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05MAPUTO1569	MOZAMBIQUE: ANIBALZINHO RETRIAL BEGINS; DEFENDANT [...] The retrial of Anibal dos Santos Junior ("Anibalzinho"),the man convicted of leading the hit squad responsible for the November 2000 assassination of investigative journalist Carlos Cardoso, began on December 1 in the Maputo City court. Anibalzinho was previously tried in absentia and, in Jan [...]	2005-12-06 12:15:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KCOR PREL PHUM MZ

05MAPUTO255	MOZAMBIQUE: PRESIDENT CHISSANO RETROSPECTIVE [...] (C) On February 2 President Joaquim Chissano stepped down as leader of the Republic of Mozambique after 18 years in power. He took over from Samora Machel in 1986, after Mozambique's first president was killed in a airplane crash. In 1994 Chissano was elected president in Mozambique's first mu [...]	2005-02-25 09:05:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MZ
05MAPUTO308	U.S. DEPUTY SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE VISITS [...] Summary: On February 15-18, a high-level USDA delegation, led by Deputy Secretary James Moseley, visited Mozambique to gain a better understanding of International Baby Food Network (IBFAN)-funded activities on breast-feeding, infant feeding and nutrition. USDA is reviewing IBFAN's 2004 Propos [...]	2005-03-07 09:19:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID KHIV ECON ETRD MZ HIV AIDS PEPFAR
05MAPUTO365	RESULTS REPORT: IIP SPEAKER ANDREW PETKUN [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-21 08:06:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP OEXC SCUL KPAO WZ HIV AIDS PEPFAR
05MAPUTO692	MOZAMBIQUE: GUEBUZA'S 100-DAY VICTORY LAP [...] (SBU) President Guebuza has spent the first 100 days in office traveling the length of the country, bolstering support for himself and the ruling party, Frelimo. In public addresses he has held firm to the themes of his campaign promise to alleviate poverty, combat corruption and eliminate bur [...]	2005-06-03 10:02:00	Embassy Maputo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM MZ KCOR HIV AIDS PEPFAR
05MAPUTO702	MOZAMBIQUE: SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT GUEBUZA'S [...] (SBU) Newly elected Mozambican President Armando Emilio Guebuza is one of five African heads of state to visit Washington on June 13 to participate in a joint meeting with President Bush. We understand the Department is considering a separate meeting for President Guebuza with Secretary Rice. [...]	2005-06-06 15:41:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL ETRD ECON MZ
05MASERU176	MFA STRESSES POSITIVE U.S.-LESOTHO RELATIONS TO AF/S [...] (U) SUMMARY: During his familiarization visit to Lesotho, AF/S Director Dan Mozena met April 4 with Minister of Foreign Affairs Monyane Moleleki. Ambassador Perry and DCM (notetaker) accompanied. Topics covered included the upcoming local elections, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, HIV/AIDS, Article 98 [...]	2005-04-08 12:00:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ETRD KDEM KHIV WZ ZI LT KICC HIV MCC
05MASERU245	INPUT FOR HIRC CHINESE TESTIMONY [...] (C) China continues to demonstrate significant interest in Lesotho as noted in Para. 2. In addition to those activities, post has observed that senior members of government have participated in travel to China over the past 12 months. These officials included the Prime Minister, the Deputy [...]	2005-05-12 14:14:00	Embassy Maseru	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LT CH
05MASERU371	FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON VISITS LESOTHO TO PROMOTE PEDIATRIC [...] (U) Former U.S. President William J. Clinton visited Lesotho on Monday, 18 July 2005, his second stop on a week-long six-nation Africa tour to promote the work of the Clinton Foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative. The former President's messages resonated with USG policy, PEPFAR concepts, and post [...]	2005-07-21 12:17:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KHIV EAID PGOV LT HIV
05MASERU418	GLOBAL AIDS COORDINATOR VISITS LESOTHO; WANTS INCREASED USG [...] SUMMARY. Chief of the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, Ambassador Randall Tobias, visited Maseru on July 22 to observe HIV/AIDS programs supported by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Centers for [...]	2005-08-15 10:39:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI TBIO PREL LT HIV
05MILAN548	MILAN MAGISTRATE TO PUSHES FOR TRIAL FOR TERRORISM [...] (SBU) On December 1 Milan Magistrate Elio Ramondini submitted his request to bring Majid Zergout, former Imam of the Omar El Farouk mosque in Varese, and his close advisors Majid Zergout Mohamed Raouiane and Abellialah El Kaflaoui to trial on terrorism charges. Ramondini reported to Econoff t [...]	2005-12-06 14:02:00	Consulate Milan	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ASEC IT ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05MINSK1107	Tourism Part II: An Examination of Agrotourism [...] Summary: (U) The GOB has a two-part program for tourism: to increase tourism within Belarus by Belarusians and to increase the number of foreign tourists to Belarus. On September 3 and 4, Emboffs set off to test the tourism waters, starting with an overnight at an agrotourism farm. They also [...]	2005-09-15 07:06:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL BO
05MINSK1155	Chernobyl Report Met with Criticism by Some [...] (C) Summary: The Chernobyl Forum, comprised of several UN organizations, recently released its report on the consequences of the Chernobyl accident 20 years later. The report predicts much lower deaths and health effects than previously predicted and calls earlier assessments "exaggerated an [...]	2005-09-22 10:23:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV MNUC SENV TBIO TRGY BO
05MINSK1194	Single Opposition Candidate Convention Almost A [...] (C) Summary: The 10+ coalition leaders are frantically making the final preparations for the single candidate convention, which will take place in Minsk October 1-2. The approximately 900 delegates will select one of the four candidates to be the single candidate on the second day of the con [...]	2005-09-30 10:02:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
05MINSK1227	"BELARUS' ELECTION MORE DEMOCRATIC THAN THOSE IN [...] (C) Summary: In an October 5 meeting, Head of the Central Election Committee (CEC) Ludmilla Yermoshina and her deputy explained to Pol Chief the processes of choosing an election date and registering presidential candidates. The election will be no later than July 20 and campaigning will begin [...]	2005-10-07 10:43:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
05MINSK1235	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - October 6, 2005 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk over the past week. ------------ Human Rights ------------ 2. Fines, Fines and More Fines On September 30, a Belarusian court ordered the nation wide independent weekly newspaper BDG Delovaya Gazeta to pay BYR 50 m [...]	2005-10-11 08:04:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
05MINSK1236	Who is Alexander Milinkevich? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Congress of Democratic Forces of Belarus nominated physics professor, former deputy mayor of Grodno and NGO activist Alexander Milinkevich to run in the 2006 presidential elections against current president Aleksandr Lukashenko. A cultured, quiet man with Western exposure, [...]	2005-10-11 11:42:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
05MINSK1323	Minsk Expects Big Profit from Kyoto Protocol [...] (U) Summary: On September 23, Econoff met with Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Aleksandr Apatskiy to discuss Belarus' plans after acceding to the Kyoto Protocol, and its plans in general to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. President Lukashenko signed the Kyoto Protocol into law in August, [...]	2005-10-31 06:39:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ETRD ECON PGOV BO
05MINSK1343	Election Observers Arrested, Convicted [...] (SBU) Summary: Minsk police on October 29 raided a conference held by Belarus' largest election observation group Partnership and detained 60 participants. Most were released after documentation checks but four senior members were charged and convicted of organizing an illegal gathering. Th [...]	2005-11-01 13:21:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BO
05MINSK1405	Lukashenko Forming an Obedient Electorate Ahead of the [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the beginning of September, Lukashenko has stepped up populist efforts to buy the people's support for his election. At the same time, he has intensified his campaign to liquidate opposition forces within the media, youth, and workforce in order to prevent what he portray [...]	2005-11-22 06:32:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL BO
05MINSK1406	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - November 18, 2005 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk over the past week. ------------ Human Rights ------------ 2. State Distribution Lists Cuts Eleven Independent Newspapers On November 15, Belarusian state postal service provider RUP Belpochta removed six more inde [...]	2005-11-22 07:00:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
05MINSK1432	Avian and Pandemic Influenza Information from [...] This is a response to ref A action request. All information is from Emboff meetings (ref B) with Belarusian Ministry of Health (MoH) officials, public briefings, and press statements. A Plan for Avian Influenza -------------------------- 2. The GOB has a preparedness plan/strategy for [...]	2005-11-25 12:33:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL BO
05MINSK1433	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - November 25, 2005 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk over the past week. ------------ Human Rights ------------ 2. New Life Church's Building is NOT a Cow Barn On November 17, the New Life Church filed its third application for registration at the address of the forme [...]	2005-11-25 13:45:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
05MINSK1464	LUKASHENKO STANDS ON HIS SOAPBOX FOR RUSSIAN [...] Summary: President Lukashenko spoke at a November 23 press conference with approximately 100 visiting Russian reporters from provincial media outlets. With his characteristically bizarre statements, Lukashenko criticized the Russians for stalling the creation of the union state, not helping B [...]	2005-12-05 15:42:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
05MINSK810	Polling Shows Street Name Fury [...] Summary: According to the NOVAK opinion polling for June, 42.3 percent of Belarusians would vote for President Aleksandr Lukashenko, down 0.1 percent since April. The opposition candidate posing the greatest threat to Lukashenko, UCP leader Anatoli Lebedko, would receive 1.0 percent of the v [...]	2005-07-22 10:31:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL BO
05MINSK838	QELECTION FRAUD, OPPRESSION, AND JOB LOSS IN MOLODECHNO [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-26 13:35:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV BO
05MINSK941	BANDAZHEVSKY RELEASED [...] Summary: Chernobyl researcher and doctor of radiology Yuri Bandazhevsky was released on August 5 after serving six years of chimia (supervised labor in a rural area),but he will remain on probation for another five months. Many viewed Bandazhevsky's trial and eight- year sentence for briber [...]	2005-08-12 06:42:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
05MONTREAL167	CAPE TOWN TREATY IMPLEMENTATION [...] SUMMARY: The Third Preparatory Commission meeting at ICAO in Montreal to facilitate establishment of new international aircraft finance registry made important progress. The Prep Com approved a contract with the registrar nominated by Ireland and selected by the Second Prep Com meeting, as [...]	2005-02-14 12:44:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ETRD AORC CA ICAO
05MOSCOW15735	KREMLIN AGGRESSIVELY SEEKS TO DISRUPT KASYANOV'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, the only declared candidate for the 2008 presidential election, has faced a tough and thus far frustrating slog in his bid to unite the democratic opposition behind him. During several recent visits to the country's regions, Kasyanov has b [...]	2005-12-30 09:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
05MUMBAI2093	NGO: OVER 16,000 CHILD LABORERS RESCUED IN MAHARASHTRA [...] (U) A dramatic upsurge in Government of Maharashtra (GOM) attention to child labor issues and a series of coordinated raids in Mumbai resulted in the rescue of over 16,000 children working in hazardous industries in recent months. Police, in coordination with the newly created child labor task [...]	2005-10-22 09:46:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM KWMN EAID IN
05MUMBAI2199	SHIV SENA FACES STIFF CHALLENGE IN NOVEMBER 19 BY-ELECTION [...] (SBU) Maharashtra state parliament by-elections scheduled for November 19 may represent a defining moment for Bal Thackeray's Marathi-based Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena movement. In the Malvan district of southwestern Maharashtra, erstwhile Shiv Sena leader Narayan Rane is standing for re-elect [...]	2005-11-16 12:54:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IN
05MUMBAI2251	SHIV SENA ROCKED BY RAJ THACKERAY'S RESIGNATION AS PARTY [...] (SBU) Raj Thackeray, nephew of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, rocked the Mumbai political establishment on November 27 by announcing his resignation from all Shiv Sena party leadership posts over differences with his cousin and party executive president Uddhav Thackeray. Raj's announcement [...]	2005-11-28 08:59:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IN
05MUMBAI370	CONGRESS REAINS POWER IN GOA AFTER CONSTITUTIONALLY [...] (SBU) A Congressled coalition assumed power in the small Indian sate of Goa on February 2 after some constitutionally questionable maneuvering by politicians from both Congress and the BJP. Goa Governor S.C. Jamir asked Goa's Congress leader Pratapsinh Rane to form a new state government after [...]	2005-02-03 16:20:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IN
05MUSCAT11	MUSCAT MEDIA REACTION: SADDAM TRIAL, ISRAEL, AND THE [...] The government-owned Arabic daily "Oman" published an editorial on December 30 under the title "You Too": "The United States is not insisting on the death penalty as punishment for the crimes against humanity perpetrated by Saddam Hussein. Yet Iraqi judges intend on prosecuting him to the f [...]	2005-01-03 13:43:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR OIIP MU
05MUSCAT112	OMAN: COMMENTS ON U.S. MARKET ACCESS PRIORITIES [...] Per reftel instructions, this cable outlines the Embassy's assessment of market access priorities for U.S. service suppliers in Oman. 2. U.S. Market Access Priority by Sector (ranked from 1 to 5, with 1 as the highest priority and 5 as the lowest) and by informal ranking of relative market [...]	2005-01-18 12:02:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV BEXP MU
05MUSCAT1475	COMBATING EXTREMISM IN OMAN [...] (S) The Embassy's outreach and public diplomacy efforts, filtering down into every social strata and region of the Sultanate, have promoted a consistently positive image of U.S. society and culture that have complemented the Omani government's own effective actions to counter or prevent extrem [...]	2005-10-04 04:46:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	KDEM KPAO KMPI PREL EAID PHUM PGOV ASEC MU
05MUSCAT206	MUSCAT SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: RESPONSE TO PRESIDENTIAL [...] Arabic and English language print media in Oman gave extensive coverage to President Bush's State Of The Union Address, particularly the sections of the speech relating to Iraq and the Middle East Peace Process. Most coverage focused on his warnings to Iran and Syria. Many articles were critic [...]	2005-02-07 05:43:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR OIIP PREL MU
05MUSCAT231	FOREIGN MINISTRY CHIMES IN ON RECENT ARRESTS [...] (SBU/NF) As a string of security detentions continues to roil the political waters in Oman, the Foreign Ministry sent a note on February 5 to select foreign embassies offering clarification of the government's action. The MFA letter was adamant in denying any violent or terroristic intentions [...]	2005-02-09 13:30:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV PINS SCUL ASEC KVPR MU
05MUSCAT271	OPPORTUNITY FOR ISRAEL AND PALESTINE, THE SECRETARY'S [...] The government-owned Arabic daily "Oman" published an editorial on February 12 entitled, "The Necessity of Ending Confrontation": "Israel and Palestine have agreed -- yet again -- to end violent confrontations between their respective citizens. Similar commitments to peace have been swept a [...]	2005-02-16 07:06:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR OIIP MU
05MUSCAT279	PSI: TECHNICAL-LEVEL COOPERATION ON TRACK [...] (S) A senior MFA official reiterated Oman's cooperation across the range of proliferation and border security activities, including a PSI-related air interdiction exercise later this month. He voiced the MFA's firm support for PSI, and his confidence that Oman's military and police were simil [...]	2005-02-16 12:30:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PARM PREL KNNP EWWT MASS MU
05MUSCAT361	EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 03/02/2005 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee March 2 to review the Embassy's security posture prior to the local weekend. Members noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting. Accordingly, the EAC agreed that the Emb [...]	2005-03-02 09:34:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC
05MUSCAT367	OMAN: FTA INFORMATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS [...] (SBU) Embassy Muscat is pleased to provide additional information regarding environmental matters in Oman to assist USG negotiators for the upcoming free trade agreement talks. The following responses are keyed to questions (a - t) in paragraph 5 of reftel. a. The Law on Conservation of The [...]	2005-03-02 10:54:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON SENV MU ESTH
05MUSCAT495	SPECIAL OMAN ONLINE: A/USTR NOVELLI DEMYSTIFIES FTA [...] Summary: The Omani Internet chat rooms "al-Sablah" and "al- Majarra" are the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic-language fora for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While not totally free, nor wh [...]	2005-03-26 07:14:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO SOCI MU
05MUSCAT56	MUSCAT MEDIA REACTION: TSUNAMI, PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS [...] The government-owned Arabic daily "Oman" published an editorial on January 6 entitled "Media Compassion And The Tsunami Crisis": "We should note the outstanding coverage that the Western media gave to the tsunami crisis. It was more than just a headline. They offered 24-hour coverage of the [...]	2005-01-10 11:04:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR OIIP MU
05MUSCAT599	GEN ABIZAID'S MEETINGS WITH OMANI FOREIGN, DEFENSE [...] (C) Senior Omani foreign affairs and defense officials shared views with CENTCOM CDR Gen Abizaid on the brewing tensions between the U.S. and Iran, with the Omanis consistently advocating direct dialogue as a means to ease pressures and forestall an Iranian nuclear program. The Omanis shared [...]	2005-04-12 02:52:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR PTER SMIG MNUC XF XD MU
05MUSCAT6	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY'S TRANSIT OF OMAN [...] (C) Team Muscat was delighted to learn of your transit of Oman en route to the tsunami-stricken Asia region. In the event your brief refueling stop in Muscat offers the opportunity for an airport meeting with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi, we offer the following ba [...]	2005-01-02 10:35:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP PREL MU
05MUSCAT679	U.S.-CHINA SECURITY DIALOGUE: MEETING WITH DEPUTY CHIEF OF THE GENERAL STAFF LTGEN MA XIAOTIAN, JUNE 5, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-25 10:35:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL IR MU
05MUSCAT684	UNPRECEDENTED TRANSPARENCY IN NATIONAL SECURITY [...] (C) Recent arrests of 30-40 Omanis charged with seeking to overthrow the Sultan and impose Ibadhi religious rule under an Imam have been the focus of public and press attention in Oman since January. But the trial itself, underway since April 18, has surprised the public by its unprecedented [...]	2005-04-26 02:45:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS KJUS PHUM PGOV MU
05NAIROBI2738	SOMALIA -- NEED TO RALLY BEHIND THE SRSG [...] This is an action request -- see para 19. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Divisions among members of the Somali Transitional Federal Institutions are now being mirrored by schisms in the international community. Moves to finance projects in district-level reconciliation, pushed by specific EU member sta [...]	2005-07-06 04:05:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SO KE
05NAIROBI3180	ENGAGING KENYA ON ITS MCA THRESHOLD PROPOSAL [...] (U) This is joint Embassy-USAID Message. 2. (C) Embassy Nairobi welcomes the proposed August 15-19 visit by MCC personnel to evaluate Kenya's application for MCC Threshold funding and encourages an early country clearance request. We see the purpose of this visit as assessing Kenya's eff [...]	2005-08-05 07:32:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	KMCA EAID PGOV ECON EFIN PREL KCOR KE MCA
05NAIROBI3188	Kenya's Energy Future [...] Summary: Kenya is facing a significant power shortage and is being forced to turn to more expensive sources of energy. Future production will come from increased electricity generation from geothermal sources and likely new coal-fired plants. A World Bank-promoted East African regional ele [...]	2005-08-05 11:59:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EINV BTIO SENV KE ENGR
05NAIROBI3944	SUDANESE REFUGEES IN KAKUMA: MORE ARRIVING, FEW [...] SUMMARY. Sudanese refugees are not excited by the prospect of returning to Sudan; in fact, as many as 6,000 new Sudanese refugees have arrived in Kakuma refugee camp since January. Theft of roofing material on vacant former Somali Bantu dwellings led to their destruction by the weather. END SU [...]	2005-09-22 10:32:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF SU KE
05NAIROBI3988	KENYA REFERENDUM: VIOLENCE, TRIBALISM, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent announcement that the Kenyan government plans to throw all of its resources, financial and human, towards a "Yes" vote threatens the very nature of a free and fair referendum. Recent violence and esculating tribalism surrounding the referendum campaigns further threat [...]	2005-09-26 05:27:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS KDEM KE
05NAIROBI4683	KENYA'S GAMBLE ON A NEW CONSTITUTION UNLIKELY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kenya's November 21 referendum on a proposed new constitution risks further polarizing the nation along tribal lines, regardless of the outcome. With the "Orange" opposition increasingly confident of victory, the stage is being set for continued political standoff if they win - [...]	2005-11-10 08:07:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC PREL KDEM ECON KE
05NAIROBI4829	KENYA INFORMATION ON AVIAN AND PANDEMIC [...] (U) Mission Nairobi responses to reftel follow: A) Preparedness/Communication ----------------------------- 2. (SBU) The Kenyan government has established an inter- ministerial taskforce to create an action plan to address the threat of avian flu. The taskforce is nominally headed by Mr [...]	2005-11-18 07:22:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL PGOV KE
05NAIROBI5070	KENYA'S NEW CABINET: NO NATIONAL UNITY, NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Late December 7, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki finally announced his new cabinet. Instead of cleaning house as most Kenyans hoped, President Kibaki has returned to cabinet a full measure of corrupt and obstructionist ministers, including those who advised him so badly on the con [...]	2005-12-08 10:45:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KE
05NAIROBI5073	KENYA'S NEW CABINET: NO NATIONAL UNITY, NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Late December 7, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki finally announced his new cabinet. Instead of cleaning house as most Kenyans hoped, President Kibaki has returned to cabinet a full measure of corrupt and obstructionist ministers, including those who advised him so badly on the con [...]	2005-12-08 11:16:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KE
05NAIROBI5103	CORRUPTION IN KENYA - JOHN GITHONGO PREPARES TO TELL [...] (C) Summary: Former Kenyan "anti-corruption czar" John Githongo has organized all of the evidence of wrongdoing in his possession and put it into a single seamless narrative detailing the grand scale corruption committed by several of the highest-ranking and most influential ministers and ad [...]	2005-12-13 09:36:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KCOR KPAO PINR KE
05NAIROBI5132	KENYA: FY 2005 AMBASSADOR'S SELF-HELP FUND [...] Summary: The 16 FY-05 projects (with a total budget of $92,000) supported most recently through Kenya's Ambassador's Self-Help Fund have begun their funded activities. A summary of Kenya's Self-Help program and progress to date are contained herein. End summary. OVERVIEW -------- 2. [...]	2005-12-14 11:52:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL KE
05NAIROBI5177	GOVERNMENT OF KENYA'S PREPARATIONS FOR AVIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kenya has started a comprehensive response to the threat of avian influenza. A multi- sectoral National Task Force has been established with high-level representation from the ministries responsible for human and animal health. Many of Kenya's international partners are repre [...]	2005-12-20 01:40:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMED SEC EAID PREL CASC CMGT KHIV TBIO ECON
05NASSAU1827	CARIBBEAN CONFERENCE ON HIV/AIDS CONFRONTS STIGMA [...] Summary: On October 3 and 4, Post hosted international HIV/AIDS experts and 10 Caribbean mission representatives for the 4th Caribbean Chiefs of Mission Conference on HIV/AIDS. Ambassador Rood opened the conference with an appeal to reduce the 2.3 percent Caribbean infection rate by compassi [...]	2005-10-21 16:06:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID TBIO OVIP KHIV XL BF
05NASSAU393	FOREIGN MINISTER POISED TO RAISE PROFILE IN CARICOM [...] (C) His intelligence, work ethic, and undisguised ambition have made Bahamian Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell one of the three or four most powerful members of the Perry Christie Government and a person of growing influence in the Caribbean. Currently the vice-chairman in the Commonwealth Min [...]	2005-02-25 16:57:00	Embassy Nassau	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL OFDP PGOV XL BF CARICOM
05NDJAMENA1356	CHAD-CAMEROON PIPELINE PROJECT: OVERVIEW OF HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: With oil flowing, the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project and the conventions that govern it are now being tested. Human rights groups in Chad and their international partners continue to monitor and raise compensation, environmental, social, and security issues. While recognizin [...]	2005-09-03 07:33:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PHUM CD
05NDJAMENA1357	CHAD'S OIL REVENUE MANAGEMENT PROCESS: SHOWING [...] (C) Summary: The recently released report of Chad's Oil Revenue Management College's verification of projects highlights some of the issues now arising over the use of petroleum funds. The College found numerous deficiencies such as non-delivery or significant delays in delivery of items, p [...]	2005-09-03 07:33:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD
05NDJAMENA1561	CHAD: PREPAREDNESS FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] Summary: Chad does not have an effective animal health surveillance system and will be relying on donor support and international organizations to identify and respond to any potential outbreak of avian influenza. Lake Chad and its tributaries attract large numbers of migrating birds (in par [...]	2005-10-21 15:05:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV CD
05NDJAMENA1753	CHAD: MOVING SLOWLY ON AI PREPAREDNESS [...] Summary: Chad is slowly gearing up to official recognition of the threat of avian influenza. The government has prohibited the entry of live poultry into areas at risk and strengthened the government's existing veterinary surveillance system. Wild birds are expected in the Lake Chad area f [...]	2005-12-09 12:53:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO ECON EAGR CD
05NDJAMENA814	REFUGEES IN EASTERN CHAD: MALNUTRITION RATES AND [...] Summary: PRM Office Director for Assistance to Africa Margaret McKelvey and Program Officer Hazel Reitz visited Chad from May 4 to 18 to monitor the operations on behalf of the Sudanese refugees in the east of Chad. This cable, one of three reporting on the visit, focuses on efforts to unders [...]	2005-05-20 10:46:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU
05NEWDELHI1076	GOI SAYS RECOVERED URANIUM IS DEPLETED, NOT HIGHLY [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 5, the "Times of India" ran a hysterical story that metal plates recovered from two "small-time drug peddlers" on December 8, 2004 were analyzed and found to be weapons-grade highly enriched uranium. Subsequent reporting, including a press release from India's Atomi [...]	2005-02-10 13:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PGOV PREL TRGY IN
05NEWDELHI1224	INDIA RIDING HIGH ON POST-TSUNAMI WAVE OF GOOD [...] (C) Summary: As a concrete demonstration of India's magnanimity and competence, New Delhi's recent large-scale assistance to its tsunami-stricken neighbors had illustrated the country's standing as a regional and emerging world power, according to observers here. India is particularly proud [...]	2005-02-16 10:58:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ETRD CE IN
05NEWDELHI1230	IMPROVING US-INDIA DEFENSE COOPERATION: INDUSTRY [...] Summary: In a February 10 meeting sponsored by the US- India Business Council (USIBC) and the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII),senior Indian and US defense company representatives suggested that to expand the bilateral defense market, the USG should reform its export licensing proces [...]	2005-02-16 11:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETTC MASS TSPA CVIS TSPL FR TH IN US NSSP
05NEWDELHI1264	NRC COMMISSIONER MERRIFIELD MEETS MEA ADDITIONAL [...] (C) Summary: On February 11 NRC Commissioner Merrifield met MEA Additional Secretary Meera Shankar who has the non-proliferation portfolio within her purview. Commissioner Merrifield expressed satisfaction with his visit to Indian facilities and suggested that further cooperation could bring [...]	2005-02-17 12:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS ENRG ETTC IN KNNP KSCA PREL TRGY TSPL NSSP
05NEWDELHI1282	CROSS-LOC BUS DEAL HAILED AS ""MOTHER OF ALL CBMS"" [...] (C) Summary: After several weeks in which the process of Indo-Pak normalization appeared to be grinding to a halt (Ref B),this week's Islamabad deal has shifted the dynamic, at least temporarily, in a much more constructive direction. PM Manmohan Singh's fingerprints were clearly in evidence [...]	2005-02-18 09:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI1426	FOREIGN SECRETARY EMPHASIZES NEIGHBORS' IMPACT ON INDIA [...] (C) Summary: In a carefully considered February 14 speech on New Delhi's South Asia policy, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran unveiled a more muscular approach toward India's neighborhood that reflects the GOI's shifting view of its role in the world. Departing from the standard GOI line on the [...]	2005-02-24 13:43:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECIN KDEM NP BG PK CE IN SAARC
05NEWDELHI1480	BAGLIHAR, OTHER J&K HYDEL PROJECTS COMPLICATE INDO-PAK CALCULUS [...] (C) Summary: The Indian government recently offered new evidence of its benign intentions for the Baglihar hydel project by noting that, if its dam were used to inundate Pakistan, one of its own existing downriver projects would be the first casualty. Although the MEA continues to exude conf [...]	2005-02-25 13:38:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC ECON IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI1546	MEA CAUTIOUSLY UPBEAT ON INDO-PAK [...] (C) Summary: In a February 28 conversation with PolCouns and Poloff, outgoing MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Arun K Singh was generally upbeat about short-term Indo-Pak rapprochement, and expressed cautious optimism about long-term sustainability of this trend. After shari [...]	2005-03-01 11:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PINR MOPS KNNP IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI1554	US-INDIA PEACEKEEPING JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] (C) Summary: At the fourth US-India Joint Working Group on Peacekeeping on February 14, IO PDAS Swigert underscored US concerns about sexual exploitation committed within UN peacekeeping ranks and asked India, a main troop contributor, to play a leading role to ensure that the problem is deal [...]	2005-03-01 12:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM KPKO XA IN
05NEWDELHI1764	SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL PRAKASH,S MARCH 19-28 VISIT TO USA [...] (C) Summary: Admiral Clark, we greatly appreciate your willingness to host the upcoming visit to the USA of your counterpart, Admiral Arun Prakash, India's Chief of Naval Staff and Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee. President Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agree that Indo-US relati [...]	2005-03-08 05:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHSA MASS MOPS PTER PK XD IZ IN
05NEWDELHI1866	INDO-PAK CRICKET: FROM ""LOVE-FEST"" TO MINI-SUMMIT [...] (C) Adding to the veritable ""love-fest"" that Mission contacts and Indian press have reported surrounding the Pakistan cricket team's current tour of India (septel),the MEA has publicly cleared the way for an official invitation to Pakistan President Musharraf to attend a match ""of his cho [...]	2005-03-10 12:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SCUL IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI2116	DEPUTY SECRETARY OF LABOR LAW'S INDIA VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Secretary of Labor Steven J. Law's February 21-27 visit to India to review progress on the DOL- sponsored INDUS Child Labor effort and other DOL-sponsored projects was well received by GOI officials, project managers, and participants. The highest-ranking Labor Departme [...]	2005-03-21 08:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM KWMN EAID IN US
05NEWDELHI2141	STRONG INDIAN VIEWS ON EAST ASIA SUMMIT [...] (C) In the strongest language we have heard so far from the GOI on the East Asia Summit (EAS),MEA Joint Secretary (Southeast Asia) Mitra Vashishta asserted that if India is left out, New Delhi will resort to "other means." Meeting with PolCouns and Poloff on March 17, she insisted on a stat [...]	2005-03-21 13:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BM CB LA VM IN ARF
05NEWDELHI2301	INDIA WARMING TO SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE, AND F-16S [...] (C) Summary: After initial knee-jerk negative reactions in the media, Indian responses to the March 25 announcement of the administration's new strategy for South Asia have become more positive, with the MEA going to unprecedented lengths to shape coverage and senior Indian officials largely [...]	2005-03-28 13:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI2348	PM: PREMATURE TO COMMENT ON F-16S [...] (C) Summary: Since Reftel, comments from senior GOI officials and governing coalition politicians on the Administration's March 25 South Asia Initiative continue to trickle out. The focus of remarks on March 28 was almost exclusively on F-16s to Pakistan, rather than the larger issues the pr [...]	2005-03-29 13:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI2550	SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL FALLON,S APRIL 13-16 VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Admiral Fallon, we welcome your upcoming visit to India, coming at a time of excellent relations in a fast maturing defense cooperation relationship. You also come soon after Secretary of State Rice's first visit last month, which has been characterized as the most successful visit o [...]	2005-04-05 14:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL MASS MOPS PTER IN US
05NEWDELHI2606	ICRC FRUSTRATED WITH INDIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (S) Summary: In a April 1 confidential briefing on GOI detention centers in Kashmir, ICRC XXXXXXXXXXXX described to D/Polcouns torture methods and relatively stable trend lines of prisoner abuses by Indian security forces, based on data derived from 1491 interviews with detainees during 2002-2004. [...]	2005-04-06 13:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PHUM PREL PTER IN PK
05NEWDELHI2884	INDO-PAK MINI-SUMMIT BURIES ""GHOST OF AGRA"" [...] (C) Summary: India and Pakistan exorcised the ghost of the (failed) 2001 Agra Summit during President Musharraf's April 16-18 visit to New Delhi, with a solid list of CBMs, muted discussion on Kashmir, and very positive personal interactions (with more high-level visits possible this year). [...]	2005-04-18 12:37:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI301	AFTER DIXIT, INDIA PONDERS ROLE OF ITS NSA AND WHO [...] (C) Summary: Two questions now swirl around India's National Security Advisor position: will it lose its major role in the Indian foreign policy establishment, and who will land the job permanently? JN Dixit's death has prompted media speculation that PM Manmohan Singh is reassessing what he want [...]	2005-01-12 12:05:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PINS PREL PGOV IN PK
05NEWDELHI3132	INDIA LOOKING TO "SUBSTANTIATE" RELATIONS DURING [...] (C) Summary: For Japanese PM Junichiro Koizumi's April 28-30 visit to New Delhi, the GOI will be focused on giving the relationship greater strategic and multilateral breadth, and solidifying Japan's support for India's UNSC campaign, according to our senior MEA interlocutors. Following Chine [...]	2005-04-26 13:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ENRG KNNP IN UNSC
05NEWDELHI3242	EXBS: EXPORT CONTROL SYSTEM STANDARDS FOR INDIA [...] (SBU) Export Control System Standards for India, in response to Ref A. The GOI is in the process of introducing new legislation aimed at licensing and controlling the export of WMD and their delivery systems. MEA contacts have stated that they expect to introduce and seek approval of the legi [...]	2005-04-29 10:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KSTC PARM PREL IN GOI
05NEWDELHI3270	NEW INDIAN EXPORT CONTROL LAW IN THE MAKING [...] (SBU) Summary: A front page article in the April 26 "Indian Express" reported details of an ambitious draft export control bill giving the GOI far-reaching authority to investigate and enforce stricter controls on WMD-related items and technologies. Entitled "The Weapons of Mass Destruction [...]	2005-04-29 13:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KNNP KOMC KSTC PGOV IN GOI
05NEWDELHI3308	INDIA UPBEAT WITH SHEINWALD ON CHINA AND PAKISTAN; [...] (C) Summary: Aside from nuclear issues (septel) UK NSA Sir Nigel Sheinwald's April 25-26 visit to New Delhi stuck to familiar ground, with the PM, NSA Narayanan, and Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran providing an encouraging backdrop for SIPDIS the September 7-8 India-EU and India-UK Summits. [...]	2005-05-02 13:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PK IZ NP BG CH IN AF UK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI35	INDIA UPBEAT ON PAKISTAN COMPOSITE DIALOGUE [...] (C) Indian readouts track closely with Islamabad's detailed and generally positive assessment of the December 27-28 meeting of Foreign Secretaries that concluded the second round of the Indo-Pak Composite Dialogue (reftel). In a January 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Secretary Saran r [...]	2005-01-03 13:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP ENRG IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI3607	INDIA COMPLETES MEDIUM-RANGE, SURFACE-TO-SURFACE [...] MEA Deputy Secretary (Disarmament and International Security Affairs) Naveen Srivastava confirmed to PolMilOff press reports that India completed its test of the Prithvi medium-range, surface-to-surface missile on May 12. Srivastava notified PolCouns of the test on May 11 (Reftel). 2. Cit [...]	2005-05-12 13:47:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MCAP MOPS IN
05NEWDELHI3933	THE UPA SCORES BETTER THAN AVERAGE AFTER ONE YEAR [...] (C) Summary: The UPA government completed one year in office on May 22. Although the Left parties and the BJP predictably criticized its performance, commentary has been generally positive, reflecting widespread respect for Manmohan Singh's performance. Despite some initial weaknesses (such [...]	2005-05-27 05:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PARM PGOV PHUM PINR PREL IN
05NEWDELHI4091	USG ASSESSMENT OF TIBETAN REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the Dalai Lama's request that the US consider a resettlement program for some 10,000 Tibetan refugees, a USG delegation traveled to India and Nepal from May 2-10, meeting with Tibetan, Indian, Nepalese, and Embassy officials to assess the political and logistical [...]	2005-06-01 14:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL CH BT NP IN
05NEWDELHI4434	INDIA SUPPORTS SRI LANKA'S JOINT MECHANISM AND AIR [...] (C) Summary: During Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga's visit to New Delhi on June 2-3, PM Singh gave GOI conditional support for the Post-Tsunami Operational Management Structure (P-TOMS),discussed concerns about the LTTE's air capability, and offered to upgrade Sri Lankan Air Forc [...]	2005-06-13 11:05:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MASS ECON CE IN
05NEWDELHI4690	FOREIGN SECRETARY: GET NSSP OUT OF THE WAY, THE [...] (C) Summary: In a June 16 meeting with A/S Rademaker and the Ambassador, Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran said he wanted to "get NSSP out of the way" before PM Manmohan Singh's July 18 visit in order "to move on to the bigger things we can do together," but stressed that "our way of doing things [...]	2005-06-21 09:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC KNNP KSTC IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI4718	INDIAN NON-PAPER ON PAKISTANI EFFORTS TO PURCHASE [...] (C) During the June 16 US-India Strategic Stability and Nonproliferation Dialogue, MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar gave A/S for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker the following non-paper regarding possible sale of a fixed gamma ray spectrometer by the US firm Canbe [...]	2005-06-21 11:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM PK CH IN US INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI4721	SCENESETTER FOR INDIAN DEFENSE MINISTER MUKHERJEE,S 25 JUNE - 2 JULY VISIT TO THE USA [...] (C) Summary: Secretary Rumsfeld, we appreciate your willingness to host the upcoming visit of Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee, and see many opportunities to accelerate our burgeoning defense cooperation with a nation we believe to be the key to a prosperous and peaceful future for South A [...]	2005-06-21 12:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL ETTC ETRD KNNP MASS PTER IN NP PK IZ IR
05NEWDELHI4961	US-INDIA NON-PROLIFERATION DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Arms Control A/S Stephen Rademaker and representatives from AC, NP, SA, OSD, and Embassy met GOI counterparts, led by MEA Additional Secretary (International Security) Meera Shankar on June 16 to continue the ongoing bilateral dialogue on strategic stability and nonproliferation [...]	2005-06-29 13:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM ETTC KSTC IR PK CH IN NSSP

05NEWDELHI4996	INDIA TESTS TRILATERAL TALKS WITH CHINA AND RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Natwar Singh's June 2 meeting with the Foreign Ministers of China and Russia in Vladivostok reflects India's desire for greater cooperation on areas of mutual interest such as energy, terrorism, and business, but Delhi-based analysts contend that any results for [...]	2005-06-30 12:24:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RS CH IN
05NEWDELHI5047	U/S BURNS DISCUSSES PM'S VISIT WITH FS SARAN [...] (C) Summary: In a three and a half-hour session with Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran on June 24, U/S Burns reviewed deliverables for PM Manmohan Singh's July 18 visit to Washington, discussing in detail those of greatest interest to New Delhi (Civil Nuclear cooperation and UNSC reform) and revi [...]	2005-07-01 12:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP ETTC EAGR IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI5208	SONIA GANDHI CAPS INDIA'S MONTH IN RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: Sonia Gandhi's trip to Russia from June 13-16 (Ref A) on her first bilateral visit abroad since taking over as the United Progressive Alliance Chairperson has stirred debate about the symbolism of her trip and provoked a front-page controversy over questions of ethics and protoco [...]	2005-07-07 10:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EPET PGOV RS IN
05NEWDELHI5226	PM: SPIKE IN TERRORISM COULD THREATEN INDO-PAK [...] (C) Summary: In addition to the July 6 attack in Ayodhya, senior J&K politicians and civilian officials are increasingly under terrorist attack, and a long string of bombings in Kashmir is growing more lethal. The recent incidents in J&K, coupled with the Ayodhya attack (Ref A),led to PM Si [...]	2005-07-07 12:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV IN PK INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI5402	FOREIGN LABOR TRENDS REPORT: INDIA, 2004 [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-14 06:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PHUM ECON ETRD PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI5616	PM SINGH'S US TRIP MEETS NEW DELHI'S HIGH [...] (C) Summary: Initial reactions to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's highly anticipated July 18-19 meetings in Washington have been overwhelmingly positive. Most commentators believe that the US decision to normalize our civil nuclear relationship puts substance behind the US promise to assist [...]	2005-07-20 13:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KNNP ETRD ENRG IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI5680	PRIME MINISTER SINGH'S NUCLEAR LEADERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Our contacts in the Indian nuclear establishment welcomed the July 18 announcement of potential civil nuclear cooperation and are confident that Prime Minister Singh's experience with the nuclear sector will be critical to rapid implementation of the commitments that India made [...]	2005-07-22 11:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD IN KNNP PGOV PREL NSSP
05NEWDELHI5684	INDIAN OBSERVERS: TIME TO TURN UP PRESSURE ON [...] (C) Summary: Non-governmental Nepal-watchers in New Delhi remain pessimistic about the chances for a compromise between King Gyanendra and the Nepalese political parties. Many say that the next 2-3 months will be crucial for a rapprochement, with a strong likelihood that the parties and Maois [...]	2005-07-22 13:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV PHUM IN NP
05NEWDELHI5814	INDIA AND NEPAL TO TEST BORDER CONTROLS [...] (SBU) Summary: India and Nepal have agreed to a pilot program to check documents at only one border crossing as an experiment in increasing security along the 1,750 km open border. MEA officials downplayed the significance of the decision with us, pointing out that any substantial control ov [...]	2005-07-27 12:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PGOV PBTS IN NP
05NEWDELHI5815	INDIAN LEFT OPPOSES "PRO-US SHIFT" BUT WILL [...] Summary: The Left Front heavily criticized agreements reached during the PM's visit to Washington, claiming that the UPA has abandoned its pledge in the Common Minimum Program (CMP) to pursue "multipolarity," in favor of a "pro-US shift" initiated by the previous NDA government. The CPI and C [...]	2005-07-27 13:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM KNNP ECON IN CH IR
05NEWDELHI5879	INDIAN PM BRIEFS PARLIAMENT ON US TIES: IT'S ALL [...] (C) Summary: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh heralded his first state visit to the US as an unqualified success for India's foreign and economic policy in a speech to Parliament on July 29, and emphasized that India's relationship with the US was based on equality and reciprocity, sentim [...]	2005-07-29 11:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MNUC ENRG EINV KNNP IN NSSP
05NEWDELHI5925	KASHMIRIS: INDIA NOW HOLDS ALL THE CARDS, BUT WILL [...] (C) SUMMARY: A survey of Kashmiri political opinion in Srinagar, Jammu, and Delhi indicates a consensus that India is in a magisterial position right now: our contacts assess that India's strategic stock is secure and rising on the heels of the PM's visit to Washington; they agree the mood of [...]	2005-08-01 07:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MOPS ECON ASEC PBTS IN PK
05NEWDELHI6079	PM REAFFIRMS VALUE OF STRATEGIC TIES WITH U.S. IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Compared to the staid August 3 Lok Sabha debate about Prime Minister Singh's Washington visit (Reftel),the statements in the Rajya Sabha on August 4 were much livelier, with the depth of feeling reflected in repeated personal insults and yelling matches. Throughout the debate [...]	2005-08-05 12:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MNUC MASS KNNP ENRG EPET KDEM IN
05NEWDELHI6150	DELHI ON WARY TACK WITH ISLAMABAD, MULLING TALKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite mounting political concern about increased infiltration across the Line of Control (LOC),and BJP sniping over the UPA government's failure to hold Pakistan accountable for terrorism in India, the GOI's top leadership has remained committed to forward progress in the Ind [...]	2005-08-08 15:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ECON PTER KDEM KISL MOPS PK IN INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI6294	THE US-INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL: SHAPING PUBLIC OPINION [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Singh,s appearances before Parliament (Ref. A, B and C) and our contacts in the Indian scientific community allow an early assessment of how the GOI interprets the July 18 Joint Statement (JS) on civil nuclear cooperation and where challenges are likely to arise in [...]	2005-08-12 11:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD IN KNNP PREL IAEA US
05NEWDELHI6312	MEA ON PAKISTAN TALKS: SOME PROGRESS, MANY DOUBTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Pakistan policy manager Dilip Sinha believes India and Pakistan made good but slow progress in their latest round of Composite Dialogue efforts, with a more constructive climate than earlier discussions. They agreed to extend the LOC ceasefire, establish nuclear hotlines, pre [...]	2005-08-12 13:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ECON ECIN ETRD MOPS IN PK AF INDO PAK
05NEWDELHI6596	TOUGH NEW ANTI-HIJACKING POLICY, AT LEAST ON PAPER [...] (C) Summary: To break with earlier ad hoc practices -- many of which yielded disastrous results -- the GOI recently unveiled India's first formal anti-hijacking policy and streamlined bureaucratic procedures in the event of a successful hijacking in Indian airspace. The Indian Air Force (IAF [...]	2005-08-26 13:46:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV ASEC EAIR MOPS KSAC IN PK
05NEWDELHI6598	PM SINGH TO SEEK FRENCH SUPPORT ON NUCLEAR ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: In an August 25 meeting, French Second Counselor Gilles Bourbao previewed PM Singh's September 11-12 trip to Paris. The primary motivation for the Singh visit is to obtain French support for modifying the international nuclear framework in light of the US-Indian civil nuclear ag [...]	2005-08-26 14:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP MNUC ENRG MASS FR IN EU
05NEWDELHI6637	THE SORDID PATRONAGE POLITICS OF ECONOMIC REFORM [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: On August 24, both Houses of Parliament passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee (NREG) Bill with little opposition by any political party. The Bill, which could theoretically cost the treasury as much as USD 70 billion over 5 years, will now go to President [...]	2005-08-29 14:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EINV ENRG PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI6694	MEA EAGER TO WORK WITH US ON BANGLADESH AND SRI [...] (C) Summary: In an August 31 meeting, new MEA Joint Secretary for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar Mohan Kumar SIPDIS agreed to the need for greater information sharing and policy coordination between GOI and USG on Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Stressing that Bangladesh is "India's most impo [...]	2005-08-31 14:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV MOPS PBTS ECON IN BD PK SA
05NEWDELHI6804	INDIA WALKING IRAN TIGHTROPE [...] (C) Summary: As Natwar Singh travels to Tehran September 2 to meet the new regime, India's overriding goal is securing energy, followed by preserving access to Afghanistan, maintaining influence in what India perceives as a swing state in the debate over Islam, and advancing other business relati [...]	2005-09-02 14:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG PBTS IR IN
05NEWDELHI6974	INDIA NOTES US IRAN VIEWS; TRYING TO CLARIFY ITS POSITION [...] (S) SUMMARY: Our efforts here and Congress' reaction in Washington seem to be encouraging the Indians to review their public postures on Iran. According to a senior MEA contact, they are mulling ways to restate their position in an unambiguous and helpful way. Our MEA contacts cite Indian engage [...]	2005-09-09 10:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	KNNP PREL MNUC IR IN
05NEWDELHI7100	SCENE-SETTER FOR MEETINGS WITH MANMOHAN SINGH & NATWAR SINGH IN NEW YORK [...] (C) Summary: Madame Secretary, your meetings this week with (we hope) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Foreign Minister Natwar Singh provide an occasion to sketch the real challenges we face in implementing legislative actions necessary for us to fulfill the civil nuclear vision of the July 18 Jo [...]	2005-09-13 12:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IN
05NEWDELHI7230	WHITHER THE BJP? [...] (C) Summary: Well-documented divisions (reftels) have recently prevented the BJP from fulfilling its role as India's leading opposition party and led to a string of electoral defeats. The latest "crisis" was the expulsion and reinstatement of BJP leader Madan Lal Khurana. The core issue is [...]	2005-09-15 13:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IN PK
05NEWDELHI7259	INDO-PAK UNGA MEETING POSITIVE, NO FIREWORKS [...] (C) Summary: The September 14, four-hour Manmohan Singh-Musharraf dinner meeting and joint statement on the sidelines of UNGA continued the positive bilateral vibe even if it did not produce new deliverables, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Iran/Afghanistan) Dilip Sinha told us during a Septemb [...]	2005-09-16 13:13:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PHUM PGOV IN PK AF INDO PAK UNGA
05NEWDELHI8231	JASWANT SINGH BELIEVES THE UPA IS INCAPABLE OF MANAGING THE INDO/US RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with U/S Burns and the Ambassador in New Delhi on October 21, former Foreign Minister and BJP leader Jaswant Singh expressed wholehearted support for the India/US agenda and its many components, but reading between the lines, that support was actually qualified. Singh seemed [...]	2005-10-24 10:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV PINR IN PK IR
05NEWDELHI8266	INDIA'S SHAME: LINGERING BIGOTRY AFFLICTS 200 [...] (SBU) Summary: India,s 200 million Hindu and Christian Dalits (formerly &untouchables8) constitute approximately 21-25% of the population. Dalit leaders argue, and our Human Rights Report agrees, that Dalits are subject to sporadic cases of human rights abuses, including rape, trafficking, an [...]	2005-10-25 09:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PINR ECON ELAB KDEM KIRF SCUL IN
05NEWDELHI8510	DESPITE TERROR BLAST, NEW KASHMIR CHIEF MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite a suicide car bombing that killed five, Cabinet Affairs Minister and Sonia Gandhi close aide Ghulam Nabi Azad became Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir November 2, as per a 2003 power-sharing agreement between Congress and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed's PD [...]	2005-11-04 09:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM PHUM PBTS PTER ASEC PK IN
05NEWDELHI8782	MEA: LACK OF REPSONSE IN IC-814 CASE COULD HAMPER US-INDIA RELATIONS [...] (U) This is an action request for S/CT, CIA, DNI, and SECDEF. See paragraph 5. 2. (C) MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Jaishankar used a November 18 meeting with Charge and PolCouns to warn that a USG failure to respond to earlier information requests (Reftel) regarding the hijacking of IC-814 [...]	2005-11-18 11:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PGOV PTER KISL KCRM EAIR IN US
05NEWDELHI8892	INDIA CAUTIOUSLY WELCOMES NEW SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: The GOI called Mahinda Rajapakse's victory in the November 17 Sri Lankan Elections a ""wake-up call for India"" and plans to use the new President's upcoming visit to New Delhi to stress the importance of maintaining the Cease-Fire Agreement while continuing India's already close rela [...]	2005-11-23 12:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MASS CE IN
05NEWDELHI909	INDIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN 2005 [...] (S) Summary: With political momentum in its favor, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) expects to solidify its hold on power in 2005. The Congress-led coalition's pursuit of closer US-India ties will continue unabated, but the exigencies of coalition government will slow progress on issues of i [...]	2005-02-04 11:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EAID MARR MOPS KPKO XD IN
05NEWDELHI9207	IN DIVIDED PUNJAB, DIPLOMACY DANCES TO A BHANGRA [...] (SBU) Summary: Drawn together by shared historical, cultural, and ethno-linguistic ties, the Indian state of Punjab and Pakistan's Punjab province continue to forge deeper relations even as Delhi-Islamabad rapprochement has slowed. This message details recent progress in people-to-people con [...]	2005-12-06 13:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS SCUL IN PK
05NEWDELHI9260	GOI UPDATES ON EXPORT CONTROLS DURING HTCG [...] (SBU) Summary: MEA officials used the Strategic Trade session of the High Technology Cooperation Group meetings held in New Delhi December 1 to respond to USG questions about India's export controls, stating that the Indian regime "completely covers" MTCR and NSG requirements. The GOI presen [...]	2005-12-08 12:13:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD ETTC KNNP KSTC PARM TSPA MTCRE IN
05NEWDELHI9319	INDIA SEEKS TO PROTECT CITIZENS, SECURE ENERGY INTERESTS IN MIDDLE EAST (C-NE5-00945) [...] (C) Summary: While India has major interests in the Middle East (energy, trade, expatriate workers, and religious ties),it has historically had lackluster relations in the area. GOI attention focuses on a few nations of particular importance to those interests, primarily Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq [...]	2005-12-12 01:08:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG EPET PTER PINR IN BA IR IS IZ QA MU AE XF
05NEWDELHI9400	"GOOD ENGAGEMENT" IS COMMON REFRAIN AT U.S.-INDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce David McCormick and GOI Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran led U.S. and Indian delegations in the fourth meeting of the High Technology Cooperation Group (HTCG) in New Delhi on November 30 - December 1. The HTCG was formed in November 2002 to provide [...]	2005-12-14 11:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ETTC KSTC OTRA PREL KNNP PARM TSPA IN
05NEWDELHI9513	EXTRADITION: INDIA: KULBIR SINGH BARAPIND: POST [...] (SBU) Summary: This message will address as many of the Ref A questions as Post is able to answer. Confirming or refuting specific allegations of torture is extremely difficult by the very nature of the usual secrecy surrounding torture. Barapind's claims of torture include a litany of many [...]	2005-12-19 12:44:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN CVIS PTER PREL KCRM PHUM PGOV IN GOI
05NEWDELHI9771	MEA LOOKS AHEAD TO PAKISTAN TALKS, SEEKS [...] (C) Summary: Speaking on December 27, MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan/Afghanistan/Iran) Dilip Sinha judged that the GOP is dragging its feet in implementing agreed-upon confidence-building measures and presenting its own ideas in a "half-baked" manner, but was confident that relations would mud [...]	2005-12-28 12:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL EAID EPET ELTN MOPS KDEM KNNP IN PK AF IR INDO PAK
05NICOSIA1617	"AND FOR MY NEXT TRICK...": REVISITING THE CYPRUS [...] (C) Summary: Although the end result of the EU's October 3 decision on Turkey was positive, the tortuous negotiations on the framework and the "counter declaration" highlight the implications that the unresolved Cyprus dispute has for U.S. interests across a wide range of issues. While the p [...]	2005-10-04 13:16:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CY
05OTTAWA1201	SPP: Can-Am Business Council shares views on next [...] Summary: Members of the Canadian-American Business Council (CABC),a Washington DC based industry advocacy group, outlined for the Charg their principal concerns that they think need to be addressed by the SPP. The CABC underscored the pressing need to quickly build appropriate infrastructur [...]	2005-04-20 17:50:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECIN CA
05OTTAWA1371	PARLIAMENTARY MELTDOWN WHILE THE SHARKS CIRCLE [...] (C) Summary: The Conservatives continue to press the Liberals to allow a vote in the House of Commons that would let them attempt to bring down the government, but the Liberal leadership has thus far skillfully maneuvered around the circling sharks. Speaker Milliken announced today that the [...]	2005-05-06 13:42:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	CA PGOV NDP
05OTTAWA1475	THE POLITICS OF CANADA'S DARFUR INVOLVEMENT [...] (C/NF) Summary: In an effort to shore up support for his tottering minority government, PM Martin gave in to the demands of independent MP David Kilgour and accelerated the announcement of a major increase in aid for Darfur, to include CN $200 million and up to Canadian Forces technical advis [...]	2005-05-16 22:01:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	CA PGOV EAID MARR MASS MOPS PREL SU
05OTTAWA1672	FY 2006 IVLP MRP on Substance Abuse, Education, [...] Post is pleased to nominate Mr. Robert Daniel Small (he goes by Dan Small),Non-profit Manager and Program Developer, Portland Hotel Society Community Services Society, Vancouver for subject project or for an individual program on Substance Abuse Education, Treatment and Prevention. EVDB-fo [...]	2005-06-03 16:21:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC SCUL CA IV
05OTTAWA1713	LIBERAL MP QUITS CAUCUS OVER HANDLING OF SAME-SEX [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-06 21:05:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CA
05OTTAWA1803	HEALTH MINISTER ON INTERNET PHARMACIES: TAKE TWO [...] Summary: At yesterday's meeting of the House Committee on Health, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh stated that he did not wish to destroy the internet pharmacy industry, but that he was committed to addressing potential drug shortages in Canada and the underlying "ethical questions" of doctors [...]	2005-06-14 21:16:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON SOCI CA
05OTTAWA1860	SCENESETTER: Your Visit to Alberta, Canada [...] I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you and House Agriculture Committee members and staff to Canada. I am sure that your visit will be productive and will help us advance the agenda on two of our biggest bilateral bilateral economic issues. The Canadian Political Scene 2. [...]	2005-06-21 12:16:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECIN EAGR PREL CA
05OTTAWA1910	Canadian Border Patrol idea gains support from Senate [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Security and Defence Committee of the Senate of Canada suggests that a Canadian Border Patrol might be necessary. The committee also supports arming all Customs Officers at ports of entry. The backing of this Senate committee provides a high visibility boost to [...]	2005-06-23 18:25:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ELTN ASEC PBTS CA
05OTTAWA2042	CANADIAN HEALTH CARE: [...] (U) THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE, BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE USG CHANNELS. 2. (SBU) A Supreme Court of Canada ruling on June 9 has opened up and accelerated Canada's national debate on health care reform. The court struck down a Quebec provincial prohibition on private he [...]	2005-07-07 17:27:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SOCI EFIN PGOV CA
05OTTAWA2370	U.S.-CANADA FISHERIES BILATERALS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. 2. (U) Summary: The United States and Canada held annual bilateral fisheries consultations July 29 in Ottawa. The two sides reviewed a wide range of fisheries and oceans issues, including Canada's ocean action plan, bilateral fishing treaties, internatio [...]	2005-08-05 18:33:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIS SENV CA
05OTTAWA2640	YOUR VISIT TO ALBERTA, SEPTEMBER 8-11, 2005 [...] (C) As you prepare to visit Alberta, I want to extend a warm welcome and reaffirm this Mission's strong commitment to making your visit a success. Your meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan will underscore the importance we place on close collaboration with the Canadian government. [...]	2005-09-02 18:30:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV CA
05OTTAWA2970	CANADIAN STAKEHOLDERS' CONCERNS ON COPYRIGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: We have met again with intellectual property (IP) rightsholders to discuss their views of GOC moves on IPR. Canadian industry frustration with ineffective IPR enforcement continues to grow, and further review of the proposed copyright amendment legislation (C-60) has revealed [...]	2005-10-04 18:21:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR CA
05OTTAWA3022	DEMARCHE: BRINGING BURMA BEFORE THE UNSC [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-07 21:20:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	BM PREL PHUM PGOV CA UNSC UNGA
05OTTAWA304	A/S RADEMAKER,S MEETINGS WITH CANADIANS ON ARMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During a day of consultations in Ottawa on January 11, Assistant Secretary for Arms Control Stephen Rademaker and AC/PDAS Frank Record exchanged views with Canadian Foreign Affairs (FAC) and National Defense officials on U.S. and Canadian arms control and disarmament policy. [...]	2005-02-01 18:52:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM CD CA NPT FAC
05OTTAWA3092	Canada Nominees for "U.S. National Security [...] Summary: Mission Canada is pleased to nominate two strong candidates, selected from among the Embassy and seven consulates in Canada, for the subject U.S. Studies Institute. Both play significant roles in educating future leaders of Canada and stimulating public debate in Canada on securit [...]	2005-10-17 11:50:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC SCUL CA
05OTTAWA3106	Canada Nominees for "U.S. National Security [...] Summary: Mission Canada is pleased to nominate two strong candidates, selected from among the Embassy and seven consulates in Canada, for the subject U.S. Studies Institute. Both play significant roles in educating future leaders of Canada and stimulating public debate in Canada on securit [...]	2005-10-18 11:33:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC SCUL CA
05OTTAWA3169	CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION IN TELECOMS [...] (U) This message summarizes key views of Canadian players on the challenges of critical infrastructure protection in North America's telecom sector. It is based on a series of interviews held by Mission staff in September-October 2005 in Ottawa and Toronto with government and industry repres [...]	2005-10-21 19:54:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND PTER ECON CA SPP
05OTTAWA3179	CANADA: NORAD AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS, ROUND I [...] (U) On September 21, 2005 in Ottawa, a U.S. negotiating team led jointly by the Departments of State and Defense met with Canadian counterparts in the first round of discussions to renew the Agreement for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD),due to expire on May 12, 2006. U. [...]	2005-10-24 18:31:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL CA NORAD
05OTTAWA3400	US-EU TROIKA CONSULTATIONS ON MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 26 in Ottawa, NEA DAS Gordon Gray and a U.S. delegation exchanged views with EU Troika officials on developments in Iran and countries in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. Tri-lateral consultations with the EU and Canada on Iran are reported reftel. END SUMMARY. [...]	2005-11-15 20:14:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR IZ
05OTTAWA3448	Avian Influenza Report 1: Low Pathogenic Virus [...] Summary: Avian influenza virus detected on November 18 in a domesticated duck from a farm in British Columbia has been confirmed as a low pathogenic H5 North American strain. An estimated 67,000 ducks and other fowl from the farm and surrounding area will be euthanized. A national wild bird [...]	2005-11-21 20:00:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA SOCI PREL CA WHO KSTH
05OTTAWA3482	Canada's Pandemic Influenza Plans [...] Summary: Canada has a national pandemic flu plan dating from early 2004; an updated version is expected in December 2005. Preparing for an influenza pandemic is a top priority for the government of Canada. Canada is working with many partners, including the United States, to enhance global cap [...]	2005-11-23 17:33:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA SOCI CA WHO KSTH
05OTTAWA3629	ANTI-AMERICAN RHETORIC IN THE CANADIAN ELECTION: [...] (C/NF) Summary: As the themes in the ongoing campaign take shape it appears that the United States will be in the second tier, although this could change as this hotly contested race takes off and the parties scramble to gain traction. At present the primary themes are health and child care, t [...]	2005-12-09 15:39:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	CA PGOV PREL
05OTTAWA3636	INCSR PART I - CANADA [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-09 21:34:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR CA
05OTTAWA3684	U.S.-CANADA LAW ENFORCEMENT AND COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] (C/NF) Summary: The final reports of the Arar Public Inquiry (one factual, one with policy recommendations) will be released in March 2006. RCMP Commissioner Zaccardelli fears that the recommendations will seek to undermine his institution's independence and its ability to freely and proactiv [...]	2005-12-15 19:52:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	CA KCRM KJUS PINR
05OTTAWA3695	CANADIAN IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS NEGATIVE ON [...] (S) Pol Minister Counselor and polmiloff met with two Assistant Deputy Ministers (Operations and Policy) at Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) on December 15, to follow up on USG's request that Canada consider resettlement of Uighurs from Guantanamo. In a cordial but candid exchange, A/D [...]	2005-12-16 20:28:00	Embassy Ottawa	SECRET//NOFORN	MOPS PREL PTER KAWC PHUM PINR CA
05OTTAWA3698	CANADA: 2005 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Unclassified entire text. GENERAL ASSESSMENT ------------------ 2. The Government of Canada remained steadfast in 2005 in partnering with the United States and other like-minded states to support the international fight against terror. With a 5,200 mile undefended border, Canada is one [...]	2005-12-16 21:40:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CA KCRM KHLS PGOV PHUM PINR PTER KPAO
05OTTAWA3726	TRILATERAL REGULATORY COOPERATION MEETING UNDER [...] On December 9, Canadian, Mexican and U.S. officials met in Ottawa to discuss possibilities for regulatory cooperation under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The Canadians, who had proposed and organized the meeting, seem enthusiastic about the prospects for eng [...]	2005-12-21 20:27:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PGOV CA MX SIPDIS
05OTTAWA375	CANADA'S BUDGET: MINORITY STATUS NOT EXPECTED TO [...] (SBU/noforn) Summary: This year's budget could be a brawl. The budget vote is the only absolute confidence vote that Paul Martin's government will face in the short term and debate is expected to be vigorous. Finance Minister Goodale plans to present the budget to Parliament on February 23. [...]	2005-02-07 22:23:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV CA
05OTTAWA395	CANADIAN POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: THE [...] (SBU) Summary: A tan, rested, and combative Parliament returned this week ready to get down to business. The buzz on Parliament Hill was higher than normal as the MPs -- energized by their enhanced role in the minority government -- begin to tackle a host of divisive issues. While most agree [...]	2005-02-09 14:07:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN CA KCRS
05OTTAWA428	A KINDER, GENTLER BLOC QUEBECOIS TAKES TO THE ROAD [...] (C) Summary: Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe has taken his message of the advantages of separation on a quiet, but successful tour of Canada, and now plans to take the message abroad. While gaining little direct support for separatism, he has improved the Bloc,s public image and his nati [...]	2005-02-11 12:42:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CA
05OTTAWA525	CANADA SEEKS REGULATORY PRESCRIPTION FOR INTERNET [...] (U) Summary: Health Canada Minister Ujjal Dosanjh's response to reimportation of drugs from Canada to the United States has been increasingly negative in the past months. In the wake of the U.S. task force report, Health Canada seems poised to act in order to limit or prohibit drug sales fr [...]	2005-02-18 17:44:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD SOCI CA
05OTTAWA642	CANADA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT FOR 2004-2005 [...] (SBU) The following is Mission Canada's submission for the 2005 Trafficking in Persons Report. Answers are keyed to numbered paragraphs in reftel. Embassy POC is Poloff Mark Baron, telephone (613) 688-5339, fax (613) 688-3098. Estimated number of hours spent researching and drafting this r [...]	2005-03-01 19:14:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CA
05OTTAWA800	TAKING STOCK OF U.S.-CANADIAN RELATIONS -- AN END [...] My core message as I depart Ottawa is that our relationship with Canada has changed fundamentally in the last four years, and we as a government need to catch up with this new reality. Canada is the front line of our efforts to protect the U.S. homeland. There is no priority in the hemisphe [...]	2005-03-17 15:17:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC ECON OPRC PREL CA
05OTTAWA831	NOT GUILTY: CANADA'S AIR INDIA BOMBING VERDICT [...] Summary: A British Columbia provincial court acquitted on March 16, terrorism suspects, Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik of conspiracy and murder charges resulting from their alleged role in the bombing of two Air India planes in 1985. The case is the largest incident of mass mur [...]	2005-03-18 20:47:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KCRM PGOV PREL CA
05OTTAWA875	DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY CHERTOFF [...] (U) Summary: Handguns entering Canada illegally from the United States and divergence between Canadian and U.S. visa policies were two unscripted items discussed during Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff's and Canadian Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Anne McLellan's [...]	2005-03-23 21:25:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECIN ASEC PREL CVIS CA PSEPC
05OTTAWA940	Canadian Customs Officers argue to create Border [...] Summary. According to the President of Canada's Customs and Excise Union, Canada needs an armed "Border Patrol" to make the border between official ports of entry (POEs) less porous. The President of the Union appeared on March 22 before the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Just [...]	2005-03-31 16:42:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ELTN ASEC CA PTBS CBSA CEUDA RCMP IBET
05OTTAWA999	CANADA: COULD GOMERY REVELATIONS TRIGGER AN [...] (SBU) Summary: The possibility of early elections has always been in the background for this minority government, but the revelations coming out of the Gomery inquiry over the past several days have moved that possibility to the foreground. Testimony by ad executive Jean Brault, which remain [...]	2005-04-05 19:01:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CA PREL PGOV
05PANAMA1352	AS HIS POPULARITY PLUMMETS, PANAMANIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Apparently surprised by the persistence of anti-CSS (Social Security) reform agitation following passage of a June 1 reform bill (see Reftel),and as one poll placed his approval rating at just over 20%, Panamanian President Martin Torrijos on June 16 proposed a 90-day social security refo [...]	2005-06-21 22:38:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA1445	JULY 4 MESSAGE FROM PANAMANIAN PRESIDENT TORRIJOS [...] ON MONDAY, JULY 4, EMBASSY PANAMA RECEIVED ORIGINAL NOTE DGPCE NO. 794/2005 TRANSMITTING A CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT MARTIN TORRIJOS TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH ON A NEW CELEBRATION OF THE U.S. INDEPENDENCE DAY. EMBASSY TRANSLATION OF TEXT FOLLOWS: BEGIN TEXT. PLEASE ACCEPT [...]	2005-07-07 17:35:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	ODIP OPDC PM POL SPECIALIST
05PANAMA1553	(C) VISAS DONKEY: CORRUPTION 212(F) VISA [...] (C) Embassy Panama is seeking a security advisory opinion under section 212(f) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act in accordance with Presidential Proclamation 7750, suspending entry into the United States and revoking the visa of Winston Spadafora (DPOB: 22 DEC 1941; Panama). Embassy [...]	2005-07-22 22:00:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA1729	PANAMANIAN INSIDERS ACCUSE TORRIJOS GOVERNMENT OF [...] (SBU) This message is the first in a three"part series on views of the Torrijos administration's performance as it approaches its September 1 first anniversary. SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION """""""""""""""""""""""" 2. (C) Martin Torrijos's reform"m [...]	2005-08-19 22:23:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD PINR PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA2025	INTERAGENCY TEAM DISCUSSES SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: Panamanian President Torrijos and his principal national security advisors met with a visiting USG interagency delegation September 29 and agreed to pursue enhanced information sharing, improve border security cooperation, and develop a mechanism for closer bilateral security coo [...]	2005-10-07 16:19:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR PINR PINS MARR PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA2258	PANAMA - 2006 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] TRADE SUMMARY The U.S. trade surplus with Panama was $1.50 billion in 2004, a decrease of $43 million from $1.55 billion in 2003. U.S. goods exports in 2004 were $1.8 billion, up 1.6 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Panama were $316 million, up 4.8 percent. P [...]	2005-11-17 20:36:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
05PANAMA2311	PANAMA'S READINESS FOR AVIAN/PANDEMIC FLU [...] Summary: the GOP has nearly completed a National Avian Influenza (AI) Plan that details the institutions responsible for preparedness/communication, surveillance/detection, and response/containment. The GOP's inter-agency effort is led by the Ministry of Health and includes support from the P [...]	2005-11-25 21:50:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV EAID EAGR ECON ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
05PANAMA350	PANAMA: SHOWDOWN AT THE ARNULFISTA CONVENTION [...] (SBU) Defying expectations, former president Mireya Moscoso retained her position as Arnulfista Party (PA) president at a January 16 closed-door convention, co-opting one of her main antagonists, Marco Ameglio, while defeating the other key challenger, liquor magnate Juan Carlos Varela. Now re [...]	2005-02-16 21:31:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
05PANAMA555	PANAMA'S INPUT FOR FIFTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) Embassy Panama believes that trafficking in persons (TIP) is a relatively small and manageable problem, involving around 200-500 victims. In 2004, Embassy worked closely with the Government of Panama (GOP) to discover the true extent of TIP in Panama and to strengthen the anti-TIP leg [...]	2005-03-14 14:37:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PM LABOR HUMAN RIGHTSPOLMIL
05PANAMA629	PANAMANIAN SUPREME COURT FRACAS BLURS GOVERNMENT [...] (C) A public row pitting one Supreme Court Justice against three others has incited vehement public demands for the dismissal of all nine justices. On March 10 the Panamanian government (GOP) institutionalized those demands by forming a State Justice Commission (SJC) comprising state officials and [...]	2005-03-18 21:46:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM PM POL CHIEF
05PANAMA778	PANAMA ATTORNEY GENERAL TESTS TORRIJOS [...] (C) Panama's independent Attorney General Ana Matilde Gomez may have put the government of Martin Torrijos in an uncomfortable position in March when she asked the Supreme Court to reopen two three-year-old bribery investigations into a government contract for Centro Multimodal, Industrial y d [...]	2005-04-07 18:48:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PM POLITICS FOREIGN POLICY
05PARAMARIBO713	REPORTED DECISION TO CLOSE USDAO PARAMARIBO [...] Although this Embassy has received no official indication of the Defense Department's intent to close the DAO, personnel of DAO have been advised informally of changes in TODs designed to effect the closure of the office NLT the end of June, 2006. It is alleged that a decision to close was ta [...]	2005-11-04 11:22:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT PREL MARR
05PARAMARIBO764	INFORMATION ON AVIAN AND PANDEMIC FLU - SURINAME [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-28 17:10:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL NS
05PARAMARIBO828	PROPOSED ARTICLE 98 SIGNING STIRS CRITICAL [...] (U) Summary. President Venetiaan's December 6 statement that Suriname plans to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) and sign a bilateral non-surrender (Article 98) agreement with the United States continues to reverberate in the press. It has been given new life by an Amnesty Internatio [...]	2005-12-20 18:27:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR NS
05PARAMARIBO836	FUTURE BRIGHT AS STATE-OWNED OIL COMPANY TURNS 25 [...] (U) On December 13 Suriname's state-owned oil company, Staatsolie, celebrated its 25th anniversary and said farewell to the man who has led the company since the beginning, Eddy Jharap. In his retirement speech Jharap highlighted the company's financial success and described the highs and low [...]	2005-12-23 11:56:00	Embassy Paramaribo	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON KTDB PREL NS
05PARIS104	GTMO AND DJAMEL BEGHAL TRIAL UPDATES [...] (C) Summary: The investigation against four former GTMO detainees (reftels A and B) appears to be proceeding well; all appeals for pre-trial release have been denied and the investigating judges feel confident that the trial, likely to begin this summer, will result in conviction. However, in a [...]	2005-01-06 17:58:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	FR PGOV PINR PREL KISL
05PARIS1041	STOCKTAKING WITH FRENCH PRESIDENCY DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Summary: DCM spoke with President Chirac's Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) February 17 to review French position on key issues in advance of President Bush's February 21 meeting with President Chirac and the subsequent meetings with NATO and EU leaders. Gourdault-Monta [...]	2005-02-17 18:43:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR SY IR LE NATO
05PARIS1356	FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON DESIGNATING HIZBALLAH AS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION [...] (S) Summary: On March 1, poloffs delivered reftel demarche on designating Hizballah as a terrorist organization to Julien Deruffe and Yves Trotignon from the MFA's office of counter-terrorism and Remy Bouallegue, Lebanon/Syria desk officer. Poloff also informed Dominique Boche, President Chir [...]	2005-03-02 14:35:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	ETTC PTER EFIN FR EUN
05PARIS1382	FRANCE: POSITIVE ON TSA INTERMODAL DIALOGUE, TEPID [...] (C) SUMMARY: In February 24 meetings with TSA International Programs Assistant Administrator David Tiedge, French officials -listened to U.S. concerns about Emergency Amendment implementation, agreed to continue discussion, but sidestepped new commitments; -agreed to continue discussion [...]	2005-03-03 12:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PTER FR
05PARIS1398	FRANCE SUBMISSION FOR 2005 TIP REPORT [...] (U) France is a destination country for trafficked persons, mainly women trafficked for prostitution from Eastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, and to a lesser extent Albania) and Africa (Nigera, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon). France's national Central Office for the Repression of Trafficking in Pe [...]	2005-03-03 16:43:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB FR RO
05PARIS1412	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - LEBANON AND SYRIA - ISRAEL [...] LEBANON AND SYRIA 2. ISRAEL AND PALESTINE 3. IRAQ - FORMATION OF A NEW GOVERNMENT (B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: ISSUES SURROUNDING FRENCH HOSTAGE FLORENCE AUBENAS HELD IN IRAQ AND PRIME MINISTER RAFFARIN'S DECISION TO KEEP PARLIAMENT MEMBER DIDIER JULIA FROM NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE HOSTA [...]	2005-03-04 11:05:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS152	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - ELECTIONS IN PALESTINE [...] ELECTIONS IN PALESTINE 2. IRAQ - VIOLENCE BEFORE ELECTIONS B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: TWO MAJOR STORIES DOMINATE TODAY'S FRONT PAGES AND COMMENTARIES: THE PROJECTED VICTORY BY MAHMOUD ABBAS IN PALESTINE AND WHAT THIS MAY MEAN FOR THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS, AND THE SITUATION IN IRAQ, WEE [...]	2005-01-10 11:48:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS1527	FRANCE WILL ISSUE PRESS STATEMENT REACTING TO ICTY [...] (C) On March 8, POL M/C delivered reftel demarche encouraging press statements on the ICTY indictment of Ramush Haradinaj to Jean-Francois Terral, A/S-equivalent for Russia, the former Soviet space, and the Balkans. Terral agreed with the necessity of issuing a press statement, and shared a co [...]	2005-03-08 17:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KAWC SR YI FR ICTY
05PARIS1747	OECD: Participants Begin Formal Review of the [...] On 22-23 February 2005, the OECD Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits and officials from Brazil met to start a formal review of the terms and conditions for officially supported export credits for civil aircraft. These terms and conditions are set out in the [...]	2005-03-16 10:38:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETRD EAIR EAID BR OECD
05PARIS203	GOF OFFICIALS UPBEAT ON PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS, BUT [...] (C) Summary: GoF officials are stressing to us privately their high degree of satisfaction with Palestinian elections, but express concern that the post-elections follow-up will focus too much on what is demanded of the Palestinian side without pressing Israel to make gestures to the new Pale [...]	2005-01-11 16:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS FR

05PARIS2162	(C) GENERAL AOUN ON LEBANON DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary and comment: At the Department's recommendation (reftel),DCM met with former Lebanese Armed Forces Commander General Michel Aoun at the latter's request March 29. Throughout the hour-long discussion, Aoun stressed his status as the most long-standing opponent of Syria's occupatio [...]	2005-03-31 14:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE PTER FR
05PARIS2333	GWOT ASSESSMENT: EMBASSY PARIS FEEDBACK [...] (S) Summary: U.S.-French cooperation on terrorism is mature and broad-based. For a number of reasons, including the memory of terrorist attacks in Paris during the 1980s, the French bring significant expertise, focus and determination to their C/T activities, and are valued partners for a wide [...]	2005-04-07 13:21:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PTER PREL FR
05PARIS234	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - U.S. POLICY - U.S. IMAGE [...] U.S. POLICY - U.S. IMAGE 2. IRAQ 3. MIDDLE EAST - ABBAS ELECTION B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: PRESIDENT BUSH'S OP-ED, WHICH APPEARED YESTERDAY IN LE PARISIEN, BUT ALSO IN OTHER EUROPEAN PUBLICATIONS, IS THE LEAD STORY IN TODAY'S RIGHT-OF-CENTER LE FIGARO, WHICH HEADLINES "BUSH'S SEDUCTION C [...]	2005-01-13 11:14:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS2399	(C) CWC/BWC: MEETING OF CLOSE ALLIES, PARIS, [...] (C) Summary: Close Allies (U.S., UK, France, Germany) met to coordinate actions for the upcoming OPCW Executive Council meeting and to review both joint and bilateral efforts on compliance, Article VII implementation, financial/personnel matters and CW destruction. Discussion on BWC primarily [...]	2005-04-08 15:35:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL TBIO CBW
05PARIS2415	UNESCO/International Oceanographic Commission [...] SUMMARY and Introduction: The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) convened The International Coordination Meeting for the development of a Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System for the Indian Ocean within a Global Framework, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, 3-8 March 2005. The m [...]	2005-04-11 10:58:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY AORC OTRA PBTS WWT UNESCO
05PARIS2552	French Regional Paper Slams American Presence Post [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-14 15:35:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PINR KPAO EIND FR ADIP ODPC
05PARIS2554	French Regional Paper Slams American Presence Post [...] (U) On April 12, the Toulouse-based, left-of-center regional daily "La Depeche du Midi" published an article on alleged U.S. economic intelligence gathering in Europe, with a short sidebar article entitled "The True Role of the American Presence Post." The front page headline, "When America [...]	2005-04-14 16:09:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PINR KPAO EIND FR ADIP ODPC
05PARIS2677	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - POPE BENEDICT XVI CHINA [...] POPE BENEDICT XVI 2. CHINA B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: NOT SURPRISINGLY ALL FRONT PAGES AND EDITORIALS ARE DEVOTED TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH'S CHOICE OF CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER, WHO BECOMES POPE BENEDICT XVI. THE VARIETY COMES IN THE NATURE OF THE COMMENTARY. FOR LE FIGARO THE CHOICE MA [...]	2005-04-20 11:55:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS2722	FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 1: LICENSE NOS. 883933, [...] (SBU) As requested in ref A, post provides the following overall review as documentation concerning MCE's behavior in the Systron Donner C-MIGITS export of integrated robotic systems. Much of this information has already been sent to PM/DTCC in e- mail format. PM/DTCC should note that followin [...]	2005-04-21 16:06:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC FR
05PARIS2727	NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE/FRENCH R&D: PROGRESS AND [...] The influential Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Science and Technology Options (OPECST) recently released a comprehensive scientific report on R&D progress achieved in France in the area of high-level, long-lived radioactive waste management (HLLLW). The report's final recommendat [...]	2005-04-21 17:16:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TSPL TPHY KSCA FR KNUC
05PARIS2774	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - SAUDI ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-25 12:17:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS2831	UNESCO/INTERNATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION [...] Summary and Introduction: The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)convened The International Coordination Meeting for the development of a Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System for the Indian Ocean within a Global Framework, at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, 3-8 March 2005. The me [...]	2005-04-26 16:18:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY AORC OTRA PBTS WWT UNESCO
05PARIS2861	FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 2: PRE-LICENSE END USE [...] As requested reftel, Post reached out to the French entities listed as end-users in reftel para 4: Onera, MBDA, and ETBS to confirm that they had indeed ordered the accelerometers requeted and also to EADS Astrium to confirm its order for an airborne amplifier. We transmit their response bel [...]	2005-04-27 14:47:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC FR
05PARIS2910	France: Telecom and Information Technology Update [...] This is another in a series of periodic updates on the French telecommunications and information technology sectors, including internet and e-commerce. Contents: -- France Telecom's debt on the rise (para 2) -- GOF technology and information society office merged with regional and small bus [...]	2005-04-29 09:41:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ETRD FR
05PARIS3053	CHARGE CAUTIONS LEBANESE GENERAL AOUN AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with former Lebanese armed forces commanding General Michel Aoun in Paris May 4, three days before Aoun's scheduled return to Lebanon May 7, Charge cautioned Aoun on the need to maintain Lebanese opposition unity and to do nothing to delay the conduct of May 29 elect [...]	2005-05-04 18:05:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE FR
05PARIS306	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - BUSH ADMINISTRATION - SECOND [...] BUSH ADMINISTRATION - SECOND TERM PROSPECTS 2. AIRBUS VERSUS BOEING B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: ONE WORD, AIRBUS, SUMMARIZES TODAY'S FRONT PAGES AND EDITORIALS. AS THE EUROPEAN CONSORTIUM GETS READY TO UNVEIL THE A380, HEADLINES COMPETE FOR WORDS TO ILLUSTRATE THE GRANDEUR OF THE NEXT GENERA [...]	2005-01-18 11:07:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS329	UNESCO "CULTURAL DIVERSITY" CONVENTION [...] Summary. Adopting a Convention on Cultural Diversity at the October 2005 UNESCO General Conference remains the apparent goal for some key UNESCO members, despite the sharp differences on fundamentals shown during 14-17 December Meetings of Working Group ("Drafting Commission") charged with s [...]	2005-01-18 18:19:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL PGOV PREL EU ETRD UN
05PARIS3415	REPORTING CABLE: OECD WORKING GROUP ON WASTE [...] The Secretariat presented an overview of the draft ESM Guidance Manual that Member countries, in 2004, decided to develop as a means of facilitating the implementation of the OECD Council Recommendation on Environmentally Sound Management of Waste. The U.S. and Canada supported the ongoing dev [...]	2005-05-19 07:24:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD OTRA SENV KSCA TPHY FR
05PARIS349	FRANCE 2005 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 [...]	2005-01-19 15:07:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ELAB PGOV KTDB FR OPIC USTR
05PARIS3507	Paris Launches Its First Internet Chat on U.S. [...] Summary. The Mission conducted its first 'Internet chat,' and we are pleased by the public's response. In planning the chat, we contacted several regional posts to learn about their experiences. Few had conducted chats, while others expressed an interest in learning from us. We are, theref [...]	2005-05-23 12:55:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PREL CMGT AMGT ACOA ANET AADP KRIM
05PARIS3547	CONTINUED MUSLIM OUTREACH FOLLOWING NEWSWEEK [...] Summary: As requested in reftel A and initially reported in reftel B, Post has continued its outreach to French Muslim contacts following Newsweek's retraction of its story alleging desecration of the Koran at Guantanamo. Post and Consulate Strasbourg issued press releases to contacts and th [...]	2005-05-24 13:09:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PREL KISL FR
05PARIS372	THE AIRBUS A-380 - REVEALED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Airbus hosted a lavish "A-380 Reveal" ceremony in Toulouse January 18 before 5000 invited guests, including French President Chirac, British PM Blair, German Chancellor Schroeder and Spanish Prime Minister Zapatero. The unveiling of the first fully-functional A380 superjumbo to [...]	2005-01-20 16:00:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ETRD FR WTRO USTR
05PARIS3766	MFA ON ALGERIAN RELATIONS WITH FRANCE AND MOROCCO, [...] Summary: MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb Anne Mohsen, during a recent meeting with us, described French relations with Algeria as unaffected by controversy over the 1945 Setif massacre, with progress on track towards conclusion of a bilateral friendship treaty by year-end. Mohsen suggested [...]	2005-06-01 10:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG WS MO TS FR
05PARIS3895	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - EUROPE: AFTERMATH OF THE EU [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-06 10:27:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS3922	JOSE BOVE CALLS FOR MORE DESTRUCTION OF BIOTECH [...] (SBU) Summary: Anti-biotech organizations backing activist Jos Bove have proclaimed June 18 as a day of protest against genetically modified organisms (GMOs),and have threatened to destroy all open-field testing plots of GM products in France. This call is in response to a National Assembl [...]	2005-06-06 16:37:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD TBIO SENV FR
05PARIS402	WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS AND MARKET ACCESS [...] (SBU) This message responds to reftel request for views on the French services market with input from Embassy ECON, FCS and Ag sections. Following is a ranking of services sectors in France. The estimates cited below are intended as a broad and very general gauge of market potentials and ma [...]	2005-01-21 16:38:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD FR WTO
05PARIS4067	SCENESETTER FOR TREASURY SECRETARY SNOW'S JUNE 15 [...] (C) We warmly welcome your visit and look forward to your assistance in moving forward the deep and complex relationship we enjoy with France. As a member of the G8 and the UN Security Council with extensive ties to former colonies around the world, France plays a prominent role in the intern [...]	2005-06-10 13:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EIND ETRD EFIN FR
05PARIS4093	AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS [...] ATTENTION 2. TOGO 3. DROC 4. CHAD 5. SUDAN 6. ETHIOPIA 7. BURUNDI 8. MAURITANIE 9. ZIMBABWE 10. SOUTH AFRICA Â [...]	2005-06-10 15:16:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS4162	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - NORTH KOREA - SIX PARTY TALKS [...] NORTH KOREA - SIX PARTY TALKS 2. LEBANESE ELECTIONS 3. GUANTANAMO 4. EU AFFAIRS - TURKEY B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: THE AFTERMATH OF THE LIBERATION OF FLORENCE AUBENAS STILL CAPTURES THE MOST FRONT-PAGE ATTENTION TODAY. THE CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH THE FRENCH HOSTAGE WAS RELEASED LEAD MANY [...]	2005-06-14 11:53:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS4198	FY 2006 IVLP - NOMINATION AND PART I BIODATA FOR ONE [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-15 09:30:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL FR
05PARIS4202	FY 2006 IVLP - NOMINATION AND PART I BIODATA FOR ONE [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-15 09:33:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL FR
05PARIS444	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ AND THE BUSH DOCTRINE [...] IRAQ AND THE BUSH DOCTRINE 2. MIDDLE EAST B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: DOMESTIC POLICY ISSUES LEAD ON TODAY'S FRONT PAGES, AS THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY EMBARKS ON THE PRELIMINARY PROCESS TO REVISE FRANCE'S CONSTITUTION. THE PROCESS AIMS TO MAKE THE CONSTITUTION MORE COMPATIBLE WITH THE EUROPEAN C [...]	2005-01-25 14:55:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS4453	AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS [...] ATTENTION 2. SENEGAL 3. CHAD 4. DROC 5. CAMEROON 6. COTE D'IVOIRE 7. RWANDA/BURUNDI 8. NIGER 9. GUINEE BISSAU 10. TOGO 11. SOUTH AFRICA 12. UGANDA Â [...]	2005-06-24 13:50:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS4566	VISIT OF STOP! DELEGATION TO PARIS JUNE 10 [...] Summary: The visit of the interagency STOP delegation to Paris June 9-10 helped raise the profile of IPR issues with the French government and by extension with local industry. While we found fundamental interest in cooperation on the STOP initiatives, few concrete commitments were made dur [...]	2005-06-29 16:45:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR FR
05PARIS4659	FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER'S JULY 5 VISIT TO [...] (C) Upon his appointment as foreign minister June 2, much of the French press and many political pundits (fed by, among others, disdainful career diplomats at the MFA) wrote off Philippe Douste-Blazy as a dilettante. His lack of foreign policy experience, it was said, and penchant for currying [...]	2005-07-01 16:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR FR
05PARIS4947	U.S./FRANCE: THE CASE FOR RENEWING AND [...] THIS CABLE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST FOR PM AND EUR/RPM IN PARAGRAPH 7. 2.SUMMARY: WE CONTINUE TO COUNT ON FRENCH SUPPORT IN THE WAR AGAINST TERORISM, AND IN A VARIETY OF INTERNATIONAL FLASHPOINTS, INCLUDING AFGHANISTAN, AFRICA, THE BALKANS, THE MIDDLE EAST AND HAITI. IN A NUMBER OF CAS [...]	2005-07-18 13:43:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS PREL ECIN FR
05PARIS4977	MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME: 06 JULY [...] (C) Summary: On 6 July 2005, Embassy EST officer attended a meeting of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Points of Contacts (POCS) held at the Korean Embassy in Paris. This meeting focused on preparations for the September MTCR Plenary in Madrid. 2. (C) Summary, Continued: [...]	2005-07-19 12:02:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC FR KS KSCA MNUC PARM PREL TSPA MTCRE
05PARIS5003	U.S./FRANCE: THE CASE FOR RENEWING AND [...] (U) THIS CABLE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST FOR PM AND EUR/RPM IN PARAGRAPH 8. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: WE CONTINUE TO COUNT ON FRENCH SUPPORT IN THE WAR AGAINST TERORISM, AND IN A VARIETY OF INTERNATIONAL FLASHPOINTS, INCLUDING AFGHANISTAN, AFRICA, THE BALKANS, THE MIDDLE EAST AND HAITI. IN A [...]	2005-07-19 14:42:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS PREL ECIN FR
05PARIS5077	OECD/NEA: REPORTING CABLE: FIRST MEETING OF [...] The meeting was opened by C. Nordborg, head of NEA Nuclear Science Section, who welcomed the participants and indicated that the Expert Group had been established as a follow-up activity to the former Nuclear Science Committee (NSC) activity on "R&D Needs in Nuclear Science". He also informed [...]	2005-07-22 09:17:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP TRGY KSCA OECD UNVIE
05PARIS5176	OECD REPORT: WORKING GROUP ON BRIBERY, HELD ON [...] On the June 14-16 meeting of the OECD Working Group on Bribery (WGB),the Tour de Table of recent enforcement developments (see Paras. 18-26) reconfirmed that the U.S. remains far and away the most aggressive enforcer of the foreign bribery offense. France was particularly disappointing, sho [...]	2005-07-27 09:41:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	KCOR ECON ETRD EINV PREL UK OECD
05PARIS5241	FRENCH MFA UPDATE ON MAGHREB ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with visiting NEA/MAG Acting Director William Jordan, MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb Christian Testot reported continued difficulties with the Algerian government over a February 2005 French law lauding achievements from the French colonial period, with Algeria [...]	2005-07-29 16:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG MO TS LY FR
05PARIS5297	FRENCH GOVERNMENT QUIETLY PREPARES FOR 2006 NUCLEAR WASTE [...] With little fanfare, French authorities are advancing France's waste management strategy on the political agenda. On schedule, on June 30 the National Waste Management Agency (ANDRA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) submitted to the GOF a progress report on R&D in their respective field [...]	2005-08-02 15:39:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TSPL TPHY KSCA FR KNUC
05PARIS5300	FRANCE'S YUCCA MOUNTAIN [...] (U) On July 26, 2005, in the context of the upcoming national debate and the 2006 law on nuclear waste of high-level, long- lived radioactive waste (HLLLW) (see reftels),EST Counselor, Science Affairs Specialist, and EST Intern, met officials of the French National Radioactive Waste Manag [...]	2005-08-02 16:15:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG TSPL TPHY KSCA FR KNUC
05PARIS5301	ALLAN HUBBARD'S CALL ON FINANCE MINISTER BRETON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Finance Minister Breton underlined to National Economic Council Director Allan Hubbard and Ambassador Stapleton his commitment to press for economic reforms, in large part by "educating" the French public. Breton believes that France should enjoy growth of 3.0% per year and that [...]	2005-08-03 08:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL FR
05PARIS5459	THE FUTURE OF FRANCE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: France faces several challenges to its traditional leadership role among its former colonies and Africa's other francophone countries. We foresee a gradual decline of French influence in Africa, based on generational change, an increased willingness on the part of Africans to l [...]	2005-08-11 12:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM XA FR
05PARIS5592	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - MIDDLE EAST - GAZA [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-19 11:12:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS565	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-31 14:06:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS5694	FRANCE: SEEKING MORE LABOR FLEXIBILITY [...] (SBU) PM de Villepin has announced an emergency employment plan, which will introduce more flexibility into the rigid French labor market. The plan creates a new type of hiring contract that will allow companies of up to 20 employees to lay off workers anytime during the first two years of e [...]	2005-08-24 11:01:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL ELAB PINR FR EUN
05PARIS5980	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ [...] IRAQ 2. BUSH ADMINISTRATION AND HURRICANE KATRINA 3. IRAN B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: MOST FRONT PAGES ARE DEVOTED TO FM DE VILLEPIN'S MEASURES TO BOOST FRANCE'S ECONOMY THROUGH EMPLOYMENT AND TAX CUTS AS REVEALED YESTERDAY DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE AND LATER ON TF1 TELEVISION. DURING HIS [...]	2005-09-02 10:26:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS6082	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - KATRINA - POLITICAL FALLOUT [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-08 10:09:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS6125	EUR A/S FRIED'S SEPTEMBER 1 MEETINGS WITH SENIOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 1, EUR A/S Daniel Fried met separately with French MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye, A/S-equivalent Director for Strategic Affairs Philippe Carre, and Presidential Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne. They discussed Iran, NATO, the EU, Russia, [...]	2005-09-09 14:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PARM UP FR NATO EUN RU
05PARIS619	AVIATION SECURITY: DOES NO-FLY MEAN "NO FLY?" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Paris applauds Washington agencies' development of joint criteria for the inclusion of names on the Transportation Security Administration-managed No-Fly list (REF EMAIL). Rigorously applied criteria should greatly enhance the credibility of the list while ensuring it is [...]	2005-02-01 16:38:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PTER FR
05PARIS6297	FM DOUSTE-BLAZY VISIT TO PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials offered a generally upbeat readout of FM Douste-Blazy's September 6-8 visit to Palestinian territories and Israel, during which he announced new French bilateral aid for Gaza, with a potential value of 40 million euros. Douste-Blazy stressed to Palestinian officials [...]	2005-09-15 14:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS FR
05PARIS6471	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Nuclear Threat Katrina [...] Iran Nuclear Threat 2. Katrina and Iraq - Impact on Bush Presidency 3. Iraq - Basra Incident B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: Two of today's front pages (Le Figaro and France Soir) are devoted to Hurricane Rita and the state of alert declared in the Gulf of Mexico. Inside, related stories report [...]	2005-09-22 10:30:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS6478	SURPRISE! FRENCH FARMERS ARE GROWING BIOTECH CORN [...] (U) Summary. This month, the French press revealed - to the surprise of many - that 500 to 1,000 hectares (approximately 1,000 to 2,200 acres) of genetically modified corn was being grown in Southwestern France. The GOF confirmed that French farmers had voluntarily declared 500 hectares of G [...]	2005-09-22 13:01:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAGR ECON BEXP FR
05PARIS6557	FRANCE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 2: PRE-LICENSE END USE [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-26 10:27:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC FR
05PARIS6600	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - GWOT - Abu Gharaib - [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-27 11:07:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS6724	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - DeLay Indictment - Turkey [...] DeLay Indictment 2. EU Membership Negotiations with Turkey (B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: The French Prime Minister's monthly press conference dominates front pages and editorials today. De Villepin addressed the issue of employment, highlighting the drop in unemployment figures for the fifth [...]	2005-09-30 10:04:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS675	MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME: 19 JANUARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a 19 January 2005 meeting of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Points of Contacts (POCS) at the residence of the Norwegian Ambassador to France, members were provided with updates and had constructive discussions of a wide-range of MTCR issues. These included a [...]	2005-02-02 18:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC FR KS KSCA MNUC PARM PREL TSPA MTCRE
05PARIS6756	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - International Terrorism - [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-03 11:08:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS6807	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - European Issues - Turkey [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-04 10:34:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS6810	COMBATING EXTREMISM IN FRANCE [...] (C) Summary: The U.S. and France enjoy a strong and healthy relationship in matters related to combating violent extremism, especially as regards the investigative side. Intelligence, law enforcement and judicial exchanges and cooperation are ongoing and effective, and the French government's [...]	2005-10-04 11:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI PTER FR
05PARIS683	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - MIDDLE EAST IRAQ STATE OF [...] MIDDLE EAST 2. IRAQ 3. STATE OF THE UNION B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: FRONT PAGES ARE FOR THE MOST PART DEVOTED TO THE POPE'S HEALTH AND TO DOMESTIC STORIES, EXCEPT FOR LEFT-OF-CENTER LIBERATION WHICH DEVOTES ITS LEAD TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT AND THE FEBRUARY 8 SUMMIT: "TRUCE AT [...]	2005-02-03 11:13:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS7085	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraqi Constitution [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-17 12:29:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS7174	POSITIVE GOF REACTION TO IRAQI REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: FM Douste-Blazy issued a positive public statement October 17 welcoming the results of the October 15 Iraqi constitutional referendum. While the FM's statement was not overly effusive, he welcomed and commended the conditions under which the referendum took place. MFA contacts r [...]	2005-10-19 18:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ FR UNSC
05PARIS7216	AIR FRANCE CEO ON AVIATION SECURITY AND [...] (SBU) During a wide-ranging discussion with the Ambassador over breakfast October 20, Air France CEO Jean- Claude Spinetta called for enhanced cooperation and greater efficiency in the operation of international aviation security programs, and highlighted Air France's strong interest in succes [...]	2005-10-21 11:08:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ETRD ASEC CVIS FR EU
05PARIS7317	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Iraqi [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-26 11:07:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS7328	LUNG DISEASE CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS GLOBAL EFFORTS [...] Summary: From October 18-22 in Paris, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) held its 36th World Conference on Lung Health, the world's premier meeting of tuberculosis and public health experts from the perspective of low-income, high disease-burdened countr [...]	2005-10-26 14:40:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO FR
05PARIS734	FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES IRAQ, IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Senator John Kerry (D-MA) completed a nearly two-week trip that had taken him to Iraq, major Middle East capitals, the Palestinian territories, Berlin and London, with a stop in Paris and meetings with President Chirac (septel) and Foreign Minister Barnier January 14. Barnier sh [...]	2005-02-04 17:26:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IZ IS FR
05PARIS7407	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Bush Presidency [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-31 12:17:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS7454	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Syria Iraq - Bush Presidency [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-02 14:06:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS7573	AVIAN FLU PREPAREDNESS: FRENCH EFFORTS [...] Summary. The GOF continues to hone preparations for a future avian flu pandemic. On October 27, Research Minister Goulard made symbolic visits to some of France's most prestigious biological research facilities that could prove critical in any response to an H5N1 viral outbreak. On November [...]	2005-11-04 18:43:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO EAGR SOCI FR
05PARIS7613	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Summit of the Americas [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-08 12:17:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS7838	AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA INFORMATION - FRANCE [...] (U) Detailed GOF reactions and responses to date to the possibility of an avian flu pandemic are contained in reftels (B) - (E). The following paragraphs respond to reftel A queries. -------------------------- Preparedness/Communication -------------------------- 2. (U) Following news t [...]	2005-11-17 18:29:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL FR
05PARIS7961	MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME: 20 OCTOBER [...] (C) Summary: On 20 October 2005, ESTH/NP officer attended a meeting of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Points of Contacts (POCS) at the Spanish Embassy in Paris. This meeting focused on reviewing results of the September MTCR Plenary in Madrid and on briefing partners on the a [...]	2005-11-22 15:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC FR KS KSCA MNUC PARM PREL TSPA MTCRE
05PARIS831	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - SECRETARY RICE TO PARIS [...] SECRETARY RICE TO PARIS 2. MIDDLE EAST - SHARM EL-SHEIK SUMMIT B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: A LARGE MAJORITY OF TODAY'S FRONT PAGES AND EDITORIALS ARE DEVOTED TO SECRETARY RICE'S VISIT TO PARIS, HER MUCH AWAITED POLICY SPEECH AND HER CONSULTATIONS WITH PRESIDENT CHIRAC AND FM BARNIER. THE CHO [...]	2005-02-09 13:12:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS8368	AFRICA IN THE FRENCH PRESS [...] ATTENTION 2. AFRICA/FRANCE SUMMIT 3. COTE D'IVOIRE 4. CAMEROON 5. RWANDA 6. GABON 7. ERITREA 8. SOUTH AFRICA 9. SUDAN 10. MALAWI 11. AFRICA'S PRISONS Â [...]	2005-12-09 14:35:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KPAO XA
05PARIS8397	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-12 13:51:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS8483	GOF CONTINUES TO DECLINE COMMENT ON BOUTEFLIKA'S [...] (C) The GoF continues to stonewall on the health situation of Algerian President Bouteflika, who has been hospitalized in Paris since November 27 (reftels). During a December 13 discussion with poloff, MFA DAS-equivalent for the Maghreb Christian Testot reiterated he could provide no informatio [...]	2005-12-16 07:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AG FR
05PARIS8505	Despite Obstacles French Corn Growers [...] SUMMARY: Despite a recent judicial decision suspending jail sentences for 49 people found responsible for test plot destruction and the absence of a French law on coexistence of biotech and non-biotech crops, French corn growers are determined to continue planting biotech corn. They planted [...]	2005-12-16 14:41:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD PGOV FR WTRO EUN
05PARIS8576	FRENCH MEDIA REACTION: MONTREAL CLIMATE CONFERENCE [...] Summary. During the run-up to the eleventh Conference of the Parties under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Montreal November 28-December 9, the French press relentlessly criticized the U.S. and highlighted the "intransigent" attitude of the "world's largest polluter." Comment [...]	2005-12-21 15:06:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SENV ENRG KPAO FR
05PARIS8659	AIR FRANCE DISCUSSES ALTERNATIVE ARRANGEMENTS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Emboffs December 21, Air France officials expressed concern about the cost of processing visas for crewmembers. Air France estimates that it requires approximately 6000 visas per year at a cost in lost crew time and other expenses it claims could reach five [...]	2005-12-27 15:11:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR CVIS PTER FR
05PARIS904	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - IRAQ - ELECTION RESULTS [...] IRAQ - ELECTION RESULTS 2. MUNICH SUMMIT - NATO - IRAN 3. TOGO B) SUMMARY OF COVERAGE: A WIDE VARIETY OF STORIES ARE FEATURED IN TODAY'S EDITORIALS, INCLUDING DEVELOPMENTS IN TOGO (LE FIGARO),BUT THE IRAQI ELECTION RESULTS MAKE THE FRONT PAGE OF RIGHT-OF-CENTER LE FIGARO: "THE SHIITES [...]	2005-02-14 10:55:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
05PARIS974	FRENCH OFFICIAL DISCUSSES BORREL AFFAIR, WIDOW [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent for East Africa Jean-Christophe Belliard informed us on February 14 that Djibouti FM Farah's health was recovering following his stroke but that he would remain hospitalized for several weeks and would not be able to meet with FM Barnier on February 17 as ear [...]	2005-02-16 10:38:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID MARR SCUL DJ FR
05PARIS987	OECD TECHNICAL WORKSHOP ON TRADE AND [...] On February 7, 2005, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) held a technical workshop intended to seek advice from outside experts on its draft report on trade and structural adjustment. The paper is to be completed in time for the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting [...]	2005-02-16 14:25:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD XG XT ZM ECON EFIN
05PORTAUPRINCE1087	CONGRESSMAN DELAHUNT DISCUSSES HAITI POLICE REFORM [...] (C) Summary: During his April 15-16 visit to Port-au-Prince, Representative William Delahunt (D-MA) met with CIVPOL Commissioner Dave Beer and Haitian National Police (HNP) Director General Leon Charles to discuss the nature of violence in Haiti and the threat insecurity poses for the election [...]	2005-04-20 11:05:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1547	HAITIANS CONSIDER LEAVING; PUT AFFAIRS IN ORDER [...] While Haiti has yet to see a run on airline tickets and long lines at the Dominican border, many Haitians have been putting their affairs in order or at least hedging their bets. Eight locally engaged staff have resigned at USAID in the past four months, four since the kidnapping of a USAID [...]	2005-06-03 18:20:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1597	CIVPOL COMMISSIONER EXPRESSES FRUSTRATION WITH HNP COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: CIVPOL Commissioner Dave Beer told PolOff and Embassy Police Advisor on June 2 that he had abandoned attempts at a "unified command" of MINUSTAH military and CIVPOL forces and had freed his Formed Police Units (FPUs) from static positions to focus on roving patrols. Beer also comp [...]	2005-06-07 18:38:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE1625	HAITIAN POLICE DIRECTOR RESPONDS TO EMBASSY [...] (C) Summary: Amid escalating violence and doubts surrounding the ability of the IGOH to ensure stability, Haitian National Police (HNP) Director General (DG) Leon Charles explained that he was having difficulty complying with Post's request to relinquish 21 long-guns to U.S.-controlled bunker [...]	2005-06-10 19:31:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2576	RELATIONS AMONG MINUSTAH, HNP LEADERS NO [...] (C) Summary: MINUSTAH and HNP command rotations have injected a new set of personalities into top-level security decision-making in Haiti: Incoming MINUSTAH military forces commander Bacellar is more thoughtful and methodical than the excitable former General Heleno; UNPOL Commissioner Muir is [...]	2005-10-18 19:04:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA MINUSTAH
05PORTAUPRINCE2634	HAITI'S ELECTIONS DG TAKES LEAD, WILL OTHERS FOLLOW [...] (C) Summary. Electoral Director General Jacques Bernard is working to streamline elections preparations and ignoring unworkable by-laws developed for the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and the newly-formed electoral support committee. Bernard expects the CEP to issue the final approved [...]	2005-10-24 19:56:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2820	HAITI ELECTIONS VOTE COUNT, QUICK COUNT, [...] Summary: The February electoral decree provides five days for results to move from the voting centers (BVs) to the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) through the communal and departmental electoral bureaus (BECs/BEDs). MINUSTAH and the CEP have agree that throughout the process, MINUSTAH will [...]	2005-11-14 19:50:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
05PORTAUPRINCE2916	HAITI: NOVEMBER 22 NEPTUNE/JEAN-JUSTE VISIT [...] (C) Poloff visited former Prime Minister Yvon Neptune at the Pacot Prison Annex on November 22. Despite his continued hunger strike, now approaching day 200, Neptune appeared stronger than he did on the last visit of October 27. Neptune reported that his personal physician had not seen him in [...]	2005-11-28 12:16:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE3060	HAITI: JEAN-JUSTE CALLS FOR HUMANITARIAN RELEASE [...] (C) Summary: Despite a frantic action alert campaign launched by supporters of Gerard Jean-Juste suggesting he has leukemia, he appeared strong and in good health during a visit by poloff on December 12. The recently suspended priest is requesting that the IGOH release him on medical grounds [...]	2005-12-14 19:55:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HA
05PORTAUPRINCE3150	JEAN-JUSTE REFUSES TREATMENT OFFER, NO CHANGE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Imprisoned priest Gerard Jean-Juste continues to refuse an offer by Haitian Prisons Director Marc Wilkens Jean to transfer him to Canape Vert hospital for treatment of his swollen lymph nodes. Emboff visited Jean-Juste at the Prison Annex in Pacot on December 29. Jean-Juste co [...]	2005-12-30 19:46:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE689	DG CHARLES UPDATE ON EX-FADH IN THE HAITIAN NATIONAL POLICE [...] (C) Summary: During a March 9 meeting with the DCM, Haitian National Police (HNP) Director General Leon Charles said that the group of ex-FADH competing for slots in the 17th promotion would be the last group of former military integrated into the HNP this year. Charles also agreed to make sur [...]	2005-03-15 13:35:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM PHUM PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE871	HAITIAN NATIONAL POLICE POISED TO TACKLE REBEL [...] (C) Summary: Following another attack against his officers on March 27, Haitian National Police (HNP) Director General (DG) Leon Charles told Ambassador on March 29 that the HNP was preparing to undertake three significant operations in the coming days to root out violent gang leaders and their [...]	2005-03-30 17:58:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC HA
05PORTAUPRINCE928	UPDATE ON HNP TRAINING AND CONTROL SYSTEMS [...] (C) Summary: In a set of written answers to questions submitted by post to the Director General (DG) of the Haitian National Police (HNP) on March 7, Leon Charles confirmed the process under which 200 ex-FADH were to integrate into the 17th promotion in April, and outlined the verification process [...]	2005-04-05 19:28:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM HA
05PRAGUE106	ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION ON POTENTIAL SALE OF CZECH PASSIVE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM TO PAKISTAN [...] (C) Reftel reported the request of the Czech government for the U.S. government's opinion on the potential sale of a passive surveillance system (PSS) to the Air Force of Pakistan. This cable offers additional technical and background information on the system. Note: ref A mistakenly made r [...]	2005-01-21 14:14:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KSTC PARM PREL PINR PK EZ
05PRAGUE1164	CZECH REPUBLIC: VISIT OF MADELYN SPIRNAK, SENIOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Over the course of an intense two-day visit to the Czech republic (July 27-28),Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology, Madelyn Spirnak met with senior government officials and US business leaders to advance the US position on transgenic crops and to enlist Czech aid in wo [...]	2005-08-09 12:30:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO ETRD ECON EAGR PINR EZ

05PRAGUE117	Czech Republic Response to EU Commission [...] Summary: The European Commission presented all EU member states with a questionnaire seeking their views on obstacles or barriers to trade and investment between the U.S. and EU and appropriate ways to remove them. The Czech MFA shared with us their responses to the questionnaire, which was [...]	2005-01-25 15:52:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV PREL EZ
05PRAGUE1407	CZECHS ON OCT 3 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The Czechs are optimistic that the upcoming GAERC will find a way forward on Turkey. The GOCR has formally stated that they support launching talks with Turkey without establishing a privileged partnership or other status as an option. They also insist that there is no linkage w [...]	2005-09-30 16:51:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EZ TU EUN
05PRAGUE1533	AVIAN FLU: CZECHS DON'T HAVE THEIR DUCKS IN A ROW [...] (SBU) Summary: There is no evidence of Avian Flu in the Czech Republic. However, due to a lack of political leadership and a delayed reaction to the potential pandemic, the government only has sufficient medical supplies and facilities to deal with a mild outbreak. A larger outbreak would o [...]	2005-10-26 14:42:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMED EAGR EZ PGOV TBIO WHO
05PRAGUE1657	SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS PEKALA'S VISIT TO PRAGUE [...] (C) Summary: Czechs this month marked the 16th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. As you will see during your visit this week, the country has embraced a pro-transatlantic foreign policy, with the Czech government and NGOs playing a significant role in efforts to promote democratic transf [...]	2005-11-28 15:58:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EZ
05PRAGUE1699	16 YEARS AFTER THE END OF COMMUNIST RULE, CZECHS [...] (U) SUMMARY. A recent unsuccessful initiative to ban the Czech Communist Party (KSCM),together with November's anniversary of the student protests that led to the eventual end of communist rule, and the general elections scheduled for next June, have focused public debate on the role of the l [...]	2005-12-08 15:34:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EZ
05PRAGUE239	CZECH PRESIDENT NAMES THREE NEW MEMBERS OF CENTRAL [...] Summary: President Klaus appointed three new members of the board of the Czech National Bank on February 11. The three are known to be close both politically and philosophically to President Klaus and the opposition Civic Democratic Party (ODS). Klaus will have a majority of his appointees [...]	2005-02-17 15:20:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV EZ
05PRAGUE46	PRIORITIES FOR WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS FOR CZECH [...] Embassy Prague has reviewed the list of services sectors transmitted reftel. We submit the following rating of sectors in the Czech Republic that offer the highest potential for U.S. services providers. Ratings are from 5 (highest) to 1 (lowest). 2. --Legal services 5 --Accounting, aud [...]	2005-01-10 16:41:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD BEXP EZ BMOT WTO
05PRAGUE469	CZECH PM GROSS SURVIVES NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE WITH [...] (C) Summary: Czech PM Gross survived a no-confidence vote on April 1 thanks to abstentions from the Communist Party. Further resignations from Gross's cabinet are likely, and it is possible that the remaining coalition partner, Freedom Union, will withdraw. Despite his victory, there are inc [...]	2005-04-01 14:30:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
05PRAGUE515	HIV/AIDS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: PREVENTION AND [...] Summary: The Czech Republic currently has one of Europe's lowest rates of HIV infection, despite a significant problem with prostitution and trafficking. Officials and NGOs in the country link the low incidence of HIV with active prevention campaigns, abundant and accessible anonymous testin [...]	2005-04-12 05:44:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV PGOV PHUM PREF EZ
05PRAGUE64	THE MOUSE THAT ROARED: CZECH EFFORTS IN THE MIDDLE [...] (C) Summary. During a January 10 lunch discussion, MFA Director of Middle East Affairs Ivo Silhavy discussed the Czech role in the Middle East Peace Process and upcoming elections in Iraq. The Czechs see the Middle East as an area where they can play a role as an honest broker, making use of [...]	2005-01-12 12:11:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IZ EZ IS
05PRAGUE707	THE ODS: HOW TO SELL THE DISMANTLING OF THE SOCIAL [...] Summary: The Czech Civic Democratic Party (ODS) program for the next elections promises a limited state that costs the taxpayer less, but offers less support to citizens and companies and demands they take more responsibility for their own futures. Although the party benefits mightily from t [...]	2005-05-12 11:51:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON EZ
05PRAGUE822	NEW CZECH GOVERNMENT: GOOD FIRST IMPRESSIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: New Czech PM Jiri Paroubek, who won a vote of confidence on May 13 (ref A),has gotten off to a stronger than expected start. His foreign policy looks to be a continuation of that of the previous Gross Government, marked by support for transatlantic policies. Notwithstanding his [...]	2005-05-27 14:46:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EZ
05PRAGUE892	CZECH PROPOSAL FOR PASSIVE RADAR SYSTEM TO VIETNAM [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-13 08:45:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KSTC PARM PINR PREL EZ VM PK
05PRETORIA1161	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH MARCH 18 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, USEmbassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this wee [...]	2005-03-18 11:19:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA1256	SOUTH AFRICA: BIOSAFETY UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent biosafety developments and policy decisions in South Africa raise the possibility that local conditions for the approval and use of agricultural biotechnology and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) may worsen. A recent judicial ruling supported greater transparency a [...]	2005-03-30 06:49:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD SENV TBIO SF
05PRETORIA1306	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH APRIL 1 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, USEmbassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this wee [...]	2005-04-01 08:25:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA1493	SOUTH AFRICAN PARKS OFFICIAL ON ELEPHANT CULLING [...] (C) Summary. The top conservation official at South African National Parks confirmed the accuracy of press reports on his recent, well-publicized statement on the necessity of culling in order to manage the elephant population in the Kruger National Park. He reached this conclusion based o [...]	2005-04-15 08:39:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV SOCI ECON SF
05PRETORIA1507	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH APRIL 15 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, USEmbassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this wee [...]	2005-04-15 14:42:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA164	WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: REQUEST FOR COMMENTS [...] This cable responds to reftel with post's assessment of priority sectors for U.S. service suppliers in South Africa using reftel's methodology of priority (1-5) and informal ranking (high, medium, or low) of current level of market openness. --Legal services (2) medium --Accounting, auditi [...]	2005-01-13 15:08:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD SF
05PRETORIA1789	SOUTH AFRICA: FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE CENTRE UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. South Africa's Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) continues to evolve as an institution. The FIC seeks better cooperation with law enforcement, higher quality suspicious transaction reports (STRs),continued focus on training, and international status as a Financial Intelligenc [...]	2005-05-09 05:05:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC PTER PREL KTFN KVPR SF
05PRETORIA1892	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH MAY 13 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, USEmbassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this wee [...]	2005-05-13 14:44:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA205	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH JANUARY 14 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, USEmbassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this wee [...]	2005-01-14 14:39:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA2441	NOMINATION FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S AWARD FOR [...] (U) I am pleased to nominate Dow Southern Africa for the Secretary of State's 2005 Award for Corporate Excellence in SIPDIS recognition of its outstanding corporate citizenship and visionary employment practices in the face of South Africa's overwhelming HIV/AIDS health pandemic. 2. (U [...]	2005-06-22 13:30:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP EINV ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV SF
05PRETORIA2830	SOUTH AFRICAN GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES SAFARI NUCLEAR [...] (U) On July 18, 2005, the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) issued a press release announcing the South African Government's intention to phase out the use of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) fuel in its Safari research reactor located in Pelindaba. The press release states that the remain [...]	2005-07-18 15:07:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENRG TRGY SF
05PRETORIA3051	IPACT Workshops on IPR Enforcement Advance STOP - [...] Summary. This wrap-up cable reports on the seven workshops on IPR enforcement funded by INL that the U.S. Embassy organized with IPACT. The workshops succeeded in raising awareness of the seriousness of IPR issues and of ways to enforce the law more effectively in South Africa. Some 244 pro [...]	2005-08-01 10:54:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD SF USTR
05PRETORIA3257	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH AUGUST 12 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, USEmbassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this wee [...]	2005-08-12 13:57:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA3475	SOUTH AFRICA RESPONSE TO NEW COUNTRY OPERATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. With fewer than six weeks remaining for completion of 2006 Country Operational Plans, Post was dismayed to receive significantly revised guidance on required program and budget allocations (Ref Email). Post is firmly committed to achieving 25 percent of the Presidents 2-7-10 [...]	2005-08-26 13:14:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV EAID PREL SF
05PRETORIA3528	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC GROWTH RATCHETS HIGHER [...] South Africa's economy grew faster in second quarter 2005, primarily because manufacturing grew 7.3 percent South Africa's real gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices on a quarter-on-quarter, seasonally annualized and adjusted basis increased by 4.8 percent in second quarter 2005 c [...]	2005-08-31 07:02:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
05PRETORIA3811	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH SEPTEMBER 9 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, USEmbassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this wee [...]	2005-09-16 12:33:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA3917	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH SEPTEMBER 23 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, USEmbassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this wee [...]	2005-09-23 14:50:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA392	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH JANUARY 28 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, USEmbassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this wee [...]	2005-01-28 13:50:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA3923	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER [...] Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Credit Blacklist Review; - IMF Report on South [...]	2005-09-23 14:52:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
05PRETORIA4387	POST PREPARATIONS FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-31 12:20:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT AMED TBIO KSCA SENV EAGR PREL SF
05PRETORIA4441	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH NOVEMBER 4 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]	2005-11-04 07:33:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA4508	MID TERM BUDGET STATEMENT PREPARES FOR 6% GROWTH [...] (U) Summary. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel delivered his Mid Term Budget Policy statement (MTBPS) with the South African economy facing relatively high growth, low inflation, improving global markets, and low budget deficits. Manuel's emphasis was on doubling South Africa's current long-ter [...]	2005-11-09 13:29:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
05PRETORIA4548	INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT FOR SOUTH AFRICA [...] (SBU) Summary: South Africa has identified the trafficking problem, is taking real steps, and is having results. The National Assembly has passed the Children's Bill, and the government continues to push the "Anti-Trafficking" and "Sexual Offenses" bills through the legislative process. Pro [...]	2005-11-15 10:39:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM EAID PREL KCRM KJUS KWMN SF
05PRETORIA4593	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH NOVEMBER 18 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]	2005-11-18 11:23:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA4646	SOUTH AFRICA: INPUT FOR THE 2006 NATIONAL TRADE [...] What follows is post's response for input for the 2006 National Trade Estimates Report as requested in reftel. Per instructions, this has also been sent in Microsoft Word format via electronic mail to William Jackson and Gloria Blue in the Office of the United States Trade Representative. [...]	2005-11-23 04:26:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	NOTAG
05PRETORIA4834	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH DECEMBER 9 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]	2005-12-09 12:31:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA4907	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER December 16 2005 [...] Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - November Consumer Inflation Comes in at Five-Month [...]	2005-12-19 09:29:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
05PRETORIA4971	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH DECEMBER 23 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, Embassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week' [...]	2005-12-23 07:31:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05PRETORIA762	SOUTH AFRICA: UPDATE ON PBMR [...] (C) Summary. PBMR, Ltd. executives told Econoff that their project would not be sidelined by a recent court decision requiring the Department of Environment and Tourism to enter into another round of stakeholder consultations on an environmental impact assessment concerning their pebble bed mo [...]	2005-02-18 15:35:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP TRGY CH FR SF
05PRETORIA849	South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter `THE [...] (U) Introduction: In January 2004, the Economic Section of Embassy/Pretoria produced the first issue of a new monthly newsletter called `The Assay'. The purpose of this monthly newsletter is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as [...]	2005-02-25 12:54:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ENRG EINV EIND ETRD ECON SF
05PRETORIA946	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH MARCH 4 ISSUE [...] Summary. Every two weeks, USEmbassy Pretoria publishes a public health newsletter highlighting South African health issues based on press reports and studies of South African researchers. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this wee [...]	2005-03-04 05:06:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
05QUEBEC109	CONSUL GENERAL ATTENDS ARCTIC NUNAVUT TRADE SHOW, MAY 10-12 [...] Summary: Quebec City Consul General Friedman, whose consular district includes the Canadian Arctic Territory of Nunavut, attended the annual Nunavut trade show in Iqaluit, May 10-12. Over the course of the trade show, she discussed with Nunavut businesses as well as GOC and GON officials inv [...]	2005-06-28 18:09:00	Consulate Quebec	UNCLASSIFIED	BBSR ECON ETRD EINV EIND SENV PBTS CA
05QUEBEC12	ID BIOMEDICAL READIES TO SELL INFLUENZA VACCINE TO U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Late last year local and national media widely reported the possible sale of Canadian flu vaccine Flurival to the U.S. to offset shortages. Here is the current state of play following our meeting with ID Biomedical, the biotech company which is now well positioned to provide [...]	2005-01-28 19:31:00	Consulate Quebec	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO ETRD ECON PGOV CA
05QUITO1018	EMBASSY 90-DAY GOALS, CHALLENGES UNDER PALACIO GOVT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In word if not always in deed, Ecuador's Lucio Gutierrez administration qualified as pro-American. President Alfredo Palacio's most definitely does not. Brought to power by street mobs ("forajidos") clamoring for change, Palacio's closest advisor and Cabinet stalwart is gringo-b [...]	2005-05-04 21:31:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KDEM SNAR PTER ECON ASEC EC CO
05QUITO1021	NEW POLICE CHIEF A US ALLY [...] (C) Summary: New National Police Chief Jose Antonio Vinueza told the Ambassador his priorities would be to restructure the police force, combat narco-trafficking, and restore the police's reputation. Vinueza vowed to continue to be a strong US ally. He said relations with the military were [...]	2005-05-04 22:03:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO1048	ECUADOR'S ABRUPT CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT: EMBASSY [...] (SBU) Summary: The abrupt overthrow of the Gutierrez government on April 20 was not unprecedented here, but tested the Embassy's capacity to respond quickly to a crisis. In this after action report we examine the lessons we learned from this experience, hoping that it will be useful for us an [...]	2005-05-06 20:36:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SNAR ASEC PGOV AMGT EC CONS
05QUITO1100	ECUADOR: DEMOCRATIC DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? [...] (C) Summary: The political scene is coming alive with voices, new and old, providing different prescriptions for Ecuador's democratic ills. Congress on May 11 ejected four more of its members, tossing due process to the wind in the face of threatened protests on May 12. As the first test of [...]	2005-05-13 13:54:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EC
05QUITO1256	PRESIDENT PALACIO SENDING MIXED SIGNALS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting which failed to inspire great confidence in his leadership ability or vision, President Palacio told the Ambassador on May 31 that his government is focused on achieving durable political reforms. Palacio expressed continued concern about disloyalty in the police an [...]	2005-06-01 22:25:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MOPS KCRM EC
05QUITO1344	FORMER FM FACING POSSIBLE CONGRESSIONAL CENSURE [...] (C) Summary: The president of Congress has publicly threatened to bring charges against Former Foreign Minister Patricio Zuquilanda, who lost his position with ex-President Gutierrez' ouster, for violating Ecuador's sovereignty by allowing the US military to sink decrepit Ecuadorian flagged [...]	2005-06-10 14:51:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO1404	WELCOME TO ECUADOR, GENERAL CRADDOCK [...] (U) On behalf of Mission Ecuador, General, please accept a warm welcome on your second visit to this fascinating South American nation. Regrettably, your tight schedule forced an agenda trimming -- we initially had you traversing Ecuador's border with Colombia -- but we'll file that itinerary [...]	2005-06-16 13:39:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
05QUITO2049	SCANDAL TARNISHES PALACIO GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: President Palacio has moved quickly to stem the damage caused by a widening forgery and position-selling scandal by firing implicated advisors inside the office of the presidency. Coming on the heels of damaging strikes, the scandal has weakened the Palacio government's image [...]	2005-09-02 14:18:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO2241	NEW GOVERNMENT MINISTER AN IMPROVEMENT [...] (C) Summary: On September 26, the Ambassador discussed pending political reforms with new Minister of Government Oswaldo Molestina. She also enlisted Molestina's continued support for the successful conclusion of an FTA and new leadership combating trafficking in persons (TIP). President [...]	2005-09-30 15:33:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EC
05QUITO2673	ECUADOR - AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] Per reftel, post is providing the following information regarding the GOE's efforts to control Avian Influenza (AI) and its capability to respond to an influenza pandemic. The answers are keyed to reftel questions. A) PREPAREDNESS/COMMUNICATION -- The GOE began working on a preparedness [...]	2005-11-21 21:45:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV EAGR EAID ECON PREL EC
05QUITO2678	ECUADOR TO COOPERATE ON ANTI-SMUGGLING CASES [...] (U) Summary: Ecuador's top officials committed to working with U.S. law enforcement authorities to slow illegal immigration and put alien smugglers behind bars during a November 16-18 visit by DOJ prosecutors and DHS agents. The visit came just days after Ecuadorian police arrested a couple a [...]	2005-11-25 12:31:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG PBTS PGOV
05QUITO2706	SUPREME COURT SELECTED, FIRST STEP IN DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Achieving a major democratic milestone and goal of the mission's democracy support strategy (RefTel),on November 28 a new, more independent Supreme Court was named unanimously by the special selection committee, permitting an inauguration ceremony to take place on November 30 [...]	2005-11-29 15:09:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS PREL EC OAS
05QUITO282	GUTIERREZ (AGAIN) RECONSIDERING AMBASSADORIAL [...] (C) Despite Lucio Gutierrez informing a nationwide TV audience January 3 that MFA diplomat Roberto Betancourt was his choice to head Ecuador's embassy in Washington (Ref A),the Ecuadorian president is now having second (actually, third) thoughts. At their February 3 meeting, Gutierrez told [...]	2005-02-04 14:38:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EC
05QUITO2852	ECUADOR 2006 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT DRAFT [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-15 16:01:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN EINV EAGR EC FTA
05QUITO434	ANOTHER MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT PACKS BAGS [...] SUMMARY: Long expected, Minister of Government Jaime Damerval quit February 21, citing as reasons his disagreements with President Lucio Gutierrez over the manner and scope of political reform in Ecuador. As a political lightning rod and vocal enemy of the opposition, especially the Social [...]	2005-02-22 21:44:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO490	SUBMISSION FOR 2005 TIP REPORT [...] Summary: Ecuador continues to take steps to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Since issuing a presidential decree in August 2004, the government has drafted a national plan, increased public awareness of the problem, and reached out to source and destination countries. The GOE has coope [...]	2005-03-02 12:15:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF
05QUITO553	MARCH 4 VISIT TO ECUADOR OF ADOLFO FRANCO, AA/LAC [...] SUMMARY: ADOLFO FRANCO, USAID ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN, AND MARGARITA GUERRA, SPECIAL ASSISTANT, VISITED QUITO ON MARCH 4 TO MEET WITH U.S. MISSION MANAGEMENT TO DISCUSS LAC PRIORITIES AND USAIDS PROGRAM IN ECUADOR. HIS VISIT INCLUDED EVENTS WITH PARTNERS, M [...]	2005-03-10 18:42:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EC ECON EFIS ETRD PGOV PREL SENV
05QUITO57	US SERVICE MARKET ACCESS PRIORITIES IN ECUADOR [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-07 21:57:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD WTO
05QUITO710	ECUADOR'S WHITE GOODS POLICIES [...] Summary. In response to reftel, Emboffs met with newly appointed Vice Minister of Industries in the Ministry of Trade (MICIP) Jorge Illingworth and Ecuadorian Standards Institute (INEN) Director General Felipe Urresta to discuss white goods. Urresta had not, as he had offered to USTR, presen [...]	2005-03-31 20:08:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV ECON EC
05QUITO794	ECUADOR: FACTS ON SUCCESSION AND STATE OF EMERGENCY [...] (C) Summary: With political instability a chronic problem in Ecuador, and in the face of imminent anti-government strike action, we are providing background information on constitutional provisions for a presidential declaration of a state of emergency and for presidential succession. The G [...]	2005-04-12 22:04:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
05QUITO840	ECUADOR STATE OF EMERGENCY: SITREP 2, 1300 HRS [...] (C) Summary: Demonstrations in Quito petered out early April 16. As of 0900, the city was calm, but police contacts report likely large gatherings commencing shortly after nightfall. The Ambassador reconvened the Country Team at 1000 hrs to discuss the situation on the streets, the safety [...]	2005-04-16 19:32:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC EC
05RABAT1767	SENATOR LUGAR'S MEETING WITH KING MOHAMMED [...] (C) Summary: Senator Lugar met for 40 minutes with King Mohammed the afternoon of August 19 in Tetouan, northern Morocco. The King thanked Senator Lugar for US intervention in freeing the remaining POWs from Tindouf. Lugar encouraged the King to use the release as an opportunity to make pr [...]	2005-08-23 07:30:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD MO PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL MAS
05RABAT2004	Favorable Views of U.S. surge upward in Arab/Muslim [...] The Pew Global Attitudes Project survey published in July 2005 recorded a startling 22-point increase in favorable attitudes toward the United States among Moroccans. 49 percent of Moroccans held favorable views of the U.S., compared to only 27 percent in each of the two prior years. Morocco [...]	2005-09-23 13:03:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO SCUL OIIP PGOV KMPI CVIS ECON MO
05RABAT2032	SAHRAWI PRISONERS: THE MFA RESPONDS [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On the evening of September 23, the MFA passed us the following document concerning the status of the Sahrawi prisoners discussed reftel. The document is entitled "Elements of Information Relating to the Campaign Orchestrated by Algeria and the Polisario on the Cond [...]	2005-09-26 16:26:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL
05RABAT2227	EQUITY AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION: AN UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met with Dr. Abdelhay Moudden, a member of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER),on October 19 to discuss developments within the IER. Moudden was forthcoming and pleased with the progress of the IER. He believes the IER to be pivotal in Morocco's reform proce [...]	2005-10-28 17:06:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PBTS MO
05RABAT2532	AVIAN INFLUENZA RESPONSE: MOROCCO [...] (C) Summary: Post committee on Avian and Pandemic Influenza met Dec. 1 to discuss the Government of Morocco's National Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Plan and to assess the Government's general level of preparedness. The GOM's National Plan is of high quality and is backed at th [...]	2005-12-19 16:32:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO SENV EAGR EAID PREL MO
05RANGOON1036	BURMA: HOST COUNTRY AVIAN INFLUENZA PREPAREDNESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable contains responses to questions sent to post (ref A) on the level of preparedness of the Government of Burma (GOB) for a possible outbreak of Avian Influenza. Official GOB data is difficult to obtain and is often not reliable. Our responses are based on the best inf [...]	2005-09-08 11:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR SOCI PGOV PHUM EAID EAGR BM
05RANGOON1157	BURMA ILL-PREPARED FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK [...] (C) Summary: Representatives in Burma of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) assess that the GOB is aware of a potential Avian Influenza threat in Burma and has some sort of a national preparedness plan. The WHO and FAO representatives note, ho [...]	2005-10-12 09:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR SOCI PGOV PHUM EAID EAGR BM
05RANGOON1185	ROHINGYA REFUGEES AND REBELS - A VIEW FROM OUTSIDE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rangoon Poloff traveled to Bangladesh in mid September to visit Rohingya refugee camps and to meet agencies that assist the refugees. Despite living in refugee camps for over a decade amid squalid conditions and sometimes suffering violence and intimidation, very few refugees ind [...]	2005-09-29 02:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PREF PINS PTER BM
05RANGOON1257	BURMA AI UPDATE: QUASHING OUTBREAK RUMORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rumors of avian influenza (AI) outbreaks are making the rounds in Burma. A reported suspicious outbreak in Tachileik, eastern Shan State appears to be unsubstantiated. FAO says it heard that the GOB sent a team to investigate a reported outbreak in northern Shan State, but kno [...]	2005-11-04 07:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR PGOV PHUM SOCI TBIO BM
05RANGOON1275	BURMA: CHARGE MEETS THE MINISTER OF HEALTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Charge made a courtesy call November 8 on Dr. Kyaw Myint, Minister of Health. The minister assured the Charge of the GOB's commitment to transparency on avian influenza outbreaks in Burma and his ministry has several initiatives to mitigate the spread of AI. The minister des [...]	2005-11-09 10:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID EAGR PGOV SOCI TBIO BM
05RANGOON1304	BURMA AI UPDATE: NOVEMBER 17, 2005 [...] SUMMARY: We have met in the past week with the Minister of Health and other embassies to gather information on AI and to coordinate planning. We have seen reporting from the Burmese media, closely controlled by the GOB, raising public awareness of AI issues. End Summary. 2. On November [...]	2005-11-17 03:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI TBIO BM CACS
05RANGOON1323	BURMA: RESPONSES TO AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] Burma has made some strides in preparing for a potential avian influenza (AI) pandemic, but much more needs to be done. Our responses to questions in ref A follow: PREPAREDNESS /COMMUNICATION 2. Does the government have a preparedness plan/strategy for preventing avian flu from becoming [...]	2005-11-23 05:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID PGOV PHUM PREL SENV SOCI TBIO BM
05RANGOON1420	BURMA'S ILO REP READY FOR ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Burma's ILO Liaison Officer Richard Horsey received further assurances from the Labor Minister, both about his personal security and about the regime's willingness to engage on forced labor. He will raise the cases of Burmese villagers who have been charged by authorities with re [...]	2005-12-20 10:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PGOV BM
05RANGOON1423	UNHCR AWAITS APPROVAL TO WORK IN THE SOUTHEAST [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 14 meeting, the UNHCR Representative for Burma described the UNHCR's relationship with the GOB and UNHCR's access to the southeastern border region with Thailand. The UNHCR has informal support to do needs assessments, but still lacks an MOU to officially work in th [...]	2005-12-21 02:16:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREF PGOV PHUM PINS PREL BM NGO
05RANGOON1444	THE SLIPPERY SLOPE TO A DRUG-FREE WA REGION [...] (U) SUMMARY: United Wa State Army (UWSA) leaders told visiting diplomats that drugs have turned the ethnic Wa into "pariahs." The Wa leaders claimed, however, that they have turned a new page and "put narcotics behind us," appealing for increased international assistance and a reversal of U.S. [...]	2005-12-27 08:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID KCRM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SNAR BM NGO
05RANGOON1449	REGIME'S DESTRUCTIVE ATTEMPTS TO CORRUPT YOUTH AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On Dec. 22, Charge Villarosa hosted a small gathering of high-level NLD women (including four MPs) representing Rangoon, Mandalay and Mogok cities, Bago Division, Karen State, Shan State, and Mon State. The Charge arranged the meeting to gather information on the situation outs [...]	2005-12-29 03:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI SNAR EAID ECON BM NLD
05RANGOON146	NEW GAS IN BURMA: PIPE DREAMS? [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese government is salivating over prospects that a tri-nation (Burma-Bangladesh-India) pipeline will be constructed to carry Burmese natural gas to India. Though the developers of the new gas fields and the three governments are full of good news at the moment, outside obs [...]	2005-02-04 04:47:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL ECON BM
05RANGOON167	EMINENT HIV/AIDS RESEARCHER EXPECTS AIDS TO "TAKE [...] Summary: On February 1, COM and emboffs met with Dr. Robert C. Gallo, co-discoverer of the HIV virus, and representatives of WHO, UNOCAL Myanmar Offshore Co. Ltd., and Total E&P Myanmar to discuss HIV/AIDS in Burma. Dr. Gallo, guest of TOTAL, was on a three-day visit to Rangoon, meeting with [...]	2005-02-08 06:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI PGOV EAID KHIV BM
05RANGOON291	BURMA: RESPONSE TO FIFTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) Summary: The following report contains Post's responses to the fifth annual anti-trafficking in persons questionnaire contained in reftel requesting information on trafficking in persons in Burma from March 2004 to March 2005. End Summary. 2. (U) Embassy point of contact on TIP is p [...]	2005-03-08 07:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB SMIG ASEC PREF KCRM KWMN KFRD BM
05RANGOON327	BURMA: GOVERNMENT STYMIES EFFORTS TO DEVELOP AGING [...] (C) Summary: Burma's onshore oil fields are decrepit, old, and produce very little. Western oil companies decided 10 years ago that new onshore prospects were not promising. Nonetheless, high world oil prices have created a wave of new foreign investment in onshore development and exploration. [...]	2005-03-16 09:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL ECON PGOV BM
05RIODEJANEIRO1238	DRUGLORD ORDERS RIO BUS BURNED [...] Cariocas (Rio de Janeiro residents) awoke November 30 to a gruesome news story in the daily, O Globo, concerning the death of five passengers and wounding of fourteen others on a bus the previous night. In a city where police brutality and drug gang violence have become almost daily routine, [...]	2005-12-08 16:22:00	Consulate Rio De Janeiro	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC SNAR KCRM CASC BR
05RIODEJANEIRO1248	AFRO-BRAZILIAN LEADERS DEBUNK MYTH OF RACIAL [...] Two prominent members of the Afro-Brazilian community sat down with members of the Hyde CODEL (septel) on December 1 to discuss the business and political climate for black Brazilians. In a wide-ranging discussion, they explained how Brazil's electoral and educational systems work to prevent [...]	2005-12-15 16:25:00	Consulate Rio De Janeiro	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SOCI PGOV BR
05RIYADH3517	KING FAHD HEALTH CRISIS UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: As of Saturday, May 28, King Fahd remains in King Faisal Specialist Hospital, undergoing unspecified "medical tests," according to statements released by the Saudi press agency and sourced to the Royal Court and "official sources." The mood in Riyadh is quiet and normal, although [...]	2005-05-28 10:56:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SA
05RIYADH9469	HEAD OF TOP SAUDI UNIVERSITY LEADS THE DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: CG John Kincannon and consulate staff met with Dr. Khaled S. Al Sultan, Rector and CEO of King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) on December 17th 2005. Al Sultan discussed current challenges facing the university, the importance of educational exchange, and KFUPM' [...]	2005-12-21 16:03:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI KMPI PINR SA
05ROME1142	FAO'S AVIAN INFLUENZA ACTIVITIES [...] Summary. USUN Rome has been holding informal meetings with technical experts of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to ascertain FAO's activities to contain Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). Since January 2004 when the outbreaks first occurred, FAO and its [...]	2005-04-05 08:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF SENV XC UN FAO
05ROME1593	IRAQ/ITALY: BERLUSCONI IN PARLIAMENT ON CALIPARI- [...] (S) Summary and Recommendation: On May 5-6, PM Berlusconi spoke to both houses of Parliament about the joint investigation and separate reports of the March 4 shooting of Italian Intelligence officer Nicola Calipari by US forces near Baghdad. While Berlusconi defended the Italian report and took is [...]	2005-05-09 15:53:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL MOPS KJUS IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME1785	ITALY: CENTER RIGHT NEEDS DRASTIC CHANGES TO WIN, [...] (C) Vice Minister of Productive Activities Adolfo Urso told the Ambassador May 16 that the center-right coalition seems destined for defeat in the next national elections unless it takes drastic measures soon. Urso believes a larger, more unified center-right party needs to be created, with [...]	2005-05-25 12:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME1859	UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' MAY 13 DISCUSSIONS IN ROME [...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Burns exchanged views with senior Italian Foreign Ministry officials on UN Security Council reform, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Syria/Lebanon, Darfur, and Iran during his May 13 stopover in Rome. On most issues, Italian positions were [...]	2005-06-01 09:45:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL MOPS SY LE AF SR IT EUN BI
05ROME2179	ITALY: SIGONELLA TA APPROVAL CRITICAL TO MIL-MIL [...] (C) Post wishes to highlight the importance to US-Italy relations of rapid approval in Washington of the just-concluded negotiations on the Sigonella Technical Arrangement. The 1995 "Shell Agreement" stipulates that the US and Italy will negotiate technical arrangements (TA) for each Italian [...]	2005-06-27 13:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR IT NATO FORCES IN ITALY
05ROME2543	AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY ACTIVITY IN AFRICA: [...] Summary: USUN-Rome arranged for Dr. Michael Hall, Regional Biotechnology Advisor for USAID's Regional Economic Development Services Office (REDSO) based in Nairobi, Kenya, to meet with representatives at FAO and WFP. Hall also met with an official from the Holy See (to be covered in septel fr [...]	2005-07-29 13:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD SENV EAID AORC XA VT FAO WFP
05ROME2991	ITALY: CODESHARING ON FLIGHTS TO THE RUSSIAN [...] Summary and comment. In response to reftel request, Econoffs met September 2 with GOI chief aviation negotiator Aldo Sansone, who described the Italy-Russia Air Services Agreement as "liberal." The Agreement includes a key third-country code-share provision; Sansone believed American carrier [...]	2005-09-09 15:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ETRD IT RS AVIATION
05ROME3185	ITALIAN RESPONSE TO ENERGY SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS [...] (SBU) ECMIN and Econoff met September 9 with Director General for Energy and Mineral Resources, Sergio Garribba, of the Ministry of Productive Activities (MPA) on Hurricane Katrina's impact on energy supplies. The discussion centered on the international response to energy supply disruptions, [...]	2005-09-23 14:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EPET PREL IT
05ROME36	US-ITALIAN WORKING GROUP MEETS ON GLOBAL DEFENSE [...] (S) SUMMARY. PM DAS Bue and OSD Strategy Director Pavel led a joint State-DOD delegation to Rome on December 7 to discuss anticipated US Global Defense Posture Review (GDPR) changes and work through details on reshaping our presence in Italy. In working group discussions with an Italian dele [...]	2005-01-05 13:18:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAO IT GLOBAL DEFENSE

05ROME3671	ITALIAN VIEWS ON NOVEMBER 7 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS' [...] (C) Summary. Post delivered ref d points to MFA interlocutors during the week of October 31. The GOI supports the US position on Middle East, Balkans, and Avian Flu issues. Progress on WTO issues, however, will depend on the whether there is movement on issues of key importance to the GOI - [...]	2005-11-03 16:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL BO KPAL ETRD IT EUN EAGER
05ROME3767	SCENESETTER FOR DHHS SECRETARY MICHAEL LEAVITT'S [...] (C) Ambassador Spogli and Minister of Health Francesco Storace warmly welcome your visit to Italy to further our already excellent relations in health cooperation. Italy has been a key U.S. ally and steadfast partner. Italy is the third largest contributor of troops to coalition forces in [...]	2005-11-15 12:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IT OTRA OVIP PREL SOCI TBIO FAO
05ROME3976	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO HOLDS SPECIAL EVENT DURING [...] Summary. During the 33rd session of the FAO Conference, FAO hosted a side event on Avian Influenza on November 23rd (septel on the FAO Conference will be issued shortly). The aim was to update the membership on recent developments and the action taken by FAO as well as provide an outline for [...]	2005-12-02 15:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID SENV SOCI TBIO FAO OIE WHO
05ROME3994	OLYMPIC SECURITY COORDINATOR - TURIN - MONTHLY [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-05 16:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC KOLY IT AMGT
05ROME3998	ADVISOR ON HOMELAND SECURITY TOWNSEND'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary. During a series of meetings with law enforcement and intelligence officials, Advisor to the President for Homeland Security Townsend delivered a consistent message on security for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. We respect Italian capabilities and appreciate the cooperation [...]	2005-12-06 09:50:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KOLY PTER OVIP IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME4005	RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON "CLUSTER LEADS" STRATEGY [...] Summary. This message responds to reftel query of UN agencies regarding a strategy for more effective division of labor among these agencies in the field in meeting the needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs). USUN-Rome transmitted to the World Food Program (WFP) as the sectoral lead on [...]	2005-12-06 17:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF EAGR AORC UN WFP FAO
05ROME4027	REPORT OF THE 33ND FAO CONFERENCE, INCLUDING THE [...] At the meetings of the Conference and Council of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),held in Rome from 16 to 28 November 2005, member governments discussed international anti-hunger, food policy and agricultural trade issues, and the key institutional questions of the organization [...]	2005-12-09 12:11:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR AORC EAID ETRD SENV KUNR FAO WFP
05ROME4052	ITALIANS FOCUS ON LONG-TERM IN IRAQ, SEEK [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with the Deputy Senior Coordinator for Iraq Robert Deutsch, Italian government officials stressed the need for the continued involvement and commitment of the international community in Iraq. The Prime Minister's office suggested a UN Presidential statement would hel [...]	2005-12-13 15:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PGOV IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM NATO
05ROME4071	IRAQ: ITALY PRAISES IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] (U) PM Berlusconi issued a statement on December 15 praising the Iraqi elections as a further step on the road to democracy. Noting that first indications suggested a significant Sunni turnout, Berlusconi said the vote also marked a strike against the insurgents. The statement also noted It [...]	2005-12-16 14:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ IT IRAQI ELECTIONS
05ROME4113	ITALIAN PREPAREDNESS FOR AVIAN/PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] (U) Information on avian/pandemic influenza preparedness in Italy is keyed to categories and questions in reftel. A) PREPAREDNESS/COMMUNICATION ----------------------------- 2. (SBU) Does the government of Italy have a preparedness plan/strategy for preventing avian flu (AI) from becomi [...]	2005-12-20 16:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL IT FAO
05ROME494	ITALIAN MINISTER OF HEALTH INVITATION TO EXPAND [...] The Embassy has received a copy of a February 11, 2005 letter sent from Italian Minister of Health Girolamo Sirchia to HHS Secretary Leavitt proposing to expand the bilateral MOU on Health and Medical Sciences (2003) to include cooperation on obesity, diabetes, and complementary and alternati [...]	2005-02-15 12:35:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI IT
05ROME510	VWP/ITALY: UPDATE ON 10/26/05 DEADLINE AND [...] Summary: The Consul General updated the GOI on the status of the U.S. biometric passport program and drew attention to the upcoming deadline for biometric passports for Visa Waiver countries at a February 14 meeting with MFA Director General for Italians Abroad and Migration Siggia. Siggia [...]	2005-02-16 14:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT PREL IT CPPT
05ROME715	WFP EMERGENCY NEEDS ASSESSMENT UPDATE [...] Summary. At its third regular Executive Board session in October 2004, WFP presented an update on actions already taken and activities to be implemented in a 30-month timeframe that will enable it to strengthen "its competencies and capacities to ensure the quality, credibility, comparability [...]	2005-03-03 13:59:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF AORC WFP
05ROME764	FAO AND THE NEXT DESERT LOCUST INVASION [...] Summary. USUN Rome has been actively engaging the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on the desert locust emergency in Sahelian West Africa and the Maghreb to determine FAO's preparedness for the next spring and summer 2005 locust control campaign. It has learned that [...]	2005-03-08 06:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF SENV XI XY UN FAO
05ROME821	IRAQ/ITALY: PM BERLUSCONI SPEAKS TO THE SENATE ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: Italian PM Berlusconi stressed to the Senate March 9 the importance of the U.S.'s "unprecedented" decision to allow Italy to participate in the investigation of the circumstances that led to the March 4 killing of [...]	2005-03-11 05:18:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME858	U.S.-ITALY INVESTIGATION INTO DEATH OF ITALIAN OFFICIAL CALIPARI IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) By exchange of letters dated March 12, the Embassy concurred with the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the subject investigation as proposed by the GOI. The Italian letter containing the proposed TOR follows the text reported in para 7 of reftel and was signed by Undersecretary in the Prime [...]	2005-03-14 16:18:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MOPS IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM PHUM
05SANAA1032	ONE STEP BACK FOR GLOBAL POLIO ERADICATION: FOUR [...] The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified four cases of polio in Yemen since early February. According to Deputy Minister of Health Dr. Abdulmagid Al-Kulaidi, the genetic profile of the polio virus indicates that these cases may be related to the ongoing outbreak in Sudan, which in t [...]	2005-04-25 07:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AMED YM
05SANAA1300	YEMEN'S DEMOCRATIC REFORM STRATEGY TO SUPPORT [...] Per reftel, included below is requested report on Yemen's democratic reform strategy to support the Freedom Agenda. Begin text. ------------ A. Overview ------------ The Government of Yemen has demonstrated rhetorical and real commitment to the goals of democracy and human rights. T [...]	2005-05-15 12:41:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ECON PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO KMPI KMCA YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA1304	YEMEN POLIO UPDATE: 60 CASES AND GROWING [...] (SBU) On May 11, Yemen's poliomyelitis outbreak reached more than 60 cases according to official statements, making one of the largest outbreaks in non-polio endemic country in recent years. UN Health officials publicly estimated that polio infections in Yemen will exceed the 100 mark, as more [...]	2005-05-16 08:43:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AMED YM
05SANAA1361	AGRICULTURAL BANK ABANDONS CORRUPT PAST, LOOKS TO [...] (SBU) Summary. The Yemen Cooperative and Agricultural Credit Bank (CACB) is moving away from a history of corruption and poor banking practices and positioning itself as a viable commercial bank. The MEPI-funded Financial Services Volunteer Corps worked with the bank May 14-18 to craft a pro [...]	2005-05-24 13:35:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV PGOV KMPI YM ECON COM
05SANAA1868	PRESIDENT SALEH REQUESTS MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-10 13:28:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PINR PREL YE
05SANAA196	YEMEN GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO CAPTURE TELCOM MARKET [...] (C) Summary: President Saleh's initiative to provide rural phone access through the use of CDMA technology expanded in 2004 to offer mobile phone service in Yemen. Yemen Mobile, though promoted as part of the rural access program, may serve to squeeze out its private sector GSM competitors, S [...]	2005-02-02 11:49:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN ECPS EIND EINV ETTC KMPI ECON COM
05SANAA265	YEMEN SUBMITS THRESHOLD PAPER: REACHING MCC A [...] Summary. Deputy Prime Minister Sofan presented Yemen's MCC-Threshold Concept Paper to USAID Director on Jan. 30. The paper was recommended for approval on Jan. 30 by letter to AID/PPC/MCA, signed by Ambassador and USAID Director. The Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC) [...]	2005-02-08 12:49:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS EFIN EIND EINV KMCA KMPI PGOV YM ECON COM DEMOCRATIC REFORM
05SANAA269	COMBATING YEMEN'S GRAY MARKET IN SMALL ARMS AND [...] (S) Summary. Yemen has one of the highest per capita rates of small arms and light weapons (SA/LW) in the world. It has been reported that, as a result of leakage or diversion, Yemeni weapons procured officially by the Ministry of Defense (MOD) have ended up in terrorist caches. In the past y [...]	2005-02-08 15:51:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET	PREL PGOV PARM PTER YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA2796	AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO MUKALLA SPARKS REQUESTS FOR [...] (C) Summary: On September 12-13, Ambassador visited the Hadramaut governorate capital and port city of Mukalla. In meetings with the Deputy Commander of the Eastern Military Region, university faculty, NGO activists and political and business leaders, Ambassador was repeatedly urged to increa [...]	2005-09-21 10:39:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MASS ENRG KMPI YM MARITIME SECURITY ECON COM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA2814	IMI: INVITATION FOR BID - URBAN WATER SUPPLY AND [...] The Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project of the Ministry of Water and Environment is inviting international companies for the drilling and construction of ten boreholes in Al-Sabeen and the surrounding area. The works consists of drilling ten boreholes at a depth of between 600-900m, sup [...]	2005-09-24 08:35:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON YM COM
05SANAA2957	RECORD OIL REVENUES FOR YEMEN -- WHERE HAS THE [...] (C) Summary. In September, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) submitted a record supplementary budget to Parliament for approval, totaling 50 percent of the original 2005 budget. As a result of higher than expected oil revenues and the lifting of fuel subsidies, Yemen is showing a revenue surplus [...]	2005-10-12 11:28:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN ECON KMCA KMPI YM DOMESTIC POLITICS
05SANAA3167	YEMEN AND AVIAN FLU - LONG ON STRATEGY - SHORT ON [...] SUMMARY: A/DCM Tom Burke, accompanied by USAID's Senior Health Advisor in Yemen, Dr. Ahmed Attieg, met with Yemeni Public Health Deputy Minister, Dr. Majid al-Gunaid at his request on 10/17/2005, at which he discussed Yemen state of preparations to respond to the Avian Flu Influenza. Deputy [...]	2005-10-30 14:16:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA KPAO EAGR ECON PREL SOCI YM WHO AID COM ENVIRONMENT
05SANAA3290	YEMEN INFORMATION ON AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] (U) Summary: This cable describes ROYG preparations and capabilities in the event of an avian influenza pandemic; responses are keyed to reftel questions. End Summary. 2. Preparedness/Communication -- Does the government have a preparedness plan/strategy for preventing avian flu from bec [...]	2005-11-22 06:18:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL YM ENVIRONMENT
05SANAA3349	MOD SHOWS INTEREST IN WEAPONS INVENTORY CONTROL [...] (C) Summary: During a November 21 meeting, Office of Military Cooperation Chief and DATT briefed Minister of Defense MG Abdullah Ali Aliwa on a proposed weapons inventory control system. OMC Chief explained the basic concept of the system and reiterated USG willingness to assist in its imple [...]	2005-11-26 13:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PARM YM COUNTER TERRORISM
05SANAA3514	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TREASURY REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of Mr. George Mullinax from o/a December 18, 2005 to o/a December 20, 2005 to provide assistance to the Central Bank of Yemen. Please make sure that Post has Mr. Mullinax's SSN and security clearance on file. 2. (SBU) Con [...]	2005-12-18 12:55:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV KMPI YM
05SANAA3527	YEMEN AVIAN INFLUENZA PREPARATIONS [...] Post has addressed ref A and implemented its recommendations to the maximum extent possible. Further avian influenza preparation measures will also be taken over the next month. Paragraph 2 provides a general assessment of avian influenza (AI) preparedness. Paragraph 3 details post's trip w [...]	2005-12-19 07:26:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR YM
05SANAA3577	2005-2006 INSCR REPORT FOR YEMEN: FINANCIAL CRIMES [...] The following is the text of Embassy Sanaa's update to Part II of the 2005-2006 INSCR report on financial crimes and money laundering. ---------- Begin Text ---------- The Yemeni financial system is not yet well developed; thus, the extent of money laundering is not known. The prevalenc [...]	2005-12-26 11:27:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PTER KCRM KTFN YM TERFIN
05SANAA3588	ESTABLISHING A SENIOR DEFENSE OFFICER IN YEMEN [...] (C) Department of Defense (DOD) personnel posted in Yemen have been instrumental in supporting both the Department and post's goals of improving Yemen's capacity to combat terrorism. The combined use of diplomacy and military cooperation is a cornerstone of our engagement policy. Through the [...]	2005-12-27 10:30:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MASS YM
05SANAA420	CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS CALL ON U/S DOBRIANSKY FOR [...] Summary: On February 24, Undersecretary for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, explored at a roundtable with Yemeni NGOs areas where the U.S. can support Yemen's nascent civil society. Representatives from forty NGOs raised concerns over human rights abuses, women's access to political and eco [...]	2005-02-28 14:11:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KCOR KMCA KMPI YM DEMOCRATIC REFORM HUMAN RIGHTS
05SANAA461	U/S DOBRIANSKY'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF PLANNING [...] (C) Summary. On February 24, Under Secretary for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky urged Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Planning and International Cooperation Ahmed Sofan to use the MCC threshold process to Yemen's full advantage and implement serious anti-corruption measures. Sofan repl [...]	2005-03-04 13:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KMPI KDEM EAID ECON EFIN YM COM
05SANJOSE1774	SECRET MEETINGS, DEAL-MAKING, TAXES, AND CAFTA-DR [...] (U) Summary. On August 3, 2005 Costa Rican dailies "La Prensa Libre" and "Diario Extra" reported that members of President Pacheco's Social Christian Union Party (PUSC) and the National Liberation Party (PLN) met in secret on July 29, 2005 to discuss overcoming difficulties in passing the Fis [...]	2005-08-08 15:28:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECPS ECON PREL PGOV SOCI CS
05SANJOSE1904	COSTA RICA SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR ARLEN SPECTOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy San Jose warmly welcomes Senator Arlen Spector. Your trip comes in the heat of the campaign for the February 2006 general election. The political establishment is still struggling to recover from large scandals that resulted in two ex-Presidents awaiting trial under h [...]	2005-08-17 23:03:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CS ECON OVIP PGOV PREL VE
05SANJOSE2658	COSTA RICA RESPONSE TO USTR REQUEST FOR INFO ON CBI- [...] SUMMARY: Post has updated information provided in previous report using the same format. Post contact is Maria D. Villanueva, (506) 519-2419, Fax (506) 519-2364, villanuevamd@state.gov. End Summary. 2. Country Reports: Compliance with Eligibility Criteria The country reports contained [...]	2005-11-15 14:30:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON CS
05SANJOSE2718	COSTA RICA AND AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] The responses below key off reftel. A) PREPAREDNESS/COMMUNICATION -- DOES THE GOVERNMENT HAVE A PREPAREDNESS PLAN/STRATEGY FOR PREVENTING AVIAN FLU FROM BECOMING A PANDEMIC AND CONTAINING A PANDEMIC ONCE IT OCCURS? IF THE COUNTRY HAS A STRATEGY, HOW CAPABLE IS IT OF IMPLEMENTING IT? PLEAS [...]	2005-11-23 22:37:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV EAGR EAID PREL CS
05SANJOSE2809	COSTA RICA INCSR REPORT 2005 - 2006 PART I, DRUGS [...] (U) The text of Costa Rica's 2005-2006 INCSR Part I is below. Costa Rica I. Summary Costa Rica is becoming a major transshipment point for narcotics to the United States and Europe. Costa Rican officials demonstrate professionalism and reliability as partners in combating ever-changi [...]	2005-12-08 23:00:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR CS
05SANJOSE2882	AMBASSADOR'S POST MEMORANDUM: SAN JOSE [...] (C) Relations between the United States and Costa Rica are very friendly. Our countries share a strong commitment to democracy and human rights. Costa Rica is the longest continuous democracy in Latin America and serves as an important example of how a long-term commitment to democracy benef [...]	2005-12-16 23:52:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	ASIG AMGT CS
05SANSALVADOR2239	DRUG PROCUREMENT CHANGES COULD POSE HEALTH RISKS [...] Summary. The Salvadoran Chemical and Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (INQUIFAR) is pushing the Salvadoran Social Security Institute (ISSS) to relax its requirements for the procurement of seventy medicines for which the ISSS now requires the manufacturer to either submit evidence of r [...]	2005-08-11 17:43:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SOCI KIPR ETRD ES
05SANSALVADOR2636	AMBASSADOR, INL DAS FARRAR DISCUSS CRIME AND [...] (C) Summary: On September 20, the Ambassador and INL DAS Jonathan Farrar discussed the relationship between crime and economic development with Vice President Ana Vilma de Escobar. Vice President Escobar outlined the government's efforts to promote investment and economic growth, emphasizin [...]	2005-09-22 21:21:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ES KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL INL
05SANSALVADOR2764	HEALTH AND EDUCATION SPENDING UP IN EL SALVADOR'S [...] On September 29, Minister of Finance Guillermo Lopez Suarez submitted the government's $3.3 billion budget proposal for 2006, an 11.6 percent increase over the budget approved for 2005. The Ministry of Education would see funding increase by 5.6 percent, while the Ministry of Health would re [...]	2005-10-07 16:36:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV KTDB ES
05SANSALVADOR2942	Anti-Gang Cooperation Generates Multiple Benefits [...] SUMMARY: Post persuaded two Salvadoran government organs with a limited history of mutual coordination, the National Civil Police (PNC) and the National Civil Registry (RNPN,) to cooperate on biometrics collection during a five- nation law enforcement operation against members of the Salvado [...]	2005-10-28 23:10:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI KHLS CVIS PINS KFRD ES
05SANSALVADOR2951	2005 El Salvador CBI Report for USTR [...] In response to reftel, please see the following Embassy El Salvador report for USTR on El Salvador's compliance with requirements under the Caribbean Basin Initiative. ----------------------------- Commitment to WTO Obligations ----------------------------- 2. El Salvador has committed [...]	2005-10-31 17:06:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD ES
05SANSALVADOR3283	SECURING US BORDERS AGAINST SALVADORAN GANGS: [...] SUMMARY: Travel to the United States is now more difficult for members of Salvadoran-based gangs. Since June 2005, when the Departments of State and Homeland Security agreed that INA 212(a)(3)(A)(ii) renders members of Salvadoran street gangs ineligible for a visa, Post successfully used th [...]	2005-11-22 19:41:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KFRD PREL SNAR PTER KCRM SOCI KHLS PINS ES
05SANSALVADOR3285	DRAFT 2006 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] Per reftel, following is Embassy San Salvador's submission for the 2006 National Trade Estimate Report. 2. Begin Text. EL SALVADOR TRADE SUMMARY [Note: This section to be prepared in Washington. End note.] IMPORT POLICIES Free Trade Agreement The United States concluded free [...]	2005-11-22 22:44:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN ES CAFTA
05SANSALVADOR3433	INFORMATION ON AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] Post, through USAID and the Regional Medical Officer (RMO),is coordinating with Salvadoran authorities to support local efforts to control avian influenza and assess their capability to respond to an influenza pandemic. Responses to Ref. A questions are included in paragraph 2; they are based [...]	2005-12-08 15:33:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL ES AVIAN FLU
05SANSALVADOR3459	FY-2006 Consular Package Narrative for San [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-09 22:23:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT CVIS CASC KFRD AFSI ASIG ES
05SANTIAGO100	AMBASSADOR EXPLORES LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENDA WITH GOC [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador explored post's law enforcement agenda with Chile's Head of Intelligence and Chiefs of the uniformed police force and investigative police force on January 6. GOC authorities maintained that terrorist activity, including terrorism financing, is hard to confirm in Chile, [...]	2005-01-14 16:24:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PTER PHUM PREL CI
05SANTIAGO1107	FORMER DICTATOR PINOCHET SUFFERS STROKE, REGAINS [...] (C) The Chilean press reported that former dictator Augusto Pinochet suffered a stroke and was transported by helicoptor to the intensive care unit at Santiago Military Hospital shortly before 1:00 a.m. EST on May 19. News outlets report that Pinochet was transported unconcious from his home [...]	2005-05-19 21:22:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CI
05SANTIAGO1678	CHILE TO SUPPORT BUERGENTHAL CANDIDACY FOR ICJ [...] On August 8, Embassy received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs advising that Chile would support Thomas Buergenthal's candidacy for the International Court of Justice. Paragraph two contains an informal translation of the Note. 2. Begin text: REPUBLIC OF CHILE Min [...]	2005-08-09 21:01:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	CI UNSC UNGA
05SANTIAGO1800	CODEL COLEMAN MEETS WITH EDUCATION MINISTER BITAR [...] CODEL Coleman (SFRC Western Hemisphere Chairman Senator Coleman and Senator Martinez and Representative Miller) met with Chilean Education Minister Sergio Bitar in the Minister's office on Thursday, August 25. Ambassador Kelly, DCM Yamauchi, and members of the respective staffs were present. [...]	2005-08-29 21:12:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SCUL PREL CI CODEL
05SANTIAGO1885	IN COMPLIANCE DIPLOMACY VISIT, A/S OF VERIFICATION [...] (SBU) Summary: As part of the ongoing Compliance Diplomacy initiative, A/S of Verification and Compliance (VC) Paula A. DeSutter emphasized the importance of Chile as a strategic partner with the capacity to influence key organizations and countries on current topics in arms control and nonpr [...]	2005-09-13 13:52:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PINR PINS PREL KNNP CI
05SANTIAGO2331	CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PRESIDENT ENVISIONS PROGRAM [...] (U) Summary: Newly appointed Constitutional Court President Jose Luis Cea Egana called on the Ambassador on November 9. Cea expressed deep admiration and affection for the U.S. and said he would like to explore ways the Constitutional Court could work with the Embassy to promote democracy, f [...]	2005-11-15 20:54:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS SCUL KBIO ETRD MARR CI
05SANTIAGO2393	CHILE: PART I - AGRICULTURAL SECTOR PREPARATIONS [...] Summary: This cable outlines preparations in Chile's agricultural sector. An evaluation of the Chilean public health sector preparations with be reported septel. 2. Chile has experience with avian influenza (AI) issues due to a 2002 outbreak of the disease. The GOC demonstrated transparen [...]	2005-11-23 18:19:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON PREL SENV TBIO CI
05SANTIAGO2408	PROMOTION OF ENGLISH IN CHILE: ACHIEVEMENTS AND [...] Summary: Over the past two years, Embassy Santiago has made a substantial contribution to the advancement of English teaching in Chile. PA has initiated and implemented a variety of projects with the assistance of the Office of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and the Office of Interna [...]	2005-11-25 21:52:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC KPAO OIIP CI ESLCO
05SANTIAGO2409	PINOCHET UNDER HOUSE ARREST IN OPERATION COLOMBO [...] (U) Summary: Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet marked his 90th birthday November 25 under house arrest for aggravated kidnapping charges after presiding judge Victor Montiglio filed four charges against Pinochet in the 1975 disappearance of six regime opponents, and ordered his house a [...]	2005-11-28 10:58:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KCRM CI
05SANTIAGO2482	CHILE: 2005 INCSR PART I: NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Below is "Part I: "Drugs and Chemical Control" of the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) for Chile. Per instructions, Part II will be sent septel. I. Summary 2. While not a center of illicit narcotics production, Chile remains a transit country for cocaine and heroi [...]	2005-12-09 16:46:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR CI
05SANTIAGO2539	CONSUL GENERAL'S MEETING WITH JUDGE INVESTIGATING [...] (U) The Consul General met December 19 with Judge Jorge Zepeda to discuss the investigation of the 1985 disappearance of American citizen Boris Weisfeiler, which is part of a broader investigation of human rights abuses and other criminal conduct at the German religious colony formerly known a [...]	2005-12-20 20:44:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC PHUM CI
05SANTIAGO2597	MEDIA REACTION - BOLIVIA [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-29 19:27:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO CI BL
05SANTODOMINGO1257	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: FIFTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] The following is Embassy,s response to the questions raised in reftel. 2. 2005 Dominican Republic Trafficking in Persons Report I. OVERVIEW OF EFFORTS TO ELIMINATE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS A. The Dominican Republic is a country of origin, transit and destination for trafficking [...]	2005-03-04 21:59:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB DR
05SANTODOMINGO1293	DOMINICAN CONGRESSMAN RAMOS GARCIA SENTENCED TO 18 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 2, 2005, the Dominican Supreme Court found Congressman Guillermo Radhames Ramos Garcia guilty of smuggling 16 Asian migrants across the Dominican border in 2002 while he was serving as Dominican consul in Cap Haitien, Haiti. Ramos Garcia was convicted under the 1998 a [...]	2005-03-07 18:41:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS PHUM DR
05SANTODOMINGO1971	NEW DOMINICAN EXTRADITION PROCESS RETURNS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Two fugitives have been returned to the United States under the new Dominican extradition process. The Penal Chamber of the Supreme Court issued lengthy opinions in both cases, setting non-binding but advisory precedents that bode well for future extradition cases. Additionally [...]	2005-04-08 20:00:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN KCRM SNAR KJUS PREL DR
05SANTODOMINGO2095	DOMINICAN POLITICS # 22: INVESTIGATING HIPOLITO [...] (SBU) This is #22 in our current series on politics in the Dominican Republic: Investigating Hipolito Mejia - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Politically motivated Santo Domingo District Attorney Juan Hernandez Peguero would like for the public to expect Hipolito Mejia to go to jail. Her [...]	2005-04-14 17:47:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SNAR DR
05SANTODOMINGO2164	DOMINICAN POLITICS #23 - PROFESSOR LEONEL TEACHES [...] (SBU) Following is #23 in our series on Dominican politics in the first year of the Fernandez administration. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Professor Leonel Teaches Law and Politics - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Santo Domingo's District Attorney Jose Manuel Hernandez Peguero, was calle [...]	2005-04-19 14:17:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KJUS DR
05SANTODOMINGO2576	POLICY POINTS; WASHINGTON VISIT OF DOMINICAN [...] (C) Dominican President Leonel Fernandez travels May 11-12 to Washington for the first time since his August 2004 inauguration. The USG and regional focus of the event is the CAFTA free trade agreement now under consideration in the U.S. Congress. For Fernandez, however, the visit is much more: [...]	2005-05-06 15:27:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP ETRD DR
05SANTODOMINGO3228	DOMINICAN POLITICS #29: OPPOSITION PRD PICKS NEW [...] (SBU) This is #29 in our series of reports on political events of Leonel Fernandez's first year in office. PRD Picks New President, Secretary General, and other Leadership Posts - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The main opposition Dominican Rev [...]	2005-06-16 22:23:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV DR
05SANTODOMINGO3349	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: CERTIFICATION OF FIRST MANGO [...] (Summary) On June 4, 2005, USDA/APHIS certified the first mango hot water treatment (HWT) facility in the Dominican Republic (DR). On June 9, the first shipment of mangoes was successfully exported to New York, under the supervision of an APHIS TDY Officer as part of an APHIS Preclearance (PC [...]	2005-06-23 20:54:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR EAGR ETRD CAFTA
05SANTODOMINGO3721	DOMINICAN BANKING SERIES # 8 - DOMINICAN FAILED [...] (U) This is number 8 in a series of cables on the Dominican bank failures of 2003. This cable contains an action request, please see paragraphs 7 and 12. Baninter, Banco Mercantil and Bancredito - legal case status on the banks that broke the Dominican Republic 2. For the first time i [...]	2005-07-21 20:32:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR EFIN KJUS PGOV PREL
05SANTODOMINGO3723	CORRECTED COPY DOMINICAN BANKING SERIES # 8 - [...] (U) This is number 8 in a series of cables on the Dominican bank failures of 2003. This cable contains an action request, please see paragraphs 7 and 12. Sensitive but unclassified, entire text. Baninter, Banco Mercantil and Bancredito - legal case status on the banks that broke the Dom [...]	2005-07-22 14:58:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR EFIN KJUS PGOV PREL
05SANTODOMINGO3946	DOMINICAN POLITICS #35: PRD OUTLINES THE FUTURE [...] (SBU) Following is number 35 in our series on Leonel Fernandez's first year in office: PRD Decision Makers Outline the Future Senate vice president Cesar "Yayo" Matias and three of his senatorial colleagues invited the political officer to lunch on August 5, along with PRD student leader [...]	2005-08-09 20:05:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DR ETRD PGOV
05SANTODOMINGO434	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] The following is the Embassy response to reftel. Overview of Human Rights and Democracy in the Dominican Republic and U.S. Strategy 2. The Dominican Republic enjoys a democratically elected government and a robust, multi-party system. Freedom of the press and religion are largely respect [...]	2005-01-28 22:08:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KDEM ELAB KPAO DR
05SANTODOMINGO4567	DOMINICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL PUSHES CAREER TRACK FOR [...] (U) Summary. On September 28, General Secretaries of the three dominant political parties in the Dominican Republic met publicly to respond to Attorney General Francisco Dominguez Brito's draft document calling for political agreement on the implementation of a career track within the Public P [...]	2005-10-07 11:29:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCRM KCOR
05SANTODOMINGO4689	DOMINICAN POLITICS II #2: OFFICIAL PASSPORTS, INC [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-19 11:16:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KCOR DR EAID
05SANTODOMINGO5050	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT [...] The following interim assessement for trafficking in persons (TIP) addresses the questions in paragraph 6(I) of reftel. 2. The Government of the Dominican Republic emphasizes TIP issues in public communications and has made some progress in enforcement. Institutional changes include the c [...]	2005-11-15 20:26:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KCRM KWMN DR
05SANTODOMINGO5411	Draft Dominican Republic International Narcotics [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-19 12:11:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR DR
05SANTODOMINGO614	DOMINICAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON HAITI, CAFTA, [...] (C) Summary: Haiti, CAFTA, extraditions, and compliance with the new IMF agreement dominated the February 7 bilateral breakfast meeting between the Ambassador and Dominican Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso. The Foreign Minister told the Ambassador that the Dominican ambassador to Hait [...]	2005-02-09 18:59:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CJAN ETRD EFIN KJUS DR HA
05SANTODOMINGO799	DOMINICAN POLITICS #12: NARCOTICS EXTRADITION TESTS SYSTEM, WORRIES MILITARY & POLITICIANS [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-16 18:15:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	CJAN CO DR HA KJUS MARR PGOV PREL SNAR
05SANTODOMINGO923	2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT- DOMINICAN [...] Following is the Investment Climate Statement for the Dominican Republic, chapter 6 of the Country Commercial Guide. (begin text) DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE UPDATE A.1. Openness to foreign investment The Dominican government welcomes foreign investment. However, some [...]	2005-02-23 13:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	DR KTDB EINV ETRD
05SANTODOMINGO970	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC YEAR 2005 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy recommends maintaining the Dominican Republic on the Special 301 Watchlist. IPR infringement problems remain at levels similar to those of last year, with some call for optimism in the area of television broadcast piracy, a long-term problem. A broadcast piracy court [...]	2005-02-24 12:44:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD EINV DR
05SAOPAULO283	THE TIP REPORT [...] (U) This is version II of the Brazil TIP report, incorporating answers to questions raised by version I, and additional information. This report was a coordinated effort between Sao Paulo and Embassy Brasilia, which supplied much of the new information. 2. (SBU) Begin Summary: Brazil conti [...]	2005-03-11 10:25:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF TIP
05SAOPAULO624	AMBASSADOR VISIT TO RIO GRANDE DO SUL [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador, accompanied by officers from Consulate General Sao Paulo, visited Porto Alegre, capital of Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, May 1- 3. During the visit, Ambassador met with the governor and the mayor; toured the modern General Motors and Dell Compute [...]	2005-05-23 20:17:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD KIPR EAGR ENRG SCUL SOCI PREL PGOV PINR BR
05SINGAPORE1028	GWOT ASSESSMENT: PERSPECTIVE FROM SINGAPORE [...] (S/NF) Singapore has been a reliable and highly capable partner in the global war on terrorism, as it shares our concerns about terrorism and possesses the political will and capabilities to confront it. Over the last several years, Singapore has publicly supported our CT efforts, even provid [...]	2005-04-06 09:37:00	Embassy Singapore	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL SN
05SINGAPORE1311	AVIAN INFLUENZA PREPAREDNESS IN SINGAPORE [...] (SBU) Summary. Although Singapore has not detected avian influenza infections in either poultry or human beings, it is preparing to address this growing regional threat. After its successful control of the 2003 SARS outbreak, the GOS is confident it can respond adequately to a bird flu epi [...]	2005-04-27 03:27:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED EAGR ETRD SN
05SINGAPORE178	SFA: AMB LAVIN CALLS ON DEFENSE MINISTER TEO [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Lavin reviewed with Defense Minister Teo Chee Hean progress to date in negotiations on the U.S.-Singapore Strategic Framework Agreement, in a meeting December 30. The Ambassador expressed the frustration the U.S. government felt at the current stage of discussions, in [...]	2005-01-19 10:04:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MASS SN
05SINGAPORE2058	SINGAPORE POLITICS: OPENING WINDOWS, SWATTING FLIES [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Technology, social change, and hopes for creativity-driven economic growth engines have pushed Singapore's government to adapt its style, but little has fundamentally changed. From a well-publicized debate on whether to allow casinos to essays calling for political li [...]	2005-07-06 01:50:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SN
05SINGAPORE2524	FLU PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS -- SINGAPORE INPUT [...] (U) SUMMARY. Post is satisfied that the Government of Singapore (GOS) would rapidly respond to halt the spread of an influenza pandemic within Singapore. The Singapore Ministry of Health (MOH) has developed an "Influenza Pandemic Readiness and Response Plan" that is available for public view [...]	2005-08-22 09:50:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR SOCI TBIO ECON KHIV EAGR ETRD SN
05SINGAPORE2584	SINGAPORE CONSIDERS TOUGHER HIV LEGISLATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Singapore is considering legislative changes that put the onus on individuals to be aware of their HIV status and responsible for protecting others from infection. This comes on the heels of Singapore's increase in HIV cases in 2004 from 1,192 to 1,503 infections among the count [...]	2005-08-29 06:34:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV TBIO PHUM ECON SN
05SINGAPORE3160	U.S.-SINGAPORE PROLIFERATION TALKS IDENTIFY FUTURE [...] (S/NF) Summary: On October 17-18, the U.S. held productive talks with Singapore on a broad range of nonproliferation and counterproliferation issues. The U.S. delegation, co-led by ISN/MTR Director Van Diepen and OSD/ISP/NPP Director David Cooper, was impressed by the level of preparedness and [...]	2005-10-28 10:00:00	Embassy Singapore	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM MNUC KNNP ETTC SN
05SINGAPORE3324	2006 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] Below is the draft chapter on Singapore for the 2006 National Trade Estimate Report. We assume that, as in the past, Washington agencies will update the trade and investment data in the first three paragraphs of the report. Per reftel instructions, we have emailed the text of the draft repor [...]	2005-11-21 08:49:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ETRD EFIN SN
05SINGAPORE3352	ADMIRAL FALLON DISCUSSES BILATERAL SECURITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Admiral Fallon, accompanied by Charge Fergin, met separately on November 14 with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong to discuss bilateral security cooperation and regional issues, most prominently, China. In open and relaxed discussions, both leaders [...]	2005-11-23 07:22:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PTER PGOV ID SN TH MY RP
05SINGAPORE3443	SINGAPORE SCENESETTER FOR A/S HILL [...] (SBU) We warmly welcome your December 14-15 visit to Singapore. Singapore's leadership highly values access to senior Washington policymakers and will regard your visit as a testament to the importance we attach to the relationship. They will be very interested in your views on developments in [...]	2005-12-06 07:39:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD SN
05SINGAPORE3469	SINGAPORE 2005 INCSR REPORT PART I -- DRUG AND [...] Paragraph 2 contains Embassy Singapore's submission for the 2005-2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report Part I - Drug and Chemical Control. Part II will be submitted septel. 2. Begin Text: I. Summary The Government of Singapore (GOS) effectively enforces its stringen [...]	2005-12-11 23:59:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM SNAR SN
05SINGAPORE3516	U.S.-SINGAPORE MLAT DISCUSSIONS [...] This is an action request. Please see para 17. 2. Summary: On December 7, 2005, Singapore and U.S. delegations met in Singapore to continue discussions related to a possible bilateral Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT). Negotiators had met twice before, in discussions in April 2004 a [...]	2005-12-15 09:45:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KTIA KJUS KCRM PGOV SN
05SINGAPORE3618	AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON PM LEE HSIEN LOONG [...] (SBU) Summary. During the Ambassador's introductory call, the Ambassador and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong concurred that U.S.-Singapore relations were very strong and agreed to work together to help the relationship blossom further. The Prime Minister expressed his commitment to resolving [...]	2005-12-30 02:25:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EFIN PTER SN
05SINGAPORE740	SINGAPORE'S SUBMISSION FOR THE FIFTH ANNUAL TIP [...] (U) This is first of four messages relaying Embassy Singapore's 2005 TIP submission. The Embassy point of contact for this report is Colin Willett: phone (65) 6476-9492, fax (65) 6476-9389, email willettc@state.gov. Due to the length of our submission, we have split it into four cables. P [...]	2005-03-14 08:29:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN
05SINGAPORE742	SINGAPORE'S SUBMISSION FOR THE FIFTH ANNUAL TIP [...] (U) This is the second of four messages relaying Embassy Singapore's 2005 TIP submission. Para 2 covers the questions on investigations and prosecutions, and para 3 answers the questions on protection and victim assistance. Investigations and Prosecutions ------------------------------- [...]	2005-03-14 08:35:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN

05SINGAPORE743	SINGAPORE'S SUBMISSION FOR THE FIFTH ANNUAL TIP [...] (U) This is the third of four messages relaying Embassy Singapore's 2005 TIP submission. It details all the sources Emboffs used in compiling the submission. -------------------------- Diplomatic Representatives -------------------------- 2. (SBU/NF) Embassy maintains contact with con [...]	2005-03-14 08:42:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN
05SINGAPORE744	SINGAPORE'S SUBMISSION FOR THE FIFTH ANNUAL TIP [...] This is the fourth of four messages relaying Embassy Singapore,s 2005 TIP submission. It covers Embassy's nomination of Singapore's Ministry of Manpower, Foreign Manpower Management Division for Best Practices in combating trafficking in persons. 2. The two populations most vulnerable to [...]	2005-03-14 08:46:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN
05SOFIA1329	BULGARIAN SOCIALISTS PRESENT MINORITY GOVERNMENT, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Socialist PM-designate Sergei Stanishev presented his cabinet choices July 24, drawing candidates from his own party as well as his coalition partner, the mainly ethnic-Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, and outside technocrats. The proposed list seeks to garner public [...]	2005-07-25 16:02:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV BU
05SOFIA1404	ANOTHER WAVE OF HEAVY RAINS WREAKS HAVOC, LEAVES [...] SUMMARY: The Bulgarian government has declared a state of emergency in 23 municipalities as another wave of heavy rains hit the country over the weekend. The disaster left five people dead and blocked major motorways and railways with mud and debris. The number of buildings, homes and brid [...]	2005-08-08 14:18:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL ASEC BU
05SOFIA1578	NEW DEFENSE MINISTER CONFIRMS PLANS TO ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary. Defense Minister Veselin Bliznakov told Amb. Beyrle September 9 that an interagency working group would be ready to receive USG experts soon to discuss the timing and manner of withdrawing Bulgaria's contingent from Iraq, as well as a possible follow-on mission. He also expressed [...]	2005-09-12 15:15:00	Embassy Sofia	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL IZ BU NATO
05SOFIA17	BULGARIA'S BIOSAFETY LEGISLATION: CARTAGENA [...] Bulgaria ratified the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in 2000. In 1996 Bulgaria set out a Biosafety Decree regulating biotechnology work for contained use, and field testing. Commercialization and trade (both imports and exports) were not subject to this decree. Therefore, the legislation [...]	2005-01-04 14:11:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR ETRD ECON TBIO BU
05SOFIA1767	BULGARIA SCRAMBLES TO RESPOND TO NEARBY THREAT OF [...] (SBU) Bulgarian authorities are intensifying efforts to respond to a possible outbreak of avian flu in Bulgaria after several cases of bird flu were confirmed in neighboring Romania and Turkey over the weekend. So far no cases of avian flu have been discovered in Bulgaria. Officials from the [...]	2005-10-13 14:45:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO ECON PREL SOCI BG KSTH WHO
05SOFIA1826	SOFIA MAYOR'S ELECTION TESTS RULING COALITION STABILITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgaria will hold mayoral by-elections October 29 in Sofia and seven other cities where mayors were elected to parliament in the June general elections (Ref. A). The partners in the Socialist-led government have failed, however, to agree on joint candidates, turning the by-election [...]	2005-10-24 03:23:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV BU
05SOFIA1856	E.C. REPORT TURNS UP THE HEAT ON BULGARIA [...] (U) SUMMARY: The European Commission (EC) in its October 25 monitoring report confirms that Bulgaria should be able to accede to the EU on January 1, 2007, provided that promised reforms are implemented. However, behind this relatively positive overall assessment lies a very harsh assessment [...]	2005-10-28 12:59:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON SOCI BU EUC
05SOFIA1874	FY 2006 PROPOSALS FOR INL-MANAGED SEED FUNDED [...] SUMMARY: Post herein submits proposals to continue four INL-managed projects using FY 2006 funding: Resident Legal Advisor (RLA); Forensics Laboratories Project; the Criminal Law Liaison (CLL); and Embassy Rule of Law Assistant. Post also proposes transforming the Regional Criminal Justice [...]	2005-11-02 04:44:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM KJUS EAID ASEC PGOV BU
05SOFIA1882	BULGARIA'S CRACKDOWN ON ORGANIZED CRIME: IS IT [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the high-profile killing of banker Emil Kyulev, Bulgarian authorities have begun a crackdown on organized crime, including the arrest of two notorious crime figures. It is not yet clear whether this is a genuine effort to deal with the problem of organized crime or [...]	2005-11-02 15:44:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR EINV ECON KCOR KCRM BU
05SOFIA1942	PRESS REACTION: DELAY IN LIBYAN CASE EVOKES MIXED [...] (U) SUMMARY: The November 15 decision by the Libyan Supreme Court to postpone judgment on the case of five Bulgarian medics until January 31st 2006, has provoked a mixed reaction in Bulgaria. Government leaders, while relieved at having averted confirmation of the death sentences, have voice [...]	2005-11-18 12:06:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PINR PGOV LY BU
05SOFIA1950	2006 NTE UPDATE FOR BULGARIA [...] The following is Embassy's input for the 2006 National Trade Estimate (NTE) report for Bulgaria. The text -- including the ranking of barriers -- has been sent electronically to USTR and State (EB). RANKING OF BARRIERS: The following are general range estimates of what the increase in U.S. e [...]	2005-11-21 14:47:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EFIN ECON KIPR BEXP EAGR PGOV BU
05SOFIA1962	BULGARIA'S PREPARATION FOR AVIAN FLU [...] (U) The following is post's response to reftel: A) PREPAREDNESS/COMMUNICATION --Does the government have a preparedness plan/strategy for preventing avian flu from becoming a pandemic and containing a pandemic once it occurs? If the country has a strategy, how capable is it of implementin [...]	2005-11-23 14:29:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO ECON PREL SOCI BG KSTH WHO
05SOFIA2036	BULGARIA: 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] Per reftels, Post provides its submission for the 2005- 2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report for Bulgaria. Begin text of 2005-2006 INCSR for Bulgaria: Part I - DRUGS AND CHEMICAL CONTROL I. Summary Bulgaria is a major transit country, as well as a producer of illic [...]	2005-12-12 14:41:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM EFIN KTFN PTER KSEP BU
05SOFIA91	BULGARIA: U.S. MARKET ACCESS PRIORITIES [...] U.S. market access priorities in Bulgaria (ranked with a value from one to five, with one a top priority for U.S. service suppliers in host country and five a very low priority for U.S. service suppliers): -3-Legal services -3-Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services -3-Taxation servic [...]	2005-01-14 04:44:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD BU WTO
05STATE13048	Status Report on SMART [...] Please provide wide dissemination of the information in this telegram. 2. Reftels describe the Department's progress toward a new integrated messaging system. SMART (State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset) remains the Department's highest priority information technology initiative. [...]	2005-01-24 16:42:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT AINF AADP ACOA ASEC KRIM
05STATE152885	CURRENT STATUS OF SMART [...] Please provide wide dissemination of the information in this telegram. 2. The purpose of this announcement is to provide an update on the status of SMART, the State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset, which has been designed to consolidate cables, e-mails, and memos on a single platf [...]	2005-08-18 16:44:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT AINF AADP ACOA ASEC KRIM
05STATE219156	SMART UPDATE [...] Please provide wide dissemination of the information in this telegram. 2. This message is another in a series of updates on the status of SMART, the State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset. SMART is designed to consolidate cables, e- mails, and memos on a single platform integrated wi [...]	2005-12-03 00:09:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT AINF AADP ACOA ASEC KRIM
05TAIPEI1028	MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S "ANTI-SECESSION LAW" [...] SUMMARY: News about China's anti-secession law, whose terms was unveiled Tuesday (3/8) when the bill was presented to the National People's Congress, was prominent on the front pages of all major dailies in Taiwan. While all the newspapers cited Taiwan officials criticizing the law as a step b [...]	2005-03-09 23:33:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI1074	MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S "ANTI-SECESSION LAW" [...] Summary: Major Chinese-language newspapers in Taiwan continued to report on China's "anti-secession law" March 11 by focusing on President Chen Shui-bian's articulation of gratitude to Washington for its concern about the legislation and for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's comments on it [...]	2005-03-13 23:31:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI1080	CROSS-STRAIT - UNILATERAL ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION [...] (C) In the positive atmosphere following the Lunar New Year charter flights, recent moves by the Taiwan government have suggested that it was on the verge of further liberalization across a range of cross-Strait economic policy areas. These include the creation of an offshore dollar-denominat [...]	2005-03-14 04:55:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EFIN TW CH
05TAIPEI1110	MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S ANTI-SECESSION LAW [...] Summary: Reactions to China's passage of the Anti- Secession Law dominated news coverage in Taiwan newspapers March 15, as major Chinese-language dailies dedicated an average of six pages to the issue. In addition to denunciations of the law by Taiwan officials and politicians, all major news [...]	2005-03-15 08:30:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI1376	CROSS-STRAIT LIBERALIZATION ON HOLD UNTIL MAY [...] (C) Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Department of Economic Director Fu Don-cheng confirmed that cross-Strait economic liberalization and government-sponsored exchanges are on hold until at least May. He said that the recent goodwill measures offered by the PRC on passenger charter flights, agr [...]	2005-03-25 04:13:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EAIR ETTC EFIN CH TW
05TAIPEI1554	MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: The coverage of the major Taipei dailies March 30 focused on KMT Vice Chairman Chiang Pin-kun's visit to China aimed at promoting cross-Strait relations. The major Chinese-language newspapers ran, either on their front pages or one of the first few inside pages, the news that Preside [...]	2005-03-31 00:45:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI1684	CHEN ADMINISTRATION WARNS KMT, BEIJING OVER [...] (C) Summary: The Chen administration's April 5 "Seven Point" statement was aimed at laying down a marker for both Beijing and the KMT ahead of a proposed meeting between PRC President Hu Jintao and KMT Chairman Lien Chan, according to a readout provided to AIT on April 6. Taiwan officials said [...]	2005-04-07 11:13:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW
05TAIPEI1691	MORE "EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT" COULD AFFECT [...] (C) After the April 5 meeting of senior Chen administration and DPP officials on cross-Strait relations, the Taiwan government has announced a new emphasis on the "effective management" portion of its "active opening, effective management policy" (ref B). "Difficult to manage" policies will b [...]	2005-04-08 05:43:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV TW CH
05TAIPEI17	TAIWAN: 2005 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] The U.S. trade deficit with Taiwan was $14.2 billion in 2003, up $385 million from 2002. U.S. goods exports during the same period were $ 17.4 billion, down 5.1 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Taiwan were $31.6 billion, down 1.7 percent. Taiwan is the 9th la [...]	2005-01-04 06:24:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON KTDB TW KPRP
05TAIPEI1724	KMT VICE CHAIR CHIANG SEEKS USG HELP IN FORGING [...] (C) Summary: KMT Vice Chairman P.K. Chiang urged the USG to intervene in public and private to urge the Chen administration and KMT leadership to cooperate on cross-Strait policy. Chiang, who provided the Director a readout of his recent trip to the Mainland, expressed concern that mounting d [...]	2005-04-11 09:12:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW
05TAIPEI1826	CHEN SHUI-BIAN: SURPRISES AHEAD? [...] (C) Summary. The moderate "presidential" persona that President Chen Shui-bian has cultivated for the past four months masks a hard driving political tactician who continues to work backstage to destroy the opposition Pan-Blue majority coalition. The &reconciliation8 agenda of this moderate [...]	2005-04-18 10:12:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
05TAIPEI1881	TAIWAN'S NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE: TUNING UP A [...] (SBU) Summary: Facing a severe budget shortfall for 2005 that is projected to increase dramatically in coming years, the Taiwan Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) and the Department of Health in April began to implement several measures designed to increase revenue and cut expenses. [...]	2005-04-22 08:14:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD TW
05TAIPEI1974	Environmental Sustainability Index - Taiwan [...] (SBU) Summary. In January 2005, Yale, Columbia and the World Economic Forum published a joint study that ranked Taiwan as the world's second worst economy in terms of environmental stewardship. The low ranking troubles policy makers in Taiwan because of significant environmental progress in [...]	2005-05-02 06:03:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC SENV PREL TW
05TAIPEI20	CHEN CALLS FOR RECONCILIATION IN NEW YEAR ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary: In his New Year's Speech, Chen Shui-bian called for reconciliation and cooperation between the ruling and opposition parties in order to stabilize domestic politics and promote cross-Strait peace. Chen suggested that the Pan-Green and Pan-Blue start dialogue on the areas on whic [...]	2005-01-04 08:08:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TW
05TAIPEI2041	MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan May 5 dailies focused on two aspects of cross-Strait relations: China's unfriendly gestures toward Taiwan, and Taiwan's moves to test to what extent China will show its goodwill toward Taiwan. With regard to China's unfriendly gestures, the pro- independence "Liberty Times," Ta [...]	2005-05-05 07:38:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI2075	MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: President Chen Shui-bian's key moves in an attempt to quell the strong criticism against him within the DPP were the spotlight of the Taipei dailies May 7-9. All the major Taiwan newspapers reported in their front pages May 9 Chen's exclusive and live interview with the Sanlih TV cha [...]	2005-05-09 08:05:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI2085	CHUNGHWA TELECOM PRIVATIZATION WITHIN SIGHT [...] (U) Summary: Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) announced April 25 that it will accept applications until May 17, 2005 from firms interested in facilitating placement of government-owned shares in the New York Stock Exchange. The Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC),CHT,s biggest shareh [...]	2005-05-10 08:56:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON TW
05TAIPEI2121	MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S WEEKEND TV [...] Summary: As Taiwan dailies continued May 11 to cover the aftermath of President Chen Shui-bian's weekend TV interview, the focus also fell equally on PFP Chairman James Soong's planned meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao Thursday and next Saturday's ad hoc National Assembly election. The [...]	2005-05-11 09:13:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI2143	COUNTERFEIT PHARMA NOT A PRIORITY FOR TAIWAN DOH [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the March 2004 passage of amendments to Taiwan's Pharmaceutical Law that increased penalties for trafficking in counterfeit pharmaceuticals, Taiwan's Department of Health (DOH) is now beginning to look for ways to address concerns about pharmaceutical piracy and the [...]	2005-05-12 10:15:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KIPR TW ETRD IPR
05TAIPEI2144	COMING WEEKS OFFER KEY OPPORTUNITIES, RISKS [...] (C) Summary: The period following the May 14 National Assembly (NA) election is expected to offer a critical window for movement on both domestic and cross-Strait policy. President Chen Shui-bian plans to renew his push to create a cross-party consensus behind greater cross-Strait economic, an [...]	2005-05-12 11:04:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR CH TW
05TAIPEI2173	MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan dailies gave extensive coverage and editorial reporting May 13 to the meeting between PFP Chairman James Soong and Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Chen Shui-bian's response to the meeting in a TV interview Thursday. Almost all Chinese- language newspapers in Taiwan r [...]	2005-05-13 13:04:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI2195	MEDIA REACTION: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS AND [...] Summary: A surprise election victory for Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's Democratic Progressive Party and a new round of cross-Strait disputes over the World Health Organization issue were the highlights of Taiwan dailies May 14-16. All major Taiwan newspapers reported May 15 on their front [...]	2005-05-16 09:13:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI2420	SCENESETTER FOR CONGRESSMAN KENNEDY [...] (U) The United States has maintained unofficial relations with Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) of 1979. The TRA commits the United States to offer defensive weapons to Taiwan, now the second largest purchaser of U.S. weapons systems in the world. Taiwan is governed by a multi-party [...]	2005-06-02 09:47:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN OTRA TW
05TAIPEI2521	CROSS-STRAIT INVESTMENT - STILL WAITING FOR THE [...] (C) Taiwan government plans to liberalize regulations on investment in the Mainland continue to suffer delay. Despite the recent announcement that Taiwan would modestly relax investment capital ceilings, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) and Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) Investment Commissi [...]	2005-06-09 01:37:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PREL ETTC CH TW
05TAIPEI2554	Congressman Kennedy Urges LY Chairman Wang Jin-pyng [...] (SBU) Summary: Congressman Mark Kennedy (R-MN) met with Taiwanese Legislative Yuan Chairman Wang Jin-pyng on June 4, 2005. Wang expressed his hopes for a U.S.-Taiwan free trade agreement (FTA) and asked the Congressman for his support. Congressman Kennedy, in turn, raised concerns over the S [...]	2005-06-10 07:40:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PGOV PINS PREL MASS ETRD CH TW
05TAIPEI2565	CROSS-STRAIT TOURISM - INDUSTRY HAS HIGH [...] (C) The PRC has announced plans to allow the general public to visit Taiwan as tourists. The reaction in Taiwan's tourism industry has been enthusiastic, with Taiwan's tourism stock index increasing 37 percent since late April. A mixed Taiwan government reaction has delayed rapid implementat [...]	2005-06-10 09:42:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON CH TW
05TAIPEI260	MEDIA REACTION: BUSH'S SECOND TERM, MIDEAST [...] Bush's Second Term A) "[Condoleezza] Rice Has Endorsed the Neo- conservatism" The "International Outlook" column of the centrist, pro- status quo "China Times" commented (1/21): "Secretary of State appointee Condoleezza Rice's congressional confirmation hearing showed that neo- conserv [...]	2005-01-21 08:51:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI2621	MEDIA REACTION: Cross-Strait Relations [...] Summary: Taiwan dailies June 15 were dominated by the Michael Jackson trial as well as the domestic issue of taxation. The centrist, pro-status quo "China Times" carried a banner headline on its front page that read: "In Opposition To The Government's Plan To Tax The Rich, Foxconn CEO Terry Gu [...]	2005-06-15 06:08:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI2626	DOH DODGES A POTENTIAL TRADE/HEALTHCARE CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: With the June 21 medical device registration deadline fast approaching, Taiwan,s Department of Health (DOH) still has thousands of applications pending but has issued just over 200 licenses. Without licenses, manufacturers feared they would be prohibited from importing products [...]	2005-06-15 09:04:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD TW
05TAIPEI2654	CROSS-STRAIT CONTACTS: TESTING THE WATERS [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan officials are cautiously optimistic over the PRC State Council Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) response to Premier Frank Hsieh's June 13 offer to designate non-governmental bodies to start talks on cross-Strait economic links. The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) issued a statem [...]	2005-06-16 09:21:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD CH TW
05TAIPEI2658	MEDIA REACTION: Cross-Strait Affairs [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-17 08:27:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW ESTH
05TAIPEI2742	COUNTERFEIT PHARMACEUTICALS SOLD ON INTERNET [...] SUMMARY: PROMPTED BY AN INVESTIGATIVE NEWS REPORT THAT INTERNET SALES OF THE POPULAR WEIGHT LOSS DRUG REDUCTIL (MANUFACTURED BY ABBOTT LABORATORIES) INCLUDED COUNTERFEIT PRODUCTS, SPECIAL AGENTS OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION BUREAU RAIDED A RESIDENCE IN TAIPEI COUNTY MAY 24 AND ARRESTED ONE SUS [...]	2005-06-23 22:33:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ECON ETRD TW IPR
05TAIPEI2743	IC PACKAGING AND TESTING - PRESSURE BUILDING TO [...] (C) Integrated circuit (IC) packaging and testing is a key component in Taiwan's semiconductor economy with approximately USD 5 billion in revenue in 2004. Despite industry pressure, the Taiwan government still prohibits packaging and testing firms from investing in the PRC because it fears s [...]	2005-06-24 01:59:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETTC CH TW
05TAIPEI2752	MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN [...] Summary: As the Taipei dailies continued to keep their eyes on local politics and a local public security incident, the pro-independence "Liberty Times," Taiwan's biggest daily, carried a news story on page two that reported on Acting Under Secretary of Commerce Peter Lichtenbaum's testimony [...]	2005-06-24 08:47:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI279	MEDIA REACTION: BUSH'S INAUGURAL SPEECH, U.S.- [...] Bush's Inaugural Speech A) "Bush's New Unilateralism and the Iran Crisis" Commentator Nan Fang-shuo wrote in the "Weekly Comment" column of the centrist, pro-status quo "China Times" (1/24): ". We can say that the Bush administration is facing the reality that the United States has beco [...]	2005-01-24 08:35:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI2833	MEDIA REACTION: U.S. BEEF [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-29 08:29:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI2869	Taiwan Focus on High-Tech Labor Shortage [...] SUMMARY: Following several years of rapid expansion, high-tech companies have recently experienced difficulty finding skilled workers in Taiwan. Expanded access to higher education has led to a decrease in the number of applicants for production jobs, and the opening of a new science park in [...]	2005-07-01 08:13:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON TW
05TAIPEI2881	PRESIDENTIAL VIEWS ON CROSS-STRAIT POLICY, [...] (C) Summary: Two close confidantes of President Chen Shui-bian told AIT that the President is comfortable with the current state of cross-Strait relations. In separate conversations, Presidential Office Deputy Secretary General Ma Yung-cheng and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Advisor [...]	2005-07-04 23:10:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR CH TW
05TAIPEI2883	MEDIA REACTION: CHINA THREAT [...] Summary: Almost all the major Chinese-language Taipei dailies carried July 1 a Japan-based "Daily Yomiuri" report which said the United States, citing a possible surprise assault on Taiwan by China's special forces as a realistic scenario, has told Japan that it will be difficult to reduce or [...]	2005-07-04 23:11:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI2984	TRADING SCANDAL DAMAGES TAIWAN'S FSC [...] (C) Summary and comment: The Taiwan High Court Prosecutors' Office is currently probing Lee Chin-cheng, Director of the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Examination Bureau (EB),on his possible connection to an illegal insider trading operation involving other government officials, and [...]	2005-07-11 22:54:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PINR PREL TW
05TAIPEI2997	Dioxin Threatens Taiwan's Food Supply [...] Summary. Two major incidents of dioxin contamination have come to light in recent months. In one case, researchers under contract with Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration (TEPA) determined that dioxin levels in sludge from Tainan's Chufakang and Luermen Rivers is more than fift [...]	2005-07-12 23:19:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON TW ESTH
05TAIPEI30	MEDIA REACTION: TSUNAMI RELIEF, U.S.-CHINA- [...] Tsunami Relief "Relief Efforts for South Asia's [Tsunami Disaster] Must Be Based on Human Rights and Also Serve Diplomatic Purposes in Order to Win the [International Community's] Respect" The pro-independence "Taiwan Daily" said in an editorial (1/5): ". The United States' relief effo [...]	2005-01-05 07:54:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI3048	TAIWAN IT INDUSTRY DISCUSSES STANDARDS WITH PRC [...] (C) A delegation led by opposition politicians but composed mainly of Taiwan information technology (IT) manufacturing executives visited Beijing July 5-6 to discuss industry standards with PRC officials and executives. The discussions yielded few concrete results. However, Taiwan firms agree [...]	2005-07-15 08:56:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ECPS EINV ETRD PREL CH TW
05TAIPEI3072	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: While the Taipei dailies continued July 20 to focus their coverage on the aftermath of Typhoon Haitang and local politics, it is noteworthy to see that the pro-independence "Liberty Times," Taiwan's biggest daily, printed a banner headline on its front page that read: "United States j [...]	2005-07-20 23:32:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI3073	TYPHOON HAITANG SLAMS TAIWAN [...] (U) Summary. Typhoon Haitang, the largest typhoon to hit Taiwan in five years, brought strong winds and torrential rains to Taiwan July 17-19. No part of Taiwan escaped unscathed with eastern and southern Taiwan suffering the greatest damage. At least 8 people died, 31 have been injured and [...]	2005-07-20 23:36:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT SENV ECON KSCA KPAO TW ESTH
05TAIPEI3100	CROSS-STRAIT ECONOMIC INITIATIVES STILL ON HOLD [...] (C) Taiwan National Security Council Senior Advisor Chen Chung-shin told econoff July 20 that progress on cross- Strait economic initiatives was unlikely until late August or into the fall. On prospects for cross-Strait charter flight discussions, Chen said that Taiwan and PRC authorities had [...]	2005-07-22 03:44:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAIR EINV PREL TW CH
05TAIPEI313	TAIWAN PASSES DATA EXCLUSIVITY BILL [...] Summary: After striking a compromise the last week of the legislative session, Taiwan's Legislative Yuan (LY) passed a bill that will provide protection for pharmaceutical data in accordance with Taiwan's WTO commitments under TRIPS. The new law will protect test data for new drugs with new [...]	2005-01-25 09:57:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR TW IPR
05TAIPEI3132	MEDIA REACTION: RENMINBI REVALUATION, CROSS- [...] Summary: Amid the extensive coverage of local politics and the return of an injured Taiwan super- model from China to Taiwan, the major Chinese language Taipei dailies also spent pages July 23-25 reporting on the impact of the revalued Renminbi on Taiwan, President Chen's offer to attend this [...]	2005-07-25 08:39:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI3178	MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: While the major Chinese-language Taipei dailies continued July 28 to focus their coverage on the game-rigging/player-bribery scandal in Taiwan's Professional Baseball League, they also reported on the outbreak of a deadly but unidentified disease in Sichuan, the escalating incidence o [...]	2005-07-28 08:39:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI3198	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: The major Chinese-language Taipei dailies, in addition to covering local politics July 30-August 1, also carried extensive coverage of the Japan-Taiwan fishery talks, the aftermath of China's announcement regarding duty-free entry of Taiwan fruit, the outbreak of melioidosis in southe [...]	2005-08-01 09:10:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI3307	TAIWAN CUSTOMS PLAYING NINTENDO'S GAME [...] (U) Summary: In response to a request for equipment for use by Taiwan Customs to detect shipments of counterfeit entertainment software, Nintendo North America (NA) provided 16 Nintendo game systems to be used by Customs officials at Chiang Kai-Shek (CKS) International Airport. The donated [...]	2005-08-09 08:18:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD TW
05TAIPEI332	NEW PM HSIEH CHANG-TING: THE VIEW FROM KAOHSIUNG [...] (C) Begin Summary. The January 25 appointment of Kaohsiung Mayor Frank Hsieh (Chang-ting) as Taiwan's new Premier was long-rumored, but still surprised some in the South who saw Hsieh as one of President Chen's chief competitors. The move was a natural step for Hsieh, however, who had served [...]	2005-01-26 22:51:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CH TW
05TAIPEI343	SEMICONDUCTORS - TAIWAN FIRMS FACING CHINA,S [...] (C) With a market downturn expected to continue in 2005, Taiwan semiconductor manufacturers will be increasingly concerned about competing in the PRC chip market with local firms. Relatively new PRC firms like Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporations (SMIC) and Grace Semiconduct [...]	2005-01-27 09:15:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC ECON EINV ETRD CH TW
05TAIPEI3491	China Petrochemical Development Again Cited For [...] Summary. China Petrochemical Development Corporation (CPDC),already facing soil and groundwater pollution problems in its plant in Anshun, Tainan City (see reftel),was cited after a recent survey conducted by Kaohsiung City's EPA (KEPA) that determined that total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH [...]	2005-08-22 08:04:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON TW ESTH
05TAIPEI3551	DEFENSE PROCUREMENT SPECIAL BUDGET: A PRIMER ON [...] (C) Summary. A reduced and reconfigured Defense Procurement Special Budget will be re-introduced in the regular Legislative Yuan (LY) session that begins September 13. The Presidential office informed AIT yesterday, August 24, that President Chen personally was responsible for the decision [...]	2005-08-25 09:33:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MASS MARR TW
05TAIPEI3586	Additional Pollution Incidents in Southern Taiwan [...] Summary. In a series of investigations into industrial pollution in Southern Taiwan, Taiwan's Environmental Protection Administration (TEPA) completed research on 175 unoccupied industrial factories and found five major incidents of soil and groundwater pollution that resulted from the produ [...]	2005-08-29 07:58:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON TW ESTH
05TAIPEI3663	CHEN SHUI-BIAN VERSUS MA YING-JEOU, AND TAIWAN'S [...] SUMMARY. Over the next several months President Chen Shui-bian and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou will compete to shape Taiwan's future. Each has chosen a strategy, and the victor will be determined by whose party wins two critical elections in December 2005 and Mar [...]	2005-09-03 01:53:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	CH PGOV PREL TW US
05TAIPEI3713	TAIWAN PREPS FOR AVIAN FLU [...] Summary. With the exception of one H5N1 high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) illegal shipment of ducks, which was caught and destroyed, Taiwan has thus far managed to avoid H5N1 HPAI. Nonetheless, drawing on its experience with SARS in 2003, Taiwan has made extensive preparations to combat [...]	2005-09-08 23:54:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED AMGT CASC ECON SENV SOCI TBIO TW ESTH
05TAIPEI373	WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: U.S. MARKET ACCESS [...] AIT has reviewed the reftel list of service sectors and submits provides the following rankings in terms of: A) U.S. market access priorities (1 being the highest, 5 the lowest); and B) Taiwan's current level of market openness for each sector (high, medium, low). [...]	2005-01-29 06:10:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON TW ETRD
05TAIPEI3763	MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN, [...] Summary: The coverage of major Chinese-language Taipei dailies September 9 focused on the delayed inauguration of Taiwan's first high-speed railway, local politics, and cross-Strait issues. Both pro- independence newspapers "Taiwan Daily" and "Liberty Times" carried reports on their front and [...]	2005-09-09 09:03:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI3778	TAIWAN'S DEFENSE SPECIAL BUDGET: MOVEMENT EVERY [...] (C) Summary. Taipei's decision to shift PAC-III missiles from the Defense Procurement Special Budget into the regular defense budget was intended to enhance prospects for legislative passage of both the Patriots and the reduced Special Budget package of P-3C's and submarines. This appeared [...]	2005-09-12 10:28:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR TW
05TAIPEI3803	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Most of the pages of the major Chinese- language Taipei dailies September 13 contained articles on the Executive Yuan's announcement the previous day of the appointment of a new acting Kaohsiung Mayor, Minister of Labor Affairs, and Cabinet Secretary- General; the impact on Taiwan of [...]	2005-09-13 23:38:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI3807	TAIWAN DOH PROMISES DATA EXCLUSIVITY REGULATIONS [...] AIT accompanied members of PhRMA, the Japanese Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (JPMA) and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) to meetings with Taiwan's Department of Health, Bureau of Pharmaceutical Affairs (BOPA) and Bureau of Food and Drug [...]	2005-09-14 10:19:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD KIPR TW IPR ESTH
05TAIPEI3822	Great Southern Expectations for KMT Chairman Ma [...] Summary (SBU): Although Speaker of the Legislative Yuan Wang Jin-pyng's main constituency is in Kaohsiung County, Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou, much to the surprise of most KMT supporters, defeated Wang Jin-pyng in the KMT Chairman election in Southern Taiwan. Voters here, putting a n [...]	2005-09-15 08:04:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL TW
05TAIPEI3877	MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS PROCUREMENTS, U.S.- [...] Summary: Major Chinese-language Taipei dailies focused their coverage September 17-19 on the outcome of the German elections, and local issues such as the sighting of a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine in the Taiwan Strait in July, and President Chen Shui-bian's upcoming trip to Central Ameri [...]	2005-09-19 23:23:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI3944	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, [...] Summary: Major Chinese-language Taipei dailies centered their coverage September 23 on President Chen Shui-bian's invitation to Chinese President Hu Jintao for a dialogue; the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense' report that China has built a model of Taiwan's military airport in Guangdong Pro [...]	2005-09-23 09:01:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI4006	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Major Chinese-language Taipei dailies gave extensive coverage September 29 on alleged shady recruitment practices related to the hiring of Thai workers for the construction of the Kaohsiung mass rapid transit system; an extortion scandal linked to a local TV star; and the possible dio [...]	2005-09-29 09:04:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI4043	THE DPP ON THE DEFENSIVE NINE WEEKS BEFORE [...] (C) Summary: With just nine weeks remaining before Taiwan's December 3 county magistrate/city mayor elections, the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) is on the defensive because of criticism over scandals and lackluster government performance. DPP candidates are trying to compensate [...]	2005-09-30 10:09:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
05TAIPEI4094	PHRMA AND TAIWAN AGREE ON COMPUTER VALIDATION [...] Summary: AIT and the Pharmaceutical Research Manufacturers Association (PhRMA),accompanied by representatives of Japanese and European pharmaceutical associations, met with Taiwan's Bureau of Food and Drug Analysis (BFDA) to discuss pharmaceutical validation requirements. The positive tone [...]	2005-10-05 22:48:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD TW
05TAIPEI4144	PRE-ELECTION SCENESETTER: PINGTUNG COUNTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. PINGTUNG, IN TAIWAN'S SOUTHEAST CORNER, IS SET FOR A THREE-WAY BATTLE DOMINATED BY AN INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE ON A SPENDING SPREE AND BY THE INVISIBLE FORCE OF KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU. IN AN UNUSUAL MOVE THAT SPURRED AN EARLY BEGINNING TO THE RACE, PRO-KMT INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE [...]	2005-10-11 23:05:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR TW
05TAIPEI4156	Food Supply in Southern Taiwan Faces Scrutiny [...] The food supply in Taiwan has come under increasing scrutiny following reports of more dioxin-contaminated duck and fish products (reftel A),commercially raised fish contaminated with the carcinogen, malachite green, and large additional amounts of diseased pork (reftel B). Moreover, most o [...]	2005-10-12 06:39:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON TW IND AGR
05TAIPEI4158	TAIWAN'S DECEMBER ELECTION: REFERENCE GUIDE [...] On December 3 Taiwan will hold key local "three-in-one" elections for (1) county magistrates and city mayors, (2) county and city councilors, and (3) township and village chiefs. The county magistrate and city mayor elections, however, are receiving the lion's share of media attention as a t [...]	2005-10-12 09:25:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV TW
05TAIPEI4187	TAIWAN FINANCIAL REFORM BECOMES POLITICAL CONTEST [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan's second stage financial reforms have become the subject of a heated political contest and media debate. Opposition parties have been able to capitalize on misgivings raised by labor union opposition to privatization and an opaque bidding process as an effective way to cas [...]	2005-10-14 08:29:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL PINR TW
05TAIPEI4205	TAIWAN ADDRESSES FOREIGN WORKER ABUSE [...] Summary: The Thai labor riots (ref A, B and C) have highlighted the need for changes in Taiwan's treatment of foreign workers. NGOs report that Taiwan employers are able to mistreat foreign workers because of inadequate laws. Mistreatment includes high broker fees, labor trafficking, and arbi [...]	2005-10-17 08:04:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELAB PHUM SMIG TW VM ID TH PH ILO WCL
05TAIPEI4264	AVIAN INFLUENZA SMUGGLED INTO TAIWAN FROM CHINA [...] (SBU) AIT received news late on October 20 from the Taiwan Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine under the Council of Agricultural (COA) that of the 1500 birds being smuggled from China on a Panamanian-flagged vessel that were seized by Taiwan Coast Guard on October 14, [...]	2005-10-20 22:49:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED SENV CASC ECON TW WHO
05TAIPEI4290	MEDIA REACTION: RUMSFELD'S CHINA TRIP, AVIAN [...] Summary: Major Chinese-language Taipei dailies gave extensive coverage October 21 on the Council of Agriculture's (COA) confirmation of the first case of avian flu in Taiwan, and the follow-up probe into the alleged Kaohsiung mass rapid transit system scandal. The COA's confirmation that some [...]	2005-10-21 08:50:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW ESTH
05TAIPEI4295	TAIWAN AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: This is a periodic update to our baseline report on Taiwan's efforts to combat avian flu (ref D). In recent days, Taiwan authorities discovered H5N1 avian flu virus in a shipment of birds smuggled from China. The stock market declined on avian flu concerns. Authorities conducte [...]	2005-10-23 22:50:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AMED SENV CASC ECON TW WHO
05TAIPEI4395	CROSS-STRAIT ENTRY PERMITS - PROGRESS AND PROBLEMS [...] (C) The American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei (Amcham) has been taking concrete steps to work with Taiwan authorities to improve the system for approval of entry permits for Mainland employees of firms located in Taiwan. Taiwan's Council for Economic Planning and Development has taken the lea [...]	2005-10-28 09:01:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB CH TW
05TAIPEI4396	MEDICAL DEVICE REGISTRATIONS FACE DECEMBER DEADLINE [...] (SBU) Summary: Medical device manufacturers continue to face administrative difficulties in securing registration documents from the Department of Health (DOH),but are optimistic that registration will be completed for almost all products by the December 20 deadline. DOH has a timeline for [...]	2005-10-28 09:01:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON TW
05TAIPEI4403	PRE-ELECTION SCENE SETTER: TAIPEI COUNTY [...] (C) Summary: The ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and opposition Kuomintang (KMT) both view Taipei County as the most important contest in the December 3 local elections and a key indicator of relative party strength following the KMT's election of Taipei City Mayor Ma Ying-jeou as i [...]	2005-10-31 10:27:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
05TAIPEI4624	RECHI CASE DRAWS ATTENTION TO LIMITS ON PRC [...] (C) Investigations of possible illegal investment transactions by Rechi Precision Co., Ltd., the world's third largest manufacturer of compressors for refrigerators and air conditioners, have attracted attention to Taiwan's regulations that limit investment in the PRC to a percentage of net wo [...]	2005-11-18 09:03:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON CH TW

05TAIPEI4645	TAIWAN: AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-21 07:59:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED AMGT CASC ECON SENV SOCI TBIO TW ESTH
05TAIPEI4697	TAIWAN: 2006 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE [...] The U.S. trade deficit with Taiwan was $12.9 billion in 2004, a decrease of $1.3 billion from $14.2 billion in 2003. U.S. goods exports in 2004 were $21.7 billion, up 24.6 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Taiwan were $34.6 billion, up 9.6 percent. Taiwan is cu [...]	2005-11-25 02:55:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON KTDB TW
05TAIPEI4719	LAPTOP PCS - MADE IN TAIWAN NO LONGER [...] (SBU) Taiwan firms had a 72.4 percent share of global laptop manufacturing in 2004, but more than 90 percent of their laptop output was assembled in the PRC. The rapid transfer of laptop PC assembly from Taiwan to the Mainland has been driven by the movement of component suppliers and custome [...]	2005-11-28 02:36:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV CH TW
05TAIPEI4739	Taiwan Insurance Firm Ordered Closed [...] Summary: Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) has ordered Kuo Hua Insurance to cease operations due to insolvency and has requested the state-owned Taiwan Insurance Institute (TII) to liquidate Kuo Hua. Outstanding claims against Kuo Hua may exhaust Taiwan's Insurance Stabilizati [...]	2005-11-29 03:46:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
05TAIPEI4748	TAIWAN'S DECEMBER 3 LOCAL ELECTIONS: THEMES AND [...] (C) Summary: Following highly negative campaigns by both major parties, Taiwan voters go to the polls Saturday December 3 to elect magistrates and mayors in 23 counties and cities. The opposition Kuomintang (KMT) has capitalized on a series of corruption scandals surrounding President Chen an [...]	2005-11-29 10:40:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
05TAIPEI4769	TAIWAN PREPAREDNESS FOR AVIAN AND PANDEMIC [...] Summary. Taiwan remains free of Avian Influenza (AI) and seems determined to try and keep that status. Drawing on its experience with SARS in 2003, Taiwan continues to be very proactive in its efforts to prevent, detect and respond to an AI outbreak. Wide coverage of AI educational programs [...]	2005-12-01 05:17:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED AMGT CASC ECON SENV SOCI TBIO TW ESTH
05TAIPEI478	TRAGIC DEATH WON'T LEAD TO HEALTH CARE REFORMS [...] Summary: The tragic death of a four year-old abuse victim, refused treatment in Taipei and instead transferred more than two hours away to a hospital in Taichung, has raised calls for reforms to the Taiwan health care system. The Department of Health disputes accusations that the victim's la [...]	2005-02-03 23:32:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD TW ESTH
05TAIPEI4786	PRE-ELECTION SCENE SETTER: TAOYUAN COUNTY, KMT [...] (C) Summary: Incumbent Kuomintang (KMT) Taoyuan County Magistrate Eric Chu (Li-lun) continues to coast toward reelection in Taoyuan despite the publicity given to a controversial, politically motivated "extraordinary video" that accuses Chu of official and personal misconduct. The Democratic [...]	2005-12-02 08:43:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV TW
05TAIPEI4851	CROSS-STRAIT ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION - THE WAY [...] (C) Over the past two decades, Taiwan has gradually lifted many restrictions on cross-Strait economic relations resulting in the PRC becoming Taiwan's largest trade partner and top investment destination. However, many restrictions remain, and many liberalization proposals continue to languis [...]	2005-12-12 22:38:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD EAIR EWWT EFIN PGOV PREL CH TW
05TAIPEI4880	TAIWAN: 2005 REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) The American Institute in Taiwan's (AIT) submission for the 2005 Country Reports on Terrorism (CRT) is as follows: TAIWAN ------ 2. (U) There were no acts of international or domestic terrorism in Taiwan in 2005. Even though Taiwan is frequently prevented from participating in inte [...]	2005-12-14 08:24:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER PINR EFIN KCRM TW
05TAIPEI490	HIGH SPEED RAIL - EXPOSING PITFALLS OF BOT FINANCE [...] (SBU) Despite cost overruns and technical problems, Taiwan High-Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) insists that Taiwan's first high-speed railway, which will run the length of Taiwan's west coast, will open on schedule in October 2005. However, financial problems continue to plague THSRC forcing i [...]	2005-02-04 01:10:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ELTN ECON TW
05TAIPEI4951	TAIWAN'S BIO-TERRORISM DEFENSE [...] Summary. Taiwan's Department of Health (DOH) held a three-day International Conference on Bio-terrorism Defense in Taipei December 6 -8, with international experts on bio- terrorism and presentations on the economics, law, medicine, public health, emergency management, epidemiology and other [...]	2005-12-22 07:53:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED AMGT CASC ECON SENV SOCI TBIO TW ESTH
05TAIPEI5035	KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU FORGING A NEW [...] The following cable is an analysis of public opinion written by one of AIT's senior local employees in the Press Section. She wrote it based on several weeks of monitoring talk shows, newspapers and conversations among her contacts and friends. Rather than edit it into a traditional reporti [...]	2005-12-30 00:38:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO TW
05TAIPEI5046	CHT NETWORK MIGRATION PLANS [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. It contains business confidential information and is not for internet publication. 2. (U) Summary: Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) continues to make plans for implementing its Next Generation Network (NGN) project, but has postponed the timeline and [...]	2005-12-30 06:37:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS ETRD TW
05TAIPEI51	TFX001: Taiwan Economic Brief December 2005 [...] This cable summarizes selected Taiwan economic events in December 2004. -- Taiwan becomes OECD trade committee observer -- Taiwan leads world in chip packaging and testing -- Taiwan worries about over-reliance on China -- Taiwan's 2004 and 2005 economic performance -- Taiwan aids t [...]	2005-01-07 02:17:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ECON TW
05TAIPEI539	MOEA MAY LOOSEN TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER RULES [...] (C) In a February 2 meeting with AIT/T econoff, Taiwan Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) Executive Secretary Huang Chin-tan and his deputy Emile Chang gave an update on Taiwan's investment control regulations for semiconductor manufacturing investment in the PRC. Huang said that based in pa [...]	2005-02-04 08:49:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC ECON ETRD TW CH
05TAIPEI58	RECOGNIZING THREAT, TAIWAN PREPS FOR AVIAN FLU [...] Summary. Taiwan has thus far managed to avoid Avian Influenza since early 2004. Following the outbreak of H5N2 Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI) in Taiwan in early 2004 and the outbreaks of H5N1 High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in neighboring countries both last year and this year, [...]	2005-01-07 08:52:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AMED EAGR ECON EAID TW
05TAIPEI673	MINI-LINKS - SMALL IMPACT, BIG DREAMS [...] (C) On a recent trip to Kinmen, econoff observed that the "mini-links" connecting the Taiwan-controlled islands of Kinmen and Matsu directly with the Mainland are bringing only limited benefit to the local economy. Most passenger travel via the mini-links consists of Taiwan businessmen with i [...]	2005-02-18 08:26:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAIR EWWT ETRD CH TW
05TAIPEI694	MEDIA REACTION: Taiwan Strait Security in U.S.- [...] Summary: The Taipei dailies gave significant reporting and editorial coverage February 19 - 21 to a joint statement issued by the United States and Japan in Washington Saturday, reporting that the two allies had for the first time included easing tensions in the Taiwan Strait as part of their [...]	2005-02-22 07:21:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO TW
05TAIPEI712	TAIWAN SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: AIT SUBMISSION [...] Summary and recommendation: After an out-of-cycle review (OCR) in November 2004, Taiwan was removed from the Special 301 Priority Watch List in January 2005 and downgraded to the Watch List in recognition of improvements to the legal regime for protection of copyright and Taiwan's strengtheni [...]	2005-02-23 10:10:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR TW IPR
05TAIPEI866	2005 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: TAIWAN [...] (U) Following is AIT/T's 2004-05 trafficking-in-persons (TIP) report. The report is according to reftel sections, beginning with 18 A. -------- Overview -------- 18 A. (SBU) Is the country a country of origin, transit or destination for international trafficked men, women or children? [...]	2005-03-02 22:51:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG TW TIP
05TAIPEI936	TAIWAN CUSTOMS MEETING NINTENDO'S CONCERNS ON EMS [...] Summary: AIT met with Taiwan Customs and representatives of Nintendo to discuss measures designed to replace the recently abolished Export Monitoring System (EMS). Nintendo, through the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) Special 301 submission, had expressed concern that Taiwan Customs [...]	2005-03-07 00:48:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KIPR TW IPR
05TAIPEI955	BREAKTHROUGH ANNOUNCED IN MARCH 19, 2004, ALLEGED [...] (U) The Tainan Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) announced on Monday, March 7, a breakthrough in the year-long investigation of the March 19, 2004, shooting of President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President Annette Lu in Tainan. CIB Director Hou You-yi stated that law enforcement authorities b [...]	2005-03-07 10:40:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC TW
05TAIPEI990	AIT TELLS TAIWAN CDC ABOUT WHO/IHR [...] (c) Summary. AIT delivered World Health Organization/International Health Regulation (WHO/IHR) points contained in refs A and B to Taiwan Center for Disease Control (TCDC) Director-General Steven Kuo on Friday, March 4. While Kuo was unaware of the compromise to allow for Taiwan's particip [...]	2005-03-08 10:17:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV TBIO TW ESTH
05TBILISI3205	GEORGIA/ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING PROSECUTION [...] Summary. The DOJ supported anti money-laundering (M/L) unit of the Georgian Prosecutor's Office scored a first ever in Georgian jurisprudence by having a witness testify at trial pursuant to a plea bargain agreement. The case charges that the president of a local bank (and vice premier of Ge [...]	2005-12-09 03:48:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV OTRA KCRM KJUS GG
05TEGUCIGALPA1041	Scenesetter for CoDel Nelson May 29-30 Visit to [...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Nelson to Honduras May 29-30. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, over three years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. There will be national el [...]	2005-05-16 23:21:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA119	Honduran Market Access Priorities for WTO Services [...] The following information is provided in response to reftel: Sector Priority Openness ------ -------- -------- Legal services 5 L Accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services [...]	2005-01-19 13:46:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD HO WTO
05TEGUCIGALPA1247	MEDIA REACTION ON THE OAS, JUNE 09, 2005 [...] On 06/09, the Tegucigalpa-based liberal daily "La Tribuna" published an editorial entitled, "Funeral March" "As seen in Bolivia, once you enter a crisis it can set of a chain reaction in several directions with unpredictable results. Today this country is on the verge of a civil war because th [...]	2005-06-10 16:18:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP PREL KPAO PGOV KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1566	MEDIA REACTION ON CAFTA, JULY 25, 2005 [...] Editorial in San Pedro Sula-based liberal daily "Tiempo" on 7/23, titled "Reforms." "Despite President Bush's renewed efforts to obtain CAFTA-DR approval the picture is still not clear and the possibility of a set-back exists for the North American president." "A similar situation seems to [...]	2005-07-29 17:21:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO ETRD HO USTR
05TEGUCIGALPA1580	ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AND MURDER OF DEA AGENT [...] Summary. On July 27, 2005, at approximately 1100 hours local time, DEA Agent Timothy Markey, vacationing in Honduras, was shot and killed while visiting the Suyapa Cathedral in Tegucigalpa. Two individuals now in custody appear to be responsible for the shooting/death of Agent Markey. Local au [...]	2005-08-01 20:29:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	KSAC ASEC CASC KCRM PREL PGOV KPAO HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1643	REQUEST FOR USD 1.6 MILLION IN FY05 ESF FOR [...] (U) This is an action request for WHA/PPC. Please see para. 9. 2. (U) Summary: On November 27, 2005, Honduras will elect a new president, national congress, and mayors in the first national general election under the new electoral reforms. The new 2004 Electoral Law substantially reduce [...]	2005-08-08 16:05:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA1843	SHIPPERS HIKE HONDURAN PORT FEES, SPURRING [...] (C) On August 26, the private shippers' umbrella organization -- the Central America Discussion Agreement (CADA) -- informed Honduran importers and exporters that effective September 1, shippers would raise container handling fees by USD 5-15 per container. According to CADA, this price incre [...]	2005-09-08 21:00:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT KJUS ECON ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2041	CHEESED OFF: FDA CITES POOR FOOD SAFETY IN HONDURAN [...] Summary: FDA dairy inspectors finishing a three-week inspection visit to seven Honduran dairy plants expressed concern over a lack of standardized safety procedures in the production of quesillo, a locally popular soft white cheese. Although the seven plants had been specially selected by GOH [...]	2005-10-04 13:37:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON EIND ETRD AMED HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2067	HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 8 [...] The National Register of Persons (RNP) is considering charging 300 lempiras (USD 15.9) for renewing a national identity card. The RNP is planning to do this in view of the growing costs of this service. According to the RNP, more than 70 percent of the national identity cards are replacement [...]	2005-10-06 13:58:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2086	Scenesetter for Secretary Gutierrez Visit to [...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of Secretary Gutierrez to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, on October 18-20. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, with less than four months remaining in his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries [...]	2005-10-07 20:13:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL ETRD ECON PGOV SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2125	HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 9 [...] The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) has approved the National Party using the photograph of their presidential candidate, Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo, instead of the usual party flag as the party's symbol on the ballot to elect the members of the National Congress. Liberal Party members had objected [...]	2005-10-14 20:09:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2138	HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 11 [...] The Anticorruption Bar Association of Honduras has registered a complaint with the Anti-Corruption Unit of the Attorney General's Office denouncing the allegedly illegal manner in which the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) registered the candidacy for re-election of the current Secretary (Majo [...]	2005-10-18 23:34:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2172	CHILD LABOR IN HONDURAS: INFORMATION FOR THE TRADE [...] Summary. Over the past several months, EmbOffs have spoken with government officials, private sector, labor unions, non-governmental organizations, and child advocates regarding the situation of child labor in Honduras. The Embassy has been active in promoting an agenda to support the eradic [...]	2005-10-21 21:50:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID PGOV HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2207	COUNTERNARCOTICS BATTLE IN HONDURAS: GOH POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent maritime interdictions, air radar tracks, and drug seizures, along with corroborated source information, indicate that Honduras has become a significant transit point for narcotics destined for the United States. There is evidence of the existence of an illicit trade in [...]	2005-10-28 18:40:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL KCRM PTER EFIN MOPS PGOV PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA23	Scenesetter for CoDel Weller's January 16-18 Visit [...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Weller to Honduras January 16-18. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, almost three years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. However, there were [...]	2005-01-04 18:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2305	HONDURAS FAA TECHNICAL REVIEW SURPRISINGLY POSITIVE [...] A Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) technical review of Honduras' civil aviation oversight authority (General Directorate of Civil Aviation, or DGAC) was "85 percent positive," opening up the possibility of Honduras moving to Category 1 in the FAA's International Safety Assessments (IASA) [...]	2005-11-10 13:50:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON PGOV KPRV CASC HO FAA TSA
05TEGUCIGALPA2346	HONDURAN ELECTIONS NEWS: UPDATE 15 [...] Carlos Romero, the Director of Elections at the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE),announced a new procedural mechanism to combat electoral fraud. Once voting is finished, election judges will count all valid marks on each ballot. The head official at each election table will have to note th [...]	2005-11-17 22:58:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2347	10 DAYS TO HONDURAN ELECTIONS A FAIRLY CONFIDENT [...] (C) Summary. Ten days before the November 27 general elections, National Party presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo has a slight lead over Liberal Party presidential candidate Mel Zelaya in all non-Liberal Party polls, leading by 3 percent in probably the most accurate poll. Ambassador [...]	2005-11-18 14:56:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2363	Honduran Elections: Rules of the Game [...] Summary. Honduran general elections will take place November 27. Under a new Electoral law reform passed early in 2004, Honduran voters will for the first time in a general election be able to select individual candidates for Congress shown on the ballot with their picture as well as their na [...]	2005-11-21 18:24:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2372	FEMINISM, CRONYISM, AND HONDURAN ELECTIONS: THE [...] SUMMARY: With Honduran national elections taking place November 27, polls are beginning to flesh out what shape the 128-seat Honduran legislature will likely take. While it is uncertain if the 2004 Electoral Law mandating a quota at least 30 percent female participation will prove to be the [...]	2005-11-23 00:53:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KCOR KWMN PINR ECON HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2383	HONDURAS NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT 2006 [...] The following is in response to reftel request for update to the 2006 National Trade Estimate Report. ------------- TRADE SUMMARY ------------- 2. The U.S. trade deficit with Honduras was $565 million in 2004, an increase of $78 million from $486 million in 2003. U.S. goods exp [...]	2005-11-23 22:04:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2483	HONDURAS MINI DUBLIN REPORT [...] Status: Honduras still remains as one of Central America's transient countries for drugs, weapons, and other illegal contraband transshipments. The DEA Honduran Vetted Unit has successfully disrupted and dismantled entrenched drug trafficking organizations moving large quantities of cocaine [...]	2005-12-09 20:24:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2492	A ZELAYA ADMINISTRATION - WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR [...] (C) Summary: In somewhat surprising election results, Liberal Party presidential candidate Manuel "Mel" Zelaya is now the President-elect. While Zelaya is viewed as a friend of the USG, his personality, administration, and likely "government plans" could make working with him an interesting c [...]	2005-12-13 14:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON KCRM PINR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA2499	HONDURAS INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Summary Efforts by the GOH have directly addressed the current drug trafficking routes including air, land, and maritime trans-shipments of cocaine through Honduras. Seizures have been reduced and are at lower quantities due to more enforcement of maritime and other drug trafficking movements [...]	2005-12-13 22:28:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR HO
05TEGUCIGALPA252	HONDURAS BANKING REFORM: FINANCIAL SYSTEM LAW MOVES [...] (U) SUMMARY: In September and October 2004, the GOH passed four banking reform laws aimed at strengthening the nation's financial system. This is the last in a series of four cables that analyze each of these laws, assess their impacts on the Honduran financial system, and outline challenges [...]	2005-02-03 20:06:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PGOV HO IMF
05TEGUCIGALPA2565	HONDURAS: 2005-2006 INCSR PART II, MONEY [...] Per reftel, Post provides its submission for the 2005-2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) Part II, Money Laundering And Financial Crimes. Introduction and General Questions 2. Three years after passing a new law against money laundering, the government of Honduras [...]	2005-12-21 22:51:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KCRM KJUS PGOV PREL HO
05TEGUCIGALPA273	HONDURAN RESPONSE TO G-8 FM'S LETTER ON IAEA [...] As reported ref A, Embassy delivered the G-8 Foreign Ministers' letter on the IAEA Comprehensive Safeguard Agreements and the Additional Protocol in English (ref C) and Spanish (ref B),under cover letter from the Ambassador, to Minister of Foreign Affairs Leonidas Rosa Bautista in December 20 [...]	2005-02-07 17:00:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP TRGY PREL AORC PARM OPDC HO IAEA
05TEGUCIGALPA363	HONDURAS: PORT FEES: THE HONDURAN PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (C) Summary: The GOH has recently approved a USD 55 per container fee for x-ray scanning at Puerto Cortes (Ref A). This fee, if passed on to port users, would nearly double port costs, rendering the port uncompetitive and resulting in trade and investment diversion away from Honduras (Ref B). [...]	2005-02-14 20:57:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT ETRD ECPS EINV PGOV KMCA HO
05TEGUCIGALPA390	Scenesetter for CoDel Taylor's February 22-24 Visit [...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Taylor to Honduras February 22-24. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, three years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. However, there were sever [...]	2005-02-17 12:06:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA698	Scenesetter for CoDel Kolbe April 14-16 Visit to [...] (U) Summary: Post welcomes the visit of CoDel Kolbe to Honduras April 14-16. Honduran President Ricardo Maduro, three years through his constitutionally-mandated single four-year term, faces a difficult task leading one of the poorest countries in Latin America. However, there were several p [...]	2005-04-01 15:15:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV ETRD ECON SNAR EAID KJUS HO
05TEGUCIGALPA874	HONDURAS IMPORT REGULATIONS FOR USED MEDICAL EQUIPMENT [...] This cable is in response to reftel, which requested an update on the feasibility of exporting used medical equipment to Honduras. 2. According to the Honduran Customs and Tax Division, there are no quotas for the importation of remanufactured, rebuilt, and/or used medical equipment to Ho [...]	2005-04-26 15:36:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON HO
05TELAVIV1058	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-22 11:22:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1171	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Democratic Reform in Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- During the weekend, Friday night's suicide bombing outside a Tel Aviv nightclub dominated the news reports. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack, in [...]	2005-02-28 11:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1192	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-01 11:45:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1246	POST'S SUBMISSION SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: ISRAEL [...] (SBU) Summary. The attached evaluation of protection of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Israel focuses on areas of specific concern as detailed in reftel B. Post's policy recommendation is being transmitted septel. End Summary. -------------------- Optical Media Piracy ----------- [...]	2005-03-02 15:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE LABOR COMMERCE ISRAEL RELATIONS
05TELAVIV1336	ISRAEL: FIFTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) This cable is the first part of a three-part message in response to reftel. Embassy point of contact is poloff Jenifer Joyce, telephone number (972) (3) 519-7437. Fax number (972)(3) 519-7484. Poloff spent approximately 80 hours in preparation of the report. Deputy polcouns spent app [...]	2005-03-07 15:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1338	ISRAEL: FIFTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) This is the third part of a three-part message responding to reftel. Embassy point of contact is Jenifer Joyce, telephone number (972)(3) 519-7437, fax number (972)(3) 519-7484. ------------------------------------ Protection and Assistance to Victims ------------------------------- [...]	2005-03-07 15:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1352	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Democracy in Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio and other media reported that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz are supposed to sign an agreement tonight regarding the transfer of se [...]	2005-03-08 11:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1446	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Lebanon and Syria 3. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv reported that associates of PM Sharon ordered five different public opinion polls to try to predict the results of elections held after a p [...]	2005-03-11 12:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1513	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Lebanon and Syria ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that PM Sharon told visiting UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Sunday that there would SIPDIS be no progress on the road map until the Palestinian armed [...]	2005-03-14 12:00:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1679	TRAFFICKING NGOS WEIGH IN ON WHERE THE SYSTEM IS [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of Israeli NGOs against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) say that the GOI, while inflicting stricter sentencing of traffickers and implementing other improvements, still falls short in some areas in its efforts to combat TIP. NGO representatives charge that: -- [...]	2005-03-21 07:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KWMN KCRM SMIG EG IS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV1683	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams, who holds the "Israeli-Palestinian portfolio" in the White House, and David Welch, the "head of the [...]	2005-03-21 11:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV170	Fischer Accepts GOI Offer to Be Next Governor of [...] (U) On January 9, Prime Minister Sharon and Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu jointly nominated Professor Stanley Fischer as the next Governor of the Bank of Israel. Fischer accepted the nomination the same day, although it will require further administrative and political approvals, includ [...]	2005-01-10 15:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV1759	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Gaza and West Bank Disengagement Plan 2. Global War On Terrorism 3. Israel-China Arms Deals ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that last night the state budget bill passed the hurdle of the Knesset's Finance Comm [...]	2005-03-23 11:45:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV1938	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-30 10:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV199	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-11 11:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV2045	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Syrian-Lebanese Track 3. Pope John Paul II ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media on Sunday and Monday (3, 4 April) led with stories on the Pope's death and disengagement-related reports. Ha'aretz reported Sunday that [...]	2005-04-04 11:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV2087	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Pope John Paul II ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- In disengagement related stories, Maariv reported that a broad meeting was held at the Prime Minister's bureau yesterday on settlers' relocation, in which Sharon called on the p [...]	2005-04-05 12:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV2120	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-06 12:45:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV2138	(C) EILAND OUTLINES STEPS TO PREVENT [...] (S) In a March 23 meeting with Deputy APNSA Abrams, A/S Welch, and the Ambassador, National Security Advisor Eiland sketched out "preliminary" GOI thinking about the future of Lebanon after a Syrian withdrawal. He described three scenarios for post-Syria Lebanon: democratic stability; a retur [...]	2005-04-07 05:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER KWBG IS LE SY COUNTERTERRORISM GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV2262	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Bush-Sharon Meeting 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media extensively covered the Bush-Sharon Crawford meeting, focusing mainly in the differences between the two positions. Ha'aretz reported that Prime Minister Ariel Shar [...]	2005-04-12 13:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV2639	DEFMIN MOFAZ DISCUSSES ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch, Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams, Lieutenant General William Ward and the Charge on April 21, Israel's Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said the GOI is taking steps to strengthen Palestinian Authority President Mahm [...]	2005-04-28 07:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KPAL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS MILITARY RELATIONS
05TELAVIV271	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Proposed Russia-Syria Arms Deal 3. Stanley Fischer's Bank of Israel Nomination ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that six Israeli civilians were killed and five others were wounded in a combined double su [...]	2005-01-14 12:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV2719	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Syrian-Lebanese Track 3. Visit of Turkish PM Erdogan to Israel, May 1-2 ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that an IDF soldier was killed and another was wounded in an operation near Tulkarm, in which a [...]	2005-05-02 09:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV2809	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. NPT Review Conference May 2-27 New York 3. May 5 UK Elections ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that the PA has informed the Israeli defense establishment that PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas has [...]	2005-05-05 10:16:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV290	FOREIGN MINISTER SHALOM EXPRESSES SKEPTICISM ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: In separate January 10 meetings with Codels Kerry and Kyl, both joined by the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Shalom articulated Israel's cautious readiness to work with Palestinian President-elect Abu Mazen. Shalom emphasized that Israel will measure Abu Mazen by his performance in [...]	2005-01-18 08:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV2921	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Democracy in Mideast 3. President Bush Visits Latvia, Russia, Netherlands, Georgia (May 6-10) ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- In separate interviews broadcast last night on Israel TV, Channel 2-TV, and Channel 10-TV, Shar [...]	2005-05-10 11:22:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV294	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Proposed Russia-Syria Arms Deal ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- During the weekend, all media led with the possibility of IDF action to counter continued rocket strikes at Israeli targets from the northern Gaza Strip; a 17-yea [...]	2005-01-18 11:48:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3032	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Israel-U.S. Relations 2. Russia: Yukos Trial ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot and Jerusalem Post quoted White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan as saying Tuesday that the SIPDIS First Lady's visit to the region is "an opport [...]	2005-05-18 10:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3080	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Global War on Terrorism ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz quoted sources in Jerusalem as saying that First Lady Laura Bush has included Israel in her visit to the region only because President Bush asked her to do so. [...]	2005-05-20 11:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV321	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. President Bush Inauguration ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that last night, a Shin Bet agent was killed and seven other security personnel were wounded when a suicide bomber from Hamas blew himself up at t [...]	2005-01-19 10:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3244	STAFFDEL TALWAR DISCUSSES DISENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: Staffdel Talwar discussed the disengagement process with high-ranking Israeli military and foreign affairs officials, minister without portfolio Matan Vilnai, senior members of Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres' staff, and an opposition leader during a visit to Tel Aviv and Jerusal [...]	2005-05-31 06:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KPAL KWBG OREP EG SY IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV3256	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-31 11:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3304	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Lebanon 3. European Union ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on today's transition from Moshe Ya'alon to Dan Halutz in the position of IDF chief of staff. The media cited anger among right-wing politicia [...]	2005-06-01 11:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3415	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-03 13:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3467	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-06 10:47:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV348	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Prospect for Second Bush Administration 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that the diplomatic-security cabinet decided on Wednesday to give PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) a few days to take action to st [...]	2005-01-20 11:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV350	PERES ON INNOVATIVE ECONOMIC SOLUTIONS FOR PA [...] (C) Summary: Deputy PM Shimon Peres met with the Ambassador recently and discussed prospects for renewed peace process negotiations with the PA, as well as his new role in coordinating economic aspects of the disengagement plan and development of the Negev and Galilee. Peres was skeptical t [...]	2005-01-20 11:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG ECON EFIN PREL IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV3539	A Political Map of the Orthodox Movement in [...] (U) Summary: The Jewish Orthodox sector in Israel today is composed of an increasingly complex fabric, from ultra-orthodox to "modern" or "liberal" orthodox. Religious strands are represented by political parties in the Knesset -- from Shas and Agudat Yisrael to the National Religious Party (N [...]	2005-06-08 12:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF KPAO IS ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV3582	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-09 10:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV381	PA SECURITY FORCES BEGIN DEPLOYING IN NORTHERN GAZA [...] (C) Summary: A force of some 2,000 PA security personnel began deploying in the northeastern Gaza Strip, near Bayt Hanoun and Bayt Lahiya January 21 in an agreed-upon effort between the IDF and Gaza security chief Mousa Arafat aimed at preventing rocket fire at Israeli towns. Observers on th [...]	2005-01-21 15:32:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV3844	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Secretary Rice to Israel, West Bank June 18-19 2. Mideast 3. Lebanon: Elections ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that PM Sharon and PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas will meet at Sharon's Jerusalem residence [...]	2005-06-20 10:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV3991	TAX PLAN APPROVED BY THE GOI [...] (C) Summary. The GOI approved a multi-year tax plan on June 5, prepared by the tax authority and the State Revenues Administration of the Ministry of Finance. The plan focuses on enabling Israel to become a more attractive and competitive location for investors while reducing income tax rat [...]	2005-06-24 14:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV4030	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] U.S.-Israel Security Exports Crisis 2. Iran: Presidential Election 3. Democracy in Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- On Sunday, Ha'aretz reported that during her visit to Jerusalem last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Ric [...]	2005-06-27 11:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4097	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Guantanamo Detainees 4. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with disengagement-related issues. Ha'aretz reported that the army will soon declare the Gaza Strip a closed militar [...]	2005-06-29 10:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT

05TELAVIV4169	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Lebanese-Syrian Track 3. Global War on Terrorism ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that a joint session of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and of the Knesset's Constitution, Law, an [...]	2005-07-05 11:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4255	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] July 7 London Bombings 2. Israel-China Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with, and extensively reported on, Thursday's terror bombings in London, in which at least 37 people were killed and 700 others were wounded. [...]	2005-07-08 10:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4329	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-13 11:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4420	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-19 05:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4564	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-21 09:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4603	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Secretary Rice to Israel, West Bank 2. July 21 London Bombings ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that at mid-day today, following her meeting with PM Sharon at his Sycamore Ranch, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice r [...]	2005-07-22 11:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4653	ECF: SEPTEMBER COMPLETION OF JERUSALEM ENVELOPE [...] (C) Summary: Colonel (ret.) Shaul Arieli, consultant at the Economic Cooperation Foundation and advisor to the High Court on the routing of the separation barrier, told economic officer that it is unlikely that Israel will complete construction of the Jerusalem envelope--the Jerusalem section [...]	2005-07-26 13:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV4749	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israeli Relations 3. Iran: Nuclear Program 4. Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz (Sunday) and Israel Radio reported that senior Israeli officials Dov Weisglass and [...]	2005-08-01 12:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4766	Gaza's moderate Islamists muse on "after [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A trio of Islamic scholars from Al Azhar University, like many Gazan interlocutors, on 28 July cited freedom of movement for Gazans and their goods as the test of disengagement. Recently returned from an International Visitors program, the leaders also spoke favorably of relig [...]	2005-08-02 09:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	GZ PREL KPAO OEXC SCUL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV4791	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Gaza Disengagement 2. Iran: Nuclear Program 3. Global Struggle Against Violent Extremism ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that tens of thousands of right-wing activists participated in Tuesday's anti-disengagement [...]	2005-08-03 10:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV4800	REVISED ISRAELI TEXT OF UNGA HOLOCAUST RESOLUTION [...] (C) MFA Director for UN Political Affairs Rony Adam discussed the GOI's draft resolution on Holocaust remembrance with poloff on August 2. Adam provided a copy of the revised text (attached),which has minor changes to preliminary paragraphs four (removing the word "unique" to describe World [...]	2005-08-03 11:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV4859	SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: RELIGIOUS ZIONISM VS. THE STATE [...] Summary: With disengagement slated to begin less than two weeks from now, it seems most Gaza settlers have grasped that, be it voluntarily or by force, they will soon be effectively "disengaged" from their Gaza Strip homes. The goal, therefore, of the anti-disengagement campaign has shifted [...]	2005-08-05 14:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4880	FINANCE MINISTER NETANYAHU RESIGNS: ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Finance Benyamin Netanyahu resigned on Sunday, August 7th during the Cabinet session in which the implementation of the first stage of disengagement was approved. Within hours of Netanyahu's resignation the stock market in Israel lost 5.3% of its value. Late Sunday n [...]	2005-08-08 12:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PREL ELAB EAIR IS GOI INTERNAL ECONOMY AND FINANCE GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV4894	IDF CHIEF OF STAFF SAYS DISENGAGEMENT HAS NOT [...] (S) SUMMARY. In an August 3 meeting with Deputy National Security Adviser Abrams, the Ambassador and Gen. Ward, the IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, said that disengagement has not harmed the IDF as an institution. It has, however, created problems, particularly in the area [...]	2005-08-09 08:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	MOPS PGOV PREL KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV4950	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Gaza Disengagement 2. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on mass anti-disengagement prayers held next to Jerusalem's Western (Wailing) Wall on Wednesday, which were attended by 70,000 to 100,000 pro [...]	2005-08-11 13:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV499	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program 3. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will leave next week for a tour of Europe and the Middle East, which will include nine countrie [...]	2005-01-28 10:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5034	EXPANDED ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-15 11:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5091	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-08-17 11:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5103	(S) ISRAELI MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF: GOI [...] (S) Summary: Chief of Israeli Military Intelligence Aharon Ze'evi Farkash told A/S Welch and Ambassador Kurtzer August 16 that he was surprised by U.S. media reports on a U.S. National Intelligence Estimate that Iran could build its first nuclear weapon only by 2015. He noted that recent U.S. [...]	2005-08-18 07:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	KPAL KWBG PREF PTER EG IR IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI EXTERNAL MILITARY RELATIONS
05TELAVIV5157	DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 21, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the seventh day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police focused on evacuating the remaining southern Gaza Strip settlements of Katif and Atzmona and some remaining families in Shelo/Shalev/Slav -- after a day (August 20) of inaction due to the Sabbath. The Israeli cabinet [...]	2005-08-21 17:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT
05TELAVIV5253	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Global War on Terror ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Vice PM and Finance Minister Ehud Olmert as saying, after his meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington Wednesday, that the PA must [...]	2005-08-25 10:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5302	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media highlighted the suicide bombing that occurred outside Beersheva's central bus station on Sunday morning. Two security guards were seriously wounded and 61 other [...]	2005-08-29 10:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5426	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Hurricane Katrina 2. U.S.-Israel Relations 3. Syrian-Lebanese Track 4. Israeli Arabs ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz notes that the international community is putting pressure on Israel to allow the Palestinians freedo [...]	2005-09-06 11:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV545	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on, and Yediot and Maariv bannered, an anti-disengagement rally held opposite the Knesset last night, to demand a national referendum or elections. The event, which gat [...]	2005-01-31 10:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5518	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Hurricane Katrina 3. Egypt ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that PM Sharon and his senior ministers decided this morning that the IDF would withdraw from the Gaza Strip on September 12 through 15. [...]	2005-09-07 11:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5672	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Muslims in European Society 3. UN Reform ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All major media highlighted the meeting between President Bush and PM Sharon at the UN on Wednesday, following the President's address to the UN Gen [...]	2005-09-15 10:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5706	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. UN Reform ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the speech PM Sharon delivered in Hebrew to the UN General Assembly on Thursday. The major media focused on Sharon's conciliatory words, as he reached out to the P [...]	2005-09-16 11:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5708	ECF UPDATES ON BARRIER AND DESCRIBES MAJOR [...] (S) Summary and Comment: Sounding an alarmist note regarding GOI settlement plans in a September 1 meeting with econoff, Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF) officials (protect) urged the USG to intervene to prevent the building of the police station in E-1 and said that a planned "new Jewi [...]	2005-09-16 11:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV5734	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-19 10:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5742	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. North Korea's Announced Renouncement of Nuclear Weapons ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media (lead stories in Maariv and Yediot) reported on political developments around PM Sharon six days ahead of the Likud Central [...]	2005-09-21 08:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5818	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Likud Infighting 2. Gaza Violence ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Ambassador Richard H. Jones as saying this morning, upon presenting his credentials to President Moshe Katsav at the Residence of the President in Jer [...]	2005-09-26 10:25:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5848	ADDING INSULT TO INJURY: THE OCTOBER 2000 RIOTS AND [...] The mid-September decision by the Department of Police Investigation in the Ministry of Justice to pursue no indictments in the police killings of 12 Israeli Arabs and one Palestinian during the October 2000 riots has given rise to embarrassment in official circles, and little public expressi [...]	2005-09-27 07:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR SOCI IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL
05TELAVIV5853	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with PM Sharon's surprise victory at the Likud Central Committee last night. The proposal to move up the party primaries was rejected, 1433 votes to 1329 (5 [...]	2005-09-27 10:22:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5868	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-28 11:12:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV59	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-05 12:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV5913	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-30 10:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6006	ISRAEL MOVES AHEAD WITH PATENT TERM EXTENSION [...] (C) Summary. The proposed Patent Term Extension (PTE) Revision which passed an initial reading in the Knesset in July 2005, could become law as early as November 2005 and is almost certainly assured a quick approval. Debate is expected to resume in the Knesset Judicial Committee on October 1 [...]	2005-10-07 08:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KIPR IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE
05TELAVIV6124	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Global Economy ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas is expected to demand U.S. intervention in halting Israeli construction and dismantling illegal outposts in the West [...]	2005-10-19 11:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6146	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-20 08:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6170	ISRAELI NGO PROPOSING TO TRACK INFECTED MIGRATORY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel is making a proposal to the GOI Ministries of Agriculture and Health to set up a surveillance system focused on migratory water fowl which are more likely than over migratory birds to be carriers of the H5N1 strain of avian influ [...]	2005-10-21 12:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO EAGR PREL ECON IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV6176	PERES: GAZA DISENGAGEMENT INCOMPLETE [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting with the Ambassador, Vice Premier Peres said that advancing the peace process and combating poverty in Israel would be the most important issues in the lead up to elections late next year. He stated that the GOI's disengagement from the Gaza Strip would be i [...]	2005-10-24 09:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV6177	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Syria Governance 3. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- In its lead story, Ha'aretz reported that in a letter sent to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the foreign ministries of Britain, Russia, and th [...]	2005-10-24 09:16:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6238	AVIAN INFLUENZA: GOI ASSISTING PA; GROUPS FEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli officials are in daily contact with their counterparts from the Palestinian Authority and have been testing birds on behalf of the PA. GOI veterinary officials have provided their Palestinian counterparts with antigens to detect avian influenza. GOI and PA veterinary o [...]	2005-10-31 09:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO EAGR PREL ECON KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV6247	SHARON POSTPONES PROBLEMATIC KNESSET VOTE ON [...] (C) Summary: With only hours to go before an October 31 Knesset vote on -- and possible defeat of -- his Cabinet nominations of three Likud loyalists, including Ehud Olmert as finance minister, Prime Minister Sharon postponed the vote by a week in order to rally support and gauge his next step [...]	2005-10-31 17:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IS KDEM ELECTIONS GOI EXTERNAL
05TELAVIV6266	AMBASSADOR'S IFTAR CELEBRATES RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador Jones hosted over 80 Muslim, Christian and Jewish guests for an interfaith Iftar dinner on October 27 to break the fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Iftar brought together Israeli-Arab leaders from the political, business and social-action arenas. At [...]	2005-11-01 15:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KDEM KMPI KPAO IS ISRAELI SOCIETY
05TELAVIV6357	LIVNI DISCUSSES THIRD PARTY, HAMAS, OUTPOSTS, AND [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Justice Tzipi Livni told the Ambassador on November 3 that, although "the numbers do not show it yet," Sharon will find a majority for his ministerial nominations because most Likud members do not want new elections. She said that it is significant that Israel has ac [...]	2005-11-04 16:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS ELECTIONS GOI INTERNAL EXTERNAL GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV6367	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Paris Riots ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted PM Sharon as saying before the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee this morning that Hamas members will not be able to walk free in the streets of Pa [...]	2005-11-07 11:22:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6545	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Labor vs. Likud 2. Gaza: Management of Border Crossings ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with PM Sharon's announcement, expected during the weekend, as to whether he will remain in the Likud or form a new party. Both Yediot [...]	2005-11-18 07:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6669	ISA CHIEF DISKIN VIEWS RAFAH AS TEST CASE [...] (C) Summary: During a November 18 meeting with NEA DAS Robert Danin, Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) Director Yuval Diskin said that a successfully managed passage at Rafah would encourage the opening of other passages and would benefit Qarni. Diskin expressed concern about Fatah and its leader M [...]	2005-11-28 10:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV6671	GOI UNDERTAKES HOME DEMOLITIONS IN EAST JERUSALEM, [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary and comment: Over the past several days, we have received reports of GOI demolitions of at least ten Arab homes in East Jerusalem for a lack of building permits. Ha'aretz November 23 reported that the Justice Ministry [...]	2005-11-28 10:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS SETTLEMENTS
05TELAVIV6720	AVIAN INFLUENZA: NO CONFIRMED H5N1 IN ISRAEL; [...] (U) INTRO AND SUMMARY: This message is Post's response to Ref A questions regarding the GOI's efforts to prepare for avian and pandemic influenza, and its capability to respond to an AI epidemic. Questions are answered in the order provided in reftel. To date, there have been no/no confir [...]	2005-12-01 12:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV EAGR EAID PREL IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV6778	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Israeli Elections 2. Iranian Nuclear Race 3. The Syrian Threat ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz online and Israel Radio reported that a blast occurred at around 11:30 am Monday at the entrance to the Hasharon shopping mall in Ne [...]	2005-12-05 12:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6891	SPIEGEL OUTLINES GOI PLAN TO REMOVE SOME OBSTACLES [...] (C) Summary: Brigadier General (res.) Baruch Spiegel, advisor in the Ministry of Defense (MOD),briefed the Ambassador and Embassy staff on the GOI's three-phase draft plan for the reduction and removal of obstacles to movement in the West Bank. In Phase I, the GOI plans to remove a total o [...]	2005-12-12 16:25:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG IS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV6924	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program 3. Syria 4. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media highlighted remarks made in an interview with Newsweek by Kalman Gayer, who advises PM Sharon on public opinion po [...]	2005-12-15 04:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV6946	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Syria ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz led with a report by Akiva Eldar that on Wednesday, Israel succumbed to international pressure and informed the U.S. that it plans to complete preparations on Friday for operatin [...]	2005-12-15 11:40:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV7023	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel TV and Israel Radio reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice praised PM Sharon's courageous moves in an interview with CNN, as, in the words of both statio [...]	2005-12-21 11:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV7030	NNSA ADMINISTRATOR BROOKS' DECEMBER 6-9 VISIT TO [...] (U) Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security/Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Linton Brooks visited Israel December 6-9 for a series of discussions of ongoing cooperation between NNSA and the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC). IAEC Director Gene [...]	2005-12-21 13:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OTRA ENRG KNNP PARM PINR PGOV PTER EAID TRGY TSPL IR IS ISRAEL RELATIONS GOI EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
05TELAVIV7079	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Nuclear Program ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All leading media, except The Jerusalem Post, led with the firing from Lebanon of at least four Katyusha rockets at Israeli communities -- particularly Kiryat Shmona -- la [...]	2005-12-28 11:34:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV7098	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Syria ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media, except Maariv, led with Wednesday's suicide bombing near Tulkarm, in which IDF officer Uri Binamo and two Palestinians were killed. Three soldiers and seven Palestinians were [...]	2005-12-30 12:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV752	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-02-08 11:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV76	NASSER YUSIF ON POSSIBLE SECURITY ROLE [...] (SBU) Summary: National Security Force BG Nasser Yusif told poloffs recently that, if called upon to join an Abu Mazen government as interior minister, he would bring the green-uniform public security forces, Force 17, and the naval or coastal police under his personal operational control, an [...]	2005-01-05 16:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PREL PTER ASEC GZ IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS
05TELAVIV87	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iraq 3. Israel-Turkey Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv and Yediot highlighted issues related to the opposition to the disengagement plan. Maariv bannered a call by PM Sharon on IDF soldiers to resist pro [...]	2005-01-06 11:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV934	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Lebanon Bombing 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher announced Tuesday, a day after the assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafiq Hariri, that the U.S. recalled it [...]	2005-02-16 12:10:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	IS KMDR MEDIA REACTION REPORT
05TELAVIV955	SENATOR ALLEN'S FEBRUARY 13 MEETING WITH FINANCE [...] (C) Summary: Senator Allen and Finance Minister Bibi Netanyahu discussed the present situation between Israel and the Palestinians and Gaza disengagement. Netanyahu was guardedly optimistic about prospects for further steps toward accommodation with the PA noting that Abu Mazen faced seriou [...]	2005-02-17 07:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON OVIP KWBG IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL
05THEHAGUE1063	CHR 61: DUTCH REJECT POLITICAL MOTIVATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-20 07:45:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM NL UNHRC EUN
05THEHAGUE1554	SUDAN/NETHERLANDS: NGO AND DUTCH ANGER OVER ARREST [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Sudan's arrest of the Country and Darfur directors of the NGO Artsen zonder Grensen/Medicins sans Frontieres (MSF) angered the NGO and the Dutch government, which has called in the Sudanese Ambassador to protest. The NGO confirms the men are free for now but [...]	2005-06-03 11:22:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SU NL
05THEHAGUE2565	NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: MOD STRATEGY FOR MOVING [...] (C) Summary: According to Lo Casteleijn (Director, General Policy Affairs, MOD),the Dutch government is expected to make a positive decision by the end of October to deploy 1,000 - 1,2000 troops to Uruzghan province in Afghanistan in support of ISAF Stage III. Casteleijn hoped that parliamen [...]	2005-09-21 15:17:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS AF NL EUN
05THEHAGUE2648	DUTCH COUNTER-TERRORISM LEGISLATION [...] SUMMARY: Since the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, the Dutch have steadily constructed a solid framework of counter-terrorism (CT) laws. The Netherlands has ratified and implemented all UN conventions and protocols on terrorism as well as all legal instruments in the Eu [...]	2005-09-30 15:02:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PINR PINS PGOV NL KPRP
05THEHAGUE2850	PROSECUTORS ON DUTCH TERROR ARRESTS [...] (C) Summary. Dutch prosecutors responsible for terrorist cases confirmed during an October 17 lunch that the timing of the arrests of seven terror suspects on October 14 was driven by intelligence information indicating the threat of an imminent attack; they did not provide details on the s [...]	2005-10-20 15:05:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PINS PTER NL KPRP
05THEHAGUE3037	DUTCH POLDIR ON AFGHANISTAN, FORUM FOR THE FUTURE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Charge on November 8, Dutch POLDIR Hugo Siblesz confirmed that Defense Minister Kamp is driving the review of Dutch commitments to ISAF Stage III and stressed that additional support from partners -- including the U.S. -- will be critical to a successful Dutch dep [...]	2005-11-08 17:57:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR AF NL
05THEHAGUE3394	AVIAN INFLUENZA - NETHERLANDS TRIPWIRES AND [...] This message responds to the tasking in ref A to develop mission-specific tripwires and responses regarding avian influenza. We believe that the Netherlands is relatively well prepared to respond to such an epidemic, and that our most probable response to a significant outbreak of human H5N1 [...]	2005-12-23 11:06:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO NL AMER
05THEHAGUE484	DUTCH UNVEIL THEIR 14-BIT ADC PARTS CONTROL PLAN [...] all 14-bit ADCs that are to be supplied under this contract will solely be used for the manufacture of base stations or parts thereof for civilian communication purposes; 2. telecommunication equipment or assembled parts of such equipment containing these 14-bit ADCs can only be sold to tele [...]	2005-02-22 09:08:00	Embassy The Hague	SECRET	ETTC KSTC PARM NL CH
05THEHAGUE74	NETHERLANDS/CUBA/EU: EU LIKELY TO CHANGE POLICY [...] (C) Following up reftels demarche, Poloff met January 13 with Jan Jap Groenemeyer (MFA, Cuba Desk),who confirmed the January 31 GAERC would likely approve relaxing the EU's June 2003 measures to encourage more positive movement from the Cubans; the EU Presidency is drafting "conclusions" for [...]	2005-01-13 15:24:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM NL CU EUN
05THESSALONIKI7	NORTHERN NOTES JANUARY 2005 [...] (U) In a case that marks the first reported sentence handed down under Greece's 2002 Anti-trafficking law, a Kavala court convicted a 40-year-old trafficker, Petros Kokkalidis, to 12 years and 10 months of imprisonment and fined him 52,625 Euros. [Note: The anti-TIP legislation came into forc [...]	2005-02-03 17:03:00	Consulate Thessaloniki	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM ECON SMIG ZL GR AMB
05TOKYO1351	U.S.-JAPAN INFORMAL POLICY PLANNING BILATERAL: [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Vice Foreign Minister Nishida and Foreign Policy Bureau Deputy Director General Tsuruoka made an impassioned case for Japanese permanent UNSC membership during a March 2 dinner with visiting S/P Director Krasner. They outlined Japan's strategy as hinging on a three-stage [...]	2005-03-08 08:11:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL JA UNSC
05TOKYO1415	AMBASSADOR HILL DISCUSSES NORTH KOREA WITH CHIEF [...] (C) Summary. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda opened a breakfast meeting with U.S. Ambassador to South Korea and U.S. Representative to the Six-Party Talks (6PT) Christopher Hill on March 10, 2005, by thanking him for his efforts on the North Korea issue. Hosoda raised the T [...]	2005-03-10 08:24:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KN KS JA
05TORONTO2602	Not SARS, Not Avian Flu - Ontario Health Officials [...] SUMMARY: In a press conference on Saturday October 1, Ontario health officials announced that a respiratory illness that had killed four residents of a Toronto nursing home and affected over 70 of its staff was not SARS or avian flu-related. On Monday, October 3, Ontario's Commissioner of E [...]	2005-10-03 16:25:00	Consulate Toronto	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED SOCI TBIO ECON CASC CA
05TORONTO2615	Toronto "Mystery" Flu Illness Identified as [...] On October 6 late in the afternoon Ontario public officials announced that the mystery illness in Toronto that has attracted international media attention and killed 16 seniors in a nursing home had just been identified as a particular strain of Legionnaire's disease that could only be detect [...]	2005-10-07 12:47:00	Consulate Toronto	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED SOCI TBIO ECON CA CASC KPAO
05TORONTO2705	Canadian Financial Services Sector: Capital [...] (U) This cable contains a request for SEC guidance, see paragraph 14. 2. (U) This message is one in a series reviewing the Canadian financial services sector from a cross-border, North American integration issue perspective. In September 2005 the Toronto Financial Services Alliance spon [...]	2005-10-17 12:26:00	Consulate Toronto	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN PREL CA US
05TUNIS2075	JEDDAH LESSONS LEARNED - FOLLOW-UP [...] (S/NF) Ambassador chaired a meeting of Embassy Tunis Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on 09/13/2005 to discuss reftel, Jeddah Lessons Learned. Also present were DCM, RSO, RMAS, PA, MEPI, FSI, MGT, DAO, ODC, MED, P/E. 2. (S/NF) Embassy Tunis EAC reviewed and discussed reftel in detail, con [...]	2005-09-15 14:30:00	Embassy Tunis	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC AMGT
05TUNIS840	HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH HOLDS FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE IN [...] (C) Summary: Two visiting Human Rights Watch (HRW) staffers successfully held a press conference April 20 to release a new HRW report on solitary confinement of Tunisian political prisoners. The 39-page report is based on interviews of political prisoners conditionally released in the Novembe [...]	2005-04-20 17:03:00	Embassy Tunis	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV TS
05USNATO3	NATO MOVES FORWARD WITH LANDMARK BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT ASSESSMENT [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-05 16:59:00	Mission USNATO	SECRET	NATO KNNP PARM MNUC
05VANCOUVER1602	TEST OF SIPDIS CAPTION [...] Test 1. 2. No action is required. LUKENS [...]	2005-12-19 22:44:00	Consulate Vancouver	UNCLASSIFIED	ACOA
05VATICAN466	TOWARD THE CONCLAVE PART III: THE CANDIDATES [...] (U) When the 115 Cardinal electors enter the Sistine Chapel April 18 to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II, there will be no clear favorite. Despite intensive media speculation and a series of media bubbles for various candidates, heading into the conclave no candidate appears to have an i [...]	2005-04-18 16:42:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PINR VT
05VATICAN477	POPE REACHES OUT TO CHINA [...] (C) In his first formal foreign policy discourse, Pope Benedict XVI called for closer relations with China at a May 12 audience for ambassadors accredited to the Holy See. Without citing China directly, the new pope made a public push for a cause that the Vatican has been promoting for some [...]	2005-05-18 16:23:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM VT CH TW
05VATICAN563	VATICAN EMPHASIZES CONCERN ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN IRAQ [...] (C) Holy See Country Director for Iraq Coppola told us shortly before the recent Iraqi elections that the Vatican remained very concerned about the religious freedom provisions of the new Iraqi Constitution. His main concern was the well-known clause that states that no law can be passed tha [...]	2005-12-23 11:18:00	Embassy Vatican	CONFIDENTIAL	IZ PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF VT
05VIENNA1152	AUSTRIAN DEFENSE MINISTER TO RECOMMEND AUSTRIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting requested by the Ambassador, Austrian Defense Minister Platter informed Ambassador that while he must still obtain approval by the government and the Standing Committee in Parliament, he will propose sending approximately 70 Austrian soldiers to Konduz, Afghanistan, [...]	2005-04-08 06:08:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS AU
05VIENNA1935	EU FOREIGN MINISTERS' MEETING AND EU CUBA POLICY: [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered ref (a) points on the upcoming GAERC to Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 7. Embassy delivered ref (b) points on Cuba on June 3. Pol Unit chief then discussed the issues on June 8 with Andreas Riecken, MFA Coordinator for EU Common Foreign and Security Poli [...]	2005-06-10 09:28:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PARM IR IZ LE YI CM CU AU EUN
05VIENNA1942	AUSTRIA REJECTS LICENSE FOR ASSAULT RIFLE EXPORT [...] (S) On June 7, Austrian MFA A/S-equivalent for Western European Affairs Herbert Krauss (strictly protect) asked to meet with us to follow up on a May 18 briefing for Austrian officials on nonproliferation issues. Pol Unit Chief met Krauss (whose bureau also currently handles military transit [...]	2005-06-10 14:59:00	Embassy Vienna	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL IR AU
05VIENNA2663	U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION: AUSTRIAN [...] (C) Following receipt of reftel (and a specific MFA request for a briefing),Acting Econ/Pol Couns met with MFA Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation Alexander Kmentt to discuss U.S-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation. Kmentt said he had been studying the initiative [...]	2005-08-08 15:35:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETTC KNNP PARM PREL
05VIENNA3321	Austrian Response to DHS letter on VWP [...] Per Reftel A, Post transmitted the text of DHS' certification letter response to the Austrian central VWP contact, Heinrich Pawlicek. Pawlicek, who had meanwhile obtained an electronic copy of the signed original, was eager to point out that the problems in reading the ID card are [...]	2005-10-07 13:35:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS CMGT PREL AU
05VIENNA3636	AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO VISA WAIVER PROGRAM [...] Summary: ConGen and Consular Legal Assistant called on Austrian Ministry of Interior contacts on Nov. 14 to present results of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) review (ref A). ConGen took the opportunity to obtain samples of the new foil being inserted in Austrian passports for travel to the U.S [...]	2005-11-15 12:37:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS CMGT PREL AU
05VIENNA3865	REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON AVIAN AND PANDEMIC [...] Enclosed, are Post's responses to the questions in reftel. A) PREPAREDNESS/COMMUNICATION Q: Does the government have a preparedness plan/strategy for preventing avian flu from becoming a pandemic and containing a pandemic once it occurs? If the country has a strategy, how capable is it [...]	2005-12-14 08:51:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL CASC AU WHO
05VIENNA3888	AUSTRIA: 2005 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-16 09:09:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER AU
05VIENNA494	AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: VWP - UPDATE ON 10/26/05 [...] THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS POSED IN REFTEL A, PARA 7, HAVE BEEN PROVIDED BY THE AUSTRIAN INTERIOR MINISTRY'S LEGAL DEPARMTENT. (FYI, THEIR PASSPORT OFFICE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL LEGAL AND TECHNICAL ISSUES RELATING TO THE DECENTRALIZED NATIONAL PASSPORT PRODUCTION.) -- NAME OF THE PROJECT MANA [...]	2005-02-22 07:33:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT PREL AU
05VIENNA546	EU COMMISSION GMO CO-EXISTENCE SYMPOSIUM IN [...] Summary: The EU Commission hosted a Symposium on Co- Existence of GMO Seeds and Agricultural Production at the ParkHotel in Vienna, Austria, February 22-23, 2005. More than 100 EU biotech experts and policymakers attended the symposium. Participants said that most Member States h [...]	2005-02-25 12:12:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD TBIO AU
05VIENNA602	AUSTRIA: FIFTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] Entire cable is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. Below please find Embassy Vienna's submission for the annual TIP Report. Responses are keyed to reftel. BEGIN TEXT: 18. OVERVIEW ------------ A. Austria as a Country of Transit and Destination Police, M [...]	2005-03-01 20:09:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB AU
05VIENNA611	BLUE LANTERN END-USE CHECKS: LICENSES 05-91445, [...] EconPolCouns and DATT met on March 2 with Hans G. Schiebel, President and CEO of the Schiebel Group and Schiebel Elektronische Geraete GmbH, and Evelyne Pallanich, a Marketing Assistant, at Schiebel's headquarters at Margaretenstrasse 112, A-1050 Vienna. During the meeting, James Rolig, Schi [...]	2005-03-02 13:08:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC AU TC
05VIENNA725	Disaster Preparedness in the Austrian Alps [...] Summary: On March 2 and 3, 2005, ConGen and RSO visited the Tyrolean capital of Innsbruck for briefings on disaster preparedness by state government officials. A tour of the State Fire Fighting Institute specifically included, at our request, tunnel fire rescues. We then visited the Avalanch [...]	2005-03-08 08:43:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC ASEC AEMR AU
05VIENNA74	WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: PRIORITIES FOR U.S. [...] Per reftel request, following is a ranking of service sectors in terms of market access priorities (1 is top priority) for U.S. service providers in Austria, as well as post's assessment of the current level of market openness for each sector (high, medium, low): Sectors with rank of 1 --- [...]	2005-01-10 15:39:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD AU WTO

05VIENNA855	AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: MARCH 15, 2005 [...] reads the front-page headline in mass-circulation provincial daily "Kleine Zeitung." After Sunday's district council elections in Styria, the SPOe is allegedly speculating that the OeVP-FPOe coalition government will fall apart, the daily says. For SPOe floor leader Josef Cap, whose party all [...]	2005-03-15 14:16:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO AU OPRC
05VILNIUS1004	EXTRADITION REQUEST FOR DARIUS RAMANAUSKAS [...] This cable addresses reftel request for information regarding the extradition of Lithuanian citizen Darius Ramanauskas on narcotics charges. Post assesses the likelihood that Lithuanian authorities might use torture to extract testimony from Ramanauskas as highly doubtful, especially given th [...]	2005-09-22 09:55:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	CJAN KCRM SNAR LH
05VILNIUS1057	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL KOLBE [...] Congressman Kolbe, thanks to you and your colleagues for traveling to Lithuania. Your visit here will provide an opportunity to show gratitude to Lithuania for its staunch and unwavering support in the U.S.-led Global War on Terror, including its decision to establish and lead a Provincial Re [...]	2005-10-04 07:04:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL OVIP BO LH
05VILNIUS1155	LITHUANIA CONGRATULATES IRAQ FOR CONSTITUTION [...] The GOL, October 27, issued a press release congratulating the Iraqi people on the adoption of their new constitution. Text of statement follows. 2. Begin text. CONGRATULATIONS ON IRAQI CONSTITUTION ADOPTION BY REFERENDUM. Lithuania congratulates Iraqi people on adoption of the first C [...]	2005-10-27 15:14:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV LH IZ
05VILNIUS1226	CONSULAR PUBLIC OUTREACH ON VISA WAIVER AND ACS [...] SUMMARY: We take the Department's message about the relationship between active public diplomacy and good consular work (ref a) seriously in Vilnius. This post has an active consular public outreach program, with particular emphasis on public diplomacy aspects of Lithuania's Visa Waiver Roadm [...]	2005-11-21 14:24:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT CVIS KPAO CASC LH
05VILNIUS182	LITHUANIA 2005 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) [...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuania is a country of origin, transit, and destination for international trafficking in women. Although the exact extent and magnitude of trafficking in persons (TIP) in Lithuania is unknown, Europol estimates that over 1,200 Lithuanian women are victims of human trafficki [...]	2005-02-25 13:47:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF LH
05VILNIUS28	LITHUANIA INCSR (INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Money laundering is not a significant problem in Lithuania. Strict legal and regulatory controls and the GOL's cooperation with international regulatory counterparts explain the government's success. The Lithuanian government increased controls to prevent financial crimes and money launderi [...]	2005-01-10 14:39:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR EFIN KCRM PTER KTFN LH
05VILNIUS3	LITHUANIA 2005 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] To maintain its high rate of growth, Lithuania needs more foreign investment. The government affords foreign investors equal protection to domestic investors, and sets few limitations on their activities. Foreign investors have the right to repatriate or reinvest profits without restriction [...]	2005-01-03 14:24:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV KIDE ECON KTDB LH
05VILNIUS326	RUSSIAN ENVOY'S SHARPE TONGUE AND THREATS TO CUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russia's envoy to Lithuania has provoked high-level outrage and calls for his expulsion with sharp-tongued criticism of Lithuanians and thinly veiled threats to interrupt the country's energy supplies. Most local analysts believe the Russian's sudden high-profile gibes - after 1 [...]	2005-03-25 16:03:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF LH RS
05VILNIUS367	LITHUANIA PROVIDES UPDATED REQUIREMENT LITH FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GOL updated and augmented its needs assessment for the Lithuanian-led Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in the desolate Ghowr province of western Afghanistan. Following the March 30 return from Afghanistan of Lithuania's PRT reconnaissance team, the MFA advanced us a copy [...]	2005-04-07 12:59:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MCAP MARR PREL PGOV LH AF
05VILNIUS447	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL KINGSTON [...] Your visit to Lithuania will provide an opportunity to thank Lithuania for its staunch and unwavering support in the U.S.-led Global War on Terror, including its recent decision to establish and lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Chaghcharan, Afghanistan, and to commend its leadership in [...]	2005-04-29 05:20:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV OVIP LH
05VILNIUS704	GOL PROVIDES COALITION SOLIDARITY FUND WISH LIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL provided us on July 5 an updated list of equipment it hopes to purchase with the USD $8 million in Coalition Solidarity Funds that Congress allocated to Lithuania. The GOL plans to use the money to bolster its force leading the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in A [...]	2005-07-07 13:57:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS PREL PARM LH
05VILNIUS706	LITHUANIAN COURT FINES EDITOR FOR ANTI-SEMITIC [...] (U) Vilnius Administrative Judge Audrius Cininas fined Vitas Tomkus, editor-in-chief and sole owner of Lithuania's second largest daily, "Respublika," 3,000 LTL (US$1,035) on July 7 for inciting anti-Semitism in a series of editorials in 2004. The court held that, by publishing editorials cla [...]	2005-07-07 14:14:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL SOCI LH
05VILNIUS90	Minister of Education and Science Pledges Support in Signin [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-27 11:27:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SENV TSPL KPAO LH
05VILNIUS946	LITHUANIA: INTERESTED IN COMBATING AVIAN [...] Summary. The Government of Lithuania is fully engaged on the Avian Influenza issue. The Ministry of Health is in the process of drafting the Government's national action plan, and Health Minister Zilvinas Padaiga told the Ambassador that the GOL would "be very supportive" of the USG's initiat [...]	2005-09-09 10:06:00	Embassy Vilnius	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON PREL SOCI TBIO KSCA LH
05WARSAW1168	POLAND: FIFTH ANNUAL (2005) TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Following are responses keyed to questions in paragraphs 18-21 of REFTEL A. Embassy point of contact is POLOFF Tom Yeager (telephone: 48-22-504-2676, fax 48- 22-504-2613, e-mail yeagerta@state.gov). POLOFF (FP- 04) spent 65 hours collecting data and compiling report; Two POLFSNs spent [...]	2005-03-02 15:08:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF KWMN PL KRCM
05WARSAW3044	IRAQ-POLAND: JONES-SMITH CONSULTATIONS WITH GOP [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Richard Jones Senior Adviser to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq Policy (S/I) led an interagency delegation to Warsaw July 28-29 to consult with senior GOP officials and encourage continued substantial Polish participation in the Iraq Coalition and the Multi-Nati [...]	2005-08-05 11:46:00	Embassy Warsaw	SECRET	PREL MOPS MARR PL IZ
05WARSAW3242	POLISH STATEMENT WELCOMES IRAQI DRAFT CONSTITUTION [...] (SBU) Following our approach (Ref B),the Polish MFA late August 29 released a public statement in support of Iraq's draft constitution. Unofficial embassy translation of the original Polish-language text follows. 2. (U) Begin text of Polish MFA statement. "Poland welcomes the completion [...]	2005-08-31 09:19:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM IZ PL
05WARSAW3632	POLAND RESPONDS TO AVIAN FLU OUTBREAKS [...] Summary. In response to the confirmed outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in Romania and Turkey, the GOP has taken several steps to prepare for a potential outbreak on Polish soil. An emergency anti-epidemic committee has been formed that cuts across key ministries and agencies, including Heal [...]	2005-10-19 12:21:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO ECON PREL PL KSTH WHO
05WARSAW4058	2006 HAGUE COMPLIANCE REPORT PREPARATION -- POLAND [...] (SBU) We welcome the opportunity to provide comments related to Poland's compliance with The Hague Convention provisions. Although we generally agree with the negative portrayal of Poland's compliance efforts, we believe that Poland has made some small progress in its handling of Hague cases [...]	2005-12-15 17:07:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC KOCI PL
05WARSAW4113	Update on GOP's Anti-Trafficking Policies [...] Our discussions with Polish government officials, NGOs, and academic institutions reveal that the GOP has taken significant steps to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) in Poland. For the first time ever, the GOP has allocated funds from the state budget for the implementation of the Nationa [...]	2005-12-23 08:28:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREF KCRM KJUS PL
05WARSAW794	SECURITY PROBLEMS AT WARSAW'S AIRPORT HIT THE PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary. In late January 2005, the European Union conducted an airport security assessment at Warsaw's Okecie airport. The EU assessors identified a number of deficiencies at the airport, including two important security problems related to passenger/baggage screening and maintaining th [...]	2005-02-11 05:15:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PREL PL
05WELLINGTON119	NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA DELAY STARTUP OF JOINT [...] (SBU) Summary: New Zealand and Australia have agreed to delay the startup of a joint agency to regulate therapeutic products in both countries, after encountering difficulty in lining up political backing for legislation necessary to set up the agency. In New Zealand's case, that difficulty pa [...]	2005-02-10 23:49:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD NZ
05WELLINGTON171	NEW ZEALAND OPPOSITION LEADER POSITIONS HIMSELF [...] Summary. Opposition National Party leader Don Brash is entering the 2005 election season with a sense of a cautious optimism about his party's chances of regaining power. While concerned about recent setbacks that have seen him labeled "anti-women" and "anti-Maori," Brash regards the Labour G [...]	2005-02-25 02:40:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MNUC NZ
05WELLINGTON221	TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS - NEW ZEALAND 3/2005 [...] (SBU) Following are responses to the Trafficking in Persons report for New Zealand, keyed to reftel: Begin responses: 18. Overview: New Zealand fully complies with international standards to eliminate trafficking. New Zealand problems with internationally trafficked persons are qui [...]	2005-03-16 02:43:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB NZ
05WELLINGTON233	NPT: AMBASSADOR SANDERS DISCUSSES REVCON 2005 WITH [...] (C) Summary: Special Representative of President for the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Ambassador Jackie Sanders, told New Zealand officials that the May 2005 Review Conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons must focus on the greatest threats to global secur [...]	2005-03-21 02:52:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NZ NPT
05WELLINGTON294	NEW ZEALAND GEARING UP FOR AUSTRALIA GROUP PLENARY [...] (C) Summary: New Zealand officials from the Prime Minister's External Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Customs Service will attend the April 18-22 Australia Group (AG) Plenary in Sydney. The group does not plan to present any papers or introduce any new initiatives [...]	2005-04-08 03:43:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PARM PREL NZ CBE
05WELLINGTON45	NEW ZEALAND: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2005 [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-14 04:22:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV NZ OPIC USTR
05WELLINGTON594	LABOUR AGAIN WAVES ANTI-AMERICAN CARD IN ITS [...] (C) Summary: During Parliament's last "Question Time" before election recess, Foreign Minister Phil Goff again highlighted tidbits of Codel Nickles' January 2004 meeting with National Party leadership to claim National has a hidden agenda to lift the country's nuclear ban. No doubt in respo [...]	2005-08-03 05:17:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NZ
05WELLINGTON642	NATIONAL SHAPING UP AS GENUINE CHALLENGER TO [...] (SBU) This is the first in a series of cables about where New Zealand's political parties stand in the run-up to September 17 general elections. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Badly battered in the 2002 campaign, New Zealand's main opposition party, the National Party, has reclaimed [...]	2005-08-23 02:57:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON696	NZ'S "PRESIDENTIAL RACE:" FOCUS ON PM CLARK AND [...] (C) Summary: As reftel notes, in this undecided campaign, the personality of the major parties' leaders may really influence voters' decisions. The following are two brief snapshots of what's on offer. End Summary. -------------------------- Prime Minister Helen Clark ------------------- [...]	2005-09-11 19:56:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON753	COLE-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Ronald Cole, National Wool Reporter, Livestock and Grain Market News, Livestock and Marketing Program, Agriculture Marketing Service/USDA to visit New Zealand from October 28 to November 4, 2005 to visit wool testing facilities, wool auctions [...]	2005-09-29 00:52:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON772	NOMINATION: FY-06 STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-06 04:11:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC SCUL
05WELLINGTON781	NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KEITH [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Delegation members Keith Chamberlin and Stephen Smith to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 5 - 19, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to transit to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, where they will support McMurdo Ground [...]	2005-10-11 04:16:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA TSPA NZ
05WELLINGTON811	MEDIA PLAY: NEW NZ FOREIGN MINISTER PLACES HIGH [...] SUMMARY: For the second day in a row newly-appointed Foreign Minister Winston Peters has publicly indicated that he places high priority on "rebuilding New Zealand's relationships with the United States." END SUMMARY 2. On the second day of the new Foreign Minister's term, the front-page o [...]	2005-10-18 22:13:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO NZ
05WELLINGTON821	EXPLAINING NEW ZEALAND'S PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNANCE [...] New Zealand,s new government, announced October 17, was formed through an awkward arrangement that includes a coalition between the leading Labour Party and the Progressive Party and the &confidence and supply8 support of New Zealand First and United Future. In addition, the Green Party has a [...]	2005-10-20 06:51:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON891	UNINTENTIONALLY, NEW ZEALAND LAW IMPEDES SOME [...] (SBU) Summary: New Zealand legislation intended to tighten the rules on foreign ownership of land is having the unintended effect of restricting sales of businesses and properties. U.S. sellers of two large investments in New Zealand -- a poultry-farm company and a stake in a forestry busines [...]	2005-11-16 00:51:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECIN ECON NZ ETRC
05WELLINGTON902	WHAT HONEYMOON? PM CLARK'S NEW COALITION SHOWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Less than two months into her new Government, the local press has quoted PM Clark's coalition officials as contradicting each other over foreign policy, notably whether or not New Zealand needs to repair its relations with the United States. (Foreign Minister Peters says yes, Cl [...]	2005-11-22 21:25:00	Embassy Wellington	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON985	NEW ZEALAND: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-21 02:05:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC PGOV USTR NZ
05WELLINGTON987	2006 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT: NEW ZEALAND [...] Following is post's input for the 2006 National Trade Estimate Report on New Zealand. We assume that Washington agencies will provide updated trade and investment data. 2. We also note that the section on "Biotechnology Food Approval" should be consistent with the NTE on Australia. 3 [...]	2005-12-21 04:22:00	Embassy Wellington	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN NZ
05YEREVAN1054	DASHNAKS MANEUVERING FOR POSITION [...] (C) The Armenian Revolutionary Faction (ARF) Dashnak party, as one of the central members of Armenia's governing coalition and allied with Minister of Defense Sargsian and President Kocharian, has been flexing its not inconsiderable muscle on the political landscape and pushing its message and [...]	2005-06-16 12:46:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1320	COURT SUSPENDS SENTENCE, TRAFFICKER WALKS [...] (SBU) A court in Yerevan sentenced Lusine Hakobyan, the Armenian organizer of a Yerevan-Dubai prostitution/trafficking network, to two years imprisonment. The judge, however, suspended the sentence and Hakobyan will instead serve one year of supervised probation. Armenian Association of Inves [...]	2005-07-22 06:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV PREL AM KTIP
05YEREVAN1352	ARMENIA: A STEP FORWARD ON CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: [...] (C) On July 21, the Council of Europe's Venice Commission issued a generally positive assessment of the GOAM's revised draft constitutional amendments. While this brings Armenia an important step closer to a November referendum, much remains to be done. The Venice Commission hailed proposals [...]	2005-07-28 13:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1900	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUMMARY REPORT OF THE FIRST [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-25 12:34:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSCA SENV ECON PREL AM WHO FAO EAGR
05YEREVAN1905	MASS BIRD DEATHS REPORTED IN NORTHERN IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-10-26 11:54:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSCA ECON PREL SOCI IR AM WHO EAGR
05YEREVAN1927	LOCAL ELECTIONS END WITH ALLEGATIONS OF CONTINUED [...] (C) Armenian local elections -- held September 18 through October 23 -- met international standards, Central Electoral Commission Head Garegin Azaryan told reporters during an October 28 press conference. Local election monitors, however, disputed Azaryan's claim and alleged "widespread viola [...]	2005-11-01 11:27:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN1958	CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTIONS: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (C) On November 4, a local-level court in Sevan convicted (and sentenced to three years imprisonment) four Jehovah's Witnesses (Armenian citizens) on charges of "absence without leave from a military unit or place of service." The court initially charged the Jehovah's Witnesses with "desertion [...]	2005-11-04 12:58:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1968	ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY: [...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for October 2005. Major headlines include: -- Synopsys Inc. signs agreement to acquire HPL Technologies Inc.; -- Vanadzor Chemical Factory reopens; -- Armenia becomes 64th member of the Asian Development Bank; [...]	2005-11-07 13:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN2051	ARMENIA AS A DESTINATION COUNTRY--GOAM [...] (SBU) Tracking an alarm received from the "Hope and Help" NGO, the National Security Service (NSS),on November 16, discovered four trafficking victims from Ukraine in one of Yerevan's night-clubs. This is the first clear case of trafficking in which Armenia was the destination country and th [...]	2005-11-22 12:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KCRM PHUM AM KTIP UA
05YEREVAN2053	ARMENIA: RESPONSE TO AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) Armenia is ill-prepared to respond to an avian influenza (AI) outbreak in either the animal or the human population. There is no active surveillance system in place and the GOAM currently lacks basic diagnostic capacity to evaluate any potential AI outbreak. There is, however, some sci [...]	2005-11-23 07:19:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL AMED AM WHO
05YEREVAN2062	ARMENIA: DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGY, 2005-2008 [...] (SBU) Armenia is at a crossroads in its democratic development. While the political landscape has remained relatively consistent since the last elections, the next two years will test the government's commitment to its reform agenda. As Assistant Secretary Fried said during his October visit [...]	2005-11-23 13:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KDEM PHUM PREL AM
05YEREVAN451	SPIKE IN N-K CEASE-FIRE VIOLATIONS "SEASONAL" [...] (C) The number of cease-fire violations along the line of contact between ethnic Armenian and Azerbaijan forces in the Nagorno-Karabakh region has increased dramatically since the beginning of March. Although accusations of responsibility and casualty figures vary according to the source of th [...]	2005-03-14 11:17:00	Embassy Yerevan	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PBTS PREL AJ AM
05YEREVAN52	PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN: 2005 TO BE THE YEAR OF TAX AND [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's President Robert Kocharian has publicly said that 2005 will be a year of reform for the customs and tax services in Armenia. Besides increasing tax revenu [...]	2005-01-13 12:24:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP ECON AM
05YEREVAN6	ARMENIA STRENGTHENS ADVOCATES AND PUBLIC [...] (SBU) The Armenian National Assembly adopted legislation December 14 that creates a potentially powerful Chamber of Advocates for criminal defense lawyers and seeks to improve the state-funded public defender's program. Local legal assistance groups believe the changes may help level the play [...]	2005-01-04 13:01:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN67	ARMENIA DRAFT LOA AMENDMENT NO.3 [...] This is an Action Request for INL/AAE. 2. Post presents our draft of Amendment No. 3 to the Letter of Agreement on Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement Assistance between the Government of the United States and the Government of the Republic of Armenia in para 3 and requests that the Bur [...]	2005-01-14 13:12:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR AFIN KJUS KCRM AM
05ZAGREB119	Aftermath of Presidential Elections: New Energy for [...] (SBU) Croatian President Stjepan Mesic was re-elected to a second five-year term on January 16, defeating his ruling party Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) opponent Jadranka Kosor 66 to 34 percent. Four months before local elections (scheduled for May 17, 2005),Mesic's victory could energize t [...]	2005-01-24 17:20:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM HR
05ZAGREB1218	CROATIA PROJECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND [...] In response to reftel, below are accomplishments in the past 18 months in Post's SEED-funded, INL-administered law enforcement and criminal justice programs. Post programs are divided into general police reform and war crimes. Post requests INL support in securing USD 2.7 million in new, FY-0 [...]	2005-07-22 07:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV HR
05ZAGREB1254	OSIJEK WAR CRIMES - DELAYED JUSTICE, PRIMITIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A preliminary investigation into killings of dozens of ethnic Serb civilians in Osijek in 1991-92 is serving as a test of the capacity of the criminal justice system and the GoC's political will to prosecute war crimes perpetrated by Croatians. Chief suspect in the in [...]	2005-07-29 12:50:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PGOV PREL HR
05ZAGREB1436	CROATIA ADDRESSING THREAT OF AVIAN [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT Post has delivered reftel talking points to both the Ministries of Health and Agriculture. The GOC's strategy includes the establishment of an inter-agency committee; an awareness outreach to veterinarians and producers; a ban on imports from affected countries; and coo [...]	2005-09-01 10:16:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO ECON PREL SOCI HR
05ZAGREB1553	WAR CRIMES: CROATIA PROSECUTING ITS OWN [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The GoC welcomed the September 14 decision by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (IChY) to refer the war crimes case against Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac to the Croatia, saying it shows the credibility of the country's judiciary. Recent domest [...]	2005-09-22 15:45:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PGOV PREL HR
05ZAGREB1741	H5N1 CONFIRMED IN CROATIA: OVERVIEW OF [...] SUMMARY: Croatian Veterinary authorities confirmed on October 26 the presence of the H5N1 virus in dead swans found in the eastern part of the country last week. The GOC has been rapid and transparent in its handling of the situation thus far. This message summarizes the situation to date, [...]	2005-10-26 15:00:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO PREL EAID WHO HR
05ZAGREB1810	AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: 9 NOVEMBER 2005 [...] SUMMARY: As of November 9, 2005, no additional cases of H5N1 have been confirmed in Croatia. The GOC has begun to relax some of the biosafety measures outside of the initial sites. Public awareness efforts are continuing and poultry sales are rebounding. END SUMMARY 2. The Croatian Ve [...]	2005-11-09 13:41:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO PREL EAID WHO CASC HR
05ZAGREB1829	IMF LIKELY TO EXTEND CROATIA STAND BY ARRANGEMENT [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The IMF expects to extend its current $142.8 million Stand-By Arrangement for Croatia to the end of 2006. However, it considers the GOC's 2006 budget projections anticipating a deficit of 3.5 percent of GDP to be out of line with its commitments, and is also concerne [...]	2005-11-16 13:13:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON HR
05ZAGREB1836	AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: 17 NOVEMBER 2005 [...] SUMMARY: As of November 17, 2005, no additional cases of H5N1 have been confirmed in Croatia. The GOC is continuing its surveillance efforts and Post hopes to receive an English version of the Croatian national pandemic influenza preparedness plan by the end of November. Media interest in a [...]	2005-11-17 09:54:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO PREL EAID WHO CASC HR
05ZAGREB1868	CROATIA: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: NOVEMBER [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-23 14:42:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL HR
05ZAGREB36	HIV/AIDS IN CROATIA -- GLOBAL FUND FILLING A VOID [...] With a three-year, $5 million commitment in Croatia, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis has made possible free and anonymous HIV testing in three urban centers of Croatia and supported NGO education and outreach to vulnerable populations. Given Croatia's low prevalence [...]	2005-01-07 10:56:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV PHUM PGOV HR
05ZAGREB510	DRAFT GMO LAW BRINGS ANTI-BIOTECH FEELINGS BACK TO [...] (SBU) A proposal to consolidate Croatia's restrictive legislative framework for the introduction of genetically modified seeds has brought public outrage at the thought of GMOs in Croatia back to the surface. While Parliament seems set to institutionalize a precautionary principle approach fo [...]	2005-03-31 12:31:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SENV ETRD PGOV HR
05ZAGREB525	HIV/AIDS IN CROATIA: GOC FULLY FUNDS DRUG THERAPY [...] The GoC currently spends approximately $2 million per year to provide anti-retroviral drug (ARV) therapy to 218 individuals known to be living with AIDS in Croatia. Funding drug therapy is the GoC's primary contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS; fortunately, the Global Fund has covered [...]	2005-04-01 07:19:00	Embassy Zagreb	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV PHUM PGOV HR
05ZAGREB625	ANOTHER RIGHT WING MAKEOVER - PARTY OF RIGHTS [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) re-introduced itself to the international community April 12 as a modern, pro-European, center-right party based on tolerance, democracy, and love of the homeland. At a lunch for diplomats, HSP President Anto Djapic, under the tutela [...]	2005-04-20 12:28:00	Embassy Zagreb	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HR
06ABIDJAN1004	COTE D'IVOIRE: TOXIC WASTE SCANDAL UNFOLDS [...] (U) Summary. The illegal dumping of toxic waste at eleven open-air garbage sites around the city of Abidjan has reportedly left three people dead and led some 1,500 others to seek treatment for symptoms of nausea, rashes, fainting, diarrhea and headaches. The dumping has generated public pro [...]	2006-09-08 17:44:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SENV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1206	PREPARATION OF 2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] TRADE SUMMARY: The U.S. trade deficit with Cote d,Ivoire was $1.1 billion in 2005, an increase of $477 million from $597 million in 2004. U.S. goods exports in 2005 were $124 million, up 4.9 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Cote d,Ivoire were $1.2 billion, up 6 [...]	2006-10-30 12:50:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN1402	GBAGBO OFFERS PROPOSALS, NOT SOLUTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a speech made December 19 evening, President Gbagbo offered five proposals designed to bring the country out of crisis: (1) direct talks with the Forces Nouvelles (FN) rebels aimed at encouraging them to disarm and free the country; (2) elimination of the Zone of Confidence; ( [...]	2006-12-21 09:18:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN IV
06ABIDJAN228	COTE D'IVOIRE: POLITICAL LEADERS HOLD SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's five principal political leaders met in Yamoussoukro February 28, the first such meeting since the current crisis began in 2002. They reaffirmed their commitment to the Pretoria Agreement and to holding elections as scheduled, and agreed on six sets of issues: im [...]	2006-03-01 16:50:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN369	COTE D'IVOIRE: THE UPS AND DOWNS OF THE PEACE [...] (C) Summary. As expected, The peace process is going through ups and downs. Pro-Gbagbo militias are threatening to take to the streets as they did in January, this time over the sequencing of identification vis a vis disarmament. Preliminary results indicate that only about 20 percent of st [...]	2006-04-06 15:40:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN395	COTE D'IVOIRE: AVIAN INFLUENZA FALSE ALARM [...] Several animals were found dead with symptoms similar to Avian flu in the north of Cote d'Ivoire the week of April 6; sixteen chickens, two ducks, and two dogs that apparently ate the carcasses of the dead poultry. A World Health Organization (WHO) satellite office in Bouake, the northern ca [...]	2006-04-19 07:56:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO ECON IV
06ABIDJAN433	COTE D'IVOIRE: SUSPECTED CASES OF AVIAN FLU [...] Several birds found dead in Abidjan have been tested at the state-owned Institute Pasteur in Abidjan for H5N1 Avian Flu. However, officials have not yet confirmed the presence of the virus in Cote d'Ivoire. Additional samples were sent for testing to a lab in Italy on April 24. The cases were [...]	2006-04-27 11:54:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	AMED EAGR IV TBIO
06ABIDJAN442	COTE D'IVOIRE: PRESENCE OF AVIAN FLU ALL BUT [...] Initial results from several birds found dead in Abidjan have tested positive for H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI). Screening for the virus was performed by two labs, the Insitut Pasteur in Abidjan and in Paris. Ministry officials are waiting for final confirmation from the United Nations Food and [...]	2006-04-28 16:58:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO EAGR EMED IV
06ABIDJAN495	GOCI TO LAUNCH PILOT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM ON MAY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Prime Minister,s office and a New Forces (FN) representative have told us that on May 18 the government will begin a pilot population identification program at seven locations in government and FN territory and in the Zone of Confidence. End summary. 2. (SBU) Francois K [...]	2006-05-12 16:58:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPKO ASEC PREL IV
06ABIDJAN51	COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO SHOWS BANNY WHO'S BOSS [...] (C) While the pretext for the current unrest is the International Working Group's recommendation that the mandate of the National Assembly not be extended, it is clear that the real aim is to undermine Prime Minister Banny. We have indeed heard that the National Assembly's mandate is a "red l [...]	2006-01-18 16:29:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN590	COTE D'IVOIRE: UNION OF PUBLIC SECTOR HEALTH [...] (U) On May 31, the union of senior public sector health personnel, Syndicat National des Cadres Superieurs de la Sante de Cote d,Ivoire (SYNACASS-CI),threatened to go on strike on June 15 if their demands regarding salary and rank within the civil service are not met. The SYNACASS-CI consis [...]	2006-06-02 16:37:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN616	FESCI UNDER SERGES KOFFI: THE FIRST YEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: FESCI (Federation of High School and University Students of Cote d'Ivoire) was created by President Gbagbo and other professors in 1992 at the birth of Cote d'Ivoire's multi-party system to give students a voice in the new political environment. It rapidly degenerated into a maf [...]	2006-06-09 14:09:00	Embassy Abidjan	SECRET//NOFORN	KPKO PREL PGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN789	COTE D'IVOIRE: TEACHERS' STRIKE WIDELY IGNORED [...] (SBU) The strike by elementary and secondary school teachers that was supposed to resume on July 18 (ref A) was widely ignored. While Mamadou Soro, the leader of the teacher,s group calling for the strike, was quoted in the newspapers as saying over 70 percent of teachers boycotted, all othe [...]	2006-07-21 16:07:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PREL KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN820	PRIME MINISTER: HELP KEEP PRESIDENT GBAGBO ON [...] (C) On July 25 Prime Minister Banny asked the Ambassador to use his influence to help keep President Gbagbo in the political process, especially on the issue of identification of citizens. The PM asserted that he never takes a decision without consulting with President Gbagbo and getting Gba [...]	2006-07-26 16:23:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	IV PGOV PREL
06ABIDJAN883	COTE D'IVOIRE: AVIAN INFLUENZA IN SAN PEDRO [...] On June 10, five chickens and a wild bird were discovered dead in an industrial rubber plantation near the port city of San Pedro, 500 km southwest of Abidjan. According to a July 20 report published by the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, the specimens tested on June 28 by the National Agricult [...]	2006-08-07 15:06:00	Embassy Abidjan	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO EAGR EMED IV
06ABIDJAN992	COTE D'IVOIRE: INTERIOR MINISTER REFUSES BRIBE, [...] (U) On Thursday August 24, General Adolphe Babi, the Ivorian Police Inspector General, announced at a press conference the arrest of Sergeant Zie Guillaume, who was charged with offering a bribe of approximately USD 226,000 (CFAF 113 million) to the Interior Minister in exchange for acceptin [...]	2006-09-01 16:59:00	Embassy Abidjan	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IV
06ABUDHABI1129	STATUS OF U.S.-UAE MLAT NEGOTIATION [...] (C) Summary. Upon learning that the UK has nearly concluded an MLAT and extradition treaty with the UAEG, Embassy sounded out UK colleagues on how they have proceeded. We have informed the MFA that following its response to our May 2005 diplomatic notes regarding unresolved requests and judi [...]	2006-03-22 14:23:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV UK AE
06ABUDHABI1422	UAE FM TELLS U/S JOSEPH: "USE UAE AS LAST RESORT" [...] (S/NF) Summary. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph and UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan (AbZ) met April 8 to discuss Iran's proliferation and regional ambitions. U/S Joseph conveyed that the United States considers Iran a serious threat [...]	2006-04-12 12:07:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM ETTC MCAP IR AE
06ABUDHABI1472	TREASURY U/S QUARLES VISIT TO UAE [...] (C) Summary. During Treasury Under Secretary Quarles' March 22 meetings, his interlocutors stressed their belief that the U.S. - UAE relationship was strong and that government investors in the UAE would continue to invest in U.S. assets, despite DP World. Over ninety-eight percent of the Ce [...]	2006-04-15 12:01:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV ETRD ECON AE
06ABUDHABI1797	SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILLEN'S VISIT [...] (S) Summary: Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to welcoming you to the UAE on May 15-16. Your visit will be an opportunity to build on recent Iran discussions between U.S. and UAE officials, particularly Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Joseph's April 8 meeting with U [...]	2006-05-03 11:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MCAP MARR MASS MNUC IR AE
06ABUDHABI1930	S/CT COORDINATOR CRUMPTON DISCUSSES [...] (S) Summary: During a May 7 meeting, Department of State Coordinator for Counterterrorism Henry Crumpton and UAE State Security Director Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed al-Nahyan discussed counterterrorism cooperation and the need to find new ways to coordinate intelligence activities and counter-terror [...]	2006-05-10 11:52:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PTER PINS PREL KISL KPAL IR IZ AE
06ABUDHABI1948	UAE THINK TANK DIRECTOR SPEAKS OUT ON IRAN, IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: On May 10, al-Ittihad, a semi-official Arabic daily, published an exclusive interview with Jamal Sanad al-Suwaidi, Director General of the Abu Dhabi-based quasi-governmental think tank, Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR). Al-Suwaidi, an honorary Major Gene [...]	2006-05-10 14:48:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM IR IZ AE
06ABUDHABI209	SOME PREACHERS CRITICAL OF UAEG-APPROVED SERMONS [...] (U) Summary: The Friday sermons drafted by a committee of scholars and Ministry of Justice, Islamic Affairs, and Endowments officials usually do not provoke public reaction. However, the sermons containing a more political flavor, like those we have seen in recent months with condemnations of [...]	2006-01-24 13:12:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KDEM PGOV KPAO AE
06ABUDHABI2627	UAEG AGREES TO IMPLEMENT FULBRIGHT PROGRAM [...] (U) Summary: On June 24, Ambassador, PAO and Econoff met with Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak al-Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, to discuss implementing a Fulbright Visiting Student Program in the UAE. Sheikh Nahyan was enthusiastic about the program and agreed to sign [...]	2006-06-25 12:17:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO OEXC SOCI AE
06ABUDHABI2930	SCENESETTER FOR GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH UAE [...] (S) Summary: Embassy Abu Dhabi looks forward to the June 27 Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) as an opportunity to clarify key areas of potential cooperation with the UAE, particularly vis-a-vis the very real threat that the Emirates feels from Iran. The UAE is also likely to want to expand the a [...]	2006-07-17 14:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MASS KNNP IR IZ AE
06ABUDHABI3027	SCENESETTER FOR SCA A/S AMB BOUCHER TO UAE [...] (S) Summary: Ambassador Boucher, Embassy Abu Dhabi welcomes your visit to discuss support for Afghanistan with the UAE leadership. We have requested a meeting with a senior member of the ruling family (the Crown Prince or Foreign Minister). We recommend that you acknowledge the UAE contrib [...]	2006-07-25 14:51:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER MOPS MASS EINV AF PK AE
06ABUDHABI3100	KIMMITT/ZELIKOW MEETING IN ABU DHABI WITH ARAB [...] (C) Summary: An interagency delegation led by Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt and Counselor of the Department of State Philip Zelikow briefed Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) Director General, Chairman of the Board Jassim Al-Mannai on the International Compact for Iraq on July 23 in Abu Dhabi [...]	2006-07-31 12:35:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID ECON EFIN IZ AE
06ABUDHABI3463	UAE FOCUS ON EDUCATIONAL REFORM: RESHAPING CIVICS [...] (C) Summary: The UAEG is taking steps in the direction of educational reform. The Ministry of Education (MOE) has made substantial changes to its curriculum, including civics and Islamic studies programs, and is placing greater emphasis on critical thinking and active learning. The highest [...]	2006-08-29 12:39:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO OEXC SOCI AE
06ABUDHABI3536	MEDIA REACTION: UAE-US BILATERAL FRIENDSHIP [...] Summary: A UAE columnist in "Al-Bayan" is critical of the UAE's relationship with the U.S. He opines that the UAE's devotion to bilateral relations with the U.S. has not prevented poor treatment from the U.S., citing DP World and the detention of an Emirati student. End Summary. 2. On [...]	2006-09-06 14:33:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3537	ASSESSMENT OF UAE TERRORIST FINANCING ENVIRONMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. In response to ref A, Embassy's country team provides the following assessment of the terrorist/insurgent finance operating environment in the UAE. Responses are keyed to reftel, to the extent possible. End summary. Legal Regime ------------ 2. (SBU) Question. What la [...]	2006-09-06 14:46:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER KTFN EFIN ETTC TC IQ
06ABUDHABI3565	DEPSEC KIMMITT DISCUSSES IRAQ COMPACT, IRAN WITH [...] (S/NF) Summary. On September 9, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt met with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (MbZ) to discuss the Iraq Compact Preparatory Group Meeting being hosted in Abu Dhabi the next day. MbZ stressed that the UAE will do all it can to assist Iraq, [...]	2006-09-10 11:38:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL EAID ETTC IR IQ AE

06ABUDHABI3851	UAE DEFENSE SPENDING [...] (C) Estimates of the cumulative value of defense procurements by the UAE in recent decades reach well over 20 billion dollars (although the UAE does not publish its overall defense and security expenditures). Funded essentially by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, that money has been spent on sophis [...]	2006-10-02 14:40:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAPS PREL MASS MOPS BEXP AE
06ABUDHABI3877	MEDIA REACTION: UAE FNC ELECTIONS/RICE VISIT [...] Summary: An article in "Al-Khaleej" is sarcastic about Rice's visit stating that the US only serves Israel and thus will never ever be any good to the Arabs. "Al-Bayan" states that the US puts other priorities which do not serve peace in the region. Several articles in "Al-Ittihad" and "Al- [...]	2006-10-04 12:15:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3904	UAEG SETS DATE FOR FNC ELECTIONS; CRITICISM OF [...] (C) Summary: On October 1, the Cabinet announced that the elections of one-half of the Federal National Council(FNC) will be held on December 16, 18, and 20. That same day, the National Election Committee published the names of the 6,689 member electoral college that will participate in the e [...]	2006-10-09 04:07:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM AE
06ABUDHABI3944	GENERAL ABIZAID WITH ABU DHABI CROWN PRINCE: IRAN, [...] (S) On the evening of October 9, CENTCOM Commander General John Abizaid and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed (MbZ) Al Nahyan discussed Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan. On Iran, MbZ pressed for clarity on U.S. "war plans" and cal [...]	2006-10-12 10:18:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL MOPS PARM IR AF PK IZ AE
06ABUDHABI3947	MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA/UAE ELECTIONS/IRAQ [...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Bayan" opines that the main reason why the U.S. is concerned with North Korea's nuclear experiment is the fear of it leaking this technology to the Middle East like Syria or Iran. Al Khaleej editorialized that what the U.S. fears most is the emergence of a nuclear [...]	2006-10-12 12:20:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3978	NEA PDAS JEFFREY DISCUSSES IRAN/IRAQ WITH MINSTATE [...] (C) Summary: During an October 10 call on Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Hussain Al-Sha'ali, PDAS Jim Jeffrey, accompanied by CDA, encouraged the UAEG to assist USG efforts in Iraq, and support a unified international front in response to Iranian nuclear ambitions. Sha'ali sta [...]	2006-10-15 13:17:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR IZ AE
06ABUDHABI4286	UAE PASSES ANTI-TIP LEGISLATION [...] (U) On November 10, UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan issued a federal law to combat human trafficking in the UAE. The law defines trafficking in generally the same manner as the U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, upon which the UAE legislation is re [...]	2006-11-14 14:04:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KCRM AE
06ABUDHABI4318	MEDIA REACTION: US VETO/ABIZAID'S COMMENTS [...] Summary: A UAE columnist in "Al-Ittihad" wonders how credible the U.S. is as it stands alone using its veto to defend Israeli crimes. "Al-Khaleej" comments on Abizaid's warnings on a third world war by saying that "stupid" U.S. polices are the biggest threat to world peace and security. "Al- [...]	2006-11-20 13:24:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI4412	2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, [...] (U) Summary: Although not a narcotics-producing country, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is believed to be a transshipment point for traffickers moving illegal drugs from the major drug producing countries, including Afghanistan and Pakistan. Frequent reports of seizures of illegal drugs in the [...]	2006-12-05 10:03:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM AE
06ABUDHABI4477	QUIET CAMPAIGNING FOR FNC ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: A mild sense of anticipation has candidates and the public watching for results of the first UAE Federal National Council (FNC) limited elections to take place December 16, 18, and 20. The 14-day campaign period for 20 FNC seats ends December 14; candidates have promoted their [...]	2006-12-14 13:47:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM AE
06ABUDHABI4479	2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT, [...] (U) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is an important financial center in the Persian Gulf region. The UAE is still a largely cash-based society. However, the financial sector is modern and progressive. Dubai, in particular is a major international banking center. There is also a growing offshore [...]	2006-12-14 14:58:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM EFIN KTFN AE
06ABUDHABI782	NEW UAE MINISTER OF EDUCATION SETS OBJECTIVES [...] (U) Summary: PAO's call on new UAE Minister of Education, Dr. Hanif Hassan, elicited teacher training and English language preparation as priorities of the ministry. In parallel development, the perceived need for "stricter controls of private schools" has prompted the Ministry of Education' [...]	2006-03-01 14:29:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO AE
06ABUDHABI789	UAE 2006 TIP REPORT [...] (U) Following is Post's submission of the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report for the United Arab Emirates, covering the reporting period of March 2005 through March 2006. Responses under each section heading are keyed to the relevant sections of ref. A paragraphs 21-24. Embassy TIP points [...]	2006-03-04 03:39:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC AE
06ABUDHABI813	UAE AVIATION UPDATES [...] (SBU) Summary. The UAE,s aviation sector is rapidly growing in both the private and public sectors. During a recently held aviation conference in Abu Dhabi, the Directors General of Arab Civil Aviation Authorities formed an aviation security panel. In addition, commercial aviation services i [...]	2006-03-04 13:19:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AE EAIR ECON PREL
06ABUDHABI942	SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: P&O PORTS DEAL [...] SUMMARY: A COLUMNIST IN "AL-ITTIHAD" IS SKEPTICAL OF U.S. OFFICIALS' NEGATIVE STANDPOINT AGAINST P&O DEAL AND WONDERS WHY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION DID NOT EXPLAIN WHY IT WAS IN FAVOR OF THE DEAL. "AL-KHALEEJ" RAN AN UNSIGNED FRONT-PAGE EDITORIAL IN WHICH IT CONVEYED A MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF [...]	2006-03-12 13:34:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR AE KPAO
06ABUDHABI956	FORMER SECDEF COHEN URGES REFORM, BACKS POTUS ON [...] (U) Speaking at a conference on reform in the Arab world March 12 in Abu Dhabi, former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen called on Arabs to be "loving critics" of their countries and region as this approach would help transform the Middle East in a positive way. Cohen urged Arab lead [...]	2006-03-13 15:44:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMPI KDEM ETRD AE
06ABUJA1025	MAY 5 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] Summary. Nigeria's human- and animal-surveillance systems for AI remain deficient. No human cases of H5N1 infection have been confirmed in Nigeria. Villagers in Dong Village, Plateau State ate in early April culled or AI- infected birds but don't exhibit symptoms of AI. Plateau State has e [...]	2006-05-05 14:30:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA1086	INEC'S LACKLUSTER PERFORMANCE UNDERPINS [...] (C) Summary: While the debate at the Nigerian National Assembly about the third term continues to grab the spotlight, the equally important issue of technical preparation for elections is beginning to emerge out of the shadows. With less than a year to go before elections, INEC is still send [...]	2006-05-10 15:34:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
06ABUJA1359	JUNE 6 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. Nigeria experienced continued outbreaks of AI in Kano and Bauchi States in May, though the GON has not reported on these in detail. Some of these occurrences possibly were reinfections on poultry farms whose owners restocked too quickly and without carrying out proper decontamin [...]	2006-06-06 10:19:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA1412	JUNE 8 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE -- GON LOSES FOCUS [...] (SBU) Summary. The GON's high-level meetings on AI have declined to negligible levels although are set to increase. The ministers of health, agriculture, and information have met once in 10 weeks, and there are considerable tensions between the Ministries of Health and Agriculture. The thric [...]	2006-06-08 13:22:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA1429	JUNE 9 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The June 7 meeting of the AI Technical Committee featured considerable bitterness, as the Ministry of Agriculture accused the Ministry of Health of telling "lies" about AI's spread in Kano State. The National Veterinary Research Institute confirmed three new instances of AI in [...]	2006-06-09 14:39:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA1436	GON REPORTS SEIZURE OF 14.2 TONS OF COCAINE, [...] UNCLASSIFIED - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. The Nigerian press reported June 10 that the NDELA had seized 14.2 tons of cocaine at Lagos' Tin Can Island Port; the largest such seizure in Africa. However, according to DEA CA Lagos, only a few samples of the shipment, marked "white cement," have been fi [...]	2006-06-12 09:55:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR KCRM PREL NI NARCOTICS
06ABUJA1608	NIGERIA AVIAN FLU LABORATORY ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. Two veterinarians from the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Cairo assessed in May five Nigerian laboratories' capabilities for detecting AI. The laboratories generally were deficient in infrastructure, equipment, and technicians' level of training. The capability of the As [...]	2006-06-27 07:11:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA1680	NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE FOR JUNE 30 [...] Summary. Economic officer attended on June 27 the foreign donors meeting on AI in Nigeria. The FAO reported new outbreaks in Taraba State and Lagos State. Recent outbreaks of African swine fever occurred in Benue State. The concern is that pigs could act as a vector for humans for highly pa [...]	2006-06-30 14:34:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA1924	CALABAR: NIGERIA'S MODEL CITY [...] Summary. Emboffs in mid-July visited Calabar in Cross Rivers State and were pleasantly surprised to find a Nigerian city that was clean, functional, and bustling with new business ventures. Unlike its underdeveloped and poorly-governed neighbors in the Niger Delta and elsewhere, Calabar sta [...]	2006-07-25 14:28:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV NI
06ABUJA2007	SPECULATIONS REGARDING NGOZI'S RESIGNATION [...] (U) As reported reftel, Nigerian Foreign Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala tendered her resignation on August 3. This follows her unexpected redeployment June 21 from the Ministry of Finance to Foreign Affairs and the surprise announcement August 2 that she would no longer head President Obasanjo' [...]	2006-08-04 14:30:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN PREL KCOR NI
06ABUJA2077	UPDATE ON NIGERIA'S ELECTION PREPARATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Nigeria's political space has opened significantly since the defeat of the third term proposal in May. There are now over 40 registered parties and many potential candidates are testing the waters. However, the political scene remains chaotic with a shifting constellation of p [...]	2006-08-11 11:18:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM NI ELECTIONS
06ABUJA2129	BENUE STATE GOVERNOR SAYS OBASANJO INTENDS TO STAY [...] (S) SUMMARY. Benue State Governor George Akume paid a courtesy call on the Ambassador August 16. Also present were two of Akume's advisors, House of Representatives member Tengu Tsegba, and PolOff. Akume's central message was that President Obasanjo intends to stay in office but could be pe [...]	2006-08-17 13:17:00	Embassy Abuja	SECRET	PGOV KDEM PINR NI ELECTIONS THIRDTERM
06ABUJA2337	PROGRESS ON ELECTIONS BUT QUESTIONS PERSIST [...] (U) Summary: A recent series of high-profile events and appearances, including a national elections forum organized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC),testimony by INEC's chairman before the full Senate and a well-received speech by President Obasanjo have helped focus [...]	2006-09-07 08:58:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
06ABUJA236	TV CO-OP PROPOSAL FOR NIGERIA [...] SUMMARY: The U.S. Mission to Nigeria would like to propose a TV co-op on "Democratic Elections: Lessons from 2006 US Mid-Term Elections." This co-op will be done by four persons Independent Radio and Television crew of Lagos- based Africa Independent Television (AIT),and Kano-based Freedom R [...]	2006-02-01 15:42:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC OIIP CVIS
06ABUJA2434	NIGERIA'S ROAD NETWORK IS CRUMBLING AND DANGEROUS [...] Summary. Road travel in Nigeria is challenging for private citizens and commercial drivers. In 2004, at least 34,000 persons were killed on Nigeria's roads. The cost of failing to improve road safety is about 2% to 3% of GDP annually. Many drivers are not licensed and many vehicles are poor [...]	2006-09-15 14:18:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ELTN ECON NI
06ABUJA2459	AMBASSADOR, UNDP NIGERIA CHIEF VIEW ELECTIONS, AI [...] (U) Ambassador, DCM, Political and Economic Counselors, and Embassy, Centers for Disease Control, and USAID officers met on September 14 in Abuja with Alberic Kacou, the new UN Development Program resident coordinator in Nigeria. 2. (U) The Ambassador and Kacou discussed the coordination of [...]	2006-09-19 14:17:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	TBIO KFLU AMED EAGR EAID PGOV NI AVIAN FLU
06ABUJA2504	THE STATE OF HIV/AIDS IN NIGERIA AS OF JULY 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable evaluates HIV/AIDS' impact on Nigerians and their institutions. Roughly 4 million (UNAIDS, 2003) of the nation's 132 million people (PRB, 2005) are infected with HIV/AIDS, reflecting a national HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of 4.4%. (NPS, 2005) Nigeria had at least 2.4 m [...]	2006-09-25 07:26:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV SOCI TBIO ECON PREL PGOV NI
06ABUJA2539	NIGERIA AVIAN FLU: ANIMAL-SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM [...] Summary. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture launched on Sept. 21 their EU/USG-funded program for active animal surveillance of the avian influenza (AI) in Nigeria. Training would precede fieldwork, which would cover all 36 states and the Federal Cap [...]	2006-09-26 14:10:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU AMED EAGR EAID NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA2559	SENATE TO LAUNCH ITS OWN INVESTIGATION [...] (U) The Senate has decided to launch its own investigation into allegations of high level corruption at the Petroleum Technology Development Fund Fund (PTDF). The move by the Senate on September 26 ups the political ante in the increasingly bitter political battle which pits the President agai [...]	2006-09-28 12:13:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
06ABUJA2562	SENATE TO LAUNCH ITS OWN INVESTIGATION [...] (U) The Senate has decided to launch its own investigation into allegations of high level corruption at the Petroleum Technology Development Fund Fund (PTDF). The move by the Senate on September 26 ups the political ante in the increasingly bitter political battle which pits the President agai [...]	2006-09-28 14:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
06ABUJA2777	NIGERIA OCTOBER 18 AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Nigeria's (GON) response to an avian influenza (AI) outbreak remains sluggish. A World Health Organization (WHO) official said Nigeria's AI animal-surveillance program already had fallen one month behind an optimistic schedule. He said the GON's sense of urgen [...]	2006-10-19 09:16:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO AMED EAGR EAID NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA2800	NIGERIA OCTOBER 25 AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Nigeria's (GON) response to the avian influenza (AI) remains limited but has demonstrated recent improvement. Economic and USAID officers attended the October 18 United Nations/foreign donors AI meeting in Abuja and met with representatives from the UN Develop [...]	2006-10-25 14:56:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO AMED EAGR EAID NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA2803	NIGERIA: 2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE [...] (U) The following information is Nigeria's 2007 National Trade Estimate. Trade Summary ------------- 2. (U) The U.S. goods trade deficit with Nigeria was $22.6 billion in 2005, an increase of $7.9 billion from $14.7 billion in 2004. U.S. goods exports in 2005 were $1.6 billion, up 3.9 pe [...]	2006-10-26 14:36:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN NI
06ABUJA2897	DEATH OF SULTAN ADDS TO POLITICAL TURMOIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The tragic death of the Sultan of Sokoto and the subsequent politicking surrounding the naming of his replacement (Alhaji Sa'ad Abubukar, currently Nigeria's Military Attach in Pakistan, was named Sultan on November 2),are but the latest factors contributing to a climate of turmo [...]	2006-11-03 13:37:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM KISL SCUL NI
06ABUJA2933	VOTER REGISTRATION: DISCUSSION OF "PLAN B" EMERGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The realization that INEC's mismanagement of voter registration could have a major impact on the elections in 2007 has led the Nigerian National Assembly (NASS) to play a hands-on oversight role in ensuring the election commission is held accountable. A November 7 hearing on INEC [...]	2006-11-09 13:46:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
06ABUJA3030	GOVERNORS AGREE PDP CONVENTION CRITICAL BUT [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings with the Ambassador on November 21, three ruling party governors representing geographically distinct states agreed that the upcoming PDP political convention is a wide-open contest that could ultimately determine the direction of the party and the nation. [...]	2006-11-22 16:41:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
06ABUJA3061	NIGERIA: ELECTIONS SNAPSHOTS #2 [...] (SBU) This cable is the second in a series of elections snapshots intended to provide a sense of the local environment in the lead up to the 2007 elections. More in-depth information and analysis will be reported in septels, with the snapshot format being used to convey interesting and pertin [...]	2006-11-28 14:31:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
06ABUJA3154	IRI TEAM SAYS ELECTIONS PREPARATION "DEFICIENT" [...] (U) Summary: The International Republican Institute sent a 9-member delegation to Abuja to assess the overall readiness of Nigeria for the 2007 election. The delegation, led by former Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, concluded that "while the government has expressed its intention to condu [...]	2006-12-08 10:54:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI ELECTIONS
06ABUJA3182	BATTLELINES DRAWN IN FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF PDP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The PDP convention scheduled for Dec. 16 may be one of the most significant political gatherings in Nigeria's post-independence history and its outcome, for better or worse, could have a significant impact on Nigerian politics for years to come. With President Obasanjo's popularit [...]	2006-12-12 16:24:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI
06ABUJA435	THE STATE OF HIV/AIDS IN NIGERIA AS OF DEC 2005 [...] Summary: This cable evaluates broadly HIV/AIDS' impact on Nigerians and their institutions. Roughly 4 million (UNAIDS, 2003) of the nation's 130 million people (PRB, 2002) are infected with HIV/AIDS, reflecting a national HIV/AIDS infection rate of 5% (NPS, 2003). Nigeria had at least 2.4 m [...]	2006-02-22 11:50:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV SOCI TBIO ECON PREL PGOV NI
06ABUJA436	THE STATE OF HIV/AIDS IN NIGERIA AS OF DEC. 2005 [...] Summary: This cable evaluates broadly HIV/AIDS' impact on Nigerians and their institutions. Roughly 4 million (UNAIDS, 2003) of the nation's 130 million people (PRB, 2002) are infected with HIV/AIDS, reflecting a national HIV/AIDS infection rate of 5% (NPS, 2003). Nigeria had at least 2.4 m [...]	2006-02-22 11:51:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV SOCI TBIO ECON PREL PGOV NI
06ABUJA441	FEB 22 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The GON announced Feb. 21 that AI has been confirmed in an eighth state, Gombe State. The Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) said Nigeria has 170 surveillance sites nationwide where the disease is most likely to be encountered, and the GON has tested more than 1,200 samples of susp [...]	2006-02-22 17:21:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA448	FEB 22 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU - UN MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary. The UN Development Program hosted in Abuja on Feb. 22 an information session on AI in Nigeria attended by international diplomatic and aid representatives. With some prompting, the Abuja UN Resident Coordinator's Office agreed to create "soon" a matrix to record international [...]	2006-02-23 13:29:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA480	FEB 27 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 26, the GON confirmed the presence of AI in two more states, Yobe and Nasarawa. Though not confirmed, it is almost certainly in Jigawa. Currently four states and the Federal Capital Territory have had samples confirmed H5N1 positive through the FAO laboratory in R [...]	2006-02-27 17:10:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA501	FEB 28 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: A donors' meeting noted progress on approving plans, procedures and guidelines in the animal, health and outreach functions, but noted continued gaps in coordination and information. Surveillance is stepping up in the South, but enforcement of movement bans is still lacking. Poul [...]	2006-03-02 07:00:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA532	UNICEF COMMUNICATION MEETING [...] SUMMARY: THE AVIAN INFLUENZA COMMUNICATION COMPONENT IS FINALLY COMING TOGETHER AFTER WEEKS OF DELAY AND CONFUSION. THE GON HAS APPROVED A COMMUNICATION STRATEGY, AND HAS SCHEDULED WEEKLY MEETINGS FOR DONORS AT THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND NATIONAL REORIENTATION. FOUR PROPOSALS APPROVED [...]	2006-03-06 11:57:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA536	MARCH 6 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE; H5N1 SPREADS [...] (SBU) Summary. A GON official said the HN51 virus is now present in Port Harcourt, Rivers State; Benue State, and Anambra State, as confirmed by the Vom laboratory. The agriculture minister traveled to Kano State to kick off on March 6 the government's compensation program for culled birds. [...]	2006-03-07 06:16:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA552	MARCH 8 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The HN51 virus is now confirmed as present in 11 Nigerian states, including Anambra and Rivers States in the south. An outbreak of AI was reported March 8 in three locations within the Federal Capital Territory. Jigawa State also is very likely to have AI, as do all of its nei [...]	2006-03-09 06:24:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA558	MARCH 9 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The GON announced March 9 that an additional state, Ogun State, was confirmed positive for the H5 virus. This result was confirmed by the Vom National Veterinary Research Institute, near Jos. Officials said the government had paid no additional compensation to poultry farmers [...]	2006-03-10 06:06:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA576	MARCH 13 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. The GON announced March 9 that an additional state, Ogun State, was confirmed positive for the H5 virus. An Ogun official said the state is investigating the outbreak at a commercial poultry facility in Akute-Oja, near the border between Lagos State and Ogun State. Southwestern [...]	2006-03-13 15:50:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA593	MARCH 15 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] Summary. The Vom laboratory confirmed an outbreak of H5N1 in Anambra State, but the state agriculture commissioner rejected this finding. The AI outbreak in Ogun State continues, but the GON has not heard from its Ogun field team. An Ogun official said containing the outbreak would be a "to [...]	2006-03-16 06:24:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA594	SENATORS PRESS USG ON THIRD TERM BUT DISAGREE ON [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the US Ambassador, six Nigerian Senators repeatedly pressed the Ambassador on the USG position on a presidential third term. The Senators wanted to gauge USG perspective on the principle of constitutional change, the USG assessment of the process so far and wha [...]	2006-03-16 09:01:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PHUM NI AF
06ABUJA596	Avian Flu in Nigeria: The Long Haul [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite a substantial effort to respond to the Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak in Nigeria by the GON and international partners, the epidemic clearly has not been brought under control. Given the weak human- and animal- health infrastructures, and the complicated issues of federa [...]	2006-03-16 10:52:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA644	ECOWAS CONCERNED ABOUT GUINEA [...] (C) Dr. Mohammed Ibn Chambas, the Executive Secretary of ECOWAS, voiced concerns about the state of Guinean President Conte's health and the political stability of Guinea during a meeting with the Ambassador on March 21. Chambas said that he wants to maintain close contact with the Embassy an [...]	2006-03-22 13:28:00	Embassy Abuja	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM GV XY ECOWAS
06ABUJA647	MARCH 22 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. As of March 15, reliable information, including from testing, was not available on the extent of AI in Nigeria. State veterinarians lacked vehicles and equipment, and some lacked personal protective equipment. There was no documentation on the location and numbers of small flo [...]	2006-03-22 16:30:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA659	MARCH 24 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. Ogun State and GON officials culled by March 20 more than 85,000 birds at a farm in Akute, Ogun State. Culling workers did not use personal protective equipment. Almost 3,700 birds were culled at a farm in Iju, Lagos State. A Lagos State agricultural official denied AI's pre [...]	2006-03-24 06:00:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA931	APRIL 24 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The GON is losing its sense of urgency on AI. The GON appears to be moving toward adopting the line that Nigeria's AI crisis is more or less over. Lack of reporting on new outbreaks, previously attributable to weak surveillance, more recently appears also to be due to deliber [...]	2006-04-25 17:46:00	Embassy Abuja	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ACCRA2269	GHANA AND THE 2008 ELECTION: THE OPPOSITION NDC [...] (C) Summary: Ghana's main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party plans to choose its presidential candidate for the 2008 election by January 2007, probably in the scheduled December party congress. The front-runner is two-time candidate John Atta Mills. Four others are also i [...]	2006-09-26 14:50:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	GH PGOV PINR
06ACCRA248	REFUGEES IN GHANA: STRENGTHENING UNHCR AND GOG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 23 meeting with Embassy officers, UNHCR Representative Luc Stevens welcomed USG support for his various refugee programs in 2006 and accepted our encouragement to work more closely with the GOG. Beyond money and staffing, his primary concern was the GOG wild card: [...]	2006-01-30 14:38:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	GH LI PREF PREL TO
06ACCRA2693	2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT: GHANA [...] Ghana is a market-based economy with relatively few barriers to trade and investment. The U.S. goods trade surplus with Ghana was $179 million in 2005, an increase of $15 million from $164 million in 2004. U.S. goods exports in 2005 were $338 million, up 9.0 percent from the previous year. [...]	2006-11-08 10:06:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN
06ACCRA2954	GHANA: PRECIOUS MINERALS MARKETING COMPANY OUTLINES [...] (U) SUMMARY: EconChief and EconOff met with Acting Managing Director Aristotle Kotey and Deputy Managing Director (Operations) George Asante of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company Ltd. (PMMC) on December 6, 2006, to discuss the actions Ghana has taken to ensure compliance with the minimum r [...]	2006-12-11 17:25:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN ECON EFIN AO GH
06ACCRA335	AMBASSADOR AND CANADIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER DISCUSS [...] (C) On January 30, 2006, Ambassador Bridgewater paid a courtesy call on Canadian High Commissioner Donald Bobiash. They agreed Ghana has been slow to seize the opportunities it has to become a middle-income country, and also agreed the U.S. and Canada appear to care more about corruption and p [...]	2006-02-07 14:44:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ENRG EINV PGOV GH
06ACCRA518	GHANA'S 2006 TRAFFICKING-IN-PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) As requested ref A, post submits this cable as input for the sixth annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Ghana has problems with both domestic and international human trafficking. The GOG, international and local NGOs have combined efforts to focus on combating domestic trafficking in chi [...]	2006-03-02 13:57:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GH
06ACCRA784	REFUGEE REFERRAL FOR RWANDAN REFUGEE GERVAIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Accra requests authorization for a refugee referral to the U.S. Resettlement Program on behalf of Rwandan refugee Gervais Rutebuka, his wife, and their niece and nephew. Rutebuka fled Rwanda in 1994 and resided in Benin for eight years, where he obtained refugee status [...]	2006-04-07 07:34:00	Embassy Accra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM RW GH
06ACCRA836	GHANA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS FEBRUARY - MARCH 2006 [...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic events and activities in Ghana for February and March 2006. The issues covered are: -- Dole subsidiary inaugurates one million tree banana farm -- Communications Minister's comments on future of Westel -- ADM plans construction of a cocoa processin [...]	2006-04-11 11:36:00	Embassy Accra	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EAGR ECPS EAID ETRD GH
06ADANA102	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 08, 2006 [...] One of the attorneys told the daily that the pressure on the court could be intensified in the coming days, since the court did not release the defendants. EVRENSEL / OZGUR GUNDEM: The dailies criticized PM Erdogan for saying nothing about resolving the Kurdish issue during his visi [...]	2006-05-09 05:24:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA20	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 30,2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-31 10:20:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA25	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 02, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-06 12:15:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA261	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 18, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-19 12:46:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA35	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 14, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-15 06:19:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA4	SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 29, 2005 [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-04 08:19:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA82	TURKEY: PKK-RELATED VIOLENCE IN THE SE , AND ALLEGATIONS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: PKK-related violence continues throughout Turkey's southeast. Meanwhile, though civil unrest in cities throughout the southeast has abated, tensions remain high amid allegations of torture by security forces. End Summary PKK-related Violence Picks Up ---------------------- [...]	2006-04-13 13:23:00	Consulate Adana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU
06ADDISABABA115	AU SUMMIT KHARTOUM SCENESETTER [...] (SBU) Summary: The January 23-24 African Union (AU) Summit in Khartoum will focus on the AU's efforts to make the organization more relevant for Africa, while retaining international credibility. The Summit will spotlight education, social and cultural issues, though the AU Commission's mod [...]	2006-01-11 17:05:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SU AU
06ADDISABABA1231	SLOW START TO ETHIOPIAN OPPOSITION TRIAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: What was anticipated to be the opening of full-fledged evidentiary proceedings against CUD chairman Hailu Shawel and more than 100 other opposition supporters detained since November 2005 was not. Rather, prosecutors submitted, and the Court accepted, the amended charge of "attem [...]	2006-05-04 14:07:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS ET
06ADDISABABA1359	LOOKING AHEAD ON THE U.S.- AFRICAN UNION [...] (SBU) Note from Charge Vicki Huddleston: This "think piece" on the African Union (AU) was drafted by political officer Cate McGeary whose brilliant coverage of the AU over the past two years has kept pace with the rapid changes in the institution and in our relations with it. Her voluminous, [...]	2006-05-16 07:47:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO EAID PGOV AU
06ADDISABABA1402	TRIAL OF ETHIOPIAN OPPOSITION BEGINS WITH VIDEOS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Six months after arrest, federal prosecutors began presenting the High Court with evidence it said would substantiate capital charges ranging from treason and attempted genocide against CUD chairman Hailu Shawel and other opposition members, independent journalists, and civil s [...]	2006-05-19 15:00:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS ET
06ADDISABABA143	COMMISSION INVESTIGATING ETHIOPIAN ELECTORAL [...] (U) SUMMARY. The 11-member commission of inquiry established by Parliament to investigate anti-government demonstrations that occurred in June and November 2005 has yet to formally meet, but is scheduled to deliver its report in March. According to its chairman, Frehiwot Samuel, a career jud [...]	2006-01-17 14:08:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS KDEM ET
06ADDISABABA1464	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL INHOFE VISIT TO ETHIOPIA [...] Welcome to Addis Ababa! Your visit comes at a critical time for Ethiopia as the country works to strengthen democracy, promote economic reforms, and reduce poverty. Ethiopia is a strong partner in the global war on terrorism. The USG is currently leading diplomatic efforts to implement the lon [...]	2006-05-25 05:58:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV ET
06ADDISABABA1499	ETHIOPIA: OPPOSITION DIALOGUE WITH EPRDF PROVIDES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The political dialogue between the ruling EPRDF and opposition parties UEDF and OFDM yielded its first fruit on May 22: a joint public declaration on respect for the constitution and renewed space for peaceful political activity. The government, UEDF and OFDM also agreed on a [...]	2006-05-30 15:56:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ET
06ADDISABABA1645	ETHIOPIA: PROSECUTION STRUGGLING TO MAKE A FOCUSED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The prosecution is wrapping up the video phase of evidence in its case against detained opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, independent journalists and civil society representatives. Following the demonstration of lively internal debates among CUD leadershi [...]	2006-06-15 15:46:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV ET
06ADDISABABA169	ETHIOPIA: OPPOSITION LEADERS EXPRESS FRUSTRATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Leaders of Ethiopia's principal opposition parties told A/S Frazer that the GOE continued to arrest and harass their supporters, particularly in the Oromiya region. They also demanded a larger voice in Parliament. Opposition representatives asked that the USG apply more leverage [...]	2006-01-22 09:04:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM ET
06ADDISABABA1737	A/S FRAZER TALKS SUDAN AND SOMALIA WITH AU [...] (C) SUMMARY: AU Peace and Security Commissioner Said Djinnit called Sudan's recent refusal to accept a UN Mission in Darfur a "big problem," but ultimately agreed with A/S Frazer that the GOS was simply delaying the inevitable UN deployment as long as possible. Frazer and Djinnit agreed that [...]	2006-06-25 06:51:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO AU UN SU SO ET
06ADDISABABA1779	A/S FRAZER TALKS SUDAN AND SOMALIA WITH AU [...] (C) SUMMARY: AU Peace and Security Commissioner Said Djinnit called Sudan's recent refusal to accept a UN Mission in Darfur a "big problem," but ultimately agreed with A/S Frazer that the GOS was simply delaying the inevitable UN deployment as long as possible. Frazer and Djinnit agreed that [...]	2006-06-29 16:13:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO AU UN SU SO ET
06ADDISABABA1788	ETHIOPIA: VIDEO PHASE OF CUD TRIAL CONCLUDES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The prosecution wrapped up the video phase of evidence in its case against detained opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, independent journalists and civil society representatives on June 26. The final four videos had nothing more damning than those videos pr [...]	2006-06-30 21:50:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV ET
06ADDISABABA1902	BEREKET SAYS HR 4423 COULD HURT BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bereket Simon, public relations advisor to Ethiopia's Prime Minister with rank of Minister, told PAO that CUDP leaders' request to arrange a meeting with the jailed CUD leaders was a positive initiative, which he would support. After praising the way the Charge had conducted th [...]	2006-07-12 14:23:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ET
06ADDISABABA2123	ETHIOPIA: NATIONAL ELECTION BOARD REFORMS MOVING [...] (U) SUMMARY. On July 27, Pol/Econ Counselor and Poloff met with British election expert Hannah Roberts and Rosanna Dudziak of the UNDP to discuss progress on the reorganization and capacity building of the Ethiopian National Elections Board (NEB). In early 2006, Roberts completed a study ide [...]	2006-08-03 06:53:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM ET
06ADDISABABA2133	ETHIOPIA: BI-WEEKLY REPORT AUGUST 07 2006 [...] On July 21, Ambassador Huddleston hosted a meeting of the Women Entrepreneurs Group, a newly formed group of leading local women entrepreneurs, government officials, members of parliament, and representatives from civil society, international organizations, and diplomatic missions. The group, [...]	2006-08-07 06:57:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ECON ET
06ADDISABABA2169	ETHIOPIAN MINISTER OF JUSTICE DISCUSSES OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: In a wide ranging discussion with Minister of Justice Assefa Kessito, COM and ConsChief learned that the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) continues to evaluate the feasibility of granting pardons to certain convicted criminals for the Ethiopian New Year (September 11). The Minister also [...]	2006-08-09 08:40:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV ET
06ADDISABABA2224	MELES ON DETAINEES AND WAY AHEAD [...] (C) Summary. Charge met with Prime Minister Meles August 14 to discuss her visit with CUD detainees Dr. Yacob Haile-Mariam, Biruk Kebede, Birtukan Mideksa and Muluneh Eyoel. Pastor Daniel Gebresalasie and Charge spoke for two hours with Yacob who said that he had drafted a letter that he would [...]	2006-08-15 06:48:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ET
06ADDISABABA2304	ETHIOPIA: PROSECUTION IN CUD TRIAL DEFENDS EVIDENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with prosecutors for the case against Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, independent journalists and civil society representatives, Charge Huddleston discussed the GoE's evidence against the defendants. The lead prosecutor and State Minister of Justice [...]	2006-08-18 10:11:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS PHUM KDEM ET
06ADDISABABA2305	ETHIOPIA: HEALTH MINISTRY REQUESTS SUPPORT TO [...] Summary. Ethiopia's Federal Ministry of Health issued a letter (text below) to USAID, UNICEF, WHO and UNOCHA August 17 requesting preparedness and response support for an outbreak of Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD). In a conversation August 18 with USAID's Chief Health Officer, State Minister o [...]	2006-08-18 10:48:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID CASC WHO ET
06ADDISABABA2572	ETHIOPIA: GENERALS' DEFECTION MAY SIGNAL DEEPER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent defections of senior Oromo military officers have shaken the Ethiopian military establishment. Brigadier General Kemal Gelchu of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) defected to Eritrea on Aug 8, taking as many as two hundred soldiers and lower level officers with [...]	2006-09-21 13:21:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	SECRET	PGOV KDEM MOPS ASEC ET ER
06ADDISABABA2731	ETHIOPIA: CUD DEFENSE ATTORNEYS OUTLINE CASE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Charge, defense attorneys for the accused civil society defendants in the trial of Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, civil society representatives and independent journalists, reported that the evidence presented thus far against their clients [...]	2006-10-11 06:38:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
06ADDISABABA2763	PM MELES: ETHIOPIA WILL CONTAIN THE ISLAMIC COURTS [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Theresa Whelan met with Prime Minister Meles, Minister of State Tekeda and Defense Chief of Staff Samora on October 10. Whelan was accompanied by DATT Col. Zedler, OSD Rep Lt. Col. Atallah and myself. Meles argued that the best way to conta [...]	2006-10-12 13:02:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	ET MOPS PREL PTER

06ADDISABABA2810	ETHIOPIA: UNMEE SAYS ACTION NECESSARY TO PREVENT [...] (C) Summary. The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Deputy Special Representative Ambassador Azouz Ennifar invited representatives of the United Nations Security Council permanent members to a briefing October 17 to discuss Eritrea's movement into the temporary security zon [...]	2006-10-17 15:52:00	Embassy Addis Ababa	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PTER ER ET

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