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06PRAGUE1521	CZECH REPUBLIC - 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] The U.S. Government has engaged with Czech authorities proactively, responsively and effectively across the entire spectrum of security, law enforcement and military cooperation as part of the world-wide fight against international terrorism. Whether it is cooperating on a myriad of issues rel [...]	2006-12-15 14:53:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EFIN KCRM KPAO PTER KHLS AEMR EZ

06PRAGUE1539	LEBANESE ISF DISCUSSING ASSISTANCE WITH CZECHS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Lebanese Internal Security Force is discussing training and equipment needs with the Czechs. Following a visit to Prague this month, the GOCR is waiting for the GOL to provide a list of requirements, and will then determine what can be provided within the context of Czech a [...]	2006-12-21 15:26:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MASS KDEM LE EZ
06PRAGUE154	CZECH REPUBLIC'S ROBUST HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: 2005 was a big year for Czech humanitarian assistance with a record total disbursement of USD 8.5 million, up from USD 2.2 million in 2004. In addition to the humanitarian assistance budget, the MFA has discretionary authority to allocate up to about USD 200,000 per proje [...]	2006-02-14 09:17:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EZ PREL
06PRAGUE1545	CZECHS AFFIRM SUPPORT FOR U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary. During a visit to Prague December 10-11, NEA PDAS James F. Jeffrey met with MFA officials and members of the Czech Parliament Foreign Relations Committee to discuss Iran, recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, and Middle East issues generally. The Czechs responded favorably [...]	2006-12-22 09:01:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ IR EZ
06PRAGUE1549	CZECH REPUBLIC: RUSSIAN GAS SUPPLY CONTRACT [...] (SBU) The German-owned RWE Transgas issued a press release on December 21 announcing that it has renewed its contract with Gazprom Export Ltd. to supply the Czech Republic with natural gas until 2035. The contract is for 9 billion cubic meters per year. As for the price, Spokesman for RWE Tr [...]	2006-12-22 13:15:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON ETRD PREL EZ
06PRAGUE1560	LOCAL TRANSLATION OF 2006 CZECH HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-29 14:19:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM APER KPAO EZ
06PRAGUE166	CZECH REPUBLIC: 2005-2006 REPORT ON ALLIED [...] The following information is provided in response to reftel. Note that one dollar equals approximately 23 Czech crowns (CZK). 2. General Assessment. The Czech Republic is a close ally of the United States, operating in support of U.S. objectives both in Europe and farther afield. The Czechs [...]	2006-02-15 13:49:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	MCAP PREL NATO EZ
06PRAGUE171	CZECHS WARN OF EU PROBLEMS AHEAD AS A RESULT OF [...] (C) In a February 16 meeting Czech MFA UN Department Director Jan Kara warned A/DCM that he was seeing signs the EU would become more hostile to the United States as a result of the UN Special Rapporteurs Report on Treatment of Detainees at Guantanamo Bay. Reflecting on discussions he had held [...]	2006-02-16 17:48:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAO EUN EZ
06PRAGUE195	MTAG: CZECHS TO INVESTIGATE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY [...] (S) Poloff February 22 delivered reftel demarche on WEOG mention of "next generation agents" to MFA UN and Nonproliferation Director Jan Kara (Note: Reftel reported the Czech Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) had made several inappropriate comments at the February 8 WEOG meeting [...]	2006-02-22 17:35:00	Embassy Prague	SECRET	PARM PREL CWC NL AU EZ
06PRAGUE2	NEW CZECH DEPUTY PM FOR ECONOMIC AFFAIRS JIRI [...] (U) Czech Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy Martin Jahn left office as expected December 31. Jahn is expected to begin working for an unnamed private sector firm in February; he is rumored to be assuming a position on the managing board of Skoda Auto. Jahn's replacement is Jiri Havel, Ch [...]	2006-01-03 09:43:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV PINR EZ
06PRAGUE204	CZECH DIPLOMATS MAY FACE EXPULSIONS FROM BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: Chilly relations between the Czech Republic and Belarus have nearly frozen in the aftermath of a Belarusian television broadcast that accused the Czech Embassy in Minsk of subversive activities and distributing propaganda to extremist groups. (Note: the document is actually a UN h [...]	2006-02-24 14:38:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM BO EZ
06PRAGUE215	CZECH REPUBLIC: PAUL WOLFOWITZ VISITS PRAGUE FOR [...] Paul Wolfowitz paid his first official visit to the Czech Republic as World Bank President to attend the February 28 ceremony at the Czech National Bank (CNB) marking the Czech Republic's "graduation" from the World Bank/International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD),as confirmed [...]	2006-03-01 11:23:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN EZ
06PRAGUE260	PUTIN CONDUCTS FRIENDLY VISIT TO PRAGUE, LIGHTLY [...] (C) Summary. The March 1-2 visit of Vladimir Putin to Prague was aimed at throwing the best possible light on the relationship between Russia and the Czech Republic. Economic concerns were the main focus, but few agreements were signed. Difficult issues were either raised gently, or ignored. D [...]	2006-03-13 06:55:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EZ RS
06PRAGUE360	CZECH REPUBLIC AND MISSILE DEFENSE: SUPPORTIVE, [...] (S) Summary: The Czech Republic may be a good candidate to host ground-based ballistic missile defense (BMD) interceptors and/or a BMD radar. However, Czech involvement in the project will be contingent on careful handling of the issue in the domestic political arena. The too-close-to-call Jun [...]	2006-04-07 05:42:00	Embassy Prague	SECRET	MARR PREL PL EZ UK RS
06PRAGUE388	CZECH DIPLOMAT EXPELLED FROM CUBA - MORE [...] (C) Summary. On April 13, the Castro regime announced it would not renew the visa of Czech diplomat Stanislav Kazecky, effectively expelling him. The Czechs believe another Czech diplomat may be expelled next week. The Cuban Charge d'Affaires in Prague said the GOC expelled Kazecky because his [...]	2006-04-17 13:17:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM CU EZ EUN
06PRAGUE395	CZECHS EXPEL CUBAN DIPLOMAT, DO NOT EXPECT FURTHER [...] (C) Petr Kavan, Czech MFA Desk Officer for the Department of Americas, confirmed on April 18 that the Czech government has expelled Cuban Diplomat Manuel Angel Baltar Charnicharo, First Secretary of the Cuban mission in Prague. The decision not to renew Charnicharo's visa, which will expire on [...]	2006-04-18 12:04:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM CU EZ
06PRAGUE425	CODEL DAVIS IN CZECH REPUBLIC: TRANSATLANTIC [...] (C) Summary. On April 21, 2006, a delegation of eight members of the U.S. House of Representatives met with Czech Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek and President Vaclav Klaus. Both leaders stressed the importance of strong U.S.-Czech relations; Representatives expressed strong appreciation for thes [...]	2006-04-24 16:16:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CVIS EUN EZ
06PRAGUE427	MARTIN BURSIK, MEAN GREEN CHAMELEON, POSSIBLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. It looks increasingly likely that the Czech Green Party will cross the 5% threshold in the June 2-3 parliamentary elections, and have a say in the formation of the next coalition government. Martin Bursik, who became Chairman of the party six months ago, and who is given credit [...]	2006-04-25 10:46:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EZ PGOV PINR PREL
06PRAGUE445	CZECH COUNTRY REVIEW FOR WAIVER OF TITLE III OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Czech Republic has been applauded by the USG for its strong support of democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. The Czechs are actively seeking a tougher EU common position on the Castro regime, in contrast to the policy sought by Spain of increased engagemen [...]	2006-04-28 08:50:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	CU ETRD ETTC PREL EZ
06PRAGUE46	CZECHS IN ASIA: CONTINUED FOCUS ON CHINA, BUT [...] (C) Summary. The Czech Republic plans active engagement with East and South Asia in the first half of 2006, with most attention focused on China. During a visit to Prague in December, the Chinese PM closed an investment agreement that, according to critics, noticeably favors Chinese interests [...]	2006-01-13 18:04:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EINV EZ CH BM IN PK AF VM CB
06PRAGUE504	CZECHS SAY CUBA CONFERENCE A SUCCESS [...] (C) Summary. The Czech MFA, in cooperation with Czech NGOs, recently hosted a Conference on Cuba in Prague to search for common ground with other EU member states active in Cuba, and share the best practice of European NGOs working there. The Conference participants included MFA representative [...]	2006-05-11 14:17:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM CU EZ EUN
06PRAGUE57	CZECH REPUBLIC: 2006 BUDGET IMPLIES INCREASE IN [...] SUMMARY: Thanks to higher than expected tax revenues and better than forecasted economic growth (reftel),GOCR statistics show the 2005 budget deficit was 2.8 percent/GDP, slightly lower than the Parliament-approved 2.9 percent/GDP deficit ceiling and much lower than the 4.7 percent/GDP defic [...]	2006-01-20 13:07:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EZ
06PRAGUE58	CZECHS EMBRACE TRANSFORMATION DIPLOMACY AND [...] (U) Summary and comment. Democracy promotion is at the heart of Czech foreign policy. Because GOCR efforts complement U.S. transformational diplomacy efforts, the Czechs are natural partners for cooperation in countries such as Cuba, Belarus, and Iraq. January 25-27, 2006, Gabriela Dlouha, Dir [...]	2006-01-23 06:50:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM EZ
06PRAGUE591	CZECH ELECTIONS: THE SHORT, BRUTISH, NASTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the June 2-3 election only a day away, political pundits are still waffling on their predictions and a significant number of voters remain uninspired and unsure of whom to support. The choices made by this large block of still undecided voters, as high as 25% according to s [...]	2006-06-01 10:11:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EZ
06PRAGUE607	CZECH ELECTION RESULTS: TOTAL STALEMATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The June 2-3 Czech general elections ended in a dramatic stalemate, with the left and the right camp each receiving 100 seats in the 200-seat Chamber of Deputies, and Prime Minster Paroubek threatening to file a complaint with the courts to have the results annulled. An obvious [...]	2006-06-04 16:59:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EZ
06PRAGUE67	CZECH FM SVOBODA: CZECHS ARE COMMITTED PARTNERS ON [...] (C) Summary. Czech FM Cyril Svoboda warmly received Ambassador Cabaniss on January 23, 2006, and confirmed the Czechs are closely aligned with the U.S. on UN Human Rights Commission reform, UN management reform, and the need to report Iran to the UN Security Council. Other topics discussed inc [...]	2006-01-24 13:02:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR UN IR EZ
06PRAGUE675	EMBASSY PRAGUE NOMINATION FOR SECRETARY'S AWARD [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Prague nominates IBM Czech Republic for the Secretary,s Award for Corporate Excellence for 2006. The nomination recognizes the important contribution by IBM Czech Republic to both the Czech community and business environment. END SUMMARY 2. IBM Czech Republic (IBM CR) enter [...]	2006-06-16 15:15:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON BEXP EZ
06PRAGUE746	CZECH POLICY ON IRAN: PROLIFERATION ISSUES AND [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-01 09:59:00	Embassy Prague	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL ETTC MNUC IAEA EZ IR
06PRAGUE747	PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE CZECH POLICY TOWARD IRAN, AND [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-01 10:12:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC MNUC PGOV EUN EZ IR
06PRAGUE755	PROSPECTS FOR FUTURE CZECH POLICY TOWARD IRAN, AND [...] (C) Summary and comment: This is the final of three cables on Czech-Iranian relations. The Czech Government is likely to remain solidly aligned with the USG on Iran. Czech mainstream parties whose platforms are supportive of USG positions vis-a-vis the Iranian nuclear issue will occupy 174 o [...]	2006-07-03 15:14:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC MNUC PGOV EUN EZ IR
06PRAGUE756	CZECH POLICY ON IRAN: PROLIFERATION ISSUES AND [...] (S) SUMMARY. This is the second of three cables on Czech-Iranian relations. The Czech Republic's Iran policies and non-proliferation practices strongly support U.S. positions. Concerns have been raised about the impact of acquisition of Czech firms involved in nuclear technologies by Russian [...]	2006-07-03 15:17:00	Embassy Prague	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL ETTC MNUC IAEA EZ IR
06PRAGUE757	CZECHS REQUEST VISIT OF U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE SITE [...] (U) Action request in para 9. 2. (C/NF) Summary: Czech officials have extended an invitation, effective immediately, for the U.S. to begin surveying potential missile defense (MD) sites within the Czech Republic. They are grateful for U.S. patience in delaying the arrival of the survey tea [...]	2006-07-05 07:51:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR PREL EZ
06PRAGUE85	CZECH DEMOCRACY PROMOTION: BURMA AND NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary. This is the fourth in a series of cables highlighting Czech democracy promotion efforts. The Czechs plan to launch new Czech democracy promotion projects in Burma and North Korea in 2006. These projects are motivated by the GOCR's interest in helping these countries peacefully ove [...]	2006-01-26 16:36:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM BM KN EZ
06PRAGUE853	CZECH HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT UNGA: PRELIMINARY [...] (U) Poloff spoke with MFA Deputy Director of the UN Department Ivan Pinter on July 25 to discuss Czech high-level attendance at UNGA. Pinter said the Czechs have not yet designated their representatives to UNGA. They are unlikely to do so before August 7, when the necessary decision makers are [...]	2006-07-26 09:50:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA EZ
06PRAGUE923	FIRST UPDATE: CZECH HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT UNGA [...] (U) Poloff spoke with Czech MFA Director of the UN Department Jan Kara on August 7 to update information previously reported on Czech high-level attendance at UNGA (Ref A). Kara said the Czechs have not finalized their plans, but provided the following information: A. Head of State Presi [...]	2006-08-09 05:11:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA EZ
06PRAGUE925	CZECH REPUBLIC: GOVERNMENT WITH TWO BIG PARTIES [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Two months after winning the June 2-3 general elections and unsuccessfully trying to form a new government with a three-party right-of-center coalition that holds exactly half of the seats in Parliament, the Civic Democrats (ODS) have finally declared the coalition dead [...]	2006-08-09 10:29:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS EZ
06PRAGUE934	CZECH PUBLIC DEBATE ON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Since reftel report on July 19, Czech media coverage has intensified, with a steady stream of editorials and news coverage about a potential siting of a U.S. missile defense facility in the Czech Republic. Pro-MD commentators continue to make the arguments that an MD [...]	2006-08-11 08:44:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV EZ
06PRAGUE96	A CZECH PRT IN AFGHANINSTAN? CURRENT THINKING IN [...] (C/NF) PolOff met with Vaclav Balek (please strictly protect),Deputy Director of the MFA's Security Policy Department Jan 27. Balek shared that he had attended a recent meeting where FM Svoboda had approved a proposal from the working level that the Czechs should lead a Provincial Reconstruct [...]	2006-01-27 17:33:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AF EZ NATO PARM PREL PTER
06PRAGUE966	CZECHS CONSIDER TROOP CONTRIBUTION TO UNIFIL; [...] (C) Poloff and Army Attache met with Czech MFA Director of the UN Department Jan Kara, and Czech MOD Deputy Director of the Defense Policy Department, NATO and EU Section, Lt. Col. Petr Cech, on August 16 to discuss the possibility of Czech troop contributions to UNIFIL. Kara said the Czechs ar [...]	2006-08-16 14:45:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL LE EZ
06PRAGUE97	CZECH DEMOCRACY PROMOTION: IRAQ [...] (U) Summary and comment. This cable, the fifth in a series highlighting Czech transformational diplomacy, describes Czech democracy promotion projects in Iraq. These projects are motivated by the Czech interest in rebuilding Iraq, and promoting democracy and regional stability throughout the M [...]	2006-01-27 17:57:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KDEM IZ EZ
06PRETORIA1004	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MARCH 10 2006 [...] 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: - January Manufacturing Growth at 5.6%; - December [...]	2006-03-10 13:32:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1021	SOUTH AFRICA: DRAFT BEE CODE 700: RESIDUAL [...] (U) Summary. The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released for public comment drafts of Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Codes of Good Practice belonging to the second and final phase on December 20, 2005. The Minister of Trade and Industry plans to promulgate [...]	2006-03-10 14:33:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF
06PRETORIA1052	SOUTH AFRICAN HIV/AIDS SPENDING IN 2006 BUDGET [...] Summary. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel presented South Africa's 2006 Budget, highlighting the South African government's planned expenditures and revenues over the following three years. Expenditures on social development constitute over half of total expenditures. Spending on health and [...]	2006-03-14 11:48:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA109	The Accelerated and Shared Growth [...] (SBU) Summary. The Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (ASGI),a new government economic strategy to be unveiled in February, aims to push growth to a sustained six percent annually. It is expected to focus on improving coordination and implementation. Key elements will be infrastruc [...]	2006-01-12 06:58:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1123	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MARCH 17 2006 [...] 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: - Are SA's Growth Prospects Faltering?; - Energy S [...]	2006-03-17 10:37:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1195	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH MARCH 24 2006 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' [...]	2006-03-24 11:18:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA1196	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MARCH 24 2006 [...] 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: - Construction, Property BEE Charters Signed; - BE [...]	2006-03-24 11:18:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1290	SAG ON HAMAS, PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS, AND IRAQI DEBT [...] (C) Summary: The SAG is likely to continue to engage Hamas, including a visit by Intelligence Minister Kasrils and Deputy Foreign Minister Pahad to the Middle East region next week and a visit by Hamas leadership to South Africa at an undetermined date. DFA Chief Director for the Middle East [...]	2006-03-30 16:45:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN KPAL IR IZ IS SF
06PRETORIA1313	SOUTH AFRICA: $16MILLION JOHANNESBURG AIRPORT HEIST [...] (SBU) Fifteen armed men stole an estimated R100 million ($16 million) in foreign currency, mostly U.S. dollars, from a South African Airways passenger plane at Johannesburg International Airport (JIA) on March 25. No shots were fired. The heist, which police suspect was an inside job, follow [...]	2006-04-03 04:18:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ASEC ECON SF
06PRETORIA1316	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MARCH 31 2006 [...] 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: - February Inflation up 4.5%; - February Producer [...]	2006-04-03 07:05:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1414	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER APRIL 7 2006 [...] 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: - SA's Inflation Shows Signs of Growth Although Shoul [...]	2006-04-07 12:42:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1415	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH April 7 2006 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' [...]	2006-04-07 12:42:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA142	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH JANUARY 13 2006 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' [...]	2006-01-13 12:06:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA143	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER JANUARY 13 2006 [...] 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: - Manufacturing Production Growth Recovers; - Hous [...]	2006-01-13 12:14:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1548	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER APRIL 13 2006 [...] 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: - Interest Rates Unchanged; - Manufacturing Produc [...]	2006-04-13 14:02:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1649	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER APRIL 21 2006 [...] 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: - SA Telecommunication Costs High; - Chinese Cars [...]	2006-04-21 10:38:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1657	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH April 21 2006 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' [...]	2006-04-21 13:51:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA1709	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER APRIL 28 2006 [...] 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: - March Inflation Slows; - Producer Prices Slow Th [...]	2006-04-26 14:09:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA171	SOUTH AFRICA: 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE [...] (U) In response to Ref A, this cable presents post's 2006 Investment Climate Statement for South Africa. This is also Chapter 6 of the 2006 Country Commercial Guide for South Africa. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT Chapter 6 Investment Climate Statement FY 2006 6.1 Openness to Foreign Investment [...]	2006-01-17 14:42:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB OPIC USTR PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1811	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MAY 5 2006 ISSUE [...] 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: - Trade Deficits Point to Possible Rand Weakness and [...]	2006-05-05 07:51:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA1821	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH May 4 2006 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' [...]	2006-05-05 10:43:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA1923	INVITATIONS FROM THE SECRETARY TO ATTEND U.S. - [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-11 12:35:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	OPCD ETRD EINV EFIN EAID SF
06PRETORIA1943	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MAY 12 2006 [...] 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: - Manufacturing Production Recovers in March; - Re [...]	2006-05-12 10:03:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2065	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH May 19 2006 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' [...]	2006-05-19 07:58:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA2066	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MAY 19 2006 [...] 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: - Reserve Bank Highlights Growth Prospects, Inflation [...]	2006-05-19 07:58:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2122	POLITICAL ANALYST WEIGHS IN ON ZUMA, ANC [...] (C) Summary: The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is currently in turmoil due to the ongoing battles between opponents and supporters of President Thabo Mbeki, according to noted political analyst Aubrey Matshiqi. Party deputy president Jacob Zuma's acquittal on rape charges and the su [...]	2006-05-24 10:28:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SF
06PRETORIA2182	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MAY 26 2006 [...] 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: - April Consumer Prices Lower Than Expectations; - [...]	2006-05-30 12:18:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2249	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH June 2 2006 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' [...]	2006-06-01 14:44:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA2261	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER JUNE 2 2006 [...] 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: - First Quarter GDP Growth Accelerates; - April Cr [...]	2006-06-02 08:37:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA227	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER JANUARY 20 2006 [...] 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: - Consumer Confidence Up; - Manufacturing Activity [...]	2006-01-20 10:48:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2328	SOUTH AFRICA: SKILLS, THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENT [...] (U) Summary. In March, President Thabo Mbeki and Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka announced the Joint Initiative on Priority Skills Acquisition (JIPSA) as an integral part of the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (ASGISA). JIPSA is a attempt to rectify the grow [...]	2006-06-06 14:35:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EINV PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2508	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER JUNE 15 2006 [...] Summary. Once every two weeks, 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: - South African Reserve Bank (SARB) Raises Int [...]	2006-06-20 04:33:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2654	SOUTH AFRICA SIGNS TEXTILE, NUCLEAR ENERGY AND COAL FUEL [...] (U) Summary. Leading a delegation of government officials and business leaders, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited South Africa June 21-22, 2006. The Chinese visit was part of a seven-country tour of Africa intended to strengthen China's diplomatic ties, ensure robust trade, and secure its acc [...]	2006-06-29 09:46:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON KTEX SF CH
06PRETORIA2665	SOUTH AFRICA: BANK FEES UNDER FIRE [...] (SBU) Summary. As the result of a recent report, South Africa's Competition Commission launched a public inquiry into the amount of income the banking industry generates from transaction fees. The banking industry earned R29 billion ($4.1 billion) in transaction fee revenue and an estimated [...]	2006-06-30 08:46:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2711	SOUTH AFRICA: TELECOM REGULATOR STRUGGLES FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. South Africa's beleaguered telecommunications regulator, ICASA (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa),received a bit of good news when constitutional changes guaranteeing the regulator's independence were proposed to Parliament June 22. The Minister of Communic [...]	2006-07-03 14:35:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS EINV ECON SF
06PRETORIA2730	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER [...] (U) Summary. Once every two weeks, 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: - China agrees in principle to textile ex [...]	2006-07-06 06:31:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2768	Emerging Market Jitters Weaken Rand, Inflation Diminishes [...] (SBU) Summary. Emerging market jitters in May and June led to a roughly 20 percent depreciation in the rand, contributing to a growing current account deficit and higher inflation. As a result, growth in 2006 will likely be below the government's forecast of 4.9 percent. Other than contribut [...]	2006-07-07 11:02:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV SF
06PRETORIA2781	SOUTH AFRICA: THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF BEE [...] Summary. (C) Black Economic Empowerment (BEE),embodied in the proposed Codes of Good Practice, is the government's policy initiative to redress the economic legacies of apartheid. While endorsing the goals of BEE, U.S. companies believe that the codes' unintended consequences will undermine t [...]	2006-07-07 14:22:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF
06PRETORIA2831	SOUTH AFRICA: CREDIT ACT PROTECTS CONSUMERS [...] (SBU) Summary. South Africa's National Credit Act came into effect on June 1, replacing weak and outdated legislation. This Act seeks to protect primarily poor South Africans, who have endured exorbitant interest rates, lender exploitation, and rising personal debt. The previously-named Mic [...]	2006-07-11 14:51:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2860	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER JULY 13 2006 [...] (U) Summary. Once every two weeks, 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: - Government to simplify BEE codes; - Sec [...]	2006-07-13 13:01:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA2873	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ACOTA - WILLIAM G. (CHIP) [...] Embassy Pretoria welcomes and grants country clearance to ACOTA Coordinator William G. (Chip) Beck and John Sevold from July 15-22, 2006. The purpose of the visit is follow-up on the JUN DEFCOM meeting requirements and for a site visit to Bloemfontein Mission Readiness Training center and ot [...]	2006-07-14 04:35:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA PREL MARR ASEC SF TZ
06PRETORIA3071	BEE Codes of Good Practice To Be Simplified [...] (C) Summary. The Department (DTI) will simplify the draft BEE Codes of Good Practice before they are submitted to Cabinet. The Trade and Industry Minister told business representatives that skills development was the top priority. There would be flexibility in areas such as equity equivalent [...]	2006-07-27 09:11:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF
06PRETORIA320	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH JANUARY 27 2006 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' [...]	2006-01-27 12:17:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA3203	SOUTH AFRICAN MOTOR INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WILL BE [...] (U) Summary. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) announced that the Motor Industry Development Program (MIDP) will be sustained beyond 2012. According to Tshediso Matona, Director General for the Department of Trade and Industry, a post-2012 MIDP would take into account WTO rules with [...]	2006-08-04 12:08:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EINV AGOA USTR SF
06PRETORIA3295	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER AUGUST 11, 2006 ISSUE [...] (U) Summary. Once every two weeks, 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: - Reserve Bank raises interest rates 50 basi [...]	2006-08-14 05:08:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA330	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER JANUARY 27 2006 [...] (U) 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: - December Consumer Prices Higher; - Producer [...]	2006-01-27 13:37:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA3422	ENTICED BY AFRICA'S MANIFOLD RICHES, AMERICANS AND CHINESE [...] (SBU) Summary: About 30 government, academic and business leaders -- including several former senior State Department officials -- held a groundbreaking dialogue to explore how China and the U.S. could work with Africa to spur development on the continent. Discussions centered on energy, trade [...]	2006-08-21 08:34:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EFIN EINV EAID EIND KDEM CH XA SF
06PRETORIA3462	SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA SAYS PRESS FREEDOM IMPERILED BY [...] (U) A government proposal to amend South African's Films & Publications Act has been met by howls of protest from media groups who say it would bring back pervasive censorship not seen since the apartheid era. Currently, the Act exempts newspapers from the publications covered by its censorshi [...]	2006-08-23 07:14:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SCUL KDEM KPAO SF
06PRETORIA347	SOUTH AFRICA: HOUSING AND SERVICE DELIVERY WOES [...] (SBU) Summary. Since mid-2004, South Africa has seen several protests in disadvantaged communities, ostensibly against poor public service delivery, lack of adequate housing, and corruption. These protests have intensified in the run up to the March 1 local elections, suggesting that there ar [...]	2006-01-30 07:39:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EFIN EINV EAID SF
06PRETORIA3720	SOUTH AFRICA NUCLEAR STATUS: R&D AGREEMENTS AND [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified; Protect Accordingly. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Incoming and outgoing Econ M/C's and Econoff met 31 August with Tseliso Maqubela, Chief Director: Nuclear at the South African Department of Minerals and Energy (DME). Maqubela reported that the Re [...]	2006-09-07 13:38:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP PARM PREL SF
06PRETORIA3722	NUCLEAR FUEL SUPPLY ASSURANCES [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified; Protect Accordingly. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Incoming and outgoing Econ M/C's and Econoff presented August 31 reftel points and concept paper to Department of Mineral and Energy's Tseliso Maqubela, Chief Director, Nuclear Energy and Mahlatsi [...]	2006-09-07 13:53:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP PARM PREL SF
06PRETORIA4208	SOUTH AFRICA CONDEMNS NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (U) The Government of South Africa (SAG) expressed "deep concern" about North Korea's reported nuclear test and urged Pyongyang to "terminate any nuclear weapons program" (full text of statement at para 5). The October 9 statement also encouraged all parties to "intensify efforts" to return to [...]	2006-10-11 05:08:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM KN SF
06PRETORIA4310	SOUTH AFRICA: VIEWS ON JACOB ZUMA'S POLITICAL [...] (C) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. This is the first in a series of cables that will explore strengths and weaknesses of emerging candidates for the ANC and national presidencies in South Africa. Ref A provided brief profiles of possible contenders. This message presents current views of South [...]	2006-10-17 13:23:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KHIV KJUS SF
06PRETORIA432	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 3 2006 [...] 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: - Interest Rates Remain Unchanged; - December's Tr [...]	2006-02-03 10:43:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA4513	SOUTH AFRICAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION CIRCLES ITS WAGONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The embattled South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) took another hit to its credibility with the unauthorized release of a report confirming the Managing Director of its News and Current Affairs Division banned certain commentators, in some cases for politically motivated [...]	2006-10-31 08:43:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KPAO SF
06PRETORIA4553	SOUTH AFRICANS LOOK BACK ON THE FTA AND WONDER [...] (U) Summary. A recent conference organized by South Africa's leading business group produced a variety of views on what caused the collapse of free trade talks with the U.S. earlier this year. Some speakers blamed a failure of vision in the South African government. Others blamed an inflexi [...]	2006-11-02 13:58:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD PREL SF
06PRETORIA4632	(C) IDASA'S MASAMVU SAYS SOUTH AFRICA PUSHING [...] (C) SUMMARY: South Africa wants Zimbabwean President Mugabe to annouce at the upcoming ZANU-PF congress that he will retire in 2008, according to IDASA analyst Sydney Masamvu. Masamvu says that former President Mandela met privately with Mugabe October 23 to encourage him to retire. Senior A [...]	2006-11-08 12:38:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ECON ZI SF
06PRETORIA4726	VAN ECK SAYS FNL LOSING FAITH IN CEASEFIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY. ISS Burundi Analyst Jan van Eck says the Palipehutu-FNL is losing faith in the Burundi peace process and is "at the point of declaring the ceasefire agreement dead." At an ISS seminar in Pretoria November 14, van Eck outlined the FNL's major concerns: problems with the immunity [...]	2006-11-15 14:17:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BU SF
06PRETORIA4790	SOUTH AFRICA'S UN SECURITY COUNCIL PRIORITIES [...] (C) Post-apartheid South Africa begins its first stint as a non-permanent UNSC member on 01 January with an ambitious agenda. The SAG naturally will promote its "Africa agenda" and will seek to keep the Council focused on efforts to resolve the continent's conflicts. But, South Africa also c [...]	2006-11-21 15:54:00	Embassy Pretoria	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL UNSC SF

06PRETORIA4825	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLICLY CONFIRMS MBEKI-BUSH MEETING [...] (U) Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad yesterday confirmed to reporters that President Mbeki will be meeting President Bush at the White House on 8 December. Pahad admitted that the agenda has not been finalized, but added that free trade negotiations will inevitably be on the agenda as well a [...]	2006-11-24 15:15:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR ETRD SF
06PRETORIA4838	ANC RESPONDS TO SEXUAL HARASSMENT ALLEGATIONS [...] (SBU) ANC National Assembly Chief Whip Mbuelo Goniwe was effectively stripped of his powers on 17 November, pending the outcome of a hearing by the party's National Disciplinary Committee (NDC). Goniwe is alleged to have demanded sex from a 21-year-old ANC intern on 25 October after she serve [...]	2006-11-27 14:54:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM KWMN KJUS SF
06PRETORIA5018	ZUMA CAMP REMAINS OPTIMISTIC [...] (C) SUMMARY. On November 28, the Durban Consul General met with Rieaz "Mo" Shaik, a former South African diplomat, long-time ANC member, and brother of Durban businessman Schabir Shaik who was convicted of fraud and corruption charges stemming from his relationship with ANC Deputy President J [...]	2006-12-14 08:19:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS SF
06PRETORIA5039	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 15, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 6, issue 27 of US Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News weekly newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - DTI rolls out B-BBEE Scorecard; - SARB Governor complains about credit madness; - South Africa's technological innovation; - The Compet [...]	2006-12-15 13:53:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET BEXP KTDB SENV PGOV
06PRETORIA5076	MBEKI MUM ON CALL FOR 3RD TERM AS ANC PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. With only eleven months to go until the ANC national conference, the succession battle is beginning to be played out publicly. Earlier this month, Mbeki was both heckled by pro-Zuma supporters in KwaZulu-Natal and "encouraged" to run for a third term as party president by Easter [...]	2006-12-20 08:03:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SF
06PRETORIA5114	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 22, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 6, issue 28 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News weekly newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - AMCHAM study on impact of U.S companies; - Eskom warns about rising capital costs; - Net foreign exchange reserves increase to $22.17 b [...]	2006-12-22 11:09:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET BEXP KTDB SENV PGOV
06PRETORIA5155	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 29, [...] 1. (U) Summary. This is Volume 6, issue 29 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News weekly newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Economic Indicators Positive for Year-End - Consumer Price Index (CPIX) up 5 Percent - Johannesburg Stock Exchange Hits Record High [...]	2006-12-29 13:25:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV
06PRETORIA581	SOUTH AFRICA DENIES ZIMBABWE POWER, FUEL CUTS [...] (U) The South African power utility Eskom reduced its supply of electricity to Zimbabwe during January, according to February 6-8 South African press reports. Eskom spokesman Fani Zulu said that the power utility provided less power than required to Zimbabwe because of planned "maintenance ou [...]	2006-02-09 15:04:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ZI SF
06PRETORIA582	MBEKI PUBLICLY DETAILS SAG EFFORTS TO FORGE NEW [...] (U) President Mbeki publicly described South Africa's past role in "informal talks" about a new Zimbabwean Constitution, during a February 5 South African Broadcasting Corporation television interview. Mbeki said the Zimbabwean parties had completed negotiations and provided him with a copy of [...]	2006-02-09 15:12:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ZI SF
06PRETORIA600	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 10 2006 [...] 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: - December Manufacturing Resumes Growth; - Survey [...]	2006-02-10 12:46:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA603	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH FEBRUARY 10 2006 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' [...]	2006-02-10 13:26:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA618	SOUTH AFRICA: KOEBERG POWER PLANT EXPERIENCING [...] (U) Summary. Eskom is racing against the clock to repair the generator connected to one of two nuclear reactors at its Koeberg power plant located north of Cape Town. Eskom shut down the Koeberg 1 reactor following damage to its dedicated generator reportedly caused when a maintenance team i [...]	2006-02-13 13:24:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY SF
06PRETORIA698	SOUTH AFRICA: MBEKI ANNOUNCES THE ACCELERATED AND [...] (U) Summary. In his State of the Nation address on February 3, President Thabo Mbeki spent considerable time introducing what he termed the "Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa" (ASGISA),which he described as a limited set of interventions designed to halve unemployment [...]	2006-02-17 14:38:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EFIN PGOV SF
06PRETORIA700	SOUTH AFRICA: DRAFT BEE CODE 500: PREFERENTIAL [...] (U) Summary. The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released for public comment drafts of Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Codes of Good Practice belonging to the second and final phase on December 20, 2005. The Minister of Trade and Industry plans to promulgate [...]	2006-02-17 15:04:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF
06PRETORIA722	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 17 2006 [...] 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: - Lowest Budget Deficit in 25 Years, Growth May be Ab [...]	2006-02-21 12:40:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA787	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 24 2006 [...] 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: - January Consumer Prices Continue Their Muted Rise; [...]	2006-02-24 11:05:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA790	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH FEBRUARY 24 2006 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' [...]	2006-02-24 11:09:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRETORIA816	ANC CONFIDENT OF CONTINUED STRENGTH IN NORTHERN [...] (SBU) Summary: The ANC heads into local elections in the Northern Cape?s main urban area confident of another overwhelming showing. Some progress in expanding service delivery and a weak and fractured opposition are the basis for that optimism. Nonetheless, persistent unhappiness over service [...]	2006-02-27 12:58:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EFIN EINV EAID SF KDEM
06PRETORIA844	SOUTH AFRICA: ANC WILL DOMINATE LIMPOPO DESPITE [...] (SBU) Summary. The residents of Waterberg and Vhembe District Municipalities in Limpopo live with high levels of unemployment, poverty, and limited access to public services. Despite frustrations, the electorate stands behind the ANC and will vote overwhelming for them in the March 1 local el [...]	2006-03-01 08:15:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EFIN EINV EAID SF
06PRETORIA879	SOUTH AFRICA: DRAFT BEE CODE 600: ENTERPRISE [...] (U) Summary. The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released for public comment drafts of Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Codes of Good Practice belonging to the second and final phase on December 20, 2005. The Minister of Trade and Industry plans to promulgate [...]	2006-03-03 07:25:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF
06PRETORIA888	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER MARCH 3 2006 [...] 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: - Fourth Quarter GDP Growth Slows Sharply; Yearly Gro [...]	2006-03-03 12:08:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF
06PRETORIA889	SOUTH AFRICA: INFORMATION ABOUT PROPOSED [...] (SBU) Summary. Econoff met with Department of Minerals and Energy and Department of Trade and Industry officials to deliver reftel points. In both instances, officials confirmed that they had not notified the WTO Secretariat of the revised regulations gazetted on January 13, and seemed unsure [...]	2006-03-03 12:25:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ENRG SENV SF
06PRETORIA955	SOUTH AFRICA: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction. Econ M/C met March 2 with Alan Hirsch, Chief Director for Economic Policy Coordination in the Presidency, to discuss bilateral economic relations. The discussion included the status of U.S.-SACU free trade negotiations, the launch of the Accelerated and Shared Gr [...]	2006-03-08 11:07:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAIR ELAB ECPS ENRG EINV EIND SF
06PRETORIA960	SOUTH AFRICA: PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The United States and South Africa have made significant progress in implementing the June 10, 2005 Presidential Joint Statement. The two countries signed the ACOTA agreement in August 2005 to enhance South Africa's peacekeeping capacity, and training programs will begin this [...]	2006-03-08 13:02:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON ETRD MASS PHUM SF
06PRETORIA964	SOUTH AFRICA: INPUT FOR PRESIDENT'S 2006 REPORT ON [...] (U) This cable responds to the request for post input to the President's 2006 Report on AGOA, drawing on instructions provided in Ref A. Market Economy, Economic Reform, and the Elimination of Barriers to U.S. Trade ---------------------------------------- 2. (U) The South African govern [...]	2006-03-08 14:13:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON PHUM USTR AGOA PREL SF
06PRETORIA990	SOUTH AFRICA PUBLIC HEALTH MARCH 10 2006 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' [...]	2006-03-10 07:59:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KHIV SOCI TBIO EAID SF
06PRISTINA1053	'TIS THE SEASON ... SERB CCK OBSTRUCTION FORCES [...] (C) Summary: A newly appointed hard-line Serb CCK leader in Gjilane/Gnjilane reportedly exerted strong pressure on the parents of Serb children who were allowing their children to sing in a USOP holiday concert. The Serb children from the Gjilane area are members of Kosovo's only mixed-ethnic [...]	2006-12-09 12:29:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SCUL PINR KDEM YI
06PRISTINA1054	KOSOVO: ARMED MASKED MEN REAPPEAR IN WESTERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Repeating a pattern we saw last year, armed masked men have sporadically reappeared on the roads of western Kosovo, illegally stopping people and conducting vehicle checkpoints. In 2005, these incidents began as supposed "political statements" but quickly turned into opportuniti [...]	2006-12-09 12:59:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KCRM KJUS ASEC UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1057	KOSOVO: RESPONSE TO NARCOTICS AND CHEMICAL [...] (U) Following is the submission from U.S. Office in Pristina for the narcotics and chemical control sections of this year's INSCR report. 2. (U) Summary. Kosovo is primarily a transit point for heroin originating in Turkey and Afghanistan and destined for Western European countries, but i [...]	2006-12-11 10:06:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1058	KOSOVO: KOSOVO INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Kosovo is a disputed territory that has been governed by the United Nations (UN) since 1999. Current laws and regulations pertaining to financial crimes derive their authority from the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General. If, as expected, there is a resolution of Kosovo's fina [...]	2006-12-11 10:10:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM KTFN EFIN ECON YI
06PRISTINA1059	KOSOVO: LDK CONVENTION GIVES SEJDIU NARROW VICORY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) party elected Kosovo President Sejdiu as party president over former Speaker Nexhat Daci in an orderly vote at a December 9 party convention. But when Sejdiu presented his list of candidates for the party's powerful General Council, Dac [...]	2006-12-11 11:36:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1063	KOSOVO: DAS DICARLO AND EU COLLEAGUES REASSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: DAS Rosemary DiCarlo and her European colleagues reassured Kosovo Albanians on status process timing and told Kosovo Serbs that Ahtisaari,s proposal will take into account their concerns. In private meetings with President Sejdiu, Prime Minister Ceku, Kosovo Assembly president B [...]	2006-12-12 15:08:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1064	KOSOVO: RAIL LINE CONNECTING SOUTHERN SERB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo Police Service (KPS) and local media reported an explosion on a railroad bridge near the town of Vushtrri on a line that serves Kosovo's Serb community. The explosion damaged tracks and temporarily disrupted rail service, but no injuries were reported. A train carrying [...]	2006-12-12 16:42:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM PTER UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1088	KOSOVO: 2006 ANNUAL TERRORISM UPDATE [...] (U) The following submission provides Post's contribution to the Department's "Country Reports on Terrorism 2006." BEGIN REPORT 2. (U) The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) continues to administer Kosovo pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1244, and K [...]	2006-12-20 09:01:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC KCRM PGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1091	KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS: OMPF REQUESTS USG FUNDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) has asked the USG to pay the salaries up to three forensic specialists to assist with ongoing exhumations, autopsies and identifications of war victims. OMPF is very concerned about the lack of local capacity to carry out [...]	2006-12-20 16:10:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK SOCI
06PRISTINA1095	KOSOVO: TRANSITION WORKING GROUPS BEGIN IN EARNEST [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a slow start, the five working groups on transition meeting since late November and bringing together representatives of UNMIK, the preparation team for the post-status International Civilian Office, U.S. representatives, and the Kosovo government have picked up their pace. [...]	2006-12-22 12:26:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1096	KOSOVO: WORKING GROUP ON PUBLIC OUTREACH HOLDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USOP called and hosted the organizing meeting of a new Working Group on Public Outreach, created under the ICO/UNMIK/U.S./PISG transitional framework now in place. (Note: Progress on overall transition efforts are reported septel.) Representatives from the Unity Team, govern [...]	2006-12-22 13:06:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1100	KOSOVO: PISG CLOSER TO COMPLETING REMAINING CG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) are very close to finishing the five remaining priorities for Standards implementation tasked by the Contact Group (CG) in June 2006. Two more standards -- reconstruction of the Serb village of Svinjare in south Mitrovi [...]	2006-12-22 17:30:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA1121	KOSOVO AND MACEDONIA: THE WAY FORWARD ON BORDER [...] (U) The following is a joint cable from U.S. Office Pristina and Embassy Skopje. 2. (C) SUMMARY: When Macedonian FM Milososki visited Kosovo on November 23, he reiterated the GoM's position calling for inclusion of the demarcation of the Kosovo-Macedonia border in the UNSCR on Kosovo's fin [...]	2006-12-29 08:30:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS INR UNMIK YI KTIA
06PRISTINA219	LAST CHANCE FOR UN TO FIX KOSOVO TELECOM MARKET [...] (C) SUMMARY. UNMIK has long ruled out any reconsideration of its October 2004 annulment, on grounds of serious procedural irregularity, of the award of Kosovo's second mobile phone operating license to the Mobikos consortium. The outgoing government of Bajram Kosumi has defiantly insisted on [...]	2006-03-10 19:26:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	ECPS ETRD PGOV PREL YI UNMIK
06PRISTINA232	SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 24 VISIT OF CODEL VOINOVICH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Kosovo has a new, stronger government, and is starting to get serious about the compromises needed to ensure that status negotiations result in the independence they so desire. The Kosovo Albanian negotiating team has made a well-received proposal on decentralization, but need [...]	2006-03-15 18:19:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA265	KOSOVO: PROGRESS NEEDED ON MISSING PERSONS CASES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Pristina and Belgrade delegations at the March 9 meeting of the working group on missing persons agreed that progress on the identification and return of remains from the 1999 conflict is too slow. Kosovo's delegation demanded the immediate return of the 180 remaining bodi [...]	2006-03-24 10:05:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA274	KOSOVO: POLICE TRYING TO CURB INTERETHNIC VANDALISM [...] (U) Since March 2004 no ethnic Serbs have returned to live in Zhiti/Zitinje, a village in multi-ethnic Viti/Vitina municipality in southeastern Kosovo. In September 2005 Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government completed the reconstruction of 33 houses in Zhiti/Zininje, 29 for eth [...]	2006-03-28 15:27:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA280	KOSOVO: SLOW GOING ON TRANSFER OF LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: As evidenced by the fourth meeting of the stakeholders, UNMIK is in no hurry to transfer competency to the Kosovo government for law enforcement and the European Union is even less anxious to assume UNMIK's oversight role. Since the meeting, the PISG has named ministers of internal [...]	2006-03-29 13:44:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA302	NEW KOSOVO GOVERNMENT PUSHES STANDARDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku has produced a 91 item "to do" list for the next three months on standards implementation. UNMIK's Office of the Strategy Coordinator has drafted a complementary list of 25 standards-related action items and tasked the Provisional Institutio [...]	2006-04-05 17:14:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA310	SCENESETTER FOR APRIL 14-15 VISIT OF SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Coming on the heels of the April 6-7 visit of the Contact Group and the April 3 Vienna meeting on decentralization, Ambassador Wisner's April 14-15 visit presents an opportunity to push Kosovo Albanian leaders to come to closure on some decentralization issues (municipal partnersh [...]	2006-04-10 10:40:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA335	KOSOVO: A UNIFIED CONTACT GROUP PRESSES STANDARDS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives of the Contact Group (CG) visited Kosovo April 6-7 to highlight CG unity and deliver a focused message about the importance of the standards and elements of an eventual future status settlement; by prior agreement, the CG did not address the status outcome itself. [...]	2006-04-20 14:13:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA336	AMBASSADOR WISNER URGES KOSOVARS TO BEAR DOWN ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. During an April 14-16 visit to Kosovo, U.S. Special Representative Frank Wisner congratulated the revamped Kosovo Albanian leadership team for its serious engagement in the Vienna final status process and for its outreach to the Kosovo Serb community. He urged the team to build [...]	2006-04-20 14:44:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA339	KOSOVO ROMA MOVE TO LEAD-SAFE RELOCATION FACILITY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over 290 Roma from two lead-contaminated refugee camps in north Mitrovica have moved to the Osterode temporary relocation facility. All involved agree that a convalescence center to treat Roma with lead poisoning will be built there. The World Health Organization (WHO) has d [...]	2006-04-21 14:46:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF EAID SENV PHUM UNMIK KDEM YI
06PRISTINA352	KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU CONTINUES MINORITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the first ever visit by a Kosovo President to Decani Monastery, President Fatmir Sejdiu toured the grounds and church on Orthodox Easter Sunday, and then discussed the protection of Kosovo's Serbian Orthodox heritage sites with Bishop Teodosije in Serbian. Other visitors in [...]	2006-04-26 13:08:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK
06PRISTINA363	KOSOVO: CEKU LAYS OUT STANDARDS PROGRAM TO AN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an address to the Kosovo Assembly, Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku laid out the government's progress on standards implementation. The opposition vociferously accused the government of non-fulfillment of standards and accused the government of endemic corruption. Still indi [...]	2006-04-28 14:13:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA365	BERISHA LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT BALANCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his first several weeks as president of Kosovo's Assembly, Kole Berisha has made great progress in making it more fiscally and procedurally democratic and less autocratic. Berisha has taken public steps to distance himself from the questionable fiscal practices and domineeri [...]	2006-04-28 14:14:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA384	KOSOVO SERB POLITICIANS VIE FOR POWER IN PRISTINA; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After several tumultuous months, the Serbian Democratic Party -- the only Kosovo Serb party actively participating in the Kosovo government -- held an extraordinary party assembly on April 29 and re-elected Slavisa Petkovic as party president over the protests of a strong mino [...]	2006-05-05 16:38:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL KCRM PINR UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA410	BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES: KOSOVO PAST AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) removed Nexhat Daci as Kosovo Assembly president on March 10, 2006, and replaced him with Kole Berisha. Both will visit the United States in the coming week. Their diametrically-opposed leadership styles engender continued criticism for Da [...]	2006-05-12 17:18:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM PINR UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA421	KOSOVO: UNMIK ISSUES GENERALLY FAVORABLE TECHNICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNMIK's latest formal assessment of Kosovo Government efforts to implement the Standards for Kosovo program, covering the period ending April 30, is generally favorable. The report lauds the quick initial engagement of Kosovo's new government on Standards which will provide a ba [...]	2006-05-16 17:01:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA425	FURTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH RETURNEES TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Serbs and others who have returned to Kosovo are more concerned about immediate economic prospects, security, and freedom of movement than the final status of Kosovo, though the future of the region is also a source of apprehension for some. Many Kosovo Serb returnees are midd [...]	2006-05-17 16:59:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREF SR
06PRISTINA427	KOSOVO: NON-SERB MINORITIES AMBIVALENT ABOUT [...] (SBU) Kosovo's non-Serb minority leaders are glad to be involved in the status negotiations in Vienna and generally pleased with the work of the Communities Consultative Council, but are concerned about what they see as Belgrade's efforts to manipulate non-Serb minority issues for its own adv [...]	2006-05-18 15:55:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA461	KOSOVO: ICTY DEFENSE TEAM VISIT TO MASSACRE SITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The unannounced visit of two Serbian ICTY defense lawyers to a rural village that was the site of a 1999 Serb-on-Albanian massacre caused an uproar among village residents, virtually all of whom are relatives of the victims. Kosovo Albanians blocked the main village road and s [...]	2006-05-30 06:29:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA480	FUNDING FOR MISSING PERSONS AND FORENSICS IN KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As the recent confrontation between police and families of the missing in Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa demonstrates, missing persons remains a volatile issue in Kosovo (Ref A). The USG has helped fund both UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) and the Kosovo oper [...]	2006-06-05 16:45:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA481	KOSOVO: EU FINALLY GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The European Union has developed a draft discussion paper for an International Civilian Mission in Kosovo (ICM) that would form the basis for implementation of the final status settlement. The plan calls for a much smaller footprint than UNMIK's current presence, and places heav [...]	2006-06-06 13:23:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA506	KOSOVO: SPECIAL ENVOY AHTISAARI HOPES TO BEGIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Status Talks Martti Ahtisaari told Contact Group (CG) liaison office heads on June 10 that he expects to brief the UNSC in early July and then hopes to host the first direct talks between senior Pristina and Belgrade officials the week of July 17. He [...]	2006-06-13 15:26:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA507	KOSOVO: PROTOCOL ON RETURN WITH SERBIA SIGNED AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After almost two years of negotiations, the Provisional Institutions of Self Government in Kosovo (PISG),the Government of Serbia and UNMIK signed a Protocol on Voluntary and Sustainable Return on June 6, 2006. UNMIK pressed hard to get the protocol signed before SRSG Soren J [...]	2006-06-13 16:01:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA513	KOSOVO: THACI OK WITH ELECTION DELAY IF HIS PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Hashim Thaci, the head of the opposition Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK),met on June 9 with heads of Contact Group diplomatic liaison offices in Pristina. He outlined his thoughts on what he called the failure of the current government to accomplish its domestic tasks, in part [...]	2006-06-15 15:26:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA518	SECURITY HEIGHTENED IN NORTH AFTER SERB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Municipal assemblies in all three of Kosovo's northern Serb-majority municipalities have passed resolutions calling for a cessation of existing minimal ties with the central government in Pristina. The resolutions express dissatisfaction with the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) a [...]	2006-06-16 17:08:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA519	KOSOVO: KFOR RE-ESTABLISHES PERMANENT PRESENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 13 the French contingent in charge of Multi-National Task Force-North (MNTF-N) reactivated a former Belgian KFOR camp in the northern Kosovo municipality of Leposavic. The camp will be manned by different national contingents on two-week rotations, beginning with the Fren [...]	2006-06-16 17:34:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA520	KOSOVO: BAD POLL NUMBERS FOR THACI SIGNAL REQUEST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A new public opinion poll of non-Serb Kosovars suggests plummeting popularity for opposition leaders Hashim Thaci and his Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). The poll, taken by a nominally apolitical local consulting company, was issued days before Thaci made a rare request for [...]	2006-06-16 17:40:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA525	KOSOVO: UNMIK POSTPONES MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Outgoing SRSG Soren Jessen-Petersen announced June 17 his decision to postpone municipal elections scheduled for this autumn for a period not to exceed twelve months. Jessen-Petersen's decision provides that elections cannot be held earlier than three months or later than six [...]	2006-06-19 13:59:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA534	KOSOVO: VIOLENT DEATH OF ELDERLY SERB RAISES FEAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An elderly Kosovo Serb returnee was found dead on June 20 from a gunshot wound to the head in western Kosovo's Klina municipality. Police tell us informally that the path of the bullet (entry through the front of the neck and exit through the top of the head) would ordinarily [...]	2006-06-21 18:37:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PREF PREL PGOV PINR SCUL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA538	KOSOVO'S NEW AUDITOR GENERAL OFF TO A GOOD START [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified; protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. Since arriving in February 2006, Kosovo Auditor General Linda Casella has produced six complete audits on Kosovo municipalities and other institutions. She was assaulted and severely beaten in downtown Pristina shortly [...]	2006-06-22 16:47:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON YI
06PRISTINA539	KOSOVO'S NEXT UN ADMINISTRATOR: THACI WEIGHS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Opposition party leader Hashim Thaci requested a meeting June 19 with COM to convey his concern that current UNMIK economic pillar head, Joachim Rucker, is rumored as a leading candidate to fill the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) position from which curren [...]	2006-06-22 17:01:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA545	KOSOVO: PISG AND WORLD BANK AGREE ON A WAY FORWARD [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified; protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Provisional Institutions of Self- Government (PISG) and the international community, led by the World Bank, have reached agreement on a way forward for development of Kosovo's energy sector. The parties have resolv [...]	2006-06-23 09:55:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON EFIN EINV PREL YI
06PRISTINA549	KOSOVO MINORITIES: RURAL POVERTY AND A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Many Serbs and other minority members who either returned to or stayed put in rural areas of Kosovo after the end of the conflict in June 1999 or the ethnic riots in March 2004 live marginally. Their immediate preoccupation is their livelihoods. Determination of Kosovo's final [...]	2006-06-23 14:53:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREF SR YI
06PRISTINA561	KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY AUDIT REVEALS FISCAL MALFEASANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. An external audit of the Kosovo Assembly's budget under former Speaker Nexhat Daci has revealed serious fiscal irregularities. The audit states that Daci and his Assembly staff used Assembly finances for expensive armored vehicles, a convention/conference center in a suburb of P [...]	2006-06-29 15:24:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KDEM PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA564	KOSTUNICA VISIT TO KOSOVO SPARKS ONLY ISOLATED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica visited Gracanica monastery in Kosovo on June 28 to commemorate Vidovdan. Despite receiving UNMIK permission to visit Kosovo only for personal, religious reasons, Kostunica used the opportunity to make a provocative speech in which he [...]	2006-06-29 16:30:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA567	KOSOVO: PM CEKU UP-BEAT ON FULFILLMENT OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Agim Ceku gave Contact Group representatives a largely positive interim report June 27 on progress on the 13 priorities for standards implementation delivered to Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Governance (PISG) on June 8 (reftel). While the report sho [...]	2006-06-30 17:03:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA575	NORTH MITROVICA LEADERS CLARIFY MUNICIPAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Two influential Kosovo Serbs from north Mitrovica clarified recent declarations issued by Kosovo's three northern Serb-majority municipalities and the Mitrovica advisory board ostensibly cutting off ties with the government in Pristina. UNMIK representatives say the declarati [...]	2006-07-07 13:55:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PREF
06PRISTINA587	TENSIONS BUILDING OVER NORTHERN KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY. As all concerned enter the Kosovo final status home stretch, the north of Kosovo is increasingly coming into focus as the area where preferred status outcomes potentially collide. UNMIK officials say they have credible reports that Kosovo Serbs in the north are attempting to rei [...]	2006-07-12 18:32:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA598	NORTHERN KOSOVO SERB MAYORS NOT MASTERS OF THEIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The mayor of the Serb-majority northern Kosovo municipality of Zvecan insisted to USOP that his decision to cut ties with the Kosovo Government was a reasonable expression of frustration with the failure of the Kosovo police to solve crimes against Serbs. The mayors of the other [...]	2006-07-17 17:36:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA599	KOSOVO: ACTING SRSG PUSHES BELGRADE/WHO ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Although medication is on hand, medical personnel have been trained, and construction of a clinic has been completed, treatment of Mitrovica-area Roma acutely ill with lead poisoning has not begun. The World Health Organization (WHO) has been waiting for more than three month [...]	2006-07-17 18:50:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF EAID SENV PHUM UNMIK KDEM YI
06PRISTINA600	KOSOVO: PISG PROGRESS ON CG STANDARDS PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self Government (PISG) continue to make progress on fulfilling the Contact Group's 13 priorities for standards implementation. Prime Minister Agim Ceku announced July 11 that two of the 13 had already been fulfilled and the PISG completed ano [...]	2006-07-17 18:50:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA608	KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS FORENSICS HAMPERED BY LACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) is faces severe staffing and funding shortages which are hampering its ability to resolve cases of missing persons. Despite fewer leads on potential new grave sites, OMPF is still very busy with a few ongoing exhumations [...]	2006-07-19 18:00:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID
06PRISTINA609	KOSOVO: REVIEWS OF PM CEKU'S FIRST 100 DAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The first 100 days of the government of Kosovo Prime Minister Ceku have been on balance very successful. Ceku has focused his personal attention on Standards-related portfolios -- outreach to minorities, minority-focused legislation, property rights, security -- given priority [...]	2006-07-19 18:01:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA614	MODERATE KOSOVO CHURCH LEADERS, UNOSEK AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Father Sava told PolOff that he personally supports UNOSEK proposals for the protection of cultural heritage. He said the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC),however, cannot support the proposals publicly so long as the government in Belgrade continues to oppose them. Sava critic [...]	2006-07-21 16:40:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA617	KOSOVO SCENESETTER FOR JULY 26-28 VISIT OF SPECIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Wisner's visit, following almost immediately on the so-called Elephants' Meeting between Serbian and Kosovar senior leaders, will present an opportunity to help shape the approach of Kosovo Albanian leaders to what they expect will be the culmination of the final status [...]	2006-07-24 17:30:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM PGOV PHUM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA630	KOSOVO: PM CEKU VISITS THE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a July 22 visit to majority ethnic Serb municipalities in northern Kosovo, Prime Minister Agim Ceku declared that northern Mitrovica "is and will always be a part of Kosovo." He also requested that KFOR and UNMIK "insulate this region politically and practically from Serb [...]	2006-07-28 15:42:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETTC UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA631	KOSOVO: PROTEST OVER VIENNA NEGOTIATIONS FIZZLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Only around 250-300 protesters showed up for a July 24 demonstration in Pristina called by Albin Kurti, the activist leader of the Self-Determination Movement (SDM),against participation by Kosovo government officials that same day in final status negotiations in Vienna with s [...]	2006-07-28 16:06:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA637	KOSOVO: UNMIK BELIEVES UK HOLDS INFORMATION TO [...] (C/NF) Summary: The UN in Kosovo believes that the British SIS has in its possession of 700-page report with information that could lead to the conviction of four suspects in the murder of Serb civilians in 2001. UNMIK,s Department of Justice has asked the UK Office to make the report availa [...]	2006-08-01 15:45:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA640	WISNER TO KOSOVARS: SIX WEEKS TO COME TO CLOSURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on July 27 with President Fatmir Sejdiu and the entire Kosovo negotiating team, U.S. Special Representative for the Kosovo Status Talks Ambassador Frank Wisner stressed the need to stay unified and to use the next six weeks to bring Kosovar Albanian negotiati [...]	2006-08-02 16:29:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA648	KOSOVO: CHIEF OF MISSION STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In her initial calls on Kosovo's leaders, COM urged them to stay united and not let personal differences interfere with their seriousness of purpose in the Vienna status negotiations. President Fatmir Sejdiu vented his frustration at the antics of opposition leaders on the negot [...]	2006-08-04 16:27:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA653	KOSOVO: SERB RELUCTANCE TO RETURN TO SVINJARE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The return of Serbs to the village of Svinjare is more complex than the rebuilding of houses destroyed and damaged by ethnic Albanians in the riots of March 2004. The rebuilding/repair effort is underway, though according to the UNMIK office that advises the Kosovo Protection [...]	2006-08-08 12:04:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA661	KOSOVO: LDK ASSERTS PRIMARY POSITION IN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. A July 6 letter sent by the LDK party presidency to Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku continues to make news over a week after its existence was leaked to the press. The key issues in the letter were the assertion by the LDK that the party -- and not Ceku -- would have authority o [...]	2006-08-10 09:00:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA663	KOSOVO: SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN BABIN MOST [...] (SBU) On August 6, the priest in the ethnic-Serb majority village of Babin Most (Obiliq/Obilic municipality) reported that unknown perpetrators vandalized and robbed his church. He said that several icons were damaged or stolen, along with 800 euros in church funds. On August 6 the Acting Chi [...]	2006-08-11 09:00:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PHUM KRIF
06PRISTINA674	KOSOVO: PM CEKU UPBEAT ON COMPLETION OF CG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Agim Ceku told heads of mission from the Contact Group (CG),EU and EC liaison offices August 15 that the Kosovo government has completed five of the CG's 13 priorities for Standards implementation and is on track to finish the remaining eight by October. He asses [...]	2006-08-17 15:49:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA709	KOSOVO: SWIFT RESPONSE BY UNMIK AND KFOR CALMS [...] (C) Summary: Swift action by UNMIK, KFOR, and the Kosovo Police Service prevented an escalation of violence following an August 26 grenade attack on a well-known cafe frequented by hard-line Serbs in north Mitrovica. Nine people sustained injuries, though none life-threatening, in the attack [...]	2006-08-29 18:35:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC KPKO PGOV PHUM KJUS PY
06PRISTINA734	KOSOVO: PRESIDENT SEJDIU NOMINATED FOR POSITION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: After a fast moving series of events over the Labor Day weekend, the influential presidency of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK),Kosovo's largest party, decided September 5 to nominate President Fatmir Sejdiu as its candidate for the position of party president. Sejdiu is [...]	2006-09-05 20:02:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA765	KOSOVO: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF AMBASSADOR AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo is in an important transition period with a decision on final status looming and the EU poised to assume UNMIK's Rule of Law (RoL) mission. Ambassador Williamson's September 15-17 visit offers a good opportunity to review current prosecution efforts and to shape the EU's a [...]	2006-09-12 16:53:00	Embassy Pristina	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA779	KOSOVO: STANDARDS IMPLEMENTATION PROCEEDS, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo government claims to have fulfilled nine of the Contact Group's 13 priorities for Standards implementation. Our estimate is lower, though overall implementation has moved forward. We can expect that progress on the remaining outstanding priorities will be slower as t [...]	2006-09-16 09:49:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA780	KOSOVO: ORDINARY SERBS IN KOSOVO'S NORTH SAY THEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo,s Serbs face an existential question: stay on in post-status Kosovo or start over somewhere else. USOP officers traveled recently to Zvecan in northern Kosovo to try to gauge the views of ordinary Serbs. Most of our interlocutors predicted that Serbs would flee en masse i [...]	2006-09-16 09:57:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA782	KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS DIALOGUE: SLOW PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Families of the missing gathered in Pristina and Gracanica on August 30 to commemorate the International Day of Missing Persons, protest lack of progress in resolving cases and bring public attention to the almost 2,300 persons still missing from the Kosovo conflict. Although [...]	2006-09-18 12:24:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA788	KOSOVO: WHY A SPEEDY RESOLUTION OF STATUS MATTERS [...] (C) Having read Embassy Belgrade's excellent cable (reftel) on the compelling reasons to stick to the planned timetable for resolution of Kosovo's status, we wanted to offer a few thoughts from the Pristina perspective on why a status decision this year remains critical to our objectives of s [...]	2006-09-19 06:57:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI

06PRISTINA808	KOSOVO: DAS DICARLO AND EU REP LEHNE BRIEF ON ICO, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Pristina September 12-14, EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo and EU rep Stefan Lehne briefed Kosovo Albanian and Serb leaders on the International Civilian Office (ICO) that will be established to supervise implementation of the status settlement. DiCarlo and Lehne underscored that plann [...]	2006-09-26 08:07:00	Embassy Pristina	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA836	KOSOVO: DACI CAMP CAMPAIGNING HARD FOR LDK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Kosovo Assembly Speaker Nexhat Daci is waging an aggressive early campaign to become president of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). There are indications that Daci or his supporters may be using intimidation tactics to wrest control of the party at the grass roots lev [...]	2006-10-03 16:55:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCRM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA846	KOSOVO: PM CEKU "LOOKING TOWARDS STATUS" WHILE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku briefed Pristina liaison office heads October 5 on his plans over the next several months for managing Kosovo Albanians' expectations for, and Kosovo Serbs' fear of, final status. Ceku said that implementation of Standards for Kosovo, particularly [...]	2006-10-06 16:07:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA847	KOSOVO: COM URGES CALM, CAUTION AMONG KOSOVAR [...] (C) With rumors swirling of a delay in the status process and statements by EU High Representative Solana and UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari appearing to confirm these speculations, COM counseled calm among Kosovar Albanian leaders the week of October 2. Meeting with the Prime Minister, the parl [...]	2006-10-08 11:27:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA862	KOSOVO: SERB ORTHODOX BISHOP TEODOSIJE EXPRESSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: COM met October 12 with Bishop Teodisije, the moderate Serb religious leader of Decani monastery, who feared that Kosovo Serbs in the enclaves in south were not prepared for final status. Teodosije asked that the international community do everything possible to encourage and en [...]	2006-10-13 17:07:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA881	SUPPORT FOR KOSOVO'S SOUTHERN SERBS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ensuring that the Serb community can remain and prosper in Kosovo is a key Mission goal and a vital test of Kosovo's commitment to multi-ethnic democracy. The Serb minority in Kosovo is not monolithic; those who live in the northern municipalities of Leposavic, Zubin Potok and [...]	2006-10-21 12:43:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA905	KOSOVO: REFERENDUM ON SERB CONSTITUTION PROCEEDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Polling in the October 28-29 referendum on the new Serbian constitution proceeded peacefully throughout Kosovo. The Belgrade-based Center for Free Elections and Democracy (CESID) reported after the polls closed that 90,036 voters in Kosovo (90.1 percent of the estimated 101,546 [...]	2006-10-30 11:59:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA906	KOSOVO: LDK REFUSAL TO DEBATE ASSEMBLY AUDIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ruling LDK party's refusal on October 27 to discuss an audit report highly critical of former Assembly Speaker Nexhat Daci caused the opposition to walk out of the Assembly and boycott further participation until the issue was resolved. The problem started when LDK Assembly c [...]	2006-10-30 14:38:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA923	KOSOVO: KPC DEMINING CAPACITY IS IMPROVING, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There is room for optimism as the 2006 demining season draws to a close. Despite earlier criticism by the international de-mining NGO, HALO Trust, of the demining capabilities of the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC),an August 2006 study by the International Centre for Humanitari [...]	2006-11-03 14:44:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA930	KOSOVO: LDK INTERNAL BATTLE PORTENDS CONTINUING [...] (C) Summary: The internal LDK struggle for power between two factions continues, with the process of party elections now in full swing. Though former Assembly speaker Nexhat Daci appeared to take the early momentum with low-level party victories in eastern Kosovo, the LDK "old guard" under K [...]	2006-11-06 12:34:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA933	KOSOVO: OPPOSITION RETURNS TO ASSEMBLY AFTER AUDIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: After repeated intercession by USOP, the opposition returned to the Kosovo Assembly after a one-week boycott, as the ruling LDK party finally got its house in order and agreed to discuss the Auditor General's fact-finding report on mismanagement under former Assembly Speaker Nexh [...]	2006-11-06 16:27:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA947	KOSOVO: UNMIK GETTING OUT OF THE RETURNS BUSINESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Unlike the rest of UNMIK, which is planning its departure without undue haste, the Office for Communities, Returns and Minorities (OCRM) hopes to transfer all of its competencies except for responsibility for forced returns by the end of the year, a very positive development in o [...]	2006-11-11 13:20:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV EAID PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA948	KOSOVO: PLANNING FOR POSSIBLE SERB REFUGEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the leak to Serbian media in May 2006 of UNHCR's draft contingency planning on possible population movements after a decision on Kosovo's final status, UNHCR has continued to refine its thinking. Planning assumptions vary wildly, with estimates ranging from 10,000 to 112,00 [...]	2006-11-11 13:24:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF EAID PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA952	KOSOVO: KOSOVAR ALBANIAN LEADERSHIP ACCEPTS DELAY [...] (C) Summary: Though apprehensive about the political repercussions of a delay in the status process, Kosovar Albanian leaders represented in the Unity Team (the negotiating team participating in Vienna negotiations) uniformly accepted the announcement by UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari that his p [...]	2006-11-13 10:40:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA967	KOSOVO: SEJDIU AHEAD IN THE HOME STRETCH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With all local branch elections now complete, Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu has a comfortable majority of delegates to be elected president of the ruling Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK). Sejdiu's chief rival, disgraced former Assembly Speaker Nexhat Daci, trails by a wide m [...]	2006-11-14 18:46:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA973	KOSOVO: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REMAINS A PROBLEM, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Trafficking in persons (TIP) continues to plague Kosovo, but UNMIK and the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) have taken some important steps to combat it, including undercover police operations, adoption of a two-year action plan to combat trafficking in human [...]	2006-11-16 06:33:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	GTIP KJUS KCRM PGOV UNMIK YI
06PRISTINA989	KOSOVO: CONTROVERSIAL AND WEALTHY EXPAT FORMS NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bexhet Pacolli's Alliance for a New Kosovo (AKR) recently held its first convention in Pristina, evolving from a U.S.-based lobbying group for Kosovo independence into a registered political party. Pacolli, a wealthy Kosovar Albanian who lives in Switzerland, has plastered the K [...]	2006-11-20 14:36:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM EAID KDEM INR YI
06QUEBEC31	PM HARPER SUPPORTS QUEBEC ROLE ON INTERNATIONAL SCENE [...] (SBU) Summary: PM Harper and Quebec Premier Charest met in Quebec City March 8 and announced they are tasking their respective officials to work together to assure that "Quebec's unique voice" will be heard at UNESCO. PM Harper also said he would attend the Francophonie summit in Bucharest t [...]	2006-03-08 22:45:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV CA
06QUEBEC53	QUEBEC SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT ADRIFT [...] (sbu) Summary: PM Harper's "open federalism" comes at a propitious time: sovereignty is not dead in Quebec, but it is in remission. After four decades of struggle, two failed referendums and drawn out constitutional battles, a general sense of weariness seems to have settled in among a certain [...]	2006-04-26 20:40:00	Consulate Quebec	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON CA
06QUITO1042	PALACIO DISAPPOINTS MANY ONE YEAR ON [...] (C) Summary: This week marked the one-year anniversary of Alfredo Palacio's ascension to the Presidency. He ducked the opportunity to tout the accomplishments of his first year in office or set forth a positive agenda for his remaining months. Instead, ministers were trooped before the press [...]	2006-04-27 19:20:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EC
06QUITO1112	FM CARRION CRITICAL OF USG TERRORISM REPORT [...] (C) Summary: FM Francisco Carrion on April 30 publicly regretted the Department's 2005 Country Report on Terrorism for Ecuador. He refuted the report's claim that Ecuador's historical neglect of the region had compounded its current woes, and rejected assertions that Ecuador is neutral in the [...]	2006-05-04 21:24:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV KJUS MARR CASC ASEC EC
06QUITO1157	Ecuador Election Update--Six Months Out [...] (U) Summary: Six months away from national elections in October, and three months before candidates formally register, more than 20 aspirants already crowd the presidential field and that number is likely to rise. Former VP Leon Roldos holds a consistent lead in early polling, but most Ecuad [...]	2006-05-10 19:06:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL EC
06QUITO125	NEW ECUADORIAN FINANCE MINISTER PLEDGES FISCAL [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador, new Ecuadorian Minister of Finance Diego Borja affirmed his commitment to responsible fiscal policy and expressed his interest in promoting microfinance. The Ambassador expressed U.S. support for holding the spending line in a difficult elector [...]	2006-01-17 22:42:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EPET PGOV EINV EC
06QUITO126	PRESIDENT'S CONCILIATORY STATE OF THE NATION SPEECH [...] (SBU) Summary: In the president's annual "report to the nation" speech widely interpreted as conciliatory, President Palacio averted further confrontation with Congress over his reform agenda. Instead, Palacio thanked his critics and praised the role of a loyal opposition, inviting Congress [...]	2006-01-17 23:01:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM ECON EC
06QUITO1274	GOE DEFENDS LEGALITY OF OXY SEIZURE [...] (C) Summary: WHA Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Charles Shapiro on May 16 told FM Francisco Carrion the USG was disappointed by the GOE's decision to cancel Occidental Petroleum's contract, a violation of the bilateral investment treaty that would have a chilling effect on FTA talks. Ca [...]	2006-05-24 16:45:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1399	CONGRESS PASSES SUBCONTRACTING LAW IMPROVING [...] (SBU) Summary: Congress passed a law on May 30 to regulate subcontracting, setting a maximum 50 percent of workers that can be hired through this mechanism. Workers can be subcontracted for any function. Employers must provide subcontracted workers with profit sharing and contributions to [...]	2006-06-07 21:31:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV EC
06QUITO1400	ECUADOR-COLOMBIA BORDER PROGRESS REPORT - JAN-MAY [...] (C) Summary: Ecuadorian northern border military and anti-drug police units scored several successes against narco-terrorists in the first half of 2006. The Ecuadorian military made multiple FARC camp busts, seizing arms, communication devices, and military equipment, as well as capturing tw [...]	2006-06-07 22:12:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO1438	ECUADOR SOLICITS OIL HELP FROM ABROAD [...] (C) Summary. There are nearly daily press reports that the GOE is about to get assistance from a variety of countries to manage or invest in Ecuador's oil sector, especially the fields previously managed by Occidental Petroleum. Private reports we have received indicate the rush to invest in [...]	2006-06-12 21:31:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ECON PREL EC
06QUITO1470	CAN LEADERS MEET IN QUITO [...] (U) Summary: Presidents from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia met at the Andean Community (CAN) conference in Quito on June 13 to publicly demonstrate their commitment to the troubled regional organization, discuss areas for cooperation with the European Union (EU),and to issue a joint let [...]	2006-06-14 22:21:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1477	CAN LEADERS MEET IN QUITO [...] (U) Summary: Presidents from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia met at the Andean Community (CAN) conference in Quito on June 13 to publicly demonstrate their commitment to the troubled regional organization, discuss areas for cooperation with the European Union (EU),and to issue a joint let [...]	2006-06-15 15:45:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1547	AMB RENEWS DIALOGUE WITH PRESIDENT PALACIO [...] (C) The Ambassador met with President Palacio on June 21, at her request, for the first time since the Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) decision was announced on May 15. Palacio appeared nervous but eager to re-establish direct dialogue. The Ambassador stressed the importance of GOE cooperation wi [...]	2006-06-23 19:02:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EINV ETRD EC
06QUITO1549	MIGRATION: ECUADORIANS STILL LOOKING NORTH [...] (U) Summary: At least since the severe economic crisis in 1999, the two certainties in Ecuador have been death and emigration. A steady stream of 30,000 to 40,000 undocumented migrants takes to the sea and skies annually from Ecuador in pursuit of their own American dreams. Periodic reports [...]	2006-06-23 19:30:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SMIG PHUM PREL EC
06QUITO1558	THE AMBASSADOR'S JUNE 21 MEETING WITH VICE [...] (C) Summary: Vice Presidential candidate Ramiro Gonzalez told the Ambassador on June 21 that he and Presidential candidate Leon Roldos (currently ahead in polls) plan to reform the educational system, the electrical sector, and repair the investment climate crippled by the recently-passed hyd [...]	2006-06-26 15:39:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1578	ECUADOR: ASIAN DIPLOMATS EAGER FOR DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Our recent outreach to diplomatic counterparts from China, Japan and Korea found them highly aware of USG coordination efforts (described RefTel),and eager to engage in dialogue about the political and economic situation in Ecuador and the region. In deference to USG concerns [...]	2006-06-27 21:11:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ECON LA CH JA KS EC
06QUITO1612	ECUADOR SIGNS MORE ENERGY AGREEMENTS WITH VENEZUELA [...] (U) Summary. Ecuador's and Venezuela's state energy companies PetroEcuador and PDVSA yesterday signed a pair of energy agreements, following a series of technical meetings this month. Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez and acting PetroEcuador President Walter Lopez were joined by Ec [...]	2006-06-30 20:03:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EC EPET ETRD PREL VZ EINV
06QUITO1624	HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST DETAINED BY MILITARY [...] (U) Summary: Human Rights activist Wilman Adolfo Jimenez Salazar was detained by the military on June 19 in Payamino, Orellana province. He is charged with violating the state of emergency and was held incommunicado until June 26. Amnesty International considers Jimenez to be a prisoner of [...]	2006-07-03 20:15:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV MOPS EC
06QUITO1657	AFRO-ECUADORIAN HEARTLAND RIPE FOR POPULIST APPEAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The province of Esmeraldas is the largest of two centers of the minority Afro-Ecuadorian population. The province is also marked by high unemployment and underdevelopment, fueling populist electoral appeal. Since 2002, the Popular Democratic Movement (MPD),a Marxist populist [...]	2006-07-06 22:34:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM EC
06QUITO1669	PALACIO REPLACES TWO MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary: President Palacio on July 6 called for the resignations of all his cabinet ministers. On July 7, Palacio accepted the resignations of Minister of Economy Diego Borja -- who seems to have been the primary target of this move -- and Minister of Trade Joaquin Zevallos. Borja was r [...]	2006-07-07 19:34:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1671	ALAN GARCIA WOWS QUITO [...] (C) Summary: Peruvian President-elect Alan Garcia and his FM-designate Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde visited Ecuador on July 6 to affirm positive bilateral relations and promote further regional economic integration between Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, and Brazil. Garcia publicly expressed [...]	2006-07-07 20:05:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PE EC
06QUITO1702	NEW MINGOV NAMED [...] Summary: As part of an ongoing cabinet reshuffle on July 11, President Palacio replaced Minister of Government Felipe Vega with Antonio Andretta and Minister of Public Works Derlis Palacios with Pedro Lopez Torres. While Vega, Palacio's fifth Minister of Government, has been linked to charg [...]	2006-07-13 11:41:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EC PINR PREL
06QUITO1722	REGULATION FOR HYDROCARBONS REFORM REVISED [...] (SBU) Summary: President Palacio issued a decree July 11 correcting the implementing Regulation of the April Hydrocarbons Law that had been published in the Official Register on June 29. The previous regulation offered potentially important opportunities for companies to mitigate the law's m [...]	2006-07-14 18:28:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EINV
06QUITO1773	MINISTER OF TRADE REPLACEMENT NOT YET NAMED [...] (C) Summary. President Palacio accepted Minister of Trade Roberto Illingworth's resignation on July 13, after only a week in office for the latter. Illingworth had been facing pressure from the Guayaquil Chamber of Commerce since being named on July 7 (reftel). Teodoro Maldonado, Executive [...]	2006-07-19 22:38:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL
06QUITO1803	ECUADOR,S NEW ECONOMIC CZAR: SCUFFED GOODS, [...] (C) Summary: New Ecuadorian Economy Minister Armando Rodas recently presented a sober six-month economic plan, lending a technocratic polish to an appointment painted in politics. End summary. 2. (C) On July 17, Ecuadorian Minister of Economy and Finance Armando Rodas (for biodata, see reft [...]	2006-07-21 17:57:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EC EFIN ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV PINR PREL
06QUITO1824	UPDATE ON OPERATIONS OF OXY'S FORMER BLOCK [...] (C) Summary: Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) cleared its first legal hurdle July 13 when the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) officially registered its case against the Government of Ecuador (GOE). More than two months after the GOE declared caducity (reftel A),s [...]	2006-07-25 19:44:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EPET EINV
06QUITO1837	ELECTIONS UPDATE: PSP-PRIAN FORM ALLIANCE; [...] (U) Summary: Lucio Gutierrez, PSP and Alvaro Noboa's PRIAN announced on July 26 that the two parties would form an alliance for the presidential ticket. Gutierrez publicly asked Noboa to reenter the presidential race at the top of the PRIAN-PSP ticket. Noboa, however, has not responded pub [...]	2006-07-27 19:15:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1869	ECUADORIAN PRISONS IN CRISIS - UNDERFUNDED AND [...] Summary: President Palacio on June 7 declared a state of emergency in Ecuador's prisons to address faulty infrastructure, overpopulation, violence and meager resources that had led to ongoing prisoner and worker strikes. Despite an $8 million budget increase in April, the majority of the fun [...]	2006-07-31 21:55:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1906	ECUADOR-VENEZUELA DEAL COLLAPSES, PALACIO CANCELS [...] (SBU) Summary. After two months of wrangling over details, Petroecuador's and Venezuelan PDVSA's plan to swap Ecuadorian crude for refined products appears finally to have collapsed. (reftel A) The deal was uneconomical and technically untenable from the beginning, and Venezuela apparently [...]	2006-08-02 21:17:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON
06QUITO1909	ECUADOR ELECTION: VITERI PICKS RUNNING-MATE [...] (C) Summary: Presidential candidate Cynthia Viteri (Social Christian Party-PSC) announced on August 1 that Ernesto Davalos Salazar would be her vice presidential running-mate in the October elections. The choice of Davalos, a businessman from Quito with experience in the finance and petrole [...]	2006-08-02 23:01:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1910	WELCOME BACK, GENERAL CRADDOCK [...] (C) Summary: Please accept my warm welcome on your final visit to Ecuador, General Craddock. It has been a pleasure and privilege for all of us at U.S. Mission Ecuador to work with you to cement and deepen productive U.S.-Ecuador military relations. Your visit comes at a time when U.S.-Ecu [...]	2006-08-02 23:15:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC
06QUITO1919	ECUADORIAN PRISONS IN CRISIS, PART II: CONDITIONS [...] Summary: An Ecuadorian prison system plagued by overpopulation and a lack of resources has led to riots, worker strikes, and a state of emergency. A slow justice system characterized by long sentences, appeals that take up to four years, harsher drug laws, the elimination of shortened sente [...]	2006-08-03 22:45:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO1920	PETROECUADOR - A CRUMBLING GIANT [...] (C) Summary. Petroecuador, Ecuador's state-owned oil company, has sole responsibility over the country's most lucrative resource, yet is suffering from a severe financial crisis, a steady decline in production, and a terribly inefficient and inadequate refining capacity. Graft permeates all [...]	2006-08-03 22:45:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON
06QUITO2002	PRESIDENT PALACIO SEEKS WHO DIRECTOR GENERALSHIP [...] (SBU) President Alfredo Palacio has instructed the MFA to lobby WHO board capitals in favor of his candidacy for the WHO Director Generalship. A MFA mission headed by U/S for Multilateral Affairs Gonzalo Salvador Holguin might visit Washington during the week of August 14 or 21 seeking meeti [...]	2006-08-09 17:12:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO2008	ECUADOR ELECTION UPDATE: CORREA NAMES SURPRISE [...] (SBU) Summary: Far-left presidential candidate Rafael Correa (PAIS) on August 5 announced Lenin Voltaire MORENO Garces as his running mate at a mass rally in rural coastal Guayas province. Moreno, a relative political unknown, is unlikely to attract many votes to Correa, who said his choice [...]	2006-08-09 21:58:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EC
06QUITO2011	ECUADOR'S BACHELET PARTY [...] (U) Summary: Chile's president, Michelle Bachelet, made her inaugural visit to Ecuador August 7-8. She announced several initiatives to deepen trade relations and offer assistance to Ecuador's petroleum sector, while promoting a well-received message of hope, democratic strengthening, econom [...]	2006-08-10 12:58:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD ENRG EC
06QUITO2041	PALACIO AND EHLERS RE-IGNITE REFORM DEBATE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a ceremonial speech on August 10 President Palacio renewed his call for a public referendum to force political reforms. The surprise proposal would be non-binding and administered in conjunction with the second round of presidential elections on November 26. It would incl [...]	2006-08-14 23:32:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM EC
06QUITO2078	CARRION'S MFA REFOCUSES ECUADOR'S FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary: Since taking office in October 2005, Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion, Ecuador's top career diplomat, has attempted to restore credibility to the ministry by reversing the politicization and decline of the diplomatic corps under his immediate predecessors. Part of this proc [...]	2006-08-17 20:16:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO2087	SUBJECT: DEMARCHE REQUEST RE POTENTIAL INDONESIAN [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: Press reports indicate Indonesia's state-run oil company Pertamina is interested in running Occidental Petroleum's (Oxy) former Block 15 in Ecuador under an Energy Cooperation MOU signed between the two countries in July. Frenc [...]	2006-08-18 19:42:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG
06QUITO2094	NORTHERN BORDER PROVINCES TILTING TOWARD ROLDOS [...] (U) Summary: The northern provinces of Imbabura and Carchi are strongholds of the Democratic Left (ID) party and, in Imbabura, the indigenous movement. Predictably, Leon Roldos is the acknowledged front runner in presidential elections. There is little agreement among key actors over which [...]	2006-08-21 21:30:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO2131	ECUADOR ELECTIONS: NOW THERE ARE TEN...OR ELEVEN? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on August 22 announced that it had approved the candidacies of 10 of the original 17 presidential hopefuls, and reported that five independents failed to secure required signatures and would be disqualified. PSP candidate Gilmar Gutierrez [...]	2006-08-24 21:29:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO2138	A THOUSAND CHARIOTS IN THE FIELDS: CHINESE PLAYERS [...] (C) Summary: With their $1.4 billion acquisition of Canadian EnCana, China's state oil companies announced their entrance as major players in Ecuador's and the region's petroleum industry. Now with active participation in at least five of Ecuador's petroleum blocks, and with further investmen [...]	2006-08-25 12:31:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PINR PREL ETRD EC CN
06QUITO2148	COLOMBIAN SHOTS LEAVE ECUADORIANS WOUNDED [...] (SBU) Colombian military units and FARC rebels exchanged heavy gunfire late in the evening on August 23 in the southern Colombian border town of Tetye, Putumayo. Ecuadorian 19th Jungle Brigade Commander (based in Lago Agrio, Sucumbios province) Colonel Ramiro Caceres confirmed the live fire i [...]	2006-08-25 18:47:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2152	COLOMBIAN SHOTS LEAVE ECUADORIANS WOUNDED [...] (SBU) Colombian military units and FARC rebels exchanged heavy gunfire late in the evening on August 23 in the southern Colombian border town of Tetye, Putumayo. Ecuadorian 19th Jungle Brigade Commander (based in Lago Agrio, Sucumbios province) Colonel Ramiro Caceres confirmed the live fire i [...]	2006-08-28 19:55:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2173	MINDEF'S RESIGNATION SURPRISES MANY [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Defense Oswaldo Jarrin resigned on August 28, citing disagreement with unspecified aspects of relations with Colombia and defending Ecuadorian military participation in the anti-narcotics fight. Jarrin's surprise departure has generated much speculation about the rea [...]	2006-08-30 19:41:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2242	ELECTIONS UPDATE: 13 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FINAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Constitutional Court on September 6 authorized the candidacies of Lenin Torres (Popular Participation Revolution Movement) and Bolivarian candidate Marcelo Larrea (Third Republic Alliance Movement),while denying two other appeals, bringing down the final number of preside [...]	2006-09-07 22:07:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO2259	GOE SUPPORTS PERMANENT UN MIGRATION FORUM [...] (U) Summary: Foreign Minister Carrion will represent the GOE at the UN High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development (HLD) in New York. The GOE delegation will support a permanent forum. End Summary. 2. (U) On September 7, PolOff met with MFA Ambassador Carlos Lopez, A [...]	2006-09-08 18:43:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PREF EAID SMIG UNGA
06QUITO2289	MINDEF COMMITS TO NARCOTICS AGENDA, DISSES MANTA [...] (C) Summary: In her initial call on newly appointed Minister of Defense Marcelo Delgado on September 8, the Ambassador stressed the importance of continued USG-GOE counter-narcotics and northern border cooperation and urged progress on security reforms initiated under Delgado's predecessor. [...]	2006-09-13 21:54:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2309	ELECTION UPDATE: CORREA MOVES INTO SECOND PLACE [...] (C) Summary: Radical populist candidate Rafael Correa surged ahead of Social Christian candidate Cynthia Viteri in recent polls, moving into second place after front-runner Leon Roldos. With first round presidential elections just a month away on October 15, undecided voters have declined to [...]	2006-09-15 20:17:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV PREL MARR EC
06QUITO2315	GOE'S UNGA PRINCIPALS: EXPERIENCED PERMREP, [...] (C) Summary: This report on the GOE's UNGA principals responds to questions posed by the Department in Ref A. The GOE has an experienced and capable UN PermRep in Diego Cordovez. Relations between President Alfredo Palacio and FM Francisco Carrion are generally close, but include tensions [...]	2006-09-15 20:52:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR UN EC
06QUITO2351	GOE TO HOST ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS [...] (U) Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion on September 12 announced that the GOE would host a meeting of the UN's Alliance of Civilizations in Quito September 24-25. Carrion stressed the importance of the initiative and said the meeting would help identify areas for increased communic [...]	2006-09-19 22:04:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UN IO EC
06QUITO2352	ECUADOR'S FRAGILE SUPREME COURT FIGHTS SCANDAL [...] (U) Summary: Former congressman Renan Borbua turned his messy political trial into a corruption scandal directed at Supreme Court Justice Alfonso Zambrano when he presented video evidence of the Justice's son asking for a bribe. After over a week of public uproar and press, the Supreme Court [...]	2006-09-19 22:33:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL
06QUITO2357	CORREA TIES OR BEATS ROLDOS IN LATEST POLLS [...] (U) Summary: Far-left Presidential candidate Rafael Correa is in a statistical dead heat with Leon Roldos in all national polls, while Cynthia Viteri has slipped to a more distant third. Feeling the pressure, Roldos has more aggressively questioned Correa's funding sources and Viteri report [...]	2006-09-20 22:35:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO2384	ECUADOR-COLOMBIA BORDER PROGRESS REPORT - [...] (C) Summary: The following report provides a quarterly update of developments along Ecuador's northern border with Colombia. Highlights include the Ambassador's travel to Esmeraldas province, progress disrupting narco-trafficking, a change of Defense Minister, and renewed diplomatic tension [...]	2006-09-26 21:15:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2386	ECUADOR EVALUATES HURRIED CONCESSION OF [...] (C) Summary: Ecuador's Hydrocarbons Vice-Minister reports that Chinese company Sinopec has made a strong offer to develop Ecuador's large ITT oil fields and the GOE is considering soliciting bids for the field before the Palacio government leaves in January. Post and industry insiders view [...]	2006-09-27 15:55:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET EINV
06QUITO2391	CORREA TAKES THE LEAD, COULD WIN IN THE FIRST ROUND [...] (C) Summary: Rafael Correa has taken a commanding lead in all recent polls, with 26% to Leon Roldos' 20%, trailed by Cynthia Viteri and Alvaro Noboa each with 11%. Meanwhile undecided remain substantial at 43%. Pollsters say his momentum has been strong, but may be leveling. His rise has b [...]	2006-09-27 23:25:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO2428	ECUADOR TIP: A GOE PRIORITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE has shown steady progress arresting and prosecuting TIP cases under new anti-TIP legislation. Approximately 127 cases are in some stage of prosecution since the new law went into effect in June 2005. President Palacio continues to stress TIP as a priority for his admi [...]	2006-10-02 21:44:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO2434	Ecuador's Presidential Spokesman Resigns and Criticizes [...] (SBU) The Palacio administration remains rife with internal divisions and instability, most recently reflected in the resignation of the Presidential spokesman. Enrique Proano, Secretary of Communication and spokesman for Ecuadorian president Alfredo Palacio, resigned on Sept. 25, 2006, and pu [...]	2006-10-03 21:20:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PGOV EC
06QUITO2435	PRE-ELECTION REPORT: PICHINCHA PROVINCE LEANS LEFT [...] (SBU) Summary. Populous highlands Pichincha province, where Ecuador's capital of Quito is located, is second only to Guayas province in terms of registered voters. In a historical rarity, none of the current leading presidential candidates hail from the province or the highlands region. Acc [...]	2006-10-03 22:01:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO2436	ELECTIONS UPDATE: NOBOA COMING ON STRONG, CORREA [...] (C) Summary: A recent bump in unpublished national polling raises the possibility that banana magnate Alvaro Noboa could squeak past Leon Roldos into the second round runoff for president. Meanwhile, radical front-runner Rafael Correa continues to climb, getting closer to the 40% threshold [...]	2006-10-03 22:29:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO2442	ADDRESSING INCREASED COUNTER-NARCOTICS FLOW [...] (U) Summary: A recent ONDCP-sponsored conference in Quito highlighted the increasing flow of cocaine from Colombia through Ecuador, reviewed Embassy programs to address the increase, and identified &next steps8 to improve interdiction. Cocaine seizures in Ecuador and on vessels originating in [...]	2006-10-04 21:40:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV EC
06QUITO2444	OCCIDENTAL FOCUSES ARBITRATION AGAINST GOE; GOE [...] (C) Summary: Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) is dropping its arbitration case against Petroecuador while maintaining its case against the Government of Ecuador (GOE) to facilitate it management of the arbitration. In addition, the GOE has stated it will not appoint its arbiter by Oct. 12, as req [...]	2006-10-05 12:05:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV EPET ETRD EC
06QUITO2450	ELECTIONS: POTENTIAL FOR POST-ELECTORAL CONFLICT [...] (C) Summary: There are several possible scenarios for post-electoral conflict beginning as early as the first round of presidential elections on October 15. This report highlights these possibilities, gauges their probability, and recommends the Department prepare for contingencies which wo [...]	2006-10-05 22:21:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO2455	CORREA PREDICTS FIRST ROUND VICTORY, NAMES CABINET [...] (C) Summary: Correa's campaign is taking on a triumphalist tone, predicting a first round victory and even naming prospective cabinet members. That tone could cost Correa some support in the first round, when Ecuadorians traditionally like to boost the underdog. Correa's premature cabinet [...]	2006-10-06 20:34:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO2458	ECUADOR ELECTIONS: Andean Parliament Sideshow [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 15, many Ecuadorians may be surprised to learn that they must also decide, in addition to selecting among the candidates for president, Congress, provincial and municipal council officials, who will represent them in the little known, little respected, Andean Parliam [...]	2006-10-10 12:05:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO2466	LATEST POLLS SHOW CORREA WEAKENING, NOBOA RISING [...] (C) Summary: In two credible polls conducted October 7-8, after the recent presidential debate, Correa still leads by a wide margin, but falls short of a first-round victory and shows a slight drop in support after weeks of consistent positive momentum. Alvaro Noboa continued his late surge, [...]	2006-10-10 22:47:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO2497	OF PIPELINES AND LIFELINES: PETROECUADOR AND THE [...] (U) Summary: On August 19 a story broke in the Ecuadorian media about a pipeline leak and oil spill near the environmentally sensitive Cuyabeno Animal Reserve in Ecuador's Amazon region. In extensive coverage, the media has speculated on the causes and environmental effects of the spill. The [...]	2006-10-11 21:29:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EPET ECON EAGR EAID PGOV SOCI EC
06QUITO2498	CORREA'S FARC COMMENTS SPARK EXCHANGE WITH GOC [...] (C) Reaction to presidential front-runner Rafael Correa's recent declaration that he does not consider the FARC a terrorist organization has drawn in the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry and the Colombian government. Colombian President Alvaro Uribe did not respond to Correa's comments directly, [...]	2006-10-11 22:15:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2517	ELECTIONS: CAMPAIGN CLOSES, ELECTION NIGHT WORRIES [...] (C) Summary: The formal campaign period closes at midnight on October 12. Noboa received a rebuke from the Catholic Church for his use of religion in his campaign and Roldos veered further left on free trade. Electoral officials are scrambling to manage expectations of quick results on el [...]	2006-10-13 12:21:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO2532	ELECTION: FIRST ROUND TO NOBOA, CORREA; SECOND [...] (SBU) Summary: Banana magnate Alvaro Noboa and radical leftist Rafael Correa have won the first round of presidential voting on October 15, according to incoming official results, independent quick counts and exit polls. The two men now face a run-off election on November 26. Voting proceede [...]	2006-10-16 02:38:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO2536	ELECTION AFTERMATH: QUICK COUNT FOUNDERS AT 70%; [...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on October 16 unilaterally cancelled its $5.8 million quick count contract with Brazilian firm E-Vote after the firm failed to deliver results on time on election night. As a result, official results must await until after more labor-inten [...]	2006-10-16 22:07:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO2544	ELECTIONS: CORREA BACKS DOWN, OFFICIAL RESULTS OUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Ecuador's electoral authorities told the press on October 17 that they expect final official presidential results no later than October 22 and possibly by the 19th, to be followed Congressional and other results by October 25, at the latest. Current official tabulations of 60 [...]	2006-10-17 22:39:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO2545	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Embassy officers confirmed the identity and location of end-user Maria Cristina Vera Medranda. Vera and her husband, Jose Luis Vargas, sell firearms out of their home. Vera's firearms' distribution license expired on May 17, 2006 and there is no indication that a renewal is underway. [...]	2006-10-18 12:57:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC EC KOMC
06QUITO2557	COLOMBIAN MILITARY FIRE LEAVES TWO DEAD [...] (C) Summary: Ecuadorian military officials on October 19 confirmed that two Ecuadorian civilians were killed by Colombian military gunfire on October 15 while traveling in a canoe with FARC rebels on the San Miguel River. Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion publicly criticized the Colombian m [...]	2006-10-19 20:57:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO258	GOE PROTESTS ALLEGED GOC INCURSION [...] (U) Summary: Reports that Colombian military units entered Ecuadorian territory in hot pursuit of FARC irregulars on January 28 prompted vociferous GOE protests. End Summary. Reported Facts -------------- 2. (U) According to the press, three Black Hawk helicopters and two Colombian mi [...]	2006-01-31 23:51:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREL SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2584	ELECTIONS: FIRST ROUND RESULTS CONFIRMED, [...] (C) Summary: The official GOE vote count confirms an Alvaro Noboa vs. Rafael Correa second round match-up. Noboa's political party also looks set to become the largest bloc in the new Congress that takes office January 5, 2007. The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) is struggling to decide how/ [...]	2006-10-20 21:38:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO259	UNREALISTIC HUAORANI CONFRONT LOGGING AND [...] Summary: With an agenda focusing on illegal logging, their relationship with the petroleum industry, and institutional corruption, the Huaorani indigenous group held a general assembly in the jungle community of Nemonpari. While laudable in its effort to tackle these pressing issues, the new [...]	2006-02-01 13:30:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID SOCI EPET ECON PGOV PHUM EC
06QUITO2602	ELECTION UPDATE: THE "NEW" FACE OF THE CONGRESS; [...] (SBU) Summary: More than a week after the first round of presidential elections on October 15, election authorities have officially confirmed Alvaro Noboa's first round win with 26.83%, over Rafael Correa's 22.84%. Recent but unpublished poll data reveals that Noboa leads Correa by a 16-poin [...]	2006-10-25 22:33:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO2603	ELECTION: FIRST ROUND RESULTS OFFICIAL; NOBOA [...] (SBU) Summary: More than a week after the first round of presidential elections on October 15, election authorities have officially confirmed Alvaro Noboa's first round win with 26.83%, over Rafael Correa's 22.84%. Recent but unpublished poll data reveals that Noboa leads Correa by a 16-poin [...]	2006-10-25 22:47:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV EC
06QUITO2616	THE HUNT FOR RAUL REYES ANGERS GOE [...] (S) Summary: Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's public declaration that FARC leader Raul Reyes is hiding in Ecuador has sparked a media frenzy in Quito, heightening bilateral tensions. Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion demanded evidence of Reyes' presence, and asked the Ambassado [...]	2006-10-27 18:05:00	Embassy Quito	SECRET	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO2617	CORDIAL MEETING WITH CORREA [...] (C) Summary: In a cordial meeting with presidential candidate Rafael Correa on October 26, the Ambassador underscored USG impartiality in the upcoming November 26 election and commitment to a fair and transparent electoral process. She said we will seek to pursue areas of convergence with th [...]	2006-10-27 19:52:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO2638	ELECTION UPDATE: CANDIDATES ACTIVE BUT VOTERS NOT [...] (SBU) Summary: The second round of campaigning is well underway, with leftist candidate Rafael Correa seeking to re-position himself, using symbolic meetings with authority figures to attract centrist voters. For his part, center-right candidate Alvaro Noboa is sticking with the formula that [...]	2006-11-01 22:12:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM EC

06QUITO2675	GOE GAINS FIRST CONVICTION UNDER NEW TIP LAW [...] (U) Summary: Prosecutions against trafficking in persons (TIP) are starting to gain traction in Ecuador, with El Oro province prosecutors winning a maximum sentence and the first conviction under the new anti-TIP law passed in June of 2005. Other big cases are proceeding to trial, and we exp [...]	2006-11-06 21:47:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO2681	GOE GAINS FIRST CONVICTION UNDER NEW TIP LAW [...] (U) Summary: Prosecutions against trafficking in persons (TIP) are starting to gain traction in Ecuador, with El Oro province prosecutors winning a maximum sentence and the first conviction under the new anti-TIP law passed in June of 2005. Other big cases are proceeding to trial, and we exp [...]	2006-11-06 22:42:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO2705	ECUADOR 2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] Below is Embassy Quito's submission for the 2007 National Trade Estimate Report. A copy of the report has been provided to USTR's Michelle Carrillo via email. The report was a collaborative effort between State, the Commercial Service, the Foreign Agricultural Service, and AID. TRADE SUMM [...]	2006-11-08 17:20:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN EC
06QUITO2714	FEAR AND LOATHING IN ECUADOR: NERVOUS APPLAUSE FOR [...] (C) Summary: Substantial media attention given to the Department's approval of a 212(f) visa revocation for corruption of a prominent Ecuadorian politician, Xavier Neira, has elicited broad approval from opinion makers and the general populace. The impetus for the revocations, Neira,s corrupt [...]	2006-11-08 20:55:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KIPR CVIS PINR ETRD EINV EC
06QUITO2808	ELECTIONS: DEAD HEAT AFTER CORREA SURGE [...] (C) Summary: The latest unpublished polls show Rafael Correa and Alvaro Noboa in a statistical tie for the presidency. Correa's surge from a 15 point deficit probably reflects success of his tactical move to the center, combined with Noboa's high negatives and lackluster campaign. Correa's [...]	2006-11-15 22:13:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM EC
06QUITO2809	LAB BUSTS MARK ECUADOR'S MOVE FROM TRANSIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ecuadorian National Police (ENP),working with Peruvian anti-drug authorities and the DEA, uncovered and dismantled three cocaine processing labs in southern Ecuador. The ENP arrested 45 individuals - including Colombian fugitive Juan Solarte Mora, and seized vehicles, boa [...]	2006-11-15 22:23:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MASS SNAR PTER EC CO PE
06QUITO2838	ELECTION: TSE TIES UP LOOSE ENDS, BIELSA TO RETURN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on November 20 announced plans to use a combination of exit polling and civil society and media quick count reporting to tally unofficial presidential results. With a week to go before elections on November 26, the TSE also froze both candi [...]	2006-11-20 22:42:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM EC
06QUITO2844	ECUADOR TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] Summary: This cable responds to specific questions in Ref A pertaining to Ecuador's progress on anti-TIP, summarizing developments which have occurred since the submission of the Embassy's TIP report in March. Sections below are keyed to parts a, b, and c of paragraph 6.E of Ref A, and all da [...]	2006-11-21 15:30:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO2874	Election: Slugfest Tightens, Getting Dirtier [...] (SBU) Summary: Private polls continue to show the presidential race between Alvaro Noboa (PRIAN) and Rafael Correa (PAIS) in a dead heat. With the formal campaign period closing at midnight on November 23, both candidates continue to fund a final publicity blitz, despite prohibitions on furt [...]	2006-11-22 19:48:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM EC
06QUITO2894	ELECTION: CAMPAIGN CLOSES, CLOUDS AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: The early campaign days of free computers, colorful flags, dancing and humorous jibes are over. Ecuador now must decide between two populist candidates that have both gone negative. Ecuadorian voters also must digest Correa's allegations of fraud and the prospect of a closely c [...]	2006-11-24 21:04:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM EC
06QUITO2898	ELECTION: CORREA WINS BIG, NOBOA FIZZLES [...] (SBU) Summary: Leftist candidate Rafael Correa (representing the Proud and Sovereign Fatherland Movement-PAIS and Socialist Party) won the runoff round of presidential voting decisively over rival candidate Alvaro Noboa (PRIAN) on November 26, according to most exit polls and quick count res [...]	2006-11-27 03:26:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM EC
06QUITO2904	CORREA EFFUSIVE; NOBOA SQUAWKS; VOTE COUNT [...] (SBU) Summary: Official results were temporarily delayed by Noboa's November 27 allegations of unspecified fraud and his demand that election authorities re-count the vote by hand in three coastal provinces. National election authorities disallowed the request as unjustified by election rul [...]	2006-11-27 23:26:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM EC
06QUITO2937	ELECTION WRAP-UP: CORREA COMPLIMENTS BUSH; [...] (SBU) Summary: Final certified results of the election are now expected by December 4, confirming a 57-43% presidential victory by Rafael Correa over Alvaro Noboa. Presumptive president-elect Correa received a congratulatory phone call from President Bush on November 30. Correa subsequently [...]	2006-12-01 23:52:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM EC
06QUITO2965	ELECTION OVER, CORREA TAKES STAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Electoral Tribunal officially declared Rafael Correa Ecuador's president-elect on December 4, but rival candidate Alvaro Noboa has refused to concede defeat, requesting an investigation of Correa campaign finances. Since being elected on November 26, Correa has rea [...]	2006-12-07 22:35:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM ETRD EC
06QUITO2998	External Debt Report Will Be Released in December [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOE's External Debt Commission will release its report in mid-December, and the Correa administration could look to the report to identify whether any of Ecuador's debt is "illegitimate." The President of the Commission, Alfredo Castillo, asserted that much of Ecuador's de [...]	2006-12-12 13:21:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EC
06QUITO3020	GOE PROTESTS RESUMPTION OF COLOMBIAN SPRAYING NEAR [...] (C) Colombia's resumption of aerial fumigation along the Ecuador-Colombia border has sparked a formal GOE protest and strong reaction from president-elect Correa. Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion called Colombia's decision an act of "hostility" and warned of a possible cooling in bilateral [...]	2006-12-14 19:03:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO3033	FOUR NEW MINISTERS: CORREA TAPS POETS, [...] (C) Summary: On December 13 President-Elect Rafael Correa announced four new cabinet level ministers in a press conference on his way to visit Nestor Kirchner in Argentina: Maria Fernanda Espinosa will head the MFA; Raul Sagasti Lupera will be the new Industry Minister; Antonio Preciado will [...]	2006-12-14 21:23:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO3048	GOE SUSPENDS FOREIGN MINING OPERATIONS - [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Government of Ecuador (GOE) suspended the operations of two Canadian mining companies (one with U.S. investment) in the past week, in response to escalating community protests and violence. Some community residents, supported by domestic and foreign NGOs, have opposed mining [...]	2006-12-15 22:27:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN EINV EC
06QUITO3050	ECUADOR INAUGURATION: USDEL REQUESTED BY DECEMBER [...] Summary: The GOE's planning for the January 15, 2003 presidential inauguration ceremony is just beginning but the MFA has requested foreign delegation lists by December 22. Planned activities span January 13-15. Outgoing President Alfredo Palacio has formally invited President Bush to attend [...]	2006-12-15 22:50:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EC
06QUITO3062	ENERGY INTEGRATION, AERIAL SPRAYING AND DEBT ON [...] (C) Summary. President-elect Rafael Correa has crisscrossed South America in recent weeks to establish contact with his counterparts in the region, pursuing Ecuadorian interest in oil refining and infrastructure projects under the guise of regional cooperation and integration. Basking in a [...]	2006-12-19 22:58:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EPET EFIN EWWT EAIR EC CO
06QUITO3072	CORREA DEBT MANAGEMENT: ECUADORIAN OBSERVERS [...] (C) Summary. President-elect Correa and Economic Minister-designate Patino continue to talk about rescheduling Ecuador's external debt. However, former and current Ministry of Economy officials agree that Correa will be pragmatic and conclude that it is not in Ecuador's interest to default. [...]	2006-12-20 10:08:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV KBIO PINR EC
06QUITO3075	CORREA NAMES NEW CABINET MEMBERS, INCLUDING LABOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 19 President-Elect Rafael Correa announced two new cabinet level ministers and four lower level positions. The new officials named were: Antonio Gagliardo Valarezo, Minister of Labor; Raul Carrion Fiallos as Sports Minister; Monica Chuji Gualinga will be the Commun [...]	2006-12-21 07:26:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR EC
06QUITO308	GOC LAMENTS INCURSION [...] (C) Summary: The GOC on February 2 regretted its possible accidental violation of Ecuadorian airspace and reiterated its respect for Ecuadorian sovereignty. The GOE privately welcomed the conciliatory response, but publicly called it "insufficient" and slow in coming. Colombian President A [...]	2006-02-06 18:44:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO321	ECUADOR: PDAS SHAPIRO PROMOTES DEMOCRACY, TRADE [...] (C) Summary: WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro visited Quito January 18-20, meeting with President Alfredo Palacio, Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion, business leaders, the editorial board of Quito,s daily of record, members of the political elite and civil society leaders. He also met with Governo [...]	2006-02-07 22:02:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD KDEM EC
06QUITO374	WELCOME BACK, GENERAL CRADDOCK [...] (C) Summary: Please accept my warm welcome on your return visit to Ecuador, General Craddock. This mission is mobilized to ensure a successful visit. Your visit comes at a sensitive time. We hope to use it to help defuse the inflamed dialogue with Colombia, advance information sharing with [...]	2006-02-10 19:53:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO406	ECUADOR: WAR OF WORDS WITH COLOMBIA OVER, FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion on February 12 announced an end to the temporary diplomatic contretemps brought on by the accidental violation of Ecuadorian airspace by Colombian military units on January 28. FM Carrion said that the GOE, having accepted the GOC,s February 1 [...]	2006-02-13 22:23:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EC
06QUITO407	ECUADOR ELECTIONS, NINE MONTHS OUT [...] (U) Summary: Nine months out from national congressional and presidential elections, campaign season is heating up with prospective candidates plumping for support, courting running-mates, and fueling speculation over electoral alliances. As speculation turns to the elections, the Palacio g [...]	2006-02-14 13:57:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL EC
06QUITO427	ECUADOR LABOR UPDATE [...] Summary: Following are recent labor-related developments of interest: -- MOL On Labor Code Reform (para. 2) -- MOL Raises Minimum Wage (4) -- MOL Publishes Report on Subcontracting (6) -- New Law Requires Hiring of Disabled (7) -- Dole Representatives Meet with Banana Union (8) -- Andina [...]	2006-02-15 20:54:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PGOV EC
06QUITO483	NAPA-PASTAZA STRIKE SUSPENDED, NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN [...] (SBU) Summary: A disruptive citizens strike in the eastern province of Napo, supported by neighboring Pastaza province, was suspended pending the outcome of negotiations between protesters, the Ministry of Government, and the Minister of Economy and Finance Diego Borja on February 23. Ecuado [...]	2006-02-23 22:31:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PREL PGOV PHUM EC
06QUITO492	CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL AND JUDICIAL COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Coastal parties voted together on February 22 to select a new Constitutional Tribunal, excluding the main highland party, the Democratic Left (ID). The process followed constitutional guidelines and fulfills a key benchmark in our democracy promotion strategy. Important cases [...]	2006-02-24 20:46:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS EC
06QUITO535	IRAN/IAEA: GOE REAFFIRMS SUPPORT [...] (SBU) PolChief presented suggested RefTel points for Board member statements at the March 6 IAEA Board of Governors meeting to MFA U/S Mauricio Montalvo on March 3. Montalvo indicated GOE agreement that the DG report met conditions in the Board's earlier resolution to refer Iran to the UNSC, [...]	2006-03-03 23:26:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM KNNP PREL IAEA IR EU AORC EC
06QUITO553	TWO ECUADORIAN JOURNALISTS KILLED [...] Summary: Press reported the murders of two journalists on February 13 and February 14 in and around the Guayaquil area. In both cases, no items were reported stolen and there have been no arrests. In one case, the reporter had previously spoken out about youth gangs during his radio report [...]	2006-03-08 13:39:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM EC
06QUITO579	STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED FOR OIL WORKER STRIKE [...] Summary: President Palacio declared a state of emergency on March 7 in the three provinces of Napo, Orellana, and Sucumbios after 4,000 oil workers went on strike and took over installations at five PetroEcuador oil fields. On March 8, the military retook control of the oil wells and the go [...]	2006-03-09 22:21:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM EPET ELAB EC
06QUITO598	SCENESETTER FOR FM CARRION VISIT [...] (C) Summary: Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion will visit Washington to meet with Secretary Rice on March 23. The friendly but nationalist Carrion comes to Washington prepared to make a case for Ecuador. Carrion is concerned about current cuts in USG aid levels and will likely [...]	2006-03-10 21:40:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EC
06QUITO638	GOE "STUDIES" ALLEGED GOC AIRSPACE VIOLATION [...] (U) Two Colombian military aircraft reportedly entered Ecuadorian airspace in pursuit of FARC rebels in the border town of Puerto Nuevo, Sucumbios province on March 11. Representatives from the Colombian and Ecuadorian defense ministries met on March 14 on the border to exchange information o [...]	2006-03-15 22:15:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO639	INDIGENOUS PROTEST FTA, OXY; GOVERNMENT MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Government Minister Alfredo Castillo resigned on May 15 after indigenous blocked key highways throughout eight central provinces beginning on March 14 to threaten an indefinite "progressive national mobilization" demanding an end to FTA negotiations, the expulsion of Occidenta [...]	2006-03-15 23:17:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI PHUM EC
06QUITO646	GOE OBJECTS TO HRR [...] (SBU) Summary: FM Francisco Carrion objected to the recently published human rights report in a meeting with the Ambassador on March 10. Carrion said the U.S. had no right to judge Ecuador on human rights issues, and had not sufficiently credited the GOE with HR improvements since President [...]	2006-03-16 16:28:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EC
06QUITO673	PALACIO STANDS FIRM, INDIGENOUS SUSPEND STRIKES [...] (C) Summary: President Palacio spoke to the nation on March 15, refusing to cede to indigenous striker demands to halt FTA negotiations. Subsequently, protesting highlands provinces and indigenous have suspended their strikes and are returning to their communities with most roads unblocked, [...]	2006-03-17 20:47:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS EC
06QUITO694	INDIGENOUS PROTESTS RENEW; LIMITED ACTION IN QUITO [...] (SBU) Summary: Indigenous protesters renewed their Disruption of transportation in the highland provinces of Imbabura, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi and Canar, and began arriving in Quito in small numbers on March 20. Others were blocked by police from entering the capital. Two injuries stemming fr [...]	2006-03-20 22:55:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINS EC
06QUITO708	GOE TO DECLARE EMERGENCY TO CLEAR HIGHWAYS [...] (C) Summary: With indigenous roadblocks continuing in several provinces, a top aide to the President said Palacio had decided late on March 21 to declare an emergency in three central provinces and part of another, to permit the military to begin to clear the roads for commerce. Indigenous C [...]	2006-03-22 00:35:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM EC
06QUITO712	INDIGENOUS DEFIANT DESPITE STATE OF EMERGENCY [...] (C) Summary: President Palacio declared a state of emergency late on March 21 for four provinces and parts of Pichincha province. Most roads were open on March 22, and the GOE sought to dialogue with protest leaders. CONAIE leaders have vowed to continue their anti-FTA protests. Military i [...]	2006-03-22 23:06:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EC
06QUITO725	ECUADORIAN PROTESTS: ROADS CLEAR, FUTURE CLOUDY [...] (U) Summary: The state of emergency declared in five of Ecuador's 22 provinces has permitted the GOE to clear road blockages in all but the north-central province of Imbabura, where protesters continue to return obstacles to the street as fast as authorities can clear them. Some clashes betw [...]	2006-03-23 22:30:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL EC
06QUITO737	PROTESTS COOL, INDIGENOUS TO REGROUP [...] Summary: Indigenous coalition CONAIE has temporarily suspended protests, promising to regroup for a return to the streets in April. The announcement followed protests March 23 in the North Central Province of Imbabura that left 12 with minor injuries and 22 arrested. The GOE has refused to n [...]	2006-03-24 19:41:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL EC
06QUITO809	HYDROCARBON LAW SPELLS TROUBLE FOR EVERYONE [...] (U) Summary. The Ecuadorian Congress passed a law March 29 that would require private oil companies with participation contracts in Ecuador to share additional revenue with the GOE. If President Palacio signs the law, the GOE could face numerous legal actions because it clearly changes the t [...]	2006-03-31 18:41:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ETRD ECON PREL EC
06QUITO850	INDIGENOUS PROTESTS DIVERTED, TEMPORARILY [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE has actively blocked indigenous protesters from marching in provinces under a state of emergency declaration, arresting leaders and preventing concerted movement of protesters to the capital. FENOCIN, the indigenous campesino group, announced 7,000 protesters will con [...]	2006-04-06 13:28:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM EC
06QUITO87	2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-13 12:46:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV EFIN MOPS MASS KJUS KCRM EC
06QUITO89	2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-13 12:46:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV EFIN MOPS MASS KJUS KCRM EC
06QUITO90	2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-13 12:46:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV EFIN MOPS MASS KJUS KCRM EC
06QUITO909	INDIGENOUS TO REGROUP, PROTESTS UNLIKELY NEXT WEEK [...] (SBU) Summary: Both evangelical indigenous of the organization FEINE and indigenous of the CONAIE organization have told us that they will be meeting at the local level to evaluate the political and economic situation and decide on next steps. An Embassy police contact told us that the CONA [...]	2006-04-12 21:55:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM EC
06QUITO977	VFM FRIENDLY BUT FIRM ON ECUADORIAN CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with visiting WHA/AND Director Philip French on April 18, Vice Foreign Minister Diego Ribadeneira expressed GOE commitment for continued bilateral cooperation, but stressed the view that the USG needs to take into account some of the unique pressures of Ecuador's sit [...]	2006-04-20 22:18:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC ETRD EPET EINV ECON PGOV SNAR CO EC
06QUITO978	REGIONAL IAEA CONFERENCE ENCOURAGES NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOffs on April 3-4 represented the USG at the first Pan-American IAEA Meeting on Strengthening Implementation of International Instruments for Enhanced Nuclear and Radiological Security. During the two-day conference, IAEA organizers explained international efforts to counte [...]	2006-04-21 00:12:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KNNP PTER KTIA IAEA CARICOM EC
06QUITO988	BI-NATIONAL BORDER DEVELOPMENT PLAN ADVANCES [...] (SBU) Summary: Ecuadorian and Colombian government officials will meet in Quito on April 24-25 to discuss the creation of an integrated development zone along their common border. The idea of the plan, agreed to at December 7, 2005 bilateral ministerial meetings in Quito, seeks to identify [...]	2006-04-21 22:21:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR SNAR PTER EC CO
06QUITO995	WHA/AND DIRECTOR FRENCH VISITS NORTHERN BORDER, [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 17, WHA Andean Affairs Director Philip French and Embassy officials visited the towns of Lago Agrio and General Farfan on Ecuador's northern border with Colombia. At the USG-funded Lago Agrio police base, the province's narcotics chief described challenges with infor [...]	2006-04-24 22:03:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM EC
06RABAT1011	CHINESE AMBASSADOR ON HU VISIT, WESTERN SAHARA, [...] (C) Summary: During a 75-minute meeting May 22, Chinese Ambassador Cheng Tao downplayed the significance of the April 23-25 visit to Morocco of Chinese President Hu Jintao, noting that the Chinese leadership visits Africa annually. Nevertheless Cheng said Morocco-China relations are good, and [...]	2006-05-25 16:20:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD MO PBTS PGOV PREL
06RABAT1030	MOROCCO: DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF NAM MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Pol/C delivered reftel demarche regarding Iran to MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs Nasser Bourita on May 24. Bourita said the demarche was timely as he was departing the following day for the NAM ministerial, accompanying FM Benaissa. 2. (C) Bourita said the [...]	2006-05-30 18:30:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET	PREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR MO
06RABAT1032	WESTERN SAHARA: GOM SATISFIED WITH HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: 2. (C) Polcouns called on MFA Director of UN and International Affairs Nasser Bourita May 24 for the GOM perspective on the May 15-18 visit to Morocco and the Western Sahara of the UN Human Rights Commission delegation. The five-person delegation was led by Christophe Girod [...]	2006-05-30 19:06:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT1042	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO MOROCCO OF U/S KAREN [...] (C) The US Mission warmly welcomes your upcoming visit to Morocco. Your visit comes as we and the Moroccan government are further energizing the substantial reinvigoration of bilateral relations that has taken place since the May 2003 terrorist attacks in Casablanca. Since the 2003 attacks, [...]	2006-05-31 18:49:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON KPAO MO PGOV PREL PTER
06RABAT1050	MEETING THE MORCHIDAT [...] (SBU) Following a flurry of misleading press reports indicating that the recently graduated female Islamic guides (morchidat) would be comparable to male imams, the Moroccan Council of Ulemas issued a fatwa on May 26 confirming Minister of Islamic Affairs' Ahmed Toufiq's statement that indeed [...]	2006-06-01 13:55:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL MO
06RABAT1063	INCREASING FOCUS ON PRISON REFORM [...] (C) Summary: A number of activities are coming together in Morocco to give impetus to prison reform, an area for improvement which is highlighted in the annual human rights report. The Government of Morocco (GOM) through the Ministry of Justice (MOJ),Directorate of Prisons, recognizes the ma [...]	2006-06-02 16:18:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MO PHUM PREL
06RABAT1081	GOM REGISTERS CONCERN ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) On June 2, the Mission received the following diplomatic note from the MFA, which was delivered to all diplomatic missions and international organizations in Rabat. Enclosed with the note was a copy of the official statement issued by the MFA registering the Government of Morocco's conce [...]	2006-06-05 22:25:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PBTS PHUM PREL PGOV MO
06RABAT1087	WESTERN SAHARA: CORCAS SEEKS US MEDIATION WITH [...] (C) Summary: During a 90-minute meeting with Ambassador Riley on May 31, President of the Royal Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS) Khalihenna Ould Er Rachid requested US help in starting a dialogue between CORCAS and the Polisario. Khalihenna said he had made informal contacts with the Pol [...]	2006-06-06 10:57:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT1093	THE FOREIGN MINISTER AND THE U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) On the margins of a meeting with Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes, the Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Benaissa on June 5 to reinforce the May 31 conversation the DCM had with the MFA Secretary Geeral Omar Hilale on the U.S. Statement on Iran (eftels A and B). The [...]	2006-06-06 14:28:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	IR PGOV PREL PBTS PINR MO
06RABAT1095	MOROCCO: PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQI GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Further to reftels, MFA Director of Arab and Islamic Organizations Hassan Hami contacted Poloff on June 5 to report that during the May 27 Morocco-Kuwait Joint High Committee meeting held in Kuwait FM Benaissa and his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Sabah Al Jaber Al Sabah issued a communique [...]	2006-06-06 15:59:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ MO
06RABAT1111	MOROCCO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] Moroccan economic think tank Centre Marocain de Conjoncture (CMC) is forecasting that the economy will grow by 7.1 percent in 2006, outpacing GOM forecasts of 5.4 percent. The CMC said strong farming output will be the driver behind the growth. The GOM had predicted 5.4 percent growth on th [...]	2006-06-09 07:48:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EAGR KNNP SOCI MO
06RABAT1137	WESTERN SAHARA: WHAT'S HAPPENING IN TINDOUF? [...] (SBU) Two Sahrawi tribal leaders, Sheikh Abdi Salama Nafaa of Laayoune and Idrissi Belali from Smara, previously unknown to the embassy, called on Polcouns June 9 to seek US support for what they alleged were injustices being committed against members of the Rgiubat tribe, subgroup Layeshi (p [...]	2006-06-12 18:42:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT1148	WESTERN SAHARA: GENERAL MOSGAARD'S VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: MINURSO Force Commander General Kurt Mosgaard told the Ambassador June 8 that MINURSO continued to play an important role in moderating the Western Sahara conflict. He said tensions were up on both sides, and there was more talk of war within the Polisario, but MINURSO does not [...]	2006-06-13 16:44:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT115	GOM'S TOUGH MESSAGE TO IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Deputy FM Taieb Fassi Fihri told the Ambassador January 19 that Iranian Envoy Musavi would visit Morocco January 20 but would not be received by the King. Morocco would listen to Musavi but would express concern over Iranian behavior and warn Iran not to take advantage of turmoi [...]	2006-01-24 14:48:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MO PGOV PREL
06RABAT1159	SAHRAWI ACTIVIST DISCUSSES CORCAS AND OTHER ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: On June 6, Brahim Dahane, president of the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Human Rights Violations Committed by the State of Morocco (ASVDDH),met with Poloffs. Dahane traveled to Rabat to discuss the current situation in the Western Sahara, particularly in Laayoune, a [...]	2006-06-14 18:35:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PBTS PGOV PHUM MO
06RABAT1184	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DR. KROTOSKI [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for Dr. Danuta Krotoski, Health Scientist Administrator, national Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH to travel to Rabat, Morocco, June 17-22, 2006 for the purpose of meeting with Health Officials. 2. Post understands that [...]	2006-06-16 14:14:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA MO
06RABAT1185	COUNTRY CLEARANCE AMENDMENT FOR JOSEPH MULINARE [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for Joseph Mulinare to travel to Rabat, Morocco, June 18-30, 2006 for the purpose of providing technical assistance to the nutrition program with a particular focus on issues related to birth defects and the impact of flour fortification. [...]	2006-06-16 14:21:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA MO
06RABAT1206	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NEA DAS GORDON GRAY [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for NEA DAS Gordon Gray to travel to Rabat, Morocco, June 28-30, 2006 for the purpose of meeting with government officials. 2. Control Officer for the visit is Political Officer Cherie Lenzen who can be reached at: Phone: (212) 37-76-22-65 [...]	2006-06-20 15:16:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA MO
06RABAT1218	WESTERN SAHARA: BASTAGLI URGES CONTINUATION OF CBMS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 16 meeting with the Ambassador, Special Representative for the Secretary General (SRSG) for Western Sahara Francesco Bastagli urged the Embassy to encourage Morocco to accept a revised list of scheduled flights to restart the suspended family visits program. Basta [...]	2006-06-21 17:18:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PBTS PHUM PREL MO
06RABAT1249	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MR. BRYAN BANDONG [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for Mr. Bryan Bandong of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to travel to Rabat, Morocco, June 30 - July 9, 2006 for the purpose of meetings with officials of the National Center for Energy, Science and Nuclear Technology of Morocco. [...]	2006-06-27 12:18:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA MO
06RABAT1251	UPDATED COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MILLENNIUM [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for MCC travelers listed in reftel to travel to Morocco June 25 to July 14, 2006 for the purpose of conducting site visits and meetings with local officials. 2. Post has made transportation arrangements and hotel reservations at the Sofite [...]	2006-06-28 13:42:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA MO
06RABAT1272	PJD LETTER CONDEMNING ISRAELI ACTIONS IN GAZA [...] (C) At the conclusion of a meeting with political party members on June 29, Lahcen Daoudi, a member of the general secretariat of the Justice and Development Party (PJD) and SIPDIS vice president of the Chamber of Representatives of the parliament, passed the following letter addressed to [...]	2006-07-03 10:52:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM MO
06RABAT1284	DAS GRAY MEETS SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE ARAB [...] (C) Summary. On June 29, DAS Gordon Gray and Ambassador Riley discussed the revitalization of the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU) with the organization's Secretary General Al Habib bin Yahia. Bin Yahia shared a number of ways he is trying to reinvigorate the AMU after many years of lackluster resul [...]	2006-07-05 08:21:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER PBTS PGOV MO
06RABAT1285	DAS GRAY DISCUSSES GAZA EVENTS AND LIBYAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting June 29 with visiting DAS Gordon Gray, Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs Taieb Fassi Fihri expressed Morocco's concern over recent events in Gaza, explaining that Israeli actions were "too strong and extreme" and have complicated Morocco's position. Fassi Fihri [...]	2006-07-05 08:25:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PHUM MO
06RABAT13	Family Code Implementation: Are Judges Resisting [...] The Casablanca Regional Bureau of the Hassanian Judges' Association organized a December 15 meeting between female parliamentarians and judges entitled "Judges and the Application of the Moudawana (family code)." The meeting was also attended by members of civil society and human rights acti [...]	2006-01-04 14:50:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KMPI PHUM PREL PGOV MO
06RABAT1309	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR OES/STC R. SENSENEY [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for Robert Senseney to travel to Rabat, Morocco, July 13-22, 2006 for the purpose of meeting with government officials regarding the US-Morocco Science and Technology agreement. 2. Per reftel hotel reservations have been made at the Tour H [...]	2006-07-11 11:39:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA MO
06RABAT1329	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ROYAL ADVISOR MEZIANE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Building on his early 2005 meeting, Ambassador met July 11 with Palace Advisor Meziane Belfqih to discuss his views on US-Moroccan relations, recent GOM crackdowns on Justice and Charity Organization (JCO) activities, and the 2007 parliamentary elections. Belfqih said his March [...]	2006-07-12 17:06:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ETRD KDEM MO
06RABAT1344	MEPI SMALL GRANTS REPORT FOR AMCHAM MOROCCO [...] The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Free Trade Agreement (FTA) website has effectively addressed private sector demand both in Morocco and in the U.S. for greater information sharing on the provisions of the agreement. In 2004, the site logged over 1.3 million hits, representing 13,522 [...]	2006-07-14 18:10:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAID KMPI MO
06RABAT1350	MOROCCO: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (U) Post delivered July 17 reftel demarche via diplomatic note #248 to the office of MFA Director of American Affairs Salaheddine Tazi, per the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' request. MFA North American Affairs Division Chief Wassane Zailachi pledged to pass the White House Statement and USG r [...]	2006-07-17 12:06:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM KNNP KN MO
06RABAT1358	PJD AND HAMAS: MOROCCAN POLITICAL PARTY SUPPORTS [...] (U) Summary: Morocco's largest Islamist political party, the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) (Ref A),could win up to 46 percent of the votes in the 2007 legislative elections, according to results from a hypothetical vote question in a poll conducted by the International Republican I [...]	2006-07-17 17:07:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PTER PINR MO
06RABAT1373	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NASA/GSFC: DAVILA, [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance for Drs. Joseph Davila and Barbara Thompson from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Dr. Umran Inan from Stanford University to travel to Rabat, Morocco between July 26 and July 29, for the purpose of installing very low fr [...]	2006-07-20 12:03:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC MO OTRA SENV TSPA
06RABAT1374	MINISTRY OF INTERIOR'S SECRET PLAN FOR MOROCCO'S [...] (U) Summary: French language weekly, Le Journal Hebdomaire (July 15),reported on the Moroccan Ministry of Interior (MOI)'s projections on the 2007 legislative elections. The projections confirmed the preeminence of the Islamist Party of Justice and Development (PJD),the strong position of [...]	2006-07-20 14:45:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR MO
06RABAT1377	MOROCCAN IMAMS TO RECEIVE EDUCATION IN SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED [...] Summary: Moroccan Imams will begin receiving awareness training as part of the GOM's fight against HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) beginning in Sept 2006. The voluntary training represents a joint initiative by the Ministries of Islamic Affairs (MIA) and Health (MOH),and co [...]	2006-07-20 16:29:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV KISL PHUM PGOV MO
06RABAT1378	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USPTO: POGODA AND [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to US Patent and Trademark Office Attorney, Darren Pogoda and US District Judge James Rosenbaum to travel to Rabat, Morocco, July 22-25, 2006 to organize and host the USPTO-Middle East Partnership Initiative two day conference on Intellectual [...]	2006-07-20 17:00:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TSPA MO
06RABAT1380	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MICHAEL ZOLENSKY [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to Michael Zolensky from NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) to travel to Casablanca, Morocco, August 1-6, 2006 to attend the workshop - Desert Meteorites- recovery, documentation of meteorites, funds and future prospects of research. 2. Pos [...]	2006-07-21 10:07:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA TSPA MO
06RABAT1392	MISSION PLAN FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN [...] (U) Per ref A Action Request, Post submits the following quarterly assessment of its Democratic Reform Strategy as outlined in ref B. Our report is keyed to the Milestones (M) and Tactics (T) outlined in our strategy and provides an update through June 30, 2006. Update narratives contain both [...]	2006-07-21 19:07:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID ECON KDEM PGOV SCUL KMPI MO
06RABAT1407	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR MATTHEW SZYMANSKI, [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to Matthew Szymanski, Chief of Staff, House Small Business Committee, Sean Deverey, Professional Staff, House Small Business Committee, and Brian Jaskot Professional Staff, House Small Business Committee to travel to Casablanca and Rabat, Mor [...]	2006-07-26 08:36:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA MO
06RABAT1412	SUMMER UNIVERSITY EVALUATES REFORMS IN MOROCCO [...] (U) Summary: From July 13 to 15 the Moroccan Center for Social Studies organized a summer university, i.e., a conference, in Tetouan to discuss and assess the reform process. Polfsn political specialist attended the conference. The participants, who were university professors, political ana [...]	2006-07-26 11:44:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM MO
06RABAT1415	ELECTIONS ISSUES ATTRACTING ATTENTION IN THE PRESS [...] (U) Summary: The 2007 legislative elections are getting increasing coverage in Moroccan press outlets. French-language dailies, Le Matin and Liberation, both published articles on the threat "political nomadism" presents to democracy and how the Socialist Union of Popular Forces (USFP) Party [...]	2006-07-26 12:39:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR MO
06RABAT1429	HHS/CDC COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO DAVID BULL [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to David Bull to travel to Rabat, Morocco, August 1-5, 2006 for the purpose of providing guidance to Morocco Ministry of Health officials in pandemic influenza planning. 2. Post understands that the traveler is staying at the Sofitel and r [...]	2006-07-28 09:56:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TBIO OTRA
06RABAT1456	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR AMBASSADOR ZALMAY [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-31 16:49:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	JO TU IZ AMGT OTRA ASEC FR MO
06RABAT1457	IREX BRIEF TO THE MFA [...] (C) Summary: The PAO and IO met with Wassane Zailachi, Director of the North American, Mexico and Central America division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on July 26. The meeting included a discussion of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI)-funded IREX regional project, sc [...]	2006-07-31 16:51:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KPAO MO
06RABAT1471	MEPI UPDATE FOR MOROCCO [...] Summary: This cable highlights MEPI programs and initiatives in Morocco from April 1-June 30. Activities included visits by representatives from MEPI Washington, the Ambassador's visit to Oujda, his meeting with the International Republican Institute (IRI),judicial reform, a regional confer [...]	2006-08-02 07:56:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PGOV ETRD EINV KMPI MO
06RABAT1483	NDI: UNCLE SAM WANTS TO "EDUCATE" MOROCCAN [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: French-language daily, l'Economiste (August 1),published an article about the "American-Canadian" National Democratic Institute (NDI),entitled "An NGO to 'educate' the parties." The article, which in [...]	2006-08-04 12:06:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR MO
06RABAT1506	JUSTICE AND INTERIOR MINISTRIES COLLABORATE ON [...] (U) On August 4, the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) signed a joint communique expressing their determination to counter any violation of the legal conditions of the upcoming Upper House parliamentary elections, as reported in all major media outlets. The ele [...]	2006-08-08 17:15:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL MO
06RABAT1535	UNHCR ENCOURAGES REFUGEE SELF-RELIANCE AND GOM [...] (C) Summary: On August 10, A/Polcouns met with Johannes van der Klaauw, head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) office in Rabat to discuss the July 24 to 27 sit-ins in front of his office and recent developments relating to the Western Sahara. Van der Klaauw empha [...]	2006-08-14 15:40:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PBTS PGOV PREL MO
06RABAT1540	2006 THRONE DAY SPEECH: MORE CONFIDENCE, LESS [...] (C) Summary: King Mohammed VI delivered his seventh Throne Day speech on July 30 (reftel C). This year's speech followed the model established in his 1999 speech -- a recapitulation of accomplishments over the past year. Only the 2004 and 2005 (reftel A) speeches diverged from the accomplis [...]	2006-08-15 09:43:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PINR PHUM PREL MO

06RABAT1564	MINISTER DELEGATE DISCUSSES LEBANON AFTER UNSC 1701 [...] (SBU) On August 16, both Arabic and French language newspapers said that the Lebanese government announced that Turkey, Indonesia, Italy, Spain, Malaysia and Morocco would be sending troops. On August 17, Foreign Minister Benaissa was quoted in the French-language newspapers as saying: "The [...]	2006-08-17 16:43:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL IS LE MO
06RABAT1576	MOROCCO-EU FISHING AGREEMENT SPARKS CONTROVERSY [...] (U) Summary: The new Morocco-EU fishing agreement was signed in Brussels on July 26, 2006, but must still be ratified by the Moroccan Parliament before taking effect. Ratification is expected to occur when Parliament reconvenes in October 2006, with implementation by early 2007. The agreeme [...]	2006-08-22 15:45:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIS MO PBTS PGOV
06RABAT1579	A TERRORIST PLOT: EXPOSURE AND DISCUSSION [...] (C) Summary: On August 8, security forces reported in the press that forty-four (44) suspected terrorists were arrested in July and accused of preparing to conduct terrorist attacks. Five of the arrested are Moroccan soldiers specializing in explosives. The terrorists have been widely critic [...]	2006-08-23 15:59:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PGOV PREL PINR MO
06RABAT1632	MOROCCO TIGHTENS AIRPORT SECURITY [...] (C) The arrest of four women, two married to pilots of the national carrier Royal Air Maroc, has resulted in increased security measures at all Moroccan airports. The women were arrested for involvement in the Ansar Al Mahdi terrorist cell, initially broken-up by Moroccan security forces on [...]	2006-09-01 18:46:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR MO PINR PTER
06RABAT1640	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR NIH/FIC DR. HARFORD [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to Dr. Joe Harford, Director, Office of International Affairs, National Cancer Institute (NCI),NIH to travel to Casablanca, Morocco, September 14-17, 2006 to participate in a Conference on Cervical Cancer. 2. Point of contact for the vis [...]	2006-09-05 16:11:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA KSCA TBIO MO
06RABAT1641	PARLIAMENT: UPPER HOUSE ELECTIONS SET FOR SEPTEMBER 8 [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: On September 8, Morocco will hold indirect elections for 90 of the 270 seats in the Chamber of Councilors, the upper house of parliament. The official campaign period started September 1 and runs [...]	2006-09-05 16:42:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM MO
06RABAT1676	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE [...] Embassy Rabat warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Brian Levy, Magda Ismail, Steven Clarke, David Picha, Herve Plusquellec and Samuel Hobbs, of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to travel to Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech, Ourzazate, and Fes, Morocco September 13 - October 8, [...]	2006-09-08 17:01:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KMCA KPAO AFIN EAID ECON OTRA
06RABAT1677	DONOR COMMUNITY PROGRAMS IN MOROCCO [...] (U) This is the third part of a three part series on international donor activities in Morocco. Part 1 (ref A) covered the World Bank while part 2 (ref B) discussed the European Union's Barcelona Process. 2. (U) Summary. A wide variety of international donor organizations are present in [...]	2006-09-08 17:09:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN KMCA MO
06RABAT1706	PUTIN VISIT ACCENTUATES BILATERAL COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Russian President Putin's 18-hour visit to Morocco September 6-7 emphasized economic and commercial ties between the two countries, with the signature of cooperation agreements in fields ranging from fisheries to tourism, culture, and communications. Putin was accompanied by 50 [...]	2006-09-13 17:26:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON RU MO
06RABAT1718	UPPER HOUSE ELECTIONS LEAVE ESTABLISHMENT INTACT [...] (C) Summary: Traditional establishment parties prevailed on September 8 in the race for one-third of the seats in the Chamber of Councilors, Morocco's upper house of parliament. The Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) failed to gain any seats. However, given the elite and complex nat [...]	2006-09-14 15:31:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MO
06RABAT1733	MOROCCO - KING'S "AGILE" RESPONSE TO VATICAN ISLAM [...] (C) Summary: Morocco has reacted strongly in protest to Pope Benedict's controversial remarks on Islam. The MFA confirmed to us that Morocco's Ambassador to the Vatican has been recalled for consultations. King Mohammed VI is also reported to have sent a written protest to the Vatican, but t [...]	2006-09-18 17:38:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PREL MO
06RABAT176	WORLD BANK PROGRAMS IN MOROCCO [...] (SBU) Summary. The World Bank (WB) is one of the longest serving development assistance programs in Morocco and currently has 16 outstanding loans to the GOM worth a total of approximately $500 million. It seeks to help modernize Moroccan institutions through technical analysis and lending [...]	2006-02-03 07:57:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN KMCA MO
06RABAT1766	MOROCCO'S AMBASSADOR HEADED BACK TO VATICAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Morocco is sending its Ambassador back to the Vatican, five days after recalling him in protest over Pope Benedict's September 12 remarks about Islam. The controversy over the Pope's remarks appears to have already peaked in Morocco. Meanwhile, the state press agency has relea [...]	2006-09-22 07:37:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KIRF PREL MO
06RABAT177	CODEL DUNCAN MEETS WITH MINISTER DELEGATE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of a January 24-26 visit to Morocco, Codel Duncan met with Minister Delegate for Foreign Affairs Taieb Fassi Fihri and toured the Port of Casablanca on January 25. Fassi Fihri underscored Morocco's desire for fostering dialogue with the U.S. Congress and, by extension, [...]	2006-02-03 10:18:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP MO
06RABAT1825	MOROCCO: 2007 UN PANEL OF GOVERNMENTAL EXPERTS ON [...] (U) In an October 2 meeting with MFA Director for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Affairs Azzeddin Farhane, Poloffs urged the GOM to support the final draft of the report of the 2004 Panel as the basis for the 2007 Panel's work, and passed the non-paper conveyed reftel. Farhane thanked pol [...]	2006-10-02 15:51:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA PARM PREL CDG MO
06RABAT1861	MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION SCORECARD [...] On October 5, DCM and econoff delivered Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) scorecard talking points to the MFA's Director of the Americas Desk, Ambassador Abdellah Tazi. Tazi accentuated the positive after learning how Morocco's promotion from MCC's Low Income Country (LIC) category to t [...]	2006-10-05 18:35:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID KMCA MO
06RABAT1862	EU PARLIAMENTARIANS VISIT TO THE WESTERN SAHARA [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On September 29, a clutch of European diplomats informed Poloffs that two European Union (EU) parliamentarians (MEP's) planned to visit the Western Sahara the following week, having previously visited Tindouf [...]	2006-10-05 20:43:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PBTS PHUM MO EU
06RABAT1874	MOROCCAN PLANS FOR S MEETING NEXT WEEK ON THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to Ambassador,s urging that the proposed delegation bring a concrete autonomy plan to Washington, MFA Minister Delegate Fassi Fihri indicated they would not be able to present a written draft plan. There are still many complex internal issues to be resolved, so they [...]	2006-10-06 18:49:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PBTS MO AL
06RABAT1883	ISLAMISTS TAKE OFF ON ROYAL AIR MAROC [...] (C) Summary: The newspaper of the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) has accused Royal Air Maroc (RAM) of "denying its employees the right to pray" and "forcing pilots to break their fasts." The charges are a disingenuous twist on recent administrative steps by the airline. The char [...]	2006-10-10 10:54:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PTER MO
06RABAT1933	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism advance team members Megan Dieter, David Weekman, and James Warden to travel to Rabat, Morocco, October 22 to November 1, 2006. 2. POC is Political Officer Marcel Martinez who can be reached [...]	2006-10-16 14:42:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	WMDT OTRA MO
06RABAT1962	MEPI SMALL GRANTS REPORT FOR MOROCCO [...] Per reftel and telecoms with the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) Tunis Regional Office, post has been asked to report on two MEPI small grant proposals that are now complete - the Zagora Women's Computer Technology Workshop and the Tangier American Legation Museum literacy and vocati [...]	2006-10-19 17:30:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL KMPI MO
06RABAT197	WESTERN SAHARA: MFA REVIEWS PARTY LINE, COMMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On January 23, 2006 visiting NEA/MAG Morocco Desk Officer Robert Ewing and Poloff paid a courtesy call on MFA Director for UN Affairs Nasser Bourita. Bourita said he had to "correct some misunderstandings" concerning the Western Sahara and undertook a long argument ba [...]	2006-02-07 16:20:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PBTS PGOV PREL MO
06RABAT1974	POLISARIO COMMANDER READY TO BEND BUT NOT BREAK [...] (C) At a Polisario "base" east of the berm separating Moroccan and Polisario forces, a Polisario Political/Military commander told an Embassy team and MINURSO commander October 12 that he and his comrades were flexible and prepared to talk, but could not compromise the Sahrawis' right to self- [...]	2006-10-20 15:13:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS KPKO MA WI
06RABAT1975	POLISARIO COMMANDER READY TO BEND BUT NOT BREAK [...] (C) At a Polisario "base" east of the berm separating Moroccan and Polisario forces, a Polisario Political/Military commander told an Embassy team and MINURSO commander October 12 that he and his comrades were flexible and prepared to talk, but could not compromise the Sahrawis' right to self- [...]	2006-10-20 15:24:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS KPKO MA WI
06RABAT1976	PHOSPHATE CONVEYER SABOTAGED IN WESTERN SAHARA [...] (U) Moroccan press has reported that the long conveyer belt which carries phosphate ore from mines at Bou Craa, about 70 KM south of Layoune, to Layoune port on the Atlantic coast was damaged by a sabotage attack October 10. Press reports blame the Polisario for the attack. 2. (C) During [...]	2006-10-20 15:45:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL MA
06RABAT1979	MOROCCAN ROAD SHOW ON WESTERN SAHARA RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Immediately following intensive meetings in DC (October 11-13) to discuss the government of Morocco's (GOM) autonomy plans for the Western Sahara (reftels A, B),the delegation headed to various capitals. The delegation went to Paris, where they were met by President Jacques Chirac. [...]	2006-10-20 17:24:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PBTS MO UN
06RABAT1982	WESTERN SAHARA FLAG FLAP: SEEING RED IN LAYOUNE [...] (C) Summary: During our visit to Western Sahara, embassy team heard from both sides about a high-profile dispute over the lowering of the Moroccan flag over MINURSO Headquarters. As reported in the press, this had prompted protests in front of MINURSO, and had complicated the often-testy relati [...]	2006-10-23 12:21:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MA WI
06RABAT1983	SAHRAWI ACTIVISTS OUTLINE GRIEVANCES AND POSSIBLE [...] (C) During a mid-October visit to Western Sahara, Sahrawi human rights activists indicated profound alienation from Moroccan authorities and deep skepticism about any autonomy package the GOM might be preparing, charging that human rights practices in the region were getting worse. They viewe [...]	2006-10-23 13:05:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV KPKO MA WI
06RABAT1986	SCENESETTER FOR U/S JOSEPH'S VISIT TO MOROCCO [...] (C) The U.S. Mission warmly welcomes your upcoming visit to Morocco. Your visit as co-chair of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI) comes as the U.S. and the Moroccan government are further energizing our bilateral relations. Since the May 2003 terrorist attacks in Casabla [...]	2006-10-23 16:09:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KGIC EAID ECON KPAO PGOV PREL PTER MCAP MO
06RABAT1998	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, Robert G. Joseph and delegation listed in reftel, for the purpose of attending the first Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism meeting in Rabat, Morocco, October 29 to Novemb [...]	2006-10-27 10:07:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	WMDT OTRA MO
06RABAT2	ASYLUM SEEKERS OVERWHELM UNHCR IN RABAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 30, Poloffs from Rabat and Casablanca met with UNHCR Head of Mission, Johannes van der Klaauw, at UNHCR headquarters in Rabat to discuss the status of refugee seekers in Morocco and UNHCR,s future plans. Van der Klaauw highlighted the challenges with the dramatic [...]	2006-01-03 08:53:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB MO PHUM PREF PREL SMIG SOCI
06RABAT201	CARTOON CONTROVERSY: MOROCCANS ANGRY BUT REACTING [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the Danish cartoon controversy, reaction in Morocco has been uniform -- amongst the Moroccan government, the Supreme Council of Ulemas, the political parties, demonstrators, and shopkeepers -- in condemning the drawings and their affront to the Prophet. A Febr [...]	2006-02-07 19:41:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAO KISL MO DK
06RABAT2010	(C-NE6-01369) POLISARIO COMMANDER READY TO BEND BUT NOT BREAK [...] (C) At a Polisario "base" East of the berm separating Moroccan and Polisario forces, a Polisario Political/Military commander told an Embassy team and MINURSO commander October 12 that he and his comrades were flexible and prepared to talk, but could not compromise the Sahrawis' right to self-d [...]	2006-10-30 11:21:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PINR PGOV MO AG KPKO WI
06RABAT2061	NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR A BOYCOTT [...] (C) Summary: A wave of agitation has given new life to an existing "boycott" of cooperation with the US, and has now become linked to the glorification of Hizballah. Six nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have pledged to boycott all programs and activities of the Mission. The largest, the [...]	2006-11-06 11:58:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV PREL MO
06RABAT2076	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMENDING THE CUBA EMBARGO [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per reftel, poloff delivered talking points to Azzedine Farhane, Chief of the United Nations Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, urging Morocco to support the Australian amendment to the Cuba em [...]	2006-11-08 14:17:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UNGA MO
06RABAT2123	SAHRAWI ACTIVIST HAIDAR'S SAFE RETURN TO LAYOUNE [...] (SBU) Aminetou Haidar, the prominent Sahrawi human rights activist, returned to her home in Layoune on November 15, following an extended trip abroad. According to an account posted on the website of the Polisario Front, confirmed by Embassy contacts in Western Sahara, Haidar arrived at Layou [...]	2006-11-16 14:31:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV MO
06RABAT2124	SAHRAWI ACTIVIST HAIDAR'S SAFE RETURN TO LAYOUNE [...] (SBU) Aminetou Haidar, the prominent Sahrawi human rights activist, returned to her home in Layoune on November 15, following an extended trip abroad. According to an account posted on the website of the Polisario Front, confirmed by Embassy contacts in Western Sahara, Haidar arrived at Layou [...]	2006-11-16 14:35:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV MO
06RABAT2149	IRAN BRIEFING: MOROCCO OPPOSED TO IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-21 10:41:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PINR KNNP IR MO
06RABAT215	SCENSETTER FOR VISIT OF SECDEF RUMSFELD [...] (C) Summary: The US Mission and the Moroccan government warmly welcome your upcoming visit. We believe King Mohammed will see the visit as reinforcement of our solid relationship with Morocco, a relationship the King considers very important. Morocco continues cooperation with us to counte [...]	2006-02-09 14:03:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET	MARR MO OVIP PGOV PHUM PREL
06RABAT2170	MOROCCO MACROECONOMIC UPDATE AND ECONOMIC [...] (U) This message provides an update on Morocco's macroeconomic situation, together with the following other economic highlights: A. Moroccan Ports In Compliance With International Security Standards B. FTA Wheat Quotas Unfulfilled C. Parliament Debates Anti-Money Laundering Law D. Ryan [...]	2006-11-24 16:55:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAIR ECON EIND ELAB ETRD KTEX MO
06RABAT2172	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DRL/SEAS SPECIAL [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to DRL/SEAS Special Envoy Dr. Gregg Rickman, to travel to Casablanca and Rabat, Morocco, December 10-11 , 2006 for the purpose conducting meetings with local and government officials, and Religious Leaders on the issue of anti-Semitism. 2 [...]	2006-11-27 13:10:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA MO
06RABAT22	MISSION PLAN FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN MOROCCO: STATUS REPORT #3 [...] (U) Per ref A Action Request, Post submits the following quarterly assessment of its Democratic Reform Strategy as outlined in ref B. Our report is keyed to the Milestones (M) and Tactics (T) outlined in our strategy and provides an update through December 31, 2005. Update narratives contain [...]	2006-01-05 14:43:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON KDEM PGOV SCUL KMPI MO
06RABAT2201	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR S/CT PATRICK WORMAN [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to S/CT regional officer Patrick Worman to travel to Rabat, Morocco, October 22 to November 1, 2006 for the purpose of orientation and consultations with GOM and Embassy officials. 2. POC is Political Officer Ian McCary who can be reached a [...]	2006-12-01 14:45:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA MO
06RABAT2203	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR S/CT PATRICK WORMAN [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to S/CT regional officer Patrick Worman to travel to Rabat, Morocco, December 14 - 15, 2006 for the purpose of orientation and consultations with GOM and Embassy officials. 2. POC is Political Officer Ian McCary who can be reached at: Phon [...]	2006-12-01 16:31:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA MO
06RABAT221	CARTOON CONTROVERSY; NORDIC DIPLOMATS COMMENT; [...] (C) During a February 8 office call to discuss the aborted Nordic mission to Western Sahara (septel),Swedish and Norwegian Embassy First Secretaries Jonas Wendel and Lena Richter Strand told Polcouns that reaction so far against Nordic countries in Morocco in response to the cartoon controve [...]	2006-02-09 15:28:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC KISL MO PGOV PREL
06RABAT2222	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR DRL/SEAS DAMON [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to DRL/SEAS Damon Stevens to travel to Rabat, Morocco, December 10-11, 2006 for the purpose of attending meetings with local and government officials, and Religious Leaders on the issue of anti-Semitism. 2. Control Officer for the visit is [...]	2006-12-07 09:42:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA MO
06RABAT225	NEW CEO OF MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION VISITS [...] (U) Summary. New Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO, Ambassador John Danilovich, visited Morocco January 24- 27 to review and discuss the country's progress in preparing its compact proposal to use MCC funds. Danilovich and his staff met with Prime Minister Driss Jettou, the GOM's M [...]	2006-02-10 10:43:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ECON SOCI KMCA MO
06RABAT2252	HUMAN RIGHTS DAY SIT-IN IN LAAYOUNE ATTACKED BY [...] (SBU) To commemorate International Human Rights Day, the Sahrawi Association for Grave Human Rights Abuses (ASVDH),held a sit-in in Laayoune on December 10. The ASVDH stated that they had received the appropriate Government of Morocco (GOM) approvals, i.e., notification of an event 48 hours [...]	2006-12-13 15:13:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PBTS MO
06RABAT2254	WESTERN SAHARA: AUTONOMY IDEAS EMERGE DESPITE [...] (C) Summary: The so-called "CORCAS" autonomy plan that its president announced he would submit to the King was not broadly approved by Sahrawis, even among CORCAS itself. In the event CORCAS had legitimately approved, it still would have meant little, as CORCAS itself is not a representative [...]	2006-12-13 15:15:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PBTS PGOV PHUM MO
06RABAT2259	MOROCCO/IRAQ: NO REVELATIONS BUT ZEBARI GETS [...] (C) MFA Director General for Middle East and International Organizations Mohammed Azeroual briefed Polcouns December 13 on the December 6-8 visit to Morocco of Iraqi FM Hoshiyar Zebari. Azeroual said Zebari paid a courtesy call on the Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament Abdel Wahed Radi [...]	2006-12-14 12:32:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ IR SY MO
06RABAT2280	MOROCCO'S 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] Morocco achieved significant reductions in cannabis production and cultivation, although it remains one of the world's major producers and exporters of cannabis. According to the Agency for the Promotion of Economic and Social Development of the Northern Prefectures and Provinces of the King [...]	2006-12-18 11:26:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV MO
06RABAT2282	HHS/CDC COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR JOSEPH [...] Embassy Rabat is pleased to grant country clearance to Joseph Mulinare, Medical Officer, DBDDD, CDC, HHS to travel to Rabat, Morocco January 15-27, 2007 for the purpose of providing technical assistance, and to participate in a mission in order to provided technical assistance to the nutrition [...]	2006-12-18 13:53:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA OTRA MO CDC
06RABAT2296	URGING MFA TO REACH OUT ON SAHARA AND DEFEND [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-20 14:58:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM MO
06RABAT2337	MOROCCAN JUSTICE MINISTER ON PRESS AND POLLING [...] (C) During a December 22 meeting with Moroccan Justice Minister Mohammed Bouzouba, the Ambassador urged that pending amendments to the press code encourage journalistic responsibility without impinging on freedom of expression. The Ambassador also expressed concern that a proposed law regulati [...]	2006-12-26 17:18:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PTER EFIN MO
06RABAT2347	MEPI UPDATE FOR MOROCCO [...] Summary: This cable highlights MEPI programs and initiatives in Morocco from July 1-September 30. Activities included a project officer training session at post, a monitoring visit by staff from MEPI's Regional Office in Tunis, a training seminar for MEPI Program Officers in Tunis and two ne [...]	2006-12-28 17:18:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PGOV ETRD EINV KMPI MO
06RABAT2351	MOROCCO-EU OPEN SKY AGREEMENT FEEDS TOURISM BOOM [...] (U) Summary: Morocco's booming tourist industry received a boost on December 12 with the signing of a new EU-Morocco open sky agreement. The agreement replaces all existing Moroccan bilateral aviation agreements with European Union (EU) member states and supports the GOM's goal of doubling th [...]	2006-12-29 17:12:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON MO
06RABAT238	WESTERN SAHARA: DISSIDENTS SAY NO TO AUTONOMY, NO [...] (C) Summary: Continuing our dialogue with Sahrawi civil society, emboffs and NEA/MAG Desk Officer met with a group of Sahrawi dissidents at the Laayoune home of prominent activist Mohammed Dadach for an hour the evening of January 25. The dissidents were members of the "Association for Sahr [...]	2006-02-10 16:41:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS PHUM MO
06RABAT24	MOROCCO'S EQUITY AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION [...] (C) Summary: The Equity and Reconciliation Commission's (IER) mandate ended November 30, bringing to a close the IER's almost two-year investigation into human rights abuses in Morocco between 1956 and 1999. The IER's final report was submitted to King Mohammed VI on December 1. On Decembe [...]	2006-01-05 18:50:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM MO
06RABAT240	WESTERN SAHARA: MINURSO'S HOPES AND FRUSTRATIONS [...] (C) Summary: During NEA/MAG desk officer's January 23-27 visit to Morocco and the Western Sahara, Poloffs and desk officer met over dinner with Francesco Bastagli, the Secretary General's Special Envoy to the Western Sahara and SIPDIS MINURSO Chief of Staff Philippe Elghouyal on January 2 [...]	2006-02-10 17:36:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MO PBTS PGOV PHUM
06RABAT248	WESTERN SAHARA: NORDICS PONDER NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Swedish and Norwegian Embassy First Secretaries Jonas Wendel and Lene Richter Strand called on Polcouns February 8 for a read-out of the embassy's late January visit to Laayoune (Refs A-D),and in turn updated Polcouns on the latest Nordic thinking on how to respond to what they view as u [...]	2006-02-13 15:57:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT283	WESTERN SAHARA: THE WALI EXPOUNDS ON THE CURRENT [...] (C) Summary: On January 25, NEA/MAG desk officer and emboffs met with Driss Sharqi, the Wali of the Laayoune region of the Western Sahara. The discussion covered autonomy (septel),Sahrawi demonstrations, the impact of the Equity and Reconciliation's (IER) final report, the development sit [...]	2006-02-17 17:32:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PBTS MO
06RABAT31	THE KING CALLS FOR TURNING TO THE FUTURE [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (U) King Mohammed VI delivered a televised speech to the Moroccan nation on January 6, following midday prayers. The five-minute speech was announced in the press the previous day to maximize interest. In attendance [...]	2006-01-06 18:32:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM MO
06RABAT326	WESTERN SAHARA: MOROCCO SEEKS US INTERVENTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOM has asked at the highest levels that the U.S. demarche Algeria to help prevent a march of Sahrawi and European civilians across the berm in the Western Sahara, and the heavily land-mined area adjacent to the berm, reportedly planned by the Polisario to occur in conjuncti [...]	2006-02-24 14:53:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET	AG KPKO MO PARM PBTS PINR PREL
06RABAT337	MOROCCO: UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS' REPORT ON [...] (C) Poloffs met February 21 with MFA Director of United Nations and International Organizations Nasser Bourita to discuss reftel points on the UN Special Rapporteurs' report on Guantanamo. Poloff delivered to Bourita a copy of reftel points in non-paper format. In response, Bourita commented [...]	2006-02-24 17:02:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO MO PREL PTER
06RABAT344	WESTERN SAHARA: MINURSO UPDATE AS OF MORNING OF [...] (C) Following up on reftels, Polcouns called MINURSO political officer Alexandyr Sporys the morning of February 27 for an update on weekend activity in Tifariti and a status report on expected activity in Tifariti and Tindouf on February 27 and 28 to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the foun [...]	2006-02-27 12:02:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT355	WESTERN SAHARA: MINURSO REPORTS CONTINUED CALM IN [...] (C) MINURSO Political Officer Alexandr Sporys telephoned Polcouns at 8 pm local time February 27 to brief on the day's activities in Tifariti. Sporys said MINURSO peacekeepers based in Tifariti had observed part of the day's festivities in keeping with MINURSO's mandate. MINURSO estimated th [...]	2006-02-28 13:00:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT356	AML: PROSPECTS FOR PARLIAMENTARY PASSAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the controversial draft bill has been languishing in interministerial vetting for three years, Government of Morocco (GOM) officials say the government will push through parliament new anti-money laundering (AML) legislation this spring. Citing a full legislative agen [...]	2006-02-28 13:53:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PTER PGOV MO
06RABAT359	GOM REFUGEE POLICY: LIMITED INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) MFA Secretary General Omar Hilale told Polcouns February 22 that the GOM had "no objection" to an international refugee resettlement program out of Morocco provided it remained low-key, with as little media attention as possible to avoid attracting more would-be refugees to Morocco. He s [...]	2006-02-28 21:36:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET	MO PGOV PREF PREL
06RABAT36	MEPI UPDATE FOR MOROCCO [...] Summary: This cable highlights MEPI programs and initiatives in Morocco from October 1 to December 31. Activities included visits by MEPI Washington, the Ambassador's meeting with Global Rights, English ACCESS Microscholarships, capacity building using ICT, Nomadic Craft Caravan, a Family C [...]	2006-01-09 14:31:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PGOV ETRD EINV KMPI MO
06RABAT385	GROWTH CONSTRAINTS -- APPLYING RODRIK'S MODEL TO [...] (C) Summary and introduction: When judged against traditional "Washington Consensus" criteria (e.g. fiscal discipline, liberalization, privatization, and openness to investment) Morocco receives consistently high grades from international financial institutions and credit rating agencies. [...]	2006-03-02 11:28:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAID MO
06RABAT386	GROWTH CONSTRAINTS -- APPLYING RODRIK'S MODEL TO [...] (C) Summary and introduction: When judged against traditional "Washington Consensus" criteria (e.g. fiscal discipline, liberalization, privatization, and openness to investment) Morocco receives consistently high grades from international financial institutions and credit rating agencies. [...]	2006-03-02 11:28:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAID MO
06RABAT389	WESTERN SAHARA: PREPARING THE GOM FOR AUTONOMY [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with the MOI and MFA on February 17 in Rabat, and reiterated during the embassy's February 22 meeting with MFA SecGen Omar Hilale, visiting NEA/MAG Office Director William Jordan urged GOM officials to be expansive in their thinking on autonomy to make it real and cred [...]	2006-03-02 14:27:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT39	MOROCCO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] Government of Morocco poverty figures indicate that from 1999 to 2004 the number of Moroccans living below the poverty line - defined as a monthly household income of $187 for a family of 5.6 people living in an urban setting, or $194 for a family of 6.4 people living in a rural setting - has [...]	2006-01-09 17:10:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ELTN SENV MO
06RABAT398	MOROCCO: IS THE GOVERNMENT STRANGLING THE PRESS? [...] (C) Freedom of the press continues to be a significant political and human rights issue in Morocco, and the mission continues to discuss the issue with the GOM at high levels, and to raise concerns as we see them. The GOM's latest tack appears to be one of levying heavy fines on offending p [...]	2006-03-03 15:23:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL PBTS MO
06RABAT399	CIVIL SOCIETY INVOLVEMENT IN JUDICIAL REFORM [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The American Bar Association (ABA) has MEPI and DRL funds to implement "rule of law" reform changes in Morocco. One of the MEPI funded programs is "judicial development" (reftel A). In light of th [...]	2006-03-03 15:58:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV MO
06RABAT402	MOROCCO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] Fishing, which employs nearly one in ten Moroccans, brought in nearly $400 million in 2005, a 12 percent increase over the previous year. The highest growth came from catches brought into the ports of Tan Tan in southern Morocco and Laayoune, in the Western Sahara. -------- Bull Run ---- [...]	2006-03-03 16:20:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIS EAIR EINV ECPS MO
06RABAT431	WESTERN SAHARA: AUTONOMY, INTEGRATION, AND [...] (C) Summary: During the mission's last visit to the Western Sahara in late January, and in a subsequent conversation with the Mayor of Laayoune in Rabat, emboffs have had opportunities to engage with local officials, NGOs, and other contacts concerning their views on autonomy, integration, [...]	2006-03-08 15:57:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PBTS PHUM MO
06RABAT443	DEMARCHE: ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to the office of MFA Director for Arab and Islamic Affairs Mohammed Azeroual on March 3. Post will report any substantive response septel. ****************************************** Visit Embassy Rabat's Classified Website; http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea [...]	2006-03-09 18:42:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MO
06RABAT448	UPDATE ON ICRC ACTIVITIES IN MOROCCO [...] (SBU) Over lunch March 2 in Rabat, visiting ICRC Regional Representative Bernard Pfefferle and Polcouns discussed the following issues: Western Sahara -------------- 2. (C) Pfefferle sought latest US views on the political situation in the Western Sahara. Polcouns said the US believe [...]	2006-03-10 14:44:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET	MO PGOV PHUM PREL
06RABAT453	FTA Implementation: First Bumps in the Road [...] (SBU) Summary: During the first 75 days of FTA implementation Moroccan and U.S. businesses have experienced a few difficulties. The most pressing and disturbing implementation difficulties have been in the area of agricultural trade, including an unfavorable rules of origin determination f [...]	2006-03-13 10:54:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR BEXP KIPR KTIA MO
06RABAT461	WESTERN SAHARA: MOROCCAN POLITICAL PARTIES KICK [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On March 10-11, the Islamist Party for Justice and Development (PJD),teaming up with the smaller Forces Citoyennes party (FC),held a conference at the Tour Hassan Hotel in Rabat entitled "Regionalization and Autonomy: Models and Options." International experts fro [...]	2006-03-14 17:56:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT469	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CHARITIES AND MENA-FATF [...] (SBU) Econoff met March 14 with Moroccan Ministry of Finance official Abdelaziz Khaoua discuss terrorism finance-related issues and to deliver reftel demarche concerning the charities discussion at the MENA-FATF plenary in Cairo next week. 2. (SBU) Khaoua was receptive to demarche and co [...]	2006-03-15 16:17:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KFTN PTER XF MO
06RABAT48	PJD'S OTHMANI ON PARTY SPLIT, WESTERN SAHARA, 2007 [...] (C) Summary: During a January 6 meeting with Emboffs, Islamist Party for Justice and Development (PJD) Secretary General Saad Eddin Othmani Othmani downplayed the reported split within the PJD describing it as a handful of individuals the party wanted to get rid of. He highlighted the party [...]	2006-01-10 15:50:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PREL MO
06RABAT49	MOROCCO SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT POLICY [...] Econoff met Jan. 10 with Mohammed El Kadiri, Technical Director for Moroccan national telecoms regulator ANRT to discuss Moroccan spectrum management policy per request in Ref A. Answers below are keyed to questions in Reftel. 2. A) The authority responsible for spectrum management in Mor [...]	2006-01-10 17:14:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS ECON MO
06RABAT498	STAFFDEL PHELAN'S WESTERN SAHARA MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: Staffdel Phelan and EconCouns visited Laayoune, Western Sahara on March 18 as swarms of workers readied the city ) festooned with Moroccan flags -- for King Mohammed VI's imminent arrival. MINURSO officials briefed Phelan on the mission's activities, previewed the draft SYG re [...]	2006-03-21 08:29:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS OREP MO
06RABAT50	REP. LANTOS DISCUSSES IRAQ, IRAN, AND SYRIA WITH [...] (C) Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) met with FM Benaissa for 90 minutes on January 4 at the MFA. Benaissa lauded US-Morocco relations and outlined many of the accomplishments of King Mohammed in the area of womens rights, equity and reconciliation, and press freedom. Benaissa was gloomy about Iraq, [...]	2006-01-10 17:58:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD MO PGOV PREL PTER
06RABAT507	MFA, MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS OBJECT TO MEPI [...] (C) Summary: Minister-Delegate for Foreign Affairs Fassi Fihri and Communications Minister Benabdallah told Ambassador Riley March 20 that media outlets accepting MEPI grants or other foreign funding would constitute a violation of Moroccan law, punishable by fines and imprisonment. They e [...]	2006-03-21 18:14:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO KMPI KPAO PHUM PREL
06RABAT517	HUMAN RIGHTS: PARLIAMENT PASSES NEW LAW AGAINST [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) On March 16, the GOM announced parliament's passage of a new law against torture, according to the English-language Morocco Times. The Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bouzoubaa, reportedly said, "The new law aga [...]	2006-03-23 11:50:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PBTS MO
06RABAT530	MOROCCO SEEKS USG SUPPORT FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] On Thursday March 23, 2006, Embassy received Diplomatic Note number 961 from the Moroccan MFA, requesting USG support for its candidature to the newly-created UN Human Rights Council (reftel). A copy of the diplomatic note has been faxed separately to NEA/MAG. 2. Begin text of GOM transl [...]	2006-03-24 17:24:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	MO PHUM PREL
06RABAT539	WESTERN SAHARA: A TOUGH SPEECH CAPS A MOMENTOUS [...] (C) King Mohammed spent five days in the Western Sahara, March 20-25, his first visit to the disputed territory since March 2002. The timing of the visit, coming amidst a public consultation process on autonomy and private diplomacy by Moroccan Deputy FM Fassi Fihri with Paris and Washington, [...]	2006-03-27 19:16:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT540	THE BERBER (AMAZIGH) IN MOROCCO, PART I [...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff and PAO traveled from Rabat to Al-Akhawayn University, located in the foothills of the Middle Atlas mountain range, south to Erfoud in the anti-Atlas, west to Agdaz and north to Ouarzazate and through the High Atlas range to Marrakesh from March 10 through March 17 on a c [...]	2006-03-28 11:06:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MO
06RABAT552	WESTERN SAHARA: THE MFA HELPS UNVEIL THE NEW [...] (C) Summary: The MFA requested the Ambassador's attendance at a meeting on March 28 with MFA SecGen Omar Hilale and other Western Hemisphere ambassadors. The subject of the meeting was the King's recent speech (reftel) and the formation of the "Conseil Royal Consultatif pour les Affaires S [...]	2006-03-28 17:40:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PBTS MO
06RABAT557	SPANISH AMBASSADOR ON WESTERN SAHARA, MIGRATION, [...] (C) Summary: Over lunch March 20, Spanish Ambassador Planas Puchades told Ambassador Riley that Spain continued to encourage Morocco to produce a credible autonomy plan for the Western Sahara. He dismissed alleged splits within the Polisario, suggesting the recently emerged faction "Line of Martyrs [...]	2006-03-29 14:46:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PREL SNAR
06RABAT558	AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON NEW MINISTER OF [...] (C) Ambassador called on new Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa the afternoon of March 28. Ambassador expressed appreciation for the strong relations between the USG and the ministry and encouraged the MOI to go forward with anti money laundering legislation as well as a letter of agreement [...]	2006-03-29 15:06:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
06RABAT561	WESTERN SAHARA: INFORMAL MINURSO VIEWS ON CURRENT [...] (C) MINURSO Political Officer Alexander Sporys (please protect) visited Rabat March 22-24 for consultations with the P-5, Spanish, and South Africans at the request of SRSG Bastagli. Sporys called on Polcouns March 23. SRSG Bastagli is expected in Rabat for follow-on discussions in early Apr [...]	2006-03-29 18:52:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT565	MOROCCO'S POLITICAL PARTIES: LAPDOGS OR DEMOCRATS? [...] (C) Summary: The series of splits, mergers, and coups that have dotted Morocco's already fractured political landscape since November 2005 attest to the fact that posturing for the 2007 parliamentary elections is in full swing. They also speak volumes about the force that King Mohammed VI's [...]	2006-03-30 16:41:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM MO
06RABAT567	THE AMAZIGH (BERBERS),PART II: ERFOUD AND RISSANI [...] (C) Summary: This is the second in a series of cables drawn from a combined outreach and reporting trip by Poloff and PAO to the anti-Atlas from March 10-17. Erfoud is a medium-sized town, which is quickly becoming a tourist hub for the region, whereas Rissani is a small town on the road sou [...]	2006-03-30 17:01:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL
06RABAT615	THE AMAZIGH (BERBERS),PART III: ASSOCIATIONS IN [...] (C) Summary: This cable is the third in a series of cables from a combined outreach and reporting trip by Poloff and PAO to the anti-Atlas (south side of the Atlas Mountains) from March 10-17. The area discussed is part of the Meknes-Tafilalt region (reftels) and, like the Erfoud area, it [...]	2006-04-06 16:29:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL MO
06RABAT616	SEVENTEEN ACTIVISTS IN THE WESTERN SAHARA: BEATEN [...] (C) Summary: On April 3, seventeen Sahrawi prisoners were brought to court from Laayoune prison for their trials. According to the Polisario website and Sahrawi activist Brahim Afari who called Polcouns April 4, the prisoners were "severely beaten" in vans on the way to the court. One acti [...]	2006-04-06 17:32:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN PBTS PHUM MO
06RABAT618	EMBASSY OFFICERS DISCUSS FOREIGN POLICY WITH [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Poloffs visited Morocco's prestigious Al-Akhawayn University on April 3 to meet with faculty and discuss US-Morocco relations and human rights with undergraduate and graduate students as part o [...]	2006-04-07 08:13:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PBTS MO

06RABAT635	THE AMAZIGH (BERBERS),PART IV: WESTERN ANTI-ATLAS [...] (C) Summary: From March 10-17, Poloff and PAO were on a combined outreach and reporting trip in the anti-Atlas, south of the Atlas mountains on the edge of the Sahara Desert. This cable is the fourth in a series. The population of the western section of the anti-Atlas is larger, and, the as [...]	2006-04-07 16:08:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SCUL MO
06RABAT637	WESTERN SAHARA: BASTAGLI MAKES THE CASE FOR [...] (C) Summary: During an April 6 meeting with the Ambassador, SRSG Bastagli argued that tighter and more robust operations over the last six months had made MINURSO a more effective force. Violations of the ceasefire were down 50 percent. Confidence-building measures remained essential to UN [...]	2006-04-07 16:40:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT638	MCA: MOROCCO HOLDS NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 28-29, the GOM hosted a national consultative workshop with NGOs, local associations, academics, private sector representatives and members of the international donor community as part of its consultation process for developing a compact proposal to access funds from [...]	2006-04-07 18:27:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KMCA EAID ECON SOCI MO
06RABAT661	THE BARCELONA PROCESS IN MOROCCO [...] (SBU) Summary. Currently, the European Union (EU) has over $1.5 billion in ongoing projects in Morocco under the Barcelona Process (BP). These projects cover issues related to economics, social services, environmental protection and human rights. The European Commission (EC) in Rabat repor [...]	2006-04-13 16:32:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PGOV SOCI MO
06RABAT665	ABU MAZEN VISITS MOROCCO; HAMAS NEXT? [...] (C) FM Benaissa invited Ambassador to the MFA the morning of April 13 to discuss the visit of Palestinian Authority President Abu Mazen (note: Abu Mazen arrived in Morocco April 12. King Mohammed held a dinner for him the evening of April 12 in Casablanca, attended by Arab diplomats and seni [...]	2006-04-13 18:51:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PREL
06RABAT668	MISSION PLAN FOR ADVANCING DEMOCRATIC REFORMS IN [...] (U) Per ref A Action Request, Post submits the following quarterly assessment of its Democratic Reform Strategy as outlined in ref B. Our report is keyed to the Milestones (M) and Tactics (T) outlined in our strategy and provides an update through March 31, 2006. Update narratives contain bot [...]	2006-04-14 11:24:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON KDEM PGOV SCUL KMPI MO
06RABAT671	WESTERN SAHARA: GOM CLAIMS IT'S NOT STALLING ON [...] (C) Following up on SRSG Bastagli's April 6 comment that Morocco had turned off a third attempted visit to the Western Sahara by the UN High Commission for Human Rights (reftel),Polcouns called MFA Director for UN Affairs Nasser Bourita the afternoon of April 13 to get the official Moroccan [...]	2006-04-14 15:18:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT676	IS THERE AN AMAZIGH (BERBER) IDENTITY IN MOROCCO? [...] (C) Summary: While the constitution of Morocco recognizes ethnic and religious diversity, it is also clear that citizens are to think of themselves as Moroccan, not as members of separate ethnic or religious groups. Recent Amazigh history in Morocco (reftel A),however, points to the perse [...]	2006-04-14 16:33:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MO
06RABAT678	MOROCCO: CLARIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES AT THE U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-14 17:13:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL KTBT MO
06RABAT679	MOROCCO: FORMATION OF UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] Reftel letter from the Secretary was delivered to the office of Foreign Minister Mohamed Benaissa on April 14. Post also delivered reftel demarche to the office of MFA Director of UN Affairs Nasser Bourita on April 14. Post will report any substantive response septel. ********************** [...]	2006-04-14 17:31:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KUNR OPDC PREL PHUM UNGA MO
06RABAT680	DEMARCHE ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - AFRICAN [...] Post delivered reftel demarche to the office of MFA Director of UN Affairs Nasser Bourita on April 14. Post will report any substantive response septel. **************************************** Visit Embassy Rabat's Classified Website; http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/rabat ************* [...]	2006-04-14 17:33:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KUNR PHUM UNCHR UN MO
06RABAT697	MOROCCO: PARTICIPATION IN COESPU'S SECOND ROUND OF [...] (SBU) Poloffs met April 10 with MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs Nasser Bourita to discuss reftel request encouraging Moroccan participation in upcoming COESPU classes. Poloff delivered to Bourita a copy of reftel points in non-paper format. In response, Bourita ex [...]	2006-04-18 09:08:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR IT MO
06RABAT722	WESTERN SAHARA: AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOR CREDIBLE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Deputy FM Taieb Fassi Fihri for two hours the afternoon of April 17 to deliver points on the possible visit of Hamas SecGen Mishal (Refs A and B). Most of the meeting was consumed by a discussion on the Western Sahara, however, as Fassi Fihri recapped his re [...]	2006-04-20 11:22:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PGOV PREL
06RABAT730	MONEY LAUNDERING BILL PASSES COUNCIL OF [...] (U) On April 19, Morocco's long awaited draft Anti- Money Laundering (AML) bill was approved the Moroccan Council of Government (the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Driss Jettou). After clearing the Council of Government, a Ministerial Council, presided over by King Mohammed VI, will then [...]	2006-04-21 08:46:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTFN EFIN PTER PGOV MO
06RABAT734	WESTERN SAHARA: MOROCCANS NERVOUS ABOUT IMPENDING [...] (C) Deputy FM Fassi Fihri telephoned the Ambassador late afternoon April 20 to express concern about the contents of the SYG's report on the Western Sahara, soon to be released, as well as impending action on the Western Sahara by the UN Security Council. Fassi Fihri understood that the Secur [...]	2006-04-21 11:27:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PBTS PHUM PREL
06RABAT742	MOROCCO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] An EU-Morocco fisheries agreement signed in July 2005 has been delayed due to opposition from some EU governments about whether the deal should include fishing grounds off the disputed Western Sahara. Last year, after six years of talks, the GOM signed a $160 million, four-year deal that wou [...]	2006-04-21 15:05:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIS EWWT KFLU KHIV MO WS
06RABAT748	MOROCCO: MFA VIEWS ON COESPU PARTICIPATION [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Following up on reftels, Poloff met April 20 with MFA Bilateral Affairs Officer Karim Halim to discuss Moroccan participation in COESPU's second round of classes in May. Confirming the Moroccan Gendarmerie [...]	2006-04-21 17:18:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR IT MO
06RABAT779	GOM SEEKS US SUPPORT IN BID FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) Post received the following diplomatic note and aide-memoire seeking US support for Morocco's candidacy to the Human Rights Council. As the aide-memoire is a comprehensive summary of how the GOM views its [...]	2006-04-26 16:21:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV MO
06RABAT786	INTERIOR MINISTER'S FIRST INTERVIEW OFFERS GLIMPSE [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Coming on the heels of his recent visit to France, Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa provided April 19, 2006 the Moroccan French-language daily L'Economiste his first official interview since being appointed [...]	2006-04-27 11:00:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM PTER MO
06RABAT808	Misuse of Life Sciences Research - Morocco [...] On April 25, post delivered reftel demarche and questions regarding misuse of life sciences to Dr. Khalid Temsamani, National Coordinator of Materials Science at the Department of Scientific Research at the Moroccan Ministry of Higher Education. Temsamani provided responses and point of cont [...]	2006-04-28 12:04:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO PTER KTIA MO
06RABAT816	SCENESETTER FOR FM BENAISSA'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) FM Benaissa is coming to Washington May 2 after a bruising few weeks for Morocco on the Western Sahara. The latest UN resolution was a narrowly dodged bullet, from Morocco's point of view. The MFA in Rabat and Moroccan Embassy in Washington both lobbied vigorously to avoid a resolution [...]	2006-04-28 16:41:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON MO PGOV PREL PTER
06RABAT880	MOROCCO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] Economic and commercial issues dominated Chinese President Hu Jiantao's April 23-25 visit to Morocco - his first stop on a three country Africa tour following his trips to Washington and Riyadh. Responding to Moroccan fears of China's domination of manufactured exports, particularly the text [...]	2006-05-04 11:04:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD ENRG EFIN EAGR KIPR KTEX MO
06RABAT908	AMAZIGH (BERBER) CONFERENCE DEMANDS [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (U) Le Reporter (April 20),a weekly French-language magazine format journal, reported the results of the April 7 and 8 Amazigh (Berber) conference held in Meknes. (Note: Meknes is located east of Rabat in the Mekne [...]	2006-05-10 08:32:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MO
06RABAT918	CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN MOROCCO: IS IT ON THE [...] (C) Summary: Constitutional reform is regularly brought up by contacts and is occasionally a topic in the press. Reform, however, does not mean the entire constitution but rather portions of it which directly relate to the interest or interests of a particular group. Whereas Moroccans desc [...]	2006-05-11 13:49:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR MO
06RABAT922	IMPLEMENTATION OF BOYCOTT STATUTES - MOROCCO [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-11 16:10:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	KBCT ABLD PHUM ETTC MO
06RABAT961	MOROCCO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] Overall GDP grew by 5.7 percent annually at the end of the first quarter of 2006, while non-agricultural GDP grew by four percent, a consistent figure over several quarters. A report by the Moroccan Government's High Planning Commission said GDP was helped by strong performance in constructio [...]	2006-05-18 13:08:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECPS EAGR ELAB MO
06RABAT968	MOURAD EL HAMYANI DEPORTATION [...] (S) Embassy Rabat provides the following background concerning the possible deportation of Moroccan terrorist suspect Mourad El Hamyani to Morocco. The Moroccan police have an arrest warrant for El Hamyani for criminal activity, including armed robbery with the intent to use the profits to f [...]	2006-05-19 16:20:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET	MO PHUM PREL PTER
06RABAT985	MEPI RESPONSIBILITIES REVISITED [...] In ref A, post requested clarification of project officer responsibilities related to MEPI grants and information on available/appropriate training in order to carry out these duties effectively. Recently, post's project officers have received delegation of authority notices from MEPI's Regi [...]	2006-05-23 11:12:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT EAID KMPI MO
06RABAT986	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PARTY OF PROGRESS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The Ambassador met May 19 for one hour with Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) secretary general Ismail Alaoui at the party's headquarters SIPDIS in Rabat. The Ambassador was accompanied by Poloff (notetaker),while Alaoui was joined by PPS executive commi [...]	2006-05-23 12:03:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS MO
06RANGOON1012	PROGRESS ON TRANSNATIONAL TIP SLOWING [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-20 07:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KWMN KCRM PREL BM
06RANGOON1013	SURRENDER OF SHAN STATE ARMY-SOUTH BRIGADE [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-20 07:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SNAR PINS BM
06RANGOON1014	BURMA,S NGOS OPERATING IN AN UNSTABLE ENVIRONMENT [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-20 08:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON EAID PREL BM
06RANGOON1057	INSPIRING THOSE WHO SEEK CHANGE IN BURMA [...] (C) Summary: Ludu Sein Win shows what can be done in Burma today, contradicting the many who have concluded that nothing can be done. He defied his police monitors to write a well-articulated plea for change that appeared May 23 in the International Herald Tribune. Increasing desperation has [...]	2006-07-25 10:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM
06RANGOON1061	JOHNNY COMES MARCHING "HOME" TO BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOB confirmed rumors that Johnny Htoo, former child soldier and co-leader of Karen rebel faction "God's Army," surrendered to the SPDC with eight others on July 19. Along with his twin brother Luther, he briefly led local Karen compatriots to resist the Burmese Army in the la [...]	2006-07-26 08:46:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS BM
06RANGOON1065	DISCORD AMONG BURMA'S KAREN INSURGENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The power vacuum created by the grave illness of Karen National Union (KNU) leader General Bo Mya has opened a serious split between the KNU and its armed faction, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA). While the KNU feels pressured by exile groups to continue the fight, the [...]	2006-07-27 10:30:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS ASEC BM
06RANGOON1077	MIN KO NAING TRIES TO UNIFY BURMA'S OPPOSITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Min Ko Naing, former political prisoner and leader of the "88 Generation Students," used the July 19 Martyrs' Day holiday to show support for the NLD in an ongoing effort to mend the fractured relationship between the NLD and student groups. Min Ko Naing is taking on a more act [...]	2006-07-31 10:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1098	IMF TEAM VISITS BURMA FOR ARTICLE IV CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team visited Burma July 10-21 for annual Article IV consultations. Charge met with them privately during their visit plus hosted a separate roundtable for the team with Burmese private sector business and economic observers. The IMF team re [...]	2006-08-03 03:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PGOV IMF BM
06RANGOON1115	A BURMESE GENERAL GETS HIS COMEUPPANCE [...] (C) Summary: Charge and DATT met with LTG Myint Swe August 2 to see what kind of dialogue we could maintain. It became clear that Myint Swe's previously expansive view of his areas of authority (reftels) has been considerably reduced. Now he's just a general responsible for embassy security [...]	2006-08-08 03:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1124	BURMA: CHARGE MEETS WITH MINISTER FOR HOME AFFAIRS [...] (C) SUMMARY: After several requests and cancellations, Charge finally met with Minister for Home Affairs Maung Oo to stress the importance of meaningful progress toward democracy, the release of political prisoners, and greater access to Burma for journalists. The Minister lamented the West [...]	2006-08-08 11:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON1136	WA TURNING TO CHINA RATHER THAN BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Wa are rapidly being pulled into China's orbit and will resist any new concessions to the Burmese regime that would restrict their current relative autonomy. While they will talk with the Burmese, the Wa have no intention of ever giving up their arms. The ban on opium cul [...]	2006-08-10 07:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR PREL BM
06RANGOON1208	ADDITIONS TO BURMA'S REPRESENTATIVES TO UNGA [...] The GOB sent us 2 additional names for their representation at the 61st UN General Assembly. They are: His Excellency U Kyi Thein, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, New Delhi Member Daw Myat Myat So, Director, Foreign Economic Relations Department, Ministry of National Plann [...]	2006-08-22 03:16:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP UNGA BM
06RANGOON1216	LOOKING FOR RICE IN BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB closely monitors rising rice prices to avoid social unrest if Rangoon residents can't find, or can't afford, enough rice - Burma's staple food. Recent official efforts to control rice prices include a virtual ban on rice exports from May through July of this year and the [...]	2006-08-23 02:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON1241	RESPONSES ON KARENNI NATIONAL DEFENCE ARMY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Little information is available about the Karenni National Defence Army (KNDA) outside of open sources. Post has no information or evidence that the KNDA has engaged in any activities that are considered acts of terrorism, nor has it posed any threat to U.S. national security or [...]	2006-08-30 09:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PREF PTER BM
06RANGOON1249	BURMA: AI UPDATE - AUGUST 30, 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: Burma has reported no new cases of Avian Influenza (AI) since a February/March 2006 poultry outbreak, which was contained in April. Donors, including USAID, support targeted WHO and FAO activities to improve local capacity to address AI. Although the GOB continues to cooperate [...]	2006-08-31 08:04:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON1269	AUNG SAN SUU KYI IN GOOD HEALTH, BUT NOT FREE [...] (C) Summary: Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) had another meeting with her doctor on August 24, two and half months after she last saw him. According to Dr. Tin Myo Win (aka Douglas),she remains in good health and keeps busy with meditation, listening to the radio, and walking around her compound. H [...]	2006-09-06 08:04:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1287	RESPONSES ON CHIN NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post has no evidence that Chin National League for Democracy (CNLD) has ever planned or engaged in violence to achieve its objectives, nor that it poses any threat to the United States. The CNLD is an ethnic political party with no armed faction. The CNLD has held discussions wi [...]	2006-09-08 06:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PTER BM
06RANGOON1288	RESPONSES ON THE ARAKAN LIBERATION PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post has no information that the Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) has engaged in any activities that are considered acts of terrorism, nor do we have any information that it poses any threat to U.S. national security or to the security of U.S. nationals or allies. Little information [...]	2006-09-08 06:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PINS PTER BM
06RANGOON1323	UNFPA PROPOSES TO EXPAND ITS BURMA PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary: At its September 13 Executive Board meeting in New York, UNFPA plans to propose a new four-year program for assistance in Burma that expands its current projects into new areas, including emergency obstetric care and expanded HIV/AIDs prevention, according to UNFPA's representa [...]	2006-09-13 07:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON1327	PREPARING GAMBARI FOR HIS NEXT VISIT TO BURMA [...] (C) Summary: Post supports U/SYG Gambari's efforts to foster dialogue in Burma, but another trip stage-managed by the regime would be counterproductive. The regime's extension of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest shortly after Gambari's last visit was a slap in the face of the UN. Gambari nee [...]	2006-09-13 10:39:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON1360	CHALLENGES IN REMOTE SOUTHERN CHIN STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: One visit to Mindat District in southern Chin State is enough to confirm it is one of the least developed areas in Burma. The impoverished majority Christian population faces widespread officially sanctioned religious discrimination. Lack of employment options remains a major [...]	2006-09-19 05:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID ECON BM
06RANGOON1361	SPDC AND UNICEF DISCUSS CHILD SOLDIERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: SPDC Secretary-1 Lt. Gen. Thein Sein recently told UNICEF that Burma is making progress on reducing child soldiers in its military, although UNICEF admits it has no mechanism to verify these claims. The regime continues to refuse UNICEF's request for regular, unannounced visits to [...]	2006-09-19 05:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KOCI BM
06RANGOON1375	BURMA'S FORMER POLITICAL PRISONERS PERSEVERE [...] (C) Summary: Years in Burmese prisons have not dampened the will of many political prisoners to work within the country to promote change. Despite a tough adjustment period to life on the outside, former prisoners once active in the pro-democracy movement still hold tightly to their beliefs. [...]	2006-09-20 09:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EAID KPAO BM
06RANGOON1376	LITTLE PROGRESS ON FORCED LABOR IN BURMA [...] (C) Summary: ILO Burma Liaison Officer Richard Horsey said the GOB is making slow progress on the two outstanding issues raised at the June International Labor Conference (ILC): a moratorium on prosecutions of forced labor complainants, and agreement on a mechanism to handle forced labor compl [...]	2006-09-20 10:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM PGOV BM
06RANGOON1377	OPPOSITION ELATED BY UNSC ATTENTION TO BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The UNSC's decision to place Burma on its September agenda was greeted warmly by leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD),student activists, and ethnic parties in Burma. The regime reacted by praising China, Russia, and other countries who opposed UNSC action and blast [...]	2006-09-20 10:42:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON138	BURMA: WORLD VISION MOVES FORWARD AGAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Six months ago, the future of World Vision International (WVI) aid programs in Burma looked bleak. The GOB had ordered WVI to close some projects and restricted expatriate staff from conducting field visits. In the past three months, however, the GOB's cooperation has measurably [...]	2006-02-02 05:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON140	BURMESE AND SHAN FORCES FIGHT IT OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent GOB "news" conference announced the surrender of elements of the insurgent Shan State Army - South in northern Shan State. However, the GOB neglected to mention that the surrender followed a serious battle, in which a DEA source claims the Shan killed dozens of Burmese A [...]	2006-02-02 07:29:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PREL BM
06RANGOON1417	NO MOVEMENT AT THE TOP IN BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 22, Agence France-Press (AFP) wire service reported that the regime's top two generals planned to hand over their military roles to subordinates. The report has so far proved to be groundless. GOB controlled media continue to show both commanders in uniform performin [...]	2006-09-26 00:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BM
06RANGOON146	ILO REP PUSHING FOR GOB ACTION TO MATCH PROMISES [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Burma has reacted to international concern over their 2005 treatment of the ILO Liaison Officer (ref B),swiftly approving his latest request for in-country travel to look at forced labor issues and taking his personal security seriously for the first time. On th [...]	2006-02-03 04:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PHUM BM
06RANGOON1461	(C) REGIME DETAINS TWO MORE PRO-DEMOCRACY LEADERS; [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 30 the GOB detained two more leaders of the 88 Generation Students pro-democracy group. In a meeting with emboffs shortly before his arrest, 88 Generation leader Pyone Cho said their organization is preparing for the potential long-term detention or arrest of sever [...]	2006-10-02 09:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1472	FATF TEAM INSPECTS GOB FINANCIAL SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: USG members of a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) team visiting Burma last week confirmed FATF will recommend that Burma be dropped from the Non Compliant Countries and Territories (NCCT) list at the upcoming FATF Vancouver plenary on October 12-13. FATF inspectors said GOB [...]	2006-10-04 09:42:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV PTER ETTC KTFN BM
06RANGOON1474	UN REMAINS CAUTIOUS IN BURMA [...] (C) Summary. The UN Resident Coordinator (UNRC) in Burma shared with us yesterday an internal UN report on U/SYG Gambari's Friday September 29 UNSC briefing, which indicates that Gambari's next visit to Burma may focus more on continuing a dialogue with the ruling military regime than pushin [...]	2006-10-04 10:54:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1518	DEADLINE LOOMS FOR GOB ACTION ON FORCED LABOR [...] (C) Summary: ILO Liaison Officer Richard Horsey has been able to maintain regular contact with the Ministry of Labor over the past three months and has begun discussions on a mechanism to address forced labor charges in Burma. Horsey said the GOB's reaction to the draft text has been generally [...]	2006-10-13 09:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM BM
06RANGOON1520	KAYAH: A VIEW OF BURMA'S SMALLEST STATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite obstacles to travel, emboffs made a rare visit to Loikaw, capital of Kayah State, on September 26-29. Local businesspersons, religious leaders, and humanitarian workers described the very rigid controls by authorities on their movements and activities. Tourism is non-exi [...]	2006-10-13 10:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS EAID BM
06RANGOON1536	KNU AND SPDC RE-ESTABLISH COMMUNICATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent visit to Rangoon by a team representing the Karen National Union (KNU) was not to negotiate a cease-fire agreement, but to re-establish communication links for future negotiations with the regime. The KNU representatives said they would return in two to three weeks, but [...]	2006-10-17 09:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PREL BM
06RANGOON1542	THE DRY ZONE SPILLS OVER: FLOODS, AIDS AND TIP [...] (C) Summary: Recent heavy rains created havoc across Burma's central Dry Zone. Dams burst, Mandalay airport's main access road flooded, and many other roads washed away, leaving dozens of villagers drowned and transportation crippled. Excessive rains severely damaged peanut crops, a primary [...]	2006-10-18 06:22:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON PGOV PHUM PREL GTIP SOCI BM
06RANGOON156	BURMESE AND SHAN FORCES FIGHT IT OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent GOB "news" conference announced the surrender of elements of the insurgent Shan State Army - South in northern Shan State. However, the GOB neglected to mention that the surrender followed a serious battle, in which a DEA source claims the Shan killed dozens of Burmese A [...]	2006-02-07 01:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PREL BM
06RANGOON1571	GOB DEFENDS ITS GUIDELINES ON HUMANITARIAN AID [...] (SBU) Summary: GAO Senior Analysts met with Burmese government officials during their 10-day visit to discuss the GOB's new guidelines for humanitarian assistance issued last February. The guidelines have caused confusion and apprehension in the IO/INGO/NGO community. The Director General of [...]	2006-10-25 05:49:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID PREL BM
06RANGOON1572	MIN KO NAING MARKS HIS BIRTHDAY IN JAIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Min Ko Naing's family marked his October 18 birthday in Rangoon while he and four other 88 Generation Student leaders remained in regime detention. GOB media railed against the 88 Generation Students "wear white" campaign protesting the detentions, while Mandalay authorities rush [...]	2006-10-25 06:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1588	ILO SPECIAL ADVISOR DEPARTS BURMA EMPTY HANDED [...] (C) SUMMARY: ILO Special Advisor Francis Maupain briefed us on his unsuccessful negotiations with GOB officials on October 20-21 to try to establish a credible mechanism for ILO investigations of forced labor complaints. After reaching tentative agreement with the GOB permitting the ILO unfet [...]	2006-10-25 08:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PGOV PHUM BM
06RANGOON1609	TRYING TO GET A POLITICAL DIALOGUE GOING IN BURMA [...] (C) Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK) confidants have proposed a means to resume a political dialogue, which UN U/SYG Gambari might suggest to Than Shwe when they next meet in Burma. Apparently ASSK wrote a letter to Than Shwe in 2004 proposing a way forward whereby she would step back from the NLD party [...]	2006-10-30 08:42:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BM UN
06RANGOON1615	WFP'S NEW PROGRAM FOCUSES ON BURMA'S NEEDIEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Under a new Country Director, the World Food Program (WFP) will continue to supply food to three of Burma's most vulnerable regions in Shan and Rakhine States, and Magwe Division. WFP plans to consolidate these three programs and expand operations slightly to include selected v [...]	2006-10-31 10:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON1624	PRAYING FOR CHANGE IN BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 88 Generation Students began a weeklong prayer campaign on October 29, calling on Burmese of all faiths to pray for the release of all political prisoners, as well as for flood victims in central Burma and for peaceful national reconciliation. The prayer campaign culminates on [...]	2006-11-03 11:55:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1633	BURMA: 2006-2007 INCSR PART II [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-06 09:49:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON KCRM KTFN BM
06RANGOON1670	BURMESE REGIME FILES CHARGES AGAINST OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: Reliable Embassy sources have told us that on November 6 the regime charged Min Ko Naing and the four other detained 88 Generation Student (88GS) leaders under the 1950 Emergency Provision Act, a catch-all law the regime uses to prosecute most political prisoners. The UN has not y [...]	2006-11-09 10:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON1678	GAMBARI FINDS LITTLE GIVE IN BURMESE GENERALS [...] (C) Summary: UN Under Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari made a second visit to Burma November 9-12 to try to get a political dialogue going and increase the space for humanitarian assistance. It does not appear at this time that he made much, if any, progress. He met with Burma's senior mili [...]	2006-11-13 10:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1679	BURMA: AI UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: GOB authorities have not reported any new cases of Avian Influenza in Burma since the outbreak in poultry in Mandalay and Sagaing Divisions was contained in April 2006. On October 30, the government imposed a ban on the import and use of AI vaccine, as well as on animal bones and [...]	2006-11-13 10:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON1686	CI TO PROTECT BURMESE TURTLES [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite Burma's unpredictable environment for NGO activities, Conservation International (CI) recently received provisional GOB approval for two major projects to address threats to a number of animal species in Burma, including the critically endangered Burmese Star Tortoise and [...]	2006-11-15 10:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON1701	GAMBARI'S MEETINGS IN BURMA - UNCENSORED [...] (C) Summary: UN U/SYG Gambari delivered a strong message to Burma's senior generals that the regime must choose between taking concrete steps toward democracy or face further action in the UNSC, according to UN Resrep Charles Petrie. General Than Shwe angrily denied that there was a humanitar [...]	2006-11-16 11:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1704	EYES ON BURMA'S PRIZE: NATURAL GAS [...] (SBU) Summary: New oil and gas discoveries off Burma's northwestern coast have prompted intense international maneuvering as representatives from India, China, Thailand and South Korea vie for investment options, production contracts and purchasing rights to the resources. Although the GOB has [...]	2006-11-17 02:49:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON1741	THAIS LOOKING FOR NEW DIRECTIONS IN BURMA [...] (C) Pol/econ chief met with Thai Embassy poloff Pornpan Mah November 28 to discuss Thai PM Surayud Chulamont's visit to Burma. Pornpan said Thailand is no longer willing to be on the front-line defending the regime's actions to the international community, but will in the future carefully co [...]	2006-11-29 11:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1762	THE GOB'S LONG-WINDED DEFENSE AGAINST UNSC ACTION [...] (U) Summary: the GOB called a last-minute press conference in Nay Pyi Taw on November 29 to try to refute UNSC discussion of the regional threat Burma poses through the spread of refugees, diseases and narcotics to neighboring states. Two Cabinet Ministers, joined by a Deputy Minister and the [...]	2006-12-01 11:21:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI SNAR BM
06RANGOON1766	AUNG SAN SUU KYI FINALLY SEES HER DOCTOR [...] (C) Summary: Dr. Tin Myo Win, aka Douglas, met with his most famous patient, Aung San Suu Kyi, on November 16, almost three months after his last visit August 24. He expects to see her again on December 21. He found her in good health, confirmed by an ultrasound examination. Douglas also re [...]	2006-12-04 10:17:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON1767	BURMA REGIME AND KAREN MISTRUST CONTINUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent discussion between Karen delegates to the National Convention (NC) reveals that the ruling regime mistrusts both the Karen National Union (KNU) and the proxy army it created to fight the KNU, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA). The KNU reportedly has invited the DKB [...]	2006-12-04 10:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS BM
06RANGOON1776	BURMA AI UPDATE - DECEMBER 5 [...] (SBU) Summary: Burma has not reported any new cases of AI since it contained the March - April 2006 poultry outbreak through extensive culling. The GOB continues to work with donors to improve its surveillance, reporting, and response capabilities. David Castellan, a short-term advisor to FAO [...]	2006-12-07 02:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON1777	BURMA: OPPOSITION WINS HEARTS ON WORLD AIDS DAY [...] SUMMARY: The National League for Democracy (NLD) and members of the 88 Generation Students (88GS) used World AIDS Day to show compassion and care for HIV/AIDS victims and their families and to help raise greater awareness among the public. The NLD honored over 100 HIV/AIDS health workers and [...]	2006-12-07 10:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI KHIV BM
06RANGOON1783	GOB TRIES TO WHITEWASH EXTENSIVE FLOOD DAMAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Closely-held GOB reports confirm that severe flash floods in central Burma in October damaged over 200,000 acres in Mandalay and Sagaing Divisions and Shan State. Despite unofficial reports of significant human deaths and crop losses, the GOB has not officially acknowledged tha [...]	2006-12-08 08:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EAGR BM
06RANGOON179	BURMESE PRIME MINISTER'S AGENDA IN CHINA [...] (C) Summary: Burmese Prime Minister General Soe Win will make his first bilateral visit to China February 14-18 where he will seek to maintain mutually beneficial economic relations; tap PRC largesse for more grants and loans; and flaunt the legitimacy that the relationship provides the regime [...]	2006-02-09 09:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PREL ECON CH BM
06RANGOON1803	BURMA'S BUSINESS ENVIRONEMNT: "BETTER THAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB's economic mismanagement continues to erode Burma's business environment. The regime makes unreasonable and arbitrary decisions with little thought of the economic consequences. For example, all business transactions must be conducted in the remote new capital of Nay [...]	2006-12-18 06:50:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON1807	BURMA'S RICE SUPPLY SHRINKS AFTER OCTOBER FLOODS [...] (U) Rumors are have circulated around Rangoon about an impending rice shortage as Burmese officials move rice stocks to provinces in central Burma hit by severe flooding in October. In addition, smuggling, inflated production estimates, poor storage, and inadequate buffer stocks exacerbate th [...]	2006-12-18 10:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EAGR EAID BM
06RANGOON1818	BURMA PUMPS OIL AND GAS POTENTIAL FOR CASH NOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Development of Burma's oil and gas reserves continues apace, from existing facilities upgrades to new exploration deals. The government needs hard currency and correctly sees the sector as its best source of revenue. End Summary. Upgrades of Existing Facilities ------------ [...]	2006-12-22 06:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV ENRG BM
06RANGOON1828	BURMA: THE KNU AFTER GENERAL BO MYA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The death of Karen insurgent leader General Bo Mya did not come as a surprise, but leaves the Karen National Union (KNU) without a strong, charismatic leader. Sidelined by poor health in recent years, Bo Mya continued to influence KNU leaders and policy. It is uncertain if the re [...]	2006-12-27 04:27:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS BM
06RANGOON1829	BURMA: THREE ETHNIC TRAFFICKING VICTIMS RETURN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The recent case of three Kachin women who were trafficked to China to be brides for Chinese men illustrates how the lack economic opportunity for Burma's ethnic minorities makes them increasingly vulnerable to human traffickers. After being lured to the Chinese border by an acqua [...]	2006-12-27 04:46:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KWMN PHUM BM
06RANGOON206	BURMESE PM GOES TO CHINA WITH A LONG SHOPPING LIST [...] (C) Summary: When he makes his first bilateral visit to China on February 14-18, Burmese Prime Minster Soe Win will seek an agreement on closer cooperation on drug trafficking, a donation of 100 used train cars, and Chinese views on the GOB's draft industrial zone law. These agenda items are in [...]	2006-02-13 10:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON CH BM
06RANGOON223	BURMA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER WANTS TO TALK [...] (C) Summary: Charge met February 14 with Deputy Foreign Minster Kyaw Thu at his request. Repeatedly emphasizing his interest in assisting Charge feel comfortable in Burma, he leisurely addressed a wide range of topics, including the problems of inadequate food and slow construction in Pyinman [...]	2006-02-16 05:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC PREL BM
06RANGOON235	BURMA'S VAST INTERNMENT CAMP: NORTHERN RAKHINE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a country where everyone is oppressed by the military, some are treated worse than others. In general, the ethnic minorities are treated worse than the ethnic Burman majority, and non-Buddhists face more restrictions on their religious practices. Charge visited Northern [...]	2006-02-17 09:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL EAID BM
06RANGOON246	NLD'S FLEXIBLE OFFER TO THE BURMESE REGIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: NLD leaders have low expectations that the Burmese regime will respond favorably to their February 12 proposal to convene the Parliament elected in 1990 in return for the opposition's recognition of the ruling regime as a transitional government. The NLD is nonetheless encouraged [...]	2006-02-22 07:09:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL BM NLD
06RANGOON248	COMMUNAL RIOTS IN MAGWAY DIVISION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Communal rioting erupted between Buddhist and Muslim communities in central Burma on February 16. Sources report that three people died and ten others sustained injuries as Buddhist Burmans attacked Muslim and Indian shops, homes, and mosques. Authorities imposed a news blackou [...]	2006-02-22 09:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PREL ECON KISL BM
06RANGOON249	MORE FROM BURMA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu requested Charge meet with him again February 22 - alone. He apparently wants to continue a dialogue (ref A),made more difficult by his move to Pyinmana and difficult to do by phone because, he said, others could be listening in. Again referrin [...]	2006-02-22 23:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON259	BURMA: CONVERGING ON AI ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID's Regional Infectious Diseases Advisor, on a second visit to Rangoon, encouraged WHO and FAO to identify needs and strengthen their capacity to investigate and respond to AI outbreaks in Burma. The GOB updated its national response plan, but some responsible ministries st [...]	2006-02-26 23:42:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON270	BURMA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-01 03:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KWMN KCRM KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SMIG BM

06RANGOON272	ICRC WON'T GIVE UP ON BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed to international media on February 27 that Burma's ruling regime is now blocking ICRC access to the country's prisons and detention camps. ICRC officials told us on Feb. 28 that they publicly acknowledged their ongoing [...]	2006-03-01 07:36:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON299	MANDALAY: NON-BUDDHISTS NEED NOT APPLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of our Mandalay Outreach Week (ref A),we met with Christian leaders in Mandalay on March 1 to discuss religious issues in central Burma. They described the tight restrictions local authorities place on religious meetings and church construction, as well as general GOB di [...]	2006-03-06 08:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PREF BM SK
06RANGOON325	YUDHOYONO VISIT TO BURMA: LIGHT AND FLUFFY [...] (C) Summary: Indonesian President Yudhoyono's March 1-2 visit to Burma appears to have been purely protocol and devoid of any substantive political message to regime leaders. SPDC Chairman Than Shwe gave the Indonesian President a standard recitation of regime achievements and its road map t [...]	2006-03-08 10:54:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM ID
06RANGOON345	SUSPECTED AI OUTBREAK AMONG BIRDS IN BURMA [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 12, GOB officials informed FAO and WHO officials of a suspected outbreak on March 8 of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) at a commercial poultry farm in Mandalay Division. Specimens collected by a joint-ministerial investigation team from Rangoon tested positive f [...]	2006-03-14 23:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL SOCI TBIO CASC KFLU BM
06RANGOON355	BURMA AI OUTBREAK - MARCH 15 UPDATE [...] (U) SUMMARY. In response to a suspected AI outbreak on March 8 in Pyi-gyi-dagun Township, Mandalay authorities have banned all sales of chickens, ducks, and eggs. A Bangkok-based USAID expert on AI and an Embassy Rangoon FSN agricultural specialist will join a FAO and WHO assessment team tra [...]	2006-03-15 11:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON356	ALL SMILES: INDIAN PRESIDENT VISITS BURMA [...] (C) Summary: For the second week in a row, a regional head of state visited Burma and allowed the ruling generals to bask in perceived legitimacy. Indian President Kalam's March 8-11 visit was the first-ever to Burma by an Indian head of state. The two countries concluded MOUs on petroleum [...]	2006-03-16 06:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON EAID BM IN
06RANGOON359	BURMA AI OUTBREAK - MARCH 16 UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 15, NIAH Bangkok confirmed that chicken specimens from Burma tested positive for the H5N1 Avian Influenza virus (AI). The Bangkok laboratory faxed the information to the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries the same day, and at 9:00 p.m. on March 15, the GOB made its fir [...]	2006-03-16 23:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON362	VILLAGERS REVIVE THE IRRAWADDY DELTA'S FOREST [...] (U) Summary: A Burmese domestic NGO, the Forest Resource and Environment Development and Conservation Association (FREDA),uses village-based programs to slow rampant deforestation in the southern part of Irrawaddy division. Residents have cut down 86% of the forest cover for firewood, buildin [...]	2006-03-17 05:29:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON PGOV BM NGO
06RANGOON363	SOMETIMES YOU FEEL LIKE A NUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior regime leaders, in their latest self-sufficiency scheme, have ordered Burmese around the country to plant seven million acres of physic nut in a misguided effort to reduce Burma's reliance on imported diesel fuel. This high profile campaign does not have any support from [...]	2006-03-17 05:29:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV SENV EAGR BM
06RANGOON364	BURMA AI OUTBREAK UPDATE - MARCH 17 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The FAO/WHO assessment team is on the ground in Mandalay to investigate confirmed cases of AI at poultry farms in the district. Supplementary supplies of PPE and disinfectant arrived in Rangoon on March 16 and some have already reached the field investigation teams in Mandalay. [...]	2006-03-17 08:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON366	BURMESE IDPS AND REFUGEES NEED MORE HELP [...] (C) SUMMARY: A visiting PRM team discussed refugee and IDP issues with IOs and donor counterparts in Rangoon March 8-10. UNHCR described its activities in northern Rakhine State and efforts to improve access to eastern border areas. ICRC outlined its lack of access to prisons and labor camps, [...]	2006-03-17 10:02:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM NGO
06RANGOON368	BURMESE FUTURE LOOKING DIRE [...] (C) Summary: Leon de Riedmattan, outgoing head of the Swiss NGO Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue in Burma, hosted a lunch March 15 for western Ambassadors. De Riedmattan, whose visa has been halted after nine years of efforts to promote national reconciliation, offered a grim assessment of th [...]	2006-03-19 23:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID ELAB BM
06RANGOON372	BURMA AI OUTBREAK UPDATE - MARCH 20 [...] (U) SUMMARY. No human cases of AI have been reported in Burma to date. A joint FAO/WHO assessment team, accompanied by USAID Bangkok Infectious Diseases Advisor and Embassy's FSN agricultural specialist, visited hospitals and poultry farms in Mandalay and Sagaing Divisions on March 17-18 to [...]	2006-03-20 10:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON384	FORMER POLITICAL PRISONER DIES IN BRUTAL ATTACK [...] (C) SUMMARY: A former political prisoner and student activist during the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, Thet Naing Oo, died on March 17 following a public beating by police and fire brigade officers. His family placed a death announcement in local newspapers and on March 20 held a funeral atten [...]	2006-03-21 09:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM NLD
06RANGOON394	RISING PRICES HIT BURMA'S POOR...AGAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Rising prices in February again hit Burma's poor hard, with significant increases in the cost of basic foods, transportation, and fuel. A slight, but unexpected, depreciation of the kyat increased the price of imported consumer goods. Dry season power shortages increased, lead [...]	2006-03-23 04:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV BM
06RANGOON399	BURMA AI UPDATE - MARCH 23 [...] (U) SUMMARY. FAO Bangkok reported a possible new AI outbreak among poultry in Shan State, but local contacts have not yet been able to confirm. Foreign donors have yet to respond to the GOB's request for additional assistance, although Australian animal testing equipment en route before the [...]	2006-03-23 23:30:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON403	BURMA GIVES ILO THE COLD SHOULDER [...] (C) Summary: Labor Minister U Thaung told ILO Special Advisor Francis Maupain that the GOB will not negotiate how it handles claims of forced labor and made it clear the GOB will not take any significant action to address the international community's forced labor concerns. According to ILO L [...]	2006-03-24 06:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL ECON BM
06RANGOON406	PYINMANA: THE EMPEROR'S NEW CAPITAL [...] (C) Summary: Months after announcing the sudden relocation of Burma's capital, the military regime continues efforts to build a new city to house thousands of civil servants who have already moved and are attempting to carry out government operations at remote, unserviced locations. There are [...]	2006-03-24 08:00:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON437	BURMA AI OUTBREAK SITE ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A joint FAO/WHO team, accompanied by a USAID Regional Infectious Diseases advisor and a FSN from the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS),assessed an AI outbreak in Sagaing and Mandalay Divisions, Burma, on March 17-18. Government of Burma (GOB) officials reported cases to the OI [...]	2006-03-30 09:23:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON446	EMBASSY'S MANDALAY WEEK - ONE MONTH LATER [...] (C) SUMMARY: One month after the Embassy's outreach week in Mandalay, the regime continues to react. Security officials interrogated 50 local residents who had contact with Emboffs during our February 27 - March 2 visit to outreach week in Mandalay, and the GOB ordered many Burmese newspapers [...]	2006-03-31 11:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON447	GOB STIFFS NLD COMPROMISE OFFER [...] (C) Summary: After six weeks of silence, the GOB finally reacted to a National League for Democracy proposal for political compromise with an official editorial that accused the party of attempting to "grab power." NLD leaders called the editorial "unhelpful" and told us they were disappointe [...]	2006-03-31 11:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV BM ASSK NLD PHUM PREL
06RANGOON459	BURMA AI UPDATE - APRIL 4 [...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 31, WHO/FAO Burma briefed UN agencies and diplomatic missions on the country's AI situation. A Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (MLF) director gave a chronology of the AI outbreaks in central Burma, which began on March 3, and the GOB's efforts to control the disease [...]	2006-04-04 09:10:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON462	SOMETHING BETTER THAN NOTHING:FIGHTING TIP IN BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary: High level GOB attendance gave the first anti-Trafficking in Persons National Seminar the visible support needed for lower level officials to implement Burma's new Anti-Trafficking Law. International NGOs had unprecedented input on the drafting process, the first time the curr [...]	2006-04-06 09:13:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF ELAB SMIG KWMN KCRM BM
06RANGOON471	APRIL 7 SITREP: IED INCIDENT AT INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Embassy personnel spent April 7 following up on the April 6 discovery and dismantling of an improvised explosive device (IED) on the campus of the USG-sponsored International School of Yangon (ISY). The device was packed with what local security personnel determined was 1.5 pounds of exp [...]	2006-04-07 11:42:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PTER PGOV BM
06RANGOON475	REQUEST FOR A SCIENCE FELLOW IN BURMA [...] (SBU) Post requests that a Science Fellow from the Smithsonian Institution or the Environmental Protection Agency be placed at the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon to assess and prepare a detailed report on the regional environmental impact of the ruling military regime's policies, especially actions [...]	2006-04-10 09:15:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT APER KSCA OTRA SENV TSPL BM
06RANGOON477	THE PRESSED, SUPPRESSED, AND OPPRESSED IN BURMA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOB continued its harassment of ordinary citizens as well as pro-democracy advocates through pressure, intimidation, arbitrary detention, arrest, and imprisonment. Scattered crackdowns of individuals around the country on various charges during late March demonstrate that t [...]	2006-04-10 10:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM
06RANGOON505	NLD HOLDS OUT HOPE FOR DIALOGUE [...] (S) Summary: NLD leaders expressed disappointment, but not surprise, that the SPDC failed to respond directly to their February proposal for a way out of the country's political impasse. They plan to issue a statement within the next few days again appealing for a genuine dialogue with the r [...]	2006-04-20 09:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON516	FORMER STUDENT LEADER STAYS THE COURSE [...] (C) Summary: Min Ko Naing--former pro-democracy student leader, political prisoner, and current activist--is struggling with the challenges of readjusting to life outside of solitary confinement and the pressures of meeting the expectations of his many followers and supporters. As in 1988, h [...]	2006-04-24 00:31:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON521	KAREN-BURMESE CLASHES CREATE REFUGEES AND IDP'S [...] (C) Summary: Over the last few weeks, Burmese Army units struck at over a dozen villages and roadside locations around the town of Bawgalagyi in northern Karen State in a new push to wrest control of the Karen hold there. According to an Embassy contact, this has resulted in a new wave of IDPs [...]	2006-04-25 02:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PINS MOPS BM TH
06RANGOON543	ANOTHER CHAT WITH BURMA'S DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Charge met with Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu on April 25 to continue discussions in the hope of gathering more insights into the opaque regime. He did not disappoint. We discussed a range issues from his recent trip to China to obtaining multiple entry visas for regional of [...]	2006-04-26 04:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL APER BM CH
06RANGOON576	NLD BASHING TRUMPS COUNTERDRUG SUCCESSES [...] (C) Summary: According to attendees at an April 26 drug burn in eastern Shan State, the GOB's Minister of Information and other senior officials hijacked the law enforcement event to pursue an ongoing political campaign to paint exile groups as terrorists and to denigrate recent efforts by the [...]	2006-04-28 10:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR BM
06RANGOON588	CYCLONE MALA HITS HARD, DIES QUICKLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Burma dodged another bullet from Mother Nature when Cyclone Mala hit landfall on April 29, quickly weakened into a tropical storm, and then completely petered out. Before arriving on the western coast of Burma, however, the cyclone created substantial rainfall and heavy winds t [...]	2006-05-01 11:01:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID SENV CASC BM
06RANGOON604	OFFICIALS UPDATE VISITING FAS REPS ON AI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an introductory visit, APHIS Area Director Ned Cardenas and FAS Agricultural Attache Russ Nicely received an open, thorough update from Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department (LBVD) officials about current GOB efforts to contain the recent Avian Influenza outbreak. [...]	2006-05-05 00:55:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON612	BORDERS OVER DEMOCRACY: INDIAN AMBASSADOR TO BURMA [...] (C) Summary: The Indian Ambassador dropped by May 4 to chat with Charge. He offered insights into how India views it relationship with Burma: by and large a friendly neighbor in comparison to Pakistan, Bangladesh, or China. While he agrees that political reform is needed and will come even [...]	2006-05-05 11:04:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BM IN
06RANGOON623	BURMA UNPREPARED TO FIGHT AI IN HUMANS [...] (SBU) Summary: WHO Country Director Dr. Adik Wibowo reported that Australia will donate A$1,000,000 (approximately $770,000) and the Asia Development Bank plans to donate US$1,000,000 to combat AI in Burma, but stressed that more work is needed to handle an AI epidemic effectively. On a recen [...]	2006-05-09 09:37:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
06RANGOON624	FOOD SHORTAGES AND ROADWORK IN NORTHERN KAREN [...] (C) Summary: A recent trip to Taungoo near northern Karen State provided a new dimension to the ongoing conflict between the GOB and the Karen National Union (KNU). The GOB has halted all transportation of food and other goods into the area of northern Karen, resulting in food shortages in K [...]	2006-05-09 09:46:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV PHUM ECON PREF BM
06RANGOON650	CABINET SHUFFLE: RIDE OF THE MAJORS-GENERAL [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime announced on May 15 its first senior GOB cabinet shuffle in over a year. In a series of nine orders, signed by SPDC Secretary-1 Lt Gen Thein Sein, the regime ousted two veteran Ministers, militarized the entire leadership of the Ministry of Immigration, split t [...]	2006-05-16 11:12:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON668	SOCIAL PROJECTS BENEFIT PIPELINE VILLAGES [...] (SBU) Summary: The controversial pipeline running from the Yadana gas field in the Andaman Sea to Thailand is expected to produce over $800 million in revenue this year for its joint venture partners TOTAL, UNOCAL, PTTEP (the Thai government petroleum company),and the Myanmar Oil and Gas Ente [...]	2006-05-19 09:57:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG SOCI PGOV BM
06RANGOON669	NLD LEADERS TO MEET WITH GAMBARI, AND SUNDRY PARTY [...] (C) Summary: NLD leaders were scheduled to meet with UN U/SYG Gambari on May 19, but only learned of the meeting one day in advance--a likely reflection of the regime's desire to control the visit as closely as possible. On May 27, the NLD will commemorate its 1990 election victory, draw atte [...]	2006-05-19 10:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	SECRET	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON679	UN U/SG GAMBARI VISIT SURPASSES EXPECTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: UN Under Secretary General Ibrahim Gambari visited Burma May 18-20. He did manage to see Aung San Suu Kyi for 45 minutes, although no one had expected it. He also visited the senior generals in their new capital and heard promises of greater openness. Gambari downplayed the si [...]	2006-05-22 10:48:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID BM UN
06RANGOON698	NORTH KAREN STATE - WHERE DO YOU RUN? [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Rangoon-based Karen contact who recently visited Taungoo discussed security conditions in nearby Karen State. Fighting erupted in northern Karen State in early 2006 after the Burmese army started moving into traditional Karen-controlled areas. Authorities established a food em [...]	2006-05-26 07:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PREF BM
06RANGOON710	ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK: ASSK NOT RELEASED [...] (C) Summary: On May 26, the Burmese regime extended the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi, re-sealed the street that runs in front of her Rangoon compound, and detained several supporters. ASSK thus began the fourth consecutive year of her current confinement. ASSK's NLD party issued a statement [...]	2006-05-30 10:35:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON728	BURMA: 2006 COUNTERNARCOTICS REPORT CARD [...] (U) This message responds to ref A request for a report card on the Government of Burma's cooperation on counternarcotics efforts, based on benchmarks established in late 2005 (ref B),in preparation for the FY 2007 certification process. 2. (SBU) Begin Text of 2006 Certification Report Ca [...]	2006-06-05 09:25:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM BM
06RANGOON745	GOB RELEASES ONE LABOR RIGHTS PRISONER [...] (C) Summary: The GOB, facing increased scrutiny of its forced labor practices at the annual International Labor Conference (ILC) in Geneva, responded on June 6 by releasing Su Su Nway, who was imprisoned in 2005 in retaliation for bringing a successful forced labor lawsuit against authorities. [...]	2006-06-07 10:04:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON752	BURMA: REGIME TOUGHS GET TOUGHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent actions by regime authorities show a trend of strengthened surveillance and control of movement and meeting by opposition parties and the general public. In May, Rangoon officials started a campaign to photograph all household members in selected Rangoon communities. Tow [...]	2006-06-08 09:56:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF BM
06RANGOON762	BURMA'S ROAD TO PROSPERITY LEADS TO CHINA [...] (SBU) Summary: On a visit to Muse, the main border crossing point for trade with China, emboffs observed how trade enriches the Burmese towns along the route, and has spawned development on the Chinese side of the border. The GOB retains only a small percentage of potential revenue generated [...]	2006-06-09 09:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV PREL CM BM
06RANGOON775	DESPITE REGIME SECRECY, AUNG SAN SUU KYI RECOVERING [...] (C) Summary: According to National League for Democracy (NLD) officials and her doctor, NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi has now recovered from a recent illness that drew worldwide concern. Despite the ruling regime's tight control over information about her illness, which began on June 8, her do [...]	2006-06-12 11:06:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON777	AT THE BURMA/INDIA BORDER: CHINESE GOODS AND TIGHT [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent trip to the Burma/India border in Sagaing Division revealed that, as elsewhere, Chinese products dominate border trade. Tight official security in Tamu restricted our movement and access to Burmese citizens in this area where some insurgents remain active. Unlike som [...]	2006-06-13 02:14:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV BM
06RANGOON79	REGIME TIGHTENS THE NOOSE ON U.N. ACTIVITIES [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime appears poised to curtail the residency of a UN-sponsored mediator and confidant of Aung San Suu Kyi and impose new restrictions on UN agencies and international NGOs. The UN agencies and INGOs have devised creative measures to adapt to restrictions, but the re [...]	2006-01-19 03:09:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM
06RANGOON799	SPDC ROAD SHOW GOES TO KAREN STATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In another of its carefully choreographed road shows for local diplomats and hand-picked media, the Burmese ruling regime showcased its "peace and development" program in pacified areas of Karen State and characterized the Karen National Union as a "terrorist organization" solely [...]	2006-06-14 11:43:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINS BM
06RANGOON843	BURMA/TIP: MUTED REACTION TO THE 2006 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB officially reacted to the 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report through a critique in the state press June 20. Although it was given front-page attention, regime criticism of the Tier 3 ranking was restrained, reflecting the SPDC's expectation to retain Tier 3 ranki [...]	2006-06-21 10:41:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL BM
06RANGOON846	GOB "PERMITS" EIGHT DEPUTY MINISTERS TO RETIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOB announced on June 16 the "retirement" of eight deputy ministers and one Supreme Court justice. Five of the retiring deputy ministers were military officers and two were ex-military. The GOB has not announced their replacements yet, but these retirements will create space f [...]	2006-06-22 07:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON848	KAREN STATE: JUST ANOTHER DRY SEASON OFFENSIVE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a GOB-organized trip for diplomats to Karen State June 8-10, a former Burmese Army battlefield commander recalled the Burmese Army's 1983-84 dry season offensive against the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and the KNLA's major miscalculation that enabled the Burmese [...]	2006-06-22 08:58:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINS BM
06RANGOON876	BURMA MISSES A COPPER PLATED OPPORTUNITY [...] (C) Summary: Economic mismanagement keeps Burma from cashing in on the global rise in copper prices. The experiences of Ivanhoe, the Canadian firm in a joint venture with the GOB to extract and export copper, illustrate the difficulties most firms face doing business in Burma. End summary. [...]	2006-06-27 10:08:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV ETRD BM
06RANGOON919	ICRC DRAWS DOWN FURTHER [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Burma office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) plans to reduce further its expatriate and local staff in light of continued restrictions on independent prison visits and access to vulnerable populations in conflict zones in border areas absent any indicat [...]	2006-07-03 10:52:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM NGO
06RANGOON924	WORKERS STRIKE FOR HIGHER PAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Although Burmese law prohibits strikes, many worker successfully staged strikes for wage increases in 2005 and 2006. Lab and management peacefully resolved most strikes, and GOB officials intervened in some cases to press for resolution. As long as the strikes stay apolitical, [...]	2006-07-05 06:46:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON94	NO REWARD FOR OPPOSING FORCED LABOR IN BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Labor advocate and pro-democracy activist Su Su Nway, jailed since October for her successful efforts to sue GOB officials on forced labor charges, recently spent time in a prison hospital for deteriorating health. Her lawyers have appealed her conviction and expect an initial ru [...]	2006-01-24 10:04:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELAB PREL BM
06RANGOON952	LAMPOONING THE ECONOMY LANDS SHAN YOUTH IN JAIL [...] (C) Summary: Public lampooning of price hikes and the poor economy by youth during a recent festival in the Shan State landed eight, including a member of the regime,s mass-member organization Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA),in jail for presenting a security threat. While th [...]	2006-07-06 08:38:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RANGOON963	ILO PRESSURE LEADS TO LAWYER'S RELEASE [...] (SBU) On July 9, authorities released U Aye Myint from Bago prison. In June, International Labor Organization (ILO) members set Aye Myint's release by the end of July as one test of the GOB's willingness to address forced labor. Aye Myint credits the ILO pressure for his release. End Summary [...]	2006-07-10 10:17:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON PGOV BM
06RANGOON970	NLD RESIGNED ABOUT COERCED RESIGNATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-11 11:51:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM NLD
06RANGOON975	NAY PYI DAW UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Construction of Burma's new capital city, Nay Pyi Taw, continues. Gradually foreigners are getting to see the under-construction city, but plans to invite all of the Ambassadors are still on hold pending further progress. The current impression is of a vast green empty space s [...]	2006-07-12 11:05:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL BM
06RANGOON978	NO DECISION YET ON UNGA DELEAGTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-13 05:09:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP UNGA BM
06RANGOON981	BURMESE REGIME REACTS TO POSSIBLE UNSC ACTION [...] (SBU) Summary: The government daily newspaper, the New Light of Myanmar (NLM),has recently intensified the quantity and degree of its rhetoric against its political opposition in an ongoing series of multi-page articles. The articles also attempt to counter charges that Burma represents a th [...]	2006-07-13 07:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM
06RECIFE40	SWEETER ENERGY? NORTHEAST HOPES FOR ETHANOL [...] Summary: Sugar has dominated Brazil's Northeast for centuries, but the boom in ethanol production for fuel has yet to fire up their economy. Only 15 percent of Brazil's ethanol comes from the Northeast compared to 85 percent from the South, even though the harvest seasons are complementary and [...]	2006-03-13 17:14:00	Consulate Recife	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ENRG BR
06REYKJAVIK120	ICELAND REACTION: OPTIMISTIC TONE FOLLOWING MARCH [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government and news media of Iceland, for the most part, have echoed FM Haarde's cautious optimism over the round of bilateral defense talks in Reykjavik 3/31. The two leading newspapers published editorials praising the talks for providing the first step toward clarifying t [...]	2006-04-03 18:28:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	NATO MARR PREL KPAO IIP ECA IC
06REYKJAVIK130	ICELANDIC FOREIGN MINISTER BEARING UP WELL UNDER [...] (SBU) Summary: Icelandic Foreign Minister Geir H. Haarde has spent early April trying to diffuse criticism from press and politicians who accuse him of failing to predict the U.S. decision to draw down Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF),and who say he is too passive in letting the U.S. defi [...]	2006-04-11 16:05:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	NATO MARR PREL KPAO IIP ECA IC
06REYKJAVIK134	INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CONTINUES TO DISSECT ICELANDIC [...] Summary. Over the past two months, credit rating agencies and other international financial firms have released a torrent of reports raising questions about the state of the Icelandic economy and the activities and stability of Iceland's major banks. These reports have been widely covered i [...]	2006-04-12 14:29:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON IC
06REYKJAVIK143	ICELAND: CAUTIOUS SUPPORT FOR NATO'S 'GLOBAL [...] (C) Post presented ref A points to Icelandic MFA Acting Political Director Thordur Bjarni Gudjonsson April 24. Gudjonsson stated that Reykjavik has not adopted a formal position on the U.S.-UK proposal for a NATO "Global Partnership," adding that: -- In principle, cooperation with NATO shou [...]	2006-04-25 10:48:00	Embassy Reykjavik	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO IC
06REYKJAVIK167	ICELAND TO FOLLOW EU LEAD ON MOP-3 FOLLOW-UP [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-11 08:20:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR EAID ETRD TBIO IC
06REYKJAVIK208	ICELAND WILL NOT ATTEND PSI HIGH-LEVEL POLITICAL [...] Having forwarded a copy of the Polish invitation May 31, post spoke with MFA Acting Political Director Thordur Bjarni Gudjonsson June 9 to reiterate the significance of the Proliferation Security Initiative High Level Political Meeting as well as the planned high level of U.S. representation. [...]	2006-06-09 17:21:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV IC
06REYKJAVIK22	FRAUD SUMMARY - ICELAND [...] Summary: Iceland is comparatively a low-fraud country. No identifiable, consistant fraud patterns involving U.S. passports or immigrant visas currently exist in Iceland. End Summary 2. This cable updates the country fraud summary for Iceland per ref A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: As a prospe [...]	2006-01-18 18:52:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC IC
06REYKJAVIK331	ICELAND/NAM SUMMIT: ICELAND ATTENDING HAVANA NAM [...] (S/NF) Summary: Iceland is attending the NAM Summit in Havana primarily to campaign for a 2009-2010 UN Security Council seat, and claims no interest in NAM membership or increased engagement with the Government of Cuba. The GOI did not receive a landing clearance request in connection with Be [...]	2006-09-13 17:12:00	Embassy Reykjavik	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PHUM UNSC CU IR BO IC
06REYKJAVIK359	Iceland: Press and Politicos Respond to Defense [...] (SBU) Summary: Icelandic press reaction to the Prime Minister's September 26 announcement of the results of defense talks with the U.S. (Reftel) has been measured and largely favorable. Opposition party expressions of discontent center on two points: 1) the Government's failure to make public [...]	2006-09-27 18:03:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL KPAO NATO IC
06REYKJAVIK40	Iceland: Visit of USS Wasp Demonstrates "Robust and [...] (SBU) Summary: The October 12-17 port visit of the USS Wasp provided a visible demonstration of USG intent to honor its defense commitment to Iceland following the September closure of Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF). The Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Justice Minister - just back [...]	2006-10-26 17:54:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED	MOPS PREL MARR KPAO OPRC NATO IC
06REYKJAVIK401	Iceland: Visit of USS Wasp Demonstrates "Robust and [...] (SBU) Summary: The October 12-17 port visit of the USS Wasp provided a visible demonstration of USG intent to honor its defense commitment to Iceland following the September closure of Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF). The Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Justice Minister - just back [...]	2006-10-26 17:54:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREL MARR KPAO OPRC NATO IC
06REYKJAVIK428	Iceland: Water Damage at former U.S. base poses first [...] (SBU) Summary: The newly-formed corporation overseeing redevelopment of the former U.S. Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF) site is inheriting an additional problem in the form of serious water damage from frozen pipes in a number of residential buildings. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs, wh [...]	2006-11-21 18:34:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PGOV NATO IC
06REYKJAVIK431	ICELAND: PEACEKEEPING POLICY AT A CROSSROADS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iceland's Foreign Minister has announced that Iceland will increase the number of peacekeepers sent abroad with the Icelandic Crisis Response Unit(ICRU),while focusing on civilian projects where Iceland has particular expertise and restricting behavior (e.g. wearing battle dress [...]	2006-11-27 11:49:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPKO EAID NATO IC
06REYKJAVIK452	ICELAND: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Post submits the following narrative for inclusion in the 2006 Country Reports on Terrorism. Text of report will also be emailed to EUR/NB and S/CT via unclass and classified email. 2. Begin text of submission: Iceland Iceland is a NATO ally and party to all 12 major UN conventions [...]	2006-12-21 07:43:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC IC
06REYKJAVIK50	ICELAND IN NO RUSH TO ASSIST NEW PALESTINIAN [...] Post discussed reftel points with Icelandic MFA Head of International Institutions Division Nikulas Hannigan February 10. Hannigan took note of U.S concerns about a new Palestinian Authority government that has not committed to non-violence, and he affirmed that Iceland generally supports the [...]	2006-02-13 16:58:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL EAID IS IC
06REYKJAVIK51	ICELAND: NEAR-TERM UNESCO CONVENTION RATIFICATION [...] Summary: The UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity is not on Iceland's legislative agenda; nor has it attracted Icelandic civil society or media attention. End summary. 2. Post can find no reference to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Conven [...]	2006-02-14 11:30:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL UNESCO ETRD IC
06REYKJAVIK68	SIXTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) [...] (SBU) Embassy point of contact on the trafficking in persons (TIP) issue is Political Officer Lisa Kierans, tel. +354-562-9100x2294, fax +354-562-9139, unclassified e-mail Kieransl@state.gov. Hours spent on preparation: - Polofficer (FO-02) 20 hrs - Polassistant 60 hrs - DCM [...]	2006-03-02 12:49:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF IC
06REYKJAVIK91	SUMMARY OF ICELANDIC MEDIA INTERVIEWS WITH US [...] Summary: Ambassador held a March 16 marathon of interviews with seven media outlets (reftel A) to explain reasons behind the U.S. Government's decision to realign Naval Air Station Keflavik and withdraw its four F-15 fighters and search and rescue helicopters by the end of September 2006. The [...]	2006-03-17 18:52:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED	NATO MARR PREL KPAO IIP ECA IC
06REYKJAVIK93	MEDIA REACTION FOR MARCH 18-20, 2006: U.S. [...] Summary: Weekend media reaction to the U.S. decision to realign Keflavik Naval Air Station (NASKEF) took a sober turn as politicians and pundits assessed the cost of this development to their state's security and treasury. The national newspaper of record, whose editor is close to former PM [...]	2006-03-20 17:00:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED	NATO MARR PREL KPAO IIP ECA IC
06REYKJAVIK97	MEDIA REACTION FOR MARCH 21-22, 2006: U.S. REMOVAL [...] Summary: March 21 press coverage of the U.S. decision to remove most assets from the base at Keflavik was punctuated by PM Asgrimsson's statement that the U.S. decision had created a "climate of distrust between the two countries." Coverage also focused on NATO SECGEN Scheffer's comments that [...]	2006-03-22 15:58:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED	NATO MARR PREL KPAO IIP ECA IC
06RIGA1056	TWO LATVIAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ, GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS [...] SUMMARY. The deaths of two Latvian soldiers in Iraq December 27 has topped all news in Latvia in the aftermath. Despite nearly 80 percent public opposition to the mission, senior officials have clearly stated that Latvia will remain in Iraq. Opposition political leaders, and even some membe [...]	2006-12-29 15:38:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV MOPS PREL IZ LG
06RIGA519	AMBASSADOR BAILEY'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 29 meeting, Ambassador Bailey and Russian Ambassador Kalyuzhny discussed the security situation in Iraq; energy security; Latvian-Russian bilateral relations; the NATO Summit; the recent visit of Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga to the U.S.; and Russia's desire to [...]	2006-07-03 07:28:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ENRG ECON WTO RS LG
06RIGA524	LATVIAN DEFMIN REASSURED ON ROTATAION OF LATVIAN [...] (C) Summary: As flagged by Embassy Baghdad, the Government of Latvia has been very concerned in recent days about what they believed to be a delay in the return home of their contingent rotating out of service in MNF-I. Thanks to quick coordination, we have been able to allay GOL concerns an [...]	2006-07-05 14:47:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PGOV IZ LG
06RIGA566	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF ECONOMICS [...] (C) Summary: In a July 17 meeting, Ambassador Bailey and Economics Minister Stokenbergs discussed outstanding trade issues Liepajas Metallurgs and Coca-Cola, building bilateral trade links, and Latvia's relations with Russia. While we had little to offer on Liepajas Metallurgs, Stokenbergs wa [...]	2006-07-18 14:38:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL PINR OFPD RS LG
06RIGA584	PEOPLE'S PARTY EMBROILED IN THIRD-PARTY CAMPAIGN AD [...] SUMMARY. The People's Party, the senior partner in Latvia's minority coalition government, has come under the scrutiny of the press and the Anti-Corruption Bureau (KNAB) over a series of TV commercials that praise the party's cabinet ministers. The clips do not make reference to the elections [...]	2006-07-24 06:22:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM LG
06RIGA619	DAS KRAMER TALKS BELARUS, MOLDOVA AND RUSSIA WITH [...] (C) Summary: In a productive series of meetings in Riga July 24, DAS David Kramer discussed Belarus, Moldova and Russia with key Latvian officials. Latvia is closely watching Belarus' relations with Russia and trying to improve people to people contacts. NGO representatives who work with Be [...]	2006-08-02 11:59:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV EAID RS MD BO LG
06RIGA628	LATVIA ON DRAFT LEBANON UNSCR [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-07 13:20:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS UNSC LG
06RIGA633	SEX, LIES AND VIDEOTAPE: LATVIAN MFA,S REACTION TO [...] (C) Summary: Latvia believes that the recent incident alleging that one of its diplomats in Minsk was distributing pornography was a set up meant to retaliate against Latvian support for Belarusian NGO's and Belarusian opposition forces, notably while Latvia was the EU presidency representa [...]	2006-08-08 09:02:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM PINR EUN BO LG
06RIGA656	RUSSIA URGES ROBUST OSCE OBERSERVATION OF OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Summary: An ODIHR election assessment team visited Latvia August 3-4 to assess the overall state of Latvia's election system prior to October parliamentary elections in order to make recommendations on an OSCE election observation mission. As part of this assessment, the team met with re [...]	2006-08-18 04:20:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM OSCE RU LG
06RIGA698	LATVIAN VIEWS ON POSSIBILITY OF EU/RUSSIA [...] (C) In a meeting with pol/econ chief August 28 on other issues, Latvian MFA PolDir Ilgvars Klava raised the topic of ongoing discussions in the EU on potential joint peacekeeping efforts with Russia. According to Klava, this topic would be discussed at the September 1 - 2 Gymnich. Klava said [...]	2006-08-31 06:15:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS EUN RU LG
06RIGA823	LATVIA'S ELECTIONS: LITTLE CHANGE BUT SOME SURPRISES [...] Summary: Latvia's October 7 parliamentary elections provided an endorsement for the current minority government of PM Aigars Kalvitis. The three parties in the current coalition won 51 seats in the 100 seat Saeima (parliament),although they will likely invite in a fourth party to add to the [...]	2006-10-10 11:05:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM LG
06RIGA832	LATVIAN VIEWS ON GAERC - FOCUSED ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Pol/econ chief delivered reftel demarche to Veronika Erte, A/S-level official responsible for EU issues at the MFA, on October 12. The GOL adopted its GAERC positions in cabinet on October 10. Latvia will be represented at the GAERC by its Ambassador to the EU. 2. (C) Georgia - Althou [...]	2006-10-12 14:04:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS EUN GG RU LE LG
06RIGA836	SECRETARY CHAO'S MEETINGS WITH GOL OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao's visit to Latvia provided an opportunity to discuss economic growth and job creation, relations with Russia and the recent Latvian elections with senior governmental officials. All interlocutors noted the challenge for Latvia of the out migra [...]	2006-10-13 14:10:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ELAB ECON MARR CVIS OVIP CHAO ELAINE RU
06RIGA847	LATVIAN MFA ON BELARUS AND GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Belarus has dropped the charges against the Latvian diplomat accused in July of distribution of pornography and transferred the evidence to Latvia under the bilateral mutual legal assistance treaty. While this should allow some stabilization in the bilateral relationship, includ [...]	2006-10-17 11:09:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID BO GG RU LG
06RIGA852	LATVIA/RUSSIA: POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE AT AGREEMENT [...] (C) Summary: The Latvian visit to Moscow October 13 to sign two bilateral agreements went well and the GOL was encouraged by the positive reception by Econ/trade minister Gref. Absent was the usual Russian complaints on treatment of ethnic Russians in Latvia. The Russians expressed a desire [...]	2006-10-18 07:58:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG GE RS LG
06RIGA855	Remaining state shares in Ventspils Nafta sold to Vitol [...] On October 5, the Latvian government sold its entire 38.62% stake in Ventspils Nafta (VN),a large holding company known mainly for its oil terminal and extremely convoluted shareholding structure. Besides the oil transit business, VN owns a number of real estate businesses, several printing a [...]	2006-10-18 14:03:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ETRD PGOV LG

06RIGA857	Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review Recommendation: Latvia [...] (SBU) Summary: Latvia's performance since April 2006 on IPR-related issues shows continued improvement in the number of police raids conducted, amount of goods seized or destroyed, and IPR cases brought to prosecution. However, Latvia has not shown improvement in a number of areas that were hi [...]	2006-10-19 14:25:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON LG
06RIGA870	TRUTH TO POWER: KALVITIS SPEAKS BLUNTLY TO PUTIN [...] (C/NF) Summary: According to the Latvians, PM Kalvitis got to the heart of the matter with Russian President Putin at the EU dinner in Lahti on October 20, asking why, if energy was not a political tool, there is no Russian oil in the Latvian port of Ventspils and the Lithuanian facility of Ma [...]	2006-10-23 15:09:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ENRG RS LG
06RIGA885	LATVIA BANS DISCRIMINATION IN EMPLOYMENT ON THE BASIS OF [...] Summary: Latvian President Vike-Freiberga has signed amendments to Latvia's Labor law adding sexual orientation to the categories of people protected from employment discrimination and the law takes effect October 25. The President had vetoed an earlier version of the law that omitted this gr [...]	2006-10-25 13:54:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV ELAB EUN LG
06RIGA924	LATVIA: JEWISH PROPERTY RESTITUTION MOVING FORWARD [...] Our lobbying efforts of recent weeks appear to have helped unblock stalled progress on Jewish property restitution (reftel). On November 6, the Latvian cabinet approved the draft legislation for Jewish Property Restitution for heirless properties. The legislation will now be moved to the Saei [...]	2006-11-07 12:49:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL SOCI LG
06RIGA927	LATVIA: 2006-2007 INCSR SUBMISSION, PART I - DRUGS [...] The following is Embassy Riga's submittal for the 2006-2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR),Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control: 2. I. Summary. Drug use in Latvia is characterized by continued prevalence of synthetics. Ecstasy is the most common narcotic in Latvia, [...]	2006-11-07 15:33:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR LG
06RIGA959	LATVIA: PARLIAMENT PUNTS ON NEXT PHASE OF JEWISH [...] Summary: The Saeima (Latvian parliament) on November 23 rejected a draft bill that would have provided financial assistance to the local Jewish community to compensate the losses suffered during the Holocaust and the Soviet occupation of Latvia. The government's bill failed because abstention [...]	2006-11-24 15:02:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL SOCI LG
06RIODEJANEIRO446	AMBASSADOR'S BRAZIL-BOLIVIA-VENEZUELA GAS DISCUSSIONS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Petrobras CEO Sergio Gabrielli and Shell Brazil CEO Vasco Dias told Ambassador Sobel in meetings on August 22 that Brazil's priority in upcoming negotiations over gas supplies from Bolivia was to ensure continuity of supply. Despite its unhelpful role in Bolivia, the CEOs did no [...]	2006-09-06 14:08:00	Consulate Rio De Janeiro	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET PGOV PREL EINV BR
06RIODEJANEIRO84	The State of Rio de Janeiro's Biodiesel Program [...] Summary. In terms of monetary support for biodiesel, the state of Rio de Janeiro is out in front of the Brazilian federal government. The Rio State program includes research, tax breaks, and production support, combined with more ambitious targets in terms of the percentage of biodiesel mixe [...]	2006-02-24 10:53:00	Consulate Rio De Janeiro	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ENRG BR
06RIYADH1377	SHI'A "INDEPENDENTS" DISCUSS NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR [...] (C) A group of Shi'a independents again stressed to ConOffs their community's national identity, desire for reform in the Kingdom, and lack of political ties to Iran. They noted that the SAG is allowing the Shi'a community to build an active but small-scale and unofficial civil society, cente [...]	2006-03-06 06:45:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SA
06RIYADH1380	FEMALE SHI'A ACTIVIST: PRESSURE FOR REFORM MUST [...] (C) Summary: Aliya Al-Fareed (protect),longtime Shi'a political activist, discussed the state of reform in Saudi Arabia with PAO and PolOff in her home in Al-Safwa near Qatif. Al-Fareed was recently appointed to the National Society for Human Rights; she is the only woman among the five memb [...]	2006-03-06 11:24:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PINR KIRF KWMN SA
06RIYADH1542	POST-ABQAIQ MINISTER OF INTERIOR FORMALLY REQUESTS [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (S) Summary and Action Request: Post requests Department's prompt review and guidance in responding to the Saudi government's formal request for helicopter support and security consultations, for the security of oil facilities in the Kingdom. Foreign Mini [...]	2006-03-12 15:23:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PTER MASS MARR ASEC PREL EPET ETRD SA
06RIYADH1741	SHI'A LEADER TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ALL OPPORTUNITIES [...] (C) Jafar Al-Shayeb, President and elected member of Qatif's municipal council and one of five people appointed to the Dammam branch of the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR),shared with CG and PolOff on March 15 his philosophy that "every positive initiative should be utilized." He d [...]	2006-03-18 11:12:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KIRF SA
06RIYADH175	CULTURAL AND SPORTS PROGRAMMING IN SAUDI ARABIA [...] (U) Summary: Cultural and sports programming in Saudi Arabia can effectively support MPP objectives and USG interests. Cultural programming has been especially useful in providing access to the 'hard to reach' groups of women and youth, and in challenging negative stereotypes of the United Sta [...]	2006-01-16 10:14:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC SCUL SA
06RIYADH1982	DHAHRAN DIGEST 5 [...] (SBU) During a recent lunch with PolOff, an appointed member of the Al-Ahsa municipal council who is also an American-educated professor of plant physiology fielded two phone calls from students. The first was from a female graduate student who needed help on some laboratory research she was [...]	2006-03-22 10:59:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SOCI PREL SA
06RIYADH2146	SAUDI LEADERS UPBEAT ON U.S.-SAUDI MILITARY [...] (S) Summary and Comment: During separate meetings on March 22 with visiting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Peter Pace, Saudi leaders spoke favorably of the U.S.-Saudi military relationship. King Abdullah, although deeply unhappy about Iraq and the issue of helicopter support fo [...]	2006-03-29 14:32:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL PTER SA
06RIYADH2542	Avian Flu: Saudi Arabia Closing Small Poultry [...] (U) Summary: Meetings with the WHO representative, Ministry of Agriculture (MOA),and Ministry of Health (MOH) revealed that the SAG has established necessary preparations for avian flu, including action plans, an emergency "hotline" number, monitoring and testing sites for migratory birds, a [...]	2006-04-09 13:43:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU EAGR SA
06RIYADH2544	Cultural Norms and Non-Transparency Hamstring [...] (SBU) Summary: Meetings with public health officials during the visit of regional ESTH officer to Saudi Arabia provided a snapshot of Saudi health issues: a population increasingly afflicted with costly illnesses of the wealthy - obesity, diabetes, and heart disease - and a health system tha [...]	2006-04-10 04:26:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KHIV SA
06RIYADH2563	Environmentalism Slowly Comes to Saudi Arabia [...] Summary: Saudi environmental and natural resource institutions were late in getting established and remain small in size and influence. Meetings with the Presidency of Meteorology and Environment (PME) and the National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development highlighted that pub [...]	2006-04-10 13:43:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KFLU SA
06RIYADH2793	POTENTIAL NEW REVENUE-SHARING AGREEMENT BETWEEN [...] (C) In a conversation on April 13, two expatriate analysts at Saudi Aramco told PAO and EconOff that Aramco and the SAG were in the process of making a significant change to their revenue-sharing practices. In the past, they explained, Aramco had reserved from its revenue stream the amount n [...]	2006-04-17 13:52:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	EPET ENRG EFIN PGOV SA
06RIYADH3147	ARAMCO VP THINKS KARAN GAS DISCOVERY WILL PROVE "A [...] (C) Summary: Yousef Rafie, Saudi Aramco's Senior VP for Gas Operations, expanded on press reports of Aramco's recent discovery of gas in the Karan field, saying that the exploratory well was drilled into the first layer of the deep Khuff formation and was producing dry gas. He estimated res [...]	2006-04-27 10:48:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PREL SA
06RIYADH3301	CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE EP: THE ICE IS SLOWLY [...] (C) Government influence and oversight pervade the Eastern Province's (EP's) older civil society organizations. The SAG provides part of their funding, appoints or approves board members, and regulates their by-laws. Yet the ice is slowly breaking. The government is beginning to relinquish [...]	2006-05-02 08:54:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KMPI KDEM SA
06RIYADH3306	HASAWI SHI'A DETAIL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM VIOLATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: In separate conversations with PolOff in Al-Ahsa on April 25, two groups of Shi'a leaders and activists discussed discrimination and restrictions on their religious freedom, as well as steps they had taken to address some of these problems. Abdulaziz Al-Bahrany, the patient and [...]	2006-05-02 13:05:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF SA
06RIYADH3312	THE SAUDI SHI'A: WHERE DO THEIR LOYALTIES LIE? [...] (S) Some Sunni Arab leaders, including Egypt's President Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah, have recently publicly questioned the loyalties of Arab Shi'a populations in the Middle East. Privately, senior Saudi officials raise similar concerns. Given the ongoing sectarian conflict in Iraq, [...]	2006-05-02 14:55:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINS SA
06RIYADH3315	HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE EASTERN PROVINCE: LIMITED [...] (C) Summary: Higher education in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia offers limited opportunities for students, particularly women and Shi'a. What is available is of questionable quality, suffering from centralized and religious control, poor student preparation, and difficulty in recruitin [...]	2006-05-02 15:28:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI PGOV KMPI KPAO KIRF KWMN SA
06RIYADH3346	BUILDING CIVIL SOCIETY, ONE DISCUSSION AT A TIME [...] (C) Summary: In the past year, Consulate officers have observed increasing numbers of small civil society groups forming in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. Also notable is that many of the groups have started to cooperate and interact with each other in pursuit of larger goals. As an [...]	2006-05-02 16:06:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	SOCI PGOV KPAO KMPI SA
06RIYADH3673	QATIF MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEMBER CONTINUES TO [...] (C) In a conversation with the CG on April 29, Isa Al-Muzel, an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, described his work at the council as "going well, but frustrating." He said that the biggest problem council members faced at the moment was rooting out institutionalized corruption i [...]	2006-05-14 12:26:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF SA
06RIYADH3720	SAG DETAINS HARD-LINE SHI'A CLERIC RETURNING FROM [...] (C) Post contacts and the Saudi Shi'a-run Rasid News Network (www.rasid.org) report that the Saudi Mubahith detained Shi'a cleric Nimr Baqir Al-Nimr on the evening of May 11 as he was entering Saudi Arabia from Bahrain over the King Fahd Causeway. Al-Nimr is from Awamiya, a small oasis town [...]	2006-05-15 12:35:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SA
06RIYADH390	REPORTING IRAN TO THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY [...] (C) Ambassador met with SAG U/S for Political Affairs Prince Turki Saud al-Kabir on January 28 to deliver reftel points and paper. (Note: FM Prince Saud al-Faisal was accompanying King Abdullah on four-country Asian travel and is not expected back in the Kingdom until 2/5.) Ambassador stress [...]	2006-01-29 10:48:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL AORC SA IR
06RIYADH4180	DHAHRAN DIGEST 6 [...] (C/NF) In the course of a day trip to Jubail on May 28, the CG learned that Bechtel, which has the management contract for Jubail, has decided to allow families of its expatriate workers to return. As a result, there will be forty new American children joining school in Jubail in the fall. [...]	2006-05-29 13:25:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ECON EINV PHUM SA
06RIYADH42	AL-HASA SHI'A WELCOME U.S. INTERVENTION IN IRAQ, [...] (C) Members of the Shi'a community in Al-Hasa welcomed U.S. intervention in Iraq, saying an almost unqualified "thank you" during lunch with Acting CG and PolOff. Although noting some progress in the SAG's campaign against home-grown terrorism, they said that the government's campaign for to [...]	2006-01-03 11:16:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PTER KISL SA KIFR
06RIYADH4231	SAG DECREE ON RELIGIOUS POLICE GAUGES PUBLIC [...] (U) Recent media and Web site reports carried news of a decree issued by the Ministry of Interior May 24, which some interpret as an effort to curtail the seemingly unlimited and undefined authority of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also known as the religi [...]	2006-05-30 15:10:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM SA
06RIYADH4627	COORDINATED MOVES: FOUR BROTHERS PLAY LOCAL EP [...] (C) Summary: At a lunch with Consulate staff on June 6, Yousef, Khalifa, Khalid, and Mohammed Al-Dossary, brothers with a variety of business interests and political activities (ref A),described several aspects of the Eastern Province (EP) political situation. Yousef said that EP Emir Princ [...]	2006-06-11 06:44:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SA
06RIYADH4723	SHI'A CLERIC ASKS U.S. TO EXERT MORE INFLUENCE [...] (C) Sheikh Mohammed Hassan, introduced by a post contact as a leading Saudi follower of Karbala-based Ayatollah Mohammed Taqi Al-Mudarassi, told PolOff in a June 11 meeting that the U.S. should play a more active role in calling for reform in Saudi Arabia. "All reform in the Kingdom is taking [...]	2006-06-13 08:37:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SA
06RIYADH4914	SAUDI HEZBOLLAH FIGURE OFFERS A SLIGHTLY TOUGHER [...] (C) In a May 28 meeting with PolOff and PolFSN, Ahmed Al-Nimr (Ahmed),brother and office manager of Shi'a cleric Sheikh Hassan Al-Nimr (Hassan),explained that Hassan would not meet with American diplomats because "he would lose the respect of people on the street, who would ask why he met w [...]	2006-06-19 12:46:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM SA
06RIYADH4919	REMAINS RETURNED, FAMILIES OF GTMO DETAINEES CALL [...] (U) Following the deaths of the three GTMO detainees, Abdulaziz Suleiman al-Rubaish, whose brother is currently detained at GTMO, contacted the Embassy and asked to meet with the Ambassador. PolMilOff met al-Rubaish at the Embassy front gate and accepted a letter addressed to President Bush f [...]	2006-06-19 14:34:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAO PGOV PREL MOPS PTER KAWC SA XF
06RIYADH5036	QATIF MUNICIPAL COUNCIL MEMBER ADVOCATES PATIENTLY [...] (C) In a June 29 meeting with PolOff, Dr. Riyadh Al-Mustafa, an elected member of Qatif's municipal council, detailed his and the council's efforts to improve Qatif's services and infrastructure. Al-Mustafa, whose constituency is the town of Qatif itself, said that the council's first priori [...]	2006-06-23 08:10:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH5042	USD EDELMAN'S MEETINGS WITH THE KING AND CROWN [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed the U.S.-Saudi defense relationship, regional security, helicopters, Iran, Iraq, and visas during separate meetings with King Abdullah and Crown Prince Sultan on June 6. Both the King and Crown Prince were supportive of [...]	2006-06-24 14:03:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	MARR MASS MCAP SA PTER PREL PARM PINR
06RIYADH5079	USD EDELMAN'S MEETING WITH ASSISTANT MOI PRINCE [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed detainees, helicopters, infrastructure security, Iraq, and border security during a June 6 meeting with Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs Prince Muhammad bin Naif. Prince Muhammad confirmed that the SA [...]	2006-06-25 04:36:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	SA MARR PBTS PGOV PINR PINS PTER ENRG
06RIYADH5082	U/S EDELMAN'S MEETING WITH ASST MINISTER OF [...] (S) Summary: Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman discussed the U.S.-Saudi defense relationship, Iran, and regional security during his June 6 meeting with Prince Khalid bin Sultan, Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation for Security Affairs. The overall tone of the meeting [...]	2006-06-25 08:36:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PARM PGOV PREL PINR PTER
06RIYADH5083	INTERNET JOURNALISM CHANGING PERSPECTIVES AMONG EP [...] (C) Hussein Al-Alak, a Qatif-based journalist for online Rasid News Network (www.rasid.org; the premier Internet forum for Saudi Shi'a),discussed with PolOff and PAO on June 20 the growing influence of Internet journalism among the Shi'a. Because the government has permitted much greater fre [...]	2006-06-25 08:36:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SCUL SA
06RIYADH5114	KING LAUNCHES ECONOMIC AND EDUCATION INITIATIVES [...] (C) Summary: King Abdullah recently completed his first national tour since becoming King. Traveling with his Cabinet, the King visited the Ha'il, Al Qassim, Medina and Eastern provinces promoting government support for economic, industrial, health and educational development of the regions [...]	2006-06-26 14:21:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SA
06RIYADH5135	THE TRANSLATED TEXT OF THE WARNING AND STATEMENT [...] (U) What follows is post's Arabic translation of the "Warning and Statement" published by 61 Saudi conservative religious scholars as discussed in septel. 2. (U) BEGIN TRANSLATED TEXT: Statement addressed to the Rulers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The statement was posted on: http://ww [...]	2006-06-27 14:20:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SA PINR
06RIYADH5136	SAUDI CONSERVATIVES LAUNCH COUNTER-REFORMATION [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Following a series of reforms seen as challenging the prominence of the religious establishment in Saudi Arabia, 61 religious scholars published an open letter, called "A Warning and a Statement," to the Kingdom's rulers. This manifesto warned the SAG against a 'gang' of people [...]	2006-06-27 14:22:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV SA KISL PINR PREL
06RIYADH5173	A TALE OF TWO MUNICIPAL COUNCILS: THE DIVERGING [...] (C) Summary: Six months after the SAG announced its appointees to the municipal councils (reftel),the experiences of the Greater Dammam Municipal Council (GDMC) and the Qatif Municipal Council (QMC) illustrate two diverging paths in this experiment in partially elected local government. Th [...]	2006-06-30 07:22:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SA
06RIYADH5220	14 GUANTANAMO DETAINEES TRANSFERED TO SAUDI [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On June 25, 14 Guantanamo detainees were transferred to Saudi authority, including a non-Saudi citizen, Ahmad Sadik Turkestani. The Ministry of Interior (MOI) has told EmbOffs that all of the detainees will be further incarcerated in the Kingdom until the SAG rules [...]	2006-07-02 13:28:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAO PGOV PREL KAWC MOPS PTER SA XF
06RIYADH5274	MOI REQUESTS GTMO SUICIDE NOTES TO QUELL MURDER [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (S) The Saudi Ministry of Interior (MOI) has asked the USG for the suicide notes written by the two deceased Saudi Guantanamo detainees, Yasser al-Zahrani and Manie al-Otaibi. The MOI wishes to provide copies of these letters to the family members of the [...]	2006-07-03 11:42:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PTER PREL KAWC SA
06RIYADH5277	MIXED SAUDI REACTION TO KUWAITI ELECTIONS [...] (U) On June 29, the Kuwaiti Parliament held elections, in which women were allowed to run as candidates and vote for the first time. There were twenty-seven women candidates, but none were elected. Saudi media reported mixed reactions to the results. Most Saudi media reported that the electi [...]	2006-07-03 13:48:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SA
06RIYADH5278	RIYADH RECORD: JUNE 21-30 2006 [...] (U) This cable serves as the inaugural edition of the Riyadh Record, which will provide weekly summaries of key political events in the Kingdom. 2. (S) SUMMARY: During the course of the past few weeks, there has been an increase in the dialogue between supporters of King Abdullah,s reforms [...]	2006-07-03 13:55:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL SA PINR
06RIYADH5314	DHAHRAN DIGEST 7 [...] (SBU) Dr. Abdullah Al-Kadi, director of Al Bir, the largest charitable organization in the Eastern Province (EP),estimated to the CG that there were 3.7 million residents in the EP, of whom 20 percent (740,000) were expatriates. Al-Kadi, a U.S.-trained architect and urban planner, has constr [...]	2006-07-05 05:51:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET SOCI PINR PGOV SA
06RIYADH5315	DISCUSSION GROUPS GROW, CIVIL SOCIETY DEVELOPS [...] (C) Summary: Shi'a journalist Merza Al Khuwaildi discussed the range of new discussion groups in Saudi Arabia, in a June 28 meeting with the Consul General. Considered the vanguard of civil society in Saudi Arabia, these home-based, informal, grass-roots groups have enjoyed more freedom over [...]	2006-07-05 06:12:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KIRF SA
06RIYADH5317	SHIELD S10-06: SAG DENIES CHEM-BIO GEAR IMPORTED [...] (S) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) informed the Embassy via diplomatic note dated June 6, 2006 that the Ministry of Interior did not import chemical and biological items from Iran, per Reftel. However, the note did acknowledge that the SAG imported one sample protective vest and one [...]	2006-07-05 06:43:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC CBW IR SA
06RIYADH5322	IRAQI PRIME MINISTER VISITS KINGDOM ON FIRST TRIP [...] (C) Traveling on his first trip abroad as Prime Minister, Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki visited Saudi Arabia July 1-2 seeking Saudi support for economic development, reconciliation, and improving security to stabilize Iraq. Saudi news sources reported that PM Maliki was received by the Crown Prin [...]	2006-07-05 12:28:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IZ SA
06RIYADH5516	RIYADH RECORD: JUNE 30-JULY 7 2006 [...] (S) SUMMARY: Majlis al-Shoura rejects an appeal to revote on the religious police funding proposal, while at the same time rejecting a proposal for them to wear publicly-identifiable uniforms. Six women were added as part-time consultants on women's issues to the Shoura Council, bringing the [...]	2006-07-11 12:54:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH5547	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for the visit of Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt and his delegation to Saudi Arabia on July 23. Due to recent severe budget cuts, the Mission must direct charge all visit support costs. Country cl [...]	2006-07-12 08:23:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ SA
06RIYADH5839	FM CRITICAL OF US INACTION, CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE [...] (S) In a July 19 press conference Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal emphasized the need for an immediate cease-fire and criticized Israeli aggression in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories. He described the situation as "a real catastrophe that is taking place before the people's eyes and n [...]	2006-07-23 12:13:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PREL PGOV SA
06RIYADH5907	CROWN PRINCE SIGNS TWO DEFENSE AGREEMENTS IN [...] (C) Crown Prince Sultan, who is also the Saudi Minister of Defense and Aviation, reportedly signed two defense agreements with France during his July 20 visit to Paris. Media reports have suggested that these agreements could lead to Saudi purchase of French tanker aircraft, helicopters, and [...]	2006-07-25 12:18:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	MARR MASS BEXP SA
06RIYADH5952	KING ABDULLAH AND PRESIDENT MUBARAK DISCUSS [...] (C) King Abdullah and Egyptian President Mubarak met July 25 to consult on the Lebanon crisis. Stating that Saudi Arabia and Egypt hold identical views on the situation in Lebanon, both leaders called for an immediate cease-fire, warning that continued Israeli aggression could engulf the entire reg [...]	2006-07-26 14:00:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER SENV LE SA
06RIYADH6	SAUDI HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST FREE TO TRAVEL, [...] (C) Summary: Ibrahim Mugaiteeb, President of the Saudi NGO, "Human Rights First" (HRF),informed poloff that the SAG had returned his Saudi passport, and will allow him to travel to Germany to receive medical attention. Mugaiteeb also stated that he had met with the chairman of the National [...]	2006-01-02 11:42:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SA
06RIYADH6037	TFLE01: SAUDI HUMANITARIAN CONVOY STILL PLANNING [...] (C) NIACT precedence justified by urgent operational information and alternate work week. This message responds to Lebanon Task Force and Embassy Tel Aviv requests for assurances and information, to be shared with the IDF, concerning the planned travel of a Saudi relief convoy to Lebanon. [...]	2006-07-29 20:45:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER EAID LE SA
06RIYADH6038	CONSERVATIVE SAUDI CLERICS DEBATE SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Last week, three revered Wahhabi sheikhs issued advisory opinions in their own capacity on the question of support for Hizballah. On July 17, prominent Wahhabi Sheikh Abdullah bin Jabreen issued an advisory opinion, reported as a fatwa declaring it impermissible for Muslims to s [...]	2006-07-30 07:15:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH6103	RIYADH RECORD: JULY 21-29 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Saudi mood, as reflected in critical statements issued by clerics and appearing on internet chat sites, is becoming increasingly anti-U.S. Debate abounds among religious scholars who continue to raise the issue of Shi'a versus Sunni and the question of whether Saudis should support [...]	2006-08-01 15:34:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH6153	SAG STATEMENT TALKS OF UNIFYING ARAB POSITION [...] (S) SUMMARY: The SAG cabinet issued a statement on the Lebanese and Palestinian crisis July 31 following a meeting chaired by King Abdullah. The statement called for a joint Arab and Islamic stand against Israel and reiterated the need for an immediate cease fire. It also urged collaboration [...]	2006-08-02 11:15:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PTER PREL LE SA
06RIYADH6335	TRIBAL LEADERS MAKE AMENDS THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Saudi press this week covered what is likely a regular, but nonetheless rarely reported event, the traditional process of reconciliation between two tribes engaged in a potentially violent dispute. Though such events are usually far from the local headlines and almost never the [...]	2006-08-08 07:43:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SA
06RIYADH6338	EGYPTIAN DCM GIVES READOUT ON ARAB LEAGUE MEETING [...] (C) Egyptian DCM Hossam Kassem told the DCM on the evening of August 7 that the Arab League Foreign Ministers' meeting in Beirut had gone well from its members' point of view, and that there were three criticisms leveled against the draft UNSC resolution on Lebanon. The foreign ministers re [...]	2006-08-08 13:30:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV LE SA
06RIYADH6339	SAUDI CONSERVATIVES CALL FOR BOYCOTT ON US [...] (C) SUMMARY: Beginning July 31, two prominent conservative websites posted articles calling for a boycott on U.S. consumer goods and services, ranging from fast-food franchises to shampoo brands, to begin on August 4. There was already an ongoing cellular telephone text messaging campaign. [...]	2006-08-08 13:44:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD SA LE
06RIYADH6372	SAUDI OPPOSITION GROUP CALLS FOR FRIDAY PROTESTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The London-based, Saudi opposition group accused of having links to al-Qaeda, the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia ('MIRA'),called for political gatherings to be held Kingdom-wide at 44 specified mosques beginning this Friday, August 11. MIRA, composed of religious conserva [...]	2006-08-09 14:52:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH6440	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for a delegation led by Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt and Principal Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Ambassador James SIPDIS Jeffrey to visit the Kingdom August 14-15 to dis [...]	2006-08-13 11:28:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ SA
06RIYADH6477	WEBSITE REPORTS LEBANON CRISIS CAUSING SPLIT IN [...] (S) The Saudi website "Al-Haramayn," citing various media sources, has claimed that the SAG's reaction to the Lebanon crisis has sparked tension among senior members of the royal family. Specifically, it alleges the existence of a split between King Abdullah on the one hand, and Crown Prince [...]	2006-08-14 14:33:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH6571	SAUDI COUNCIL OF MINISTERS WARNS TERRORISM HAS NO [...] (C) Summary: A headline on the front page of the August 15 edition of the English language Arab News read, "Kingdom Warns Against Linking Islam With Fascism," referring directly to President Bush's August 11 statement on the foiled terrorist plot in the U.K. President Bush's comment, that th [...]	2006-08-19 13:03:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH6574	SAUDI COUNCIL OF MINISTERS WARNS TERRORISM HAS NO [...] (C) Summary: A headline on the front page of the August 15 edition of the English language Arab News read, "Kingdom Warns Against Linking Islam With Fascism," referring directly to President Bush's August 11 statement on the foiled terrorist plot in the U.K. The Arab News article reported th [...]	2006-08-19 16:02:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH6727	THE YEAR IN REVIEW: KING ABDULLAH MARKS FIRST YEAR [...] (C) August 1 marked the one year anniversary of King Abdullah's ascension to the throne. The King has generated considerable popularity by delivering political, economic, and social programs intended to improve the welfare of Saudi citizens. Utilizing the windfall from surging oil prices, [...]	2006-08-24 18:29:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM PTER PINS PINR ECON EFIN ETRD
06RIYADH6730	COURTS IGNORE SHARIA RULING, ANNUL MARRIAGE BASED [...] (U) Three years and two children into a happy marriage, a Saudi couple in Al-Jouf, a city in the northern part of the Kingdom, have seen their marriage annulled on the grounds that it violated social custom. According to several media reports, the woman's half-brother filed the lawsuit in Aug [...]	2006-08-24 18:40:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL PCUL SA
06RIYADH6737	RIYADH RECORD: AUGUST 5-11, 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY: One hundred seventy Muslim scholars, including 29 Saudis, called for unity in the Islamic Nation and condemned the Israeli 'aggression' in Lebanon and Palestine. Saudi opposition activity continues to stir in the Diaspora with a revitalization of the London-based Movement for Is [...]	2006-08-26 08:07:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH6814	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR SEC OFFICIALS TO [...] The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for Mr. Ethiopis Tafara, Dr. Robert M. Fisher, Mr. Timothy Warren and Mr. Ester Saverson Jr. for a training seminar for Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority from September 9-15, 2006. 2. Due to recent se [...]	2006-08-27 12:00:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN OTRA SA SEC
06RIYADH6818	WEBSITE REPORTS MEETING OF THIRD GENERATION ROYALS [...] (C) A moderate Saudi-based and owned website reported on August 15 that Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz held a meeting with key princes of the royal family's third generation in his Riyadh palace earlier this month. Notable attendees were his son Prince al-Waleed, one of the wealthiest businessm [...]	2006-08-27 15:19:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH6925	RADIO SILENCE FROM NEW SAUDI OPPOSITION GROUP IN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Several media outlets reported a statement on August 7 issued by Prince Talal Muhammad Al-Rasheed, a deposed royal and Saudi dissident residing in Paris, which announced the formation of the Saudi Democratic Opposition Front. The group, which is reportedly both secular and triba [...]	2006-08-30 10:29:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH6926	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL -- SAG SAYS SAME OLD, SAME [...] (C) Summary. Government of Saudi Arabia (SAG) MFA Human Rights POC Torki Al-Madi told Acting Political Counselor and PolOff during an August 16 courtesy call that the UN Human Rights Council is not an improvement on its predecessor, the UN Human Rights Commission, especially since the U.S. i [...]	2006-08-30 11:12:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL SA
06RIYADH6927	AL-MUA'JJIL'S TRAVEL BAN IN FULL EFFECT & IIRO [...] (U) This is joint Riyadh and Consulate Dhahran cable. 2. (C) Summary: A press report and a Consulate visit to the closed offices of IIRO's Eastern Province Branch indicated that the Saudi Arabian Government (SAG) has kept its word on actions against recent designee, Abd Al-Hamid Sulaiman [...]	2006-08-30 12:01:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN KFTN PREL PTER ETTC SA
06RIYADH6933	COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR U.S. TREASURY [...] The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for Mr. Ahmed Elbashari for an on-site review of Saudi Arabia's Financial Intelligence Unit from September 15-20, 2006. 2. Due to recent severe budget cuts, the Mission must direct charge all visit support [...]	2006-08-31 11:52:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC EFIN PREL PTER KCRM ETTC KTFN SA
06RIYADH6940	KING ABDULLAH AND FOREIGN MINISTER PRESS COMMENTS [...] (S) SUMMARY. Recent statements to the press by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah and Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal appear to be a concerted effort by the SAG to address strong public criticism of its position on the Lebanon crisis and ties to the U.S., as well as accusat [...]	2006-09-03 11:02:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PINR KISL SA
06RIYADH6980	CONVERSATION WITH NEO-TRIBALIST WOMEN'S ACTIVIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent media reporting about the rise in the number of official and unofficial female proselytizers in the Kingdom has generated much debate. The number of "unsanctioned" female preachers is increasing, and their lack of supervision by authorities breeds uncertainty about the me [...]	2006-09-04 13:26:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PCUL PHUM KISL KWMN SA
06RIYADH7	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD SEEKS POST-IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] (S/NF) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad met with King Abdullah, Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, and General Intelligence Presidency director Prince Muqrin bin Abd al-Aziz on December 27, to seek Saudi support in Iraq for building an Arab Sunni-Kurdish-Alawi coalition to engage the [...]	2006-01-02 12:55:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER IZ SA
06RIYADH7097	SAUDI REACTION TO SENTENCING OF HOMAIDAN AL-TURKI [...] (S/NF) The August 31, 2006, sentencing by a Colorado court of Homaidan Al-Turki to 28 years to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his Indonesian maid has provoked calls for a boycott of U.S. products and the return of Saudis studying in the U.S. Some Saudi contacts even fear that this [...]	2006-09-10 11:29:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	AORC ELAB FBI KCRM PGOV PHUM PREL PTER SA
06RIYADH7190	MUST LOVE DOGS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Saudi attitudes toward animals exemplifies the way in which conservatism and tradition have collided with progressive thinking and western ideas to create a paradox within Saudi culture. Muslims are guided by the Qura'an and teachings of the Prophet Mohammad to be kind to animal [...]	2006-09-12 12:56:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	PCUL PHUM PGOV PREL KISL SA
06RIYADH7191	RIYADH RECORD: AUGUST 19-31 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Youth summer camps in the Kingdom elicited controversy from one of their lectures on the negative aspects of the West and how Saudi journalists act as the West's "agents." The Ministry of Commerce licensed the first female engineer in Saudi Arabia; the hope is that many more wi [...]	2006-09-12 13:44:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KWMN SA
06RIYADH7193	PROPOSED CHANGE IN WOMEN'S PRAYER AREA IN MECCA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The General Presidency for the Two Holy Mosques Affairs issued a proposal on August 25 for shifting the prayer place of women within the circumambulation area -- the uncovered circle surrounding the Kaaba ("House of God"),which is called the mataf-- in the Grand Mosque of Mecca. [...]	2006-09-13 05:07:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KWMN
06RIYADH7447	RIYADH RECORD: SEPTEMBER 1-15 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Saudi Court of Grievances postponed a hearing on the novel "Girls of Riyadh" after the news of the proposed hearing sparked robust debate in the media. The proposal to shift the women's prayer area in Mecca has been rejected. The SAG demands clarification from the Vatican follo [...]	2006-09-24 14:05:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KWMN KISL SA
06RIYADH7501	SAUDIS SHOW HIGH LEVEL OF INTEREST IN MEGAPORTS [...] (S) Summary and Comment: The SAG appears to be seriously considering implementing the Megaports Initiative (MI) to provide radiological/nuclear materials detection equipment in the Kingdom's two largest ports of Jeddah and Dammam. During their September 8-13 Megaports outreach visit to the Ki [...]	2006-09-26 14:07:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	KNNP ENRG PARM OTRA PREL PGOV SA
06RIYADH7838	USG ASSESSMENTS OF TERRORIST/INSURGENT FINANCE [...] (C) INTRODUCTION: This cable provides the assessment of Embassy Riyadh's country team of the terrorist/insurgent financing environment in Saudi Arabia. As instructed in reftel, post's response is divided into separate sections providing background information on the terrorist/insurgent operat [...]	2006-10-05 14:06:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN PREL PTER KTFN ETTC SA IZ
06RIYADH7987	RIYADH RECORD: SEPTEMBER 16-30 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The case against the controversial novel "Girls of Riyadh" has been dismissed. The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice met for three-days, rejecting alleged calls from the West to dismantle the organization. The Ministries of Interior and Foreign Affai [...]	2006-10-10 14:14:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL KWMN KISL SA
06RIYADH8003	WAMY SECRETARY-GENERAL PREACHES NEED FOR INCREASED [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) Secretary-General Dr. Saleh al-Wohaibi told PolOffs in an SIPDIS August 27 meeting that, despite negative publicity surrounding Islamic charities, WAMY has nothing to hide. Al-Wohaibi talked about WAMY's international programs, but focu [...]	2006-10-11 16:03:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PINR PREL PTER EFIN KTFN ETTC KISL SA
06RIYADH8173	A/DCM DISCUSSES USG REVIEW OF SAUDI TEXTBOOKS WITH [...] (C) A/DCM solicited continued SAG cooperation in support of a USG review of Saudi textbooks during an October 9 meeting with Minister Plenipotentiary Hazem Karakotly, assistant to Director General for International Organization Affairs Ambassador Dr. Turki bin Mohammed Saud al-Kabir al Saud. [...]	2006-10-15 15:49:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR KISL KIRF SA
06RIYADH82	AL-HASA BUSINESSMEN SEEKING GREATER INVESTMENT, [...] (SBU) Businessmen in Al-Hasa, a governorate in the Eastern Province (EP) that comprises a large oasis and extensive, oil-rich desert areas, told Acting CG and PolOff repeatedly over the course of a day-long visit on December 27 that Al-Hasa needs new investment, especially in infrastructure. [...]	2006-01-04 15:35:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EINV SA
06RIYADH8252	SAUDI ARAMCO TRIMS CRUDE ALLOCATIONS AS IT CUTS PRODUCTION [...] (S) Saudi Aramco has cut some allocations to major oil company customers, per a contact in a position to know who has reported consistently and reliably in the past. For November, Aramco has provided crude allocations to customers consistent with an approximate five percent reduction in pro [...]	2006-10-16 15:46:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	NOTAG SA
06RIYADH8253	ARABIAN CHEVRON,S VIEWS ON THE REFINERY DISPUTE [...] (C) This is a response to an action request, Ref B, for additional background for a 17 October meeting between P and Chevron CEO Reilly regarding a SAG disagreement with Kuwaiti plans to construct a refinery in the Partitioned Neutral Zone (PNZ) shared by the two countries. Executives from A [...]	2006-10-16 16:03:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG EINV PREL KU SA
06RIYADH8395	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FRANCES FRAGOS [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT),Homeland Security Council, Ms. Frances Fragos Townsend; Senior Director for Combating Terrorism Strategy, National Security [...]	2006-10-21 10:37:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC PREL PGOV ECON SA
06RIYADH8401	THE SAUDI FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT I: STAB AT [...] (U) Summary: From September 16-19, Ahmed Elbashari, representative of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),and EconOff, met with senior management of the Saudi Arabia Financial Investigation Unit (SA FIU) to conduct a final on-site assessment [...]	2006-10-22 09:56:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC SA
06RIYADH8404	THE SAUDI FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT II: POWER [...] (U) Summary: From September 16-19, Ahmed Elbashari, representative of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),and EconOff, met with senior management of the Saudi Arabia Financial Investigation Unit (SA FIU) to assess the SA FIU for membership in [...]	2006-10-22 11:25:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA
06RIYADH8406	THE SAUDI FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT III: [...] (U) Summary: From September 16-19, Ahmed Elbashari, representative of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),and EconOff, met with senior management of the Saudi Arabia Financial Investigation Unit (SA FIU) to assess the SA FIU for membership in [...]	2006-10-22 11:32:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA
06RIYADH8407	THE SAUDI FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT IV: [...] (U) Summary: From September 16-19, Ahmed Elbashari, representative of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN),and EconOff, met with senior management of the Saudi Arabia Financial Investigation Unit (SA FIU) to assess the SA FIU for membership in [...]	2006-10-22 11:36:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA

06RIYADH8414	MAKKAH DECLARATION - WHERE HAVE ALL THE SHI'A [...] (U) Iraqi Sunni and Shi'a religious leaders signed on October 20 the "Makkah Declaration," which forbids Sunnis and Shi'a to kill each other (reftel). Many are likening the ten-point declaration to a "fatwa," or religious ruling, although the signatories have not described the document as suc [...]	2006-10-24 13:41:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KISL IZ SA
06RIYADH8415	SCENESETTER: APHSCT TOWNSEND VISIT TO SAUDI [...] (S) Ambassador Oberwetter and the entire US Mission in Saudi Arabia warmly welcomes your visit to Riyadh. Your visit to the Kingdom comes in the general context of improving U.S.- SAG relations. Saudi leaders have warmly welcomed a large number of senior USG visitors recently, and have confi [...]	2006-10-24 20:14:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC CVIS PGOV PREL SA
06RIYADH8416	SCENESETTER: APHSCT TOWNSEND VISIT TO SAUDI [...] (S) Ambassador Oberwetter and the entire US Mission in Saudi Arabia warmly welcomes your visit to Riyadh. Your visit to the Kingdom comes in the general context of improving U.S.- SAG relations. Saudi leaders have warmly welcomed a large number of senior USG visitors recently, and have confi [...]	2006-10-24 20:15:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC CVIS PGOV PREL SA
06RIYADH8432	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR SECRET SERVICE [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for U.S. Secret Service Special Agents: Advance Team Christopher Caruso, Faisal Alshami and Ross Yerger; midnight shift team Gillian Penswick and Scott Keenan; and working shift James Brian Dunlop, Andrew Ad [...]	2006-10-28 13:28:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER EFIN KTFN ETTC PREL SA
06RIYADH8492	REVISED COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FRANCES [...] (C) The U.S. Mission to Saudi Arabia welcomes and grants provisional country clearance for Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT),Homeland Security Council, Ms. Frances Fragos Townsend; Director for Combating Terrorism Strategy, National Security Counci [...]	2006-10-29 12:31:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC ECON SA
06RIYADH8723	RIYADH RECORD: OCTOBER 16-31 (C-NE6-01865) [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iraqi religious leaders signed the Makkah Declaration on October 20, which forbids Sunnis and Shi'a from killing each other. King Abdullah issued a new succession law on October 20, which formalizes the succession process through the establishment of the Allegiance Committee. P [...]	2006-11-06 13:05:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KISL KWMN SA
06RIYADH8788	FOLLOW-UP ON DEMARCHES [...] (C) On November 6, Deputy Political Counselor (DPC) delivered reftels (A, B, C, D) demarches and talking points to Saudi MFA, International Organization Affairs, UNGA Issues, Mr. Talal Berri. The issues raised were: the UNGA Third Committee (Iran, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Burma, and North Kore [...]	2006-11-07 13:03:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KISL MOPS PINR PTER USUN
06RIYADH8808	UPDATE ON HADI AL-MUTIF [...] (S) PolOffs met on November 6 with Human Rights First Society (HRFS) President Ibrahim Al-Mugaiteeb to discuss the October 31 and November 1 visit of King Abdullah to Najran and his pardon of Ismaili prisoners, ostensibly including Hadi Al-Mutif. Al-Mugaiteeb said that Al-Mutif has not been [...]	2006-11-08 14:48:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PHUM PGOV PREL KISL KIRF SA
06RIYADH8835	FACILITATING GREATER SAG ENGAGEMENT ON IRAQ - A [...] (S) This constitutes Post's response to Ref A. The situation in Iraq remains of great concern to Saudis across the political, economic, and social spectrum. The press reported on November 13 that Saudi Minister of Interior Prince Naif called Iraq a "major base for terrorism," adding that the [...]	2006-11-13 13:34:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR ECON IZ SA
06RIYADH8839	SAUDI ARAMCO CRUDE ALLOCATIONS FOR NOVEMBER DECLINE [...] (S) In line with recent announcements by Saudi Aramco regarding cuts in crude oil allocations to major oil company customers (reftel),a contact from another major energy firm who has reported consistently and reliably in the past, informed us Saudi Aramco had cut crude allocations to his fi [...]	2006-11-13 14:53:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	EPET ENERG SA
06RIYADH8840	DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES MEETING WITH SAUDI MFA, MOJ, [...] (C) Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Erica Barks-Ruggles met on September 12-13 with the Majlis Al-Shoura (MAS) and the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Justice (MoJ). These meetings were follow-up to the July 25 - 27, 2006, meeting of [...]	2006-11-14 05:34:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM OTRA PINR SA
06RIYADH8841	DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES MEETING WITH SAUDI HUMAN [...] (SBU) DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles met the National Society for Human Rights, the Human Rights Commission, and the Human Rights First Society during her September 12-14 visit to Riyadh. Participants in all three meetings raised U.S. treatment of Homaidan Al-Turki (reftel)and Guantanamo Bay deta [...]	2006-11-14 05:34:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM OTRA PGOV PHUM SA
06RIYADH8863	DELIVERY OF CASH COURIER TRAINING PROPOSAL [...] (C) On November 5, non-paper from reftel was delivered to Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Abdulrahman Al-Ahmed, Counselor for Counterterrorism matters. Simultaneously, non-paper was delivered through U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation's liaison channels to [...]	2006-11-18 05:23:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA
06RIYADH8921	THE NEW SUCCESSION LAW PRESERVES THE MONARCHY [...] (C) SUMMARY: A SUCCESSION STRUGGLE AMONG THE AL SAUD FAMILY HAS LONG BEEN ONE OF THE GREATEST THREATS TO SAUDI ARABIA'S STABILITY. THE FIRST TWO SAUDI STATES COLLAPSED PARTIALLY AS A RESULT OF SUCCESSION PROBLEMS. FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF KING ABDULAZIZ IN 1953, A FIERCE POWER STRUGGLE AMON [...]	2006-11-22 04:02:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH8926	TRANSLATED TEXT OF NEW SAUDI SUCCESSION LAW [...] (U) KING ABDULLAH ISSUED A NEW SUCCESSION LAW ON OCTOBER 20 TO FORMALIZE THE PROCESS OF SELECTING A CROWN PRINCE THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ALLEGIANCE COMMISSION (REFTEL). THE BASIC LAW OF 1992 -- ESSENTIALLY THE CONSTITUTION -- WAS AMENDED TO REFLECT THE ESTABLISHMENT AND AUTHORITY OF [...]	2006-11-22 15:04:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR SA
06RIYADH8987	THE SAUDI ARABIAN FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT'S [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 6 and 9. 2. (U) Summary. EconOff met with the Saudi Arabian Financial Intelligence Unit (SA FIU) on November 5 and December 4, 2006 to discuss the status of their Egmont application and technical assistance. In attendance at the m [...]	2006-12-04 12:50:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN PTER EFIN ETTC SA
06RIYADH9	SAUDI VIEWS ON IRANIAN AND SYRIAN ACTIVITIES IN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal and General Intelligence Presidency (GIP) director Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz sought and shared views on Iran and Syria during a December 27 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Khalilzad. They told the Ambassador that while it was possible t [...]	2006-01-02 14:10:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PTER PINR IR SA SY IZ
06RIYADH9051	TERRORISM FINANCE: DEMARCHES DELIVERED [...] (U) On December 9, we delivered the following demarches to Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Counselor for Counterterrorism matters, Abdulrahman Al-Ahmed: --STATE 142684: Domestic USG Designation of Islamic Resistance Support Organization (IRSO); --STATE 148861: Terrorist Finance: Domestic US [...]	2006-12-11 12:13:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KFTN PREL PTER ETTC SA
06RIYADH9056	THE CAPITAL MARKET AUTHORITY'S NEED FOR ASSISTANCE [...] (U) Summary. From September 11-14, experts from the U.S. Securities and Exchange (SEC) provided a three-day technical assistance seminar on market oversight and enforcement strategies to Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority (CMA). The CMA freely shared information and actively engaged wit [...]	2006-12-12 10:01:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON SA
06RIYADH9078	APHSCT TOWNSEND'S NOVEMBER 15 MEETING WITH SAUDI [...] (S/NF) Summary: In a meeting with Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Frances Fragos Townsend at his farm outside Riyadh November 15, the King focused on the multiple threats from Iran. He said he had sent strong messages to President Putin and Presi [...]	2006-12-13 15:21:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER ECON IR SA
06RIYADH9083	APHSCT TOWNSEND NOVEMBER 15 MEETING WITH CROWN [...] (S) Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Fran Townsend met on November 15 with Crown Prince Sultan, who immediately steered the conversation to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. He noted the ongoing violence and raised the Arab Peace Plan proposed by [...]	2006-12-14 13:34:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV EFIN KTFN SA
06RIYADH9085	DHAHRAN DIGEST 8 [...] (U) This cable is a continuation of a regular series of updates from the Eastern Province (EP) designed to capture some of the EP's local color and items of USG interest that are not necessarily appropriate for a topical cable. ---------------------------------------- PRINCE MOHAMMED BIN FA [...]	2006-12-15 09:06:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET KIRF PA PGOV PHUM PREL SA
06RIYADH9089	APHSCT TOWNSEND NOVEMBER 15 MEETING WITH CROWN [...] (S) Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHSCT) Fran Townsend met on November 15 with Crown Prince Sultan, who immediately steered the conversation to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. He noted the ongoing violence and raised the Arab Peace Plan proposed by [...]	2006-12-16 07:50:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER PREL PGOV EFIN KTFN SA
06RIYADH9095	xxxxxxxxxxxx ON IRANIAN THREATS [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-16 14:18:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL EFIN PTER IZ IR SA
06RIYADH9106	PLANS FOR THE FEBRUARY JOINT WORKING GROUP ON [...] (S) On 16 December, Economic Counselor Silverman and Energy Attache Ross met with Dr. Saud al-Semari, Director of the Ministry of Interior's (MOI) modernization program, and Khaled al-Ageel, Manager of the MOI's Industrial Security Directorate, to discuss plans for a February 2007 meeting of [...]	2006-12-18 13:44:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	EPET PGOV PREL PTER SA
06RIYADH9155	KATRINA ASSISTANCE, COMING TO CLOSURE [...] (U) As per reftel request, on 17 December, Mission delivered a diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) formally requesting information on the status of disbursements of the outstanding $48 million of $100 million the SAG pledged for Hurricane Katrina assistance. We request [...]	2006-12-24 10:15:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL EPET SA
06RIYADH9184	TERRORIST FINANCE: UN 1267 DOCKRAT DESIGNATION [...] (U) On December 27, non-paper from reftel was delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to the Ministry of Interior. Post will report any substantive Saudi response. GFOELLER [...]	2006-12-26 13:35:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PTER KTFN ETTC SA
06ROME1005	EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES CASPIAN BASIN NATURAL GAS [...] (U) Summary: In March 17 meetings, GOI officials in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Productive Activities, and the Prime Minister's office concurred with EUR DAS Matthew Bryza's assessment of the risk to Italian and European energy security of Gazprom's dominance of natural gas shipments t [...]	2006-04-04 04:36:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EPET RU IR QA IT
06ROME1006	AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: On March 28, USMISSION UN ROME met with FAO Animal Production and Health (AGA) and Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation (TCE) Divisions staff to discuss Azerbaijan; global Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) expert needs; personal protective equipment (PPE) needs in the West [...]	2006-04-04 07:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO
06ROME1034	ITALY'S POST ELECTION LOTTO-MINISTRO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Italy's April 9-10 national elections begin a political process that probably will not produce a new government until mid-May to mid-June. Presidents of the two legislative houses must be elected followed by a replacement for President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi before [...]	2006-04-05 13:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME1090	AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] USMISSION UN ROME staff covered the USDA/Washington April 3-6 meetings with FAO on providing U.S. experts for FAO's global efforts to combat Avian Influenza. A separate reporting cable will be issued. During some free periods this week, USMISSION UN ROME held brief discussions with FAO Anim [...]	2006-04-11 07:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME1107	NEXT STEPS IN ITALY'S CONTESTED ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: In elections that showed Italy split down the political middle, center-left challenger Romano Prodi has apparently won a razor-thin majority over PM Silvio Berlusconi in the Italian Senate. His edge in the Chamber of Deputies was also close, but the voting bloc will be more subs [...]	2006-04-11 16:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT
06ROME1115	ITALY WAITS FOR VERIFIED ELECTION RESULTS: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Opposition leader Romano Prodi has declared victory in Italy's parliamentary election while current PM Silvio Berlusconi has cautioned that infinitesimally close results call for caution until final results have been fully verified according to standard procedures. Two aspects [...]	2006-04-12 13:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT
06ROME1162	ITALY: CERTIFIED VOTE RESULTS EXPECTED SOON [...] (C) A consensus is developing that the Italian Court of Cassation will issue certified election results next Tuesday, April 18, though reports that the recount could take a few days longer persist. UDC Party Secretary Lorenzo Cesa told the press that election results would not change, and FI [...]	2006-04-14 14:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME117	ITALIAN MFA U/S MANTICA VISITS SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA's Undersecretary for Africa Alfredo Mantica met with Somali TFG PM Ali Gedi in Jowhar January 5, as Somali President Yusuf and Speaker of Parliament Hassan were signing the Aden Declaration in Yemen. According to the MFA, Gedi expressed support for the Declaratio [...]	2006-01-12 16:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SO IT UN
06ROME1173	GOI IN RECEIPT OF POINTS ON ELECTRIC CABLES [...] Embassy faxed reftel talking points on the EU Draft Commission Decision proposing fire safety standards for electrical cables to Amadeo Teti, Ministry of Productive Activities Director General for International Trade Agreements, on March 31. Subsequent repeated efforts to contact Mr. Teti we [...]	2006-04-18 14:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD
06ROME1183	ITALIAN CASSATION DECLARES RESULTS OFFICIAL: PRODI [...] (SBU) Italy's Court of Cassation finished verification procedures for Italy's contested parliamentary elections, confirming center-left challenger Romano Prodi's electoral victory over incumbent PM Silvio Berlusconi in the critical Chamber of Deputies. Though Berlusconi might continue to prot [...]	2006-04-19 17:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME1194	GOI SUPPORTS USG POSITION ON RUSSIAN MEMBERSHIP IN [...] (C) Summary. Acting EcMin met April 12 with Carlo Tripepi, Senior Advisor for Non-proliferation and Trade Controls to the MFA's Director General for Economic Affairs, to deliver Refs A and C talking points and non-papers. Tripepi said the GOI position on Russian membership in the Australia G [...]	2006-04-20 12:07:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA RS IT
06ROME1202	ITALY: BERLUSCONI STAYS MUM ON PRODI WIN [...] (C) PM Silvio Berlusconi has not yet conceded victory to opposition leader Romano Prodi even after Italy's Court of Cassation officially confirmed the electoral victory for Prodi on April 19. In the wake of the court's confirmation, congratulatory calls from world leaders began to flow into P [...]	2006-04-21 10:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT
06ROME1209	ITALY: PRODI ADVISER TALKS GOVERNMENT FORMATION, [...] (C) A senior adviser to Romano Prodi says President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has privately agreed to tap Prodi as PM-designate before Ciampi's term expires. If that happened, it could accelerate the government formation process by about two weeks, to mid-May. Levi also said he th [...]	2006-04-21 17:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS KNNP PTER EUN IZ IR IT
06ROME1261	ITALIAN POLITICIANS REACT WITH GRIEF AND [...] (C) Italian politicians reacted with grief, solidarity, and condemnation April 28 following the killing of three Italians and a Romanian in Nasiriya. PM Berlusconi said he was deeply grieved by the deaths and center-left leader Prodi called it a tragedy for all of Italy. One center-left party [...]	2006-04-28 05:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME1308	ITALY: 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED [...] This unclassified cable is Embassy Rome,s contribution to the 2005 ) 2006 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. Post understands from Reftel, Paragraph 6, that DOD will secure significant quantitative data, including defense spending data, from other sources. Pos [...]	2006-05-03 08:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	JA KS KU MCAP PREL QA SA US MARR IT TC NATO
06ROME1317	ITALY: CHAMBER PRESIDENTS ELECTED, PRESIDENCY OF [...] (SBU) Italy's new parliament formally sat April 28 and subsequently voted Communist Renewal (RC) National Secretary Fausto Bertinotti President of the Chamber of Deputies and Daisy party leader Franco Marini President of the Senate. Both were contentious votes. As one of his first acts as Cha [...]	2006-05-03 15:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT
06ROME141	ITALY: ELECTORAL REFORM COULD BRING DIVIDED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In addition to impacts reported REF A and B, Italy's controversial electoral reform law introduces different systems for calculating results in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. In the Chamber of Deputies, the winning coalition receives a majority premium guaranteeing that [...]	2006-01-17 09:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME1519	ITALY AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD TITLE III SUSPENSION [...] (C) Summary. There have been few developments in Italy's relationship with Cuba in the past six months. Italy supported the EU's condemnation of recent acts of repudiation and subsequent demarches to the GOC, including protesting the harassment of dissident Martha Beatriz Roque. Italy did no [...]	2006-05-18 12:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL IT CU ETRD
06ROME1527	ITALY: A LOOK AT THE PRODI GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Romano Prodi and his cabinet of 25 ministers were sworn in May 17 by President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano. Political commentators immediately called the government composition "more left than center", but the vital ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Defense, Economy and Just [...]	2006-05-18 18:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IT
06ROME1539	THE NOT-SO-BEAUTIFUL GAME: CORRUPTION SCANDAL [...] (SBU) Summary: A scandal over alleged match-rigging by the Turin football squad Juventus is snowballing into a broader investigation of corruption in Italy's football league. Many top soccer federation officials have resigned, and shares of publicly-traded teams have crashed. Some members of [...]	2006-05-19 14:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON SCUL IT
06ROME163	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON TURKEY AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. ON JANUARY 13, USMISSION UN ROME STAFF MET WITH JOSEPH DOMENECH, FAO CHIEF VETERINARY OFFICER, AND MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT SITUATION IN TURKEY AND NEEDS THERE. ALSO DISCUSSED WAS THE OUTLOOK FOR ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN AND GEORGIA. FOR TURKEY, DOMENECH STATE [...]	2006-01-18 11:05:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO TU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME1630	ITALY ON U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) DCM conveyed the main points of reftel demarche to MFA Chef de Cabinet Ferdinando Nelli Feroci and MFA Political Director Giulio Terzi on May 31. Terzi said the MFA had already seen the Secretary's statement, which it read with great interest, and EU High Representative Solana's reaction. [...]	2006-05-31 16:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IT
06ROME1631	IRAN SEEKS CHAIR OF IOM EXCOM [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-31 17:09:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SMIG IR AORC IT
06ROME1686	BANK OF ITALY--DRAGHI'S FIRST PERSONAL AND [...] Summary: At the Bank of Italy (BOI) annual stockholder's meeting May 31, Mario Draghi, the new central bank governor, focused primarily on the need for structural economic reforms. Emphasizing the lack of growth this decade, Draghi focused on recapturing competitiveness to achieve economic [...]	2006-06-06 15:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN IT
06ROME17	AFTER BLOCKING SALE TO IRAN, ITALIAN MANUFACTURER [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary. Acting on instructions from Trade Vice Minister Adolfo Urso, Director General for Commercial Agreements Amadeo Teti called on Acting EcMin December 27 to seek USG assistance in finding U.S. buyers for fast boats manufact [...]	2006-01-04 10:22:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL IR IT EXPORT CONTROLS
06ROME1726	ITALIAN VIEWS ON JUNE GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The GOI is prepared to recognize Montenegro as an independent state following an EU statement on the results of the referendum but wants the international community to continue to focus on trafficking, organized crime and security issues after the dissolution of the union between [...]	2006-06-09 14:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN KPAL YI MW IZ IT
06ROME1753	IRAQ: ITALY HASN'T CLOSED THE DOOR ON PRT YET [...] (S) Senior Italian diplomatic advisors told visiting Deputy Senior Advisor for Iraq (S/I) Barbara Stephenson June 9 that Italy will withdraw all of its troops in Iraq before the end of 2006, but plans to remain engaged in reconstruction efforts. They were pessimistic about Italy continuing to [...]	2006-06-13 14:18:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME1755	ITALIAN FM D'ALEMA SEEKING GOOD START TO [...] (S/NF) I met with FM D'Alema June 13 to preview his plans for his June 16 meetings with you. He wants to start the new Italian government's relations with us on a positive and constructive note. D'Alema said Italy can and will do more in Afghanistan, is willing to do more in Iraq under a NATO [...]	2006-06-13 15:21:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV OVIP MOPS IZ IT EUN NATO
06ROME1792	MTCR: GOI RESPONSE TO U/S JOSEPH LETTER [...] (C) Embassy received June 12 the following response to Ref B letter from U/S Joseph, signed by Giandomenico Magliano, MFA Director General for Multilateral Economic Affairs. Text of letter follows. 2. (C) Begin text of Magliano letter to U/S Joseph. May 26, 2006. Dear Under [...]	2006-06-16 13:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA IT
06ROME1856	ITALY TELLS IRAN TO ACCEPT EU3 PACKAGE [...] (C/NF) Summary. On June 22, visiting EUR/WE Office Director Kathy Allegrone discussed Iran, Syria, Iraq, and UN Security Council reform with MFA Political Director Giulio Terzi. On June 21 in Rome, Italian FM D'Alema told visiting Iranian FM Mottaki to accept the EU3 package and that Italy, d [...]	2006-06-23 09:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER PHUM EUN KNNP IR IT
06ROME1858	FOURTH-ANNUAL IPR RETREAT: ITALIAN JUDGES SEE [...] Summary: Mission Italy's fourth-annual IPR judicial workshop brought together judges and prosecutors from across Italy with their U.S. counterparts to discuss the investigation and prosecution of IPR crime. The U.S. delegation included two federal judges, two federal prosecutors, and Departm [...]	2006-06-23 09:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV KIPR CH IT
06ROME187	2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Italy is not an important regional or offshore financial center. However, money laundering is a concern both because of the prevalence of homegrown organized crime groups and the recent influx of criminal organizations from abroad, especially from Albania, Romania, and Russia. The heavy inv [...]	2006-01-19 16:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER IT EUN UN
06ROME1870	NEW ITALIAN DEPUTY FM SENTINELLI ON AFRICA, [...] (C) Summary. June 15 DCM Anna Borg met with the new Italian Deputy Foreign Minister for Development Assistance and Sub-Saharan Africa, Patrizia Sentinelli, to discuss Italian involvement in Africa and priorities for development assistance. Sentinelli was open to working with the United States [...]	2006-06-26 09:20:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EAID AF IT
06ROME1879	EUR/WE DIRECTOR ALLEGRONE'S VISIT TO ROME [...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment. In meetings with senior Italian political party advisors, journalists and officials in Rome June 20-23, Allegrone heard many of the new Prodi government,s multiple, often conflicting policy voices, especially on Iraq and Afghanistan. Many said this cacophony w [...]	2006-06-27 07:07:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT
06ROME1880	ITALY VOTES NO TO BERLUSCONI-ERA CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) The controversial constitutional reform approved by the Berlusconi-led majority last November was defeated soundly in a public referendum by a surprisingly wide margin of 61.3 percent to 38.7 percent countrywide. Voter turnout was a high: 53.6 percent. The most well-known component of the [...]	2006-06-27 10:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV IT
06ROME1892	U/S LEVEY'S ROME MEETINGS, JUNE 21 [...] This is an action request. Please see para 2. Summary and Action Request -------------------------- 2. (S/NF) U/S Levey, during his June 21 Rome visit, met with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Justice (MOJ),Finance (MOF),and Interior (MOI),and held a press conference. Dis [...]	2006-06-28 07:01:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN PTER IT IR
06ROME1915	"OOPS I DID IT AGAIN" - FINMECCANICA SEEKS USG [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (U) Summary. A/Ecmin met June 26 with Camillo Pirozzi, Finmeccanica's Head of Public Affairs and Institutional Relations. Pirozzi requested the meeting to inform the USG of Finmeccanica's interest in selling naval guns to the Venezu [...]	2006-06-30 16:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM ETTC ETRD SP FR VE IT
06ROME1996	ARMS SALES TO VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Summary. A/ECMIN met July 7 with Simone Bemporad, Finmeccanica's Senior Vice President for Media Relations and International Affairs, and Camillo Pirozzi, Head of Public Affairs and Institutional Relations, to discuss Finmeccanica's proposed sale of naval guns to the Venezuelan navy. A/ [...]	2006-07-13 09:20:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ETTC PARM SP VE IT
06ROME2006	IRAN: TEHRAN-BASED UN OFFICIAL SEES INCREASING [...] (C/NF) An Italian UN official based in Tehran says Iran is using all means at its disposal -- from support for terrorist groups to its own counter-narcotics campaign -- to boost its influence in the region. Accustomed to years of economic sanctions and international isolation, key Iranian powe [...]	2006-07-14 07:50:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PHUM EUN KNNP SNAR IR IT
06ROME2013	KOFI ANNAN VISITS ITALY TO TALK AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, [...] Summary. (C) UN Secretary General Kofi Annan visited Rome July 11-12 for meetings with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, PM Romano Prodi, FM Massimo D'Alema, President of the Senate Franco Marini, President of the Chamber of Deputies Fausto Bertinotti, and center-right leader Silvio Berlu [...]	2006-07-14 16:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL UN AF SU IT
06ROME2032	FINMECCANICA: NOT PURSUING ARMS SALES TO VENEZUELA [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-17 15:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ETTC PARM SP VE IT
06ROME2034	FINMECCANICA STILL PURSUING RADIO CONTRACT WITH [...] (C) Summary. Finmeccanica contacted Embassy officials July 14 to inform us they intend to bid on a contract to provide TETRA radios to two municipal police forces in Iran. Finmeccanica's decision is reportedly driven solely by business considerations, and was taken after delivery of Ref A ta [...]	2006-07-18 05:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETTC PARM PREL IR IT
06ROME2061	ISRAEL SEES IMPROVEMENT ON THE ITALIAN LEFT [...] (C/NF) Summary. Israel sees an improving attitude by much of the Italian left toward Israel, according to an Israeli Embassy official in Rome. In a July 18 address to Parliament, FM D'Alema said Israel's reaction to Hezbollah in Lebanon was legitimate, but "went beyond all reasonable proport [...]	2006-07-19 13:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR LE IS IT PGOV
06ROME2156	ITALY'S COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS PRESENCE IN IRAN [...] (U) Total two-way trade between Italy and Iran reached 5.17 billion euros in 2005, making Italy Iran's second biggest trade partner in the EU in eurodollar terms. Italian companies also have an active presence in many sectors of the Iranian economy. Paragraph 3 lists companies with investme [...]	2006-08-01 13:07:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EFIN IR IT
06ROME2157	ITALY'S TRADE AND INVESTMENT RELATIONS WITH SOMALIA [...] The MFA reports Somalia remains a political priority for Italy (ref A),an assertion bolstered by Italy's providing over 21 million euro in foreign assistance in 2005-2006 and Italy's membership in the Somalia Contact Group. That said, aside from some foreign assistance, Italy's economic ties [...]	2006-08-01 13:09:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ETRD SO SW IT
06ROME216	OLYMPIC SECURITY COORDINATOR - PRE-GAME [...] This pre-game situational report provides information pertaining to continued efforts by RSO Rome Nancy Rolph- O'Donnell, OSC Daniel Weber, and FBI OC Ray Mey, in the USG's planning and preparations in support of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin. 2. Commencing on January 4, 2006, US [...]	2006-01-23 16:26:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC KOLY IT AMGT OLYMPICS
06ROME2191	ITALY WIDENS THE WELCOME MAT FOR IMMIGRANTS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Prodi government has been surprisingly proactive on immigration issues since it took office in May 2006. The Council of Ministers today will introduce legislation to cut from ten to five years the time needed for immigrants to qualify for citizenship and will offer, for th [...]	2006-08-04 10:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB SMIG IT
06ROME2192	GOI RESPONSE TO USG PROPOSALS FOR MTCR TECHNICAL [...] (U) EconOff delivered ref A and B proposals on modifications to the Missile Technology Control Regime's (MTCR) UAV/Missile criteria and the removal of Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) numbers from items in the MTCR annex to Enrico Padula, the MFA desk officer who follows MTCR issues. With res [...]	2006-08-04 10:35:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MTCRE MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA IT
06ROME2257	ITALY'S TRADE AND INVESTMENT RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA [...] (U) Summary. Italy and Russia are major trading partners, with the bulk of trade comprised of natural gas exports from Russia to Italy. While the GOI has expressed concern over Italy's dependence on Russian natural gas, Italy has not yet aggressively pursued alternative sources of energy. [...]	2006-08-10 15:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON ETRD RU IT
06ROME2281	ITALIAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN VENEZUELA [...] (U) The presence of a large Italian community in Venezuela has allowed Italian products to occupy a privileged space on Venezuelan shelves in the past. However, the GOV's termination of a service contract held by Eni, Italy's oil and gas parastatal, to operate the Dacion oilfield has now crea [...]	2006-08-11 15:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG ETRD IT VE
06ROME2288	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MINISTER BERSANI CHARTS WAY [...] (U) Summary: In a courtesy call by Ambassador Spogli August 2, Economic Development Minister Pierluigi Bersani outlined his plans for further economic liberalization and identified barriers to reform. He expressed enthusiasm for the Ambassador's Partnership for Growth, and said Italian compa [...]	2006-08-14 09:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD ENRG IT
06ROME2335	LEBANON: ITALY READY TO HELP WITH TROOPS, BRIDGE [...] (S) Italy is prepared to deploy up to 1,000 troops quickly to UNIFIL and up to 3,000 overall. The Foreign Minister told NEA A/S Welch the cabinet unanimously approved Italy's participation in UNIFIL during its August 18 meeting. Italy is persuaded, based on its own high-level consultations wi [...]	2006-08-18 17:34:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER MOPS EAID PHUM IS LE IT
06ROME241	ITALY PROTESTS IRAN DECISIONMAKING PROCESS [...] (C) The GOI January 25 expressed concern about the upcoming London meeting on Iran and the emergence of a P6 format for decisionmaking on the issue. To drive home its unhappiness about being sidelined, the GOI had blocked EU agreement that same day on EU-3 draft language regarding Iran. Whil [...]	2006-01-26 15:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IAEA IT IR
06ROME2429	D'ALEMA, LEBANON, AND ENGAGING ITALY [...] (C) Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema is emblematic of both the possibilities and challenges posed by Italy's center-left government. Prickly. Ex-Communist. Europeanist. Critic of Iraq war. Critic of alleged US unilateralism. Political opponent of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. [...]	2006-08-30 14:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT
06ROME2580	ITALIAN RESPONSE WEAK ON POSSIBLE WTO DISPUTE REGARDING [...] SUMMARY: A/ECMIN delivered reftel demarche to the Prime Minister's office and to the Ministry of Foreign Trade. While the GOI is broadly sympathetic to USG concerns regarding Chinese IPR violations, China's potential as a large trading partner lessens GOI enthusiasm for direct WTO action. GO [...]	2006-09-13 14:28:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD AORC KIPR EURM WTRO USTR CH IT
06ROME2622	IRAN: ITALY'S EXPORT CREDIT AGENCY VULNERABLE TO [...] (S) Alessandro Castellano, the Director General (DG) of Italy's export credit agency (ECA),Servizi Assicurativi del Commercio Estero (SACE),told the Ambassador August 29 that he was "calm" about SACE's financial exposure to Iran, should there be UN sanctions against Tehran. Castellano note [...]	2006-09-15 16:01:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ECON EFIN PTER IR IT
06ROME263	INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] Summary. Italy continues to court foreign investors by actively seeking to implement the 2003 legal reforms designed to lift the Italian economy out of its malaise. In 2003 Italy successfully reformed its civil code and made important modifications to its Unified Rules on Financial Intermed [...]	2006-01-30 08:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV IT OPIC USTR
06ROME2637	VOLKER DISCUSSES IRAN, LEBANON AND SYRIA WITH [...] (C/NF) On Sept. 13 in Rome, EUR PDAS Volker met PolDir Terzi and other MFA officials, and PM Deputy Diplomatic Advisors Gentilini and Carnelos. Terzi thanked the U.S. for helping get Italy included in the Berlin Iran talks and called the common U.S.-EU position on Iran a major achievement. T [...]	2006-09-19 09:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL NATO EUN IR UNSC SY LE IT
06ROME2672	ITALIAN RESPONSE TO USG NON-PAPERS FOR MISSILE [...] (C) Econoff delivered reftels C-N non-papers September 12 to Enrico Padula, the MFA desk officer responsible for Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) issues. During a subsequent meeting September 19, Econoff delivered reftels A and B. Padula thanked us for the package of notes and told [...]	2006-09-21 14:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA MNUC TSPA KNNP WMD
06ROME2699	TURKEY-GREECE-ITALY PIPELINE - EDISON DISCUSSIONS [...] Roberto Poti, Edison Vice President for Business Development, called EconCounselor September 18 to relate details of his September 11 meeting with Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler regarding the Turkey-Greece-Italy (TGI) pipeline construction. 2. Poti described the meeting as "very posit [...]	2006-09-25 15:45:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ENRG ETRD AJ AL RS TU GR IR IT
06ROME2724	PASSENGER DATA SHARING VIEWS AS OLD AGREEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Italy,s privacy authority reports EU member state privacy authorities are working toward a new U.S.-EU agreement on Passenger Name Records (PNR) to replace the current one expiring September 30. The new agreement reportedly will not differ in substance from the existing agreemen [...]	2006-09-27 17:23:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC EAIR PTER AORC ICAO KTIA IT
06ROME276	ITALIAN ELECTIONS: PRODI LEADING THE RACE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent polls show that PM Silvio Berlusconi's center-right (CR) coalition has gained on Romano Prodi's center-left (CL) coalition. Prodi's lead has slipped from 8 percentage points last summer to 4.5 percentage points in January. In the last month, Berlusconi has set the tone of [...]	2006-01-31 12:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME2793	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FTC - WILLIAM E. [...] Embassy Rome welcomes and grants country clearance for FTC official Mr. William E. Kovacic to travel to Florence for the period of October 12 - 15, 2006 to speak at the 10th Annual Competition Conference at the European University Institute, Fiesole. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands tha [...]	2006-10-05 10:39:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY OTRA KSCA NSF IT
06ROME28	ITALY'S BUDGET: SQUEEZED BY ELECTION-YEAR SPENDING [...] On December 22, Parliament approved the 2006 budget which includes euro 27.5 billion in spending cuts and new revenue measures to shrink the deficit/GDP ratio to 3.8 percent (Italy's EU ceiling for 2006). Italy's budget process faced the double pressure of EU deficit ceilings, and front-loaded [...]	2006-01-04 17:05:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP
06ROME2863	ITALY SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SMITH [...] Embassy Rome warmly welcomes the visit of Codel Smith. Please find below background information to serve as a scenesetter for visit. Summary: A Traditionally Strong Bilateral Relationship --------------------------------------------- --------- 2. U.S. - Italy relations traditionally have [...]	2006-10-12 16:09:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA OREP PREL PGOV AMGT IT
06ROME2871	ITALIANS WANT TO CONTACT GROUP DISCUSSION ON [...] (C) Summary. Serbian president Boris Tadic visited Rome on October 10 and 11 to meet with Italian President Napolitano, PM Prodi, FM D'Alema, and MOD Parisi. Tadic expressed his hope that Serbia could become part of PfP, the EU and eventually NATO but noted that Serbia had experienced signif [...]	2006-10-13 15:57:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ICTY SR YI IT
06ROME2873	ITALY DISCUSSING TIGHTENING OF VENEZUELA ARMS SALES [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with Francesco Talo, MFA South America Office Director, and Paolo Campanini, South America Office, September 21 to inform Italy of the U.S. arms transfer policy to Venezuela, per Ref A, urging Italy to adopt similar measures. Talo noted that arms sales to Venezuela wer [...]	2006-10-13 15:57:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PARM VE PREL OTRA IT
06ROME2877	MINISTER OF TRADE: ITALY RETHINKING APPROACH TO [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 9 and 12. 2. (U) Summary: In a courtesy call by Ambassador Spogli October 3, Trade Minister Anna Bonino outlined her views on Italy's trade relationship with China and the need for Italian firms to be more aggressive in promoting their brands [...]	2006-10-16 05:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD ETTC AF CH IT
06ROME2944	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 CASE 05-944510; ORDER [...] (C) Econoff spoke by phone October 17 with Donato D'Angelantonio, Director General of Supplies for Elettronica SPA (foreign consignee and end-user),regarding reftel. According to D'Angelantonio, who provided extensive supporting documents (via fax),Elettronica cancelled May 19, 2005 the or [...]	2006-10-24 13:06:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KOMC IT
06ROME2954	ITALY: DPRK ACTIONS UNACCEPTABLE, EU COORDINATING [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA East Asia Office Director Federico Failla October 20 to discuss the recent North Korean nuclear test and UNSCR 1718 (Refs A-D). Poloff stressed the importance of implementing all provisions in UNSCR 1718 expeditiously. Failla noted that PM Prodi and FM D'Alema had bot [...]	2006-10-24 16:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KN PARM KNNP IT
06ROME2965	WELCH REJECTS "AMBIGUITY" ON HAMAS RECOGNITION OF [...] (S) Italy's MFA Middle East director Riccardo Sessa says European countries want to help move the Israeli-Palestinian issue forward, but the issue is how best to do so. He said a breakthrough could require a greater degree of ambiguity on the issue of Hamas recognition of Israel. NEA A/S Welc [...]	2006-10-26 11:35:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL PGOV IT XF
06ROME2983	ITALY HOPES MEPP DISCUSSIONS IN ALICANTE REALISTIC [...] (C) Political M/C and Poloff called on Italian MFA Near East Office Director Luciano Pezzotti October 25 to discuss Italy's upcoming participation in Middle East peace process discussions hosted by the Spanish. Pezzotti said Italy hoped to play a constructive role in focusing discussions on [...]	2006-10-27 16:12:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV XF LE UN IT
06ROME3006	GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR TO ITALY COMPLAINS OF [...] (C/NF) Summary. The Georgian Ambassador to Italy, Zaal Gogsadze, told poloff that he has been unable to get the GOI to focus on the tensions building in Georgia. Gogsadze stated that the GOI has become fixated on the Putin-inspired idea that Georgia is pushing for an armed confrontation. Whi [...]	2006-11-02 08:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV GG RU IT

06ROME3032	ITALY: UNGA COUNTRY SPECIFIC AND CUBA EMBARGO [...] (SBU) Poloff met with MFA Human Rights Office Director Laura Carpini November 6 to deliver Ref A demarche requesting Italian support on UNGA country specific human rights resolutions for Belarus and Uzbekistan. Carpini reported that Italy had decided November 3 to co-sponsor the U.S.-sponsore [...]	2006-11-06 16:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KTIA UNGA UN CU IT
06ROME3046	IRAQ: NO CURRENT ITALIAN PLANS TO FORGIVE [...] (C) Summary: Government of Italy officials informed Emboffs that the GOI was not developing any plans to forgive the remaining 20 percent of debt that Iraq owes to Italy. A Ministry of Finance official explained this was due largely to legal constraints. Additionally, the MoF official exp [...]	2006-11-08 16:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN IZ IT
06ROME3047	IRAQ: NO CURRENT ITALIAN PLANS TO FORGIVE [...] (C) Summary: Government of Italy officials informed Emboffs that the GOI was not developing any plans to forgive the remaining 20 percent of debt that Iraq owes to Italy. A Ministry of Finance official explained this was due largely to legal constraints. Additionally, the MoF official exp [...]	2006-11-08 16:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN IZ IT
06ROME3050	IRAN & HIZBALLAH: U/S LEVEY DISCUSSIONS IN ROME [...] (S/NF) In October 26 meetings with Government of Italy (GOI) officials and bankers, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey pressed the GOI to ensure that its financial system was performing due diligence to prevent Iranian front companies engaged in WMD [...]	2006-11-09 12:55:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ECON EFIN PTER IR LE IT
06ROME3059	FASTBOATS REVISITED: ITALIAN FIRM'S SHIPMENT OF [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (S) Summary. Embassy delivered Ref A demarche, regarding the export of marine diesel engines to Iran, to officials at the Italian Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Foreign Trade (MFT). Both officials expressed surprise that th [...]	2006-11-09 15:30:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM MARR ETTC IT IR
06ROME3068	ITALY WORKING ON UNSCR 1718 OBLIGATIONS REPORT TO [...] (C) Poloffs November 8 met separately with Filippo Nicosia, MFA East Asia Office, and Filippo Formica, Office Director for Non-Proliferation to deliver Ref A points requesting countries take steps to meet their obligations under UNSCR 1718 on DPRK Conventional Arms. Nicosia noted that, while [...]	2006-11-13 15:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL XX KN UN IT
06ROME3115	ITALY PREPARING UNSCR 1718 IMPLEMENTATION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-17 15:30:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM KNNP XX KN IT
06ROME3122	TERRORISM FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON TERRORIST [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel talking points November 16 to Cristina Collura, Director of the Ministry of Finance's Financial Crimes Prevention Office and member of the Financial Security Committee (the GOI's interagency working group which coordinates, and decides upon, terrorism finance cas [...]	2006-11-20 14:32:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER IT
06ROME3131	ITALY WARNS SYRIA ON DESTABILIZING LEBANON [...] (C) Italy is concerned about possible Syrian-inspired efforts to destabilize Lebanon and PM Prodi has contacted President Bashar al-Asad with a message of warning. Despite the recent resignations of six cabinet ministers, Lebanese PM Siniora reportedly told the Italians he was confident in th [...]	2006-11-20 17:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV XF IR LE IT
06ROME3142	ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CONFIRMS FOR BMENA [...] (SBU) MFA officials report Italian FM D'Alema has decided to attend the BMENA Forum for the Future. He plans to arrive the evening of November 30th and to depart the morning of December 1, after having delivered remarks. He will be accompanied by newly appointed MFA Director General for Med [...]	2006-11-21 13:36:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KMPI IT
06ROME315	FAO EMERGENCY PROGRAMS: INFORMAL DONORS' [...] Summary and Background. On January 25, 2006, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) held an informal donors' meeting to provide an overview of 2005 activities and special requirements for 2006. Recently appointed TCE Assistant Direc [...]	2006-02-03 11:07:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR ECON SENV UN FAO
06ROME3172	2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] This message responds to ref B request for information on financial crimes and money laundering in Italy. Together with ref A, these reports transmit Mission Italy's submission to the 2006-07 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR). 2. Italy is not an offshore financial c [...]	2006-11-24 14:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER IT
06ROME3202	GOI RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR MTCR CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. (C) Econ Counselor delivered ref A talking points November 30 to Carlo Tripepi, the MFA Deputy Assistant Secretary-equivalent official in charge of Missile Technology SIPDIS Control Regime (MTCR) issues. Tripepi reiterated [...]	2006-11-30 16:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA IT
06ROME3213	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO PRESS CONFERENCE ON TURKEY AI [...] SUMMARY: FAO SENIOR VETERINARY OFFICIAL JUAN LUBROTH GAVE A PRESS BRIEFING ON MONDAY, JANUARY 16, ON HIS MISSION TO TURKEY TO ASSESS THE AVIAN INFLUENZA SITUATION. THE FAO ASSESSMENT IS MORE OPTIMISTIC THIS WEEK COMPARED TO LAST WEEK WHEN FAO WARNED AI COULD BECOME ENDEMIC TO TURKEY. THE MA [...]	2006-01-17 15:34:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AMED EAID CASC SENV EAGR KPAO TU AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME3228	ITALY: APPAREL AND TEXTILES STATISTICS AND [...] The textile and apparel industries are a small, but high-profile, part of Italy's industrial base. Although textiles and apparel accounted for only nine percent of industrial production and eleven percent of Italy's total exports and imports in 2005, names such as Dolce and Gabbana, Versace, [...]	2006-12-05 09:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTEX CH IT
06ROME323	(UPDATE) 2005 INCSR SUBMISSION FOR ITALY (PART I) [...] In accordance with Ref B instructions, Post submits an update to the INCSR report (Ref A) transmitted in December 2005. The updated text and figures below reflect the latest information from the GOI and should be included in the final draft of the INCSR. 2. Ref A cable, paragraph five. [...]	2006-02-03 13:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR IT EUN
06ROME324	GOI CLARIFIES SCAJOLA REMARKS ON UKRAINE-RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. During a February 1 meeting with Econoff, Ministry of Productive Activities (MPA) Diplomatic Advisor Ambassador Gabriele Checchia backed away from MPA Minister Claudia Scajola's statement that Ukraine is "taking" Russian gas meant for Italy, and said Italy will support Ukrainian [...]	2006-02-03 13:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON IT UP RU
06ROME3261	ITALY: REGISTER OF DAMAGES SHOULD HAVE TECHNICAL [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel points to MFA Near East Deputy Office Director Daniele Bosio December 5 and Acting UN Office Director Leonardo Bencini December 6, noting U.S. concerns with the draft resolution to establish a register of damages related to the West Bank barrier. Poloffs emphasized [...]	2006-12-07 17:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA IS IT
06ROME3276	IRAN'S FLAWED ELECTIONS - ITALY [...] (C) Pol M/C and poloff delivered ref points December 4 and 11 to MFA Deputy Middle East Director Luca Del Balzo and Gulf Countries Office Director Bruno Campria. 2. (C) Pol M/C told Del Balzo that, as part of our effort to coordinate with Italy on Iranian issues, it would be important to [...]	2006-12-12 13:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IR IT
06ROME3279	D'ALEMA MAXIMUS [...] (C/NF) Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema is emerging as the most prominent and dynamic member of the Prodi Government. Barely six months into his tenure at the MFA, he appears intent on leaving his imprint on Italian foreign policy, the Italian Government, and on Italy itself. On forei [...]	2006-12-12 16:58:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL IT
06ROME3298	ITALY AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD [...] (C) Summary. There have been few developments in Italy's relationship with Cuba in the past six months. The Italian Embassy in Havana continued to meet regularly with opposition leaders as part of efforts to engage in intensified dialogue with civil society. Italy did not participate in exch [...]	2006-12-14 17:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	CU ETRD ETTC PREL IT
06ROME3300	GOI DOWNPLAYS POSSIBILITY OF OTO MELARA EXPORT TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (S) Econ Counselor delivered ref A demarche December 13 to Carlo Tripepi, Director of the MFA's Arms Material Authorization Unit, responsible for licensing Italian munitions exports. Tripepi had not heard of Oto Melara's possibl [...]	2006-12-15 13:17:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM ETTC IR VE IT
06ROME3317	PRODI HOUSE DIVIDED, BUT STILL STANDS [...] (SBU) PM Prodi's 2007 budget proposal has drawn intense criticism from across the political spectrum and fueled a heated political debate about the government's durability as well as a massive protest against him and his governing coalition. Pundits generally have predicted Prodi's government [...]	2006-12-18 10:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON IT
06ROME3320	OLMERT REJECTS ITALIAN PUSH ON SHEBAA FARMS [...] (C/NF) Israeli PM Olmert visited Italy December 13 and talks focused on Lebanon, the Middle East peace process, and Iran. He deflected calls by both the Italian PM and FM for a gesture on Shebaa Farms to buttress embattled Lebanese PM Siniora. Olmert noted this would be seen as a nod to Syri [...]	2006-12-18 13:47:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL XF IR LE IT
06ROME3331	TERRORIST LISTS - ITALY [...] Per reftel, Post reports that the Government of Italy has no independent, national list of banned terrorist entities. The GOI uses, and refers to, UN and EU lists of banned terrorist entities. BORG [...]	2006-12-19 15:55:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER IT
06ROME3334	Italy: Changing Public Attitudes Toward [...] Italy has some of the better IPR protection laws in the EU, but enforcement is stunningly lackluster. Until 2005, Mission Italy focused a more than decade- long effort on improving enforcement, but we also began to consider how we might change Italians perceptions toward IPR as a way to suppo [...]	2006-12-19 16:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV KIPR IT
06ROME3360	FINMECCANICA EXPORTS TO IRAN AND VENEZUELA: THE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (S) In a December 21 meeting requested by Finmeccanica, the major Italian defense and aerospace conglomerate, company officials reviewed the status of their engagement with Iran and Venezuela. They noted that Finmeccanica is not [...]	2006-12-22 14:56:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ETRD ETTC IR VE SP FR SZ IT
06ROME3378	IRAN'S BANK SEPAH: U/S LEVEY DISCUSSIONS IN ROME [...] (S) Treasury U/S Stuart Levey called on the Italian Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs and the Bank of Italy (BOI) December 20 to press Italy to close local branches of Bank Sepah. The U/S keyed his remarks to the report of a recent BOI investigation that had uncovered clear financial [...]	2006-12-27 16:37:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON EFIN PTER IR LE IT
06ROME3379	ITALIAN ENERGY SUPPLIES PROJECTED TO BE ADEQUATE [...] (U) Summary. Italian officials are optimistic Italy will not experience a repeat of last winter's energy shortages. Energy analysts point to a mild winter, gas reserves higher than last year, and Italy's increased ability to switch natural gas-fired power plants to oil. Looking past Italy's [...]	2006-12-27 16:38:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET ECON RU IT
06ROME338	ITALY FACING AN ENERGY CRISIS? [...] (C) Summary: An unexpectedly cold winter and miscalculation of the rate at which Italy consumes natural gas may mean that Italy will not have sufficient gas reserves to generate electricity for the remainder of the winter, according to knowledgeable Embassy sources. In a worst case scenari [...]	2006-02-03 17:44:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET IT EUN
06ROME342	ITALY: CENTER-LEFT ASPIRES TO CRAFT MORE EUROPEAN [...] (C) Summary: If Italy's center-left coalition (the Union) wins this spring's national election, center left leaders are prepared to reorient Italy's foreign policy toward the EU, favor multilateral initiatives over bilateral or unilateral ones, and tone down Italy's relations with the US. R [...]	2006-02-06 11:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IT
06ROME343	GOI SEEKS MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK FROM SHRINKING [...] (U) Summary: Facing budget cuts and a stagnant economy, the Government of Italy (GOI) will seek to leverage its defense spending to continue to gain access to cutting edge technologies as part of a broad effort to revive the Italian economy. The amount of technology transfer and job creatio [...]	2006-02-06 11:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PGOV EFIN IT
06ROME361	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS -- USG SITUATION [...] (SBU/NF) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/07/2006. 2. (SBU/NF) USG interagency Joint Operations Center (JOC) numbers (24/7) are: 39-011-55-99-793/794/564 (tel); 011- [...]	2006-02-07 16:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS
06ROME377	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/08/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...]	2006-02-08 15:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME384	ITALY,S PARLIAMENT PASSES "SARBANES-OXLEY". [...] SUMMARY. On December 23 Italy's Senate passed the financial market oversight reform bill, two years after the massive Parmalat fraud scandal and just following the resignation of Bank of Italy (BOI) Governor Fazio. The bill leaves in place the five regulatory authorities: antitrust, central [...]	2006-02-09 11:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP
06ROME390	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/09/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...]	2006-02-09 16:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME398	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/09/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...]	2006-02-10 12:04:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME406	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/09/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency USG Olympic Security Operations Center (OSOC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the [...]	2006-02-11 13:14:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME407	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/12/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...]	2006-02-12 11:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME427	ITALY RECEPTIVE TO A/S SHANNON'S MESSAGE ON LATIN [...] (C) Summary. A/S Thomas Shannon February 3 outlined U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere for Italian MFA Director General for the Americas Claudio Bisogniero and encouraged Italy to be our partner in engaging with Latin America during this delicate time for the region. Bisogniero was very r [...]	2006-02-13 10:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL XM HA CU CA IT
06ROME428	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON NIGERIA [...] From February 8-10, USMISSION UN Rome staff met with Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, to discuss the current situation in Nigeria. 2. In these discussions, Lubroth reported the following: -- Two children are suspected of having contracted the virus. A WHO assessment arrives [...]	2006-02-13 12:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME429	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/09/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...]	2006-02-13 12:17:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME430	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON NIGERIA [...] From February 8-10, USMISSION UN Rome staff met with Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, to discuss the current situation in Nigeria. 2. In these discussions, Lubroth reported the following: -- Two children are suspected of having contracted the virus. A WHO assessment team ar [...]	2006-02-13 12:18:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME435	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON ITALY, IRAQ, [...] Based on communications today between USMISSION UN Rome staff and Dr. Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, FAO will conduct a press conference on February 14 at 10:30 a.m. The message that will be relayed will include the following: 2. On the Government of Italy's efforts: -- FAO [...]	2006-02-13 15:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI IT GR BU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO IQ AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME438	FRAUD SUMMARY - ROME [...] COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Italy has relatively few instances of fraud in connection with consular services. Italians, who enjoy a developed economy and access to the visa waiver program, find little reason to commit fraud to obtain visas or passports. The Italian government has a relatively secure [...]	2006-02-13 16:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD KCRM CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC IT EUN
06ROME443	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS - USG SITUATION [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/14/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...]	2006-02-14 11:33:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME449	Italy's Parliament Passes "Sarbanes-Oxley". [...] SUMMARY. On December 23 Italy's Senate passed the financial market oversight reform bill, two years after the massive Parmalat fraud scandal and just following the resignation of Bank of Italy (BOI) Governor Fazio. The bill leaves in place the five regulatory authorities: antitrust, central [...]	2006-02-14 15:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP EUN
06ROME450	FINI-LAVROV MEETING: RUSSIA CAN PLAY A ROLE IN [...] (C) Summary. Antonio Cascio, an official in the Russia/Central Asian Department of the Italian MFA, told poloff that during a visit to Rome on February 7, Russian FM Lavrov told Italian FM Fini that Russia can play an important and constructive role in the Middle East. Lavrov told Fini the I [...]	2006-02-14 15:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RU IT
06ROME452	ITALY-IRAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS [...] (U) Summary: Italy is Iran's largest EU trading partner, with two-way trade totaling 2.91 billion euros in the first seven months of 2005, including 1.32 billion euros of Italian exports to Iran. Italy imports Iranian oil and gas and exports automobiles and electrical products to Iran. End [...]	2006-02-14 16:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL IR IT
06ROME456	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-15 10:35:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME461	PDAS VOLKER DISCUSSES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH [...] (C) Summary. On February 7, PDAS Kurt Volker visited Rome to meet with high-level GOI leaders to discuss Iran, Iraq, the cartoon controversy, the Ukrainian Energy Crisis, NATO, OSCE, Balkans, and UN Reform. Volker stressed the importance of Italy's contributions to global security and need fo [...]	2006-02-15 12:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT NATO OSCE UN GLOBAL DEFENSE
06ROME463	24TH FAO AFRICAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS [...] Summary: The biennial African Regional Conference (ARC) of the UN Agency for Food and Agriculture (FAO),held in Bamako, Mali, from January 30 to February 3 highlighted the continent's lack of progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals for reducing hunger and poverty, and pr [...]	2006-02-15 14:54:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR AORC EAID ETRD SENV KUNR XA FAO
06ROME464	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO PRESS CONFERENCE PROVIDES [...] On February 14, FAO held a press conference to provide a global update on Avian Influenza. Areas highlighted were Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Europe in general (with a primary focus on Italy),and future preparations for Latin America/Caribbean. Samuel Jutzi, Director of FAO's Animal Product [...]	2006-02-15 16:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI IT GR BU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO IQ AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME465	UN REFORM: INDEPENDENT EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF [...] (U) Summary: A Committee of the FAO Council charged with oversight of the comprehensive Independent External Evaluation (IEE) of FAO has just approved the selection of a high-caliber core team of evaluators and decided that the IEE would formally begin on March 13, subject to firm assurance [...]	2006-02-15 16:53:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR EAID KUNR FAO
06ROME471	AMBASSADOR'S PARTNERSHIP FOR GROWTH: ITALY'S [...] Italy has proven to be the best U.S. ally in continental Europe in this young millennium. Unfortunately, since 2000, Italy's economy has grown at an anemic annual rate of only 0.75 percent. To promote economic dynamism in Italy that will produce the resources for Italy to continue to join th [...]	2006-02-16 10:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP EUN
06ROME473	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-16 10:54:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME483	HAMAS: ITALY WEIGHS IN FOR ISRAEL WITH RUSSIANS [...] (C) Summary. PM Berlusconi reportedly has contacted Russian President Putin and urged that any visit of Hamas officials to Moscow be handled at as low a level as possible. Berlusconi made the call at the behest of Acting Israeli PM Olmert. End summary. 2. (C) A diplomatic advisor to Berl [...]	2006-02-16 17:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KPAL PTER PGOV XF IT
06ROME487	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-17 10:28:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME494	ITALY, VENEZUELA NOT NEGOTIATING NAVAL VESSEL SALE [...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director General for the Americas Claudio Bisogniero February 15. He noted public statements by the GOV defense minister suggesting that Venezuela might look to Italy.for submarines, urged the GOI not to contemplate such sales, and reviewed USG [...]	2006-02-17 12:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL PARM VE IT EXPORT CONTROLS
06ROME503	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-18 10:54:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME504	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-19 10:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME506	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-20 10:24:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME510	AVIAN INFLUENZA - MIGRATORY SWANS TEST POSITIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Tri-Mission Avian Influenza (AI) Emergency Action Committee (AI-EAC) met on January 20 to review post contingency planning and on February 13 to discuss confirmation by the Ministry of Health February 11-12 that six migratory swans in three southern regions (Puglia, Calabria and [...]	2006-02-21 08:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR TBIO KFLU ASEC AMED CASC SENV FAO WHO IT
06ROME511	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-21 09:40:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME536	CARTOON-WEARING MINISTER RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary. Italy's Reforms Minister resigned February 18 following violent protests against the Italian consulate in Benghazi. The minister, Roberto Calderoli of the Northern League, had won notoriety for wearing T-shirts emblazoned with cartoons that had triggered protests in Islamic co [...]	2006-02-21 18:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KISL IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME543	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-22 09:55:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME548	YEAR 2006 SPECIAL 301, MISSION ITALY INPUT [...] Mission Italy recommends that Italy remain on the 301 Watch List for 2006. Although Italy deserves credit for reductions in piracy rates and improved police action in 2005, industry losses, particularly for software, are still unacceptably high. While some cities, such as Florence, have made [...]	2006-02-22 14:28:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV KIPR IT
06ROME556	ITALY: 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED [...] The following is Embassy Rome,s contribution to the 2005 ) 2006 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. Post understands from Reftel, Paragraph 6, that DOD will secure significant quantitative data, including defense spending data, from other sources. Post will prov [...]	2006-02-23 09:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	JA KS KU MCAP PREL QA SA US MARR IT TC NATO
06ROME558	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-23 10:13:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME568	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-24 09:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME586	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-25 10:59:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME587	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-26 09:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME591	FOOD SECURITY ISSUES IN MOPTI DISTRICT, MALI [...] Summary: In conjunction with official travel to attend FAO's African Regional Conference in Bamako (septel),Alternate Permanent Representative Willem Brakel, U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome, traveled to Mopti, Bandiagara and surroundings in Central Mali between January 31 and Februa [...]	2006-02-27 09:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AORC EAGR ML WFP FAO IFAD
06ROME594	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (U) This is the final sitrep from the USG office supporting U.S. participation in the Turin Winter Olympics. The Closing Ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games concluded on a high note on 02/26/2006, as IOC officials hailed the 17-day Olympic Games as a major success. Italian security ef [...]	2006-02-27 10:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME599	2006 TIP REPORT: ITALY [...] Below is the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report for Italy. Answers are keyed to questions in reftel. The Embassy point of contact is Labor Counselor Candace Putnam, telephone: 39-06-4674-2327, fax 39-06-4674-2623. OVERVIEW -------- 2. (SBU) 21.A. Italy is a country of destination an [...]	2006-02-27 15:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IT HUMAN RIGHTS EUN
06ROME622	ITALIANS "ASTONISHED" BY PROPOSED BELGIAN TRIP TO [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA expressed astonishment at the proposed visit by Belgian FM De Gucht to Belarus to observe the election monitoring process. The GOI shares USG concern about the signal the trip could send regarding ODHIR,s integrity. While the GOI has no plans to publicly or form [...]	2006-03-01 12:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PHUM PREL BE IT
06ROME626	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO DISCUSSIONS ON INCIDENT [...] Summary: In discussions over the past week, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer Juan Lubroth and Senior Operations Officer Cristina Amaral updated us on FAO activities to combat Avian Influenza (AI). FAO senior management is acting to remove management constraints by: a) instituting a special wai [...]	2006-03-01 16:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO BG BM CB EG ID KE LA ML NI VM FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME638	SYRIA EIB LOAN: ITALY WILL ALLOW LOAN TO PASS [...] (C) A/ECMIN and EconOff delivered reftel demarche February 28 to Ignazio Angeloni, Ministry of Finance Director General for International Financial Relations, and Sangante Filippo, Office Director for Bilateral Affairs with non-European Union countries. Angeloni was surprised to hear a Europ [...]	2006-03-02 14:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN EINV EU IT PGOV PHUM PREL EUN
06ROME678	AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: In an effort to keep all USG agencies in Washington and in the field informed on FAO activities to combat and control Avian Influenza (AI),USMISSION UN ROME has instituted this new weekly reporting cable. FAO Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) and Animal Produc [...]	2006-03-03 16:58:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME698	SURVEY OF ITALIANS' VIEWS ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE [...] Against the backdrop of April's national elections and a four-year drop in foreign assistance, Inter Press Service News Agency reported the results of a recent survey February 17 indicating most Italians favor using Italian budgetary resources to fight global poverty, rather than increasing m [...]	2006-03-07 08:45:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME759	TURIN 2006 PARALYMPIC GAMES - USG SITUATION [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: US [...]	2006-03-10 15:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME762	ITALIAN AVIAN/PANDEMIC INFLUENZA PLAN ADOPTED [...] SUMMARY: Ref C reported on a draft version of Italy's avian/pandemic influenza preparedness plan. The final version of the plan was adopted by the Council of the State and Regions on February 9, 2006. The National Plan for Preparedness and Response to Pandemic Influenza is now available in [...]	2006-03-10 16:14:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO EAGR KFLU SENV ECON PREL KSCA IT AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME766	AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: During three days of high-level and technical level discussions with FAO on March 7-9, a consensus was reached that a more robust global response was needed, with FAO, in coordination with OIE, as the global coordinator. FAO hosted the series of meetings relating to improving emerge [...]	2006-03-10 17:11:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME769	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Paralympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: [...]	2006-03-11 11:04:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME770	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-12 12:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME771	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-13 10:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME794	AIR NAVIGATION COMMON CHARGING SCHEME, ITALY [...] A/ECMIN delivered reftel demarche March 10 to Achille Vinci Giacchi, Diplomatic Advisor to Minister of Transportation Pietro Lunardi. A/ECMIN simultaneously delivered a letter from the Ambassador to Lunardi, which reiterates reftel talking points. Vinci Giacchi said the Ministry would need to [...]	2006-03-14 10:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR MARR MOPS PREL IT NATO EUN AVIATION FAA
06ROME798	ITALIAN ELECTIONS: THE SOUTHERN BATTLEGROUND [...] (C) Puglia, on Italy's southern heel, is a battleground region in Italy's April 9 elections. Although a traditional stronghold of the Center Right, it is an area where voters have handed Center Left politicians dramatic electoral gains in recent municipal and regional voting. Local pundits [...]	2006-03-14 12:00:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME806	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-14 16:15:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME810	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-15 10:45:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME811	ROME SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE [...] (SBU) Political Violence: A. Yes B. Yes C. Yes D. 200 individuals in front of the Embassy, but more for some sensitive issues, like the war in Iraq, can attract up to twenty thousand when the demonstration is held in the city center and then moves to the Embassy. E. Can be [...]	2006-03-15 12:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER IT ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
06ROME824	INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE: ITALY SENDS INITIAL [...] (U) Labor Counselor met February 27 and March 15 with Francesco De Stefani, Acting Director of the MFA's UN Office, to deliver reftel demarche and discuss Italy's participation in the International Tracing Service (ITS). De Stefani confirmed that MOD Colonel Sandro Tortoro has replaced Carlo [...]	2006-03-16 10:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREL KNAR IT EUN
06ROME827	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-16 11:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME834	SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS BRYZA'S MARCH 17 VISIT TO [...] (C) Embassy Rome welcomes the visit of EUR DAS Matthew Bryza to Rome March 17. DAS Bryza's visit comes in the midst of a natural gas shortage here in Italy that has caused gas delivery interruptions to industrial customers and highlighted the inadequacies of Italy's energy infrastructure; an [...]	2006-03-16 13:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET ETRD IT
06ROME849	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-17 11:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME860	AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 16, USMISSION UN ROME staff met with various members of FAO's Animal Production and Health Division (AGA) and Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) for an update on Avian Influenza (AI) operations worldwide as well specific country programs. Much of t [...]	2006-03-17 16:59:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME865	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-18 11:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME868	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-19 11:28:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME869	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS:USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. KEY POINTS ----------------- 2. (U) This is the final Situation Report from the USG office supporting U.S. participation in the Tu [...]	2006-03-20 12:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME87	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON ANIMAL SITUATION IN [...] Summary. Responding to alarming media reports on the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) outbreaks in Turkey, on January 9, USMISSION UN Rome asked Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer (SVO),to share with us FAO's assessment of the situation in Turkey and ongoing work to control [...]	2006-01-10 16:04:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO TU FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA

06ROME925	AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: Three FAO documents were shared with USMISSIN UN ROME this week: -- Following meetings earlier this month with several donors, FAO and OIE (the World Organization for Animal Health) released on March 17 the jointly prepared proposal to strengthen response to Highly Pathogenic Avia [...]	2006-03-24 15:37:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA

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