chevallier, and FM Kouchner's African Affairs Advisor Charlotte Montel all "pressed hard" on UK Foreign Office Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown to support lifting [...]
2009-04-24 15:01:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL EAID PGOV ECON ZI FR UK
09LONDON970KURDISH LEADER DISCUSSES RECENT TURKISH ELECTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-27 11:43:00Embassy LondonCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS PTER FR IZ IR SP TU UK
09MADRID272SPAIN: EXPERTS SEE WEAKENING OF BASQUE TERRORIST
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Embassy Madrid recently pulsed the opinions on Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) watchers for their thoughts on the relative strength or weakness of the group. The consensus is that ETA is dramatically weakened but retains the ability to kill and do significant dam [...]
2009-03-16 08:23:00Embassy MadridSECRETPINR PINS PREL PTER SP FR
09MADRID29SPAIN: MFA EXPLAINS ITS STANCE ON DRAFT PARAGRAPH
[...] (C) POLOFF met on January 8 with Carlos Torres, Counselor for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament in the MFA,s DG for Strategic Affairs & Terrorism. Torres raised the issue of Spain's ongoing reservations about revisions to the Nuclear Supplier Group's (NSG's) Guidelines for Transfers of Enri [...]
2009-01-12 11:30:00Embassy MadridSECRETKNNP MNUC PARM SP TRGY ENRG ETTC FR
09MADRID707SPAIN: A SLEW OF ARRESTS FURTHER WEAKENS ETA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the eve of its 50th anniversary, the Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) terrorist group has suffered yet another series of operational and legislative blows. On July 4, French and Spanish authorities arrested three suspected members of ETA in Pau, France. Spanish Interior [...]
2009-07-15 06:36:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINR PINS PREL PTER SP FR
09MADRID745SPAIN H1N1 UPDATE: 1,526 CONFIRMED CASES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While official figures are not available, media reports say that there are currently 1,526 H1N1 cases in Spain, the majority of which are mild. To date, four people have died and 18 are in intensive care. Off the record estimates by public health officials put the number of [...]
2009-07-24 09:05:00Embassy MadridUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU ECON PREL SOCI CASC EAGR CH FR SP
09MARSEILLE5MONACO REACHES OUT ON TAX HAVEN COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) On March 30, Monaco's Minister of State (Prime Minister-equivalent) Jean-Paul Proust telephoned CG. Proust said he wanted to pass the message that the Government of Monaco is fully engaged with the EU on "tax haven" matters already, but they are also fully disposed to engage on this issu [...]
2009-03-30 14:22:00Consulate MarseilleUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PREL FR
09MOSCOW1961DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DELAY OF START OF WORK IN THE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-30 14:16:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC CH FR PK RS UK
09MOSCOW1995TENSIONS WITH GEORGIA: NATO ALLIES PONDER
[...] (C) Summary. On August 4, NATO Quad Allies proposed a joint demarche to the GOR regarding the rising tensions with Georgia, accompanied by a similar approach to the GOG. On August 2 and 3, the MFA told us it had no information why Russian forces did not respond to Georgian attempts to contac [...]
2009-08-04 12:39:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RS GG GM UK FR SW OSCE
09MOSCOW2001GEORGIA/RUSSIA: NATO ALLIES DEMARCHE MFA
[...] (C) Summary. On August 5, in response to a NATO Quad Allies' demarche on Georgia, MFA IVth CIS director Kelin insisted that Russia had not been invited to the 31 July Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism meeting, but conceded that the Russian-Georgian hotline was not functioning July 30 [...]
2009-08-05 16:19:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RS GG GM UK FR
09MOSCOW2008DEMARCHE FOLLOW-UP: GOR WILL APPROACH CHINA AND
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-06 09:39:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC CH FR PK RS UK
09MOSCOW2360DEMARCHE DELIVERED: QUAD DEMARCHE ON GEORGIAN SHIP
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points to MFA 4th CIS Department Deputy Director Alexei Dvinyanin September 14 -- Quad partners had been instructed to deliver the points separately. Dvinyanin welcomed the U.S. engagement with Georgian authorities, and confirmed that the GOR had been weighing on th [...]
2009-09-15 07:03:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MARR RS GG GM FR UK
09MOSCOW2641MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) PAPER
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-23 12:22:00Embassy MoscowUNCLASSIFIEDMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR BR
09MOSCOW2709NONPAPER DELIVERED: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-02 14:50:00Embassy MoscowCONFIDENTIALBR ETTC FR KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA
09MOSCOW2729PAPER DELIVERED: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-05 05:21:00Embassy MoscowSECRETMTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR RS
09MUNICH241BAVARIAN CALL TO ARMS - CSU DEFENDS GERMAN DEFENSE
[...] (C) The consolidation of the global defense industry will affect Germany and Bavaria significantly, the Christian Social Union (CSU),Germany's leading regional political party, warned its members at a party congress on September 4 in Munich. Speakers mocked Germany's overly modest and hide- [...]
2009-09-21 07:47:00Consulate MunichCONFIDENTIALETTC PGOV PINR MCAP PREL FR IT UK GM
09NAIROBI2199SOMALIA - TFG MILITARY RECRUIT GRADUATION,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 15, 463 Somali military recruits trained by the Djiboutian Armed Forces (FAD) and 152 (including 8 officers) trained by the French Forces in Djibouti (FFDJ) participated in a graduation ceremony at Djibouti's primary military education center. The Djiboutian Prime Mini [...]
2009-10-20 12:58:00Embassy NairobiCONFIDENTIALMOPS MASS PHUM PREL DJ SO FR
09NDJAMENA120UK REQUEST THAT EMBASSY NDJAMENA PROVIDE WORK
[...] This is an action message -- see para 8. 2. (U) The UK FCO has renewed its request to us to provide work space and services to a UK diplomat to be deployed here for an undetermined length of time (REF A). 3. (SBU) We strongly support a UK diplomatic presence in Chad on a permanent or s [...]
2009-04-06 08:34:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ODIP UK EU FR CD
09NDJAMENA149CHAD REBEL COLUMNS CROSS INTO SOUTHEAST CHAD FROM
[...] (SBU) CHAD REBELS CROSS THE BORDER: We believe that three or perhaps four columns of Chad rebels have entered southeastern Chad since yesterday, and are likely strung out along the border from points SE of Abeche to the CAR/Sudan/Chad tri-border area, north and south of Goz Beida town. Tota [...]
2009-05-05 13:38:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CD
09NDJAMENA151CHAD UPDATE, 12PM, MAY 6: CHAD GOVERNMENT FORCES
[...] (SBU) CAVEAT: This message is based on a variety of sources, some more reliable than others. We gather information from all sources and try to winnow the chaff from the wheat. Some reports recirculate, gaining apparent momentum from repetition. Some reports are based on rumors or garble f [...]
2009-05-06 11:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA153CHAD UPDATE, AFTERNOON MAY 6: CHAD GOVT AIR FORCE
[...] (SBU) CAVEAT: This message is based on a variety of sources, some more reliable than others. We gather information from all sources and try to winnow the chaff from the wheat. Some reports re-circulate, gaining apparent momentum from repetition. Some reports are based on rumors or garble [...]
2009-05-06 15:07:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA156CHAD UPDATE, MORNING 5/7: REBELS CONSOLIDATE,
[...] (SBU) CAVEAT: This message presents a composite view of the current situation based on a variety of sources, some more reliable than others, and our best analysis. Some reports re-circulate, gaining apparent momentum from repetition; others are based on rumors or garbled fact. We cite few s [...]
2009-05-07 11:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA161CHAD UPDATE, 5/8: GOC DEFEATS REBELS DECISIVELY
[...] (SBU) CHAD REBELS STATUS: As of morning May 8, the Chadian military inflicted two decisive defeats on Chad rebels. The rebels appear to have been decisively defeated in May 7 battles south of Am-Dam and later near Am-Timan, inflicting heavy casualties. Remaining rebels are dispersed and in [...]
2009-05-08 11:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA163CHAD UPDATE: FM FAKI'S MAY 9 REPLY TO U.S.
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Nigro issued a demarche to FM Moussa Faki Mahamat May 9 to discourage GoC hot pursuit of remaining Chadian rebels into Sudan; to remind the GoC of the moral high ground that Ndjamena occupied at present; to describe SE Gration's efforts to convince the Sudanese government to [...]
2009-05-10 12:35:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA165CHAD UPDATE 5/10: GOC TRUMPETS DECISIVE VICTORY
[...] (SBU) MILITARY BALANCE: As of May 10, the Government of Chad (GOC) continues to trumpet its "decisive victory" over Union of Resistance Forces (UFR) rebels in southeastern Chad. On May 6 and 7, Chadian military forces bombed rebel columns near Koukou, Angarana, Kerfi, and Haouish. According [...]
2009-05-10 15:09:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA170CHAD UPDATE MAY 11: LIFE RETURNING TO NORMAL ONE
[...] (SBU) RETURN TO NORMAL: Life is returning to normal as the GOC and others continue to assess the impact of the May 4 rebel incursions and plan for the future. MINURCAT has resumed all operations in the east. 2. (SBU) DEBY VISITS TROOPS: President Deby, accompanied by acting Minister of [...]
2009-05-11 16:47:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS ASEC PREL PREF SU UN AU LY FR CASC CD
09NDJAMENA196JOUBERT TO DEBY: TRANSLATE BATTLEFIELD VICTORY
[...] (C) Visiting French Presidential Advisor Joubert issued a demarche to President Deby and senior aides May 23, urging the GOC to translate its recent victories on the battlefield into diplomatic successes by exercising great care in its approach to Sudan, by reaching out to some of the Chad re [...]
2009-05-25 10:01:00Embassy NdjamenaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV LY SU UN FR PREF PHUM MOPS CD
09NDJAMENA334FRENCH CDA ON CHAD-SUDAN BORDER ISSUES
[...] (SBU) AMBASSADOR MET WITH FRENCH CHARGE ERWAN DE GOUVELLO AND SECOND COUNSELOR FOR POLMIL AFFAIRS JEROME THEUERKAUFF ON AUGUST 6. 2. (SBU) THE KEY POINTS OF OUR DISCUSSION WERE: -- THE FRENCH WERE SKEPTICAL OF RECENT SUDAN GOVERNMENT ACCUSATIONS OF LARGE-SCALE INCURSIONS INTO SUDAN BY CH [...]
2009-08-12 14:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MOPS MARR SU LY FR CD
09NDJAMENA335EU CHIEF ON CHAD ELECTION PROSPECTS, REVENUE MANAGEMENT
[...] (SBU) AMBASSADOR NIGRO MET WITH EU COMMISSION CHIEF GILLES DESESQUELLES AUGUST 11. 2. (SBU) THE KEY POINTS OF THE DISCUSSION WERE: ------------- ON ELECTIONS: ------------- -- DESESQUELLES IS SATIFIED THAT THE NEWLY-NAMED HEAD OF THE INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTION COMMITTEE (CENI),M [...]
2009-08-12 14:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM SU LY FR UN EU CD
09NDJAMENA336SRSG ANGELO ON U.S. SUPPORT FOR MINURCAT, CHAD-SUDAN
[...] (SBU) AMBASSADOR NIGRO MET WITH MINURCAT SRSG VICTOR ANGELO ON AUGUST 7. 2. (SBU) THE KEY POINTS OF OUR DISCUSSION WERE: -- ANGELO WAS EFFUSIVELY APPRECIATIVE OF THE RECEPTION AND COMPREHENSION HE RECEIVED DURING HIS RECENT VISIT TO WASHINGTON, PARTICULARLY IN THE DEPARTMENT. -- ANGE [...]
2009-08-12 14:11:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU LY FR UN CD
09NDJAMENA338CHAD AND ESSO/CHAD: PROTECTING A SIGNIFICANT AMERICAN
[...] (SBU) OVER THE PAST TWO WEEKS, AMBASSADOR NIGRO WORKED WITH ESSO/CHAD HEAD STEPHANE DE MAHIEU IN WHAT THEY BELIEVE WAS A SUCCESSFUL EFFORT TO PROTECT THE MOSTLY U.S.-OWNED PETROLEUM PRODUCTION AND PIPELINE PROJECT FROM UNCOORDINATED GOC ACTIONS AND AT THE SAME TIME, TO PROTECT THE GOC FROM ITS [...]
2009-08-13 09:54:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EPET EINV PGOV PREL FR CD
09NDJAMENA343LIBYA INTENSIFIES ITS SUPPORT TO CHAD AND ITS EFFORTS TO
[...] (SBU) LIBYAN AMBASSADOR GREEN SALEH GREEN DESCRIBED TO AMBASSADOR ON AUGUST 6 HOW LIBYA HAD INTENSIFIED BOTH ITS BILATERAL SUPPORT FOR CHAD AND ITS EFFORTS TO NORMALIZE CHAD-SUDAN RELATIONS SINCE HIS RETURN TO NDJAMENA AS COM. LIBYA IS INVESTING HEAVILY IN CHAD'S ECONOMY -- BUDGET SUPPORT, TR [...]
2009-08-17 08:37:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU LY FR UN CD
09NDJAMENA401FRENCH IN CHAD SEE IMPROVED CLIMATE FOR CHAD-SUDAN
[...] (SBU) French Ambassador Bruno Foucher, who returned last week from nearly two months in France, told me September 15 that he saw more indications of willingness to normalize Chad-Sudan relations on both sides of the border than he had before he left N'Djamena in mid-July. ----------- REASO [...]
2009-09-16 17:01:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF SU LY QA FR MARR CD
09NDJAMENA406AN EER FOR CHAD
[...] (SBU) We learned two days ago of President Deby's decision to accept the invitation to lunch with POTUS and other African heads of state during upcoming UNGA meetings. This visit affords Embassy a good opportunity to lay out Chad's record of progress since its nadir of contemporary existence [...]
2009-09-18 16:27:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU LY QA FR PKO MARR
09NDJAMENA465CHAD: RUSSIAN SPECIAL SUDAN ENVOY BRIEFS PERM-3
[...] (SBU) Russian Special Envoy for Sudan Mikhail Margelov briefed U.S., French, and Chinese Ambassadors to Chad October 20 on his Chad visit, at Russian Embassy over breakfast. 2. (SBU) Margelov said that a recent seminar in Moscow on the CPA was a Russian attempt to interest Sudanese parties [...]
2009-10-21 12:14:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM RU SU FR CD
09NDJAMENA466CHAD: FRENCH HERE CONTINUE BULLISH ON CHAD-SUDAN,
[...] (SBU) French DCM Erwan de Gouvello gave DCM an example of his nation's continued optimism about the prospects for Chad-Sudan rapprochement, GOC outreach to Chad rebels, and Chad's own progress toward improved standards of governance, based on the October 14-21 visit of Chadian President Idris [...]
2009-10-21 12:42:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM FR SU CD
09NDJAMENA479CHAD: MINURCAT SRSG GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ON
[...] (SBU) MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo told Ambassador October 22 that he was "guardedly optimistic" regarding the current trend in Chad-Sudan relations, where momentum toward normalization and ending support for military proxies was building, and on Chad's election process, making "credible if n [...]
2009-10-26 09:06:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF PHUM SU FR LY UN AU CD
09NDJAMENA503THE CHADIAN GO-BETWEEN? EX-REBEL SOUBIANE "TELLS
[...] (SBU) Ambassador and DCM met November 2 with Ahmat Soubiane, who described his reasons for going into rebellion, his reasons for returning to Chad, his intention to continue to work to reconcile his former rebel comrades with the GOC, his intention to devote himself initially to socio-economic [...]
2009-11-02 15:00:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MARR PHUM PREF PINR SU LY FR CD
09NDJAMENA536CHAD/JEM: FRENCH AND LIBYANS ON JEM ISSUES
[...] (SBU) The French ambassador told us 11/14 that he had no information regarding recent or upcoming deliveries of arms to JEM in Chad and that he believed that the GOC has put Khalil Ibrahim "on a short leash," restricting his in-country travel to prevent him from getting involved in JEM armed [...]
2009-11-16 13:54:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PREF MARR SU LY PINR ER FR CD
09NDJAMENA586CHAD POISED FOR CREDIBLE LEGISLATIVE AND MUNICIPAL
[...] (SBU) Chad is now poised to hold credible legislative and municipal elections in 2010. The process of implementing the August 13, 2007 Accord has produced positive results, and many of the essential building blocks for elections are in place. On December 4 President Deby put the full weight [...]
2009-12-07 18:20:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EAID EU FR US CD
09NDJAMENA588CHAD: MINURCAT MAKING BIG PUSH ON SECURITY IN EAST
[...] (SBU) MINURCAT SRSG Victor Angelo met December 7 with representatives of UN member states resident in N'Djamena to describe the PKO's "big push" over the past month to enhance security in Eastern Chad, in the wake of recent kidnappings and a general increase in criminal activity directed agai [...]
2009-12-08 11:59:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EAID PREF EU FR UNSC CA CD
09NDJAMENA591HOW TO THINK ABOUT CHAD: ASSESSING CHAD'S PROGRESS
[...] (SBU) The Chad of December 2009 is not the Chad of December 2007. Much has happened in the intervening two years and the Chad's overall trajectory has generally been positive, when viewed in terms of USG bilateral and regional strategic goals. Any punctual assessment of USG policy toward C [...]
2009-12-09 13:29:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL EAID PREF EU FR US CD
09NDJAMENA70CHAD ELECTIONS UNLIKELY BEFORE 2010
[...] (SBU) Parliamentary and local elections in Chad are unlikely to be held until the first half of 2010, but the Chadian parties to the electoral reform process and Chad's key international partners remain committed to working towards credible elections as agreed in the 2007 August 13 Accord. Al [...]
2009-03-04 17:02:00Embassy NdjamenaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF EU FR AU CD
09NIAMEY214 NIGER: POL/ECON UPDATE FOR MARCH 2009
[...] The following is an Embassy Niger compilation of political and economic highlights for March 2009 not otherwise covered in mission reporting. This report covers the following issues: -- President Sarkozy to Visit Niger Briefly on March 27; -- Civil Society Demonstrations Occur on March 21 & [...]
2009-03-27 06:17:00Embassy NiameyUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL KISL TBIO FR NG
09NOUAKCHOTT229FNDD RESPONDS NEGATIVELY TO FRENCH AND SENEGALESE
[...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi's Chief of Staff Ahmed Kabed Ould Hammoudi called Charge evening of March 28 to convey President Abdallahi's astonishment with statements made by French President Sarkozy to the effect that there was no opposition to the coup, and to advise that the President [...]
2009-03-30 14:18:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR SG MR
09OUAGADOUGOU569A REGIONAL APPROACH TOWARDS AQIM
[...] (C/NF) The recent spate of hostage-taking, murder and military counter measures in the Sahel Region have brought to the forefront the need for concerted action against AQIM. Responding to these events, the countries of the region, particularly Mali, appear to be eager to take concrete actions [...]
2009-07-16 13:10:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPTER PREL ML AL UV FR UK GE
09PARIS10FRENCH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES INFORMATION FOR TRADE
[...] In post's assessment, France continued to meet its international commitments in 2008 to eliminate the worst forms of child labor in its overseas territories. The following update is in response to reftel's request for information to determine if countries eligible for trade benefits under th [...]
2009-01-06 10:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM ELAB EIND ETRD SOCI FR
09PARIS1000GOF assures on nuclear tech transfer to AREVA from
[...] (U) On July 2, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided assurances concerning the transfer of nuclear technology from Washington Group International to AREVA including possible AREVA projects in the United Kingdom. In turn, the Ministry asks for similar assurances from the U.S. Governmen [...]
2009-07-24 14:53:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY ETTC KNNP KSCA PARM FR
09PARIS1001BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON
[...] (U) The French division of Photonis provides end-users a complete range of scientific detector products used in medical diagnostics and life science analytical equipment. On June 19, 2009, post received responses (para 2) to reftel questions from Mr. Daniel DeHaye, General Counsel, Photonis Fr [...]
2009-07-24 14:54:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC FR
09PARIS1006GOF HEU Assurances for Nuclear Exercise
[...] (U) On July 3 the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided the assurances requested in a letter from the U.S. Department of Energy to the French Embassy's Counselor for Nuclear Affairs concerning the transfer of highly enriched uranium (HEU) to the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) for [...]
2009-07-24 15:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY ETTC KNNP KSCA PARM FR
09PARIS1007MIDDLE EAST: SARKOZY AND MUBARAK CONFER ON NEXT
[...] (C) Summary: Mubarak and Sarkozy reportedly are in agreement on the need to move quickly on the Israel-Palestinian front, following their meeting in Paris July 21. According to one of Sarkozy,s key advisors, Mubarak shares Sarkozy,s interest in convening an international conference as a mea [...]
2009-07-24 15:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS1010FRENCH EFFORTS TO CALM LEBANESE-ISRAELI BORDER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French believe their quick intervention with Hizballah and with Lebanese authorities, following back-to-back border incidents in southern Lebanon in July, has helped to calm the situation. The incidents and their Ambassador's meetings have also reinforced for them the impor [...]
2009-07-24 16:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS102RECENT FRENCH THINKING ABOUT RUSSIA, GEORGIA, AND
[...] (C) Summary: French presidency and MFA officials shared a unified view that amplified current French thinking on dealing with Russia, whether with respect to Georgia or in terms of the ongoing gas crisis involving the Ukraine. Bottom line: Sustaining the Geneva process on Georgia will be a [...]
2009-01-22 16:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET FR RS UP GG
09PARIS1021GOF MOVES BEYOND SOCIAL UNREST TO LABOR AND PENSION REFORM
[...] (SBU) Summary: After a spring of layoffs, "boss-nappings" and talk of social revolution, the GOF enters the annual vacation period having weathered what it hopes is the worst of the economic crisis. President Sarkozy by most accounts has successfully managed (some would say co-opted) relations [...]
2009-07-28 10:13:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EFIN ETRD PREL FR
09PARIS1025FRENCH MFA PROPOSES WAY FORWARD ON PRE-REVCON P3
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Looking to follow up on July 16 meetings in Paris with Ambassador Susan Burk, the President's Special Representative for Nuclear Non-proliferation, Celine Jurgensen of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Disarmament and Nuclear Non-proliferation section reiterated GOF agreement wit [...]
2009-07-28 15:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNMNUC PARM PREL UK CH FR
09PARIS1039FRANCE’S POSITION ON NUCLEAR ISSUES IN THE RUN-UP
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: French officials have made clear that nuclear issues enjoy the sustained attention of President Sarkozy and have become a major foreign policy priority, especially in the run-up to the spring 2010 Review Conference (RevCon) of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). France's concerns go [...]
2009-07-31 06:59:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPARM PREL MNUC IR CH UK FR
09PARIS1040WEST AFRICA: FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL'S JULY 30
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF Deputy DAS-equivalent Laurent Bigot on July 30 commented on a range of West Africa issues: -- Cote d'Ivoire: Bigot thought elections were still possible, if not likely, on November 29. -- Niger: He feared that President Tandja's quest for a third term not only re [...]
2009-07-31 09:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL XY IV NG GV CM MR FR
09PARIS1046IRAN: EU DIPLOMATS TO ATTEND AHMADINEJAD
[...] (C/NF) European Union members will send low-ranking diplomats to the first of two inauguration ceremonies for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but they will not inform the Iranians of their plans, according to French MFA Acting Middle East Director (Assistant-Secretary equivalent) Jean-Christophe Paucell [...]
2009-07-31 15:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS1047 PARIS CLUB - JULY 2009 MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the July Paris Club meeting, creditors agreed to voluntarily go beyond the terms of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative to forgive 100 percent of their claims pertaining to Haiti, which reached completion point under the Initiative on June 30. The Club a [...]
2009-08-03 08:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
09PARIS1051SOMALIA: FRANCE UNABLE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-03 12:19:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER SO EAID KPKO FR
09PARIS1052FRANCE - COUNTER TORTURE INITIATIVES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: France actively supports efforts to prevent torture and protect victims through membership in international conventions and participation in regional initiatives, according to MFA assistant director for human rights and humanitarian affairs Cecile Vigneau and deputy assistant d [...]
2009-08-03 16:36:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UN FR
09PARIS107FRENCH OVERVIEW OF GAERC TALKS ON GAZA, GUANTANAMO
[...] (C) Summary. On January 23, MFA Chief of EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Patrick Maisonnave provided an overview of the two primary topics for discussion at the January 26-27 GAERC. Foremost, the Foreign Ministers will discuss a way ahead on the Gaza crisis, starting with a non-paper [...]
2009-01-23 17:38:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV PHUM KPAL IS FR
09PARIS1084UNSC SOMALIA SANCTIONS: GOF SAYS IT WILL SEARCH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-10 12:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER XW UNSC FR
09PARIS1097IRAN: FRENCH COMMENTS ON DEALING WITH HOSTAGES
[...] (S) SUMMARY: President Sarkozy's Strategic Affairs Advisor Franois Richier and MFA Middle East Director (A/S equivalent) Patrice Paoli told Political Minister Counselor in separate meetings August 11 that the French approached their hostage situations in Iran by first seeking an immediate, beh [...]
2009-08-12 14:02:00Embassy ParisSECRETPGOV PREL CASC FR
09PARIS11The French EU Presidency on Agriculture - A Retrospective
[...] The French EU Presidency advanced a number of ambitious goals regarding agriculture and biotechnology. Final results, while falling short of these goals, increased attention on societal preferences and the legitimacy of establishing biotech-free zones. The recently completed "Health Check" ref [...]
2009-01-06 16:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
09PARIS1102GULF COUNTRIES A GROWING PRIORITY FOR FRANCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Taking a cue from President Sarkozy's personal interest in the region, the French MFA has devoted increasing attention and staff to their bilateral relations with Gulf countries since 2007, according to the MFA's three Gulf Country Desk Officers. Qatar still maintains a privilege [...]
2009-08-13 13:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS1125MIDDLE EAST PEACE: FRENCH MFA ON SARKOZY-MUBARAK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA Middle East Director Patrice Paoli told Political Minister Counselor August 11 that the French await a response to the letter sent August 6 by Presidents Sarkozy and Mubarak to President Obama, calling for a Middle East peace summit this autumn. "We don't necessarily [...]
2009-08-14 15:18:00Embassy ParisSECRETPGOV PREL KPAL IS FR
09PARIS114POTENTIAL FOR FURTHER FRENCH CONTRIBUTIONS IN
[...] (C) As Washington prepares for possible requests to allies on Afghanistan, this cable lays out French military and civilian capabilities and identifies potential areas for additional French efforts. French officials expect Afghanistan to be a major focus of the 60th anniversary NATO summit [...]
2009-01-27 10:55:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNNATO MCAP MOPS PREL MGOV MARR FR AF
09PARIS1154FRENCH FRUSTRATION WITH SLOW PACE OF EUROPEAN
[...] (C) Summary. In recent meetings, French officials have expressed significant frustration with the delays in launching the European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) police training mission to Afghanistan, attributing much of the problem to Italian intransigence. While the August meetings at NATO to s [...]
2009-08-21 15:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO AF FR IT
09PARIS1155BMENA: FRANCE UNDECIDED ON LEVEL OF PARTICATION
[...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche August 18 to MFA North Africa DAS Cyrille Rogeau, Special Assistant to the MFA Middle East Director Michel Roche, and MFA Morocco Desk Officer Marie Buscail. Rogeau said the MFA strongly supports the aims and ideals of the November BMENA Forum for the Fu [...]
2009-08-21 16:10:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS1162WHY FRANCE CLAIMS SYRIA HELPED CONVINCE IRAN TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite their proactive media blitz proclaiming Syria's "important" role in persuading Iran to release French citizen Clotilde Reiss from prison, French officials admit in private they do not know what Syrian President Assad, or his government, actually did. The French have delibe [...]
2009-08-25 15:40:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS1170FRANCE SUPPORTS MIDDLE EAST CONSENSUS RESOLUTION
[...] (C) During an August 25 meeting, IAEA desk officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Disarmament and Non-proliferation Department Francois Revardeaux said France was in full agreement on the need to return to consensus on Middle East issues at the IAEA, both for the sake of the important wor [...]
2009-08-26 15:31:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALAORC PREL PARM KNNP IAEA EG IS UK FR
09PARIS1175H1N1 rises sharply in French Pacific Ocean Territories
[...] (SBU) New Caledonia, French Polynesia, and Wallis and Futuna have been hit hard by H1N1 in recent weeks, making up the bulk of all French H1N1 related deaths and infections. The two deaths last week in New Caledonia spark concern as neither victim had any known pre-existing medical conditions [...]
2009-08-27 15:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFLU TBIO CASC FR XV
09PARIS1179BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON
[...] (U) On August 26, the SIMMAD Procurement Office responded to post's queries regarding the status of shipment requested in reftels: TEXT OF SIMMAD RESPONSE: (Unofficial Embassy translation from French) The 6 electronic components which were the object of the order cited in your fax (atta [...]
2009-08-28 12:43:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC FR
09PARIS1189FRENCH MFA VIEWS ON THE MIDDLE EAST
[...] (C) Summary. France sees Syria as a conduit for passing messages to the obstinate regime in Tehran and it believes that Syria is the only country Iran trusts, according to French MFA Middle East DAS Ludovic Pouille. Through its rapprochement, Pouille explained August 20, the Government of F [...]
2009-08-31 12:40:00Embassy ParisSECRETPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS119FRANCE SEEKING COORDINATED EU POSITION AS
[...] (C/NF) Summary: In response to President Obama's January 22 Executive Order to close detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (ref a),the French have publicly given their support to at least review the idea of accepting detainees deemed not to be a security risk. Foreign Minister Ber [...]
2009-01-27 18:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL KAWK KISL KPAO MOPS PGOV PHUM PTER FR
09PARIS1193FRANCE-IRAN: MAGAZINE ARTICLE RE-IGNITES POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary. A series of Iranian and French actions in Paris seem to have decreased the likelihood that accused French citizen Clotilde Reiss will be acquitted in the immediate future. After Iranian authorities conditionally released Reiss from prison on August 16, it appeared that she coul [...]
2009-09-01 10:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM IR FR
09PARIS1194FRENCH FEEDBACK ON U.S. AUSTRALIA GROUP PROPOSALS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With several specific exceptions, France is generally supportive of U.S. proposals for the September 21-25 Australia Group plenary. Specific feedback is summarized below in informal translation, arranged by reftel. The original responses, in French, will be sent separately by [...]
2009-09-01 13:02:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM ETTC FR
09PARIS1195UNRWA AT 60 DEMARCHE
[...] (C) On August 31, poloff delivered talking points to MFA Deputy Middle East DAS Frederic Bereyziat, per reftel. Bereyziat was confident France would approve the Government of Israel's (GOI) request to speak at the UNRWA meeting on September 24. He was adamant that Israel needed to re-engage [...]
2009-09-01 13:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL UNGA KPAL FR
09PARIS1198GREAT LAKES; SE WOLPE'S AUGUST 28 CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the Presidency and MFA were in general agreement with Great Lakes Special Envoy Howard Wolpe during his August 28 meetings in Paris. The French agreed on the need to encourage continued cooperation between the DRC and Rwanda, and between Presidents Kabila an [...]
2009-09-02 08:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PINR PHUM ZF RW CG FR
09PARIS1203FRENCH DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR LEVITTE HOSTS AMBASSADOR HOLBROOKE FOR AFPAK POLICY DISCUSSION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-03 09:16:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNAF CH FR MOPS PK PREL
09PARIS1206AMBASSADOR PRESSES FM KOUCHNER ON UNESCO DG RACE
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Embassy Paris continued its on-going engagement with France on the UNESCO Director General race. The Ambassador raised it forcefully in a September 2 meeting with FM Kouchner, in which he urged the French to actively engage on preventing the election of Hosni and to help build [...]
2009-09-03 15:31:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KUNR AORC APER KAWC UNGA FR
09PARIS1207FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER GYMNICH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Acting Chief of EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Mathieu Carmona previewed on September 3 French expectations and priorities for the September 4-5 Gymnich. Discussions of all subjects, which will include Middle East peace, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Turkey and A [...]
2009-09-03 15:31:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN IS GZ WE SY IR AF PK TU EG FR
09PARIS1213NEW CONCERNS ABOUT COTE D'IVOIRE ELECTIONS FROM
[...] (C) Summary: Africa Advisor at the Elysee, Romain Serman, told Poloffs he believed Cote d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo was taking new steps to further delay elections, including asking France to help in making "disarmament of rebels" a precondition. Serman asserted he told Gbagbo's repre [...]
2009-09-04 08:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV IV FR
09PARIS1216LABOR DISPUTE AT MOLEX AUTOMOTIVE SARL
[...] (SBU): Negotiations over the closure and loss of 280 jobs at Molex Automotive SARL, a US-owned automotive supplier near Toulouse, have taken a sharp turn for the worse. Discussions on a buyout between Molex and an investment fund brought in by the GOF ended in a stalemate. Minister of Indust [...]
2009-09-04 15:43:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON EIND EINV ETRD PREL FR
09PARIS1218FRANCE-IAEA: TOTAL SUPPORT ON IRAN, MORE NUANCED ON SYRIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: GOF contacts at the MFA and the Elysee all expressed strong agreement with U.S. views of the IAEA report on Iran (reftel),but gave a slightly more nuanced reaction to the Syria report. The French view on the Syria report tracks with ours and our interlocutors expressed serious c [...]
2009-09-04 16:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM IAEA MNUC IR SY TRGY PREL FR
09PARIS1219MIDDLE EAST: PEACE SUMMIT POLITICS IN PARIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The August 6 joint Sarkozy-Mubarak letter to President Obama proposing a summit (reftel) remains a subject of keen interest to the French. According to our sources in Paris, however, the two key players in the Middle East peace equation -- Israel and the Palestinian Authority -- [...]
2009-09-04 16:27:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS1222FRANCE'S APPROACH TO SOMALILAND AND PUNTLAND
[...] (C) Summary: France has diplomatic engagements with Somaliland at a number of levels, including visits to Hargeisa by the French Ambassador and others based in Djibouti. France is helping Somaliland establish a representational "bureau" in Paris. France provides some developmental and huma [...]
2009-09-08 15:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PHUM EAID PGOV SO FR
09PARIS1223FRANCE NOT READY TO COMMIT TO MYERS FOR ICSC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-08 15:14:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KUNR AORC APER KAWC KJUS UNGA FR
09PARIS1227UNGA 65: FRANCE'S PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Sarkozy's August 26 speech to French ambassadors provides clear insight into France's priorities for UNGA and the Pittsburgh G20 summit. These include, greater "global governance," including economic regulation and broader efforts to address climate change; UN refor [...]
2009-09-09 10:27:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KUNR AORC KNPR APER UNGA FR
09PARIS1228FRANCE-IRAN: JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AT THE ROOT OF
[...] (C) We met with Elysee strategic affairs advisor Richier September 4 to follow up on reports that a French judge had released Iranian national Majid Kakavand on bail and subject to determination of a pending U.S. extradition request. In previous conversations about the fate of French citizen C [...]
2009-09-09 10:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL IR FR
09PARIS1233SCENESETTER FOR A/S GORDON'S SEPTEMBER 10-11, 2009
[...] (C) Summary. Phil: We look forward to supporting your participation in the annual German Marshall Fund Conference on Transatlantic Trends and your efforts to press forward the priorities we share with the French. The bilateral relationship has seldom been better or more cooperative. The Fre [...]
2009-09-09 16:17:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR MOPS NATO AF RU IR FR
09PARIS1236FRANCE WILL PRESENT ORAL ARGUMENT FOR KOSOVO ICJ
[...] (SBU) French MFA Balkans DAS Thierry Guichoux told poloff September 9 that the French have already registered with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) their intent to present an oral statement before the ICJ in the Kosovo advisory opinion case (reftel). He responded positively to the ide [...]
2009-09-09 16:30:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KV FR
09PARIS1242SIGNIFICANT HURDLES FACE THE FRENCH SOCIALIST
[...] (C) Summary: A Socialist Party (PS) identity crisis continues. Efforts to unify the party have failed so far to stem the feud between those who want to move the PS toward the center and those who cling to hard left views. Perhaps too comfortable in their control over the majority of regiona [...]
2009-09-11 15:15:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR
09PARIS1243FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER 14-15 GAERC
[...] (C) On September 11, Mathieu Carmona, Deputy Director for the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, provided the following preview for the September 14-15 GAERC meeting of EU Foreign Ministers: ------------------------------ AFGHANISTAN ------------------------------ 2. (C) Carmona e [...]
2009-09-11 16:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL IR GG SL FR
09PARIS1250FRANCE: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: France concurs with a large part of U.S. key goals for the 12th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) and solicits United States support for initiatives that they are sponsoring, according to MFA Assistant Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Cecile Vigneau, wh [...]
2009-09-15 10:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNHRC EU FR
09PARIS1251 FRANCH BANKERS' PITTSBURGH NIGHTMARE
[...] (SBU) Meeting on the anniversary of the Lehman failure, leading French financiers told Ambassador Rivkin that capital requirements and accounting rules, rather than compensation, are the critical issues at the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh. They are fearful that the G20 will stiffen both capital re [...]
2009-09-15 10:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL FR
09PARIS1254A/S GORDON'S MEETINGS WITH POLICY-MAKERS IN PARIS: A TOUR D'HORIZON OF EUROPE AND AFGHANISTAN
[...] (S) Summary. During Assistant Secretary Gordon's visit to Paris on September 11, he met with a number of French policy-makers including: Elysee Diplomatic Advisors Jean-David Levitte, Damien Loras, and Francois Richier, Assistant Secretary equivalent for Continental Europe Roland Galharague, and Ac [...]
2009-09-16 07:34:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPREL PARM KNNP BH SM MK GR FR
09PARIS1265IAEA-MIDDLE EAST DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Post delivered the points contained in reftel on September 15 to Myriam Pavageau and Nicolas Bergeret of the MFA's Disarmament and Nuclear Nonproliferation section. As all of the MFA's IAEA experts are currently in Vienna for the General Conference, Pavageau said she would pass on the m [...]
2009-09-16 11:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PARM PREL IAEA KNNP FR
09PARIS1266AMBASSADOR URGES FRANCE TO SUPPORT CONSENSUS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As negotiations on the draft resolution for the UN Security Council Summit on Nonproliferation and Disarmament continue in New York, Post is strongly emphasizing to the French the importance of reaching P5 consensus. So far, the GOF message remains one of concern that a resolutio [...]
2009-09-16 15:43:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL FR
09PARIS1267HADOPI 2: French Assembly Approves Internet Piracy
[...] On September 15, the French National Assembly approved the sanctions' portion of the GOF's disputed Internet piracy law by 285 votes in favor and 225 against (including some members of the UMP majority party. Nicknamed "Hadopi 2," this draft bill complements the law "Creation and the Internet" [...]
2009-09-16 15:45:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ETRD KIPR PREL FR
09PARIS1272FRANCE TO ATTEND FRIENDS OF DEMOCRATIC PAKISTAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: France will attend the September 24 Friends of Democratic Pakistan conference in New York, but the GOF has not yet determined the composition of their delegation. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Post delivered the information contained in reftel September 17 to Yann Braem, Deputy Chief [...]
2009-09-17 14:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PK FR
09PARIS1275FRENCH RESPONSE TO THE PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT ON
[...] (C) On September 17, Post forwarded the points provided in reftel A as instructed to select French contacts in the MFA and Elysee, just prior to President Obama's announcement on missile defense. We then followed up with Patrick Maisonnave, the new Director of Strategic Affairs at the MFA (A/ [...]
2009-09-18 12:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL NATO FR
09PARIS1277URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE MISSING/DETAINED AMCIT CASES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-18 14:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER CASC IR FR
09PARIS128DRC/RWANDA: ENTERING A POSITIVE NEW PHASE?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Great Lakes desk officer Laurent Chevallier on January 26 said that recent developments in the DRC and Rwanda (Nkunda's arrest, GOR pursuit of the FDLR in the DRC, Uganda's operations in the DRC against the Lord's Resistance Army/LRA) were very positive signs that the broad [...]
2009-01-28 15:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PHUM MOPS CG RW FR
09PARIS1287FRANCE INTERESTED IN INFORMAL CTBT MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-22 12:51:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KTBT FR
09PARIS1290DEMARCHE: EXPANDING THE CHORUS ON IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-22 15:13:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALAORC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IAEA IR FR
09PARIS1291ENGAGING FRANCE ON MEK REFUSAL TO COMPROMISE WITH
[...] (C/NF) On September 17, poloff met with French MFA Middle East DAS Jean-Baptiste Faivre to discuss possible French outreach to the People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI) per reftel. Faivre, who is newly arrived, was familiar with the PMOI's presence in Paris and the Mujahedin-e-Khalq's (MEK) viole [...]
2009-09-22 15:14:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNCASC PREL PTER IR IZ FR
09PARIS1292FRENCH RESPONSE TO U.S. MTCR PLENARY PROPOSALS
[...] (C) French Missile Technology Control Regime Point of Contact (MTCR POC) Florent Aydalot responded on September 22 to the proposals contained in reftel, as follows: - Information Exchange and Technical Experts Meeting (IE-TEM) Working Group: Aydalot said he wondered whether introducing a new [...]
2009-09-22 15:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL FR
09PARIS1294FRENCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS WEST AFRICA WITH DAS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA, Presidency, and MOD on September 17 expressed general agreement with AF DAS William Fitzgerald on a range of West African issues, including Togo (need to keep pressing for proper presidential elections),Benin (a success story but with serious corru [...]
2009-09-23 11:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PINR PGOV KCOR SNAR XY FR
09PARIS1295FRANCE SUPPORTS U.S. FOR IMO COUNCIL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-23 15:17:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC EWWT PHSA IMO UK FR
09PARIS1296FRANCE APPOINTS SPECIAL ENVOY TO NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 22, the French MFA hosted a hastily arranged briefing for the Ambassadors of China, South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. on a mission President Sarkozy has asked former French Culture Minister Jack Lang to undertake regarding North Korea. The French explained Sarkozy took [...]
2009-09-23 15:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP KN KS XB FR
09PARIS1300CONSTRUCTIVE OUTCOME FROM THE GOLDSTONE REPORT
[...] (C) On September 23, poloff met with French MFA Deputy Middle East DAS Frederick Bereyziat to deliver talking points per reftel. Bereyziat said the Government of France (GOF) had been debating the findings of the Goldstone Report for the past three days to finalize its position. Although a [...]
2009-09-23 17:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKISL KPAL PHUM PREL PTER IS FR
09PARIS1309FRANCE SUPPORTS UNSC CONFLICT-RELATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESOLUTION
[...] (C) On September 16, poloff delivered reftel talking points on the Security Council resolution on conflict-related sexual violence to MFA Assistant Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Cecile Vigneau. The French requested additional time to review the demarche and responded on Se [...]
2009-09-24 16:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKPKO PHUM PREL CG FR KWMN
09PARIS1335FRENCH MFA ON YEMEN, SYRIA, IRAQ AND QATAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA Middle East Director (A/S equivalent) Patrice Paoli told DAS Janet Sanderson September 11 that the French have grown very concerned about the increasingly precarious political and security situation in Yemen. As part of a bid to help re-stabilize Yemen, they plan to boost th [...]
2009-09-29 15:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY QA YM LE IZ FR
09PARIS1339U.S.-FRANCE-EU DISCUSS SAHEL SECURITY ISSUES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. government representatives met French, British, and European Union officials on September 10 in Paris to review efforts to address the security threat posed by terrorism in Africa's Sahel and Maghreb regions. There was broad agreement that the USG, France, and other thir [...]
2009-09-30 09:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PREL PINR EAID EU UK MA NG MR NI AG FR
09PARIS134LONG-TERM IMPLICATIONS OF THE FRENCH EU PRESIDENCY
[...] (SBU) Summary. France's EU presidency ended amidst much French acclaim and a boost for President Sarkozy, who is widely viewed to have maximized the opportunities and reaped the domestic benefits presented by the EU leadership role. To many observers, the French EU presidency confirmed what [...]
2009-01-29 18:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN FR
09PARIS1340HORN OF AFRICA/PIRACY: FRENCH OFFICIAL DISCUSSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French will attend the October 6-8 Maritime Security Sector Reform (MSSR) meeting in Brussels but may also want a USG team to visit Paris to discuss Horn of Africa piracy on a broad inter-agency basis. France favors taking action to block ports used by pirates and against [...]
2009-09-30 10:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEWWT KCRM PHSA PHUM PREL SO XA XW FR
09PARIS1341FRENCH CLAIM FRANCE-ALGERIA RELATIONS "NOT
[...] (C) French-Algerian relations are "not strained," despite recent press reports to the contrary and despite repeated delays of the state visit of Algerian President Bouteflika, insisted MFA Algeria Desk Officer Anne-Claire Legendre on September 29. Legendre told poloff that internal political [...]
2009-09-30 11:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AG FR
09PARIS1342OCTOBER 7 MEETING OF LIKE-MINDED STATES ON IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-30 15:13:00Embassy ParisSECRETETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL UNSC IR FR
09PARIS1349RWANDA: FRENCH JUDGE ENDS QUESTIONING OF ROSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French judge investigating events concerning the 1994 Rwandan genocide has dismissed the first Rwandan official questioned in the case. Rose Kabuye was granted freedom of movement when the judge on September 25 lifted the international arrest warrant that was used to compel he [...]
2009-10-01 14:43:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR KCRM KJUS RW FR
09PARIS135WHY SARKOZY THINKS ENGAGING SYRIA IS WORKING
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Over the past 12 months, President Sarkozy has portrayed his Syria policy as one of performance-based, carefully benchmarked engagement -- engagement that could be easily halted or reversed in the event of Syrian back-sliding. Although Sarkozy has publicly touted this policy [...]
2009-01-30 12:10:00Embassy ParisSECRETFR PGOV PREL SY
09PARIS1355FRENCH OFFICIALS REPEAT DISARMAMENT CONCERNS
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: French officials, including senior presidency staff, have once again stressed their concern that U.S. disarmament policy might lead to political pressure on France to make further cuts to its own nuclear arsenal, pressure France would resist. Nevertheless, the GOF says it wants to e [...]
2009-10-02 16:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKNNP MNUC PARM KACT PREL FR
09PARIS1357TOGO: AMBASSADOR HAWKINS'S PARIS CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA, Presidency, and MOD generally agreed with U.S. Ambassador to Togo Patricia Hawkins's assessment of the situation in Togo concerning the importance of the presidential election in 2010, the weakness of the opposition, and the tensions that might arise [...]
2009-10-02 17:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM SNAR PINR TO FR
09PARIS1361 END-USE ASSURANCES: FRANCE'S PERSPECTIVE ON THIRD PARTY
[...] (S) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Several major allied military systems, including Belgium's A400M military air transport project (ref A),have been delayed for months, pending GOF end-user assurances (EUA). GOF will now provide necessary EUA in these cases, based on a previously existing bilat [...]
2009-10-06 06:47:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNETTC PARM PREL ETRD EUN FR
09PARIS1369GUINEA: MFA PROVIDES OVERVIEW TO DIPLOMATIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA provided on October 8 a briefing on Guinea to Paris diplomats, stressing the need for Dadis Camara to step down or otherwise be replaced as Guinea's leader, with elections to follow. French officials said that any military intervention force would have to be led by Afr [...]
2009-10-08 15:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM PINS GV FR
09PARIS1387SEPTEMBER 2009 PARIS CLUB MEETING; NEGOTIATION WITH CAR
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 15, the Paris Club and the Central African Republic (CAR) negotiated a new debt relief agreement recognizing that country's completion of the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. Creditors agreed voluntarily to go beyond HIPC terms to forgive [...]
2009-10-14 11:59:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
09PARIS1389FRENCH ENVOY ON INFORMATIONAL MISSION TO NORTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials, including senior presidency staff, confirmed that newly appointed Special Envoy to North Korea Jack Lang is going on an information gathering mission to Six-Party capitals to provide President Sarkozy a more comprehensive "snapshot" of the DPRK denuclearization is [...]
2009-10-14 15:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM MNUC KN KS CH JA RU FR
09PARIS1393FRENCH MFA ON RUSSIA, BOSNIA, KARABAKH, KAZAKHSTAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Government of France is "reflecting" on ways to improve the strategic relationship between Russia and the West, and may consider the potential value of entering into new negotiations on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, according to Roland Galharague [...]
2009-10-14 16:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RS BK KZ AM AJ FR
09PARIS1394FRENCH RESPONSE TO GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Poloffs discussed Ref A demarche on October 14 with MFA UN/IO officers Jean-Luc Delvert (human rights) and Frederic Jung (UNSC Middle East issues) who confirmed that France shares most of the U.S. perspective on the handling of the Goldstone report. Jung confirmed that France would likel [...]
2009-10-14 16:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS FR
09PARIS1396FRANCE AGREES KENYA SHOULD INCREASE ASSISTANCE TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF agrees with the U.S. that Kenya should do more to assist refugees from Somalia in Kenya. MFA staff is considering how to approach Kenya; one possibility would be for FM Kouchner to raise the issue with Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga during the latter's October 20-2 [...]
2009-10-15 08:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL UNHCR KE FR
09PARIS1401FRENCH MFA ON EU, RUSSIA, IRAN, AND THE MIDDLE EAST
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: At an October 5 lunch with visiting EUR DAS for Western Europe and Press and Public Diplomacy Spencer Boyer, key MFA officials provided an update of French thinking on a number of issues: the GOF hopes that the Czechs will ratify the Lisbon Treaty soon and that the U.S. will en [...]
2009-10-16 14:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PINS EUN NATO KMPI RS IR FR
09PARIS1405SYRIAN AMBASSADOR TOUTS BETTER RELATIONS WITH U.S,
[...] (C) Summary. The Syrian Ambassador to France Lamia Chakkour discussed a wide variety of topics with PolMinCouns and poloffs October 13. The Ambassador praised France's rapprochement with Syria and said her country had been helpful in educating the Government of France (GOF) about regional is [...]
2009-10-16 16:02:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY FR
09PARIS1409French have no response to US Proposal to Change GNEP into
[...] (U) The French accepted without substantive response our non-paper on the U.S. proposal to change the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) into the International Nuclear Energy Framework (INEF). Both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy Division, and the Ministr [...]
2009-10-19 15:34:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP IAEA FR
09PARIS1413France: Total SA's Investment Projects
[...] (SBU) Total SA executives gave Deputy Assistant Secretary Douglas Hengel an overview of investment activities in some of the world's political hotspots. On Iran, they denied talks had resumed on phase 11 of the South Pars gas field but expressed frustration over Chinese companies entering the [...]
2009-10-21 10:24:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ECON EINV PREL FR IR KZ NI RS SU BM
09PARIS1415CHAD: PRESIDENT DEBY'S OCTOBER 16 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chad's President Deby told France's President Sarkozy on October 16 that he would continue to build political dialogue and reconciliation in Chad, that Chad's relations with Sudan were improving after the recent high-level Sudanese delegation's visit to N'Djamena, that Chad nee [...]
2009-10-21 14:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR MOPS CD SU FR
09PARIS1416MARCH 2010 REGIONAL ELECTIONS PREVIEW SARKOZY'S
[...] (C) Summary: French regional elections scheduled for March 2010 are shaping up as a measurement of President Nicolas Sarkozy's strength at the mid-point of his term. Despite rumors of malaise and dogged by a series of internal political tempests including the Clearstream trial, rumors of his Cultu [...]
2009-10-21 15:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR
09PARIS1419BMENA: FRENCH FM KOUCHNER LIKELY TO ATTEND, BUT
[...] (SBU) French Foreign Minister Kouchner plans to attend the BMENA Forum for the Future on November 2 - 3 in Marrakech but will require the French Parliament to change the date of hearings he is scheduled to attend on November 3 before he can offer a final confirmation, according to Michel Roche [...]
2009-10-22 09:32:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS1425 FRENCH JIU AND FAO CANDIDATES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: France believes their candidate to the United Nations' Joint Inspection Unit (JIU),Gerard Biraud, is well qualified; he is the JIU's current President. France also hopes the United States will support its candidate for the Independent President of the FAO Council, Luc Guyau e [...]
2009-10-22 15:41:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PREL PGOV EAGR UNGA FR
09PARIS1426FRANCE: SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER,S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Paris welcomes the visit of FBI Director Mueller. The timing of this first trip is ideal, with our bilateral relationship at its highest point in fifty years. You will find your interlocutors energized by the President,s visits to Paris and Normandy and they look forward t [...]
2009-10-22 15:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV FR
09PARIS1437FRENCH AID TO PAKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Econ Counselor and Poloff delivered the demarche in ref A to Annie Evrard, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) desk officer for Pakistan, and Guillaume Cruse, an official from the Agence France de Development. Both are members of the interagency Afghanistan-Pakistan "cell" and familiar w [...]
2009-10-26 16:44:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PREL FR PK
09PARIS1438FRENCH ACTIVITIES IN THE GULF
[...] (C) The French Presidency's Counselor for North Africa and the Middle East, Nicolas Galey, discussed French activities in the Arabian Gulf with PolMinCouns and poloff on October 22. Galey said President Sarkozy will visit Saudi Arabia November 17 to 19 to highlight the importance of this bil [...]
2009-10-26 17:13:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALENRG PGOV PINS PREL SA KU AEC FR
09PARIS1442MUSLIM-JEWISH RELATIONS IN FRANCE FOLLOWING GAZA
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During a series of recent meetings, French officials responsible for developing and implementing GOF policy toward organized religion told poloff that the January 2009 conflict in Gaza continues to strain institutional and communal relations between France's two large [...]
2009-10-28 09:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS1443FRENCH PRIORITIES FOR THE 64TH UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: France is on the same page as the United States with respect to country-specific and thematic resolutions for the UNGA Third Committee and seeks USG support for French sponsored initiatives, stated MFA desk officer for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Cecile Vigneau, who s [...]
2009-10-28 10:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UN FR
09PARIS1447POLAND DELEGATION PARLAYS MDEP MEETING TO
[...] The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Multinational Design Evaluation Program (MDEP) held a conference in Paris, France on September 10 and 11. MDEP core members had decided to expand their reach and organize a formal exchange with national regulators from MDEP non-member countries, industry repres [...]
2009-10-28 15:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDENRG OTRA TRGY TECH OECD FR SP IO
09PARIS1451FRANCE: RETHINKING INDUSTRIAL POLICY
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Sarkozy has initiated a national debate on the country's long-term industrial policy. After a three and half month consultative process starting this month with small/medium sized enterprises and industries (SME/SMIs),unions, local governments, experts, and the gene [...]
2009-10-28 16:52:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND EFIN ETRD FR
09PARIS1453French on Doha, Geographical Indications and Convention on
[...] (U) The French provided a predictable response to reftel demarche on Geographical Indications and the Convention on Biodiversity.GOF officials noted that geographical indications were a political priority for France and should be part of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) package. Comment: The [...]
2009-10-29 14:56:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EAGR KIPR FR
09PARIS1456French on Doha, Geographical Indications and Convention on
[...] (U) The French provided a predictable response to reftel demarche on Geographical Indications and the Convention on Biodiversity.GOF officials noted that geographical indications were a political priority for France and should be part of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) package. Comment: The [...]
2009-10-29 15:23:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EAGR KIPR FR
09PARIS1459AMBASSADOR KNIGHT'S DISCUSSIONS WITH FRENCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: New U.S. Ambassador to Benin, James Knight, on October 23 received from French officials a mixed assessment of the current social, political, and economic situation in the country. France hopes that President Yayi can display a more results-oriented leadership style but are con [...]
2009-10-29 15:38:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV KCOR PINR BN FR
09PARIS1461FRANCE-ISRAEL STRATEGIC DIALOGUE COVERS TURKEY,
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY AND BACKGROUND: French participants in the second annual Franco-Israeli Strategic Dialogue on October 28 noted profound disquiet among the Israelis about Turkey, according to Frederic Bereyziat, Senior MFA Desk Officer for Israel and the Peace Process. Bereyziat told poloff Oct [...]
2009-10-29 17:57:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL IS TU SY FR
09PARIS1464FRANCE WELCOMES NEW U.S. SUDAN STRATEGY, WANTS TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France's assessment of the new U.S. Sudan strategy is positive, viewing it as a more "holistic" approach to Sudan's many challenges, according to the MFA's Desk Officer for Sudan. France appreciates the U.S. willingness to engage with a broad range of interlocutors and partners [...]
2009-10-30 14:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU FR
09PARIS1465GUINEA: AMBASSADOR MOLLER'S CONSULTATIONS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials generally agreed with U.S. Ambassador to Guinea Patricia Moller on the need for the international community to develop a visible process or framework on Guinea that could lead to a transition to a democratic government, with Burkina Faso President Campaore's inter [...]
2009-10-30 17:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PINR KDEM GV FR
09PARIS1471TOGO'S UFC LEADER GILCHRIST OLYMPIO CONTINUES HIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with us on October 26, Togolese opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio was relaxed and at ease as he discussed his electoral prospects. He said he had overcome several procedural obstacles and was ready to campaign actively for the presidency. He asked that the U.S., alon [...]
2009-11-02 17:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCOR EINV TO CH GH FR
09PARIS1473SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO PARIS -- NOVEMBER 8,
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. Madam Secretary, your Paris Embassy and the French are eager to welcome you to France. FM Kouchner quickly invited you to lunch or a meeting on Sunday, which is not a usual practice. He looks forward to talking with you about key issues, including Afghanistan, Iran, and rel [...]
2009-11-03 11:39:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPREL NATO PARM MOPS SENV KGHG AF FR RU PK
09PARIS1479FRANCE/GOLDSTONE: FRANCE SHARES MANY U.S. REDLINES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff discussed Ref. A demarche on November 3 with MFA UN/IO officer Frederic Jung, who covers UNSC Middle East issues, and who found nothing unexpected in the U.S. position. France is working with other EU members to secure agreement on significant changes to the current draf [...]
2009-11-04 16:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KPAL EUN IS FR
09PARIS1494FRANCE SUPPORTIVE BUT FLEXIBLE ON BELARUS SANCTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France supports the EU rolling over both sanctions and their suspension at the November GAERC meeting, but remains flexible as to the exact form of the rollover. Although the GOF does not believe that the Belarusian government has earned the reward of lifted sanctions, the French [...]
2009-11-06 14:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN BO FR
09PARIS1495FRENCH RESPONSE TO THE 2009 IRF REPORT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Press and public reaction to the 2009 International Religious Freedom (IRF) report in France has been largely muted since its public release on October 26. However, in a follow up meeting, the MFA offered a more critical response to the report, characterizing the Scientology case [...]
2009-11-06 15:03:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KDEM PGOV KIRF KISL FR
09PARIS1499 Promoting France's Competitiveness in the Health Industry
[...] (U) Summary. President Sarkozy plans to make France the priority destination for foreign investment in medical research, with the healthcare industry becoming "a centerpiece of French competitiveness" on par with France's aerospace and luxury goods sectors. With new investment funds, business [...]
2009-11-09 14:06:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR FR
09PARIS1508(S) REACTION TO IRANIAN BANK SUBSIDIARY DESIGNATION
[...] (C) On November 12, Embassy delivered demarche on subject designation to MFA DAS-equivalent for non-proliferation Martin Briens. He said he expects more Iranian banks to try to open foreign subsidiaries to ease some of the pressure of UN sanctions, including in countries at Europe's doorstep s [...]
2009-11-13 11:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKNNP EFIN IR MY FR
09PARIS1510(C) REACTION TO IRANIAN BANK SUBSIDIARY DESIGNATION
[...] (C) On November 12, Embassy delivered demarche on subject designation to MFA DAS-equivalent for non-proliferation Martin Briens. He said he expects more Iranian banks to try to open foreign subsidiaries to ease some of the pressure of UN sanctions, including in countries at Europe's doorstep s [...]
2009-11-13 17:13:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKNNP EFIN IR MY FR
09PARIS1511FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR NOVEMBER 16-17 GAERC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 13, Deputy Chief of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy office Mathieu Carmona previewed French expectations for the November 16-17 GAERC. Foreign ministers will prepare for the upcoming EU-Russia summit by reviewing the Corfu process, the situation in the N [...]
2009-11-13 17:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN RS UP SO BK AF BO FR
09PARIS1512SRAP HOLBROOKE CONSULTATIONS WITH DIPLOMATIC
[...] (C) Summary. During a visit to Paris on November 13, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) Richard Holbrooke consulted with Jean-David Levitte, Diplomatic Advisor to President Sarkozy, on proposals to improve the coordination of the SRAP collective and to improve overal [...]
2009-11-14 10:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO FR AF GM
09PARIS1520France and Brazil Join Forces for "Bold and Audacious"
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On Saturday, November 14, French President Sarkozy and Brazilian President Lula da Silva held a press conference in Paris to announce an agreement on a "Common Position on Climate Change," guided by the principles of fairness and equity. At the press conference, President Sarkozy [...]
2009-11-16 17:05:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG KGHG FR
09PARIS1521FRENCH-GERMAN RELATIONS SOLID, DESPITE GERMAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the formation of the new German coalition and final ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the French government has made a series of proposals designed to promote French-German unity and further strengthen bilateral ties. In large part, this is a means to emphasize shared pri [...]
2009-11-17 09:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL GM FR
09PARIS1526FRANCE AND BRAZIL: THE START OF A LOVE AFFAIR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Considered "a love fest" by the MFA, the growing Franco-Brazilian relationship under Presidents Sarkozy and Lula is likely to result in more political, diplomatic, economic, and military engagement in the next three years and throughout Sarkozy's time in office. Committed to exp [...]
2009-11-17 15:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MASS BR FR
09PARIS1529FRENCH MAY SELL MISTRAL CLASS SHIPS TO RUSSIA
[...] (C/NF) Summary: During a series of meetings November 9-12, French MFA officials described the possible sale of a French Mistral-class helicopter carrier ship to Russia, and the licensing of the production of several other such ships in Russia, as a pragmatic economic deal--far from sealed--that [...]
2009-11-17 17:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL MASS RU GG PL FR
09PARIS1532GUINEA: DAS FITZGERALD'S CONSULTATIONS IN PARIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA and Presidency were in general agreement with AF DAS William Fitzgerald November 16 on the need for a change in leadership in Guinea, but they also agreed that effecting change, making sure Dadis steps down, and identifying a suitable replacement gover [...]
2009-11-19 08:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GV FR
09PARIS1533FRENCH RESPONSE TO U.S. PRIORITIES ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche outlining U.S. priorities for Afghanistan on November 17 to Francois Delmas, a specialist assigned to the French MFA's Af-Pak cell. Delmas responded that most of the priorities outlined in the demarche were similar to French objectives, particularly the focu [...]
2009-11-19 09:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AF FR
09PARIS1534"FRANCAFRIQUE" -- MFA DISPUTES REPORTS ON A RETURN
[...] (C) Summary: MFA's AF Assistant Secretary-equivalent Stephan Gompertz denied that France's approach to Africa is backsliding into the patterns of previous administrations' "francafrique." He insisted that France is not interfering in African countries' internal politics. He said that in the re [...]
2009-11-19 09:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV KCOR PTER PINR FR
09PARIS1540FRANCE'S APPROACH TO UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH
[...] (C) Poloff discussed Reftel demarche on November 19 with MFA UN/IO officer Frederic Jung, who covers UNSC and UNGA Middle East issues. Jung noted that France's approach on these types of country-specific resolutions follows EU policy in that the 27 members consult internally for a consensus [...]
2009-11-19 15:34:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KPAL EUN IS FR
09PARIS1541FRANCE CONCERNED ABOUT LACK OF SUBSTANCE FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request - please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary. During a November 19 meeting with the Political Counselor, Patrick Maisonnave, Director for Strategic Affairs at the MFA, expressed concern that preparations for the December OSCE ministerial in Athens were not going [...]
2009-11-19 15:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL OSCE FR
09PARIS1542MARITIME SECURITY SECTOR REFORM AND HORN OF AFRICA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A French inter-agency team expressed keen interest in USG ideas on piracy and Maritime Security Sector Reform (MSSR) during PM/PPA Donna Hopkins's November 13 consultations in Paris. The French agreed to provide constructive feedback on the MSSR matrix under development by Sta [...]
2009-11-19 15:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR ETTC PREL PGOV KPIR XO SO FR
09PARIS1543French Carbon Footprint Eco-Labeling -- a Potential
[...] (U) SUMMARY: French Government environment and consumer protection officials told Embassy that they are developing a mandatory carbon footprint label for consumer products, with implementation to begin January 1, 2011. The Trade Minister's office was unaware of the proposed carbon labeling ef [...]
2009-11-19 17:49:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD SENV EAGR KIPR KGHG ISO FR
09PARIS1544FRENCH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE NATO MINISTERIAL
[...] (C) Summary. Two weeks out from the NATO summit, post met with French officials to discuss leading issues in advance of the December 3-4 NATO ministerial meeting. Our French interlocutors included Patrick Maisonnave, Strategic Affairs Director at the MFA; Muriel Domenech, MFA DAS-equivalen [...]
2009-11-20 11:25:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS FR AF
09PARIS1545More on France - Brazil Climate Pact
[...] (SBU) Gwenaelle Huet, Chief of staff to Brice Lalonde, French Ambassador for climate change negotiations, commented to ESTH Counselor November 19 on the "Common Position" announced by Presidents Sarkozy and Lula da Silva last week. She said that that Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo thin [...]
2009-11-20 13:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG FR
09PARIS1548FRANCO-CUBAN RELATIONS: RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France advocates democratic advancement and the protection of fundamental human rights in conjunction with the joint EU position on Cuba. Although diplomatic ties have been frayed since 2003, the GOF supports continued dialogue with Havana on democratization and the release of p [...]
2009-11-23 12:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC EFIN EINV PREL PHUM FR CU
09PARIS1552SOMALIA SANCTIONS: FRENCH IN GENERAL AGREEMENT
[...] (C) MFA IO desk officer Teymouraz Gorjestani on November 20 said that the GOF was in general agreement with the USG approach to Somalia sanctions outlined in reftel. He said that France supported sanctions Against those individuals listed by the UN Sanctions Committee's Monitoring Group. ( [...]
2009-11-23 16:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER XW UNSC FR
09PARIS1553FRANCE/BRAZIL: THE ECONOMIC AGENDA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Behind the cultural exchanges and warm diplomatic relations with Brazil (Ref A),France is embarking on a long-term strategy to court a country it sees as a resource-rich future global powerhouse and foothold in Latin America. Since the 2005 "Year of Brazil in France," commercial tie [...]
2009-11-23 16:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON PREL EINV BEXP ETRD EAID SENV FR BR
09PARIS1554SUDAN: RECENT SUDANESE VISITS AND CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ghazi Salaheddin's recent consultations in Paris went well, according to MFA Sudan desk officer Thierry Caboche. Both sides "agreed to disagree" on ICC issues and focused on promoting Sudan-Chad reconciliation by trying to reduce Chadian and Sudanese support for their respectiv [...]
2009-11-23 16:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS SU FR
09PARIS1558"NO SURPRISES" IN FRENCH SPECIAL ENVOY JACK LANG,S
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: French Special Envoy Jack Lang urged DPRK leaders to return to Six-Party Talks during his five day "information-gathering" tour of North Korea from November 9-14 and visit to Beijing from November 5-9. MFA PDAS for Asia Theirry Viteau, who accompanied Lang to Pyongyang and Bei [...]
2009-11-24 12:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR PHUM MNUC KN KS CH JA RS FR
09PARIS1560FRANCE'S DIGITAL COPYRIGHT PROTECTION LAW AND
[...] (U) Summary: France seeks to tackle the problem of online piracy through the "Creation and Internet Law," which will take effect in early 2010. The bill introduces a new legal framework to deter and sanction online piracy, and represents the first stage in France's on-going effort to stop il [...]
2009-11-24 14:08:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETTC ETRD BEXP KIPR PREL FR
09PARIS1563FRANCE GROWS CLOSER TO RUSSIA: OPPORTUNITIES FOR
[...] (C//NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Franco-Russian relations are growing closer and more stable, driven by France's increasingly pragmatic approach toward Moscow and desire to take the lead in shaping European relations with Russia. Bilateral exchanges have grown more intense, "dense," and frequent, [...]
2009-11-24 15:46:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL MASS GG PL RU FR
09PARIS1565FRANCE: TOTAL SA LEADS THE NORTH CASPIAN OPERATING COMPANY
[...] (C) Summary. The North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) will oversee planning and development of Kazakhstan's rich North Caspian petroleum resources, but the seven NCOC partner companies are on their own to get the crude to the market. NCOC faces numerous challenges: a harsh climate, sensit [...]
2009-11-24 16:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEPET EINV ENRG BEXP FR KZ ETRD PREL
09PARIS1588PRELIMINARY FRENCH RESPONSE TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) During November 25 meetings with Patrick Maisonnave, Strategic Affairs Director at the MFA, and Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy, the Political Minister-Counselor delivered reftel points while stressing the importance of strong Allied support for our strateg [...]
2009-11-25 17:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF FR
09PARIS1589CJCS MULLEN OUTLINES STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: CJCS Admiral Mike Mullen met with French Chief of Defense(CHOD)General Jean-Louis Georgelin to discuss the possibility of increasing the number of French troops committed to Afghanistan, in advance of the December 3-4 NATO Ministerial meetings. This discussion was precipitated by [...]
2009-11-25 18:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS AF FR
09PARIS1592CHAD/C.A.R.: FRENCH BELIEVE INSECURITY RISING IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Chad/C.A.R. desk officer Vincent Alexandre, just returned from a week in Chad, told us on November 25 that insecurity seemed to be rising in eastern Chad and eastern C.A.R. He said that MINURCAT was much less effective than it could be and was operating with serious manpow [...]
2009-11-27 11:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PINR KDEM CD CT FR
09PARIS1599 FRANCE'S "GRAND EMPRUNT": STIMULATING LONG-TERM GROWTH
[...] (U) Summary: France is finalizing its second-round stimulus package, which emphasizes investment in research and innovation. President Sarkozy will consult with unions, business and other social partners before final approval in early December, and launch the program in January 2010. The prop [...]
2009-11-30 16:55:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL FR
09PARIS1600CONGO-B'S PARIS-BASED "GOVERNMENT IN EXILE"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Self-styled Prime Minister of the Government in Exile of the Republic of Congo, Tony Gilbert Moudilou, insisted that President Sassou Nguesso Nguesso "has to go." Moudilou asserted that Sassou Nguesso is physically and mentally ill, and that the President's goal is to pave the [...]
2009-11-30 16:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCOR CF FR
09PARIS1607 FRANCE ON G8 FOOD SECURITY COMMITMENTS
[...] (U) Summary: France's $2.3 billion in L'Aquila commitments on food security represent mostly new programs to be carried out by various GOF agencies between 2009 and 2011. $52 million in food aid is for on-going food aid that conforms to the London Convention. France does not yet have detailed [...]
2009-12-01 14:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EAGR FR
09PARIS1609FRANCE-RUSSIA MISTRAL CLASS SHIP SALE: VIEW FROM THE SHIPYARD
[...] (SBU) This message is based on reporting by American Presence Post Rennes. 2. (C) Summary. Observers in the French shipbuilding industry (strictly protect) provided background information on prospects for the sale of Mistral-class helicopter carrier/amphibious assault ships to Russia. They [...]
2009-12-01 17:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON EIND ETRD RU MASS PARM PREL FR GG
09PARIS1610GABON: PRESIDENT ALI BONGO'S VISIT TO FRANCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Ali Bongo of Gabon enjoyed a successful visit to France November 18-20, according to MFA DAS-equivalent Stephane Gruenberg. The visit marked for both sides Bongo's assumption of the presidency and his initial steps to develop his own identity as national leader apart [...]
2009-12-02 08:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SENV GB FR
09PARIS1611Scenesetter for EEB A/S Jose Fernandez
[...] (SBU) Mission France warmly welcomes your visit on December 7-8. You will arrive half way through President Nicolas Sarkozy's five-year term, a period marked by strong coordination between the U.S. and France on key strategic issues. The financial crisis and subsequent G20 response, as well [...]
2009-12-03 07:42:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD ENRG EAGR PREL SENV FR
09PARIS1638PRESIDENT SARKOZY: THE KEY DECISION-MAKER WHO CAN
[...] (C/NF) Summary. At the mid-point of his five-year term, French President Sarkozy continues to be the dominant, virtually unchallenged, political force in France. Slowed in domestic reform efforts by entrenched interests and the world-wide financial crisis, Sarkozy is increasingly focused on success [...]
2009-12-04 11:49:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV FR
09PARIS1642GUIDANCE ON ISRAEL'S SETTLEMENT MORATORIUM
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-04 17:35:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAL KWBG PREL IS FR
09PARIS1654FRANCE SUPPORTIVE OF VOLUNTARY FUND FOR UNSCR 1540
[...] (SBU) During a December 7 meeting, MFA UNSCR 1540 Officer Paul Furia said France is strongly in favor of the U.S. proposal to establish a Voluntary Fund, as detailed in reftel, to provide resources to the UN's 1540 Committee to be used for technical assistance to UN member states in fulfilling [...]
2009-12-07 15:58:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER AORC UNSC KPAO FR
09PARIS1667REINFORCING THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C/NF) Summary. Embassy Paris has been actively engaged with French leaders in the MFA, MOD, and the President's office in the lead-up to and after the roll out of President Obama's message on Afghanistan last week. In the lead-up to the President's West Point speech, Ambassador Rivkin spok [...]
2009-12-09 14:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO AF PA FR
09PARIS1669MONUC RENEWAL: FRENCH STILL PREFER 6-MONTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French continue to prefer a 6-month extension of the MONUC mandate and do not think either a 12-month mandate with an initial 4-month review process or a 4-month mandate to be followed by a 12-month mandate are practical. The French are willing to continue discussion of th [...]
2009-12-09 16:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKPKP KPKO UNSC PREL CG FR
09PARIS1671FRANCE: TOTAL'S INVESTMENTS IN IRAN
[...] (C) Summary. Total SA stresses that its activities in Iran consist of safeguarding the company's remaining property interests. Total is recouping funds, in the form of reimbursements, from years-old investments in the development of Iran's oil and gas blocks. During a November 16 conversatio [...]
2009-12-10 12:03:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET ETTC IR FR
09PARIS1679Scenesetter: Special Envoy Morningstar Visit to Paris
[...] (SBU) Embassy Paris warmly welcomes your visit on December 14-16. France is a strategic partner on global energy issues, both in its own right, and as a policy leader within the EU. France has a long-standing and statist policy of pursing energy independence. It currently meets 50 percent of [...]
2009-12-10 15:08:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EPET PREL FR
09PARIS1686FRENCH SUPPORT UN SANCTIONS ON ERITREA
[...] (C) MFA IO desk officer Teymouraz Gorjestani on December 11 told us that the GOF had agreed to support the Ugandan draft UNSC resolution that contained provisions for imposing targeted sanctions on Eritrea (reftel). He mentioned that the GOF preferred that one individual, whom he described as [...]
2009-12-14 15:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC PGOV ER FR
09PARIS1687MICHEL BARNIER: WHO IS THE NEW EU COMMISSIONER FOR INTERNAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Michel Barnier's selection as European Commissioner for the Internal Markets is the culmination of years of maneuvering for a senior EC post. As Foreign Minister, Barnier called for a strong Europe based on a "Franco-German" rather than "Anglo-Saxon" model, and as Agriculture Mi [...]
2009-12-15 09:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN ECON PREL PINR FR EU
09PARIS1704ALGERIA'S SA'ID BOUTEFLIKA -- A FRENCH MFA
[...] (S/NF) The French have limited information about the private life, personal opinions, and political ambitions of Sa'id Bouteflika (reftel),according to French MFA Algeria Desk Officer Anne-Claire Legendre. Nonetheless, Legendre told poloff December 14 that, based on French sources and analy [...]
2009-12-16 11:01:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL AG FR
09PARIS1706FRANCE FULLY SUPPORTS U.S. POLICY ON BURMA
[...] (C) France fully supports current U.S. policy on Burma and wants to work closely with the U.S. to insure a coordinated approach, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Southeast Asia DAS-equivalent Charles-Henri Brosseau, who spoke to POLCOUNS on December 10, 2009. Brosseau noted that the F [...]
2009-12-16 16:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BM FR
09PARIS1707(S) GOF RESPOND ON FRENCH FIRM SELLING INFRARED DETECTORS TO
[...] (S) On November 27, French MFA Deputy Director of Strategic Affairs for Arms Control Francois-Xavier Reymond provided the GOF's findings from its investigation of infrared sensor exports via China to Iran (ref A). Reymond emphasized that France and the United States have a shared interest in k [...]
2009-12-16 17:00:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNCH ETTC FR IR MARR MCAP MOPS PARM PINR PREL PTER
09PARIS1708PAKISTAN WFP DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-17 09:13:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EAGR PREL FR PK
09PARIS1709SOMALIA/DJIBOUTI PEACE PROCESS: FRANCE FULLY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-17 10:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SO FR
09PARIS1714FRENCH MINORITIES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- AN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In early November 2009, President Sarkozy launched a national debate on what it means to be French -- that is, the French "national identity." Confronting an increasingly globalized world and struggling with self-identity issues, including whether Muslim "burqas" should be bann [...]
2009-12-17 12:46:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF FR
09PARIS1715KABUL-PARIS DIRECT ACCESS MEDIA PROJECT
[...] (U) Please see request for mission action in paragraph 3. 2. (U) Embassy Paris plans an exchange for Afghan television leaders to build relations with French counterparts. The goal is to establish partnerships in creating and disseminating programs about Afghanistan, and to increase the [...]
2009-12-17 13:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL PREL FR AF
09PARIS1716FRANCE QUERIES ON IRANIAN INVESTMENTS
[...] (C) Summary. French MFA official note increased activity in Iran's energy sector by Chinese and Indian companies but no new investments by French industrial firms. The MFA confirms that it has contacted Sofregaz, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Italian company Maire Technimont, to discourage [...]
2009-12-17 13:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEPET ETTC ECON ENRG IR FR
09PARIS1719FRANCE'S GOT TALENT: REACHING OUT TO YOUNG LEADERS
[...] (SBU) Summary. "Reform" in the political, economic, and social arenas is a common driver behind the diverse activism of the almost 50 young, rising French leaders who participated in an outreach event hosted by the Embassy on December 2. Representing a wide swatch of the French political sp [...]
2009-12-17 15:58:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS1720 FRANCE'S "YEAR OF" PROGRAM FINDS CULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY Cultural exchanges serve as a vehicle for French commercial diplomacy and a key feature in its foreign affairs strategy. Through the semi-public agency CulturesFrance, France dedicates a calendar year or a shorter "season" to cultural cooperation with a chosen country in order to b [...]
2009-12-17 16:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON PREL EINV ETRD SCUL FR
09PARIS1721DPRK: FRANCE CONSIDERS ESTABLISHING AN OFFICE
[...] (C/NF) The Government of France may establish an office in Pyongyang, based on a recommendation by Special Presidential Envoy for North Korea Jack Lang who briefed the Ambassadors from the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and Russia (the Five Parties) on December 14. Accompanied by members [...]
2009-12-17 16:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINR PHUM MNUC KN KS CH JA RS FR
09PARIS1726AFGHANISTAN MOU: INTERIM RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) In response to the points in reftel A, French officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense said they were aware of the draft MOU on life, security and mobility support, originally supplied to the French Embassy in Kabul as per reftel B, and expressed their wil [...]
2009-12-18 16:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID AF FR
09PARIS1728FRANCE: NO PLAN YET TO AUGMENT ASSISTANCE TO WFP IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-18 16:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EAGR PREL FR PK
09PARIS1729The Googlisation of France
[...] (SBU) Summary: Google's fortunes may be rising in France as the GOF announced a government-funded digitization project that will likely include a partnership with Google. But Google still faces setbacks that include possible corporate tax fraud charges, continued public ire against Google's [...]
2009-12-18 16:47:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS ETRD EIND KIPR SCUL FR
09PARIS1731S/WCI RAPP'S CONSULTATIONS IN FRANCE (DECEMBER 14)
[...] (C) SUBJECT: French officials on December 14 told S/WCI Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp that they would advise consideration of a French contribution to support the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) but cautioned that GOF budgetary resources were quite limited and that a contribution might n [...]
2009-12-21 09:38:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKJUS KCRM PHUM YI RW SL FR
09PARIS1737 FRANCE: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERROSIM
[...] The French Republic in the 21st century finds itself grappling with an Islamist threat that reflects the nation's changing demographics. An estimated five to six million residents of France are Muslim - potentially a full 10 percent of the population. Several public announcements by al-Qaida [...]
2009-12-22 07:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC FR
09PARIS1738FRANCE AGRICULTURAL BIOTECH OUTREACH PROPOSAL - FY 2010
[...] Embassy Paris Country Team presents this request for support from EEB FY 2010 biotech outreach funds for critical public outreach in France. France remains an influential country both in the European Union (EU) and worldwide, especially in francophone developing countries. Post recognizes th [...]
2009-12-22 07:30:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON TBIO ETRD KPAO FR
09PARIS1743 FRENCH MFA DIRECTOR GENERAL DISCUSSES POST-LISBON
[...] (SBU) Summary: On his first official visit to Europe as EEB Assistant Secretary, Jose W. Fernandez called on French MFA Director General for Sustainable Development, Christian Masset, on December 8. Fernandez described his priorities as A/S and expressed commitment to promoting stronger U.S [...]
2009-12-23 09:27:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR PREL FR
09PARIS1744FRANCE: SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR'S ENERGY CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C/NF) Summary. French officials and industry leaders support diversifying energy supply/routes in Central Asia, market competition, an Azerbaijan-Turkey agreement for gas supply and transit issues. GDF-Suez joined Nord Stream and is interested in Nabucco and the Shtokman project. Total SA e [...]
2009-12-23 10:10:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG ZK ZJ RS FR ECON
09PARIS1745 FRANCE: US PHARMACEUTICAL FIRMS AGENDA
[...] (U): Ambassador Rivkin met with the board of AGIPHARM, the association of American pharmaceutical subsidiaries in France to review the results of President Sarkozy's pharmaceutical strategy conference (CSIS) held on October 26. AGIPHARM considers that the CSIS yielded important breakthroughs [...]
2009-12-23 10:46:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR FR
09PARIS1749NPT REVCON: FRENCH MFA ON MANAGING THE NAM AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 23 meeting, MFA Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) officer Celine Jurgensen presented the latest French thinking on managing challenges from Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries in the run up to the 2010 NPT Review Conference (RevCon). She also expressed concern abo [...]
2009-12-23 16:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PARM MNUC KNNP FR
09PARIS1750DEMARCHE: URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE AMCIT CASES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-23 16:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALCASC PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER IR FR
09PARIS1766 STAFFDEL KESSLER'S VISIT TO PARIS JAN. 12-14
[...] Embassy Paris welcomes the visit of Staffdel Kessler on January 12-14, 2010. 2. The control officer for this visit will be Political Officer David Nobles: Off. Tel: +33 1 4312 2515 Off. Fax: +33 1 4312 2663 Cell: +33 6 1511 3868 Home: +33 1 8209 4791 Unclass e-mail: noblesdt@state.gov [...]
2009-12-31 12:32:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN UK GM IT SP FR
09PARIS1767DIVERGENCES WITH FRANCE ON UPCOMING POLITICAL
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Our current relationship with France is so profoundly healthy that conventional wisdom now asserts that there are no significant differences in the foreign policies of our two countries. While it is true that the relationship is at a historical peak, it is not the case t [...]
2009-12-31 12:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV MARR PARM FR
09PARIS177FRENCH TRADE POLICY - PROTECTIONISM REDUX?
[...] (C) Summary: The February 9 visit to Washington of French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier comes just before he leaves his post to head-up President Sarkozy's UMP slate of candidates for the European Parliament. His departure may provide an opening to re-engage with the French, who are in [...]
2009-02-05 10:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAGR PREL EU FR
09PARIS193FRENCH DOMESTIC CONCERNS DRIVE TIMELINE ON NATO
[...] (C) Summary. Elysee Strategic Affairs Advisor Francois Richier outlined on February 3 some of the French domestic hurdles that will drive developments in the next couple of months on the announcement of French reintegration into NATO, possible authorization of troop reinforcements in Afghanis [...]
2009-02-06 08:25:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALNATO MOPS PREL FR AF
09PARIS197 SARKOZY ADDRESSES FRANCE ON THE ECONOMY
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a 90-minute broadcast on the economic crisis, President Sarkozy said he and German Chancellor Merkel will insist on "structural change" in the international financial system at the G20 Summit in London. France must focus on employment to get out of the crisis, he said, invi [...]
2009-02-06 17:06:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL FR
09PARIS204P-3 SHARE UNSC, UNESCO, HRC AND DURBAN CONCERNS
[...] (C) Summary: Acting IO A/S Jim Warlick joined French IO A/S-Equivalent Sylvie Bermann and UK IO Director Paul Johnston, along with MFA IO PDAS-Equivalent Marc Giacomini, IO DAS-Equivalent Fabien Penone, and Pol M/C for a P-3 exchange of views on February 6. Among topics of note, France led t [...]
2009-02-10 15:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO UNSC SO FR
09PARIS212FRANCE ROLLS OUT AUTO SUPPORT PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) President Sarkozy announced a 9 billion euro aid package for France's struggling auto sector. The sector provides direct and indirect jobs for nearly 10 percent of the work force. The GOF plan includes loans for Renault, Peugeot, Renault Trucks (Volvo) and their suppliers and incentives [...]
2009-02-11 14:56:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD PREL WTO FR
09PARIS217FRENCH FEEDBACK ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION STRATEGY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-12 12:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC ICJ KV FR
09PARIS223A/DAS WYCOFF'S FEBRUARY 5 CONSULTATIONS IN PARIS:
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During February 5 meetings with AF Acting DAS Karl Wycoff, French officials: -- (on Chad) expressed skepticism about a role for the Francophonie organization in Chad; wanted "free and fair" elections yet seemed ready to welcome Deby's remaining in power as the best alternativ [...]
2009-02-12 15:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM PINS CD CG RW SO FR
09PARIS229FRENCH BIOTECH POLICY MEASURES BOGGED DOWN
[...] Summary: A working group formed by the French Ministry of Agriculture will meet in February to provide recommendations on coexistence rules. In view of the fact that both the working group and the High Biotech Committee will include representation from environmental NGOs and other stakeholder [...]
2009-02-13 10:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR SENV ECON ETRD EU FR
09PARIS236IS THE FRENCH MODEL REALLY BACK?
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-13 17:12:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV FR
09PARIS238PRUDENCE RULES IN ADVANCE OF ICC ACTION ON BASHIR
[...] (C) Summary: Impending ICC action against Sudanese President Bashir dominated U.S., UK, and French consultations on February 11 as well as consultations with a broader informal group including Presidential Envoy for Sudan Mikhail V. Margelov. In a pre-meeting, U.S., UK and French officials [...]
2009-02-17 11:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC RU SU FR
09PARIS239READOUT OF PRESIDENT SARKOZY'S GULF TOUR
[...] (S) Summary: President Sarkozy sees his February 10-11 visit to the Gulf as a success, especially his surprise visit to Iraq, where he invited President Talabani to lead a state visit to Paris at the end of the year along with both Iraqi Vice Presidents. According to Presidential Middle East [...]
2009-02-17 15:54:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS24FRANCE: JANUARY 13-14 CONTACT GROUP MEETING ON
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-08 17:30:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER SO XW FR
09PARIS242MAURITANIA: FRENCH IN AGREEMENT WITH USG POSITION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 14:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV EUN MR PHUM PREL FR
09PARIS264S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON DISCUSSES GUANTANAMO
[...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: S/WCI Ambassador Williamson met with French MFA officials on February 16 to discuss detainee issues, France's role in the EU process and possible resettlement of Guantanamo Bay detainees in France. Williamson noted that France has a unique role to play in formulating a process [...]
2009-02-20 16:53:00Embassy ParisSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO FR
09PARIS265FRENCH PREVIEW OF GAERC: AFGHANISTAN, MIDDLE
[...] (C) Summary. On February 20, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona previewed four agenda items for the February General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting: Afghanistan, the Middle East peace process, the Western Balkans, [...]
2009-02-20 16:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN KPAL KWBG IS BK MW SR AF KV FR
09PARIS275MAURITANIA: INTERNATIONAL CONTACT GROUP MEETING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Contact Group on Mauritania (ICG-M) met in Paris February 20. The European Union, France, and the United Nations joined the United States in expressing continued strong support for the African Union's opposition to the August 6 coup, but the Arab delegations [...]
2009-02-26 07:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR FR
09PARIS276GENERAL PETRAEUS DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: In meetings with PM Fillon, NSA Levitte, FM Kouchner, MinDef Morin and military chief Georgelin February 9 and 10, CENTCOM Commander General Petraeus discussed the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, noting the administration's strategic review now underway and emphasizing t [...]
2009-02-26 07:59:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL PGOV NATO KPAL AF IR IS IZ PK FR
09PARIS277BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON
[...] (U) Embassy has determined from open sources that OCEA's patrol boat contract with Algeria was one of the major foreign military contracts France obtained in 2007. The company's website indicates that OCEA has existed since 1987, has approximately 150 employees, and produces 10 to 15 aluminum [...]
2009-02-26 09:06:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC AG FR
09PARIS281FRANCE'S "NO" VOTE ON BIOTECH CORN
[...] (U) In separate meetings emboffs delivered reftel points on DG Environment's proposal to approve two biotech corn varieties to the Trade Minister's Chief of Staff and the biotech advisors to the Minister of Agriculture and the Minister of Environment. The latter indicated France would vote aga [...]
2009-02-26 12:08:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAGR PREL EUN TBIO FR
09PARIS284 PARIS CLUB - JANUARY 2009 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DISCUSSIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the January 2009 Paris Club Tour d'Horizon, creditors agreed to consider committing up front to a debt reduction for Seychelles, although they agreed that conditions should be stringent. While Haiti's situation was challenging, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) believ [...]
2009-02-26 12:19:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
09PARIS285FRENCH VIEWS ON NATO REINTEGRATION AND TURKEY
[...] (C/NF) Summary. In recent meetings, senior French officials from the offices of the President and Prime Minister, the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, have uniformly agreed that France's official reintegration into the military command of NATO should be made in two st [...]
2009-02-26 15:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNNATO MARR PREL FR TU
09PARIS286ENGAGING SYRIA: INSIGHTS FROM JEAN-CLAUDE COUSSERAN
[...] (S) Summary: Veteran Middle East troubleshooter and former French Ambassador to Syria (among other posts) Jean-Claude Cousseran assessed that recent improvements in Syrian behavior constituted a tactical shift rather than a strategic change of behavior; nevertheless, he felt the West should exploit [...]
2009-02-26 15:49:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL PGOV FR SY
09PARIS287 FINANCING FRANCE'S RECOVERY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As EU president last fall, President Sarkozy pressed unsuccessfully for a coordinated European economic stimulus. The best he could get was a commitment to national efforts in the range of 1.5 to 2 percent of GDP. At home, Sarkozy wasted no time in acting on his proposals. To [...]
2009-02-27 07:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ECON PREL FR
09PARIS288FRENCH MFA DOWNPLAYS EXPECTATIONS ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. After a round of relatively encouraging meetings when CENTCOM commander General Petraeus was in Paris (ref C),Philippe Errera, Strategic Affairs advisor to FM Kouchner, provided to Pol M/C on February 24 a surprisingly negative assessment of possible French contr [...]
2009-02-27 08:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO MOPS FR AF
09PARIS290FRANCE: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT
[...] Embassy Paris notes no significant developments since last year with respect to GOF actions to protect critical infrastructure. After mission-wide consultation, Embassy Paris did not identify any physical infrastructure or resources in France whose loss would immediately affect the security, [...]
2009-02-27 16:00:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PGOV PINS ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP FR
09PARIS291FRANCE: CONCERN OVER USG FUNDING FOR ITER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: France strongly supports the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) "clean" nuclear fusion based project that if successfully developed would produce much electricity with little radioactive waste. In addition to providing the ITER site, France has allocated [...]
2009-02-27 17:31:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY ENRG ITER FR
09PARIS294SCENESETTER FOR FRENCH MINISTER OF STATE BORLOO'S VISIT TO
[...] (SBU): Minister of State Jean-Louis Borloo arrives in Washington March 4 to engage the USG on climate change and energy policy. As the head of France's "super ministry" combining environment, transportation and energy under the rubric of sustainable development, Borloo is the third ranking off [...]
2009-02-27 17:40:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENGR TRGY KGHG PREL FR
09PARIS295 THE CRISIS AND FRANCE'S BANKING SECTOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: French banks have remained generally profitable, despite almost USD 20 billion in subprime write-downs and credit losses. The government has provided banks with capital injections and guarantees on credit financing to bolster market confidence and encourage interbank and money m [...]
2009-03-02 06:58:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ECON PREL FR
09PARIS298INDIA/MONUC: FRANCE STUDYING WAYS TO TAKE ACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-02 12:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKPKO PREL PHUM UNSC CG IN FR
09PARIS301SOMALIA: FRANCE INTENDS TO CONTRIBUTE TO SSR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-02 14:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO SO FR
09PARIS303MADAGASCAR/COMOROS/ZIMBABWE: FRANCE TAKING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF DAS-equivalent Francois Barateau on February 27 said that France was taking a low-profile with respect to Madagascar, Comoros, and Zimbabwe. On Madagascar, the French are supporting the UN and the international community's efforts to promote dialogue between President R [...]
2009-03-02 15:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PHUM MA CN ZI FR
09PARIS304FRANCE ON ENERGY SECURITY
[...] (SBU) Summary. French energy security policy centers on energy independence, security of supply through diversification, affordable but competitive energy prices via vertically-integrated utility companies, and low-carbon economic growth. French activism in pushing its civilian nuclear know- [...]
2009-03-02 16:49:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET SENV PREL FR
09PARIS315 FRANCE: LATEST ECONOMIC TRENDS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With unemployment near 8% (and rising) and the French economy expected to contract 1.5% in 2009, France is facing up to a deeper recession and slower recovery than anticipated even two months ago. Declining government revenues and an automatic spike in social outlays will drive [...]
2009-03-04 12:48:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ECON PREL FR
09PARIS320 FRANCE/G20: FIXATION ON TAX HAVENS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the context of the international financial crisis, President Sarkozy has repeatedly cited the need for international action on "tax havens," a point on which he recently said he sees "zero room to negotiate" in the G20 (ref A). Sarkozy appears to have garnered substantial Eu [...]
2009-03-04 18:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ECON PREL FR
09PARIS321 FRANCE/G20: FIXATION ON TAX HAVENS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the context of the international financial crisis, President Sarkozy has repeatedly cited the need for international action on "tax havens," a point on which he recently said he sees "zero room to negotiate" in the G20 (ref A). Sarkozy appears to have garnered substantial Eu [...]
2009-03-05 07:06:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ECON PREL FR
09PARIS324GUINEA-BISSAU: FRANCE THINKS ELECTIONS ARE THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France believes that it is imperative that presidential elections be held in Guinea-Bissau within the 60-day time-frame specified in the Guinea-Bissau constitution, MFA deskoff Ann'laure Hare said on March 4. The GOF is considering ways France can assist with elections but the [...]
2009-03-05 12:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL SNAR PU FR
09PARIS326FRANCE SHIFTS AG FUNDING FOCUS UNDER HEALTH CHECK REFORMS
[...] Summary: Following the 2008 CAP health check, France will shift some financial support from arable crops to support livestock producers; increase support to vegetable and protein crops; increase support for organic farming, and, add new risk management schemes. Farmer reactions were mixed: catt [...]
2009-03-05 17:12:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD EU FR
09PARIS332NATO REINTEGRATION BECOMES PARLIAMENTARY POLITICAL
[...] (C/NF) Summary. In a March 6 meeting, Jacques Audibert, Director of Strategic Affairs at the MFA, was optimistic that the French national debate on whether to fully participate in the integrated military command would soon be complete. PM Fillon has notified parliament that the debate on NAT [...]
2009-03-06 17:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL NATO MARR FR TU US
09PARIS334FRANCE: SUPPORT FOR AERONAUTICAL SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: GOF and industry officials tell us that a decision on the nature and timing of any launch aid for the A350-XWB (REF A) would likely follow the outcome of the WTO dispute panel on Airbus subsidies. Separately, the GOF has made 5 billion euros in credit available for Airbus trad [...]
2009-03-09 14:24:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON EIND ETRD FR
09PARIS336FRANCE Q SPECIAL 301 2009 ANNUAL REVIEW
[...] (SBU) Post has reviewed PhRMA's Special 301 submission on France and recommends against inclusion of France on the 2009 Special 301 Watch List. As we reported in 2008 (refs B and C) GOF efforts to rein in state health insurance spending on pharmaceuticals has made for a challenging environmen [...]
2009-03-09 16:48:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EUN FR
09PARIS339FOR FRANCE, TAC ACCESSION A POSITIVE SYMBOL FOR ASEAN TIES, NOT A POLICY TOOL
[...] (C) France's January 2007 accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) with ASEAN has had positive symbolic value but little policy impact, Florent Aydalot, the MFA's Special Advisor on ASEAN affairs, told us March 9. Signing on to the treaty sent a clear signal that France has a [...]
2009-03-10 09:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KTIA ASEAN FR
09PARIS342MADAGASCAR: FRANCE OFFERS REFUGE TO MAYOR,
[...] (C) MFA Madagascar deskoff Beatrice Lederle on March 10 confirmed that Antananarivo Mayor Rajoelina had obtained refuge with the GOF on March 6 and had been housed at the French Ambassador's Residence since then. Lederle said that the French hoped to transfer Rajoelina to the custody of the [...]
2009-03-10 15:38:00Embassy ParisSECRETPREL PINS PGOV MA FR
09PARIS343SUDAN/DARFUR: FRANCE REBUFFED IN LOBBYING FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A range of countries rebuffed a French attempt to lobby support for new humanitarian assistance programs in Sudan/Darfur following Khartoum's recent expulsion of NGOs, MFA Sudan deskoff Frederic Bouvier said on March 9. These included Libya, Russia, China, Ethiopia, Egypt, Ken [...]
2009-03-10 16:00:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAID KJUS SU FR
09PARIS35BIGOT IS THE NEW CHAIRMAN OF FRENCH ATOMIC ENERGY
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 7, 2009, Bernard Bigot was appointed Chairman of the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA),succeeding Alain Bugat. Since 2003 Bigot has been the High Commissioner for Atomic Energy at the CEA, where he was responsible for the quality of scientific research. As chai [...]
2009-01-12 07:25:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY ENRG SENV FR
09PARIS362EUFOR/MINURCAT: FRENCH PLEASED WITH TRANSITION TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France is pleased with the transition from EUFOR/MINURCAT to the UN's MINURCAT successor operation in Chad and C.A.R., MFA Chad/C.A.R. deskoff Vincent Alexandre reported on March 11. The transition was going smoothly mainly because force generation problems had been overcome. [...]
2009-03-12 13:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM PREF CD CT FR
09PARIS367SARKOZY SUPPORTS NATO INTEGRATION; FORMAL
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: A think tank seminar held March 11 on "France, European Defense and NATO in the 21st Century" was the setting for an all-star line-up of French Ministers and political elite to promote France,s reintegration into the military command of NATO. President Sarkozy ca [...]
2009-03-12 16:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MARR PGOV FR
09PARIS374MADAGASCAR: FRENCH UNCERTAIN HOW EVENTS WILL
[...] (C) French MFA Madagascar desk officer Beatrice Lederle on March 13 said that the GOF was having trouble evaluating events in Madagascar and developing a clear notion of where the crisis was heading. She said that the involvement of the military surprised the French. The situation on one le [...]
2009-03-13 15:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PGOV CASC FR MA
09PARIS375FRENCH PREVIEW OF GAERC: BALKANS, BELARUS, SUDAN
[...] (C) Summary: The EU's March 16-17 General Affairs Council will focus on economic stimulus measures and preparation for the March 19-20 European Council rather than external relations, according to Mathieu Carmona, Deputy Head of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Office. In a Marc [...]
2009-03-13 15:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KPAL KWBG EUN FR BK MW BO SU IS
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