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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE 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| 07KABUL661 | STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP SECURITY WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary: The February 15 Strategic Partnership Working Group meeting ranged broadly over issues related to building Afghan National Security Force capacity and increasing security sector links. The discussion covered the growth, equipping, and capacity building of both the army and poli [...] | 2007-02-28 14:05:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR SNAR NATO AF |
| 07KABUL68 | DETAINEE LEGAL FRAMEWORK: GOA REPRESENTATIVES [...] (S) Summary: Deputy National Security Adviser Engineer Ibrahim Speenzada convened GOA representatives from the Ministries of Defense, Interior, Justice, and the National Directorate of Security on January 2 to discuss the legal basis for detention and prosecution of any detainees transferred [...] | 2007-01-07 11:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | KAWC MARR MOPS PREL PGOV PHUM AF |
| 07KABUL682 | ANSF AMMUNITION STOCKPILE MANAGEMENT NEEDS OVERHAUL [...] (C/REL ISAF) SUMMARY: During a recent meeting of the Afghan Ministry of Defense (MOD) Ammunition Working Group, Combined Security Transition Command - Afghanistan (CSTC-A) urged the MOD to destroy its stockpiles of unserviceable ammunition. The buildup of unserviceable ammunition in MOD depo [...] | 2007-03-02 10:53:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL AF |
| 07KABUL684 | IDA 15 NEGOTIATIONS GOAL - SUSTAIN MULTILATERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-03 05:47:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PREL AF |
| 07KABUL685 | STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP: GOVERNANCE WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) On February 22, senior USG officials responsible for Afghanistan and GoA counterparts participated in a Working Group on Governance in preparation for the Strategic Partnership plenary to be co-led on the U.S. side by U/S Burns and U/S Edelman on March 13-14. Participants agreed on a li [...] | 2007-03-03 07:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL696 | EXPEDITING MEDICAL RELEASE/TRANSFER OF [...] (U) This is an action request; please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) Per ref A, Canadian officials paid a first consular visit to detainee Khaled Samy Abdalla ISMAIL in the Bagram Theater Internment Facility (BTIF) on January 11 and advised that Mr. Ismail, who is a dual Canadian/Egyptian national, [...] | 2007-03-04 06:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | CASC KAWC MARR PTER CONS CA EG AF |
| 07KABUL700 | PRT FARAH: SEMI ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Summary: Incidents and attacks continue and security remains tenuous and uncertain, but the police now show a heightened presence with patrols and raids in Farah Province. Governing dynamics will be seriously affected as Farah deals with its third governor in less than six months. The [...] | 2007-03-04 06:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON MARR PINS PREL SOCI IR AF |
| 07KABUL755 | TERRORIST FINANCE - USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-05 13:16:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL AF |
| 07KABUL775 | U.S.-AFGHANISTAN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) In the second meeting of the Afghan-U.S. Strategic Partnership Prosperity Working Group, Afghan and USG dels reaffirmed their commitment to a long-term economic partnership and advanced preparations for the March 13-14 Strategic Partnership plenary in Kabul to be co-led by Under Secretar [...] | 2007-03-06 09:18:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV PREL AF |
| 07KABUL790 | PRT CHAGHCHARAN: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) Summary: Ghor Province should be one of Afghanistan?s success stories, but because it remains unable to attract the resources needed to overcome its developmental deficit, the province continues to lack the wherewithal for economic and political "take-off". Marginal progress was made [...] | 2007-03-07 13:43:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON MARR NATO SOCI AF |
| 07KABUL793 | AFGHANISTAN'S 2007 TIP QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally trafficked men, women, or children? Provide, where possible, numbers or estimates for each group; how they were trafficked, to where, and for what purpose. Does the trafficking occur within the country's b [...] | 2007-03-07 14:00:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC |
| 07KABUL804 | SCENE SETTER: US-AFGHAN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) Your March 13-14 visit to Afghanistan will be greeted by an Afghan government eager to host the Second U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Dialogue meeting. As some Afghans begin to fear international support may be slipping, the GOA sees the Strategic Partnership as a key vehicle to r [...] | 2007-03-08 16:35:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL805 | SCENESETTER II: US-AFGHAN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) Reftel reported scenesetter for the March 13 U.S.-Afghan Strategic Partnership Plenary meeting. This message provides points for March 13-14 bilateral meetings in Kabul (in order of the meeting schedule). FOREIGN MINISTER SPANTA ----------------------- 2. (S) Under constant press [...] | 2007-03-08 17:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF |
| 07KABUL827 | AFGHANISTAN: H5N1 SPREADS TO 3 PROVINCES INCLUDING KABUL [...] The avian influenza outbreak in Jalalabad late last month (reftel) has spread to a total of six districts in three provinces. Confirmed cases of H5N1 in backyard poultry have now been reported in Nangarhar (3 districts),Kunar (2 districts),and Kabul (1 district) provinces. The pattern of spr [...] | 2007-03-12 04:14:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU SOCI ECON CASC AF |
| 07KABUL829 | SHIA ACTIVIST DESCRIBES IRAN'S EFFORTS TO EXPAND [...] (C) According to Sayed Jawad Husseini, the leader of a minor political party, "Afghan Youth", Iran is stepping up its efforts to influence the Afghan media, education, and influential Parliamentarians. At least four television stations financed by Iran are scheduled to go on the air in April [...] | 2007-03-12 07:22:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER IR AF |
| 07KABUL834 | LOWER HOUSE APPROVES PRESIDENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 10, the Lower House of Parliament passed the amended amnesty bill that included the President's proposed changes by a vote of 128-3. Speaker Qanooni interrupted the budget discussions in the plenary to announce that he had received the President's amendments to the bill [...] | 2007-03-12 10:22:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM AF |
| 07KABUL839 | KARZAI DESCRIBES "TERRIBLE" RELATIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a March 8 meeting with Governors Tim Pawlenty (R-MN),Janet Napolitanto (R-AZ),and Brad Henry (D-OK),Lisa Marie Cheney, Lt. Gen. Steven Blum (Chief, National Guard Bureau),and Charge, President Karzai described Afghanistan's current relationship with Pakistan as "terrib [...] | 2007-03-13 02:57:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID MARR AF |
| 07KABUL926 | AFTEL'S PUZZLING EXPANSION PLANS [...] (SBU) State-owned Afghan Telecom plans to quadruple the number of lines the company has by an aggressive build-out of wireless and copper networks, funded by the GoA and donors. The wireless plans will put AfTel into competition with mobile service providers, which could bring charges of anti- [...] | 2007-03-20 13:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EFIN EINV ECON KPRV PGOV AF |
| 07KABUL944 | PRT GHAZNI: SIX MONTH REPORT ON SECURITY, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Security and governance in Ghazni have improved over the last six months due to an increase in troops and a change in governor. Reconstruction and development appear to be moving forward, but there is still no prioritized provincial development plan. Ghazni's citizens are expe [...] | 2007-03-22 12:34:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP MOPS PREL PGOV PTER PHUM ECON AF EAID |
| 07KABUL954 | KOENIGS AND BOUCHER ON INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION, [...] (C) A special response fund to allow the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan close developmental cooperation with ISAF would advance civilian-military coordination; Washington support requested. Additionally, in a March 14 meeting with Assistant Secretary for South and Central A [...] | 2007-03-24 13:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID MARR AF IR |
| 07KABUL955 | PRT/QALENOW: THE SPANISH BRING MODERN MEDICINE TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: One of the primary objectives of the Spanish Development Agency (AECI) is to expand and improve healthcare throughout Badghis. AECI places a special focus on medical care for women and newborns. It aims to transform the central hospital in Qal-e Now into a fully functioning prov [...] | 2007-03-24 13:07:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID AF |
| 07KABUL956 | DETAINEE LEGAL FRAMEWORK: REVIEW BOARD MEETS [...] (S) Summary: The GOA has been informed that the first transfer of 13 detainees to the Afghan National Detention Facility (ANDF) is scheduled for March 25, when the facility will be formally opened; the actual transfer will occur on April 2. Post passed evidentiary files for the first transfer [...] | 2007-03-25 03:47:00 | Embassy Kabul | SECRET | KAWC MARR PTER PGOV PINS PREL AF |
| 07KABUL979 | PRT/MAZAR: SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Northwest Afghanistan enjoys a better security situation than much of the rest of the country but drought and crime hamper development. The Afghan National Police (ANP) and the judicial system need much work but progress has begun with the ANP. The balance of power between T [...] | 2007-03-26 05:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER EAID ECON MASS SOCI AF |
| 07KABUL996 | PRT/PANSHJIR: FUTURE PLANS OF THE PROVINCE II [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Panjshir Province is changing. Its transformation will continue thanks to agents of change: a new road, radio broadcasts, cell phones, a maturing administration and an active PRT. Provincial officials have formulated specific plans to lay the foundation (ref A). Panjshir's f [...] | 2007-03-26 16:46:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID EAGR AF |
| 07KABUL997 | PRT HERAT: SIX MONTH REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Herat Province is a region of significant but still unrealized economic potential. During the past six months, the security situation has deteriorated, as has confidence in GOA institutions and leaders. Key sectors, such as the judiciary, require reform, and additional police [...] | 2007-03-27 02:56:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON MARR AF IR |
| 07KHARTOUM1018 | DARFUR - HUNGER SEASON BRINGS CHRONIC BUT STABLE NUTRITION [...] (U) Available indicators on malnutrition, including new admissions to feeding centers, food security levels, and sentinel site data, indicate a generally stable nutrition situation in Darfur as compared to the same time last year. Exceptions include areas in South Darfur currently receiving new [...] | 2007-06-26 14:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1028 | SUDAN - THE BLUES OF BLUE NILE STATE [...] (U) Blue Nile State, which lies in the fertile woodland savannah belt of eastern Sudan, has a strong potential for agricultural production. However, several challenges exist for this special administrative area as defined in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. War destroyed most basic infrastr [...] | 2007-06-28 10:48:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1037 | IRC PRESIDENT SEES TANGIBLE IMPROVEMENT IN GOS [...] (SBU) CDA met with International Rescue Committee President George Rupp and his visiting delegation (and IRC Country Representative Nicky Smith) to get a sense of their week-long stay in Sudan and interaction with the GOS. The delegation was generally quite pleased with their meetings with GO [...] | 2007-07-01 09:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1060 | DARFUR: IMPROVING AMIS UNDER AGWAI [...] (SBU) With the arrival of the new AMIS force commander, the international community has the opportunity to strengthen the security provisions of the DPA to increase stability on the ground. U.S. leadership could lead to substantive improvements in the operation of the Cease-fire Commission an [...] | 2007-07-05 09:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1080 | DARFUR - NEW IDPS OVERWHELM AL SALAM CAMP [...] Begin summary: Since early May, an influx of newly displaced persons arriving in Al Salam camp near Nyala, South Darfur, has created a localized humanitarian emergency. New arrivals are often in poor health, and relief agencies are providing much-needed humanitarian aid. USAID field staff r [...] | 2007-07-11 08:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1083 | FACILITATING SPLM DARFUR INITIATIVE: GAME PLAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Confusion over the UN/AU roadmap and SPLM initiative persists despite face-to-face meetings between SPLM and UN/AU officials. Both the UN/AU and the SPLM have not communicated their plans clearly enough to each other to eliminate misunderstandings. As a result, the SPLM plans t [...] | 2007-07-11 14:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1086 | SUDAN - FLOOD RESPONSE IN NORTHERN SUDAN [...] Summary: In July, unseasonably heavy rains and subsequent flooding have affected more than 28,000 households in Khartoum, Northern Kordofan, White Nile, Kassala, and Blue Nile states in northern Sudan, according to Sudanese government officials and humanitarian organizations. Government agen [...] | 2007-07-12 15:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1090 | SUDAN OFFICIALS DIFFER ON DARFUR PKO, POLITICAL [...] (C) On July 12, Special Envoy Natsios met separately with Foreign Minister Lam Akol, Presidential Advisor Nafie Ali Nafie, and Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs (and UN/AU hybrid negotiator) Mutriff Siddiq to discuss deployment of the hybrid peace-keeping force and bolster UN/AU efforts to ach [...] | 2007-07-13 10:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU US ER CD LY |
| 07KHARTOUM1091 | S/E NATSIOS VISIT TO NORTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 9-10 visit to El Fasher, North Darfur, Special Envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios, accompanied by CDA Alberto Fernandez and others, met with representatives from the AU and UN, IDP camps, civil society groups and the local branch of the Umma Party. He learned of the challen [...] | 2007-07-13 10:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | USAU ET |
| 07KHARTOUM1092 | DARFUR: SE NATSIOS DISCUSSES POLITICAL PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: SE Natsios met with UN Envoy Jan Eliasson and EU Envoy Torben Brylle in Khartoum on July 12 to discuss the Darfur political process. Eliasson planned to use the upcoming Tripoli summit to declare an end to the first, "convergence" phase of the UN/AU roadmap and to launch the seco [...] | 2007-07-13 10:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UN AU SU ER |
| 07KHARTOUM1094 | S/E NATSIOS VISIT TO NORTH DARFUR (CORRECTED COPY OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 9-10 visit to El Fasher, North Darfur, Special Envoy to Sudan Andrew Natsios, accompanied by CDA Alberto Fernandez and others, met with representatives from the AU and UN, IDP camps, civil society groups and the local branch of the Umma Party. He learned of the challen [...] | 2007-07-13 15:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU AU |
| 07KHARTOUM1095 | S/E NATSIOS MEETING WITH ACTING UNMIS HEAD [...] (C) Summary: In a July 13 meeting with Special Envoy Natsios, CDA Fernandez and others, UNMIS Acting Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Taye-Brooke Zerihoun stressed the need to focus on supporting the CPA, which was still vulnerable despite significant progress in some are [...] | 2007-07-15 09:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU US ER CD LY |
| 07KHARTOUM1105 | SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS JULY 11 MEETING WITH SPLM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Special Envoy met with GOSS senior officials Luka Biong Deng, Paul Mayom, and Cirino Hiteng to discuss the status of CPA implementation, U.S. support for an equitable solution to the Abyei impasse, road development in the South, and the SPLM's efforts on Darfur. Despite the u [...] | 2007-07-16 06:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS PHUM EPET EAID SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1112 | Ceasefire Commission, July 4-11 [...] (SBU) Summary: Brigadier General Rurangwa continued to chair the Ceasefire Commission (CFC) from July 4 to 11. Several meetings focused on concerns about appropriate representation on the CFC at both the headquarters and the military group site (MGS) level. The new force commander of the Afri [...] | 2007-07-16 13:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU CD SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1119 | SUDAN - S/E NATSIOS MEETS WITH NGOS [...] Summary: On July 12, Special Envoy Andrew Natsios, accompanied by Charge d'Affaires Alberto Fernandez and others, met with the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Steering Committee in Khartoum to discuss issues facing the humanitarian community in Sudan. The NGOs noted that the Joint Communiq [...] | 2007-07-18 13:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1124 | SUDAN - DISASTER DECLARATION FOR FLOODING IN SUDAN [...] Summary: This cable declares a disaster due to flooding in Sudan and requests U.S. Government (USG) emergency assistance for those in need. Unseasonably heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding since late June have affected hundreds of thousands people in Khartoum, Northern Kordofan, White Nile [...] | 2007-07-19 16:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1129 | DARFUR: UN/AU PLANS FOR POLITICAL PROCESS SHOW [...] (C) A July 19 briefing by UN Envoy Jan Eliasson in Khartoum and subsequent conversations with two UN staffers shed light on the UN/AU's plans for the August 3-5 meeting in Arusha, the role of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM),and internal deliberations on the format for negotiatio [...] | 2007-07-20 12:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1133 | DARFUR: MINAWI DESCRIBES SAUDI TRIP, PREVIEWS TRIP [...] (S) Buoyant after his recent trip to Saudi Arabia, Senior Assistant to the President and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi described his visit to Jeddah--which had included a rare 40-minute private meeting with King Abdullah and promises of financial support for the SLM--as " [...] | 2007-07-22 15:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAID PTER PINR SU SA UN AU |
| 07KHARTOUM1137 | CENSUS DELAY LIKELY - POLITICS AND MONEY CAUSE [...] (C) Summary: The Census Technical Working Group is planning for the delay of the nation,s first nationwide census (and Comprehensive Peace Agreement milestone) by at least one month. The cause: continued delay in the release of long-promised funding by Khartoum to census programmers in both [...] | 2007-07-23 08:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL PHUM KDEM EAID SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1141 | SPLA DEPLOYS NEW TACTICS IN REDEPLOYMENT QUAGMIRE [...] (C) Summary: The SPLM and NCP are renegotiating a redeployment deadline of 9 November 2007 for southern-deployed Sudanese Armed Forces. In contrast, the SPLA has commenced redeployment of SPLA forces north of the 1956 line in advance of standing CPA deadlines, despite significant hardship, in [...] | 2007-07-23 10:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINS PREL MARR MOPS SU UN |
| 07KHARTOUM1167 | DARFUR - USAID AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS [...] Summary: Current USAID emergency agriculture interventions in Darfur have successfully improved the livelihoods and food security of small farming and agro-pastoralist households in many rural areas. However, ongoing conflict and insecurity make sustained agriculture and livestock interventi [...] | 2007-07-26 11:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1172 | DARFUR - ENGAGING CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE PEACE PROCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Between July 12 and 19, USAID staff met with key civil society representatives in South and West Darfur to follow up on issues raised during the U.S. Special Envoy's visit to Nyala, gauge the views of civil society representatives in El Geneina, and assess possible areas of USG [...] | 2007-07-29 07:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM119 | CHINA IN SUDAN: RISING DRAGON OR PAPER TIGER? [...] (C) Summary: China has quickly become Sudan's most important market, absorbing nearly 70 percent of its total exports in 2004, and 96 percent of its oil exports in 2005. Chinese investment and immigration have risen sharply in the past five years, especially in Khartoum, creating a kind of Ch [...] | 2007-01-26 11:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV SOCI SU CH |
| 07KHARTOUM1210 | SUDAN FLOODING UPDATE [...] Summary. The Government of National Unity (GNU),Government of South Sudan (GOSS),and humanitarian community continue to respond to flooding that has affected hundreds of thousands of people throughout Sudan in July. The GNU Humanitarian Aid Commission (HAC) estimates that flooding has dama [...] | 2007-08-05 12:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1213 | DARFUR - EL GENEINA'S NORTHERN CORRIDOR AT RISK [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent USAID visit to El Geneina, West Darfur, U.N. staff alerted USAID to serious security problems and human rights abuses in the northern corridor of West Darfur. Arab nomadic groups and armed militia are terrorizing the residents of Abu Sorug, Sirba, Silea, and Bir [...] | 2007-08-05 14:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1271 | SUDAN - USAID FLOOD AND RETURNEE ASSESSMENT IN UNITY STATE [...] Summary. From August 7 to 9, a USAID staff member traveled to Unity State to assess the flood emergency. Three counties in Unity State are seriously flooded, and between 6,000 and 13,000 families displaced statewide. Aid agencies and local officials are concerned because flooding began in J [...] | 2007-08-14 12:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1296 | SUDAN - USAID FLOOD ASSESSMENT IN KASSALA STATE [...] Summary. From August 6 to 9, USAID/SUDAN staff traveled to Kassala State to assess the effects of recent flooding, following unseasonably heavy rainfall in early July. Flooding has affected an estimated 40,000 people, destroyed more than 2,600 homes, and resulted in 10 deaths and extensive d [...] | 2007-08-19 14:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1303 | SLM AWAITS SAUDI RESPONSE TO AID REQUEST [...] (S) Senior Assistant to the President and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi is awaiting a response from the Saudi Arabian government to his request for financial assistance to maintain the loyalty of his forces, integrate SLM fighters into the civilian population, and treat t [...] | 2007-08-20 10:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PREL PGOV EAID SU SA |
| 07KHARTOUM1366 | SUDAN - STATUS OF IDP RETURNS TO SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] Summary. In a recent meeting with USAID, the U.N. Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reported that 1.24 million former internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned to the Three Areas and Southern Sudan since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in January 2005. Based on IDP surv [...] | 2007-08-30 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1373 | ON THE ROAD AHEAD, MINAWI SEES ALL DEAD ENDS [...] (S/NF) Characterizing the DPA as "dead, except to the U.S.," predicting that the UN/AU political process will fail, doubting that NCP policies toward Darfur can be changed through the 2009 elections and yet convinced that a return to war is useless, SLM leader Minni Minawi is seeking to chart a [...] | 2007-08-31 12:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1385 | SUDAN - FLOOD RESPONSE IN SOUTHERN SUDAN [...] Summary. Since June, flooding has affected more than 91,000 people in Lakes, Warrab, Unity, Upper Nile, Northern Bahr el Ghazal, and Jonglei states in Southern Sudan, according to the U.N. It is unclear whether the floods are worse than in previous years; however, non-governmental organizati [...] | 2007-09-04 08:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1390 | DARFUR - HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING ON THE [...] Summary: On September 1, the high-level committee that oversees the implementation of the Joint Communique on the facilitation of humanitarian activities in Darfur met in Khartoum. In the capacity of donor observer, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Alberto M. Fernandez, accompanied by a USAID represen [...] | 2007-09-04 13:19:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1446 | SUDAN - USAID FLOOD ASSESSMENT RENK COUNTY, UPPER NILE [...] Summary. From August 28 to 30, USAID/OFDA staff visited Renk County in northern Upper Nile State, Southern Sudan, to assess the effects of recent flooding. Flooding caused severe damage to homes and livestock and affected an estimated 10,000 households, or approximately 50,000 people. Non-g [...] | 2007-09-13 15:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM15 | GOS BOMBS VILLAGES AFTER AU OUTREACH TO REBEL [...] (C) Summary: As an outgrowth of the December 15 Cease Fire Commission and with the support of UNMIS, the AU Force Commander traveled to Um Rai in North Darfur to meet with non-signatory rebel commanders on December 28. He reportedly obtained an agreement by the rebels to join the second chamb [...] | 2007-01-04 12:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM KPKO SU AU |
| 07KHARTOUM1523 | DARFUR - HIGH-LEVEL COMMITTEE MEETING ON THE [...] Summary: On September 24, the high-level committee that oversees the implementation of the Joint Communique on the facilitation of humanitarian activities in Darfur met in Khartoum. In the capacity of donor observer, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Alberto M. Fernandez, accompanied by a USAID represen [...] | 2007-09-30 12:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1535 | HASKANITA ATTACK PART OF INCREASED VIOLENCE IN [...] (SBU) One day after the September 29 attack on the its camp near Haskanita, South Darfur, AMIS evacuated 10 dead and 14 wounded peacekeepers with the help of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). Reports abound on the number and identity of the assailants, ranging from two Darfur rebel factions to [...] | 2007-10-01 14:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO MOPS UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM155 | DARFUR: COMMANDERS CONFERENCE IN FLUX [...] (C) The African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) again postponed the conference of Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory commanders in North Darfur to February 5 due to logistical problems in transporting the commanders to the event site, having already moved 24 commanders to North Darfur on [...] | 2007-02-01 16:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS AU SU CD UN |
| 07KHARTOUM1563 | S/E NATSIOS MEETS WITH UN ENVOY ON EVE OF STRATEGY [...] (SBU) On the eve of a UN and AU retreat in Addis Ababa to strategize on the Darfur political process, UN Envoy Jan Eliasson told S/E Natsios that the first order of business for the Darfur peace negotiations will be achieving a cessation of hostilities. It is important to "stay the course" de [...] | 2007-10-08 10:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN AU SU LY |
| 07KHARTOUM1565 | DARFUR - BRAZEN CARJACKINGS BRING NGOS TO TIPPING POINT [...] (U) Recent attacks on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working throughout Darfur, including USAID partners CARE and World Vision, have impacted the delivery of humanitarian services. Brazen daytime carjackings in Nyala town, the capital of South Darfur, have prompted the UN to impose a 14 [...] | 2007-10-08 11:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1599 | SUDAN'S UNSCR 1769 COORDINATOR SIDDIQ: AMIS ASKED [...] (C) Summary. In an October 9 meeting with CDA Fernandez, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Mutriff Siddiq said that AMIS asked the GoS to intervene militarily in the wake of the attack on the Haskanita MGS. On other topics, Siddiq said he would consult with the GoS on the U.S. offer to speed [...] | 2007-10-11 06:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM16 | UNMIS POLICE AND MILITARY CONTINGENTS STRUGGLE TO [...] (C) Summary: Poloff and CDA Hume met with UNMIS Darfur Military Staff Chief and UNMIS Civ/Pol Director on January 1 and 3 to gain a very early assessment of the UN-AU lash-up. The picture for Civ/Pol is encouraging, for the military far less so. Civ/Pol Director reported a smooth integration [...] | 2007-01-04 12:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM KPKO SU AU |
| 07KHARTOUM1600 | SUDAN - DISASTER REDECLARATION [...] The humanitarian situation in Sudan continues to warrant U.S. Government (USG) assistance to meet the emergency requirements of conflict-affected civilian populations throughout the country. USG humanitarian assistance in Sudan saves lives, mitigates the economic impact of conflict on livelih [...] | 2007-10-11 06:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1602 | SUDAN - UNHCR FUNDING SITUATION AND PLANS FOR DARFUR [...] On October 2, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) Deputy Representative for Sudan Craig Sanders briefed international donors, including USAID, on UNHCR's funding situation for the remainder of 2007. In addition, UNHCR discussed progress in expanding Darfur operations a [...] | 2007-10-11 07:12:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1689 | SUDAN - RIFT VALLEY FEVER [...] On October 28, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported that Rift Valley fever (RVF) has been confirmed in three states in northern Sudan. RVF is a viral zoonosis that primarily affects animals but also can infect humans. WHO reported that out of 70 known human cases 40 deaths had occu [...] | 2007-10-31 09:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM17 | UN LIGHT PACKAGE IN DARFUR NEEDS AN ENERGIZER [...] (C) Summary: A January 3 visit to El Fasher revealed numerous problems with the initial deployment of the UN light package. As reported septel, the small initial UN military contingent has yet to be integrated with the AMIS peace-keeping force. The UN police contingent is trying to define a [...] | 2007-01-04 12:41:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF PHUM KPKO SU AU |
| 07KHARTOUM172 | DARFUR: UNDP ISSUES STATEMENT ON NYALA ASSAULTS [...] (C) Summary: Reftels detail the January 19 incident wherein 20 UN, NGO, and African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) personnel were arrested following the violent breakup of a social event, which resulted in serious injuries to several of the humanitarian personnel. On January 30, UN Deputy Special R [...] | 2007-02-05 15:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV EAID PREF SOCI AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1723 | S/E NATSIOS' MEETING WITH SPLA SENIOR LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 1 meeting in Juba, the senior leadership of the Sudan People,s Liberation Army (SPLA),told U.S. Special Envoy Andrew Natsios that the SPLA is showing restraint in the face of provocations by the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) along the North-South border and avowed [...] | 2007-11-05 14:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1770 | ADADA CITES "PROGRESS" IN UNAMID DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) Encouraged by his meeting with MFA State Minister Al Wasila earlier in the day, Joint Special Representative Adada told Western governments on November 13 that UNAMID deployment is "progressing" and that Sudan has re-affirmed its commitment to facilitate the force's deployment through th [...] | 2007-11-14 15:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1771 | DARFUR - USAID NUTRITION UPDATE [...] Recent nutrition surveys in pockets of Darfur reveal that the nutrition status of children under five has deteriorated since May 2007 to levels approaching those recorded in 2004 -- the beginning of the Darfur humanitarian response when the nutritional situation was at its worst. From Septemb [...] | 2007-11-15 07:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1795 | DARFUR - THE HAC AND WALI DISCUSS KALMA ISSUES AND THE [...] (U) On November 10, the Charge d'Affaires Fernandez, the USAID Mission Director, and the USAID Darfur Team Leader met with the Government of National Unity (GNU) Humanitarian Aid Commissioner and the Governor (Wali) of South Darfur to discuss the current state of affairs with Kalma internally d [...] | 2007-11-18 17:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM18 | DARFUR: DSRSG DEFENSIVE ON LIGHT PACKAGE, CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary: During a January 5 meeting between Charge d'Affairs Hume and Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General (DSRSG) for the United Nations (UN) in SIPDIS Sudan Manuel Aranda d'Silva, the two discussed the CDA's recent visit to UN Light Package elements in El Fasher (ref [...] | 2007-01-05 11:23:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF PHUM SOCI PGOV PREL SU UN |
| 07KHARTOUM1821 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - LAINYA COUNTY UPDATE [...] From November 4 to 6, program officers from USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) traveled to Lainya County in Central Equatoria State, Southern Sudan, to review the status of the planned transition of USAID/OFDA-funded programs to the Government of Southern Sudan (GOS [...] | 2007-11-21 11:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1828 | AEC CHAIRS DISCUSS NEXT CHAIRMAN/POSSIBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a November 20 urgent AEC working group chairperson meeting called by the UK Ambassador, Attendees (US, UK, Netherlands, Norway, Italy) discussed the draft UK paper on "Future Direction" of the AEC, a possible UK nominee for the AEC chairmanship, and the proposed Rome preparat [...] | 2007-11-21 15:15:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1832 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - HEALTH SECTOR TRANSITION UPDATE [...] Over the past three fiscal years, USAID has been able to steadily and responsibly decrease its non-food humanitarian budget from USD 88.3 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2005 to USD 69.5 million in FY 2006 and USD 61.9 million in FY 2007 in anticipation of the eventual transition from relief to dev [...] | 2007-11-21 16:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1845 | TWO MAJOR DARFUR FACTIONS STEP TOWARD UNION WHILE [...] (SBU) JEM/Collective Leadership and SLA/Unity, two of the strongest rebel movements in Darfur, have taken steps toward a tentative alliance, and JEM/CL plans to conduct consultations with SLA/Unity leaders Abdullah Yehia, Suleiman Jamous, and Sharif Harir in Darfur over the next week to solidi [...] | 2007-11-26 05:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1849 | ADADA MOVES TO DEFUSE TENSION OVER KALMA IDP CAMP [...] (C) Joint Special Representative Rudolphe Adada and the AU Mission in Sudan (AMIS) are trying to broker a solution to mounting tensions in the Kalma internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in South Darfur, the JSR's chief of staff, Abdulrahman Abubakr, told Poloff on November 26. Following a [...] | 2007-11-26 08:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1853 | DARFUR - ADMINISTRATOR FORE SITE VISIT TO EL FASHER [...] (U) On November 22, the USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Henrietta H. Fore, Charge d'Affaires Alberto M. Fernandez, Assistant Administrator for USAID's Africa Bureau (AA/AFR) Kate Almquist, and the Mission Director for USAID/Sudan traveled to El Fasher, North Darfur, to re [...] | 2007-11-27 06:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1881 | AEC COORDINATORS REVISE STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: Meeting in Khartoum November 29, AEC Working Group coordinators (UK, Netherlands, Norway, Italy Ambassador plus US CDA) decided to delay presentation of their proposal on strengthening the role of the AEC chair till after presenting and gaining confirmation of the proposed UK cand [...] | 2007-11-30 08:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1888 | OCHA: NO EASY SOLUTION TO COMPLEX KALMA CAMP ISSUE [...] (C) Summary: OCHA field officers see no real solution to the massive problems confronting the very large Darfur IDP camp of Kalma, a particular target of Sudanese Government ire. They recommend engagement with the GOS on the issue while cautioning that the Khartoum regime will certainly manipu [...] | 2007-11-30 12:58:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV PHUM PREL UN AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1927 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - ADMINISTRATOR FORE'S SITE VISIT TO JUBA [...] On November 23, the USAID Administrator and Director of Foreign Assistance Henrietta H. Fore, Charge d'Affaires Alberto M. Fernandez, Assistant Administrator for USAID's Africa Bureau (AA/AFR) Kate Almquist, and the USAID/Sudan Mission Director traveled to Juba, Southern Sudan, to review progre [...] | 2007-12-05 15:22:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM1979 | REAL PROGRESS SEEN BUT SUDAN PREPARES ADADA FOR PROTRACTED [...] (SBU) During a December 11 meeting with Joint Special Representative Rudolphe Adada, mid-ranking Sudanese officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense agreed to negotiate the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID)'s Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) based on the UN/AU dr [...] | 2007-12-12 13:32:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UN AU SU LY |
| 07KHARTOUM1988 | DARFUR - WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE UPDATE [...] From November 11 to 24, a water, sanitation, and hygiene specialist from USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) traveled to North and South Darfur to evaluate the effectiveness of ongoing USAID-funded programs and make recommendations for future interventions. The USAI [...] | 2007-12-13 06:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM2005 | NORTHERN SUDAN - USAID-FUNDED NATIONAL NGO CPA ADVOCATES [...] (SBU) The recall of Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) officials from the Government of National Unity (GNU) and the political crisis that followed has derailed implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and CPA-related activities throughout Sudan. Since mid-October, hara [...] | 2007-12-14 11:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM208 | REBELS' DESTINY IN THEIR HANDS [...] (C) On February 7, the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) completed the airlift of many Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) non-signatory commanders to attend the leadership conference in North Darfur. Some additional commanders may move to the conference site by ground in the coming days. Comman [...] | 2007-02-12 13:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU SU CD UN US |
| 07KHARTOUM250 | DARFUR - VISIT OF THE USAID/DCHA ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR [...] (U) From January 20 to 25, USAID Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Assistant Administrator Michael E. Hess visited Sudan. Hess and six USAID/Sudan staff members traveled to North and South Darfur to gain a better understanding of the current humanitarian, political [...] | 2007-02-19 15:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU |
| 07KHARTOUM251 | SUDAN - BLUE NILE STATE - HEALTH CARE FOR RETURNING [...] The USAID Senior Humanitarian Advisor (SHA),accompanied by the Blue Nile State Minister of Health and the Dean of the Academy for Health Sciences, visited the Chali Way Station to consider options to improve working and living conditions for health care providers. The group also visited the r [...] | 2007-02-19 15:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM256 | UNSYG REP DISCUSSES HUMANITARIAN, PEACEKEEPING AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent meeting with CDA Hume, the acting head of the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) described the Sudanese government's obstruction of UN operations, the deteriorating security environment confronting the humanitarian community, and the difficulties in implementation [...] | 2007-02-20 16:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU SU CD LY UN US |
| 07KHARTOUM281 | STATE OF DARFUR: PEACE-KEEPING AND SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: From February 19-21, CDA Hume visited Nyala, Zalingei, El Geneina, and El Fasher to meet with Sudanese government officials, UN agency heads, and representatives of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). This message--the last of three cables on these meetings--focu [...] | 2007-02-23 11:52:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU CD US |
| 07KHARTOUM287 | DARFUR: UN/AU TASK FORCE NEEDS USG SUPPORT [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see para. 4. 2. (C) On February 25, UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) Director for Political Affairs Abidoun Bashua briefed Poloff on the progress made in establishing the joint UN/African Union (AU) task force to engage with Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) n [...] | 2007-02-26 07:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU KPAO UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM309 | LRA ENTERS CAR, SPLA AND UPDF PLAN MILITARY ACTION [...] (C) Summary: Reports have proliferated in southern Sudan that Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) has entered the Central African Republic (CAR) with a small force. However, the senior Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) official with responsibility for th [...] | 2007-02-28 15:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR SU CG UG CT |
| 07KHARTOUM31 | SEX ABUSE CHARGES AGAINST UN PEACEKEEPERS [...] (U) After a UK newspaper reported that UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) personnel engaged in sexual exploitation of children, the UN confirmed that four Bangladeshi peacekeepers had been repatriated over the charges and that their cases will be pursued in Bangladesh. The UN also confirmed that th [...] | 2007-01-08 17:02:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI KPKO SU UNSC |
| 07KHARTOUM324 | NORTH DARFUR HUMANITARIAN UPDATE: PERMITS, ACCESS [...] (C) In a follow-on meeting to their February 20-21 visit, CDA Hume and USAID Director Almquist met again on February 27 with North Darfur Governor Yousef Kibbir in his El Fasher headquarters. Accompanying Governor Kibbir were the State Minister for Information, the State Humanitarian Affairs C [...] | 2007-03-01 15:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM329 | SUDAN - IOM AND DONORS MONITOR RETURNS [...] From January 22 to 27, the USAID Senior Humanitarian Advisor (SHA) and representatives of five European countries participated in a donor mission at the invitation of the International Organization of Migration (IOM). The group assessed registration and departure preparations in Khartoum-area [...] | 2007-03-02 11:36:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU EAGR |
| 07KHARTOUM340 | SPLA CLASHES WITH LRA ON THE BORDER OF CAR [...] (C) A Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) detachment came under attack March 1 from a group of Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters at the border between Sudan and the Central African Republic (CAR). One SPLA soldier was killed in the attack, and one wounded, according to SPLA Chief of Sta [...] | 2007-03-05 06:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC SU CG UG CT |
| 07KHARTOUM350 | (C) SPLA CHIEF OF STAFF DOESN'T LIKE HIS SAF [...] (C) Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Oyai Deng told ConGen Juba staff recently that he has a poor relationship with his Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) counterpart. Deng and SAF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Hajj Ahmed el-Jailee Hajj Ahmed ("el-Jailee") met "one-on-one" on the [...] | 2007-03-05 12:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SU |
| 07KHARTOUM351 | UN ENVOY MEETS WITH LRA CHIEF KONY; PEACE TALKS [...] (C) Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano met with Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony March 2 in remote northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),according to sources in the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS). Chissano, the UN special envoy for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) pro [...] | 2007-03-05 13:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SU |
| 07KHARTOUM362 | NATSIOS-BASHIR MEETING, MARCH 7, 2007 [...] (C) Summary: SE Natsios met President Bashir at his residence for a two-hour frank exchange on Darfur, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),and the U.S.-Sudan bilateral relationship. Bashir said he agreed to see him despite doctor's orders that he rest. Foreign Minister Lam Akol was pres [...] | 2007-03-08 10:51:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU CD LY US |
| 07KHARTOUM388 | SE NATSIOS DELIVERS STRONG MESSAGE OF SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) SE Natsios delivered a strong message of support for the modernization of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in a meeting with senior SPLA officers on March 6. SPLA Chief of Staff Oyai Deng said he faces enormous difficulty in simultaneously absorbing thousands of former militia int [...] | 2007-03-13 11:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SU |
| 07KHARTOUM394 | DPA SIGNATORIES CLAIM HELP NEEDED NOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ongoing frustration at the lack of Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) implementation boiled over in El Fasher as signatory factions forcibly entered the USG-funded Peace Secretariat to demand that their concerns be addressed. The factions claim that their soldiers are "starving" and [...] | 2007-03-13 16:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO AU UN US SU |
| 07KHARTOUM406 | SUDAN, ACCEPTING ISOLATION, TURNS TO IRAN, QATAR [...] (C) Egypt's influence on Sudan's leadership and its ability to persuade the government to engage in constructive dialogue with the international community has waned, Egyptian diplomat Hani Khedr (please protect) told Poloff on March 15. Sudan has accepted its growing isolation from the West, m [...] | 2007-03-15 15:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR UN SU EG IR CD QA |
| 07KHARTOUM438 | CFC VISIT TO ABECHE: MGS CONSTRAINTS AND JEM INTRANSIGENCE [...] (SBU) Members of the AMIS Ceasefire Commission traveled to Abeche, Chad to receive an operations update from the local Military Observer Group Site (MGS) Commander and to engage the JEM leadership. The MGS faces severe logistical constraints, including transportation and communications, which [...] | 2007-03-20 14:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN US SU |
| 07KHARTOUM442 | UN PREVIEWS ELIASSON/SALIM VISIT TO KHARTOUM [...] (C) UN Director of Political Affairs Abidoun Bashua told Poloffs on March 20 that both the international community and the Darfur rebel movements have unrealistic expectations about the political process. UN Envoy Jan Eliasson and AU Envoy Salim Ahmed Salim, who are scheduled to arrive in Kha [...] | 2007-03-21 13:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU CD |
| 07KHARTOUM466 | MINAWI CONSIDERS RETURN TO DARFUR AFTER ATTACK ON [...] (C) A force of nearly 200 police and elements of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) attacked a house inhabited by partisans of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM)/Minawi and then raided the SLM party headquarters in the Omdurman section of Khartoum on March 24. Of the 29 SLM [...] | 2007-03-25 09:34:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AU ASEC UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM505 | DARFUR - DESPITE OBSTACLES USAID PARTNERS CONTINUE TO [...] (U) Despite significant bureaucratic impediments and security concerns, a recent USAID monitoring and assessment mission to Darfur confirmed that USAID partners are providing critical, quality, life-saving services to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the region. [...] | 2007-03-29 06:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM506 | DARFUR - INCREASINGLY PRECARIOUS HUMANITARIAN ENVIRONMENT [...] (U) U.N. and non-governmental organization (NGO) representatives again appealed to donors for support in addressing the deteriorating humanitarian environment in Darfur and growing obstacles in providing assistance. Painting a particularly bleak picture, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) Man [...] | 2007-03-29 06:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM510 | DARFUR: BREAKTHROUGH ON HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS [...] (SBU) Six weeks of sustained negotiation between the international community and the Sudanese government culminated in a Joint Communique to alleviate the bureaucratic restrictions on humanitarian operations in Darfur, said the UNSYG's Deputy Special Representative for Humanitarian Affairs, Ma [...] | 2007-03-29 15:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID PHUM UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM521 | STATUS OF UN/AU POLITICAL INITIATIVE [...] (C) The UN and AU plan to begin negotiations with the non-signatory rebels in late June. Many UN and AU contacts, however, question Special Envoys Eliasson and Salim's commitment to the process and ability to lay the groundwork for successful negotiations. Though Eliasson has secured a renun [...] | 2007-04-02 16:03:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM530 | DARFUR: MORNEI, WEST DARFUR - THE EYE OF THE STORM? [...] (U) On March 5 and 6, USAID staff traveled to Mornei, West Darfur, to monitor USAID-funded humanitarian programs and to assess current conditions. This represented the first visit by USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance staff to Mornei in more than sixteen months due to restricted [...] | 2007-04-04 09:07:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM531 | DARFUR - AMIS ENGAGEMENT IN ASSISTANCE ACTIVITIES RAISES [...] (U) On March 3, USAID staff attended a tense meeting in Nyala, South Darfur, between the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) Sector 2 leadership, AMIS Civilian Police (AMIS/CIVPOL),and the humanitarian community. Although the aim of the meeting was to improve communication and understandin [...] | 2007-04-04 10:17:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU |
| 07KHARTOUM536 | SUDAN - U/SYG HOLMES BRIEFS DONOR COMMUNITY ON RECENT TRIP [...] (U) On March 26, U.N. Under Secretary General (U/SYG) for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes briefed the donor community on his trip to Sudan, which included visits to Juba and Darfur and meetings with various government officials. Holmes voiced concern over the [...] | 2007-04-05 09:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU |
| 07KHARTOUM537 | DARFUR - BEIDA, WEST DARFUR - LIVING ON THE EDGE [...] (U) On March 14, the first USAID team to visit Beida, West Darfur, in more than 16 months traveled to the border town with representatives of the U.K. Department for International Development (DFID) to monitor humanitarian programs and assess current conditions. Travel to the area had not bee [...] | 2007-04-05 09:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM563 | SUDAN - USAID RED SEA STATE ASSESSMENT [...] (U) From March 7 to 11, a joint USAID assessment team comprised of representatives from USAID's offices of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI),U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA),and Food for Peace (USAID/FFP) visited Red Sea State to monitor USAID-funded activities and assess curre [...] | 2007-04-11 14:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PINS PHUM EAGR SU |
| 07KHARTOUM564 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - USAID WATER, SANITATION, AND HYGIENE [...] (U) To facilitate the development of a USAID water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) strategy for FY 2007, USAID/Sudan and USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) staff recently assessed USAID-funded WASH interventions in Southern Sudan. The assessment team reported that U [...] | 2007-04-11 14:49:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM572 | DARFUR - UNDP RULE OF LAW OVERVIEW [...] (U) The USAID-supported UN Development Program's (UNDP) Darfur Rule of Law Program, launched in September 2004, targets the region's absence of rule of law practices and institutions. The program has made a significant contribution to raising awareness of human rights and rule of law procedur [...] | 2007-04-12 12:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI AU SU |
| 07KHARTOUM574 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SUDANESE STATE [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with Deputy Secretary Negroponte, State Minster for Foreign Affairs As Sammani appealed for dialogue to "unlock" the situation in Darfur and urged the U.S. to push the non-signatory rebel groups to join the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). The Deputy Secretary urged the Sud [...] | 2007-04-14 06:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP EAID MOPS PGOV PINR PREF |
| 07KHARTOUM575 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SUDANESE FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: During an 13 April meeting with Sudanese Foreign Minister Lam Akol, the Deputy Secretary underlined that the AU/UN hybrid force must be accepted immediately and under complete UN command and control. Akol responded that the GoS has accepted a hybrid force in principal, and the UN [...] | 2007-04-14 06:57:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL EAID MOPS PINR PREF |
| 07KHARTOUM576 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH UNMIS FC LTG [...] (C) Summary: On April 14, Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with UNMIS Force Commander (FC) Lt. General Lidder and Head of Security for UN/OCHA in Darfur Michael McDonagh. Both emphasized that simply increasing the size of peace-keeping operations (PKO) would not stabilize Darfur. General Lidde [...] | 2007-04-15 03:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
| 07KHARTOUM581 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SENIOR ASSISTANT [...] (C) Summary: On April 15, Deputy Secretary Negroponte met with Senior Assistant to the President and Sudanese Libaration Movement (SLM) leader Minni Minawi. Minawi characterized the security situation in Darfur as "fragile" and urged the international community to push for a political solution [...] | 2007-04-16 05:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
| 07KHARTOUM582 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S VISIT TO EL FASHER, NORTH DARFUR [...] (C) Summary: On April 14, Deputy Secretary Negroponte travelled to El Fasher, the capital of the state of North Darfur. During his day-long visit, the Deputy Secretary met with U.S. military observers, UN personnel, IDP camp representatives, an African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) Colonel, th [...] | 2007-04-16 05:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
| 07KHARTOUM583 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: Presidential Adviser Salaheddin appealed for a qualitative change in the bilateral relationship. He presented an upbeat assessment of the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),saying that momentum is building, with progress being made even on the contentious i [...] | 2007-04-16 06:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP EAID KPKO MOPS PGOV PHUM |
| 07KHARTOUM590 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH NORTH DARFUR WALI [...] (C) Summary: In his April 14 meeting with the wali of North Darfur Yousef Kibbir, Deputy Secretary Negroponte stressed the strong interest taken by the US government and the American people in the situation in Darfur and the need for the Sudanese government to implement commitments made in the [...] | 2007-04-16 10:14:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV MOPS PINR PMAR |
| 07KHARTOUM592 | Sudan - Juba Teaching Hospital [...] (U) Juba Teaching Hospital (JTH) faces numerous challenges as it adapts to rapidly increasing demand and the new management of the Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS). The imminent withdrawal of longtime supporter International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be a serious test for the ho [...] | 2007-04-16 14:01:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM596 | DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH SECURITY SERVICES [...] (C) Summary: On April 13, Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte met with Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Director General Salah Ghosh. The Deputy Secretary opened by thanking Ghosh for Sudan,s counter-terrorism cooperation. He then outlined U.S. expectations and ur [...] | 2007-04-17 06:33:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL MOPS PINR KPKO UN |
| 07KHARTOUM613 | SPLA AND FORCES LOYAL TO FORMER MILITIA LEADER [...] (C) Summary: On April 17, Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) military police had a standoff over food rations at SPLA Headquarters (HQ) with forces under the control of the current Deputy Commander in Chief (also the former Southern Sudan Defense Forces (SSDF) leader, Lt. Gen. Paulino Matip [...] | 2007-04-19 13:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM SU |
| 07KHARTOUM621 | SUDAN - LOCAL AND NATIONAL NGO HARASSMENT [...] (C) While acts of violence and intimidation of international humanitarian organizations and staff are well documented, particularly in Darfur, the harassment of national and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has received comparatively limited attention. Activities funded by USAID an [...] | 2007-04-19 15:10:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM637 | THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH UN AND AEC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Khartoum's rejection of the international community's concept for Darfur peacekeeping continues to impede resolution of the crisis. UN officials caution, however, that UN bureacratic obstacles -- and a dearth of willing troop-contributing countries -- will delay force deployment [...] | 2007-04-23 15:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV KPKO PINS PINR |
| 07KHARTOUM668 | SUDAN: LOW PRICE FOR PETROLEUM CAUSING BUDGET [...] (C) Summary: The Ministry of Energy and Mining has provided information on why a large part of Sudanese oil production is being sold at a price of less than USD 25 per barrel while the benchmark crude price is over USD 60 per barrel. Difficulties in refining Sudanese oil limits the price that [...] | 2007-04-29 03:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON EFIN EPET PREL SU |
| 07KHARTOUM671 | SUDAN/UGANDA/DRC: LRA PEACE TALKS RESUME IN JUBA [...] (C) Summary: Warning the parties not to squander an opportunity for peace, Former Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano formally reopened talks in Juba between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GOU) April 26. Chissano and Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) GOSS P [...] | 2007-04-29 14:29:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR KPKO UG CG KE CT MZ ZA TZ SU |
| 07KHARTOUM676 | DARFUR - MOVING FORWARD FROM TRIPOLI [...] (SBU) Following the conclusion of the April 28-29 Tripoli talks on Darfur, Poloff met with Khartoum-based representatives of the UN, AU, EU, Norway, and the Netherlands, as well as the Arab League Secretary General's point person on Africa, to discuss ways to SIPDIS sustain momentum on the D [...] | 2007-04-30 12:53:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM678 | SUDAN - USAID ABYEI AND SOUTHERN KORDOFAN ASSESSMENT [...] (U) From February 25 to 28, a joint USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) and Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) assessment team traveled to Abyei and Southern Kordofan State to monitor USAID-funded water interventions, identify potential conflict-mitigation ac [...] | 2007-05-01 07:42:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU AU |
| 07KHARTOUM679 | SUDAN - HEALTH SECTOR RELIEF TO DEVELOPMENT TRANSITION [...] (U) Nearly two decades of civil war in Southern Sudan has resulted in a region with some of the worst health indicators in sub-Saharan Africa. As USAID prepares to transition its assistance in the region from relief assistance to development programming, USAID's health sector non-governmental [...] | 2007-05-01 10:43:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM764 | DARFUR - JOINT COMMUNIQUE - WHERE ARE WE NOW? [...] (U) On April 21, USAID/OFDA Director Ky Luu met with the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Humanitarian/Resident Coordinator (HC/RC) Manuel Aranda da Silva in Khartoum to discuss the March 28 Joint Communique on the facilitation of humanitarian affairs (REFTEL). The [...] | 2007-05-15 15:08:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM765 | DARFUR - NGOS REQUEST USAID/OFDA ASSISTANCE TO EXPAND UN [...] (U) In an April 22 meeting with the Khartoum-based NGO Steering Committee, NGOs stated that as long as OCHA does not have a presence in areas outside of the Darfur state capitals it will not be able to sufficiently serve as a buffer between the Sudanese government and the NGOs. Currently, OCHA [...] | 2007-05-15 15:21:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM766 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - RELIEF TO RECOVERY PROGRESS IN CENTRAL [...] (U) Since March 2005, the USAID/OFDA-funded ZOA primary health care project in Lainya County has provided life-saving services to more than 95,000 people at its three primary health care centers and 11 primary health care units. The total population of the county is more than 200,000 people. [...] | 2007-05-15 15:39:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM767 | DARFUR - UNHCR NEEDS TO FULFILL IDP CLUSTER OBLIGATION [...] (U) In an April 21 meeting in Khartoum, the Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary General and Humanitarian/Resident Coordinator (HC/RC) Manuel Aranda da Silva informed the USAID/OFDA Director Ky Luu that he had urged UNHCR starting in 2004 to increase engagement in the care and prot [...] | 2007-05-15 15:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM775 | DARFUR - HUMANITARIAN ACCESS DOWN BY 40 PERCENT IN SOUTH [...] (U) In all three Darfur states, an estimated 900,000 people out of a total affected population of 3.8 million people currently can not be accessed by aid agencies. The inaccessible populations live in rural areas outside of towns or IDP settlements with helicopter landing sites. USAID/OFDA is [...] | 2007-05-17 07:06:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM780 | AMIS READY FOR HONORABLE EXIT [...] (S) A senior African Union official told Poloff on May 17 that the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) needs a viable exit strategy to turn the peace-keeping mission in Darfur over to the United Nations. At a weekend "brainstorming retreat" in Port Sudan for AU staff a few days earlier, they [...] | 2007-05-18 14:47:00 | Embassy Khartoum | SECRET | PREL KPKO AU UN SU EG |
| 07KHARTOUM793 | Darfur: UN/AU, SPLM Initiatives Lack Specifics [...] (SBU) The United Nations and African Union released their joint roadmap on the Darfur political process to Western donors in Khartoum, who expressed concern over the framework's lack of specificity. Though cleared by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and AU Chairman Alpha Omer Konare, the docum [...] | 2007-05-22 13:27:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM801 | SOUTHERN SUDAN - DISPLACED SOUTHERN SUDANESE RETURNING HOME [...] (U) As of early May, IOM reported to the USAID team that it had assisted 26,000 displaced Sudanese to return home. IOM expects to assist between 50,000 and 55,000 additional people to return home by the end of 2007, a total of less than the original goal of 83,000 people. The shortfall is due [...] | 2007-05-23 12:05:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM802 | SUDAN - KASSALA STATE [...] (U) NGOs operating in Kassala State expressed the need to increase the population's self-reliance, as the situation in the state can no longer be considered a humanitarian crisis. NGOs also identified peacebuilding activities as a priority to address the disillusionment and marginalization of [...] | 2007-05-23 14:18:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM813 | SPLM DARFUR CONFERENCE: ABDELWAHID AND FINANCES [...] (C) Summary: The Sudanese People's Liberation Movement continues to move towards a June 11 commencement of "consolidation talks" between Darfur rebels interested in participating in a rejuvenated political process. Limited financial resources and a lack of clarity on future funding streams i [...] | 2007-05-24 12:55:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM814 | SOUTHERN LEADERS WELCOME U.S. SUPPORT FOR DARFUR [...] (C) The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) has deployed teams to Darfur and Chad to try to gain support for a planned conference of Darfur rebel groups to be held somewhere in southern Sudan by mid-June. Senior SPLM officials welcomed a strong message of U.S. support for their initiati [...] | 2007-05-24 12:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM837 | DEATH OF UN DARFUR PEACEKEEPER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The death of Lieutenant Colonel Ehab Nazih marks the first death in Darfur of a United Nations peacekeeper. There is no indication that the death was politically motivated, but the incident underscores the increasing banditry and lawlessness on the ground. Sudanese government, [...] | 2007-05-29 13:11:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU CD SU |
| 07KHARTOUM839 | SUDAN/UGANDA/DRC: LORD'S RESISTANCE ARMY FORCES [...] (C) Summary: "Most" Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) forces east of the Nile in southern Sudan have now crossed to the west and gathered in the vicinity of Garamba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),according to the head of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). Peace tal [...] | 2007-05-29 15:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PHUM KPKO SU UG CG |
| 07KHARTOUM855 | COMMANDER OF JOINT INTEGRATED UNITS PROVIDES GRIM [...] (C) Summary: The commander of Sudan's Joint Integrated Units (JIU) provided a grim assessment of the JIUs, their progress toward forming the nucleus of a new national army under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),and the prospects for withdrawal of the Khartoum-based Sudan Armed Forces ( [...] | 2007-05-31 09:28:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SU |
| 07KHARTOUM859 | DARFUR DONORS CONCERNED ON HAAVISTO APPOINTMENT, [...] (C) Meeting on May 30, the core group of Western donors in Khartoum expressed reservations over the appointment of former EU Special Envoy for Sudan Pekka Haavisto as UN Envoy Jan Eliasson's new representative for the Darfur political process. While Haavisto's terms of reference had not yet b [...] | 2007-05-31 16:09:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AU UN SU ER CH |
| 07KHARTOUM878 | DARFUR - TAWILA HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE ON THE VERGE OF [...] (U) Maintaining a humanitarian presence in Tawila is crucial to preventing a deterioration of the humanitarian situation and the potential movement of internally displaced persons (IDPs) to nearby El Fasher. In May 2007, a sustained and worsening trend of carjackings and attacks on relief agen [...] | 2007-06-04 13:25:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI SU |
| 07KHARTOUM884 | AMIS AND SLA CLASH IN SOUTH DARFUR [...] (SBU) A fatal road traffic accident on May 30 between an AMIS APC and an SLA/Minawi truck in South Darfur left one SLA dead and nine injured. The accident sparked a reprisal from SLA fighters, who later shot three AMIS soldiers and commandeered 13 AMIS vehicles. The incident illustrates SLA le [...] | 2007-06-05 11:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU CD SU |
| 07KHARTOUM897 | SUDAN - DEMARCHE ON UNHCR CLUSTER ROLE IN DARFUR DELIVERED [...] (SBU) In response to the points of the demarche, the Officer in Charge of UNHCR noted that the cluster approach has not yet been formally launched in Sudan, and that UNHCR and the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) are still collaborating on camp coordination and prot [...] | 2007-06-07 06:40:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM898 | SUDAN/UGANDA/DRC: "DECLARATION ON ARRANGEMENTS [...] (C) Summary: In one of the stranger twists of the protracted Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) peace process, the chief mediator has issued a detailed "declaration" of arrangements for the Ugandan rebel group to cross the Nile in southern Sudan and assemble at the Sudan/Congo border--despite the fa [...] | 2007-06-07 11:44:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR PHUM KPKO SU UG CG |
| 07KHARTOUM906 | DARFUR - A CARJACKING A DAY KEEPS NGOS AWAY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-10 05:50:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM91 | DARFUR: ASSAULTS AGAINST HUMANITARIAN AID WORKERS [...] (C) Summary: On January 19, Government of National Unity National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) officers arrested 20 staff members of the UN, non-governmental organizations (NGO),and African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) during a social event at the American Refugee Committee (ARC [...] | 2007-01-22 14:26:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID PREF PREL SOCI SU AU UN |
| 07KHARTOUM922 | DARFUR - GEREIDA CALM BUT UNPREDICTABLE [...] (U) On May 22, a USAID assessment team traveled to the SLA/Minawi-held town of Gereida, South Darfur, in the first USG visit since a violent attack on humanitarian agencies led to their withdrawal in December 2006. In the absence of other relief organizations since the attack, the Internationa [...] | 2007-06-11 11:54:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM927 | SUDAN - NUBA MOUNTAINS USAID MONITORING TRIP [...] (U) Talodi locality in the eastern hills of the Nuba Mountains, Southern Kordofan State, has received a large number of returnees in comparison with other areas. From September 2006 to March 2007, approximately 2,594 returnees arrived in Talodi, according to Save the Children/US (SC/US). Acce [...] | 2007-06-12 03:56:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM930 | APREZI RETURNS, SLM REP MELTS DOWN [...] (SBU) African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) Force Commander Lt. Gen. Luke Aprezi returned to AMIS Force Headquarters on June 11. He expressed doubts that Gen. Martin Luther Agwai was a good selection to replace him as AMIS force commander, though admitted Agwai would be well-positioned to lead [...] | 2007-06-12 16:30:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO AU CD SU |
| 07KHARTOUM938 | DARFUR - STILL WATERS RUN DEEP IN MUKJAR [...] (U) Mukjar and the surrounding area in southern West Darfur is populated predominantly by the Fur ethnic group. The current population is approximately 15,000 people, including internally displaced persons (IDPs),300 refugees from Chad, and an estimated 400 of the original 5,000 residents. Mo [...] | 2007-06-14 06:59:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI UN SU |
| 07KHARTOUM98 | DARFUR: UPDATE ON NYALA ASSAULT [...] (U) A January 22 press release from the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and an UNMIS News Bulletin the same day attributed the January 20 physical assault on UN staff in Nyala to local police (reftel). According to the same statements, the raid on the compound of an international non- [...] | 2007-01-23 13:45:00 | Embassy Khartoum | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM EAID PREF PREL SOCI SU AU UN |
| 07KHARTOUM985 | SPLM Re-Assessing Darfur Initiative [...] (SBU) The SPLM is re-assessing its effort to bring together Darfurians after postponing its planned conference in Rumbek. Clement Janda, the SPLM's Task Force on Darfur (TFD) Chairman, was disappointed by the failure of key rebel factions to attend and the lack of support it received from the i [...] | 2007-06-22 03:37:00 | Embassy Khartoum | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU UN SU |
| 07KINGSTON1274 | USAID SITUATION REPORT 1 HURRICANE DEAN [...] As of August 20, the USAID assessment team reports that Hurricane Dean has destroyed the sugarcane crop in Saint Catherine Parish and resulted in pockets of damage throughout the island. Initial assessments indicate that Clarendon, Saint Thomas, and Saint Catherine parishes have sustained si [...] | 2007-08-21 12:53:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED | AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PHUM |
| 07KINSHASA1128 | DRC: DISASTER DECLARATION FOR EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER [...] (SBU) This is an action request for emergency assistance. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Following laboratory confirmation of Ebola virus in Mweka rural health zone in Kasai Occidental Province, the Congolese Minister of Health has requested international assistance to contain [...] | 2007-09-20 05:59:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PHUM CG |
| 07KINSHASA1141 | DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - NORTH KIVU HUMANITARIAN [...] Despite sporadic clashes between various armed groups in North Kivu Province, and a generally tenuous security environment, humanitarian agencies have begun to survey previously inaccessible areas. Relief officials report varying patterns of displacement, with pockets of small-scale returns, [...] | 2007-09-25 13:00:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PHUM CG |
| 07KINSHASA1188 | DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - SKIRMISHES AND SQUABBLES [...] During the last week of September, small skirmishes involving the Congolese military and various armed groups in North Kivu Province resumed, leading several thousand newly-displaced persons to flee to Goma-area settlement sites. Site visits by USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistan [...] | 2007-10-09 11:31:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PHUM CG |
| 07KINSHASA1201 | HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO RENEWED CLASHES IN NORTH KIVU [...] Fighting has escalated in areas of North Kivu since dissident General Nkunda announced a renewed military offensive against Congolese armed forces on October 8. As of October 10, clashes are ongoing in three locations in Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Relief agencies report some new populat [...] | 2007-10-16 11:15:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID MOPS PHUM PREL CG |
| 07KINSHASA1208 | HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE TO RENEWED CLASHES IN NORTH KIVU [...] Fighting has escalated in areas of North Kivu since dissident General Nkunda announced a renewed military offensive against Congolese armed forces on October 8. As of October 10, clashes are ongoing in three locations in Masisi and Rutshuru territories. Relief agencies report some new populat [...] | 2007-10-18 06:36:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID MOPS PHUM PREL CG |
| 07KINSHASA1244 | NORTH KIVU HUMANITARIAN UPDATE [...] Since mid-October, a lull in major combat across most of North Kivu Province has afforded relief organizations temporary access to conflict-affected areas to assess humanitarian conditions and deliver critical food and emergency relief supplies for displaced and vulnerable populations. Howeve [...] | 2007-11-02 06:14:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PHUM CG |
| 07KINSHASA1251 | SENIOR ADVISOR SHORTLEY'S MEETINGS WITH FARDC [...] (C) Summary: In a November 2 courtesy call on the 8th Military Region Commander, Senior Advisor for Conflict Resolution Tim Shortley briefed Brigadier General Mayala Kiama on his findings from a four-day visit in North Kivu. Both the Commander and his deputy vehemently denied collaborating w [...] | 2007-11-05 16:20:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO PHUM CG |
| 07KINSHASA1260 | SENIOR ADVISOR SHORTLEY'S NOVEMBER 3 MEETINGS IN [...] (C) Summary: Senior Advisor Tim Shortley met with close advisors to the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC) on November 3 to discuss Shortley's just-ended trip to the eastern Congo, which included meetings with senior officers of the Congolese Armed forces (FARDC),the UN [...] | 2007-11-06 16:58:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREL KPKO CG |
| 07KINSHASA1283 | INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT PREPARED FOR WORST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior Advisor to Assistant Secretary Frazer for Conflict Resolution, Timothy Shortley met with the DRC Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) and separately with other NGO and UN officials on October 29 prior to traveling to North Kivu. Common [...] | 2007-11-15 09:13:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREF MOPS PINS PREL KPKO RW CG |
| 07KINSHASA1329 | AF SPECIAL ADVISOR TIM SHORTLEY'S NOVEMBER 30 [...] (C) Summary: Shortley called Tshibanda to provide information on his latest conversations with dissident General Laurent Nkunda, and to discuss a possible Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) military offensive against Nkunda. Shortley told Tshibanda that A/S Frazer agreed that military pressure w [...] | 2007-12-03 14:49:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREF PREL KPKO CG |
| 07KINSHASA1361 | PRESIDENT KABILA'S DECEMBER 11 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. At President Kabila's request, Ambassador William Garvelink and Tim Shortley, Senior Adviser for Assistant Secretary Frazer for Conflict Resolution met with Kabila in his residence on December 11, 2007. Kabila agreed to stick to his agreement with President Museveni and to keep [...] | 2007-12-12 15:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREF PREL KPKO CG |
| 07KINSHASA1373 | SENIOR ADVISOR SHORTLEY'S MEETINGS IN NORTH KIVU [...] (C) Summary: Senior Adviser to Assistant Secretary Frazer for Conflict Resolution, Tim Shortley, met Laurent Nkunda at his headquarters near Kirolirwe late December 14. Shortley found Nkunda amenable to compromise, apparently worried that his sweeping military victory had within it the seeds [...] | 2007-12-17 14:05:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREF PREL KPKO CG |
| 07KUALALUMPUR1205 | MALAYSIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL DESCRIBED BY [...] (C) Malaysia's National Security Council Secretary Muhammad Hatta outlined the NSC structure during a July 23 lunch with DCM and polchief. We include bio notes on Hatta. End Summary. NSC Structure ------------- 2. (C) During a July 23 lunch with DCM and polchief, Malaysia's National [...] | 2007-07-26 06:16:00 | Embassy Kuala Lumpur | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MY |
| 07KUWAIT1475 | GOK TO REFUSE YELLOWCAKE TRANSIT THROUGH KUWAIT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 14:12:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET | KNNP PREL MOPS PGOV KU |
| 07KUWAIT281 | KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED: KUWAIT CRITICAL [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for the following Kuwait Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection Survey Team (ATA 6156) members traveling to Kuwait from March 13-21, 2007: Richard Soler - DS/T/ATA; Kevin Maloy - DS/T/ATA; Patrick Willging - U.S. Dept. of Energy; [...] | 2007-02-27 10:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KU QA KCIP ASEC ENRG OTRA PTER |
| 07KUWAIT412 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR INTERAGENCY [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for Chris Camponovo (NSC),Alan Liotta (DoD),Marisa Porges (DoD),and Andrew Morrison, (DoS) to travel to post o/a March 23-25, 2007. The purpose of the interagency delegation's visit is to consult with Kuwait government officials o [...] | 2007-03-22 17:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT AFIN ABUD ASEC KAWC KU |
| 07KUWAIT430 | NEW CABINET FORMED: SIX NEW MINISTERS, TWO WOMEN, [...] (C) Summary and comment: After three weeks of consultations, the Prime Minister announced March 25 the formation of a new Cabinet, which includes six new ministers and, for the first time in Kuwait's history, two women. The Cabinet reshuffle is unlikely to affect significantly any key U.S.-K [...] | 2007-03-26 13:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
| 07KUWAIT506 | CHARGE DISCUSSES CEIP NEXT STEPS WITH INTERIOR [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, see paragraph 4. 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On April 7 and 8, CDA and Econoff met separately with Ministry of Interior (MOI) Under Secretary Nasser Al-Othman, Deputy Director of the Kuwait SIPDIS Coast Guard (KCG) Colonel Abdullah Bin-N [...] | 2007-04-08 12:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET ASEC PTER KCIP KU |
| 07KUWAIT542 | KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GULF SECURITY [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and grants country clearance for PM Acting A/S Stephen Mull, DOD Acting A/S Mary Beth Long, NEA DAS Gordon Gray, NSC Director Nik Ramchand, Lt. Col. Reginald Robinson, Capt. James Pelkofski, and Cmdr. Edward Palmer to travel to post o/a May 21 to May 22, 2007. 2. Th [...] | 2007-04-15 11:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | SA QA KU PREL AMGT OTRA COUNTRY CLEARANCE |
| 07KUWAIT543 | KUWAIT GRANTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOS, NSC, [...] Embassy Kuwait welcomes and grants country clearance for USG officials Alan Van Egmond, Rich Hooker, Daniel Pick, David Jewell and Damon Richardson to transit Kuwait o/a April 17-19, 2007. 2. This clearance is not/not valid for entry into Iraq; you must apply for Iraq clearance through Emba [...] | 2007-04-16 04:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA MARR IZ JO KU |
| 07KUWAIT782 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS CRITICAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C/NF) In a series of meetings between May 13-16, the Ambassador hand-delivered hard copies of two Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection (CEIP) reports from assessments conducted by a State-DHS-DOE-USCG team from 13-21 May (Ref A) and a USCENTCOM J-3 team on 1-4 February (Ref B) to Kuwaiti [...] | 2007-05-16 14:48:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET KCIP ASEC KU |
| 07KUWAIT783 | KUWAIT SCENESETTER FOR MAY 22 GULF SECURITY [...] (S/NF) The second round of the Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD) with Kuwait will convene on May 22in Kuwait City. The National Security Bureau (NSB),the Kuwaiti government body responsible for coordinating security policy, is organizing the May 22 meeting. In addition to NSB President Shaykh A [...] | 2007-05-17 07:22:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR PARM KU |
| 07KUWAIT784 | AMBASSADOR DELIVERS CRITICAL ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C/NF) In a series of meetings between May 13-16, the Ambassador hand-delivered hard copies of two Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection (CEIP) reports from assessments conducted by a State-DHS-DOE-USCG team from 13-21 May (Ref A) and a USCENTCOM J-3 team on 1-4 February (Ref B) to Kuwaiti [...] | 2007-05-19 04:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET KCIP ASEC KU |
| 07KUWAIT789 | KUWAIT COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR GULF SECURITY [...] This is an action request; please see paragraph j. 2. Embassy Kuwait welcomes and hereby grants country clearance for PM Acting A/S Stephen Mull, DASD Mark Kimmitt, NEA DAS Gordon Gray, Col Ronald Tuggle, Brigadier General Michael Jones, DIA Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst Bruce Hardc [...] | 2007-05-19 12:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED | KU QA SA AMGT OTRA PREL APER COUNTRY CLEARANCE |
| 07KUWAIT808 | TERRORIST FINANCE: TREASURY A/S O'BRIEN ENGAGES [...] (S/NF) Summary: On April 23-24, Treasury Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Sipdis Patrick O'Brien met with senior GOK officials on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance (AML/CTF) issues. He conveyed USG concerns about the activities of the Kuwait-based [...] | 2007-05-22 09:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER |
| 07KUWAIT873 | U.S.-KUWAIT GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE TALKS (MAY [...] (S/NF) Summary: Discussion on Iran and Iraq dominated the May 22 U.S.-Kuwait Gulf Security Dialogue (GSD). Both countries agreed on the threat from Iran, but GOK officials expressed concern about Kuwait's vulnerability to Iranian retaliation (conventional and asymmetric) and the perceived am [...] | 2007-06-05 06:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PARM MARR MCAP MASS KCIP EPET ASEC IZ |
| 07KYIV546 | UKRAINE: ENGAGING UKRAINE ON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: We passed reftel points and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Director LTG Obering's powerpoint presentation to MOD and MFA officials February 26-28. Ambassador's February 21 conversation with Presidential adviser, preeminent Ukrainian strategic thinker, and former rocket scientist Vo [...] | 2007-03-07 09:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PL EZ UP |
| 07KYIV665 | UKRAINE/MOLDOVA: TRANSNISTRIA AND BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Veselovsky told EUR DAS Kramer, NSC Director Sterling, and Ambassador March 19 that he would continue to hold the concurrent duty as Ukrainian special negotiator for Transnistria, despite rumors to the contrary. National Security and Defense Council (NSDC [...] | 2007-03-22 15:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS OSCE PINR RO MD UP |
| 07KYIV686 | UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER'S DISCUSSIONS OF DOMESTIC [...] (C) Summary: In a wide range of conversations EUR DAS David Kramer and NSC Director Adam Sterling conducted with Ukrainian officials and commentators March 18-20, the overriding theme in domestic politics was that all branches of the government were consumed with the ongoing struggle for polit [...] | 2007-03-23 15:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07LAPAZ2929 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WRONGS IN BOLIVIA [...] (C) Summary: Emboffs met with officials of Bolivia's National Intellectual Property Service (SENAPI) on October 16 as part of a series of meetings with IPR stakeholders including former SENAPI head Perla Koziner. SENAPI's current director, Claudia Solares, who had worked for former-director [...] | 2007-11-01 18:20:00 | Embassy La Paz | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EINV KIPR PINR BL |
| 07LIMA2850 | PERU - EARTHQUAKE: SITUATION REPORT #1 [...] (U) Summary. As of August 19, the death toll in Peru from the August 15 earthquake, which occurred at 1840 hours local time, is 521 people. Following the August 16 U.S. Ambassador's disaster declaration for the earthquake in Peru and within 16 hours of the earthquake, the U.S. Embassy in Lim [...] | 2007-08-20 21:48:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ETRD SENV ENRG USTR PE XM XR |
| 07LIMA2951 | PERU - EARTHQUAKE: SITUATION REPORT #4 [...] (U) Summary. On August 29, U.S. Ambassador McKinley and a team of representatives from the U.S. Embassy in Lima, USAID/Peru, and USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) traveled to Pisco Province to visit earthquake-affected areas. The Ambassador visited Pisco's downt [...] | 2007-09-04 11:50:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PE XM XR ECON ETRD SENV ENRG USTR |
| 07LIMA2984 | PERU - EARTHQUAKE: SITUATION REPORT #5 [...] (U) Summary. Between August 28 and 29, the USAID team, comprising representatives from USAID/Peru and USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA),conducted assessments of earthquake-affected districts in Huaytara Province, Huancavelica Region, and Yauyos Province, Lima Re [...] | 2007-09-05 18:17:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PE XM XR ECON ETRD SENV ENRG USTR |
| 07LJUBLJANA163 | SLOVENIA'S PRESIDENT TO CONVEY IRAN MESSAGE TO UN [...] (C) Summary. Slovenia's president Drnovsek recently initiated an exchange with President Ahmadinejad over Iran's nuclear activities and hoped to discuss this with President Bush in Washington this week. With that hope dashed, Drnovsek will meet with UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on March [...] | 2007-03-21 04:57:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP PINR IR SI |
| 07LUANDA1251 | ANGOLA STILL TRYING TO BE A PLAYER IN THE DRC [...] (U) Angola, which continues to seek a role in ending the conflict in the eastern DRC, this week engaged in a series of high-level meetings between Angolan and Congolese military officials. Congolese Military (FARDC) Chief of Staff Dieudonne Kayembe stressed the "special place" that Angola hol [...] | 2007-12-14 16:07:00 | Embassy Luanda | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS OTRA CG AO |
| 07LUANDA615 | SPECIAL AGENT STEEN MEETS WITH ANGOLAN CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Summary. U.S. Secret Service Special Agent William Steen conducted training in recognizing counterfeit currency at Embassy Luanda and met with representatives of the Angolan Central Bank Exchange Reserves Department to discuss training in currency recognition. While recent changes in th [...] | 2007-06-20 13:10:00 | Embassy Luanda | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINT ECON AO |
| 07MADRID1543 | SPAIN: 62ND UNGA HIGH LEVEL ATTENDANCE [...] (SBU) This is an interim report of Spanish high-level attendance at the 62nd UN General Assembly: A. Attendance of the Head of State -- His Majesty King Juan Carlos will not attend. B. Attendance of the Head of Government -- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, President, will attend. - [...] | 2007-08-10 09:41:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SP |
| 07MADRID2023 | SPAIN/CT: S/CT COORDINATOR DAILEY DISCUSSES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 11. 2. (S/NF) SUMMARY. Counterterrorism Coordinator Ambassador Dell Dailey led an interagency delegation to Madrid on September 21 for meetings with Spanish security, law enforcement, diplomatic and intelligence officials to discuss the evolving [...] | 2007-10-24 07:58:00 | Embassy Madrid | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL PGOV SP |
| 07MADRID208 | SPAIN: ZAPATERO'S DECISION ON AFGHANISTAN FIRM [...] (C/NF) President Zapatero is highly unlikely to in the near term reverse his statement that Spain will not augment its troop presence in Afghanistan, thereby nixing the possibility of staffing the ISAF XI HQ in Kabul (with some 120-150 personnel). This conclusion stems from Ambassador Aguirre,s con [...] | 2007-02-07 14:38:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR PGOV PREL SP |
| 07MADRID686 | SPAIN APPRECIATIVE OF MISSILE DEFENSE BRIEFING [...] (C) SUMMARY: As part of ongoing USG efforts to engage the Spanish government on missile defense, Missile Defense Agency deputy director Brigadier General Patrick O'Reilly met with MOD and MFA officials, as well as opinion leaders and an influential opposition member of Parliament, on March 30. [...] | 2007-04-13 10:17:00 | Embassy Madrid | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR SP |
| 07MANAGUA1663 | ALN DEPUTY SUBJECT OF FSLN/PLC WITCH HUNT [...] SUMMARY: Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) deputy Alejandro Bolanos Davis' seat in the National Assembly hangs by a thread. Led by Liberal Constitutional Party (PLC) magistrates, the Nicaragua Supreme Electoral Counsel (CSE) voted to strip Bolanos of his seat over supposed citizenship irregu [...] | 2007-07-05 22:55:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV NU |
| 07MANAGUA2059 | MANAGUA SITREP 4: WIDE MEDIA COVERAGE AS U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Our plan to distribute relief supplies outward from Puerto Cabezas went into effect this morning. We began moving supplies to Sandy Bay and the surrounding area. As of late afternoon, we had also transported 25,000 lbs of supplies from Managua to Puerto Cabezas with JTF-B heli [...] | 2007-09-07 23:23:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV MOPS AEMR KPAO CASC NU |
| 07MANAGUA965 | NICARAGUA: HHS SECRETARY LEAVITT MEETS PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael O. Leavitt visited Managua on March 26-27, 2007 to sign a Letter of Intent with Minister of Health Maritza Cuan on the establishment of a regional health-care training center in Panama. Secretary Leavitt met with President [...] | 2007-04-17 20:01:00 | Embassy Managua | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO EAID PREL OSHA OTRA NU |
| 07MANILA2474 | GOVERNMENT DELAYS PUNITIVE ACTION ON BASILAN [...] (C) Summary. Senior government officials say they will delay punitive military operations against the suspected perpetrators of the July 10 beheadings of ten Philippine Marines in Tipo-Tipo, Basilan. We have urged restraint and protection of the peace process to senior government and Moro I [...] | 2007-07-24 10:58:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
| 07MANILA2828 | MEASURED MILITARY RESPONSE HELPING TO PRESERVE [...] (C) Summary. While the Philippine armed forces continue efforts to track down Abu Sayyaf terrorists on Basilan and Jolo, operations are being kept limited and focused in an effort to fulfill President Arroyo's directives to contain casualties and preserve two key peace processes. Despite hi [...] | 2007-08-17 11:23:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
| 07MANILA2997 | FIGHTING TERROR AND SPARKING GROWTH: LIKELY TOPICS [...] (C) Summary: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo hopes that she and President Bush will have a few minutes to talk at the September 7 APEC meeting in Sydney, Australia. Palace Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita (equivalent of the White House chief of staff) and Foreign Minister Alberto Romulo [...] | 2007-09-05 05:22:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PTER RP |
| 07MANILA3637 | PHILIPPINES -- GREAT WHITE FLEET COMMEMORATION [...] (C) After lengthy discussion of the strategic and political impact that the Great White Fleet commemoration initiative could have on bilateral relations, Post declines participation in the commemoration and recommends against a visit to the Philippines. The United States and the Philippines [...] | 2007-11-13 08:11:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL RP KPAO MASS MPOS |
| 07MAPUTO955 | MOZAMBIQUE OFFERS CONDITIONAL PKO PARTICIPATION [...] (C) During an August 8 call on President Guebuza's Chief of Staff Antonio Sumbana, the Charge noted he would soon visit Minister of Defense Tobias Dai to inquire about Mozambican participation in peacekeeping operations in Africa. Sumbana agreed with the Charge's political analysis that Moz [...] | 2007-08-14 07:29:00 | Embassy Maputo | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO PGOV MASS MCAP MOPS MARR MZ |
| 07MEXICO152 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JANUARY 6 - JANUARY 11, 2007 [...] (SBU) GE/NBC asked the Embassy to continue pressing the Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) to drop frivolous criminal charges against the company, meanwhile GE Chairman Jeff Immelt made similar points to President Calderon. The Mexican Telecom Regulator (Cofetel) will hold a teleconfere [...] | 2007-01-11 23:36:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO1627 | MEXICO,S SENATE APPROVES PENSION REFORM [...] (SBU) The Mexican Senate approved draft legislation to reform the Social Security and Services Institute for State Workers (ISSSTE),the agency responsible for providing pension and health care services for most government employees. The bill, which has already passed in the lower house, stil [...] | 2007-03-30 21:29:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EFIN PINR PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO2202 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, APRIL 27 - MAY 4 [...] (SBU) The Mexican senate approved a bill combating terrorist financing that will now go to the President for signature. The Bank of Mexico (BOM) raised interest rates by a quarter percent to head off inflation, and the Finance Secretariat and BOM revised this year's growth forecast SIPDIS [...] | 2007-05-04 16:11:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO2716 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, MAY 19 - MAY 25 [...] (SBU) Mexican inflation, though relatively high, fell in the first half of May. PRI unions stood behind victorious Yucatan gubernatorial candidate Ivonne Ortega, contributing to her victory, despite unions' recent, less-than-active support for PRI candidates. The U.S. and Mexican government [...] | 2007-05-25 17:26:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO2748 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, MAY 19 - MAY 25 [...] (SBU) Mexican inflation, though relatively high, fell in the first half of May. PRI unions stood behind victorious Yucatan gubernatorial candidate Ivonne Ortega, contributing to her victory, despite unions' recent, less-than-active support for PRI candidates. The U.S. and Mexican government [...] | 2007-05-29 18:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO276 | CORRECTED -- MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JANUARY 6 - [...] (SBU) GE/NBC asked the Embassy to continue pressing the Mexican Attorney General's Office (PGR) to drop frivolous criminal charges against the company, meanwhile GE Chairman Jeff Immelt made similar points to President Calderon. The Mexican Telecom Regulator (Cofetel) will hold a teleconfere [...] | 2007-01-19 20:52:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO3080 | MEXICO COMMITTED TO SUCCESSFUL TRADE RELATIONSHIP, [...] (SBU) The Calderon administration recognizes the vital economic role played by a bilateral trade relationship that is, on the whole, quite healthy. Nonetheless, Mexican officials are worried about the political implications of a growing perception in Mexico that NAFTA implementation is a one- [...] | 2007-06-12 22:22:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ERTD ECON MX |
| 07MEXICO3703 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, JUNE 22 - JULY 13 [...] (SBU) The Calderon Administration is working with the Mexican Legislature to promote a fiscal reform initiative, possibly a prelude to a series of other reforms (energy, labor, education, etc.). Over the past two weeks, we have spoken with officials outside and inside the Congress to get a s [...] | 2007-07-13 16:59:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB ENRG MX PGOV PTER |
| 07MEXICO4191 | AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (U) Summary: In ref A, Post sent Treasury's Office of International Affairs the Spanish-language presentation from the American Chamber of Commerce about its concerns regarding the fiscal reform proposal that President Calderon submitted to Mexico's Congress (ref B). Below is an English-langu [...] | 2007-08-07 19:12:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV MX |
| 07MEXICO4598 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF [...] (SBU) My staff and I warmly welcome you to Mexico City. President Calderon recognizes the broad-ranging challenges his country faces and has the vision and political will to address them strategically. Having completed his first 9 months in office, he has demonstrated resolve in implementing [...] | 2007-08-27 20:06:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ENRG PREL MX OVIP DANIEL SULLIVAN |
| 07MEXICO59 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, DECEMBER 28, 2006 - JANUARY [...] (SBU) The Embassy held its second meeting with new Under Secretary for Communications Rafael del Villar who again SIPDIS asked to exchange views with USG officials on key telecom issues (Refs A and B) National Action Party (PAN) Secretary General Jose Espinosa called for a third television [...] | 2007-01-05 19:53:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MEXICO5964 | SENATE STAFFER, GOM AUTHORITIES SHARE VIEWS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. Carl Meacham, the Senior Advisor on Western Hemisphere Affairs to the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee briefed a wide array of GOM officials November 7 on the current political environment in Washington and what to expect from the legislative process in the U.S. as t [...] | 2007-11-29 17:38:00 | Embassy Mexico | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR KCRM MX |
| 07MEXICO640 | MEXICO ECONOMIC NOTES, FEBRUARY 2 - FEBRUARY 9 [...] (SBU) Although the new Mexican Undersecretary for Hydrocarbons told the Embassy he would continue working on the Mesoamerican Energy Initiative, he has not yet assigned staff to the task. Finance Secretariat Undersecretary Werner explained how Mexico could use its oil stabilization fund to [...] | 2007-02-09 21:15:00 | Embassy Mexico | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN ELAB MX PGOV PREL |
| 07MONTERREY334 | UNPRESCEDENTED ESCALATION OF NARCO-VIOLENCE IN MONTERREY [...] (S) SUMMARY. Monterrey has experienced an unprecedented escalation of narco-related violence with the assassination of six police officers in five separate incidents over the course of one week. On March 20 and 21, the dead bodies of two unidentified men were found with notes attached to t [...] | 2007-03-23 21:14:00 | Consulate Monterrey | SECRET | SNAR PGOV PTER ASEC MX |
| 07MONTEVIDEO611 | SCENESETTER FOR U/S NICHOLAS R. BURNS' VISIT TO [...] (C) American Embassy Montevideo and I warmly welcome you, WHA A/S Thomas A. Shannon and the other members of your distinguished delegation to Uruguay. Your July 10-11 visit comes at an especially auspicious time: only three months after the historic POTUS visit and right on the eve of Secret [...] | 2007-06-27 14:28:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD MARR PHUM ECON OVIP OTRA UY |
| 07MONTEVIDEO629 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY OF TREASURY HENRY M. [...] (C) American Embassy Montevideo and I warmly welcome you and the other members of your distinguished delegation to Uruguay. Your July 12-13 visit comes at an especially auspicious time: only three months after the historic POTUS visit and right on the heels of U/S Burns' and A/S Shannon's po [...] | 2007-07-02 19:07:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN OVIP ECON OTRA ASEC UY |
| 07MONTEVIDEO699 | CONSTRUCTIVE GOOD WILL: U/S BURNS' JULY 10-11 [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs R. Nicholas Burns, densely-packed visit to Uruguay substantially advanced our bilateral relations and key U.S. foreign policy objectives. Trade, the fight against poverty, UN peacekeeping operations (PKO),MERCOSUR, Venezuela, WTO, e [...] | 2007-07-27 15:13:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ETRD ASEC OVIP PTER UY |
| 07MONTEVIDEO714 | TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON'S VISIT TO URUGUAY JULY [...] (C) Summary: Secretary Paulson's July 11-12 visit to Uruguay was viewed as a positive follow-up to the President's March visit and to Under Secretary Burns and Assistant Secretary Shannon's visits the same week. The Secretary's SIPDIS initiatives on small businesses and infrastructure finan [...] | 2007-08-03 14:12:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL EFIN PGOV UY |
| 07MONTEVIDEO846 | DEAL OR NO DEAL? PULP MILL END GAME APPROACHING [...] (C) Summary. A deal may be in the offing that would finally resolve the long-running bilateral dispute between Uruguay and Argentina over the construction of a giant pulp mill on a shared river. Over the past weeks, GOU leaders have publicly and privately hinted that such an agreement was ten [...] | 2007-09-25 20:01:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV SENV UNGA AORC UY |
| 07MONTEVIDEO964 | PULP MILL DISPUTE: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH - VAZQUEZ [...] (C) Summary: On November 8, President Vazquez gave the order to allow the Botnia pulp mill plant to commence operations. The order came during the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile. During the summit, on November 7, Vazquez met with the Spanish facilitator Juan Antonio Yanez Barnuev [...] | 2007-11-09 19:50:00 | Embassy Montevideo | SECRET | PGOV PREL ECON EINV SENV UNGA AORC UY |
| 07MONTEVIDEO98 | DUSTR VERONEAU SIGNS TIFA WITH URUGUAY [...] (C) Summary: DUSTR John Veroneau came to Uruguay on January 25-26 to sign a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) with Presidential Chief of Staff Gonzalo Fernandez. Accompanied by AUSTR Everett Eissenstat, Director Sue Cronin and Ambassador Frank Baxter, Veroneau met with Economy [...] | 2007-01-30 13:49:00 | Embassy Montevideo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD PREL ECIN UY |
| 07MOSCOW2452 | RUSSIA: BANK OF NEW YORK OFFICIALS ON NEW LAWSUIT [...] (C) Bank of New York (BONY) officials confirmed in a meeting with the Embassy on May 24 their understanding that the Moscow Arbitration Court has accepted a case against the company, reportedly filed by the Russian Customs Service. On May 16, A U.S.-based lawyer claiming to act on behalf of th [...] | 2007-05-25 09:49:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EFIN RS |
| 07MOSCOW3343 | RUSSIA: PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS WITHDRAWS AUDITS OF [...] (C) Summary: PricewaterhouseCoopers Russia (PwC) Managing Partner Peter Gerendasi confirmed press reports from the week of June 25 that the auditing firm had withdrawn its 1995-2004 audits for former oil giant Yukos. Gerendasi volunteered few details about the circumstances under which PwC's [...] | 2007-07-09 12:32:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV ECON RS |
| 07MOSCOW3369 | RUSSIA ENERGY: SPECIAL REP. MERMOUD'S MEETINGS [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Summary: In a July 6 meeting with Special Representative for Business and Commercial Affairs Frank Mermoud, Halliburton Russia VP Simon Turton told us he sees Russia as the most important growth market for Halliburton [...] | 2007-07-10 09:10:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PREL CVIS RS |
| 07MOSCOW4691 | CHEVRON RUSSIA PRESIDENT ON CPC BREAKTHROUGH, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-24 12:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS |
| 07MOSCOW5059 | RUSSIA-US MISSILE DEFENSE NEGOTIATIONS, OCTOBER [...] (S) Summary. In extensive discussions in Moscow October 10, U.S. and Russian delegations, led by Acting Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Rood and Deputy Foreign Minister Kislyak discussed the U.S. plans to place a missile defense system (MD) in Easter [...] | 2007-10-18 13:43:00 | Embassy Moscow | SECRET | MARR PARM PREL KNNP IR RS |
| 07MOSCOW5083 | UPDATE ON PWC'S YUKOS, RUSSIAN TAX CASES [...] (C) PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) President for Central/Eastern Europe and the CIS Mike Kubena (Amcit) and Managing Partner of PWC for Russia Peter Gerendasi implied that the YUKOS and expatriate salary tax cases against the auditor were politically motivated. Kubena suggested that the YUKOS [...] | 2007-10-19 15:37:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN ECON RS |
| 07MOSCOW5615 | GREF CONFIRMED AS SBERBANK PRESIDENT: EXODUS OF [...] (U) On November 28, Sberbank's shareholders confirmed former Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref as the bank's new President and Chairman. Gref said publicly he would work to retain key managers and provided a general overview of his plans for the bank. Outgoing chairman Andr [...] | 2007-11-30 14:58:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON RS |
| 07MOSCOW5784 | GREF CENTER'S VIEWS ON RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC DIRECTION [...] (C) In a December 6 meeting, Ksenia Yudaeva, Director of Research at the Center for Strategic Research (CSR or the Gref Center),the economic brain trust for the GOR's economic reforms in the early years of President Putin's administration, told econoff that while reform momentum has slowed th [...] | 2007-12-12 04:55:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EIND PREL RS |
| 07MOSCOW5847 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH TRADE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. In a December 17th meeting with the Ambassador, Trade Minister Nabiullina acknowledged the GOR faced time pressures to conclude multilateral WTO discussions but was optimistic that a deal could be reached by mid-February. While issues such as state-owned enterprises and agricultur [...] | 2007-12-18 13:19:00 | Embassy Moscow | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV RS |
| 07MOSCOW5924 | RUSSIA'S LATEST STATE CORPORATION: HOUSING [...] (SBU) Summary. In an effort to revitalize Russia's housing, President Putin on July 27 signed the law creating the Fund to Assist Housing Maintenance. Minister of Regional Development Kozak will head the Fund's supervisory board and his protg, Konstantin Tsitsin, a Federal Council member, w [...] | 2007-12-21 14:31:00 | Embassy Moscow | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV SOCI RS |
| 07NAIROBI1035 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 18 - UPDATE ON [...] With diplomatic support from the US Ambassador, and persistence from the humanitarian community, the flow of assistance from Kenya to Somalia has improved. However, unpredictable security regulations at El Wak and Mandera continue to delay the movement of humanitarian staff and the transport [...] | 2007-03-05 13:48:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL PREF SO |
| 07NAIROBI1130 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 19 ? CHOLERA [...] The rate of new cholera cases is declining in most areas of southern and central Somalia following repairs to water and sanitation facilities damaged from recent flooding. However, repairs are needed in Lower Shabelle Region and Mogadishu, where insecurity has thus far obstructed response ef [...] | 2007-03-09 10:11:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI1178 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 19 - CHOLERA [...] The rate of new cholera cases is declining in most areas of southern and central Somalia following repairs to water and sanitation facilities damaged from recent flooding. However, repairs are needed in Lower Shabelle Region and Mogadishu, where insecurity has thus far obstructed response ef [...] | 2007-03-14 11:06:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI1496 | USAID/EAST AFRICA/FFP MONITORING MISSION OF [...] SUMMARY: Regional East Africa FFP Officer and USAID Rwanda Mission conducted a joint monitoring mission February 26 ? March 3, 2007, of Title II Cooperating Sponsors (CSs) World Vision (WV),Catholic Relief Services (CRS),ACDI/VOCA and their sub-grantees: Africare, ADRA and Food for the Hun [...] | 2007-04-04 06:15:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | USAID |
| 07NAIROBI169 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 1 [...] As of January 4, the UN does not expect to issue a Flash Appeal or a revised Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for Somalia. As the humanitarian community adapts to the evolving situation, Lower Juba, Middle Juba, and Middle Shabelle regions have emerged as agencies' top response priorities. [...] | 2007-01-10 05:25:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI255 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 3 - HEALTH [...] The November-December floods raised concern that Somalia would see an increase in cases of water-borne diseases, malaria, and respiratory infections. Additionally, recent outbreaks of cholera and Rift Valley fever (RVF) have prompted Somalia health sector agencies to coordinate response plans [...] | 2007-01-16 14:20:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI294 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 4 ? FOOD AID [...] The 2007 UN Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) for Somalia estimates that 1.4 million people are food insecure. In response, the UN World Food Program (WFP) plans to deliver 114,000 metric tons (MT) to more than 1 million people, and CARE plans to distribute food to approximately 400,000 oth [...] | 2007-01-17 13:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL EAGR SO |
| 07NAIROBI380 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 5 - BORDER [...] On January 3, the Government of Kenya (GOK) officially closed the Kenya-Somalia border, preventing displaced people from crossing into Kenya and relief supplies from transiting into Somalia. Liboi, El Wak, and Mandera on the Kenya side of the border are main transit points for refugees and r [...] | 2007-01-23 06:48:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI429 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 8 DADAAB [...] From January 17 to January 20, the Assistant Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (USAID/DCHA) Michael Hess visited the Somalia USG Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) in Nairobi, Kenya. While in Nairobi, the USAID/DCHA Assistant Administ [...] | 2007-01-24 13:53:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI448 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 7 NON-FOOD [...] In fiscal year (FY) 2006, USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) provided $6.9 million in non-food humanitarian assistance to agencies focused on drought response and recovery within the health, nutrition, livelihood, and water, sanitation, and hygiene sectors. OFDA funds [...] | 2007-01-25 13:08:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI477 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 9 RIFT VALLEY [...] On January 23, the first human case of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in Somalia was confirmed. Animal sampling is currently targeting Afmadow District and Dobley near the Kenya border. To date, no animal samples have been tested or confirmed for RVF. RVF Task Force members report that local radi [...] | 2007-01-26 11:43:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI483 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 9 RIFT VALLEY [...] On January 23, the first human case of Rift Valley fever (RVF) in Somalia was confirmed. Animal sampling is currently targeting Afmadow District and Dobley near the Kenya border. To date, no animal samples have been tested or confirmed for RVF. RVF Task Force members report that local radi [...] | 2007-01-29 05:06:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI523 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 10 UN [...] The UN Country Team has launched a plan that outlines five priorities to achieve stabilization in Somalia over the next six months. The UN requests $50 million to achieve concrete outcomes from February to August 2007. The UN's priorities outlined in the document are building institutional [...] | 2007-01-31 11:33:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI594 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 12 - FOOD [...] According to the preliminary results of the UN Food and Agriculture's (FAO) Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU) and the USAID-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) multi-agency post-short rains assessment, the October-December rains in Somalia were largely beneficial for pasto [...] | 2007-02-05 14:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI720 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 13 - CHOLERA [...] A suspected cholera outbreak has affected more than 600 people and resulted in as many as 40 deaths in southern and central Somalia. UN and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the health sector have responded to the outbreak quickly, collecting biological samples to confirm the [...] | 2007-02-12 10:19:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI759 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT #14 [...] As the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) expands its administrative reach in southern and central Somalia, humanitarian agencies have begun to engage with relevant TFG ministries and Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs). USAID's implementing partners in Somalia interact with l [...] | 2007-02-14 12:44:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI828 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 15 - THE CLUSTER [...] OCHA and UN Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) principals endorsed a cluster approach to international responses to humanitarian crises in 2005. The UN cluster system was designed as a global mechanism to address and identify gaps in response efforts and enhance the quality of humanitari [...] | 2007-02-21 07:53:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI870 | SOMALIA DART SITUATION REPORT 16 - THE IMPACT [...] Continuing insecurity and political uncertainty in Somalia are displacing some populations from Mogadishu and impeding humanitarian operations in Lower Juba Region and Mogadishu. USAID's partners continue to operate under extremely difficult circumstances, but the populations that remain ina [...] | 2007-02-23 09:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PHUM PREL SO |
| 07NAIROBI919 | REGIONAL RIFT VALLEY FEVER UPDATE [...] A Rift Valley fever (RVF) outbreak in East Africa has mostly affected Kenya, with smaller outbreaks in Somalia and Tanzania, although weather conditions threaten to cause the spread of RVF further south and west. Through a combination of factors, including information campaigns and favorable [...] | 2007-02-27 09:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREL |
| 07NDJAMENA50 | EASTERN CHAD: USAID ASSESSMENT OF INTERNALLY [...] Summary: The USG humanitarian assessment team in eastern Chad is investigating reports of rising numbers of internally displaced persons. On January 17 and 18, the team visited two IDP sites and refugee camps in the Farchana area of Assounga Departement. Recent arrivals at the sites are from [...] | 2007-01-19 19:16:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI CD |
| 07NDJAMENA674 | EASTERN CHAD - USAID FIELD VISIT TO DOGDORE IDP [...] The week of August 13, a USAID's Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) field officer based in eastern Chad traveled to the internally displaced person (IDP) site of Dogdore, the largest IDP site in eastern Chad. Dogdore's proximity to the Chad-Sudan border and the [...] | 2007-08-16 16:37:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV PHUM SOCI PREF PREL CD |
| 07NDJAMENA85 | Eastern Chad: USAID Assessment of Internally [...] Summary: A USG humanitarian assessment team spent two weeks in Chad, including ten days in the East, investigating reports of internal displacement and assessing humanitarian conditions and response for the affected communities. This is the fourth and final cable from the team and includes k [...] | 2007-01-29 15:30:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF PGOV PHUM SOCI KCRS |
| 07NEWDELHI1295 | KASHMIRI REJECTIONIST HARDLINER GEELANI SEEKS U.S. [...] This is an ACTION REQUEST for CA, S/CT, DS, PA, SCA and others. Please see paragraphs 15 and 16. 2. (S) SUMMARY: Hardline Kashmiri separatist leader Sayeed Ali Shah Geelani applied March 16 for a visa to travel to the United States for medical treatment for cancer in his one remaining kid [...] | 2007-03-16 11:58:00 | Embassy New Delhi | SECRET | PTER CVIS ASEC PREL PGOV PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL |
| 07NEWDELHI3281 | CD DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INDIA HEDGES ON ALL BUT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-18 12:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA IN |
| 07NOUAKCHOTT487 | CHARGE,S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE CHARGE PAID AN INTRODUCTORY CALL MAY 22 TO THE NEWLY APPOINTED MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND COOPERATION MOHAMED SALECK OULD MOHAMED LEMINE. THE MINISTER SAID U.S.-MAURITANIAN RELATIONS WERE "IMBALANCED" TOWARD POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT AND HOPED THAT THE USG COULD PROVIDE COMMEN [...] | 2007-05-29 12:04:00 | Embassy Nouakchott | SECRET | IS MARR MR PGOV PHUM PREL |
| 07OTTAWA2020 | CANADA: (2/5) 220TH MEETING OF THE U.S.-CANADA [...] (U) U.S. Co-Chairman George Nethercutt and Canadian Co-Chairman Rick Casson, M.P. convened the 220th meeting of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) at the Canadian Maritime Warfare Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia October 9-11, 2007 (septels). This is the second in a series of five tele [...] | 2007-11-02 19:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS NORAD CA |
| 07OTTAWA2024 | CANADA: (1/5) 220TH MEETING OF THE U.S.-CANADA [...] (U) Summary: U.S. Co-Chairman George Nethercutt and Canadian Co-Chairman Rick Casson, M.P. convened the 220th meeting of the U.S.-Canadian Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD) at the Canadian Maritime Warfare Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia October 9 - 11, 2007. Major topics during the 220t [...] | 2007-11-02 19:17:00 | Embassy Ottawa | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NORAD CA |
| 07PARAMARIBO407 | SURINAME: NO CONCRETE INFORMATION YET ON UN [...] Per reftel, post met with Nalinie Sewpersadsingh, Head of the International Organizations Division of the Government of Suriname Ministry of Foreign Affairs and discussed United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) attendance. Post met with Sewpersadsingh on July 27 and again on August 1. Sewpers [...] | 2007-08-02 19:27:00 | Embassy Paramaribo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA NS |
| 07PARIS1190 | OECD: AMBASSADOR MORELLA BRIEFS COUNCIL ON THE PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) Ambassador Morella briefed the OECD Council March 20 on the status of the U.S. initiative for a "Partnership for Democratic Governance" (see speaking notes in Para 5 below). Due to the late hour, discussion was limited; however, several key OECD Members expressed strong support for the [...] | 2007-03-26 16:39:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ETRD OECD |
| 07PARIS158 | UPDATE ON LEBANON DONORS CONFERENCE [...] (U) SUMMARY: FRANCE IS ENCOURAGED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF LEBANON'S PROPOSED ECONOMIC PROGRAM TO GARNER DONOR SUPPORT, AND IS RELATIVELY WELL-ADVANCED IN PREPARATIONS FOR THE JANUARY 25 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR LEBANON. THE LEBANESE ECONOMIC TEAM GAVE A VERY GOOD PRESENTATION OF ITS ECONOMIC [...] | 2007-01-16 15:18:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL LE SY FR |
| 07PARIS2939 | OECD -- GUIDANCE REQUEST -- ESTABLISHING OECD SUPPORT UNIT [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 12 Council will be asked to take a decision on establishing a Support Unit for the Heiligendamm Dialogue Process (HDP) agreed at the G-8 Summit. Although the Germans, as G-8 President, are pushing for a quick decision in order to initiate the process in the fall, they [...] | 2007-07-06 15:51:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ETRD OECD |
| 07PARIS3385 | METN BY-ELECTION RESULT ALLOWS FRANCE TO RELAX A [...] (C) Summary: The French MFA told us August 9 that FM Kouchner's anticipated August 25 return to Beirut was more tentative than public statements and press reporting have indicated since the hotly contested Metn by-election last weekend has not led to violence. The new DAS-equivalent for th [...] | 2007-08-10 16:39:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY IS IR |
| 07PARIS3386 | METN BY-ELECTION RESULT ALLOWS FRANCE TO RELAX A [...] (C) Summary: The French MFA told us August 9 that FM Kouchner's anticipated August 25 return to Beirut was more tentative than public statements and press reporting have indicated since the hotly contested Metn by-election last weekend has not led to violence. The new DAS-equivalent for th [...] | 2007-08-10 16:40:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY IS IR |
| 07PARIS3919 | FM KOUCHNER'S SEPT. 19-21 VISIT TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) The Bernard Kouchner who arrives in Washington Sept. 19 remains both an extremely popular French politician and one of the few of President Sarkozy's ministers who has retained a margin of independent authority. Kouchner, the most prominent of the Socialists who accepted positions in the Sarkoz [...] | 2007-09-18 17:09:00 | Embassy Paris | SECRET | PREL FR EUN NATO UNO UNMIK YI RS IR IS LE |
| 07PARIS4083 | SECRETARY OF STATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS YADE'S CHIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: Pol M/C and Poloff met on September 25 with the Chief of Staff for the Secretary of State for Human Rights Brigitte Collet and Counselor Pierre Thenard to discuss Rama Yade,s role and priorities in her newly created position, Yade,s recent visit to Haiti, her upcoming visit to [...] | 2007-09-28 12:34:00 | Embassy Paris | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL SOCI UNSC FR HA BM |
| 07PARIS4313 | FRENCH UPDATE ON LEBANON, AS THE "THREE MINISTERS" [...] (C) Summary: France does not believe the October 23 session of the Lebanese parliament will result in the election of a new Lebanese president and sees the visit by French, Italian, and Spanish foreign ministers October 19-20 as a way to remind Lebanese political figures of their &responsib [...] | 2007-10-19 09:41:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY IR IT SP |
| 07PARIS4357 | PRESIDENT SARKOZY’S FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT TO THE [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: The Nicolas Sarkozy who arrives in Washington November 6 is in robust political health. He completely dominates the politics of France. All the levers of institutional power in a highly centralized state are at his disposal. He remains committed to a revitalization o [...] | 2007-10-26 10:50:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OVIP NATO UNO YI RS IR IS LE FR |
| 07PARIS4358 | FRENCH NEXT STEPS ON LEBANON [...] (C) In an unfortunately abbreviated meeting, French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille gave us a quick update October 25 on how the French intend to move forward on Lebanon over the next couple of weeks. --FM Kouchner intends to continue his process of pressing the Lebanese [...] | 2007-10-26 12:32:00 | Embassy Paris | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM FR LE SY IR |
| 07PHNOMPENH534 | CAMBODIAN PM DISCUSSES UPCOMING BURMA TRIP WITH [...] (C) Summary. During an April 4-7 visit to Cambodia, EAP DAS John met with PM Hun Sen and FM Hor Namhong on US-ASEAN relations, the PM's planned visit to Burma in May, North Korea, elections, and Cambodia's bilateral debt to the U.S. The PM claimed that the ROK and Japan are using Cambodia to [...] | 2007-04-10 04:27:00 | Embassy Phnom Penh | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EFIN ASEAN CB |
| 07PORTAUPRINCE833 | TENSION BEHIND THE SCENES AT ALBA [...] (C) Summary: Senate President Joseph Lambert described a "very tense" atmosphere behind the scenes of the ALBA summit between President Preval and President Chavez in a meeting with Embassy staff on May 4. According to Lambert, Preval refused to join ALBA and told Chavez that if ALBA membersh [...] | 2007-05-07 15:28:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV HA VE |
| 07PORTAUPRINCE959 | HAITIAN DELEGATION PLEASED WITH WASHINGTON VISIT [...] (C) Members of the delegation who accompanied President Preval and other Haitian officials informed Emboffs that Preval was very pleased with the reception he received from President Bush, Secretary Rice, other USG officials and members of Congress. Presidential counselor Gabriel Verret cla [...] | 2007-05-29 14:47:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL HA |
| 07PRAGUE33 | CZECH REPUBLIC REQUESTS USG INTERVENTION WITH [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See para 5. 2. (C/NF) During a meeting January 11 with visiting EUR A/S Fried, Czech PM Mirek Topolanek raised GOCR concerns about the country's energy security, and particularly two commercial transactions that he believes threaten energy security by increas [...] | 2007-01-16 13:24:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV EZ ENRG |
| 07PRAGUE418 | SCENESETTER FOR CZECH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Czech Foreign Minster Karel Schwarzenberg pays his first official visit to Washington this week. The Czechs are a dependable and engaged, albeit small, ally in NATO and the EU. Schwarzenberg himself is a committed transatlanticist. It is important for us that Schwarzenberg be a [...] | 2007-04-18 11:38:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CVIS MARR EZ |
| 07PRAGUE420 | MISSILE DEFENSE: SCENESETTER FOR MDA DIRECTOR [...] (C/NF) General Obering, your visit to the Czech Republic comes at a crucial time during the Czech national debate on participation in missile defense with the United States. The enthusiastic support of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's right-of-center ODS party has gotten us this far, but your [...] | 2007-04-18 14:04:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MASS MARR EZ RU |
| 07PRAGUE52 | CZECH PM PUBLICLY WELCOMES U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel non paper on the fielding of U.S. missile defense assets to Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Tomas Pojar at 10:45 a.m., Saturday, January 20. Pojar, who was visibly excited, welcomed the document, indicating that it largely tracked with what he had heard about Undersecreta [...] | 2007-01-20 11:14:00 | Embassy Prague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL EZ PL |
| 07PRISTINA113 | KOSOVO: FOLLOW-ON RULE OF LAW MISSION TAKING SHAPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The EU Planning Team (EUPT) continues to develop plans for the ESDP follow-on rule of law mission in Kosovo. Team leader Casper Klynge told us recently he is confident that the transition will be relatively smooth on the policing side and that the mission will be at authorized s [...] | 2007-02-12 11:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA142 | KOSOVO: UNMIK POLICE APPLY LESSONS LEARNED IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent USOP conversations with top UNMIK police leaders reveal that UNMIK plans to use the same overall approach toward the planned March 3 demonstration of the extremist Self-Determination Movement (SDM) that it used during the violent SDM protest on February 10. That is, a fir [...] | 2007-02-26 17:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM KDEM MOPS UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA150 | KOSOVO: SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post's submission for the Seventh Annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report follows. Kosovo is administered by the United Nations Interim Administrative Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1244, which was adopted in 1999 following the NA [...] | 2007-02-28 13:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF PGOV KJUS |
| 07PRISTINA151 | KOSOVO: USOP HELPS BUILD KOSOVO SPECIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite initial hurdles, the Kosovo Special Prosecutors' Office (KSPO) is taking shape under USOP leadership and will help fill a gap in prosecutions for sensitive cases. One special prosecutor started work in January, three others transferred on February 28, and a fifth was s [...] | 2007-02-28 15:06:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA180 | KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY INVESTIGATES FORMER SPEAKER DACI, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo Assembly's ad-hoc Investigative Committee presented its report on financial wrongdoing to the full Assembly, which dutifully adopted it on February 22. The report was essentially a watered-down version of the Auditor General's earlier findings, and was even less firm in [...] | 2007-03-08 08:11:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA181 | KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY INVESTIGATES FORMER SPEAKER DACI, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-08 08:12:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA186 | KOSOVO: ON THE HUSTINGS FOR THE PACKAGE: ALL [...] (C) Summary: USOP outreach efforts to encourage understanding of the Ahtisaari package have uncovered some interesting trends, particularly with regard to Kosovar Albanian perceptions of the document. By far, decentralization as it affects southern Kosovo has proven to be the most contentio [...] | 2007-03-12 11:37:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI |
| 07PRISTINA214 | USOP'S FIRST VISIT TO THE NEWLY RE-ACCREDITED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari,s proposal for Kosovo,s final status calls for the regularization of the university in north Mitrovica as a Kosovar institution of higher learning. On March 11 UNMIK quietly and temporarily extended accreditation to the university. In a March 15 me [...] | 2007-03-20 11:36:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PGOV PREL EAID SOCI SCUL |
| 07PRISTINA237 | KOSOVO: THE NORTH'S ALBANIAN MINORITY WORRIED [...] (C) Summary: Albanian residents of two communities north of Kosovo's Ibar River were highly supportive of the Ahtisaari proposal and grateful for USG assistance. Residents told us they generally feel secure in their villages and in their travels to the southern part of Kosovo. They have not [...] | 2007-03-28 16:09:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KPKO PHUM EAID YI |
| 07PRISTINA27 | KOSOVO: PUBLIC OUTREACH WORKING GROUP PREPARES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Working Group on Public Outreach, chaired by OSCE Ambassador Wnendt and supported by USOP, has agreed to a two-phased approach in relation to UN Envoy Ahtisaari's presentation of the final status package: an initial, "simple message" campaign -- via billboards and PSAs -- [...] | 2007-01-12 14:13:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI PGOV |
| 07PRISTINA273 | KOSOVO: TRANSITION WORKING GROUPS MOVE FORWARD, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The nine transition working groups set up by UNMIK, the core team for the post-UNMIK International Civilian Office, USOP, and the Kosovo government have focused attention on necessary actions required to be taken by the Kosovo government in time for UNMIK's departure. The first [...] | 2007-04-11 15:43:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA281 | KOSOVO: GROWING PRESSURE ON AND FROM KOSOVO SERBS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent instances in which Kosovo Serb officials have refused to accept U.S. assistance if Kosovo Albanians are involved in the projects or in the provision of USOP/USAID security suggest that these communities are coming under increased and deliberate pressure from Belgrade and t [...] | 2007-04-12 08:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA303 | KOSOVO: CODEL ROHRABACHER SUPPORTS AHTISAARI, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In Kosovo April 14-15, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) conveyed a strong message of support for UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's package, saying it was past time for Kosovo's status to be resolved. In meetings with Kosovo officials, UNMIK, OSCE and US KFOR, Rohrabacher also stressed th [...] | 2007-04-18 11:03:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA323 | KOSOVO SERBS REACT POSITIVELY TO USG-FUNDED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 19, COM inaugurated three USAID projects in Serb-majority northern Kosovo. These included renovations to both the Technical Sciences faculty and the technical high school in northern Mitrovica, along with the construction of a new water reservoir and water distributio [...] | 2007-04-24 16:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM |
| 07PRISTINA331 | KOSOVO: NEW APPROACH NEEDED TO HELP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A year after the opening of Osterode camp, a USG-funded medical treatment facility for lead-poisoned Roma in northern Mitrovica, 134 Roma ) including 69 children ) still live in the highly contaminated Cesmin Lug camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs). Thirty-one children [...] | 2007-04-26 15:41:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREF SENV YI KCRS UNMIK |
| 07PRISTINA362 | KOSOVO: FUTURE STAND-UP OF MINISTRY OF FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) has the lead and has made progress on plans to stand up a new Kosovo Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) after the status decision is made. Budget, organizational structure, and necessary legislation have already been drafted as part of the [...] | 2007-05-07 15:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA392 | KOSOVO: KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS (KPC) COORDINATOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) held a May 10 briefing in Pristina on what it said was an "urgent requirement" to fund the Office of the Kosovo Protection Corps Coordinator (OKPCC),an UNMIK organization, for one year after status. KPC Coordinator Major General Syk [...] | 2007-05-18 16:11:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MASS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA413 | KOSOVO SERB AND ALBANIAN FAMILIES OF THE MISSING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: For the first time in over a year, family members of missing Kosovo Serbs and Kosovo Albanians met jointly with representatives of the Government of Serbia, the PISG, and UNMIK at a May 16-17 conference in Macedonia, organized by the International Commission on Missing Persons [...] | 2007-05-25 09:56:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA414 | KOSOVO: REAL WORK ON NOVEMBER ELECTIONS NEEDS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Transition Working Group on Elections has finished work and submitted a report of its four months of deliberations at the May 21 meeting of the Strategic Group on Transition, headed by UNMIK SRSG Joachim Ruecker. While there was early agreement on proportional voting based on [...] | 2007-05-28 15:37:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM EAID UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA469 | KOSOVO: WORLD BANK'S IFC INVOLVEMENT IN KOSOVO C [...] (C) Summary. The proposal from the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) to take a 10 percent equity stake in one of the consortia short-listed to compete for the Kosovo C energy sector development tender has raised concerns within UNMIK, the PISG and USOP about the fairness, i [...] | 2007-06-14 15:33:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ENRG ECON PGOV PREL AID YI |
| 07PRISTINA489 | KOSOVO: EUPT PROPOSES BROAD TRAINING CONCEPT FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent weeklong course in Finland for candidates for the anticipated Kosovo European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) mission covered ESDP concepts, the goals of the Kosovo ESDP mission, an overview of rule of law sectors in Kosovo, Kosovo-specific case studies, and the missi [...] | 2007-06-22 13:07:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KCRM KJUS PGOV PINS YI UNMIK KCRS |
| 07PRISTINA492 | KOSOVO: KFOR AND UNMIK POLICE BRIEF ON READINESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The KFOR commander and UNMIK police commissioner recently provided updates on their readiness posture as the status process moves into July and beyond. Both have focused on immediate challenges, including the June 23-28 presence in Kosovo of "marchers" from Serbia who will culmin [...] | 2007-06-25 07:50:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA503 | KOSOVO: CONSTITUTIONAL DRAFTING CONFERENCE FOCUSES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presentations by U.S. experts at a June 13-16 meeting in Skopje of the expanded pre-constitution working group organized by the OSCE Mission in Kosovo and supported by USAID/Kosovo (and attended by, among others, representatives of Kosovo's Serb community) have sparked discussion [...] | 2007-06-29 10:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA506 | KOSOVO: FAST-TRACKING PLAN UNDERWAY FOR TRANSITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Under the Ahtisaari Plan, the Kosovo Assembly must pass a number of laws during the established 120-day transition period. The Assembly's normal pace of doing business is inadequate to do this, so the OSCE, EAR, and NDI, working together as the Assembly Support Initiative (ASI [...] | 2007-06-29 15:05:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA536 | KOSOVO: EXBS ADVISOR FOR KOSOVO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) USOP concurs with ISN/ECC's selection and assignment of Robert Burright to the position of Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program advisor in Kosovo. USOP also concurs with the plan to hire Burright as a pers [...] | 2007-07-11 14:17:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA54 | SERBIAN ELECTIONS IN KOSOVO: NO INCIDENTS, RADICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Kosovo Serbs voted peacefully at polling stations throughout Kosovo in the Serbian parliamentary elections on January 21. There were no significant incidents. Preliminary results indicate that Kosovo Serb support for the Serbian Radical Party (SRS) has fallen markedly since th [...] | 2007-01-22 14:15:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM |
| 07PRISTINA544 | KOSOVO: SECURITY WORKING GROUPS SLOWLY LEAVE THE [...] (C) Summary: The sub-Working Groups on Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) Issues and Security Institutions, two of the six sub-Working Groups (sub-WGs) created by the Working Group on Security (WGS) to carry out its mandate to plan for implementation of Annex VIII of the Ahtisaari final status pac [...] | 2007-07-13 09:47:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS MARR PGOV PINS PREL YI KCRS UNMIK |
| 07PRISTINA617 | KOSOVO: DEPORTATION OF FAILED ASYLUM SEEKERS FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to UNMIK's Office of Communities, Returns and Minorities (OCRM),more than 47,500 people have been deported to Kosovo since 2000, with Germany alone accounting for 8,454. Concern is growing among internationals, the PISG, and the Roma, Ashkali, and Egyptian (RAE) c [...] | 2007-08-09 13:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EAID PREF PHUM SOCI UNMIK KV |
| 07PRISTINA643 | KOSOVO: PROGRESS STALLED ON CRITICAL VETTING [...] (C) Summary. Competencies with national security implications are slowly being transferred from UNMIK to the Provisional Institutions of Self Government (PISG),making it critical that the legal framework and implementing mechanisms are in place for the PISG to vet personnel, classify informat [...] | 2007-08-24 13:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK KV |
| 07PRISTINA671 | KOSOVO: SPECIAL PROSECUTORS' OFFICE MAKES PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Kosovo Special Prosecutors' Office (KSPO) now has six prosecutors pursuing complex cases and beginning to file indictments in serious cases; however, it is facing significant obstacles that threaten its future viability. Among these are a lack of resources and unhelpful atti [...] | 2007-09-06 15:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI KV |
| 07PRISTINA68 | KOSOVO: HARADINAJ TRIAL TO COMMENCE IN MARCH IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) announced on January 24 that the war crimes trial of former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander and former Kosovo PM Ramush Haradinaj and his subordinates, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj, will commence on March [...] | 2007-01-25 18:09:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KAWC PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK ICTY YI |
| 07PRISTINA685 | KOSOVO: IDENTIFING "CREDIBLE VOICES" IN THE MUSLIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post identifies Kosovo Islamic Community (KIC) leader Mufti Naim Ternava as a credible voice rejecting violence, along with his chief of staff, Ejup Ramadani, and his chief of media relations, Qemajl Morina. The below information is keyed to reftel A. END SUMMARY. INFLUENCE, B [...] | 2007-09-14 09:58:00 | Embassy Pristina | SECRET//NOFORN | KPAO KV YI |
| 07PRISTINA686 | KOSOVO: USOP WORKS TO REASSURE STRPCE SERBS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Nestled in the Shar mountains, Strpce municipality - the southernmost Serb-majority area in Kosovo - holds great potential for economic development, but is also faced with several critical issues: delayed privatization of a potentially lucrative ski area that has stalled economi [...] | 2007-09-14 10:50:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI KV UNMIK |
| 07PRISTINA698 | KOSOVO: MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS SLOWLY TAKES [...] (C) Summary: Operating for more than a year, the embryonic Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is gradually taking over the law enforcement competencies of UNMIK, starting with civil status and registration, production of documents, emergency management, and vehicle registration. Those remaini [...] | 2007-09-21 14:41:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID UNMIK KV |
| 07PRISTINA711 | KOSOVO: VIOLENCE OVER PROPERTY SALES LEAVE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The multiethnic north Mitrovica neighborhood of Little Bosnia, or Bosniak Mahalla, is on edge as a result of a series of recent criminal incidents, including explosions, an arson attack and newly-planted unexploded ordnance (UXO). The incidents date back to January 2007 and appe [...] | 2007-10-01 14:04:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA723 | KOSOVO: ELECTIONS PLANNING GAINS TRACTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: An approaching November 17 elections date and clear signals from UNMIK, OSCE and others to get to work have compelled Kosovar politicians and election officials to focus more energy on necessary organizational issues and less on public grandstanding about the alleged deficiencies [...] | 2007-10-04 15:16:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM KV |
| 07PRISTINA768 | KOSOVO: RESPONSE TO NARCOTICS AND CHEMICAL CONTROL [...] (U) Following is the submission from U.S. Office in Pristina for the narcotics and chemical control sections of this year's INCSR report. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Kosovo is primarily a transit point for heroin originating in Turkey and Afghanistan and destined for Western European countries, but it [...] | 2007-11-05 16:35:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK KV |
| 07PRISTINA775 | KOSOVO: HOW TO VOTE ON NOVEMBER 17 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovars will head to the polls on November 17 for the first election in three years. An unofficial NGO parallel count might provide results within hours of polls closing, and thus lead to immediate coalition discussions. The Council of Europe (CoE) has 150 short term observers on [...] | 2007-11-09 16:21:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KV UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA778 | KOSOVO: EU PLANS FOR THE PENITENTIARY SYSTEM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following the August 2007 escape of seven of Kosovo's most dangerous criminals from Dubrava Prison (reftel),which highlighted security problems in Kosovo's penitentiary system, the European Union Planning Team for Kosovo (EUPT) shared with USOP its assessment of Kosovo's prisons [...] | 2007-11-14 15:53:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK KV |
| 07PRISTINA783 | KOSOVO ELECTIONS PROCEED CALMLY: PDK WINS BIG, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kosovars went to the polls on November 17 to elect their central and local assemblies, as well as mayors in Kosovo's 30 municipalities. USOP observer teams, plus the Council of Europe mission and local NGOs, all reported technically sound balloting. KFOR, UNMIK and the Kosovo P [...] | 2007-11-19 11:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM |
| 07PRISTINA786 | KOSOVO ENERGY: PLANNING FOR A POTENTIAL BELGRADE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Planning for the potential of Belgrade disconnecting Kosovo from its energy grid, Kosovo energy transmission experts have begun quiet talks with their Macedonian, Albanian and Greek counterparts to coordinate action to preserve the stability of the regional energy system. In oth [...] | 2007-11-20 16:22:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
| 07PRISTINA804 | KOSOVO: ELECTION RESULTS ALLOW FOR SERB [...] (C) SUMMARY. With the preliminary results in and 3,297 ballots counted for Serb parties contesting the Assembly vote, Kosovo Serb participation in the November 17 elections appears greater than in 2004. The ten Assembly seats set aside for Serbs were split between six small Kosovo Serb part [...] | 2007-12-06 12:46:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV KV UNMIK |
| 07PRISTINA806 | KOSOVO: PROGRESS ON MISSING PERSONS AND FORENSICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presenting a unified front, USOP, the EU Rule of Law planning team (EUPT),UNMIK's Department of Justice (DOJ),UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF),and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) together persuaded the Ministry of Justice to scrap its [...] | 2007-12-06 17:05:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID UNMIK YI KV |
| 07PRISTINA829 | KOSOVO'S WATER SYSTEM: INTERDEPENDENCE OF NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Gazivoda reservoir, located in the northern Serb-majority municipality of Zubin Potok, is Kosovo's largest body of water and a vital resource for both Kosovo Albanian and Kosovo Serb communities. The lake supplies drinking water to areas of northern Kosovo and essential cooling [...] | 2007-12-20 16:34:00 | Embassy Pristina | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ECON EAID EAIR ETTC PTER KTFN UNMIK |
| 07RABAT1229 | APHSCT TOWNSEND'S VISIT TO MOROCCO [...] (S/NF) Summary: During her July 6-8 visit to Morocco, Frances Fragos Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, met with the chiefs of Morocco's intelligence service, the internal security service, the chief of the national police, the Minister of Interior [...] | 2007-07-31 15:36:00 | Embassy Rabat | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER PREL KISL MO IZ XF XA |
| 07RIGA533 | LATVIAN REACTION TO RUSSIAN CFE MOVES - PLANS, [...] (C) Summary: Putin's July 13 decree on CFE did not surprise Latvia, which expected a move like this after the escalating rhetoric of recent months. But Latvian officials are using it as a reminder that Latvia's border with Russia is a key reason Latvia wanted to join NATO. Public rhetoric ha [...] | 2007-07-18 14:57:00 | Embassy Riga | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM KCFE MARR RS LG |
| 07RIGA731 | PREVENTING FURTHER LATVIAN BACKSLIDING ON RULE OF [...] (C/NF) Summary: One year ago, we said that the outcome of Latvia's parliamentary elections in October 2006 would be key to determining whether Latvia would continue to move forward to strengthen the rule of law or regress to old and non-transparent ways of doing business. Developments since [...] | 2007-09-28 11:40:00 | Embassy Riga | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV KCOR PINR PHUM LG |
| 07RIODEJANEIRO295 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY PATTERSON'S VISIT TO RIO, MAY 16, 2007 [...] (U) INL A/S Anne Patterson completed her Brazil travel with a May 16 stop in Rio de Janeiro where she held discussions with representatives of civil society and local and state government to examine public security issues in and around Rio. She wrapped up the visit by meeting with Governor Se [...] | 2007-06-08 16:10:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PREL KJUS BR |
| 07RIYADH1894 | TERRORIST FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE SAUDIS [...] (S/NF) Summary: On September 5, Post's Terrorism Finance Coordinator delivered reftel A points to the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stressing USG's interest in submitting a request to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee on or about September 12. Embassy Riyadh fully supports the objectives o [...] | 2007-09-11 08:24:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER SA |
| 07RIYADH212 | SCENESETTER FOR APHSCT TOWNSEND VISIT TO SAUDI [...] (S) Ambassador Oberwetter and the entire US Mission in Saudi Arabia warmly welcome you back to Riyadh. As you have witnessed during the course of your many visits to the Kingdom, our bilateral relationship is developing into robust, multi-faceted cooperation. One indication of this was King [...] | 2007-02-01 12:35:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL EFIN CVIS KTFN PTER GCC SA |
| 07RIYADH2515 | SAUDIS REHABILITATE GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (S) SUMMARY: The Saudi Ministry of Interior (MOI) presented a two-day orientation of its de-radicalization and rehabilitation program for extremists to an inter-agency delegation (NSC/DOS/DOD/DOJ),Embassy Pol-Mil, LEGAT, BPM and Pol staff. The SAG has invested considerable resources personne [...] | 2007-12-17 09:42:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | CIA KCRM PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA |
| 07RIYADH296 | CROWN PRINCE SULTAN BACKS THE KING IN FAMILY [...] (S) Summary: The Al Saud are a political party as well as a family. As with any political party, there are always internal rivalries and policy disputes. Ruling family disputes currently center on the role of seniority in succession, policy towards Israel, and cuts in royal compensation. [...] | 2007-02-12 12:50:00 | Embassy Riyadh | SECRET | PGOV SA |
| 07ROME2167 | A/S DESUTTER'S MEETINGS WITH ITALIAN POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant Secretary for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation Paula A. DeSutter (in Rome for meetings from September 10-12 with Russian MFA Director Antonov on a post-START arrangement, see Ref A) met September 12-15 with Italian officials including MFA Political Director [...] | 2007-10-11 16:40:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL START MNUC MCAP MARR US RS IT NATO |
| 07ROME2287 | IRAQ-ITALY: S/I STEPHENSON IN ROME: GOI PUSHING [...] (C) Summary. S/I Barbara Stephenson visited Rome on October 30 after the IRRFI conference in Bari to discuss Iraqi political and security developments with GOI officials. Stephenson told the Italians that the international community needed to take advantage of a dramatic decrease in violence [...] | 2007-11-02 09:30:00 | Embassy Rome | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO IZ SA IR IT |
| 07SANAA1989 | TOWNSEND-SALEH MEETING PROVIDES OPENING FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 06:37:00 | Embassy Sanaa | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER YM |
| 07SANSALVADOR1853 | EL SALVADOR: INPUT FOR PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Per Reftel request, Embassy San Salvador is pleased to provide information on Post's efforts to advance human rights in El Salvador. We trust the following information will advance Department's efforts related to the Democracy and Human Rights Roundtable at the UN General Assembly. ---- [...] | 2007-09-14 16:09:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL ES |
| 07SANTODOMINGO734 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III #22: THE PLD PARTY - [...] (U) This is the 22nd cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. (C/NF) SUMMARY: With a view to the 2008 presidential election, we make this assessment of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD). Founded in the 1970s as a le [...] | 2007-04-02 13:22:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PREL DR |
| 07SANTODOMINGO964 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ENVIRONMENT TRADE CAPACITY [...] Summary: Per reftel this cable contains Embassy's proposals for regional and bilateral trade-related environment projects to be funded with FY2007 trade capacity funds under the CAFTA-DR free trade agreement. These proposals are in line with the CAFTA-DR Environmental Cooperation Agreement [...] | 2007-04-24 11:11:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ELAB EPA ETRD SENV DR |
| 07SAOPAULO119 | ICMS Tax Benefits Issue: Financial Concerns for U.S. [...] (SBU) Consul General convened representatives of US and Brazilian companies at ConGen Sao Paulo on January 19 to discuss ongoing issues associated with tax benefits (ICMS - rough VAT equivalent collected at the state level) granted by the Sao Paulo state government. Motorola and other electron [...] | 2007-02-14 12:55:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON PGOV KJUS BR |
| 07SAOPAULO129 | PT INTERNAL DISPUTE FORESHADOWS 2010 ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: The 2010 presidential election, in which President Lula will not be a candidate for the first time since 1985, is the apple of discord behind the current conflict between various factions and tendencies of the ruling Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT). The differe [...] | 2007-02-15 10:41:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV ELAB BR |
| 07SAOPAULO161 | CONSUL GENERAL VIIT TO THE PORT CITY OF SANTOS [...] (U) ConsulGeneral (CG) and Econoff recently visited the port city of Santos, which lies 60 kilometers southwes of Sao Paulo across the Serra do Mar mountain rnge. Santos serves the industrial and agricultual trade needs of Sao Paulo and neighboring stats and is the most active port by volume [...] | 2007-02-28 13:37:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT EINV ETRD ECON SENV OEXP BR ELTN SNAR |
| 07SAOPAULO212 | VISIT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH TO SAO PAULO, BRAZIL [...] (SBU) On March 8-9, President George W. Bush came to Sao Paulo, Brazil for the first stop in his five-country visit to the Latin American nations of Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico. This visit served to underscore the U.S. commitment to the Western Hemisphere and highlighted [...] | 2007-03-19 12:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP BUSH GEORGE PREL PGOV SOCI EPET KTIA BR |
| 07SAOPAULO36 | AMBASSADOR AND SAO PAULO GOVERNOR DISCUSS CRIME, PUBLIC [...] (SBU) During an hour-long meeting with the Ambassador, Jose Serra, Governor of Sao Paulo state, said that his most immediate priority upon taking office was public security, especially in the metropolitan public transportation system, which is the state government's responsibility. Though sta [...] | 2007-01-17 10:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR EINV ASEC PREL BR |
| 07SAOPAULO48 | CONVERSATION WITH OPPOSITION FEDERAL DEPUTY [...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition Federal Deputy Arnaldo Madeira outlined what he considers Brazil's four major problems, which have the cumulative effect of impeding the country's economic growth. He also decried the immaturity of Brazil's political class, one symptom of which is the perennial weakn [...] | 2007-01-19 18:29:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
| 07SAOPAULO485 | WHITHER THE LULA ADMINISTRATION - A PT EX-DEPUTY'S [...] (SBU) Workers Party (PT) stalwart and former Federal Deputy Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh sees President Lula as working for the first time in his career without a real power behind the throne, either in the government or in his party. This situation has turned Lula into a political operator who ma [...] | 2007-06-05 12:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM ELAB ECON BR |
| 07SAOPAULO560 | A PSDB INSIDER'S EARLY LOOK AT THE 2008 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) In a recent conversation with Poloff, Walter Feldman, a leader of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) currently serving as Sao Paulo Municipal Secretary of Sports, Leisure, and Recreation, shared his views on local government, next year's municipal elections, and the broader Braz [...] | 2007-06-25 16:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
| 07SAOPAULO58 | HELPING SAO PAULO AUTHORITIES RESPOND TO SECURITY THREATS [...] (SBU) Consul General met January 17 with Sao Paulo State Secretary of Metropolitan Transportation Jose Luiz Portella and his SIPDIS team to follow up on Governor Serra's request (ref A) for security assistance in the subway and train systems. Portella described the challenges these systems [...] | 2007-01-24 09:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR ASEC PREL BR |
| 07SAOPAULO639 | FIESP AND CIESP HEAL RIFT, UNANIMOUSLY ELECT PAULO SKAF [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Sao Paulo State Federation of Industries (FIESP) almost unanimously reelected Paulo Skaf to a four-year term as President. The Sao Paulo State Industry Center (CIESP) also overwhelmingly chose Skaf to lead it, ending a three-year breach between the two organizations. Skaf's [...] | 2007-07-30 17:31:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ETRD EFIN EIND BR |
| 07SAOPAULO742 | PT FACTIONS AND TENDENCIES - A PRIMER [...] (U) President Lula's Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT),faces a number of challenges as it looks towards a post-Lula future. The centrist, pragmatic "Majority Camp" currently occupies the strongest position in the party, but does not dominate. The CM is increasingly challenged [...] | 2007-09-04 19:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ELAB ECON BR |
| 07SAOPAULO749 | WORKER PARTY CONGRESS GETS BRAZIL'S NEXT PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (SBU) The Workers' Party (PT) National Congress held in Sao Paulo between August 31 and September 2 - only the third in the party's 27-year history - set the stage for a marathon presidential election cycle as the PT looks forward to 2010. A decision to move internal elections up to December [...] | 2007-09-06 19:35:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ELAB ECON BR |
| 07SAOPAULO754 | BRAZIL'S RIBEIRAO PRETO: SUGAR AND ETHANOL BRING PROSPERITY [...] (U) During an official visit to Ribeirao Preto, an agri-business center in northeastern Sao Paulo state, the Consul General visited a sugar mill and met with the Mayor and the President of the City Council. Once part of the state's coffee belt, the Ribeirao Preto area is now best known for it [...] | 2007-09-11 19:04:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON PGOV ENRG ELTN BR |
| 07SAOPAULO767 | SAO PAULO MAYOR WANTS U.S. INVESTMENT, MAY RUN FOR [...] (SBU) In an introductory lunch with recently arrived Consul General (CG) and DPO, Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab expressed an interest in strengthening the city's cooperative relationship with the USG and said Sao Paulo was interested in attracting U.S. investors for infrastructure projects. [...] | 2007-09-14 19:12:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PINR PGOV BR |
| 07SAOPAULO780 | DELFIM NETTO: NOT BULLISH ON BRAZIL"S ECONOMY OR [...] (C) Former Finance Minister Antonio Delfim Netto told CG September 17 that the Brazilian economy is all right for now despite recent market turbulence, but he has "serious doubts" about the next 5-10 years, especially if the global economy enters a down cycle. He characterized Brazil's focus [...] | 2007-09-20 17:34:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PINR ELAB EAGR BR |
| 07SAOPAULO873 | PUBLIC SECURITY IN SAO PAULO: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS [...] (SBU) Although public security remains one of the most serious policy challenges in Brazil, civil society researchers and law enforcement analysts in Sao Paulo believe that the federal and state governments are taking inadequate action to tackle the issue or to coordinate with each other in fi [...] | 2007-10-29 16:50:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM PGOV ASEC BR |
| 07SAOPAULO949 | LULA ASSOCIATE CALLS THIRD TERM TALK A MEDIA INVENTION [...] (SBU) Devanir Ribeiro, a federal deputy who is a long-time personal friend and political associate of President Lula, dismissed as an invention of the media rampant speculation that Lula may seek to amend the Constitution to allow him to run for a third term in 2010. Ribeiro denied reports t [...] | 2007-11-30 15:56:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV KDEM ELAB BR |
| 07SAOPAULO961 | PT INTERNAL ELECTIONS HEAD TO SECOND ROUND [...] (U) Results in the Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) internal elections on December 2 confirm that the old centrist Majority Camp, associated with President Lula and the inner circle of his first term, no longer commands a majority of the party faithful or the leadership, but non [...] | 2007-12-06 13:34:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV KDEM ELAB BR |
| 07SAOPAULO966 | CODEL REID'S VISIT TO FOZ DO IGUACU, BRAZIL [...] (U) During a November 27-28 visit to Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, Codel Reid met with the Ambassador and Embassy Brasilia and ConGen Sao Paulo officers, visited Federal Police headquarters and an operating center of the Maritime Federal Police, and toured Itaipu Dam. The delegation dined with three [...] | 2007-12-12 09:23:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PINR PTER KCRM OPRC BR |
| 07SAOPAULO992 | OVERWORKED SAO PAULO JUDGES WANT GREATER LAW [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo judges tell us that they are overworked and overburdened and that the growth in the drug trade and lack of prison space make their already difficult work even more challenging. Greg West, Assistant United States Attorney and Organized Crime and Terrorism Section Chief for the [...] | 2007-12-19 18:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR PGOV PHUM OEXC OIIP KCRM SNAR |
| 07SARAJEVO1177 | BOSNIA - INSIDE THE MIND OF KOMSIC'S CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 6, Zeljko Komsic, the Croat member of Bosnia's Tri-Presidency, will take over the rotating chairmanship of the Presidency from the Serb member, Nebojsa Radmanovic. Radmanovic has, in our estimation, turned in a solid performance. Komsic's chairmanship comes at a particul [...] | 2007-05-30 11:38:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO1212 | BOSNIA: GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS ON WAR CRIMINALS [...] (S/NF) Summary: In the past seven days two distinct but significant events connected to bringing war criminals to justice occurred in the Republika Srpska (RS). The first, a major success, happened on May 31, when police from the Republika Srpska (RS) apprehended ICTY-indicted Zdravko Tolimir [...] | 2007-06-01 17:06:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET//NOFORN | PHUM KCRM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL ICTY BK |
| 07SARAJEVO136 | GUIDANCE REQUEST - BOSNIA'S MULTINATIONAL FORCE IN [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 7. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Following our initial presentation of the President's Iraq strategy last week (Ref A),the Ambassador met with the all three members of Bosnia's Tri-Presidency to discuss the deployment in Iraq of Bosnia's Expl [...] | 2007-01-22 13:59:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO162 | BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC RAISES ALGERIAN 6 GUANTANAMO [...] (S) SUMMARY: At a January 18 meeting, Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency raised the Algerian 6 with the Ambassador. Silajdzic said that his impression was that the U.S. planned to release the six men and posed several questions about how their citizenship might impact that decision. We foll [...] | 2007-01-23 15:22:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PTER PGOV PREL PINR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO1663 | BOSNIA - THE NEW HIGHREP: A NEW STYLE, NEW HOPE [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: In his first few weeks on the job, new High Representative Miroslav Lajcak has moved quickly to take charge of OHR and improve its operations. He has also sent a clear signal to Bosnian political leaders and the Bosnian public that he will be a different kind of HighRep than hi [...] | 2007-08-01 14:41:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO1738 | BOSNIA: GEORGIAN ARMS DEAL REVIVED? [...] (S) In recent weeks, several high-ranking government officials have raised the possibility of reviving a Bosnia-Georgia arms deal that was scuttled in 2006 over strenuous Russian objections. President Komsic and his senior advisors seem to be the main proponents of reviving the sale, which i [...] | 2007-08-10 09:28:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PGOV PREL PARM MASS MARR BK GG RS SR |
| 07SARAJEVO186 | BOSNIA - DODIK RECEIVES CLEAR U.S. WARNING ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Republika Srpska (RS) Premier Milorad Dodik January 25 and delivered a stern warning that the USG had lost patience with his destabilizing rhetoric, especially on Kosovo status. He told Dodik that if such rhetoric did not cease, the USG would be forced to [...] | 2007-01-25 19:15:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO1862 | BOSNIA - AMBASSADOR DELIVERS STERN MESSAGE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Bosnian Serb member of the Presidency Nebojsa Radmanovic August 29 to deliver a strong message that the USG was growing increasingly concerned by recent comments from Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, radmanovic himself, and other senior Allian [...] | 2007-08-30 14:53:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO1872 | BOSNIA - BOSNIAKS TORPEDO PROSPECTS FOR POLICE [...] (C) Since assuming office in July, High Representative Miroslav Lajcak has stated publicly that his first major task would be concluding an agreement on Police Reform in September, allowing Bosnia to initial an SAA with the EU. Lajcak circulated a draft of the proposal in private talks this we [...] | 2007-08-31 15:46:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS PINR EUN BK |
| 07SARAJEVO1987 | BOSNIA - LAJCAK DELIVERS POLICE REFORM STRATEGY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Miroslav Lajcak presented to Quint Ambassadors on September 18 his strategy for securing a deal on police reform. OHR will continue with technical talks on police reform while maintaining political pressure on party leaders to compromise. After a two-hour mee [...] | 2007-09-19 08:29:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM PINR EUN UN RS BK |
| 07SARAJEVO1999 | BOSNIA - DEFENSE REFORM PROGRESSES BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the past six months, Bosnia has made important progress in defense reform. Defense Minister Selmo Cikotic and his senior deputies have demonstrated that they are committed to reforms and moved quickly to fill the leadership vacuum that existed at the Ministry of Defense (Mo [...] | 2007-09-20 08:51:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO2046 | BOSNIA - BUGOJNO WAR CRIMES AND DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 19, the State Prosecutor,s Office confirmed indictments of two individuals in its ongoing investigation of war crimes committed by the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ABiH) in and around Bugojno during the 1992-1995 war. Bugojno was the scene of heavy fighting betwee [...] | 2007-09-25 17:38:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KAWC KJUS KCRM MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO2047 | SCENESETTER FOR DASD CAGAN VISIT TO SARAJEVO [...] (S) Summary. Bosnia has provided valuable assistance to coalition operations in Iraq over the past two years with the deployment of its Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit. After the visit of DAS Butler (Reftel A),we secured approval from civilian and military officials at the Ministry of [...] | 2007-09-26 07:20:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR PINR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO2080 | BOSNIA - DODIK-SILAJDZIC PROTOCOL ON POLICE REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Late on Friday, September 28, Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik and Bosniak Member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic signed a 3-page "Protocol on Police Reform." The consensus among Bosnian political leaders, OHR and other international community representatives is that [...] | 2007-10-01 16:14:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KCRM EU BK |
| 07SARAJEVO2086 | BOSNIA- KOMSIC APOLOGIZES FOR WARTIME ATROCITIES [...] (SBU) On October 1, Presidency Chairman Zeljko Komsic acknowledged that individuals in the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ABiH),the Bosniak dominated force during the war, committed atrocities that must be punished. Speaking at a ceremony marking the 15th anniversary of founding of the 1st [...] | 2007-10-02 11:08:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO211 | BOSNIA - DODIK HEARS CLEAR U.S. MESSAGE TO DESIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: We met with Republika Srpska (RS) Premier Milorad Dodik January 25 to deliver a stern warning that the USG had lost patience with his destabilizing rhetoric, especially on Kosovo status, as well as with press statements like the recent article in Croatia,s &Globus8 which strike at [...] | 2007-01-30 06:33:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PINR PREL |
| 07SARAJEVO2142 | BOSNIAN DEFENSE LEADERSHIP TO CONSIDER ADDITIONAL [...] (S) DASD Debra Cagan visited Sarajevo September 28 to encourage the senior Bosnian defense leadership to augment their military deployments in support of coalition operations Iraq. DASD Cagan urged Minister of Defense Selmo Cikotic and Chief of the Joint Staff LTG Sifet Podzic to deploy an in [...] | 2007-10-04 16:23:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PGOV PREL MARR BK IZ |
| 07SARAJEVO2143 | BOSNIA - HIREP REJECTS SILAJDZIC-DODIK PROTOCOL [...] (C) High Representative Miroslav Lajcak issued a statement October 4 formally rejecting the Police Reform Protocol signed by Party for BiH (SBiH) President Haris Silajdzic and Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) President Milorad Dodik (Ref A). The HighRep made the announcement af [...] | 2007-10-05 06:47:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KCRM EU BK |
| 07SARAJEVO2195 | BOSNIA - POLICE REFORM TALKS FINALLY COLLAPSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Lajcak conducted a series of bilateral meetings with political party leaders warning them that they had one "last chance" to reach a deal on police reform; Croat party leaders distributed an alternative protocol that met the three EU principles and was designed [...] | 2007-10-11 18:44:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO2252 | BOSNIA - DODIK DECIDES ON CONFRONTATION [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph seven. 2. (C) SUMMARY: It appears that Republika Srpska PM Milorad Dodik has again reversed course and decided to confront head on the authority of the High Representative. Despite a three hour meeting with the HighRep on October 22, at which Do [...] | 2007-10-23 19:40:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
| 07SARAJEVO2278 | BOSINA POLITICAL UPDATE - OCTOBER 25, 2007 [...] (C) In a telephone call with the Ambassador, SDA President Sulejman Tihic expressed concern over situation in the RS and asserted Dodik,s behavior was part of coordinated plot with Belgrade to destabilize Bosnia and link Kosovo to the RS. Tihic explained he had met today with SDA RSNA delega [...] | 2007-10-25 17:06:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
| 07SARAJEVO2295 | BOSNIA - BOSNIAN-SERB GENERALS MEET WITH DODIK [...] (S) Summary. Chief of the Joint Staff Lieutenant General Sifet Podzic informed us that Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik met with Deputy Defense Minister Igor Crnadak and all the Bosnian-Serb general officers October 26 in Banja Luka. Podzic said such a meeting was highly unusu [...] | 2007-10-26 18:54:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PGOV PREL PINR MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO2406 | LEGAL TALKS CONCLUDE - DODIK LOOKS HEADED FOR [...] (C) On November 6, talks between OHR lawyers and RS government experts, with the goal of resolving RS concerns over the High Representative's October 19 measures, concluded without agreement. The same day, the OHR Legal Advisor, on instructions from the High Representative, informed Steering [...] | 2007-11-08 15:27:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
| 07SARAJEVO2517 | BOSNIA - FM ALKALAJ SEEKS CONTROL OF NATO [...] (C) Summary: Given the current political environment, keeping Bosnia on the NATO track is even more critical to U.S. objectives here. Therefore, we are concerned by a recent move by Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Sven Alkalaj to politicize this issue by challenging Minister of Defense (MOD [...] | 2007-11-21 18:41:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO2518 | BOSNIA - LAJCAK BRIEFS QUINT AMBASSADORS ON NEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Lajcak briefed Quint Ambassadors on November 21 about the current political crisis and his plans for managing it. Lajcak told the Quint that he plans to attend the November 22 meeting of governing-coalition political party leaders hosted by Bosniak member of t [...] | 2007-11-21 18:46:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR EU BK |
| 07SARAJEVO2574 | BOSNIA - POSSIBLE DEAL OPENS WINDOW FOR INITIALING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Developments over the course of November 29-30 have brought us very close to resolution of the political crisis over High Representative Lajcak,s October 19 measures designed to facilitate decision-making in the Parliamentary Assembly (PA) and the Council of Ministers (CoM). This [...] | 2007-11-30 20:12:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK EU |
| 07SARAJEVO2648 | BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Defense Minister Selmo Cikotic comes to Washington December 17-21 for Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDCs) and other meetings ready to present his vision completing Bosnia's defense reform, expanding Bosnia's participation in coalition support operations, and expediting NATO ac [...] | 2007-12-11 18:04:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO2682 | BOSNIA - STATE PRSECUTOR'S OFFICE BEGINS TO TACKLE [...] (C) Although it was established four years ago, the Special Department for Organized Crimes (SDOC) at the State Prosecutor,s Office is only now starting to prosecute the most complex corruption, organized and financial crimes in Bosnia. With our strong support, Drew Engel, the Deputy Chief Pr [...] | 2007-12-17 17:32:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID ECON PREL KCRM BK |
| 07SARAJEVO310 | PRESIDENCY EXTENDS MANDATE OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT [...] (C) Summary. The Presidency extended the mandate of the Bosnian Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) unit in Iraq through the end of the year. If confirmed by the parliament, the decision will permit a fifth rotation of the unit to deploy to Iraq in May as we requested. The provision requirin [...] | 2007-02-12 06:43:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR BK IZ |
| 07SARAJEVO319 | BOSNIA: THE NEW COUNCIL OF MINISTERS [...] (U) Following is biographic information on the new BiH Council of Ministers, confirmed by the BiH House of Representatives on February 9. Details of the parliamentary session will be reported septel. MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SVEN ALKALAJ (Sven AL-ka-lye),SBiH ---------------------- [...] | 2007-02-13 09:05:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BK |
| 07SARAJEVO36 | BOSNIA: SILAJDZIC AND TIHIC AGREE DEFENSE REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with Charge January 5 and 8, Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic of the Party for BiH (SBiH) and Party of Democratic Action (SDA) President Sulejman Tihic both made clear that defense reform will continue to be a high priority for the new governing co [...] | 2007-01-09 11:21:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO373 | BOSNIA: OSD DASD FATA VISIT TO SARAJEVO [...] (C) Summary. Your visit comes after two years of nearly uninterrupted progress in the defense sphere in Bosnia. Bosnia has successfully created a unified, single Armed Forces and maintains a robust and continuously straightening security relationship with the United States. Leaders and the pub [...] | 2007-02-15 13:30:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO41 | BOSNIA - THE HIGHREP'S PROPOSAL FOR PHASE II [...] (C) SUMMARY: The High Representative (High Rep) shared with us his draft proposal for conducting phase II of constitutional reform (A copy of the 21-page paper was e-mailed to EUR/SCE) and asked for official U.S. comments on it. The HighRep proposes establishing a Commission on Constitutional [...] | 2007-01-10 09:55:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK EU |
| 07SARAJEVO433 | BOSNIA: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULING CLAIMS OHR [...] (C) Over Presidents' Day weekend, the Bosnian Constitutional Court released a July 2006 decision calling on the Bosnian government to address human rights violations stemming from OHR's 2004 removal from office of two Republika Srpska (RS) officials who had abetted war criminals. The Court ru [...] | 2007-02-23 15:19:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS EUN UNSC BK |
| 07SARAJEVO441 | BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR THE FEBRUARY 26-27 PIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: We expect the February 26-27 meeting of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) to approve a one-year extension of OHR's mandate (i.e., to June 2008),though we anticipate the Russians will complicate efforts to reach consensus on this decision. High Representative Christian Schwa [...] | 2007-02-23 15:46:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR KJUS BK |
| 07SARAJEVO456 | BOSNIAN REACTIONS TO ICJ VERDICT: FROM [...] (U) Following weeks of speculation and building up of expectations, the announcement by the International Court of Justice that Serbia and Montenegro were not guilty of genocide during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina provoked immediate reactions across the political spectrum here. [...] | 2007-02-26 16:30:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KPAO KJUS BK |
| 07SARAJEVO467 | BOSNIA: OSD DAS FATA'S VISIT HIGHLIGHTS SECURITY [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Daniel Fata visited Sarajevo February 21 for discussions with senior Bosnian leaders on Bosnia's NATO integration process and continued U.S. support for defense reform and Bosnia's Euro-Atlantic integration. DASD Fata made [...] | 2007-02-27 15:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO509 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP'S OFFICE WILL STAY UNTIL JUNE 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: At their February 26-27 meeting, the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Political Directors agreed to continue the OHR's mandate with the aim of closing it down by June 30, 2008. Russia refused to join the consensus, however, insisting on a footnote in the communique highlighting [...] | 2007-03-06 14:53:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINR KJUS KAWC BK |
| 07SARAJEVO510 | BOSNIA - NEW BATTLE BEGINS OVER CITIZENSHIP LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opening salvo in what could prove to be an ugly political battle over amendments to the Bosnian Law on Citizenship came on February 27, when FM Sven Alkalaj (Party for BiH (SBiH)) sent a diplomatic note to the Serbian MFA informing it that the bilateral agreement on dual cit [...] | 2007-03-06 15:01:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER BK |
| 07SARAJEVO526 | BOSNIA - HIGHREP BALKS AT ANNULLING CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph six below. 2. (C) High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling convened a special session of the Steering Board Ambassadors (SBA) on March 7 to discuss the recently released decision by the Bosnian Constitutional Court calling on the Bosnian [...] | 2007-03-07 16:36:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC BK UN |
| 07SARAJEVO541 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETS WITH BIH FOREIGN MINISTER SVEN [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador, accompanied by the DCM, called on new Bosnian Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj at the Ministry March 7. In a wide-ranging exchange, Minister Alkalaj reviewed Bosnia's efforts to fulfill itsPartnership for Peace (PfP) commitments, and disussed the current controversy [...] | 2007-03-09 17:22:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | SECRET | PREL MARR PARM PGOV PINR ENRG EPET BK |
| 07SARAJEVO670 | BOSNIA: FORMER DEFENSE MINISTER NAMED NATO [...] (SBU) On March 27, the Tri-Presidency appointed former Defense Minister Nikola Radovanovic as Bosnia's new Ambassador to NATO. Radovanovic is expected to assume his duties in the coming weeks and will head-up Bosnia's effort to move through the Partnership for Peace (PfP) processes to full NA [...] | 2007-03-27 12:15:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO674 | BOSNIA - THE PRESIDENCY DEVELOPS A STAFF-LEVEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bosnian Tri-Presidency has begun to develop a staff that can serve their respective bosses. On a day-to-day basis the vast majority of our contact with the Presidency takes place at the staff level, which has provided an important avenue for influencing their bosses' thinking [...] | 2007-03-27 14:52:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO754 | BOSNIA - AMBASSADOR TRAVELS TO SREBRENICA TO CALM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and embassy staff traveled to Srebrenica April 3 to meet with local citizens and to discuss possible improvements to living conditions for municipality residents. Srebrenica has been the subject of a Bosniak political movement for secession since the February ICJ verdi [...] | 2007-04-06 08:58:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO801 | BOSNIA OFFERS TO HOST COMBINED ENDEAVOR 2008 [...] (SBU) Post received a diplomatic note from Acting Minister of Defense Marina Pendes offering Bosnia as the host and organizer of the Combined Endeavor 2008 (CE 08) military exercise. The Ministry of Defense is offering the barracks in Banja Luka and the nearby training center in Manjaca as the [...] | 2007-04-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO832 | BOSNIA: BUGOJNO INDICTMENTS TIMED TO DERAIL [...] (C) On April 16, the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) arrested two individuals on orders from the State Prosecutor over their alleged involvement in the disappearance of Bosnian-Croats in the Central Bosnian town of Bugojno in 1993. The arrests of the two individuals, former B [...] | 2007-04-17 13:31:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MARR BK |
| 07SARAJEVO84 | BOSNIA SUPPORTIVE OF IRAQ STRATEGY, SEEKS [...] (C) Chairman of the Tri-Presidency Nebojsha Radmanovic told CDA that Bosnia was supportive of the new Iraq strategy, and noted Bosnia's continued support for Global War on Terror (GWOT) activities. Radmanovic cited the deployment of Bosnia's explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) units to Iraq as [...] | 2007-01-12 16:48:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PGOV PREL BK IZ |
| 07SARAJEVO935 | BOSNIA: FOREIGN MINISTER ALKALAJ SHOULD HEAR A [...] (C) Summary. Bosnian Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj arrives in Washington April 30 for a week-long visit. Having served as the Bosnian Ambassador to the U.S (1994- 2000),Alkalaj is no stranger to Washington, but this will be his first U.S. visit as Foreign Minister. Although he assumed his [...] | 2007-04-27 13:31:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | BK PGOV PREL |
| 07SARAJEVO937 | BOSNIA - TAKING ON RADICAL BOSNIAK MUSLIM POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: We stepped up our efforts during the week of April 23 to undercut efforts, particularly of Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic, to further radicalize the political situation in Bosnia. We met with the Bosniak Party for Democratic Action (SDA) leadership to deliver [...] | 2007-04-30 05:35:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS PGOV PINR PREL UN KJWC BK PK |
| 07SARAJEVO995 | BOSNIA - CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND THE EUROPEANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Christian Schwarz-Schilling, in his capacity as European Union Special Representative (EUSR),briefed Quint Ambassadors (plus the European Commission Ambassador) on the proposal to create a Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC),which would be responsible for guiding a longer-term [...] | 2007-05-09 09:14:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PREL EU BK |
| 07SECTION01OF03ANKARA365 | ANKARA MEDIA REACTION REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-20 15:12:00 | Embassy Ankara | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR TU |
| 07SEOUL220 | POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION 1: THE KOREAN [...] (C) During Session 1 of the January 11 U.S.-ROK-Japan Policy Planning Talks, ROK Deputy Foreign Minister Park In-kook, Japanese Deputy Vice Minister Masaharu Kono, and S/P Director Stephen R. Krasner outlined their respective countries' foreign policy priorities and strategies toward North Ko [...] | 2007-01-23 08:30:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KS |
| 07SEOUL2694 | SUBJECT: NORTH-SOUTH SUMMIT: HOW IT CAME ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: According to a senior Blue House staffer, the Roh Administration had been pursuing a North-South summit for several years, but to no avail until two months ago. The negotiations were conducted by NIS (National Intelligence Service) and NSC staff. Cabinet members, including Fore [...] | 2007-09-05 08:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC KS KN |
| 07SEOUL3510 | LEE MYUNG-BAK AND MONK MYOCHUNG: TWO PEAS FROM A [...] (C) Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak is virtually assured of a victory December 19, but according to a contact who has been covering the Lee camp since summer 2006, a victory December 19 is just the first in a series of goals Lee and his top advisors have laid out. In the Ap [...] | 2007-12-11 07:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PGOV PREL PINR |
| 07SEOUL662 | MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO NORTH KOREA: NGO [...] (C) Chairman of the EugeneBell Foundation Stephen Linton, whose Seoul-based organization has provided over USD 25 million worth of medical and other assistance to North Korea since 1995, said that: -- experience had taught him that the best way to provide such aid was in the form of integrat [...] | 2007-03-07 02:37:00 | Embassy Seoul | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID KN |
| 07SHANGHAI117 | IPR ATTACHI ENGAGES SHANGHAI CULTURAL TASK FORCE [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 19, Senior IPR Attachi Mark Cohen met with the Director of Shanghai Culture Task Force (SCTF) Zhou Jianmin to discuss Shanghai's efforts on copyright enforcement. Cohen engaged Zhou on SCTF's authority over copyright infringement matters vis-`-vis the Shanghai Copyri [...] | 2007-02-16 10:11:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR EFIN EINV CH |
| 07SHANGHAI161 | CITIBANK'S STANLEY ON GDB AND CHINA BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 8 meeting with Beijing Financial Attache David Loevinger, Treasury Asia DAS Robert Dohner, Asia Director Mathew Haarsager and Congenoffs, Citigroup China CEO Richard Stanley expressed great appreciation for USG support which facilitated its December acquisition of [...] | 2007-03-23 08:21:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON PREL CH |
| 07SHANGHAI166 | SHANGHAI RELIGIOUS CONTACTS DISCUSS NGOS, THEOLOGICAL [...] (C) Summary: During her February 26-27 visit to Shanghai, DRL/IRF Officer Emilie Kao explored ways to expand religious freedom in China with academics, officials from the Communist Party-approved China Christian Council/Three Self Patriotic Movement (CCC/TSPM),Shanghai YMCA leaders, a represe [...] | 2007-03-26 03:31:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KIRF CH |
| 07SHANGHAI178 | JAPAN-CHINA RELATIONS BACK ON TRACK IN SHANGHAI [...] (SBU) Summary. According to Japanese contacts in Shanghai, Japanese Prime Minister Abe's October 2006 breakthrough visit to Beijing has dramatically improved the climate for Japanese investment in Shanghai, as well as led to an overall increase in cultural exchanges. The number of Japanese Ch [...] | 2007-03-29 05:38:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV PREL CH JA |
| 07SHANGHAI214 | SHANGHAI BISHOP JIN ON CHINA-VATICAN TIES [...] (C) Summary: During a Consul General hosted lunch on April 13, Shanghai Bishop Jin said that Catholics in China were anxiously awaiting the Pope's letter (ref A). He hoped that the letter would not be too strident as this would lead to a strong reaction from Beijing and push the Vatican-China [...] | 2007-04-16 07:48:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KIRF CH VT |
| 07SHANGHAI215 | ZHEJIANG COURT BROADCASTS TRIAL ONLINE [...] (SBU) In a move to increase transparency in its judicial system, the Zhejiang High Court carried a simulcast of the proceedings of a commercial dispute trial on its website on April 12. According to Zhejiang High Court Foreign Affairs Office Director Chen Zhongping, this was the first time a [...] | 2007-04-17 00:27:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS CH |
| 07SHANGHAI221 | DOT SECRETARY PETERS ATTENDS UPS CARGO HUB OPENING IN [...] (U) Summary. During her April 11-12 visit to Shanghai (reftel),Transportation Secretary Mary Peters attended a signing ceremony for the creation of the United Parcel Service (UPS) International Air Hub at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG),with an initial investment of USD 20 mi [...] | 2007-04-18 05:52:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ELTN ECPS ETRD OVIP CH |
| 07SHANGHAI225 | EAST CHINA CONTACTS ON CHINA'S SUPERVISION SYSTEM [...] (C) Summary. East China contacts described a multilayered but relatively ineffective supervision system that did little to end rampant corruption among Chinese officials. One contact with the Shanghai People's Congress claimed the problem was systemic and due to lack of rule of law. Another [...] | 2007-04-19 07:00:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH |
| 07SHANGHAI23 | SHANGHAI CORRUPTION SCANDAL AND LEADERSHIP GOSSIP [...] (S) Summary. Two well-connected Shanghai contacts claimed that President Hu Jintao had offered the job of Shanghai Party Secretary to several people, none of whom were willing to take SIPDIS it because of the headaches associated with the continuing Chen Liangyu investigation. The one per [...] | 2007-01-10 09:09:00 | Consulate Shanghai | SECRET | PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH |
| 07SHANGHAI247 | CFETS UPDATE ON FX AND BOND MARKET DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: China Foreign Exchange Trading System (CFETS) President Xie Duo told Embassy ECON M/C Robert Luke on April 19 that CFETS continued to carry out policies to make China's foreign exchange (FX) trading system more market-based and efficient, including: increasing the number of over [...] | 2007-04-25 06:17:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
| 07SHANGHAI26 | FRB TOLD: NO OVERHEATING AND BUSINESS GOOD [...] (SBU) Summary: A Federal Reserve Bank (FRB) delegation led by Governor Kevin Warsh met with economic analysts, U.S. business leaders, and equity market analysts during a December visit to Shanghai. Economic analysts offered the contrarian view that China's economy was not overheated, and, in t [...] | 2007-01-12 02:12:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL PGOV CH |
| 07SHANGHAI269 | DOD GENERAL COUNSEL'S RULE OF LAW MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: During DOD General Counsel William J. Haynes April 20-22 visit to Shanghai, he discussed rule of law issues with Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Institute of Law Academics, expatriate and Chinese legal experts at a Consul General-hosted dinner, and at the New York Unive [...] | 2007-05-07 08:38:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS ETRD EINV PHUM PINR CH |
| 07SHANGHAI319 | INFIGHTING AT FUDAN UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES [...] (C) Summary. During a May 21 discussion with Consul General, Fudan Center for American Studies (CAS) Director Shen Dingli in addition to sharing his views on Chinese leadership issues (reftels),spent a great deal of time discussing infighting at the Center. We share a summary of Shen's lam [...] | 2007-05-29 07:52:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CH |
| 07SHANGHAI324 | HIV/AIDS IN SHANGHAI'S GAY COMMUNITY [...] (U) Summary: While most members of the Shanghai gay community believed that they were not at great risk for becoming infected with HIV/AIDS, researchers and health specialists said HIV/AIDS was spreading faster in Eastern cities such as Shanghai than through drug usage. According to health wo [...] | 2007-05-30 09:48:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KHIV SOCI TBIO CH |
| 07SHANGHAI326 | GAY SHANGHAI: AMBIGUOUS STATUS CREATES VULNERABILITY [...] (C) Summary: According to contacts in Shanghai's gay community, sexual discrimination in Shanghai was rife, but because few Shanghainese were openly gay and lesbian in a way that countered social expectations to fulfill family duties, such as to marry and reproduce, discrimination was less di [...] | 2007-05-31 01:29:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM TBIO KCRM CH |
| 07SHANGHAI330 | CHINA'S BANKING REFORMS FAST ENOUGH FOR HSBC [...] (SBU) Summary: At a meeting with visiting Embassy Finatt on May 16, HSBC China Deputy CEO Bryan Stiles and Global Markets Managing Director David Liao said HSBC's local incorporation had gone smoothly. HSBC believed that Chinese regulators would soon allow foreign banks to offer retail RMB cu [...] | 2007-05-31 15:20:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
| 07SHANGHAI332 | A FUND MANAGER'S VIEW ON THE CHINA MARKET [...] (SBU) Summary: Lombarda China Fund Manager Ian Midgely told visiting Embassy Finatt, on May 16, that the Chinese government was attempting to rein in an overvalued stock market without an overly heavy-handed approach that would undermine the market reforms put in place to promote capital marke [...] | 2007-06-01 02:36:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
| 07SHANGHAI334 | HAITONG SECURITIES ON CHINA'S STOCK MARKET [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives from Haitong Securities Company told visiting Embassy Financial Attache (Finatt) on May 16 that competition from foreign companies would ultimately strengthen China's securities industry. Haitong has struggled to accurately value China's listed companies and mana [...] | 2007-06-01 02:37:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
| 07SHANGHAI335 | SHANGHAI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary. During a May 29 luncheon with the Consul General, Shanghai Institute For International Studies (SIIS) Vice President Yang Jiemian said China would be responsive to U.S. requests conveyed via the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) process. He predicted that China would gradually ta [...] | 2007-06-01 03:09:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON CH TW XA XK XR XD |
| 07SHANGHAI413 | EAST CHINA DISPATCHES, JULY 5, 2007 [...] (SBU) Summary: In this Dispatch, we learn that Shanghai Party Secretary Xi enjoys the opera, SOE executives have unlimited expense accounts for domestic trips, Chinese millionaires love conventions, Ferrari training for beginners is available at a price, visa applicants are getting younger and [...] | 2007-07-05 07:42:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR CVIS SOCI CH ECON |
| 07SHANGHAI457 | BIOGRAPHICAL OBSERVATIONS ON ZHAO HONGZHU [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador's July 9 call on newly-appointed Zhejiang Party Secretary Zhao Hongzhu and a subsequent July 13 dinner hosted by Zhao (see Septel) provided post with an opportunity to collect biographical information on Zhao. Zhao came across as friendly and was described by subor [...] | 2007-07-20 08:15:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR CH |
| 07SHANGHAI470 | DEMOCRATIC OR SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM--XIE TAO AND THE EAST [...] (S) Summary: An internal poll showed that average people and scholars were almost evenly divided in their support for an article written by retired scholar Xie Tao, which advocated that China adopt a democratic socialism model that included multi-party democracy. Contacts who followed this d [...] | 2007-07-27 10:00:00 | Consulate Shanghai | SECRET | PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH |
| 07SHANGHAI478 | SHANGHAI STOCK MARKET: UNCOMFORTABLY GOOD [...] (SBU) Summary: According to Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) Executive Vice President James Liu, Shanghai's stock market is "on a rocket" with 60 percent gains so far in 2007. Huge numbers of new retail investors who most likely lack an understanding of the risks inherent in the market have been [...] | 2007-07-31 03:05:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV CH |
| 07SHANGHAI504 | CITIBANK'S LOCAL INCORPORATION PROBLEMS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with Federal Deposit Insurance Chairman (FDIC) Sheila Bair on July 26, Citibank (China) Chief Executive Officer Richard Stanley opined that the China Banking Regulatory Commission was "making it up as they went along" with regard to the treatment of newly locally-i [...] | 2007-08-09 06:07:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV CH |
| 07SHANGHAI508 | BEIDAIHE ENDS WITHOUT RESOLUTION [...] (S) Summary: According to a well-connected contact who just returned from Beidaihe, the Work Conference that had been convened to sort out the Politburo name list for the 17th Party Congress has ended without resolution as different factions found it difficult to compromise on candidates. Unw [...] | 2007-08-10 13:08:00 | Consulate Shanghai | SECRET | PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH |
| 07SHANGHAI535 | CODEL HASTERT VISITS SHANGHAI [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 10- 12, Representative Dennis Hastert (R-IL),Representative John Shadegg (R-AZ) and two staff members from the House Committee on Energy & Commerce visited Shanghai to engage U.S. businesses energy, environment and business climate issues. Representatives from GE sh [...] | 2007-08-27 01:39:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG ETRD EFIN SENV PREL CH |
| 07SHANGHAI541 | SHANGHAI ASKS DOE FOR HELP CUTTING ENERGY USE [...] (SBU) Summary: A Department of Energy delegation led by PDAS John Mizroch met with municipal officials, academics, and U.S. businesses during its August 16-17 visit to Shanghai. Shanghai's inefficient energy consumption limits its economic growth and contributes to its pollution problems. Sha [...] | 2007-08-27 08:21:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV EINV EIND CH |
| 07SHANGHAI557 | SHANGHAI FINANCIAL LEADERS DISCUSS SED [...] (SBU) Summary. According to Chinese financial service company executives, the Strategic EcoQic Dialogue (SED) plays an important and positive role in advancing U.S.-Chinese relations and understanding. While foreign investments in the financial services sector, and the technology, products, a [...] | 2007-08-31 11:17:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL ECON PINR KPAO CH |
| 07SHANGHAI570 | FUDAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMICS ON TAIWAN AND NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: During an August 30 lunch discussion with Fudan Center for American Studies Director Shen Dingli and Deputy Director Xin Qiang, the academics predicted that Beijing would not take any military measures in reaction to the referendum on UN membership in Taiwan. However, anger was bu [...] | 2007-09-05 09:19:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR CH TW KN |
| 07SHANGHAI620 | NODEL LARSEN DISCUSSES FOOD SAFETY IN SHANGHAI [...] (SBU) Summary. Shanghai-based U.S. businessmen told visiting Congressmen Rick Larsen (D-WA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) that concerns about China's food and product safety were "legitimate." While China's laws and regulations were adequate, the inability of the Central Government to implement these [...] | 2007-09-19 07:14:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP ECON PREL ETRD CH |
| 07SHANGHAI622 | XXXXXXXXXXXX ON LEADERSHIP ISSUES [...] (S) Summary: According to a well-placed contact, there will not likely to be any surprises in the line-up of the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC). In part, this means that President Hu Jintao, Premier Wen Jiabao, and National People´s Congress (NPC) Chairman Wu Bangguo will all be staying and [...] | 2007-09-20 21:25:00 | Consulate Shanghai | SECRET | PGOV PINR SOCI ECON CH |
| 07SHANGHAI655 | (C) NANJING ACADEMIC'S SUGGESTIONS FOR BACKCHANNELS TO [...] (S) Summary: During a September 28 discussion, Nanjing University Professor Gu Su (strictly protect) gave his assessment of who might make good "back-door" conduits for U.S. officials to pass information to more senior leaders. Gu believes that former President Jiang Zemin's eldest son has [...] | 2007-10-05 09:47:00 | Consulate Shanghai | SECRET | PGOV PINR SOCI ETRD CH |
| 07SHANGHAI657 | SHANGHAI FUND MANAGERS ON JV'S AND COMPETITION [...] (SBU) Summary: Joint venture securities firms in China only succeed when the foreign partner has explicit management control and can avoid cultural and managerial conflicts, according to managers at two such joint ventures. Chinese security firms, fearing their inability to compete, have aske [...] | 2007-10-09 02:20:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ELAB PGOV CH |
| 07SHANGHAI663 | (C) HU GAINING TRACTION IN MILITARY WITH RECENT [...] (S) Summary: During a September 28 discussion, Nanjing University Professor Gu Su (strictly protect) said that President Hu Jintao was actively promoting officers coming out of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Nanjing Military Region (MR) as part of his overall strategy to gain control of th [...] | 2007-10-10 09:34:00 | Consulate Shanghai | SECRET | PGOV PINR SOCI ECON MARR CH TW |
| 07SHANGHAI679 | SHANGHAI STOCK EXCHANGE UP 300 PERCENT IN TWO YEARS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index topped 6,000 points on October 15 bringing gains over the past two years up to 300 percent. This growth is "good" according to a Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) official and the government should not attempt to set limits on where the in [...] | 2007-10-22 12:13:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV PGOV CH |
| 07SHANGHAI759 | SFRC STAFFER JANUZZI READ-OUT OF NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: Chinese, South Korean and United States academics and officials agreed that North Korea (DPRK) has not yet decided if it will give up its nuclear weapons according to a read-out provided by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Professional Staff Member Frank Januzzi on a November 27 [...] | 2007-11-28 06:00:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC KNNP KS KN CH |
| 07SHANGHAI777 | FRB GOVERNOR WARSH TOLD RMB APPRECIATION GRADUAL, NO STOCK [...] (SBU) Summary: According to the Shanghai branch of the People's Bank of China (PBOC),RMB appreciation will continue at a gradual pace without any dramatic revaluations in the near future. Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh, in Shanghai November 18-20, was also told that the PBOC is closely [...] | 2007-12-07 08:31:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV PGOV CH |
| 07SHANGHAI790 | CHINA-RUSSIA RELATIONS: VIEWS FROM SHANGHAI ACADEMICS [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings in early December on China-Russia relations, Shanghai's leading academic experts on Russia characterized the bilateral relationship as "very good." They noted the excellent personal relationship between the two countries' leaders, which, they claim, ensures [...] | 2007-12-13 08:44:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ENRG PARM MCAP CH RS |
| 07SHANGHAI83 | NYSE SAYS REP OFFICES NOT LIKELY SOON [...] (C) Summary: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Executive Director for Asia Pacific Yeeli Zheng updated Econoff on NYSE's efforts to open a representational office on February 8. China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) Chairman Shang Fulin appeared resistant to timely progress on this issue [...] | 2007-02-08 03:58:00 | Consulate Shanghai | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EINV PREL CH |
| 07SKOPJE416 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR POTUS LUNCH WITH A-3 [...] (C) Now in his ninth month in office, Prime Minister Gruevski will arrive in Tirana hoping for an encouraging message on NATO membership and looking for U.S. recognition of Macedonia's GWOT efforts and its constructive stance on Kosovo. It would be useful for him to hear a strong message on t [...] | 2007-05-25 15:33:00 | Embassy Skopje | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MK |
| 07SKOPJE748 | MACEDONIA: INPUT FOR PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) USG efforts in Macedonia to protect and promote human rights focus on strengthening rule of law, decreasing political influence on and corruption in the security forces and judiciary, and capacity building to strengthen democratic institutions and civil society. 2. (U) Embassy officials [...] | 2007-09-13 14:05:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL MK |
| 07SOFIA125 | BULGARIA: PRESIDENT PARVANOV IN STRONG POSITION AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Parvanov, Bulgaria's first post-communist president to win re-election, begins his second term in office as the dominant actor on the Bulgarian political stage, despite his relatively limited constitutional powers. His behind-the-scenes influence over the current govern [...] | 2007-01-26 14:55:00 | Embassy Sofia | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL IZ BU |
| 07STATE151024 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: ADVANCING THE DEMOCRACY AGENDA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 3-18. The CD Ministerial in Bamako, November 14-17, will have five thematic and five regional roundtables. We ask that Posts inquire as to the priorities of host government for the ministerial and each roundtable, and share the U.S. prio [...] | 2007-10-31 17:48:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA |
| 07STATE153704 | KUDOS FOR JAPANESE EMBASSY AND CONSULATE REPORTING [...] (U) We in Washington would like to take this opportunity to thank reporting officers in the Embassy and consulates for the hard work that you put into keeping us informed of important developments in Japan. From your daily press reports to your front channel cables, from periodic e-mails to J [...] | 2007-11-07 20:00:00 | Secretary of State | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EINV MOPS PGOV PREL JA |
| 07TAIPEI124 | DAUSTR STRATFORD DISCUSSES TIFA & FTA WITH TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan reiterated its strong desire to enter into an FTA with the U.S. Senior economic officials indicated they are prepared to work diligently on the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) agenda, including the bilateral investment and tax agreements, the Consultative [...] | 2007-01-17 09:38:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ECON PREL TW |
| 07TAIPEI1999 | U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Summary: Vice Premier Chiou I-jen told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission delegation that the cross-Strait military balance is increasingly favoring China. President Chen understands that U.S.-Taiwan military cooperation is essential to Taiwan's defense, Chiou added [...] | 2007-08-31 04:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL CH TW |
| 07TAIPEI2178 | FOLLOWING DPP INDICTMENTS, A POLICY STRUGGLE PLAYS [...] (C) Summary: On September 21, Vice President Annette Lu, DPP Chairman Yu Shyi-kun, and NSC Secretary General Mark Chen were indicted for corruption for embezzling special allowances made available to senior officials. DPP presidential and vice presidential candidates Frank Hsieh and Su Tseng [...] | 2007-09-24 11:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV TW |
| 07TAIPEI2382 | USTR/USDA BEEF DELEGATION PRESSES TAIWAN ON BEEF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During October 17-19 meetings with a range of senior Taiwan officials and industry representatives, a USTR/USDA beef trade delegation led by USTR Special Envoy Ambassador Richard Crowder stressed the importance of rapid Taiwan action in following the science-based guidelines of [...] | 2007-10-23 08:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ECON PGOV PREL TW |
| 07TAIPEI2627 | DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH DEFENSE MINISTER LEE [...] (S/NF) American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Director Stephen Young met with Minister of Defense Lee Tien-yu December 19th to discuss PRC's proposed air route in the Taiwan Strait and Taiwan's defense budget. Also present at the meeting were Col Tony Chow (LAS),and Tony Hu (TECH). Taiwan atten [...] | 2007-12-19 11:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | SECRET | PGOV TW MASS |
| 07TALLINN752 | SCENESETTER FOR ESTONIAN PM ANSIP'S NOVEMBER 27-29 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Andrus Ansip's November 27- 29 visit to Washington, his first as PM, comes on the eve of the Estonian Parliament's vote to renew Estonia's participation in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Ansip supports Estonia's military engagements abroad, but relies on USG recognitio [...] | 2007-11-21 14:36:00 | Embassy Tallinn | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG NATO ECON CVIS EN |
| 07TEGUCIGALPA134 | HONDURAN GOVERNMENT DIALOGUE WITH OIL INDUSTRY [...] (C/NF) Summary: The January 18 talks in Salvador between oil industry representatives and a GOH delegation led by Minister Counselor for Legal Affairs Enrique Flores Lanza reportedly made significant progress. The GOH put two alternatives on the table and the affected oil companies have unde [...] | 2007-01-23 01:02:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG PREL BBSR NI VE HO |
| 07TEGUCIGALPA151 | HONDURAS: CONOCO PAUSING TO AWAIT CLARITY ON OIL [...] (C/NF) On January 22, a representative of U.S. firm ConocoPhillips told EconChief by phone that the company remains optimistic about signing a contract with Honduras for the delivery of all gasoline and diesel imports for the coming year. Conoco said that its position remains the same as it w [...] | 2007-01-24 16:18:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG PREL BBSR NI VE HO |
| 07TEGUCIGALPA493 | HONDURAN FUEL IMPORTS: USG EFFORTS STAVE OFF [...] (C/NF) In a hemisphere disillusioned with market economics, the USG has successfully held the line in Honduras. Thanks to two face-to-face meetings between POTUS and Honduran President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya Rosales and numerous public and private interventions by the Ambassador and his sta [...] | 2007-03-21 14:34:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EPET ENRG PREL BBSR NI VE HO |
| 07TEGUCIGALPA77 | HONDURAS EXPROPRIATES U.S. OIL COMPANIES' STORAGE [...] (S/NF) Summary: On January 13, the GOH announced in a surprise decision that it would be compelling use of privately-owned oil import and storage facilities in Honduras. It remains unclear which facilities are affected, but at a minimum Honduran firm DIPPSA and U.S. firm Esso are subject to [...] | 2007-01-14 20:00:00 | Embassy Tegucigalpa | SECRET//NOFORN | EPET EINV ENRG PREL BBSR NI VE HO |
| 07TELAVIV1019 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran-Britain Crisis ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that on Wednesday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that his government would release the 15 detained British sailors and marines as a gift t [...] | 2007-04-05 08:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1029 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran: Detention and Release of UK Sailors ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot and Israel Radio reported that around two weeks ago IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit's captors passed on to him a pair of glasses sent by his father. The r [...] | 2007-04-06 10:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1038 | ISRAEL BUILDING SUPER HIGH-VOLTAGE ELECTRICITY [...] (C//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, AND GBR) SUMMARY: ACCORDING TO DAN WEINSTOCK, DIRECTOR OF THE ELECTRICITY AUTHORITY AT THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE, PAYMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF A 161-KILOVOLT (KV) POWER LINE FROM THE ISRAELI CITY OF NETIVOT TO NORTHERN GAZA IS ONE-THIRD COMPLETE. HOWEVER [...] | 2007-04-06 14:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL PGOV KWBG IS |
| 07TELAVIV1048 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Over the weekend the media reported on slight progress in negotiations toward the release of IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit. On Sunday leading media reported that Hamas demands the liberation of 1, [...] | 2007-04-10 10:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1062 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-11 09:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1075 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-12 09:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1088 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot reported that, during their meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, PM Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas will discuss the "diplomatic horizon." Yediot reported that Olme [...] | 2007-04-13 11:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1094 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-16 10:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1104 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Visit of US Secretary of Defense in Israel ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that the U.S. administration will present in the following weeks to the Israelis and the Palestinians a list with benchmarks aimed to p [...] | 2007-04-17 09:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1119 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-18 09:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1143 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Secretary Gates to Israel, April 18-19, 2007 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz and The Jerusalem Post prominently covered the visit of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to Israel. Yediot and Maariv did not report on th [...] | 2007-04-19 08:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1163 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that Defense Secretary Robert Gates ended his short visit to Israel on Thursday with a meeting with PM Olmert and FM Tzipi Livni. Ha'aretz said that the [...] | 2007-04-20 09:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1201 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Israel's 59th Independence Day 2. Mideast 3. Sudan: Darfur ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Over the weekend all media prominently and extensively covered, and commented on, events related to Israel's Memorial Day and Independence Da [...] | 2007-04-23 11:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1218 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Similar to other media, Ha'aretz quoted senior IDF officers as saying that on Tuesday the IDF foiled a Hamas attempt to kidnap a soldier on the Gaza border. Apparently as pa [...] | 2007-04-26 05:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1223 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] PM Olmert's Performance 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that, in a high-level defense consultation on Wednesday, PM Ehud Olmert decided that Israel will avoid a broad military response to the Hamas rocket bar [...] | 2007-04-26 08:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1246 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. PM Olmert's Performance ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that the US administration has presented Israel and the PA with benchmarks by which the sides will be required to abide, in accordance with [...] | 2007-04-27 09:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1263 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Winograd Probe Into 2nd Lebanon War 2. Mideast 3. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Over the weekend Channel 10-TV unofficially disclosed the basic points of the interim report of the Winograd Commission probing the Second Lebano [...] | 2007-04-30 09:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1283 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-01 10:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1293 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 09:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1299 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-03 10:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1324 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-04 10:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1335 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] PM Olmert's Performance 2. Mideast 3. France: Presidential Election ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported on a Qassam rocket attack on Sunday afternoon that wounded two people at a gas station near Sderot. The media c [...] | 2007-05-07 10:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1348 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. PM Olmert's Performance ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot, Israel Radio, and other leading media quoted State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack as saying in his daily briefing on Monday that he would not ex [...] | 2007-05-08 11:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1358 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-09 09:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1365 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-10 09:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1384 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-11 12:04:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1401 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot reported on Sunday that Minister Amir Peretz has instructed the officialin charge of security for the ministry, Yehiel Horev, to begin an official investigation on whether an official [...] | 2007-05-14 11:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1425 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-15 12:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1438 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the shelling of Sderot with Qassam rockets and the internecine fighting in the Gaza Strip. The media reported that more than 20 Qassam rockets fell on Sderot on Tuesda [...] | 2007-05-16 11:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1476 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-17 12:35:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1492 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Muslims in US Society ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media continued to highlight Qassam rocket attacks on the western Negev and related developments, mainly a limited Israeli military response to the rocket [...] | 2007-05-18 10:04:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1514 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that last night the Israel Air Force bombed the house of Hamas parliamentarian Khalil al-Haya in Gaza. He was slightly injured in the attack, but eight others including [...] | 2007-05-21 10:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1524 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Jonathan Pollard Affair ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that last night the attacks on Sderot claimed the life of one woman, whose vehicle was struck by a rocket. Two other Sderot residents were wounded in [...] | 2007-05-22 10:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1540 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-24 10:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1549 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Syrian Option ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz cited both Israeli and American officials as saying that neither Jerusalem nor Washington has changed its views on talks with Syria. This reaction came in response to recent [...] | 2007-05-25 10:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1569 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Syria 3. US and Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that former prime minister Ehud Barak won Monday's first round of the Labor Party primaries. Barak finished with 35.6 percent of the votes to Ayalon's 3 [...] | 2007-05-29 12:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1572 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] "Nothing to Worry About" Senior diplomatic correspondent Shimon Shiffer wrote in the mass-circulation, pluralist Yediot Aharonot (05/30): "The combative sounds being made by the Labor Party candidates should not cause undue excitement.... Whether Barak is elected or Ayalon -- either of them [...] | 2007-05-30 10:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1579 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] "The Great Fiasco" Eytan Haber, veteran op-ed writer and assistant to the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, opined in an editorial of the mass-circulation, pluralist Yediot Aharonot (05/31): "Policy makers and decision takers in Washington are frightened ... They have no answer to what is h [...] | 2007-05-31 10:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1587 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that Israel is waiting for Hamas to forward it another list of Palestinian prisoners whom it proposes to exchange for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. The paper noted tha [...] | 2007-06-01 10:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1604 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast: ----------- Summary: -------- Senior commentator Nahum Barnea wrote in the popular, pluralist Yediot: "The current government has three negotiation tracks that require discussion.... Each track involves great risks, but refraining from making a choice is no less dangerous. Whoe [...] | 2007-06-04 10:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1624 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] 40th Anniversary of the Six-Day War 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Palestinian sources as saying that PM Ehud Olmert will meet on Thursday in Jericho with PA Chairman (President) Mahmoud Abbas. Israel Rad [...] | 2007-06-05 11:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1644 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. G-8 Summit, June 6-8 ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the possibility that a military confrontation with Syria might break out this summer. The media reported that this morning the security cabinet will hold [...] | 2007-06-06 10:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1661 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that Israeli officials are concerned about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice possibly influencing the speech SIPDIS President Bush is slated to deliver on the Mid [...] | 2007-06-07 11:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1679 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Syria 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------- Yediot headlined that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert talked to US President George Bush six weeks ago and received from him the ok to go ahead and open negotiations with Syria. According to the [...] | 2007-06-08 11:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1688 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-11 10:04:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1699 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Israel Labor Party Primaries 2. Mideast 2. Democracy ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz cited the belief of unnamed officials that President Bush will make new suggestions for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement in a speech slate [...] | 2007-06-12 10:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1727 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-13 10:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1741 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-14 09:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1757 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Hamas Takeover of Gaza Strip 2. Election of Shimon Peres as President of Israel ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that on Thursday Hamas completed its takeover of the Gaza Strip. Maariv bannered: "Three States for Two Na [...] | 2007-06-15 10:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1758 | SETTLEMENTS BACK ON GOI AGENDA? [...] (C) Summary: On June 12, MK Otniel Schneller briefed the Ambassador on his plan to separate the Israeli and Palestinian populations in the West Bank until the political climate warranted final status negotiations. Schneller's plan envisions creating an interim Palestinian state on 65 perce [...] | 2007-06-15 10:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KWBG IS |
| 07TELAVIV1783 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Among the main stories over the weekend were the formation by PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas of an emergency cabinet headed by Salam Fayyad, in defiance of Hamas; the [...] | 2007-06-18 09:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1842 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Israel: Governance ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that on Monday the US and EU lifted the embargo on the PA. The media quoted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as saying: "We intend to lift [...] | 2007-06-19 12:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1857 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] PM Olmert's Visit to US 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on Tuesday's meeting at the White House between PM Ehud Olmert and President Bush. The media quoted the two leaders as saying publicly that they would [...] | 2007-06-20 09:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1901 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-21 10:56:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1912 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media (banner in Yediot) quoted PM Ehud Olmert as saying at a fundraising event in Haifa on Thursday that his meeting with PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday will create a "new be [...] | 2007-06-22 11:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1918 | ISRAEL WEIGHING ALTERNATIVE RESPONSES TO HAMAS [...] (S) Summary. PM Olmert on June 24 will chair the first cabinet discussion of how to respond to the new situation in the Palestinian territories since Olmert's visit to Washington. Senior policy advisers in the MFA, NSC, and MOD have described for us the sub-cabinet discussion of options thi [...] | 2007-06-22 14:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER EAID KWBG IS |
| 07TELAVIV1930 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-25 13:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1957 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that in a conciliatory address to the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh PM Ehud Olmert declared in a surprise gesture that he intends to ask the cabinet to approve the release of [...] | 2007-06-26 12:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1972 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that on Tuesday two Qassam rockets were launched at Sderot. This morning leading electronic media reported on IDF operations in the southern Gaza StripQIs [...] | 2007-06-27 10:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV1996 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media, except the ultra-Orthodox newspapers, led with news on the plea bargain agreement for President Moshe Katsav. As a result Katsav resigned this morning. The media reported that [...] | 2007-06-29 09:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2022 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Global War on Terror: UK Terror Attempts ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that difficulty in finding 250 Fatah prisoners, who have been in jail for a long time but do not have "blood on their hands," [...] | 2007-07-02 09:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2050 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-03 10:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2063 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-05 11:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2081 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-06 10:17:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2090 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-09 10:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2109 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-10 10:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2124 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Pakistan 3. Iraq 4. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz and The Jerusalem Post reported that the Arab League delegation composed of Egyptian FM Ahmed Ali Abu al-Gheit and Jordanian FM Abdelel [...] | 2007-07-11 09:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2135 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-12 09:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2144 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that the visit of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, which was scheduled for next week, has been canceled. Media quoted President Bush as saying during a press co [...] | 2007-07-13 10:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2163 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Swearing-In of Shimon Peres as President of Israel ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that today President Bush will give a special address on the Middle East, which is expected to focus on the Israeli-Palestin [...] | 2007-07-16 10:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2173 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-17 10:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2177 | GENERALLY POSITIVE ISRAELI REACTION TO THE [...] (C) Summary. Public commentary in Israel on the President's July 16 speech has headlined the GOI's satisfaction, including a leak from PM Olmert's office that the idea for a regional meeting originated with Olmert. Meanwhile, mainstream commentators continued to express doubts about President [...] | 2007-07-17 15:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL XF IS |
| 07TELAVIV2183 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed President Bush's announcement of a Middle East conference in the fall. Saying that the White House lowered expectations [...] | 2007-07-18 11:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2210 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-19 10:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2221 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media continued to report on the release of 255 Palestinian prisoners this morning. The released prisoners signed a pledge not to return to terrorism and they will be welc [...] | 2007-07-20 10:10:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2233 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Turkish Elections: AKP Victory ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The media reported that former British PM Tony Blair, the Quartet's special envoy to the Middle East peace process, is scheduled to arrive in the country today for [...] | 2007-07-23 12:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2250 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Tony Blairs' Mission 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted the Quartet's Special Envoy, Tony Blair, as saying after his meeting with President Shimon Peres that: "I think there is a sense of possibility, but whethe [...] | 2007-07-24 13:45:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2258 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Tony Blairs' Mission 2. Syria ------------------------- Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made a new offer to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: both parties would negotiate an "agreement of principles" fo [...] | 2007-07-25 10:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2272 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-26 10:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2289 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 07:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2338 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] US-Saudi Arms Deal 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------- The media reported on Sunday that the U.S. is prepared to increase military aid to Israel to ease concerns over a proposed American weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. The media cite [...] | 2007-07-30 10:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2345 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-31 09:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2357 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-01 08:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2367 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-02 05:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2391 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-03 10:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2398 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-06 09:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2409 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-07 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2417 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US Defense Aid ------------------------- Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------- The Bush administration will not be able to increase military aid to Israel next year by USD 0.5 billion due to expenditures on the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel had already p [...] | 2007-08-09 04:38:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2422 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 12:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2435 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-10 11:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2454 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post cited official Israeli assessments according to which Syria does not believe PM Ehud Olmert's public statements of reassurance that Israel has no intention of attacking S [...] | 2007-08-13 10:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV246 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported and all major media, except Maariv and The Jerusalem Post, bannered last night's joint statement by PM Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister announcing their decision to appoi [...] | 2007-01-23 11:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2465 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot and The Jerusalem Post reported that on Monday in Washington Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik met with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Yediot reported that Itzik thanked the Secreta [...] | 2007-08-14 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2483 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Pakistan ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All major media reported that Binyamin Netanyahu won the Likud primary with 73.2 percent of the vote. Far-Right activist Moshe Feiglin garnered 23.4 percent, and World Likud Chairman D [...] | 2007-08-15 10:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2491 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Israeli electronic media reported that a memorandum of understanding was signed this morning in Jerusalem between Israel and the US on the new American defense package for Israel. Unde [...] | 2007-08-16 11:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2504 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] US Aid to Israel 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz quoted Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns as saying on Thursday that the new USD 30-billion defense package for Israel is not conditioned on [...] | 2007-08-17 09:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2513 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast: ------------ Summary: -------- Columnist and former IDF Intelligence chief Shlomo Gazit wrote in the popular, pluralist Maariv: "Israel's steps [vis-a-vis Syria] are determined more than anything by domestic politics, and in particular by the Prime Minister's attempt to portray [...] | 2007-08-20 10:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2539 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Muslims in European Society ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that a week ago President Shimon Peres met in his office with Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad and that he is willing to meet with PA Chairman [Presi [...] | 2007-08-21 09:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2543 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-22 10:00:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2558 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-23 10:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2579 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-24 11:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2592 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-27 09:56:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2601 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-28 10:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2620 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Turkey ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on the meeting between PM Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas. The Jerusalem Post reported that on Tuesday officials from both sides ad [...] | 2007-08-29 11:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2636 | ISRAELI NGO SUES TERRORISTS, TIES UP PA MONEY [...] (S) SUMMARY: The Government of Israel (GOI) recently reached an agreement with the Palestinian Authority (PA) to release portions of withheld Palestinian customs revenue (ref A),but a substantial portion of these funds remains frozen by court order. Israeli courts are in the process of deci [...] | 2007-08-30 07:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | SECRET | EFIN EAID PTER KWBG IS IR |
| 07TELAVIV2642 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Turkey ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that three Palestinian children from one family were killed in a strike against rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip. The media quoted the IDF [...] | 2007-08-31 03:39:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2650 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-31 10:52:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2662 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-04 10:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV267 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Israel: Governance 2. Syria ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major electronic media cited the State of the Union Address that President Bush delivered on Tuesday. The media reported that the President dedicated roughly half of his speech [...] | 2007-01-24 11:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2678 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz cited the belief of GOI sources that most Security Cabinet members will support increasing financial pressure on the Gaza Strip during the cabinet's meeting in Jerus [...] | 2007-09-05 09:57:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2692 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-06 10:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2702 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media quoted Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal as saying on Thursday afternoon that Syria is weighing its response to an alleged violation of its airspace early on Thursday. Maa [...] | 2007-09-07 10:09:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2722 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast: ------------ Summary: -------- Military correspondent Amos Harel wrote on page one of the independent, left-leaning Ha'aretz: "It is safe to assume that Assad will make some sort of move to keep Israel on the edge of its seat over the [upcoming Jewish] holidays." Senior colu [...] | 2007-09-10 10:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2737 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-11 10:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2756 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media cited a report by Christiane Amanpour of CNN based on American and Middle Eastern sources that Israel's action in Syria last week was directed at an Iranian shipment [...] | 2007-09-12 10:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2779 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. France-US Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media quoted PM Ehud Olmert as saying on Monday, in a briefing for Russian-language media outlets in Israel: "I have a lot of respect for the Syrian leader and for Sy [...] | 2007-09-18 09:56:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2780 | EMBASSY RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INPUT ON [...] (U) Israel is a well-established democracy with a large number of influential NGOs and human rights activists. Human rights are guaranteed in a series of "Basic Laws," which function as a constitution. The government's treatment of NGOs is consistent with the 2006 Guiding Principles on NGOs. [...] | 2007-09-18 10:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV IL |
| 07TELAVIV2806 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-20 06:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2815 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that on Thursday PM Ehud Olmert told a gathering of Kadima that "there is a partner for dialogue in the PA." Media quoted Olmert as saying that he wil [...] | 2007-09-21 10:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2829 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as saying on Sunday that Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia will be invited to the Washington meeting on the Middle East, which will ad [...] | 2007-09-24 14:45:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV283 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] State of the Union Address 2. Mideast 3. Israel: Governance ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post highlighted a part of President Bush's State of the Union Address: "We could expect an epic battle between Shi'a extremis [...] | 2007-01-25 10:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2842 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] President Ahmadinejad at Columbia University 2. Mideast 3. Libya ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading electronic media quoted President Bush as saying on Monday at a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in N [...] | 2007-09-25 10:20:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2853 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-26 10:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2870 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that FM Tzipi Livni may meet PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas in New York. The radio reported that in her speech to the UN General Assembly, Livni is expected to [...] | 2007-09-28 10:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2880 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-01 10:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2890 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-02 10:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2896 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Myanmar ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit the region in mid-October to work on the agenda for the Annapolis meeting. Maariv reported that during a meet [...] | 2007-10-03 11:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2908 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast: ------------ Summary: -------- The independent, left-leaning Ha'aretz editorialized: "The changes in the region and the Palestinian leadership's weakness make it even more difficult to reach a viable agreement. It is clear that the Annapolis meeting will require much more crea [...] | 2007-10-05 12:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2918 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-09 13:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2933 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 10:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2947 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-12 13:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2948 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Turkey ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Leading media reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will come to the region early next week. Israel Radio reported that a three-way meeting will be held between her, PM Ehud [...] | 2007-10-12 13:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV297 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast 3. Israel: Governance ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that during a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday, FM Tzipi Livni warned PA Chairman [President] Mahmou [...] | 2007-01-26 10:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2973 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-15 09:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2986 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-16 06:06:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV2994 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-17 06:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3014 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-18 07:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3030 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that President Bush is sending National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley to the Middle East next week and that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will return soo [...] | 2007-10-19 10:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3051 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The top story over the weekend was the alleged assassination plot against PM Olmert in June. Reportedly, the plot which was broken up by Shin Bet and PA security services, involved five [...] | 2007-10-22 10:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3067 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Global War on Terror ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on PM Ehud Olmert's meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace on Monday. The Jerusalem Post banners: "PM Feels Fres [...] | 2007-10-23 10:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3077 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Rabin Assassination Anniversary 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that on Tuesday a Palestinian was killed in an air force attack on a vehicle in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. The newspa [...] | 2007-10-24 15:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3087 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted a State Department spokesperson as saying on Wednesday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will come to Israel and the PA in early November. Major media quoted Sec [...] | 2007-10-25 10:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV309 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-29 11:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3109 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast 3. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that on Thursday Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved economic sanctions on the Gaza Strip in response to continued Qassam rocket attacks. Thi [...] | 2007-10-26 10:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3120 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 10:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3145 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 10:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3164 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 10:30:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3181 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Turkey ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post quoted senior diplomatic officials as saying on Wednesday that it now seems unlikely that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will bring invitations to the Annapolis me [...] | 2007-11-01 10:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3187 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-02 13:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3207 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 06:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3222 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 11:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3227 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media quoted PM Ehud Olmert as saying on Tuesday that the Annapolis meeting will take place during the last week of November. (Ha'aretz quoted chief PA negotiator Qurei as saying that [...] | 2007-11-07 11:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV324 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the suicide bombing that took place in a neighborhood bakery in Eilat on Monday morning -- the first such incident in the city. Media reported that one of the victims, [...] | 2007-01-30 10:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3244 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast 3. Global Democracy ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that on Wednesday Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, who is in charge of the strategic dialogue with the US, met with Secretary of State Con [...] | 2007-11-08 11:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3257 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel expects the US to formally confirm the Annapolis meeting on Friday for the last week of November. Major media suggested that President Bush would ho [...] | 2007-11-09 10:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3268 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast: ------------ Summary: -------- Columnist Amos Gilboa, former head of Research Division at IDF Intelligence, wrote in the popular, pluralist Maariv: "The Annapolis conference should be a test, a litmus paper, for the Palestinians and the Arab states: Are they willing to support [...] | 2007-11-13 12:28:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3271 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio mentioned that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice spoke to the United Jewish Communities (UJC) General Assembly in Nashville and quoted her as saying that "Now the opportunity [...] | 2007-11-14 11:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3281 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz and The Jerusalem Post led with Israeli demands to the Palestinian Authority that Israel be recognized as a Jewish state. The Jerusalem Post reported that opposition from Palestini [...] | 2007-11-15 11:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3286 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 11:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3295 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 11:12:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3314 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-20 11:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3323 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-21 10:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3341 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-26 12:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3367 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 12:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3376 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 11:35:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3378 | MOF SOLIDIFIES ITS NEW TEAM [...] (C) After a very difficult year that saw corruption allegations and high-level resignations due to scandal, the Israeli Ministry of Finance (MOF) is reorganizing itself, bringing in people with previous experience in the ministry to take over senior positions. This attempt to reassert itself a [...] | 2007-11-28 12:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV IS |
| 07TELAVIV3398 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 12:03:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV340 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that according to security sources Prime Minster Ehud Olmert has approved a change of route in the separation barrier east of the Green Line in the area of Modi'in Ilit. Th [...] | 2007-01-31 10:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3411 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-30 11:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3429 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Russian Parliamentary Elections ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media (banners in Ha'aretz and the Jerusalem Post) reported that on Sunday Labor Party Chairman and Defense Minister Ehud Barak proposed at the weekly cabin [...] | 2007-12-03 13:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3441 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The release of the U.S. National Intelligence Assessment on Iran received top billing in major media. The Jerusalem Post headlined "US: Iran Stopped Its Nuclear Arms Program 4 Years Ago". [...] | 2007-12-04 11:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3454 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-05 11:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3461 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] NIE Report on Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz (Hebrew Ed.) led with a comment made on Wednesday to the press by IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei that the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report "vindic [...] | 2007-12-06 11:40:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3475 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Egypt ------------------------- Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------- PLEASE NOTE: Only block quotes, December 7, 2007 -------- Â [...] | 2007-12-07 09:11:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3491 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post quoted senior diplomatic officials in Jerusalem as saying that the Israeli and Palestinian negotiators who will meet in Jerusalem on Wednesday to kick off final-status ne [...] | 2007-12-11 11:35:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3500 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 11:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3507 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-13 11:16:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3520 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv reported that President Bush is expected to accept an invitation by Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik to visit Israel during the state's 60th anniversary celebrations. The newspaper repor [...] | 2007-12-14 11:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3536 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Mideast ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv quoted the Israeli defense establishment as saying that Mossad Director Meir Dagan is not capable of convincing the Americans about the seriousness of the Iranian nuclear threat. On [...] | 2007-12-17 11:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3548 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Paris Donor's Conference 2. Gaza ------------------------- Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------- All media reported that eleven Palestinians were killed since Monday night in four aerial strikes of IAF among them nine Islamic Jihad activists. One of the dead is a senior [...] | 2007-12-18 11:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3566 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] President Bush's Doctrine 2. Gaza ------------------------- Key Stories in the Media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that U.S. general (ret.) James Jones said in his meetings on Tuesday with Israeli ministers that he will not serve as a "judge" and arbitrator of road map [...] | 2007-12-19 11:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3582 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-20 10:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3606 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------ Â [...] | 2007-12-27 05:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3612 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported on the outcome of Defense Minister Ehud Barak's visit to Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday. Media reported that Barak and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak se [...] | 2007-12-27 11:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3630 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Assassination of Benazir Bhutto ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media led with the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader and former PM Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi on Thursday. Ha'aretz headlined: "Grave Crisis in [...] | 2007-12-28 11:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV3639 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-31 11:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV365 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Missile Defenses ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post and Israel Radio reported that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, German FM Frank-Walter Steinmeier SIPDIS (representing the EU),Russian FM Sergey Lavrov, [...] | 2007-02-02 10:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV378 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Over the weekend all media reported that the Quartet decided on Friday to maintain the boycott of the Hamas government until it renounces terrorism and recognizes Israel and [...] | 2007-02-05 11:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV387 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Lebanon ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Yediot reported that PM Ehud Olmert, PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet on February 19. Maariv (Ben Caspit) reported [...] | 2007-02-06 11:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV409 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-07 10:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV433 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that today Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter will meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to discuss the three-way Rice-Olmert-Abbas meeting later this mont [...] | 2007-02-08 10:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV450 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-09 10:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV461 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Last night Israel TV confirmed that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will hold a three-way meeting with Olmert and PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas on February 19 as planned. Over [...] | 2007-02-12 10:36:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV471 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 11:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV481 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations 2. North Korea ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz (English Ed.) quoted senior GOI sources as saying that Israel has decided to reassess its relations with the PA and its Chairman [President], Mah [...] | 2007-02-14 10:32:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV496 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted PM Ehud Olmert as saying in Ankara today that he is prepared to talk with the Palestinians if they agree to Israel's terms. Leading media reported that, during his curr [...] | 2007-02-15 10:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV509 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will arrive in Israel on Saturday and meet with FM Tzipi Livni. The station said that on Sunday Rice will hold separate meeti [...] | 2007-02-16 10:24:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV510 | NEW MOF DG ARIAV REMAINS COMMITTED TO FISCAL [...] (C) Director General of the Ministry of Finance Yarom Ariav told the Ambassador that he is interested in pushing forward with reforms to Israel's energy, education and land administrations during his tenure. Ariav said that the aim of Hirchson's tax reform plan is to increase participation in [...] | 2007-02-16 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EAIR KWBG IS |
| 07TELAVIV523 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-20 10:34:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV549 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-21 10:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV564 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-22 09:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV591 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that on Thursday Israeli officials in Washington urged "crisper" and "faster" moves to sanction Iran after a UN report found that the Islamic Republic had expand [...] | 2007-02-23 10:27:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV600 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. US-Israel Relations 3. Israel-Europe Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio cited the Saudi newspaper Okaz as saying that preparations for a trilateral meeting between President Bush, PM Ehud Olmert, and P [...] | 2007-02-26 11:35:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV615 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post quoted sources in Washington as saying that Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns is slated to SIPDIS head the American side negotiating Israel [...] | 2007-02-27 09:42:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV636 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Taiwan ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that tonight Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik will meet with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and later with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The radio reported that Itzik [...] | 2007-02-28 09:54:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV660 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iran 2. Proposed Baghdad Conference ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz quoted a senior political source in Jerusalem as saying on Wednesday that Olmert and PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas will meet in two weeks, their third m [...] | 2007-03-01 10:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV678 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Iraq 2. Syria 2. Iran ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio quoted a State Department official in Washington as saying that no one in the US administration, including President Bush, can point out a date for the establishment [...] | 2007-03-02 10:26:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV697 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast: ------------ Summary: -------- The independent, left-leaning Ha'aretz editorialized: "It is the duty of the government of Israel not to reject the hand that is being offered by Saudi Arabia." Zalman Shoval, senior Likud member and former ambassador to the US, wrote in the ma [...] | 2007-03-05 10:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV704 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. North Korea ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Maariv reported that PM Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman [President] Mahmoud Abbas will meet next week, probably at Olmert's official residence in Jerusalem. The newspaper r [...] | 2007-03-06 09:28:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV715 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-07 10:14:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV728 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran 3. Proposed Baghdad Conference ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post reported that an agreement has been reached with Hamas over the number of prisoners Israel will release in return for Cpl. Gilad Shali [...] | 2007-03-08 10:25:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV751 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Upcoming Baghdad Conference ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that PM Ehud Olmert and FM Tzipi Livni agreed before Livni's departure for Canada and the US on Saturday that Israel will not renounce the princ [...] | 2007-03-09 10:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV757 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-13 05:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV764 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] PM Olmert's Performance 2. Saudi Initiative 3. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that the Winograd Commission investigating last summer's Lebanon war announced on Tuesday that it will publish interim report in [...] | 2007-03-14 09:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV767 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-14 09:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV808 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] PM Olmert's Performance 2. Mideast 3. US-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio and the leading Internet news site Ynet quoted US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as saying Thursday before the SIPDIS A [...] | 2007-03-15 09:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV824 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Ha'aretz reported that on Wednesday FM Livni discussed with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ways to respond to the formation SIPDIS of a Palestinian unity government and that Arab pa [...] | 2007-03-16 09:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV83 | 2007 BUDGET PASSES EASILY AMID GROWING SCANDALS AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE 2007 BUDGET, TOTALING NIS 283 BILLION (USD 67 BILLION),BREEZED THROUGH THE KNESSET ON JANUARY 4, AFTER THE PARTIES IN THE GOVERNING COALITION DROPPED THEIR DEMANDS FOR ADDITIONAL SPENDING. THE BUDGET MAINTAINS THE GOI POLICY OF FISCAL RESTRAINT, EVEN WITH THE LARGER THAN EX [...] | 2007-01-09 13:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EFIN PGOV IS |
| 07TELAVIV844 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-19 11:29:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV860 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-20 11:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV871 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Israel-Europe Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Israel Radio reported that Israel's friends in the US Congress are applying heavy pressure on the US administration and the EU not to modify their stances regarding the P [...] | 2007-03-21 10:59:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV885 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-22 09:15:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV899 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iraq ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- Major media reported that on Thursday PM Ehud Olmert reiterated that elements of the Saudi peace initiative were acceptable to Israel. "I am the one who said the Saudi peace initiative was [...] | 2007-03-23 08:07:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV917 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-26 06:10:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV935 | SPECIAL ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-27 06:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV957 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 10:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV978 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-30 09:48:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07TELAVIV999 | ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. Iran-Britain Crisis ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- All media reported that PM Ehud Olmert, at a press conference on Sunday evening in Jerusalem with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, proposed a "meeting of all the heads of the [...] | 2007-04-04 12:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR IS |
| 07THEHAGUE1002 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) Facilitator Kimmo Laukenen (Finland) launched his facilitation with an extremely informative May 22 session, focusing on implementation developments since February 2007 and upcoming Technical Secretariat outreach activities. The facilitator noted that his goal would be to create a structu [...] | 2007-05-29 15:26:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1018 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): ACHIEVING U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: It has become increasingly apparent that most formal consultations at the OPCW are of marginal value in meeting U.S. goals and objectives, and there are much more productive ways of achieving progress. On certain subjects (budget, Article VII),they are obviously unavoidable. [...] | 2007-05-31 09:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE104 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): U.S. PRIORITIES [...] (U) While 2006 was dominated by the extension of the U.S. 100% destruction deadline, there will be a number of key issues of importance to the U.S. in 2007. Article VII will remain a critical policy objective throughout the year, with the focus on practical steps to promote full implementatio [...] | 2007-01-19 16:20:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1061 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) With regard to the Director General's paper dated May 25, the delegation notes that most of the text addresses the history of selection from the TS perspective, and its rationale for making the changes. There basically were two options: a two-step method analogous to what is currently be [...] | 2007-06-05 12:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1103 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): SCENESETTER FOR [...] (U) Two issues will likely dominate the June 26-29 EC session: Albanian and Russian CW destruction. If Albania does not complete destruction by the start of the EC, there is every reason to expect that Iran will again be on a mission to generate a precedent that can be used against the U.S. i [...] | 2007-06-08 14:40:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1152 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) In the June 5 WEOG meeting, the facilitator for consultations on this issue (Luis Garcia, Spain) announced that, in light of the May 25 Note by the DG on the Technical Secretariat's initiative in this area, he had asked the SIPDIS Vice-Chair for the Industry Cluster to cancel the June 13 [...] | 2007-06-15 12:01:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1186 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) On June 11, Amb. Lyn Parker (UK) chaired a meeting of States Parties and chemical industry representatives for the preparation of the Second RevCon. In his opening remarks, the Director General made mention of: UNSC 1540, the chlorine gas attacks in Iraq, the importance of establishing nat [...] | 2007-06-20 11:14:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1196 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: RESTRAINED RESPONSE TO LATEST CASUALTIES [...] (C/REL NATO and AUS) Summary: Chora district center came under Taliban attack Friday, June 15, the focal point of a province-wide surge in insurgent activity. When it looked as if Chora might fall, the Dutch took the politically difficult decision to go on the offensive. They mounted successfu [...] | 2007-06-20 15:22:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO AF NL |
| 07THEHAGUE1234 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) Facilitator Kimmo Laukenen (Finland) held an 18 June 2007 consultation to discuss the Director General's Note "Summary of Developments in the Implementation of Article VII of the Chemical Weapons Convention from 16 February to 25 May 2007 (EC-49/DG.12 dated 7 June 2007). In brief, Legal A [...] | 2007-06-26 12:07:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1274 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) The June 26-29 Executive Council session was an exercise in punting. Only 13 of some 50 items for EC action were actually decided and everything else was deferred to EC-50. On the most important issue of all, the Council deferred consideration of the verification plan and facility agreem [...] | 2007-07-05 07:25:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1295 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: EXTENSION REVIEW [...] (C) Summary: The GONL sent a letter to the Dutch Parliament on June 30 noting it will decide this summer whether to extend its ISAF mission in Afghanistan. The decision will follow an exhaustive review of all options, including staying in the mission's current capacity, reducing its contribution or [...] | 2007-07-05 16:17:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NATO AF NL |
| 07THEHAGUE1305 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) On July 3, Amb. Lyn Parker (UK),the RevCon Working Group Chair, convened a meeting to discuss: the list of potential NGOs to be invited to a meeting with States Parties on 19 November; the final CWC clauses (Articles XII to XXIV); the protection of confidential information; and the functi [...] | 2007-07-09 10:02:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1347 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) On July 10, the facilitator (Larry Denyer, U.S.) chaired a consultation on late declarations, which was well-attended. The discussion centered around the latest facilitator's draft decision text, as well as the Technical Secretariat's supporting paper, both of which were SIPDIS distrib [...] | 2007-07-16 10:05:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1348 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): STATUS OF U.S. [...] (U) At mid-year, a number of U.S. priorities at the OPCW for 2007 have been achieved. An Executive Council chairman very supportive of the U.S. was selected. The Director General proposed a 2008 budget with zero nominal growth and increased funding for inspector training. The Technical Sec [...] | 2007-07-16 15:36:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1360 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): LIBYAN [...] (SBU) Dr. Hesnawy of the Libyan National Committee provided a copy of the Detailed Facility Information (DFI) for the facility the Libyan government is contracting S.I.P.S.A., an Italian engineering firm, to construct. In discussions on Libya's decision to terminate its cooperation with the U [...] | 2007-07-18 14:52:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1364 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: DASD FATA'S JULY 13 VISIT [...] (C) Summary: During his meetings with Dutch officials on July 13, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Daniel Fata discussed the Dutch decision on whether to extend in some capacity its ISAF mission in Afghanistan. Dutch officials were receptive to Fata's suggestion of [...] | 2007-07-19 10:31:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO AF NL |
| 07THEHAGUE1413 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): U.S.-CHINA [...] (S) On June 25 and 28, chemical weapons (CW) experts from the United States and China held bilateral discussions on Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) compliance issues on the margins of the 49th Session of the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Executive Council in The Ha [...] | 2007-07-27 09:26:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PARM PREL CH CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1421 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) On July 23, del rep met with Bill Kane (Head, Industry Verification, Technical Secretariat) and Jorge Bernal Ramirez (IVB),who works closely with the TS mission planners. 2. (U) The first topic was lessons learned from the recent sequential inspections that were held at a Schedule 3 and [...] | 2007-07-30 10:09:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1486 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) Based on numbers provided by the Administration Division, it appears the Technical Secretariat is hemorrhaging personnel, especially those with critical skills. As the proposed 2008 budget requests an increase in funding to handle staff turnover, and discussions with TS staff had indica [...] | 2007-08-13 07:55:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1526 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) Del reps, along with UK rep Karen Wolstenholme, met on August 16 with a group of senior Verification staff to discuss planning/follow-up on Iraq's initial declaration. Verification chief Horst Reeps was well prepared with an agenda and copies of CW and industry declaration general status [...] | 2007-08-21 11:33:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE160 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) Facilitator Maartin Lak (Netherlands) held a January 25 consultation to review 2006 accomplishments and taskings for 2007 work. Lak noted A/S Commerce Padilla's initiative and called for states to assist implementing states, focusing on those states with industries, but remain without leg [...] | 2007-01-29 15:23:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1615 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR TWO [...] (U) On August 29, Diana Gosens (Netherlands) chaired the first consultation on the DG,s Draft Program and Budget for 2008. She was careful to point out that this meeting was only to cover Programme 1 (Verification),thus avoiding premature (and expected to be contentious) discussions on num [...] | 2007-08-31 14:17:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1684 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-13 12:13:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1713 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (SBU) There has been a certain malaise since delegations returned from summer holidays, with widespread acceptance of the view that there will need to be a special session of the Executive Council during the Conference of States Parties to pass the budget and perhaps other agenda items. Alexan [...] | 2007-09-18 14:00:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1786 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) On September 17, Ambassador Romeo Arguelles (Philippines) chaired the preparatory meeting for EC-50 and review of the agenda. There was little discussion. Ambassador Javits urged delegations to address the issues for decision and avoid the deferrals of routine business that have characte [...] | 2007-09-26 16:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1851 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) ACTION ITEMS -- see paragraphs 31 and 69. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Executive Council 50 approved the OPCW's zero nominal growth budget for 2008, in a newly productive spirit of getting things done after the large agenda of unfinished business it inherited from the previous s [...] | 2007-10-04 16:27:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1856 | NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: ZEROING IN ON THIRD [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Coalition, Peacekeeping, and Multinational Cooperation Debra Cagan visited The Hague October 2 to discuss potential GONL extension plans regarding its ISAF mission in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. In a series of productive meetings, Cag [...] | 2007-10-05 14:11:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NATO AF NL |
| 07THEHAGUE1905 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR TWO [...] (U) On October 2, Del Reps were invited to join the Executive Council Bureau meeting to answer questions on the upcoming visit to the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. Gabrielle Coman-Enescu of the Technical Secretariat also attended for the same purpose. The SIPDIS Ambassadors h [...] | 2007-10-17 14:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1909 | PAKISTANI CANDIDATE FOR CRITICAL OPCW CHAIRMANSHIP [...] (U) This is an action message ) see para 8. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will hold a five-year Review Conference in April 2008, only the second such conference in its ten-year history. Negotiations are in full swing to choose a chai [...] | 2007-10-18 13:23:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PK PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1931 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP UP FOR THE [...] (U) On October 15, Kimmo Laukkanen (Finland) chaired a consultation to draft decision text for the upcoming CSP on Article VII. The meeting was well-attended but not productive. Iran raised two significant points that seriously sidetracked discussions: (1) as the EC did not make recommendati [...] | 2007-10-24 10:31:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1935 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP UP FOR THE [...] (U) On October 15, Kimmo Laukkanen (Finland) chaired a consultation to draft decision text for the upcoming CSP on Article VII. The meeting was well-attended but not productive. Iran raised two significant points that seriously sidetracked discussions: (1) as the EC did not make recommendati [...] | 2007-10-24 12:36:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1952 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): SCENESETTER FOR [...] (SBU) The November 5-9 Conference of the States Parties will either be extremely hectic or rather uneventful. When Executive Council 50 passed the 2008 budget, expectations for a meeting of the EC during the Conference faded. Del believes an EC meeting will be necessary during the week of t [...] | 2007-10-30 15:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1963 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP UP FOR THE [...] (U) During the October 19 consultation (at which Iran was noticeably absent),significant progress was made on a draft decision. As a result, the facilitator (Larry Denyer, Del) prepared a new draft to reflect the general consensus achieved during this most meeting. Based on subsequent consu [...] | 2007-11-02 18:55:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE1998 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP UP FOR THE [...] (SBU) The Twelfth Conference of States Parties (CSP -12) approved a series of decisions to intensify action on Article VII implementation, to continue consultations on specific measures to implement Article XI, and to continue work on the action plan on universality. The Iranian price for allo [...] | 2007-11-16 14:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | LY PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE2000 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): U.S.- CHINA [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S DeSutter requested a meeting with the Chinese Ambassador on November 6, on the margins of the Conference of the States Parties in The Hague, to discuss separating the CWC Article IX compliance dialogue and the CWC implementation dialogue that includes assistance on abandoned [...] | 2007-11-20 14:57:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | CH PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE2010 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP UP FOR [...] (SBU) The Western European and Others Group (WEOG) held its normal weekly meeting on November 13. Discussion was dominated by the review of the Conference of States Parties the week before. While several delegations began by noting that all,s well that ends well (quoted in different languag [...] | 2007-11-21 17:00:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE2024 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP UP FOR [...] (U) Despite being a much shorter session than normal (a day and a half as opposed to the usual four),Executive Council 51 did manage to clear several lingering issues from the Council agenda, including a decision on late declarations shepherded through by U.S. facilitator Larry Denyer and sev [...] | 2007-11-30 16:26:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE2034 | CWDEL IDEAS FOR THE SECOND REVIEW CONFERENCE - [...] (U) Now that the Conference of States Parties and the final Executive Council session have ended, OPCW delegations and the Technical Secretariat turn their attention more fully to the upcoming Review Conference. The Director General,s ¬e8 and lengthy TS annex have just been issued)a copy [...] | 2007-12-05 15:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE204 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Javits spoke with the Ambassadors of the UK, France, Germany, Japan and South Korea, as well as OPCW Director General Pfirter on the unacceptability of Iran as the Chair of the OPCW Executive Committee. There was unanimous acceptance of that position, nuanced differe [...] | 2007-02-02 13:55:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM AORC EIND OPCW CWC CBW IR |
| 07THEHAGUE2047 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP UP FOR THE [...] (U) On December 4, UK Ambassador Lyn Parker chaired a meeting of the Open Ended Working Group on Preparations for the Second Review Conference to discuss initial reactions to the recently distributed &Note by the Technical Secretariat: Review of the Operation of the Chemical Weapons Conventio [...] | 2007-12-10 16:10:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE2069 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP UP FOR THE [...] (SBU) The Western European and Others Group (WEOG) met on December 12 to discuss preparations for the Review Conference (RevCon). The coordinator, Annie Mari (France),also proposed at the request of the Netherlands to hold an expanded WEOG meeting either January 22 or 20 to discuss voluntary [...] | 2007-12-17 14:54:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL RS UK CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE223 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) In response to inquiries over the past several weeks, del rep briefed WEOG on recent press articles concerning the U.S. chemical weapons destruction program. With respect to Dupont's recent decision not to treat the VX hydrolysate from Newport, del rep explained that the program impact wa [...] | 2007-02-06 13:26:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE256 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): UPDATE ON [...] (C) On February 6, Japanese Ambassador Komachi reported to Ambassador Javits about his discussions with Malaysian Ambassador Ariffin. Ariffin said she was aware of Iran's interest in becoming EC chair, but admitted that it would be hard to build an Asian Group consensus around an Iranian ca [...] | 2007-02-09 15:57:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM AORC EIND OPCW CWC CBW IR |
| 07THEHAGUE284 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (U) Amb. Javits and del rep met with DG Pfirter, at the DG's request. Pfirter said he had been contacted by "concerned delegations" (read: Germany) regarding the latest information on the U.S. destruction program. The DG's priority is, of course, to view this in terms of what it will mean f [...] | 2007-02-14 15:03:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE298 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): ASIAN GROUP [...] (C) On February 15, Malaysian Amb. Ariffin spoke with Amb. Javits and reported that Indian Amb. Sabharwal had expressed a strong desire to serve as the EC Chair. Ariffin said that South Korea and the Philippines will not compete, and absent some unforeseen development, the Asian Group candid [...] | 2007-02-16 14:40:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM AORC EIND OPCW CWC CBW IR |
| 07THEHAGUE313 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (SBU) On February 12, the P-5 Ambassadors met to discuss universality efforts. Following welcoming remarks by Amb. Javits, DG Pfirter provided an update on universality efforts. On the three Caribbean non-SPs, the DG said he had specifically mentioned the Bahamas, Barbados and the Dominican [...] | 2007-02-20 14:14:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE344 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): ASIAN GROUP [...] (C) On February 22, Malaysian Ambassador Ariffin reaffirmed to Ambassador Javits that there is no/no expressed support in the Asian Group to select Iran as the group candidate to be the EC Chair. She added that her canvassing of the group indicated it had now moved toward Philippine Ambassad [...] | 2007-02-23 15:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM AORC EIND OPCW CWC CBM IR |
| 07THEHAGUE357 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) Ambassador Parker (UK) chaired a meeting of the open-ended working group for the Second Review Conference on February 20. The meeting covered the modalities for a possible meeting of States Parties and NGOs, as well as the implementation of the CWC relating to general obligations and dec [...] | 2007-02-27 11:04:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE365 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): SCENESETTER FOR [...] (C) There are two important U.S. goals at EC-48. The first is to ensure that the Asian Group does not select Iran as its candidate to serve as the next EC Chair. The Malaysian Ambassador informed Ambassador Javits on Feb. 26 that the group decided that day to nominate the Ambassador of the [...] | 2007-02-27 14:19:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE404 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) On February 27, del rep met with Canadian delegation (Ian Mundell) regarding their Article VII outreach plans. Mundell said that Canada's efforts in the past have been reactive. Their biggest effort to date was to provide logistical support (i.e., security, transportation, meeting space) [...] | 2007-03-06 14:05:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE448 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) Facilitator Maarten Lak (Netherlands) presided over his final Article VII consultations. Delegations congratulated him for his work over the past year. Amb. Onate (Legal Adviser) then gave a brief summary of the Progress Report (EC-48/DG.10 27 Feb. 2007) noting that the cut-off for new i [...] | 2007-03-14 11:09:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE504 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR [...] (SBU) What promised to be an uneventful EC-48 on March 13-16 turned into a lengthy session that previewed important, upcoming issues. Iran's tactics have focused the minds of delegations on how to keep Iran from delaying work at future EC sessions. The handling of the Albanian destruction is [...] | 2007-03-21 15:21:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE565 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) Ambassador Parker (UK) chaired a meeting of the open-ended working group for the Second Review Conference on March 23. The meeting covered the modalities for a possible meeting of States Parties and NGOs (discussion continued from the February 20 meeting),as well as activities not prohi [...] | 2007-03-27 13:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE60 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): QUESTIONS [...] (SBU) During the U.S.-China bilateral meetings held in The Hague, December 11-13, 2006, the Chinese delegation submitted written questions to the U.S. (Note: Questions were submitted in Chinese and translated by Michael Yan, State Department interpreter.) Questions covered a wide range of t [...] | 2007-01-12 14:56:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE661 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (SBU) Gary Mallard (Head, OPCW Laboratory) provided the Del with an update on this issue, which he recently raised with the Del. Mallard initially had reported that there was consideration of moving the OPCW Equipment Store from under the Technical Support Branch (TSB) to the Operations and P [...] | 2007-04-11 11:58:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE714 | NETHERLANDS/JSF/AFGHANISTAN: POSITIVE ON JSF; [...] (C) Summary: In his first meeting with Ambassador Arnall since the formation of the new government, State Secretary for Defense Cees van der Knaap acknowledged the GONL will make a decision on extending in Afghanistan by the end of the summer -- but his instincts tell him the Dutch will remain in U [...] | 2007-04-17 13:27:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PINS PREL AF NL |
| 07THEHAGUE741 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): OPCW [...] (C) Summary: On April 18, Rogelio Pfirter, the Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW),hosted discussions with an Israeli delegation headed by Miriam Ziv, MFA Deputy Director General for Strategic Affairs. The Israeli delegation was largely in a [...] | 2007-04-20 13:16:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC IS |
| 07THEHAGUE762 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) Facilitator Luis Garcia (Spain) held an April 17 consultation to discuss the opinion of the Legal Advisor Santiago Onate regarding what information could be made available on an anonymous facility list. Onate carefully laid out his opinion, based on the Verification Annex part IX, Section [...] | 2007-04-24 12:56:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE804 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) Status of efforts toward Middle East Universality: UK Ambassador Parker opened the meeting with a briefing on the recent meetings in Cairo. DG Pfirter met with Egyptian MFA officials as well as members of the NGO Council on Foreign Relations, but found no sign of movement towards adherenc [...] | 2007-05-01 11:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE867 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) The Technical Secretariat held a regional workshop of the National Authorities of the GCC States on the practical implementation of the CWC April 29-May 2 in Kuwait City. All GCC States were scheduled to attend. Four of these States - Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE - are of high prio [...] | 2007-05-08 08:20:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07THEHAGUE924 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR THE [...] (U) The May 9 events commemorating the tenth anniversary of entry into force of the Convention went off smoothly, and Secretary Rice's message of congratulations was delivered to SIPDIS DG Pfirter. The dedication by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands of a memorial for the victims of chemical [...] | 2007-05-15 14:06:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CWC |
| 07TOKYO1038 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/12/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-12 02:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1096 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-14 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1122 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/15/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-15 01:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1158 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/16/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-16 01:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1253 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-21 22:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1338 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-27 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1344 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/27/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-27 08:40:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1349 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 04:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1360 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1489 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/05/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-06 00:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1528 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-08 22:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1538 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/09/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-10 00:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1592 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/11/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-11 08:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO16 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-05 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1605 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-12 01:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1615 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/12/07 [...] Enhancing efforts to protect drinking water resources. Preventing river pollution and cooperating in preventing water pollution, especially the basins of Bo Hai and Huang Hai. 2. Making every effort for recycling wastes. Cooperating in collecting wastes and implementing a corporate environme [...] | 2007-04-12 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO164 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-15 22:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1657 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/16/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-16 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1708 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-18 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1725 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-19 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1767 | (C) REQUEST FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON NEW PANEL [...] (C/NF) The following is embassy Tokyo's response to Reftel request for insights into Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's proposed Panel on Collective Security (Note: The embassy comments are keyed to reftel questions): A. (C/NF) WHO ELSE WILL SERVE ON THE PANEL ASIDE FROM THOSE LISTED IN PRESS? [...] | 2007-04-20 10:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR MARR PREL PGOV JA |
| 07TOKYO1843 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/25/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-25 01:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1926 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/01/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-01 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1934 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/01/07-3 [...] Bills sponsored by government and ruling parties 2. Minshuto-sponsored bill National referendum bill  [...] | 2007-05-01 04:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1976 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO1989 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/07/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-07 01:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2102 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/10/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-10 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2168 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/15/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-15 01:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2219 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/17/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-17 01:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2239 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/18/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-18 01:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2289 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/22/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-22 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2361 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/25/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-29 00:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2371 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/29/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-29 02:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2411 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 05/30/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-30 09:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2481 | VFM YACHI REVIEWS SUMMIT, BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C) The Japanese were very happy with April's summit between President Bush and Prime Minster Abe, Vice Foreign Minister Shotaro Yachi told the Ambassador June 1, and PM Abe would welcome a stopover in Tokyo by President Bush en route to the APEC summit in Sydney. Abe would also welcome a p [...] | 2007-06-04 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EAGR PGOV MOPS MARR PHUM PINR ETRD |
| 07TOKYO2618 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/11/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-11 09:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2627 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-12 02:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2725 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/18/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-18 01:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2739 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 06/18/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-18 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2823 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/22/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-22 03:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2878 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-26 01:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2897 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/27/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-27 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2898 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/27/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-27 02:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO2929 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 06/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-28 01:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO30 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-05 08:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3013 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-03 00:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3052 | JAPANESE OFFICIAL DISCUSSES G-8 PLANNING [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Abe is very fond of his slogan "Beautiful Country" and will likely use some version of that slogan as the overall theme for the 2008 G-8 summit to be held in Lake Toya Hokkaido, Ministry of Foreign Affair's Deputy Director for the G-8 Summit Office and Economic Pol [...] | 2007-07-05 02:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD JA PGOV PREL SENV |
| 07TOKYO3077 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-06 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3129 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/09/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-09 23:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3205 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/13/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-13 04:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO321 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/24/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-24 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO339 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/24/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-24 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3397 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/25/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-25 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3437 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3490 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/31/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-31 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3512 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/01/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-01 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3548 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/03/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-03 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3569 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/03/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-03 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO359 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-26 01:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO372 | S/P DIRECTOR KRASNER DISCUSSES PARTNERSHIP FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with S/P Director Dr. Stephen Krasner on January 12, Japanese Foreign Ministry Deputy Director General for International Cooperation Hiroshi Fukada welcomed the possible participation of the OECD in the Partnership for Democratic Governance initiative. He noted that ho [...] | 2007-01-26 07:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID KDEM OECD JA |
| 07TOKYO374 | S/P DIRECTOR KRASNER MEETS DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a January 12 meeting with S/P Director Krasner, Director General for North American Affairs Chikao Kawai (since elevated to Deputy Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for Foreign Policy) explained that Japan cannot, for domestic reasons, provide humanitarian assistance to the D [...] | 2007-01-26 07:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP ZK IN KN KS AS CH RS JA |
| 07TOKYO3749 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/15/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-15 02:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3820 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-20 01:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3830 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-20 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3837 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 01:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3865 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3870 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/22/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-22 01:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3877 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/22/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-22 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3884 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/23/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-23 01:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3919 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/24/07 [...] In Tokyo, members of the Tokyo Action Committee stood outside the West Entrance of Shinjuku Station and campaigned. Many people stopped to talk with them. A woman (36) from Saitama Prefecture stated: "I am absolutely against Japan cooperating with the war. It only makes terrorism worse. They [...] | 2007-08-24 07:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO3922 | The Japan Economic Scope--August 23, 2007 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope from August 23, 2007. 2.(SBU) Table of Contents Political Moves 3. Official Discusses Japan's "Confused" Political Situation, East China Sea and More 4. WTO Talks Set to Resume as Japanese Negotiators Face Cabinet Reshuffle 5. Abe V [...] | 2007-08-24 07:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON JA ZO EAGR |
| 07TOKYO3948 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-27 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO401 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/29/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-30 07:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4046 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/30/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-30 08:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4055 | METI'S "ASIAN OECD" HAS FUNDING...BUT LITTLE ELSE [...] (C) Summary: The research institute initially conceived as part of Japan's "ASEAN Plus Six" proposal for regional economic integration will be, at least at the beginning, a small, independent entity with no direct ties to any organization or model for regional architecture, according to an [...] | 2007-08-31 07:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN PREL ETRD JA |
| 07TOKYO4108 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-05 04:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4159 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/07/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-07 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4187 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/07/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-07 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4248 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-12 01:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4261 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-12 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4297 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-14 02:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4373 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-19 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4400 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-21 01:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4416 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-21 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4417 | ASO AND FUKUDA SOFTPEDALING REFORM, STRESSING [...] (C) Prime ministerial candidates Taro Aso and Yasuo Fukuda continue to support economic "reform." But both are putting more stress on "stability" in their campaigns and addressing problematic side effects of reform. Specifically, Fukuda and Aso are promising relief to rural areas and are payi [...] | 2007-09-21 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV JA |
| 07TOKYO4424 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/25/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-25 01:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4446 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-26 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4462 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-26 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4528 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-27 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4601 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/02/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-02 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4645 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/03/07 [...] The aim is to eliminate as many obstacles as possible in pursuing Diet deliberations due to the dominance of the opposition in the Upper House so that a possible vacuum in MSDF operations as a result of failure to secure Diet approval before the law expires can be lessened as much as possible. [...] | 2007-10-03 07:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4648 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 01:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4715 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/09/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-09 04:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4732 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/10/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 02:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4775 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/11/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-11 08:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4799 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-12 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4829 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/16/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-16 22:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4856 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/17/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-17 22:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4857 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/18/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-18 01:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4913 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/22/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-22 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4931 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/23/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-23 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO495 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/02/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-02 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4950 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/23/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-23 07:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4954 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/24/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 01:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4967 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/24/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 08:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO4976 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/25/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 01:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5032 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/29/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5039 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/30/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 01:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5045 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/31/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 00:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5061 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/31/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 22:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5063 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 01:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5070 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/01/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5082 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/02/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-02 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5099 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/02/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-02 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5106 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 01:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5112 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5116 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5140 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/08/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-08 01:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5173 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/08/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-08 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5202 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/09/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-09 08:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5258 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/16/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5267 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/16/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5290 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 22:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5324 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-26 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5337 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-26 22:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5338 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5365 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5410 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/03/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-03 01:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5474 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-06 07:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5559 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-14 02:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5572 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-16 22:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5589 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/17/07 [...] Realize peace of mind and affluence: Expand medical services areas offered by nurses and midwives to reduce the burden of doctors. Introduce a direct contract method between authorized child-care centers and users. Ease standards for admission to child-care centers. Establish a school teacher-r [...] | 2007-12-17 22:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5591 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/18/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-18 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5615 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-20 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5653 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-26 03:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO5668 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-27 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO599 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/09/07 [...] Name(Time of establishment) 2. Immediate purpose 3. Confronting challenge  [...] | 2007-02-09 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO619 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/13/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO7 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/04/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-04 05:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO722 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-21 00:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO763 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-22 23:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO774 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-23 01:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO784 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-23 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO827 | GOVERNMENT COUNCIL RECOMMENDS NEW NATIONAL [...] (SBU) During a February 27 meeting with Deputy National Security Advisor J.D. Crouch, Japan's National Security Advisor Yuriko Koike provided Dr. Crouch with an advanced copy in Japanese of the "Report (draft) by the Council to Strengthen the National Security Function of the Prime Minister's [...] | 2007-02-27 13:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ASEC PINS JA |
| 07TOKYO832 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-28 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO856 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-28 22:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO859 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/01/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-01 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TOKYO876 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-01 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 07TRIPOLI1056 | LIBYA'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: EXPERIENCING GROWING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-23 09:56:00 | Embassy Tripoli | SECRET | PGOV PREL KBIO PINR LY |
| 07TRIPOLI1063 | CORRECTED COPY - LIBYA'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: [...] (S/NF) Summary: Libya's newly-constituted National Security Council continues to experience growing pains. A shortage of skilled staff, questions about its mandate, and friction between National Security Adviser Mutassim al-Qadhafi and some senior GOL officials have limited the NSC's organizat [...] | 2007-12-27 15:50:00 | Embassy Tripoli | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KBIO PINR LY |
| 07TUNIS112 | TIMELINE ON EVENTS LEADING TO SENTENCING OF SENIOR [...] (C) ON JANUARY 24, POST'S SENIOR POLITICAL FSN JAMIL HALFAOUI WAS SENTENCED TO FOUR MONTHS IN PRISON ON A 2001 CHARGE OF DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY, FOR WHICH HE HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN FOUND NOT GUILTY. POST IS CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE THIS MATTER AND IT APPEARS THE CASE MAY BE POLITICALLY MOTIVATED [...] | 2007-01-25 18:04:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KMPI ASEC TS |
| 07TUNIS193 | UPDATE ON PROPOSED DETAINEE TRANSFER [...] (S/NF) Post provides an update on latest efforts to obtain necessary assurances related to the proposed transfer of Tunisian detainees at Guantanamo Bay. As instructed in Ref B, Post has repeatedly engaged the GOT in an attempt to obtain confirmation of assurances related to the transfer of T [...] | 2007-02-08 07:59:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER KAWC PINR TS |
| 07TUNIS357 | TUNISIAN JOURNALIST GIVEN PRISON SENTENCE [...] (C) Summary: Opposition journalist Mohamed Fourati was sentenced on March 9 to one year and two months in prison on charges of membership in an unauthorized organization. Fourati is currently working in Qatar, and had complained that his wife and child were denied passports to join him. Howev [...] | 2007-03-16 15:41:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KPAO KMPI TS |
| 07TUNIS621 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR BEN DHIA RESPONSE TO DEPUTY [...] (S/NF) Summary: Foreign Ministry Chief of Staff Hatem Atallah today provided Ambassador with a letter from Presidential Advisor Ben Dhia to the Deputy Secretary, in which Ben Dhia reiterates the GOT's willingness accept the three Tunisian detainees currently held at Guantanamo (reftels). The [...] | 2007-05-18 15:50:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER KAWC PINR TS |
| 07TUNIS698 | CODEL TANNER MEETINGS FOCUS ON COUNTERTERRORISM, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-05 12:07:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MASS OREP TS |
| 07TUNIS710 | CODEL TANNER MEETINGS FOCUS ON COUNTERTERRORISM, [...] (C) During their May 30 to June 1 visit to Tunisia, the ten members of CODEL Tanner were warmly welcomed by GOT officials who stressed the history of positive bilateral relations between the United States and Tunisia. Highlighting that Tunisia is a loyal friend, FM Abdallah and Defense Ministe [...] | 2007-06-06 12:37:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER MASS OREP TS |
| 07TUNIS991 | TUNISIAN UNGA PARTICIPATION NOT DECIDED [...] (SBU) On July 23, Post sent a diplomatic note requesting reftel information on the Tunisian delegation to the 62nd UNGA meetings. On July 25, Ambassador followed up with MFA Chief of Staff Hatem Atallah. Atallah said that he had seen Post's diplomatic note, but that the GOT had not yet decide [...] | 2007-07-26 12:33:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TS |
| 07ULAANBAATAR325 | PRESIDENT SAYS DECISION TO BE MADE "SOON" ON [...] (C) During a June 6 one-hour call on President Enkhbayar, the Ambassador noted that there had been great satisfaction during his recent consultations in Washington on the state of bilateral security cooperation. In particular, at the National Security Council, at the State Department, and at [...] | 2007-06-06 07:42:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MG IZ PL |
| 07ULAANBAATAR339 | DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS IRAQ ROTATION DECISION TO BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 12 call on Defense Minister Sonompil, the Ambassador emphasized that there is great interest in Washington in Mongolia's formal approval of the 8th rotation of troops to Iraq. Minister of Defense Sonompil responded that the Mongolian National Security Council (NS [...] | 2007-06-13 08:22:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PTER MG IZ PL CH RU |
| 07ULAANBAATAR349 | A/S HILL'S MEETINGS WITH MONGOLIAN OFFICIALS [...] (C) SUMMARY: EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill met on June 15 with Mongolia's President, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. None of the officials revealed their thinking on the pending decision on whether to send an 8th rotation of troops to Iraq, but President Enkhbayar noted that [...] | 2007-06-18 04:10:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EAID SCUL MG IZ KN |
| 07ULAANBAATAR56 | MONGOLIA NONCOMMITTAL ON 8TH ROTATION IN IRAQ [...] (S) Summary: In meetings this week, visiting EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas Christensen urged that Mongolia send a full 8th rotation of soldiers to provide force protection to Polish troops in Iraq. In response, Foreign Minister Enkhbold noted the government's earlier decision to red [...] | 2007-02-01 06:47:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | SECRET | MARR PREL PGOV MG IZ PL |
| 07ULAANBAATAR681 | SURVEY OF MONGOLIA'S IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Per reftel, Post has assessed requirements that the Mongolian Government (GOM) would have to meet in order to deploy troops to Iraq, in various scenarios. Mongolia could not legally participate in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) under any of the four scenarios set forth in reftel. [...] | 2007-12-07 09:51:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IR MG |
| 07ULAANBAATAR694 | MONGOLIAN PRESIDENT "SUPPORTIVE" OF REQUEST FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador called on Mongolian President N.Enkhbayar on December 14 and conveyed formal POTUS and SecState requests (reftels) that Mongolia deploy a ninth rotation of troops to Iraq. President Enkhbayar replied in a positive manner, noting that he would take the request to the [...] | 2007-12-14 10:06:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON MG |
| 07USNATO109 | NSA HADLEY TALKS TO NATO [...] (C) SUMMARY/COMMENT: National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley discussed a wide range of strategic issues with NATO Allies on February 21, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, new U.S. efforts to revive the Middle East peace process, and relations with Russia. Mr. Hadley's visit comes as Europe [...] | 2007-02-22 13:59:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PGOV PREL WEU RU |
| 07USNATO110 | NSA HADLEY'S 21 FEBRUARY DISCUSSION WITH NATO SYG [...] (C) SUMMARY: De Hoop Scheffer described European weakness as playing out in Allies, approaches to Afghanistan (lack of unity of purpose),Russia (desire not to rock the boat),and missile defense (ditto). Mr. Hadley pressed the SYG to have ISAF do more on counternarcotics, and an augmented [...] | 2007-02-22 15:05:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RU NATO |
| 07USNATO405 | NAC-MOLDOVA CONSULTATIONS JULY 4 FOCUS ON [...] (C) Molodvan FM Stratan and Acting DefMin Ion Coropcean consulted with the North Atlantic Council (NAC) on Moldova's Individual Partnership Action Plan July 4. NATO SYG de Hoop Scheffer said that Moldova had made a good start, but strategic concepts still needed to be defined to guide the mor [...] | 2007-07-05 05:15:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR KCFE NATO ML |
| 07USNATO409 | NATO/HLTF MEETING, JUNE 28 2007 [...] (C) Summary. The all-day HLTF June 28 was focused on both assessing the Extraordinary Conference June 12-15, 2007 and preparing to deal with the likelihood that Russia may soon trigger a 150 day countdown to suspension of performance of its CFE obligations or (less likely) of Russia,s su [...] | 2007-07-10 15:16:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KCFE NATO RS OSCE |
| 07USNATO52 | SECRETARY RICE'S NATO INTERVENTIONS AND FACT SHEET [...] At the NATO Foreign Ministerial meetings held Friday, January 26, 2007, Secretary Rice addressed both a regular NAC and a NAC plus non-NATO Contributors and Partners. These interventions are repeated below "as prepared for delivery," along with an Afghanistan Fact Sheet which was made availabl [...] | 2007-01-30 15:30:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA NATO MOPS PREL MARR AF |
| 07USOSCE353 | OSCE COMMITTED TO MAKING KOSOVO ELECTIONS HAPPEN [...] (SBU) The OSCE Mission in Kosovo (OMiK) says it is fully committed to doing its part to ensure that the November 17 local and central elections come off successfully and on schedule. Nonetheless, key OMiK officials are worried that they may not be able to overcome a number of logistical hurdl [...] | 2007-09-13 14:13:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OSCE PGOV PREL KV |
| 07USUNNEWYORK1149 | UNSC: U/SYG ON THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN [...] (U) On December 6 John Holmes, UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefed an open session of the Security Council following his recent mission to Ethiopia, Sudan, and Somalia (as well as Nairobi, Kenya to meet with donors and UN staff working [...] | 2007-12-11 14:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF UNSC SO SU ET |
| 07USUNNEWYORK15 | SE NATSIOS' MEETING WITH JAN ELIASSON [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a January 5 meeting with Presidential Special Envoy Andrew Natsios, UN Special Envoy Jan Eliasson said his immediate priorities for addressing the Darfur crisis were reducing the ongoing violence and finding a way to restart the political process. Natsios listed actions by [...] | 2007-01-11 22:05:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
| 07USUNNEWYORK541 | UNSC: U/SYG HOLMES ON PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN [...] (U) On June 22, Under Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes briefed the Security Council in an open session on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. His remarks included first-hand observations from recent field missions to Chad, Darfur, the Central African Republic, norther [...] | 2007-07-02 17:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF UNSC XA |
| 07USUNNEWYORK573 | U.S. OFFICIALS BRIEF UNSYG ON PRESIDENT'S CLIMATE [...] (C) White House CEQ Chairman Connaughton and Under Secretary Dobriansky briefed UN Secretary-General Ban on the SIPDIS President's May 31 climate change initiative (reftel) during a June 18 meeting at the UN. Connaughton and Dobriansky clarified the USG goals and how the initiative would c [...] | 2007-07-13 19:19:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON KGHG SENV PREL KPKO SU |
| 07USUNNEWYORK6 | SE NATSIOS' MEETING WITH UN DPKO GUEHENNO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a January 5 meeting with Special Envoy Andrew Natsios, UN DPKO U/SYG Jean Marie Guehenno said the UN is making progress in implementing phases one and two of the Addis/Abuja framework. Full implementation, however, will require greater clarity on the UN/AU hybrid command ph [...] | 2007-01-09 22:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UNSC SU KPKO |
| 07VIENNA1284 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 15, 2007 [...] Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos from the Social Democrats said negotiations with EADS, the manufacturer of the Eurofighter interceptors, will continue. Speaking in Brussels at a joint meeting of foreign and defense ministers, Darabos said talks would resume in a few days. A scenario t [...] | 2007-05-15 13:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
| 07VIENNA1510 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: June 06, 2007 [...] On Tuesday, the Austrian parliament approved a major reform of the election laws, lowering the legal voting age to 16 and extending the legislative period to five years. Semi-official daily "Wiener Zeitung" reports on the new legislation, which applies to national elections, but also requires p [...] | 2007-06-06 14:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
| 07VIENNA1798 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 06, 2007 [...] The Austrian Parliament will meet for its last session before the summer recess today. After it concluded the investigation into the purchase of Eurofighter interceptors for Austria's armed forces yesterday, Parliament will now also wrap up the inquiry into Austrian banking practices in connect [...] | 2007-07-06 12:32:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
| 07VIENNA1874 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 13, 2007 [...] The first of Austria's fifteen Eurofighter jets, delivered from Germany, landed at the Zeltweg air base at 10:45 am Thursday morning and was greeted with a traditional brass band and an arch of water from a water cannon. Economics Minister Martin Bartenstein of the People's Party was the only g [...] | 2007-07-13 13:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
| 07VIENNA1933 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 23, 2007 [...] Independent daily "Der Standard" reports on the rekindled debate about whether Eurofighter pilots are to use military force against civilian planes that are hijacked by terrorists. Erich Speck, the trade union representative of the air force was quoted as calling it "a shame to shift this respo [...] | 2007-07-23 12:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
| 07VIENNA2092 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 8, 2007 [...] All media report that former Austrian Unions Association (OeGB) boss Fritz Verzetnitsch has come under fire in connection with the bank Bawag trial currently underway in Vienna: It has been alleged that he made false statements earlier this year before the parliamentary committee looking into t [...] | 2007-08-08 12:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
| 07VIENNA2639 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 17, 2007 [...] Austria is to significantly improve its handling of asylum cases, the government has said. Funds will be released to provide more staff to process applications for asylum, according to Finance Minister and Vice-Chancellor Wilhelm Molterer of the People's Party (OeVP). The coalition government h [...] | 2007-10-17 13:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
| 07VIENNA2663 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 22, 2007 [...] Austrian President Heinz Fischer began a three-day official visit to Egypt at the weekend. He is accompanied by Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik and a business and cultural delegation. Topping the agenda of his meetings with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif will b [...] | 2007-10-22 13:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
| 07VIENNA2849 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 26, 2007 [...] The departure of the Austrian Army contingent's advance party to Chad will not take place today, as originally scheduled. The Commander of the Austrian unit, which will participate in peacekeeping and humanitarian aid efforts in the African state, Lt. Gen. Guenther Hoefler, said the delay was b [...] | 2007-11-26 13:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
| 07VIENNA2928 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: December 11, 2007 [...] ... regarding the issue of private home nursing care for the sick and elderly, Austrian media report. Speaking on ORF television, Erwin Buchinger, the Social Affairs Minister from the SPOe, said he was "displeased" with his party's coalition partner OeVP for "playing a double game" on the issue [...] | 2007-12-12 09:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
| 07VIENNA294 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 07, 2007 [...] Minister for Economy and Labor Martin Bartenstein announced he is planning to reform the system of care for the elderly. In an interview with independent daily "Der Standard," Bartenstein outlined a new work model for caregivers, similar to that already in existence for household and hospital s [...] | 2007-02-07 13:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
| 07VIENNA306 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 08, 2007 [...] A conflict is under way between Minister for Economy and Labor Martin Bartenstein and Minister for Social Issues Erwin Buchinger about the former's proposal for a new model for elderly care. Buchinger called the Bartenstein initiative "counterproductive" and said the proposal should not have be [...] | 2007-02-08 14:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
| 07VIENNA516 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 28, 2007 [...] Eurofighter company boss Aloysius Rauen complained that his firm has been disadvantaged by details leaked to the public from an Austrian parliamentary inquiry into the purchase of 18 Eurofighter jets for use by the Austrian armed forces. Rauen said that concerns about corporate security and dam [...] | 2007-02-28 14:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
| 07VIENNA974 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 13, 2007 [...] Although he had dismissed such a move earlier, emphasizing he was "loyal to the coalition," Defense Minister Norbert Darabos now says he no longer rules out his party, the Social Democrats (SPOe) could be "going it alone," if a decision is made to withdraw from the contract to purchase 18 Eurof [...] | 2007-04-13 13:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
| 07VILNIUS647 | LITHUANIA: BACKGROUND FOR PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] SUMMARY. Lithuania actively promotes democracy in the "new neighborhood," especially in Belarus. Post has good relations with NGOs, but limited funding to support them. The Ambassador and Post work with NGOs, with the GOL, and in the media to promote tolerance and encourage the GOL to addre [...] | 2007-09-12 13:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL LH |
| 07WELLINGTON194 | PM CLARK GOES TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Clark has announced to New Zealanders that she will use her March 20-21 visit to Washington to discuss key regional and world events with the President and other Senior Officials. In reality, she has a broader agenda as well: to improve the tone of her dialogue w [...] | 2007-03-02 04:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NZ |
| 07WELLINGTON537 | NZ OPPOSITION LEADER PLEASED WITH WASHINGTON VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: National Party leader John Key and other senior opposition party officials regarded their June visit to Washington as a big success. Members of Key's entourage told post that the high points of the trip were their meetings with Deputy Secretary of State Negroponte and Assistant S [...] | 2007-07-25 23:46:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
| 07WELLINGTON566 | AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL SECURITY REMARKS GET NO REACTION FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The July 5 Australian White Paper on and expressions of willingness by both Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Australia's Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd to deploy the military to help stabilize the Pacific region has not yet received an official reaction from the New Zeala [...] | 2007-08-06 21:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
| 07WELLINGTON567 | AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL SECURITY REMARKS GET NO REACTION FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The July 5 Australian White Paper on and expressions of willingness by both Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Australia's Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd to deploy the military to help stabilize the Pacific region has not yet received an official reaction from the New Zeala [...] | 2007-08-07 04:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
| 07WELLINGTON568 | AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL SECURITY REMARKS GET NO REACTION FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The July 5 Australian White Paper on and expressions of willingness by both Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Australia's Labor Party leader Kevin Rudd to deploy the military to help stabilize the Pacific region has not yet received an official reaction from the New Zeala [...] | 2007-08-07 19:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NZ |
| 07WELLINGTON686 | NEW ZEALAND: ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL'S MEETINGS [...] (U) Assistant Secretary Hill has cleared this message, which was drafted by ConGen Auckland and approved by Embassy Wellington. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Assistant Secretary Hill's New Zealand interlocutors emphasized the need to ensure that, as New Zealand approaches national e [...] | 2007-09-19 04:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD PARM KNNP NZ XV AF KN FJ TT |
| 07WELLINGTON704 | EAP/ANP DIRECTOR MCGANN'S SEPTEMBER 12-13 MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary. Following the successful US-NZ Partnership Forum (reftel),ANP Director McGann visited Wellington on September 12-13 for discussions with MFAT and MOD officials covering a range of bilateral issues with an emphasis on the Pacific Islands. On Guam, McGann urged MFAT officials to [...] | 2007-09-26 04:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NZ US |
| 07YEREVAN1032 | TOUCHING ALL THE BASES: DAS BRYZA'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bryza's opposition party meetings pointed up the sharp contrast between the two, with Heritage on the upswing, and Orinats Yerkir seeming like a spent force. The parliament speaker, typically, delivered a windy oration of questionable relevance on Armenia's constitution. Bryza [...] | 2007-08-16 03:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM TU |
| 07YEREVAN1241 | SCENESETTER FOR PM SERZH SARGSIAN'S WASHINGTON [...] (C) Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian's visit to Washington October 17-23 is his chance to see and be seen with Washington leaders in the run-up to his February 2008 presidential election bid. With his extensive defense and security background, Sargsian now needs to show himself as a world leade [...] | 2007-10-16 02:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OVIP SERZH SARGSIAN KDEM AM |
| 07YEREVAN97 | TERRORIST FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF DOCKRATS - [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-30 09:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PTER EFIN KTFN PREL AM |
| 07ZAGREB1074 | Ademi-Norac Trial Transferred from ICTY Continues, [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. The trial of Croatian Army Generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac, the only so-called 11 bis case transferred from the ICTY to Croatia, continued throughout November in Zagreb. The two are the highest-ranking Croatian military officers to be tried for war crimes in do [...] | 2007-12-13 13:26:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KAWC ICTY PREL PGOV HR |
| 07ZAGREB602 | PROSECUTOR BACKS UP WAR CRIMES ARRESTS IN VUKOVAR [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Vukovar police arrested six ethnic Serbs June 5 on suspicion of involvement in the torture of soldiers and civilians in the village of Luzac in 1991. Local Serb politicians claimed the arrests were politically motivated and called on Post and others in the internati [...] | 2007-06-21 15:53:00 | Embassy Zagreb | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KAWC PGOV HR WAR CRIMES |
| 07ZAGREB690 | ICTY PROSECUTOR AND PM AGREE ON TRIAL MONITORING [...] (U) In the 16 July letter below, Hague Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte informs OSCE Chairman-in-Office of her recent discussions with PM Ivo Sanader regarding the future of the OSCE mission in Croatia and the monitoring of war crimes trials. Del Ponte notes what she calls the essent [...] | 2007-07-19 13:00:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KAWC PGOV OSCE ICTY HR WAR CRIMES |
| 07ZAGREB768 | WAR CRIMES PROSECUTORS TO EXPAND REGIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Prosecutors from Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Serbia, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) agreed on new forms of cooperation in war crimes cases at a private regional meeting on Brijuni Island July 11-13. Chief State Prosecutor Mlad [...] | 2007-08-20 10:14:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KAWC PGOV HR WAR CRIMES |
| 07ZAGREB956 | REGIONAL PROSECUTORS MEET ON WAR CRIMES COOPERATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Between 2-4 October, on the island of Hvar in Croatia, S/WCI and DoJ OPDAT hosted a regional conference on war crimes cooperation that gathered Chief State Prosecutors and their deputies from Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, together with representatives of ICTY, [...] | 2007-10-19 13:55:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC ICTY PREL PGOV HR WAR CRIMES |
| 07ZAGREB994 | NATO ROADSHOW '07 -- CROATIA SCENESETTER [...] (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The GoC feels confident approaching NATO's Bucharest Summit after repeated strong statements of support from President Bush and State Department officials (U/S Burns, A/S Fried) as well as positive feedback from Allies during presentation of their Annual National Progr [...] | 2007-11-05 14:44:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO MOPS MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM |
| 08ABUJA1347 | NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH YAR'ADUA ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-16 07:53:00 | Embassy Abuja | SECRET | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EINV MASS MARR NI |
| 08ABUJA1398 | NIGERIA: KEY POINTS FROM GENERAL WARD'S VISIT - [...] (C) The Ambassador and visiting Africa Commander General Ward had a private meeting on July 23 with Nigerian Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe (FonMin) at his home on the margins of the 2008 AFRICA Endeavor exercise. The FonMin had returned late on the evening of July 22 from a recently convened [...] | 2008-07-24 12:33:00 | Embassy Abuja | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EINV MASS MARR NI |
| 08ACCRA153 | GHANA - TRADE MINISTER ON FTA CONSULTATION [...] (SBU) Ghana's Minister for Trade, Industries, Private Sector Development and President's Special Initiatives, Joe Baidoo-Ansah met the Ambassador January 29 and raised the issue of a Ghana-U.S. FTA. The Minister is aware of USTR,s desire to visit Ghana to discuss issues and a way forward in [...] | 2008-01-29 12:33:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD OTRA GH |
| 08ADDISABABA120 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: FIELD VISIT #2 -WATER, [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including health, nutrition, and water and sanitation conditio [...] | 2008-01-16 05:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA127 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: HEALTH AND NUTRITION [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia health and nutrition specialist traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to assess humanitarian conditions and evaluate preliminar [...] | 2008-01-16 07:29:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA128 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: DEGEHABUR ZONE FIELD [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia program officer, health and nutrition specialist, and safety and security officer traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to asse [...] | 2008-01-16 07:30:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA134 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: FIELD VISIT #2 - [...] Summary: Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, including a USAID/Ethiopia Assets and Livelihoods Transition program coordinator, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess the c [...] | 2008-01-16 14:16:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA152 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: DELAYS DISRUPT FOOD AID [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess current humanitarian conditions. A primary focus of the field visit was to assess the status of f [...] | 2008-01-18 11:05:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA153 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: SECURITY AND ACCESS [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess current humanitarian conditions. USG HAT staff report that a letter of approval from the Somali R [...] | 2008-01-18 11:05:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA1592 | AMBASSADOR SETS DEMOCRATIC SPACE MARKER WITH [...] (SBU) In a June 3-4 visit to Tigray, Ambassador conveyed a clear message of concern over political space and the need for the core ruling party, the Tigrean People's Liberation Front (TPLF),to ease its stranglehold on civil society and the political opposition in order to maintain stability in [...] | 2008-06-11 04:44:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PBTS ET |
| 08ADDISABABA1821 | ETHIOPIA - USAID/HAT - UPDATE ON HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN [...] This cable provides a summary of the current situation in the Somali region based on field reporting by the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) regional government in Jijiga, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and United Nation (UN) agencies. The cable draws exclusively from second hand sources du [...] | 2008-07-07 06:26:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA1823 | SERIOUS IMPACTS OF FAILED BELG RAINS IN ETHIOPIA [...] There is a 'green famine' in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) as the U.S. Government Humanitarian Assistance Team (USG/HAT) observed during their recent field trips in Wolyata and Gurage zones in late June. Nutrition programs are overwhelmed with patients in the absenc [...] | 2008-07-07 06:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA2112 | U.S.-ETHIOPIAN RELATIONS MESHED IN UNEASY INTERNAL [...] (S/NF) The growing independence in bilateral policy discussions by hard-liners within the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) party -- including members of the Central Committee and Executive Committee or "Politburo", as well as by powerful outsiders like military [...] | 2008-08-01 11:49:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL KDEM PGOV ASEC EAID ET |
| 08ADDISABABA213 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM FIELD VISIT #3: HEALTH AND [...] Between January 15 and 21, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Gode and Korahe zones in Somali Region as part of a third field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including health and nutrition conditions. USG HAT staff repor [...] | 2008-01-29 04:48:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA2262 | FOOD CRISIS WORSENS AS RELIEF CHALLENGES PERSIST [...] (SBU) After almost a year of sustained U.S. and donor engagement with the Ethiopian Government (GoE) to respond to the growing food crisis, the GoE appears intent on obfuscating the facts on the ground and is unable or unwilling to support the humanitarian response. Rather than openly acknowle [...] | 2008-08-18 14:26:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA233 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM FIELD VISIT #3: [...] Between January 15 and 21, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, including a USAID/Ethiopia senior policy advisor and a USAID/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) agriculture and livestock advisor, traveled to Gode and Korahe zones in Somali R [...] | 2008-01-30 09:57:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA239 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: DEGEHABUR ZONE FIELD [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia program officer, health and nutrition specialist, and safety and security officer traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to asse [...] | 2008-01-31 09:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA240 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: FIELD VISIT #2 -WATER, [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including health, nutrition, and water and sanitation conditio [...] | 2008-01-31 09:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA27 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: SECURITY AND ACCESS [...] Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia program officer, health and nutrition specialist, and safety and security officer traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to assess [...] | 2008-01-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA28 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: HEALTH AND NUTRITION [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia health and nutrition specialist traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to assess humanitarian conditions and evaluate preliminar [...] | 2008-01-08 08:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA285 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: DEGEHABUR ZONE FIELD [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia program officer, health and nutrition specialist, and safety and security officer traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to asse [...] | 2008-02-06 05:23:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA315 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM FIELD VISIT #3: WASH [...] Between January 15 and 21, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff traveled to Gode and Korahe zones in Somali Region as part of a third field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions. The USG HA [...] | 2008-02-08 08:43:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA360 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: FIELD VISIT #2 -WATER, [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including health, nutrition, and water and sanitation conditio [...] | 2008-02-13 07:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA369 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: LIVESTOCK AND MARKET [...] U.S. Government Humanitarian Assistance Team (USG HAT) in Ethiopia staff report concern regarding the ability of pastoralist populations to sell their livestock and purchase staple commodities as a result of ongoing movement and trade restrictions within the conflict-affected areas of Somali R [...] | 2008-02-14 04:48:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA400 | (C) USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: ONLF CONTACT [...] (C) Between January 15 and January 21, 2008, USG Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) staff in Ethiopia traveled to Gode and Korahe zones in Somali Region as part of a third field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation. During this time, the USG HAT convoy, including UN and partner N [...] | 2008-02-19 05:01:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA412 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: PHASE I FINDINGS AND NEXT [...] During the December 20 to January 31 Phase I of the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia presence, USG HAT staff conducted multiple humanitarian assessment trips to the conflict-affected areas of Somali Region, including Degehabur, Fik, Gode, and Korahe zones. [...] | 2008-02-19 05:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA413 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: ACCESS AND SECURITY [...] (SBU) Between December 20 and January 31, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff conducted three extensive humanitarian assessment trips to the conflict-affected areas of Somali Region, including Degehabur, Fik, Gode, and Korahe zones. USG HAT staff note na [...] | 2008-02-19 08:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA432 | NO CRISIS IN OGADEN BUT FOOD DISTRIBUTION A [...] (C) The Ambassador and USG Humanitarian Assessment Team (HAT) members briefed separately the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),the Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency (DPPA),and the diplomatic corps and concerned NGOs, on the humanitarian situation in Eth [...] | 2008-02-20 13:31:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV CASC ET |
| 08ADDISABABA492 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: PHASE I FINDINGS AND NEXT [...] During the December 20 to January 31 Phase I of the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia presence, USG HAT staff conducted multiple humanitarian assessment trips to the conflict-affected areas of Somali Region, including Degehabur, Fik, Gode, and Korahe zones. [...] | 2008-02-27 08:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
| 08ADDISABABA527 | Ogaden: Continued Action Required to Meet Tough [...] (SBU) During a February 22-23 visit to the Ethiopia Somali region, Ambassador, USAID Mission Director, USAID Advisor for the Somali region, and RSO met Ethiopia Somali region President Abdullahi Hassan and his staff in charge of humanitarian relief in the Ogaden to press for improved food dist [...] | 2008-02-28 05:43:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ET |
| 08ADDISABABA53 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: HEALTH AND NUTRITION [...] (U) Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia health and nutrition specialist traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to assess humanitarian conditions and evaluate preliminar [...] | 2008-01-09 05:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |