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09BEIRUT1366	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF PRESIDENTIAL SCIENCE [...] (SBU) Embassy Beirut welcomes your visit to Lebanon, which will offer a unique opportunity to highlight the importance of scientific issues, from climate change to communications policy, at the highest levels of the GOL while raising general awareness among the public at large. Although Leban [...]	2009-12-31 08:00:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ESTH EINT PGOV KGHG KIPR TSPL LE

09BEIRUT137	LEBANON: NOMINATIONS FOR FY-09 MEPI STUDENT LEADERS [...] (U) On January 23 and 26, a four-member post panel conducted interviews with short listed applicants for this summer's MEPI Student Leaders Program. Due to the large number of applications received this year by highly qualified Lebanese and Palestinian applicants (born and residing in Lebanon) [...]	2009-02-03 13:00:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	KMPI KPAO PREL LE
09BEIRUT159	LEBANON: PALIAMENTARY ELECTIONS SNAPSHOT: THE CHOUF [...] (SBU) This is the second in a series of snapshots we will produce for key electoral districts ("qada") in the run-up to the June 7, 2009 parliamentary elections. 2. (SBU) The Chouf is one of six electoral districts in the Mount Lebanon administrative area. There are eight parliamentary sea [...]	2009-02-10 16:40:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PTER PINR UNSC MARR MOPS LE SY
09BEIRUT305	LEBANON: DESPITE FRICTION, MARCH 14 UNITES TO [...] (C) The March 14 coalition publicly launched its political platform for the June 7 parliamentary elections at its second annual convention on Saturday, March 14. Entitled "Towards A Strong Viable State," the platform stressed the importance of adhering to the Taif agreement and the 2002 Arab P [...]	2009-03-16 18:48:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR KPAL LE SY IS
09BEIRUT743	LEBANON: PM-DESIGNATE MENTIONS ECONOMIC REFORM (ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) In a June 30 meeting with CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus, Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said that, as head of the new government, in parallel with his efforts to build up Lebanon's security services, he plans to pursue economic reforms, streamline business procedures, and [...]	2009-07-06 13:50:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EIND ETRD EAIR PGOV KFLU SENV LE
09BEIRUT833	LEBANON FOLLOW UP TO THE CAIRO SPEECH: CONSULTATIVE PROCESS [...] (SBU) U.S. Embassy Beirut contacted Lebanese stakeholders - including youth, civil society partners, and political interlocutors - to solicit feedback about specific recommendations and suggestions to achieve priorities outlined by President Obama during his June 4 speech in Cairo, (ref A). Co [...]	2009-07-23 16:02:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON OEXC OSCI PREL SCUL SENV SOCI TNGD TSPL
09BEIRUT886	LEBANON: POLITICAL CONSENSUS IS CORNERSTONE FOR REFORMS [...] (SBU) During a series of meetings with EconOff July 21-22, government officials and prominent economic consultants stressed that politics had stalled reform and privatization. They believed political leaders wanted to preserve their vested interests in any future privatization. PM-elect Saad [...]	2009-08-06 04:36:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP ECON EFIN EIND ETRD KIPR KFLU PGOV SENV LE
09BELGRADE1258	SERBIA SURVIVES MEDVEDEV VISIT, BUT MUST DEAL WITH [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-28 10:48:00	Embassy Belgrade	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ENRG ECON SR RS
09BELGRADE34	SERBIA NOT FANNING INSTABILITY IN BOSNIA [...] (U) This cable was drafted jointly by Embassies Belgrade and Sarajevo. Summary ------- 2. (C) Despite close relations between Belgrade and Banja Luka, in recent months President Boris Tadic has been publicly taking a strong stand to encourage all parties to respect the territorial int [...]	2009-01-13 08:13:00	Embassy Belgrade	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BK SR
09BELGRADE863	Serbia: Security Aspects of Russian President Medvedev's [...] (C) Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev's October 20 visit to Belgrade went according to a script agreed and announced well in advance, with two surprising exceptions: Belgrade's purported support for the Russian initiative to revamp European security, and an agreement to create a joint human [...]	2009-11-27 09:39:00	Embassy Belgrade	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV SR RS
09BELMOPAN111	BELMOPAN - ANNUAL OSAC CRIME AND SAFETY REPORT [...] (U) Overall Crime and Safety Situation Crime throughout Belize continues to remain a problem and has steadily risen over the past two years. Major crimes in Belize (defined as murder, rape, robbery, burglary, theft and carnal knowledge) increased in 2008 by 8.1% from 2007. Most disturbing [...]	2009-03-20 21:13:00	Embassy Belmopan	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC BH
09BELMOPAN119	WHA/CEN DIRECTOR WEBSTER'S MEETINGS IN BELIZE [...] (U) SUMMARY: WHA/CEN Office Director Christopher Webster met with Belize government officials, a Hand in Hand Ministries official, and American Chamber of Commerce board members on March 5 and 6 to discuss bilateral and regional issues including security and the Merida Initiative, the Guatemal [...]	2009-03-25 22:22:00	Embassy Belmopan	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON OAS BH
09BELMOPAN407	SHAKE UP IN THE PEOPLE'S UNITED PARTY [...] John Briceo, leader of the People's United Party (PUP) has recently proposed changes to Senators representing the opposition and to the party's executive committee. The expanded membership has been justified as a measure to bridge the division that has permeated the party since his assumption [...]	2009-11-05 16:25:00	Embassy Belmopan	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL BH
09BERLIN155	MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ, GUANTANAMO, MSC, ISRAEL, ECONOMY, [...] Lead Stories Summary 2. Iraqi Reconstruction 3. Fate Of Guantnamo Detainees 4. Munich Security Conference 5. Upcoming Israeli Elections 6. U.S. Economy -- Protectionism 7. Sarkozy Speech 8. Nuclear Energy 9. U.S. Healthcare Insurance 10. Vatican Controversy [...]	2009-02-06 11:40:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR KPAO GM IZ US IS XF FR VT
09BERLIN256	GERMANY - 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) The following is Mission Germany's submission for the ninth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The entire report should be treated as sensitive but unclassified. Mission points of contact are David Fisher (email: fisherdl@state.gov; tel: 49-30-8305-2439) and Jacqueline Dadswel [...]	2009-03-04 11:06:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GM
09BERLIN336	INDUSTRY SAYS GERMAN GOVERNMENT ADOPTING TOUGH [...] (C) Summary: German officials are exerting stronger moral pressure on industry to discourage business with Iran beyond those measures specifically stipulated in sanctions regimes, according to industry contacts. German government officials have reportedly emphasized the undesirability of L [...]	2009-03-20 15:36:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ENRG PREL EFIN ETTC KMVP IZ IR GM
09BERLIN520	SCENESETTER FOR GERMAN AGRICULTURE MINISTER AIGNER'S VISIT [...] SUMMARY. (SBU) German Agricultural Minister Ilse Aigner's trip to New York and Washington, D.C. during the week of May 12-16, will be her first official visit to the United States since assuming her position in November 2008. Aigner is new to the international arena and this visit is billed as [...]	2009-05-06 09:01:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ETRD GM TBIO
09BERLIN978	GERMANY REASSURES THE BALTS TO INCREASE MANEUVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Germany continues to regard proposed NATO contingency planning to defend the Balts against possible Russian aggression as counterproductive and unnecessary, but it has gone out of its way in recent months to take other measures to reassure the Balts that it takes their security co [...]	2009-08-11 10:03:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	GM MARR MOPS NATO PREL RU ZB
09BERN132	NEW GOVERNMENT FORMED IN LIECHTENSTEIN [...] (SBU) The Patriotic Union (Vaterlaendische Union, VU) party of Liechtenstein won an absolute majority of parliamentary (Landtag) seats in the February 8 national elections (reftel). In the wake of this surprising outcome, the VU could have opted to seek to form a government alone, without the [...]	2009-03-26 16:32:00	Embassy Bern	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL LS
09BISHKEK1061	LOSING PARADISE: KYRGYZ BIOSPHERE RESERVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Ambassador visited Sary Chelek Biosphere Reserve in Jalalabad Oblast, once home to a number of species found only in the Central Asian mountains. Hunting, fishing, and grazing are officially prohibited, but years of official indifference have resulted in a biosphere reserve [...]	2009-09-18 10:55:00	Embassy Bishkek	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SENV KG
09BISHKEK396	KYRGYZSTAN: BISHKEK HOSTS ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Six agencies from the UN, Europe, and NATO have joined together to form the Environmental and Security Initiative (ENVSEC),which has 33 projects in Central Asia. The stated goal of ENVSEC is to assist Central Asian countries to address environmental and security risks. Any envir [...]	2009-04-27 05:35:00	Embassy Bishkek	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EPET ECON SENV KG
09BOGOTA1582	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF USNS COMFORT TO COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the visit of the USNS Comfort and her crew to Colombia from June 6-17. The humanitarian and medical services you will provide will be welcomed by the Government of Colombia (GOC) and by the people of Tumaco, Narino -- one of the poorest areas of Colombia. Your visit [...]	2009-05-19 21:45:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV PTER OIIP SNAR CO
09BOGOTA2118	ITSO DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GOVERNMENT OF COLOMBIA [...] (SBU) On July 2 EconCouns delivered ITSO talking points as requested reftel to Colombian Vice Minister of Communications Daniel Medina. Medina stated that this long-standing problem needs a "middle ground solution", commenting that if all sides dig in their heels there will be no positive resu [...]	2009-07-02 19:05:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC ECON ECPS EFIN INTELSAT KTIA PREL TSPA CO
09BOGOTA294	COLOMBIA INCREASES FOCUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Despite accounting for less than 0.3 percent of global emissions, the Colombian Ministry of Environment (MOE) has placed increasing priority on climate change issues due to growing concerns of the impact on Colombia,s glaciers, coastal plains, and biodiversity. The MOE has inc [...]	2009-01-29 16:03:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PGOV CO
09BOGOTA3489	COLOMBIA TO BE SUPPORTIVE IN COPENHAGEN; PROPOSES FORESTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: Environment Minister Carlos Costa told the Deputy Chief of Mission that Colombia would support U.S. efforts at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. The Minister welcomed the close coordination and openness of U.S. negotiators and indicated the USG could count on Col [...]	2009-12-01 23:10:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID ECON ENRG EINV PGOV PREL UN CO
09BOGOTA3511	Copenhagen Climate Summit: Colombian Delegation, Priorities, [...] (U) Summary. At the Copenhagen Climate Change conference, Environment Minister Carlos Costa will lead the Colombian delegation, which includes the Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs, Director of IDEAM (a NOAA-like institution),and other advisors. Per reftels, Colombia will continue to be [...]	2009-12-07 20:03:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID ECON ENRG PGOV PREL UN CO
09BOGOTA3525	Ambassador Discusses Drug Policy, DCA with Polo Democratico [...] (C) Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA) presidential candidate Gustavo Petro told the Ambassador December 4 that U.S. drug policy was mistaken by attacking illegal drug production but not the political power behind it. Petro argued that land reform was key to rolling back the regional power that [...]	2009-12-09 22:51:00	Embassy Bogota	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR KJUS MARR CO
09BOGOTA3670	2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-19 17:11:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR
09BOGOTA3672	2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-19 17:12:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR
09BOGOTA372	COLOMBIA'S AMAZON REGION: A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, [...] SUMMARY. The economy of Amazonas Department, which borders Brazil and Peru, contributes less than .05 percent to Colombia's GDP. Local experts tell us that the Department's limited infrastructure and prevalence of protected areas -- there are only 25 miles of paved roads in the department and [...]	2009-02-04 22:03:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SENV EAID CO
09BOGOTA437	REVISION: COLOMBIA-2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] This is a revised copy of the 2009 Colombia Investment Climate Statement (ref B). Please note minor changes in paragraphs 11 (Banking, Insurance and Telecommunications sections),41, 48, 51 and 71. Post will submit text via email to EEB/IFD/OIA and include in the 2009 Country Commercial Guid [...]	2009-02-11 20:26:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON OPIC KTDB USTR EFIN KIPR PGOV CO
09BOGOTA732	DISPUTE OVER MINING IN NATIONAL PARKS HEATS UP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A long-running internal GOC dispute over mining within/around Colombia's national parks and forest reserves boiled over into public after the Ministry of Environment (MOE) alleged February 22 that industrial mining occurs in or near 15 parks, threatening critical biodiversity. [...]	2009-03-04 13:51:00	Embassy Bogota	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN SENV PGOV CO
09BRASILIA1041	BRAZIL'S THINKING ON COLOMBIA-US DEFENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOB has started to backtrack on its negative and kneejerk response to the U.S.-Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) and appears open to conversations to set straight the disinformation campaign produced by Brazil,s more left-leaning neighbors. After his August 6 meetin [...]	2009-08-20 21:31:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR BR CO
09BRASILIA1105	BRAZIL: EMBASSY BRASILIA'S SUGGESTED THEMES FOR UPCOMING [...] (SBU) In preparation for the November ministerial-level Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology (JCM) Embassy Brasilia has identified three potential areas that could be used to advance U.S. Government (USG) priority interests building on the robust and on-going science and technolo [...]	2009-09-04 10:16:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KSCA BR
09BRASILIA1114	BRAZIL: AMAZON DEFORESTATION RATE SET TO BE THE LOWEST IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The rate of deforestation of the Amazon Forest decreased 46% for the August 2008-July 2009 annual period compared to the previous 12-month period based on preliminary data released by the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE). The results of high-resolution satell [...]	2009-09-08 10:13:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG KSCA EAGR BR
09BRASILIA1131	BRAZIL: UPDATE ON THE PROPOSED TROPICAL FOREST CONSERVATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A recommendation to proceed with creation of a program under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA) is being considered at the highest levels of the Ministry of External Relations (MRE). The Environment Ministry, the environmental community, and the Embassy have been urgi [...]	2009-09-11 10:32:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EFIN EAGR EAID KGHG BR
09BRASILIA1136	BRAZIL: "WE WILL HAVE AN AMBITIOUS NUMBER" FOR EMISSIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil (GOB) will go to Copenhagen with an ambitious emissions reductions number as part of the negotiations under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),according to the Minister of External Relations Celso Amorim. In an early September inte [...]	2009-09-11 19:32:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EFIN EAGR EAID KGHG BR
09BRASILIA1170	BRAZIL ON IRAN: A SOFT VOICE IN THE CHORUS [...] (C) Summary. Brazilian MRE Undersecretary for Political Affairs Roberto Jaguaribe, recently returned from a diplomatic mission to Tehran, told Charge D'Affaires on September 16 that additional dialogue rather than sanctions will be most the most effective means of pressuring Iran to develop [...]	2009-09-18 15:10:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR PREL AORC BR
09BRASILIA1201	BRAZIL: USTR Amb Kirk Sept 16-17 Visit to Brasilia and Sao [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In meetings with the private sector and labor representatives, as well as government officials, USTR Ambassador Ron Kirk achieved significant success in re-framing the tone of the U.S.-Brazil trade and investment relationship. Common themes, including the need for a Bilateral T [...]	2009-09-28 14:27:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EINV EFIN BR
09BRASILIA123	BRAZIL: INTERMINISTERIAL BATTLES LEAVE NEEDED REFORM OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A divided Brazilian cabinet was unable to resolve its differences in order to make urgently needed reforms of the Forest Code. First, Agriculture Minister Reinhold Stephanes and Environment Minister Carlos Minc could not agree on a common approach for legislation to replace th [...]	2009-01-30 16:33:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EFIN EAGR KSCA BR
09BRASILIA1254	BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is productive and broad-based. There exists a solid foundation of scientific and technological (S&T) ties, which offers excellent opportunities for increasing bilateral - and possible trilateral - cooperation. The bilatera [...]	2009-10-22 18:57:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KSCA EAGR EAID SENV TBIO BR
09BRASILIA1261	BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR OCTOBER 27-30 VISIT OF SPECIAL REP [...] (C) SUMMARY. The visit of the Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Ambassador Susan Burk, comes at an important time. Brazil is reviving its long dormant civilian and military nuclear energy programs. It closed down its nuclear weapons program in 1990 and j [...]	2009-10-23 18:54:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IAEA ENRG ETTC BR
09BRASILIA1265	BRAZIL: MEETING OF BILATERAL PROTECTED AREAS WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The first meeting of the U.S.-Brazil Protected Areas Working Group on September 10 highlighted existing areas of cooperation and identified possibilities for future activities. These new possibilities include assistance with preparing economic studies on concessions, developing [...]	2009-10-27 13:27:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR EAID KGHG BR
09BRASILIA1308	BRAZIL'S CLIMATE POSITION IS IN FLUX AND COULD STRENGTHEN; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil (GOB) is finalizing its position for the Conference of the Parties-15 (COP-15) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen. Despite earlier signals that it might announce an economy-wide emissions reduction target, President [...]	2009-11-09 18:46:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EFIN EAGR EAID KGHG BR
09BRASILIA1321	SCENESETTER FOR THE U.S.-BRAZIL JOINT COMMISSION MEETING ON [...] SUMMARY: Brazil - the giant of South America - has stepped on to the world stage as a major economic power and is a key player in regional and multilateral matters. What has been less noticeable is that Brazil has put itself on a track to eventually become a global scientific and technologic [...]	2009-11-16 14:28:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KSCA EAGR EAID SENV TBIO NSF BR
09BRASILIA1322	BRAZIL AND FRANCE ANNOUNCE COMMON POSITION ON UN FRAMEWORK [...] (SBU) During their meeting in Paris on November 14, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula) and French President Nicholas Sarkozy issued a joint press release detailing their two governments' common position on the upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotia [...]	2009-11-17 09:22:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KSCA KGHG ENRG BR
09BRASILIA1324	USAID/BRAZIL ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM MEETING. [...] SUMMARY: On October 27-30, 2009, USAID/Brazil Environment Program held its annual meeting in Belm, State of Par. The objective of the event was to promote cooperation and better integration among Program partners, as well as to discuss current themes of sustainable development in the Amazon reg [...]	2009-11-17 16:04:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID SENV BR
09BRASILIA1342	NEW BRAZILIAN DEPUTY FM SEES NEED TO STEP UP [...] (C) The CDA paid a courtesy call November 18 on Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE or Itamaraty) Secretary-General (Deputy Minister) Antonio Patriota. Patriota has just taken up his duties following three years as Brazil,s ambassador to Washington. Patriota said he sees great poten [...]	2009-11-20 19:48:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN SENV BR
09BRASILIA1381	BRAZIL: LATEST ON CLIMATE CHANGE OFFER AND PRE-COPENHAGEN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On November 13, the Government of Brazil (GOB) unveiled its position for the Conference of the Parties-15 (COP-15) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen. The GOB has announced that it will seek to reduce its economy-wide greenhouse gas emissio [...]	2009-11-30 18:36:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EFIN EAGR EAID KGHG BR
09BRASILIA1402	BRAZIL: U/S MACHADO ON GOB'S CLIMATE POSITION GOING INTO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazilian Ministry of External Relations Under Secretary for Policy Vera Machado and her deputy, Special Ambassador for Climate Change Sergio Serra, told Charge that Brazil is more optimistic about the outcome for the Conference of the Parties-15 (COP-15) to the UN Framework Co [...]	2009-12-04 11:05:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG EFIN EAGR EAID BR
09BRASILIA1408	BRAZIL ANNOUNCES LOWEST RATE OF DEFORESTATION OF AMAZON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On November 12, Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc announced Brazil's lowest ever Amazon deforestation rate since monitoring began in 1988. A total of 7,008 square kilometers of forest were cleared, which represents a 45 percent drop from the previous annual period. O [...]	2009-12-04 17:50:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG KSCA EAGR BR
09BRASILIA1411	BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR THE DECEMBER 13-14 VISIT OF WHA [...] (C) Mission Brazil warmly welcomes your visit to Brasilia. It is more than a courtesy to say that your trip comes at a significant time for U.S.-Brazil relations. A promising start with the new U.S. Administration is beginning to ebb as high-level initiatives have been delayed and Brazil ha [...]	2009-12-10 16:08:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP BR
09BRASILIA1426	BRAZIL: NEW LEADERSHIP GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO CREATING A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil (GOB) on November 30 informed the U.S. Government (USG) that it wants to establish a debt-for-forest program under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA). The GOB submitted specific changes it wanted to make in the proposed text of an agreement cr [...]	2009-12-08 12:18:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EFIN EAID KGHG BR
09BRASILIA1460	BRAZIL: AMAZON FUND AND OTHER FUNDS TO PROTECT THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Amazon Fund created in August 2008 and funded by a US$1 billion pledge from Norway has just announced its first block of approved projects to help monitor and reduce deforestation in Brazil's Amazon region. Brazil also has now passed a law that will establish a National Cl [...]	2009-12-15 15:15:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID KGHG EAGR EFIN NO BR
09BRASILIA157	BRAZIL: VICE ENVIRONMENT MINISTER ON CHALLENGES AHEAD, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a meeting with the Ambassador on January 22, Brazilian Vice Minister for the Environment Izabella Teixeira expressed interest in a new, broader agenda between the United States and Brazil. She highlighted Brazil's need to address the interlinked challenges of energy, climat [...]	2009-02-06 17:30:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG KGHG EFIN BR
09BRASILIA177	UNDERSTANDING BRAZIL'S FOREIGN MINISTRY, PART 1: [...] (C) Summary. As Brazil takes an increasingly prominent place on the international stage, its Foreign Ministry, known widely as Itamaraty after its headquarters building, finds itself under the influence of four powerful personalities whose ideologies are shaping its foreign policy priorities [...]	2009-02-11 19:28:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON OIIP BR
09BRASILIA178	SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 117 [...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...]	2009-02-12 13:59:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
09BRASILIA233	BRAZIL: STATE TACKLING CHILD AND SLAVE LABOR, TIP: [...] (U) Summary: The Northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhao ranks among the jurisdictions in Brazil with the highest incidence of domestic child labor, forced labor, and trafficking in persons (TIP). As one of Brazil's poorest states, resource constraints, coupled with neglect by state governme [...]	2009-02-26 21:59:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KFRD KWMN ELAB PREF ASEC SMIG BR
09BRASILIA234	BRAZIL: DIFFICULT TO PROSECUTE TIP CASES; BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Socioeconomic conditions in the state of Para are among the worst in Brazil, and as a result, the state acts as a source for slave and domestic child labor and trafficking in persons cases. Belem international airport is a major transit point for Trafficking in Persons (TIP) ne [...]	2009-02-26 22:10:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KFRD KWMN ELAB PREF ASEC SMIG BR
09BRASILIA244	BRAZIL: TWO NEW PRAGMATIC STEPS TO ADDRESS ILLEGAL AMAZON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Brazil (GOB) plans to take two steps - each quite pragmatic - to address the serious problem of settlers illegally clearing the Amazon Forest and the challenge of settlers occupying public land in the Amazon: The first measure - currently a proposal - would r [...]	2009-02-27 18:36:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EINV EAGR KSCA BR
09BRASILIA252	BRAZIL: NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Brazil continued to be a source country for internationally and domestically trafficked women, children, and men, and a destination country for forced factory labor in metropolitan cities. Brazil was not a significant Trafficking in Persons (TIP) transit country. Forced or sl [...]	2009-03-02 11:14:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BR
09BRASILIA265	ENVIRONMENT MINISTER MINC PRAISES APPOINTMENT OF S/E STERN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Minister of the Environment, Carlos Minc, sees the twin issues of climate and energy as an opportunity for increased USG and Government of Brazil (GOB) cooperation. He sees Brazil as playing the role of a bridge between the developed nations and the G-77 in upcoming climate n [...]	2009-03-06 20:10:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG KSCA ENRG TBIO BR
09BRASILIA270	BRAZIL: ENORMOUS AMAZONAS STATE PLANS AMBITIOUS APPROACH ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. By December of this year, the State of Amazonas - which contains nearly half of the remaining Brazilian Amazon Forest - plans to announce its own climate change plan and state-wide target for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To accomplish this goal Governor Eduardo Bra [...]	2009-03-10 11:54:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG KSCA TSPL EAID ENRG NOAA NASA BR
09BRASILIA28	WORKING WITH BRAZIL ON CLIMATE CHANGE - AN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Brazil has a central role in the climate change arena, not only because it controls 70% of the Amazon rainforest, but also because it plays a pivotal role in the on-going UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations. USG efforts to have India and China assume [...]	2009-01-08 13:55:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ENRG KGHG EAID EFIN BR
09BRASILIA330	GOLD MINING POSES HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS IN GUYANA [...] SUMMARY Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) has seen exponential growth in the South American countries of the Guyana Shield (Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil) since the early 1980's, owing to dramatic gold price increases and limited government presence in the remote i [...]	2009-03-17 19:10:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EMIN EAID TBIO SOCI BR XR
09BRASILIA397	BRAZIL SCENESETTER: CODEL HOYER APRIL 8-10 [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a time when the relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as ever, with a strong bilateral relationship and important economic ties. Brazi [...]	2009-03-31 20:06:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP SENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR
09BRASILIA398	BRAZIL SCENESETTER: CODEL HOYER APRIL 8-10 [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a time when the relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as ever, with a strong bilateral relationship and important economic ties. Brazi [...]	2009-03-31 20:14:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP SENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR
09BRASILIA399	SENATOR CORKER LOOKS INTO CHALLENGES OF DEFORESTATION IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Senator Robert Corker visited the State of Amazonas on March 20-21 and learned about the extensive deforestation problem in Brazil and efforts to address it. Governor Eduardo Braga explained his state's innovative program to pay forest dwellers a monthly payment to protect the [...]	2009-03-31 20:14:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP SENV EAID EAGR KGHG BR
09BRASILIA400	SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 118 [...] The following is part of a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do not n [...]	2009-03-31 20:17:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
09BRASILIA401	BRAZIL'S ENTHUSIATIC, THOUGH COMPLICATED, APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazil has constructed a complex regime to govern access to and benefit sharing of genetic resources. Provisional Measure No. 2186-16 and its implementing rules and regulations establish the requirements in this field. The intended purpose for collecting the genetic resources [...]	2009-03-31 20:33:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR ECON ETRD KIPR TBIO KPAO BR
09BRASILIA405	BRAZIL SCENESETTER: CODEL PASTOR APRIL 4-10 [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Your visit comes at a time when the relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as ever, with a strong bilateral relationship and important economic ties. Brazi [...]	2009-03-31 21:30:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP SENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR
09BRASILIA497	CODEL HOYER BRAZIL VISIT PRODUCTIVE ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, [...] (U) SUMMARY: Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and a delegation of nine members of the United States House of Representatives visited Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro April 8-10, with a focus on energy, the environment, and climate change. The delegation was granted a rare meeting with Brazilian Presid [...]	2009-04-22 19:28:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP SENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR
09BRASILIA516	BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR MEETS MRE POLITICAL UNDER [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Sobel met April 24, with Brazilian Under Secretary for Political Affairs Amb. Vera Machado on the eve of her departure for her first trip to Washington since taking over the position. In addition to leading the delegation to the Major Economies Forum (MEF),Machado will [...]	2009-04-27 20:35:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SENV SNAR SCUL UNSC KSUM BR
09BRASILIA526	U.S. FOREST SERVICE EXPLORES EXPANDED COLLABORATION WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A team of experts from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) identified and prioritized a range of areas for two-way cooperation with Brazilian counterparts during their April 14-17 visit to Brazil. Officials from the young Brazilian Forest Service, the Brazilian Agricultural Researc [...]	2009-04-29 19:19:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KSCA EAID KGHG EAGR BR
09BRASILIA618	BRAZIL: CONFERENCE ON FINANCE FOR REDUCING DEFORESTATION - [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An international conference, April 1-4, hosted by the Governor of Mato Grosso Blairo Maggi and the NGO Forest Trends, and co-funded by USAID, highlighted how far Brazil has come in recognizing its problem with massive, ongoing deforestation of the Amazon Forest. The conference [...]	2009-05-18 10:21:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG KSCA EAID EFIN ENRG BR
09BRASILIA671	BRAZIL SCENESETTER: CODEL THOMPSON MAY 27-28 [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Your visit comes at a time when the relationship between the United States and Brazil is accelerating and being given added weight with the rapid growth of Brazil's regional and global eco [...]	2009-05-27 15:19:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP PTER KCRM SENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN
09BRASILIA697	BRAZIL: OPPORTUNITY TO POSITIVELY INFLUENCE CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (C) SUMMARY. There are signs that within the Brazilian government there is increasing pressure to take a more pro-active role in the ongoing international climate change negotiations. To make progress in this area, Vice Minister for the Environment Izabella Teixeira in recent meetings with t [...]	2009-06-04 14:55:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ENRG KGHG EFIN ECON BR
09BRASILIA743	BRAZIL EMBARKS ON PROGRAM TO IMPROVE MANAGEMENT OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The relatively new Brazilian Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio),the agency responsible for national parks and protected area system, has launched a program to improve its park management. It seeks to introduce public use plans for its parks, and the [...]	2009-06-10 20:13:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KSCA EAID KGHG EAGR BR
09BRASILIA766	BRAZIL SCENESETTER: DR. MICHAEL FROMAN, DEPUTY NATIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is productive and broad-based, with growing economic ties. Through the financial crisis, Brazil has played a constructive role in the G20 and has also prioritized concluding the Doha round of World Trade Organization (WTO) n [...]	2009-06-17 18:16:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP SENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR
09BRASILIA78	SOUTH AMERICA ESTH NEWS, NUMBER 116 [...] The following is number 116 in a series of newsletters, published by the Brasilia Regional Environmental Hub, covering environment, science and technology, and health news in South America. The information below was gathered from news sources from across the region, and the views expressed do [...]	2009-01-16 18:46:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
09BRASILIA809	BRAZIL - DEPUTY NATL SECURITY ADVISOR FROMAN DISCUSSES CEO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government of Brazil (GOB) meetings with Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs Michael Froman in Brasilia June 18-19 focused on CEO Forum, G8 and G20 preparations, Major Economies Forum (MEF) and Doha. Casa Civil head Minister Dilma Rousseff and Mi [...]	2009-06-25 16:15:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EFIN ENRG SENV KGHG EINV BR
09BRASILIA872	BRAZIL: CALIFORNIA'S AND OTHERS' INITIATIVES TO REDUCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. California is leading a group of states in the United States, Brazil and Indonesia, which are parties to a November 2008 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU),in developing the specifications for credit grade international offsets for avoiding deforestation under California's cap- [...]	2009-07-13 14:03:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ECON KSCA EAID ENRG BR
09BRASILIA893	BRAZIL: CONTENTIOUS LAW ENACTED TO HELP CLARIFY MURKY LAND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 25, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva signed legislation (Law No. 11952) that addresses a key factor underlying Brazil's serious deforestation problem, i.e., the lack of clear title to land in the Amazon region. This new law provides farmers and ranchers oc [...]	2009-07-17 13:35:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EINV ECON EAGR KSCA BR
09BRASILIA92	BRAZIL'S STRATEGIC PLANNING MINISTER ON BUILDING BLOCKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Following on his early January trip to Washington, Brazilian Strategic Planning Minister Roberto Mangabeira Unger laid out the elements for a broader, more robust bilateral relationship with the Obama Administration. These include cooperation in the areas of defense security, [...]	2009-01-22 18:31:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ENRG SENV MARR KGHG EFIN BR
09BRASILIA946	BRAZIL SCENESETTER: DR. TODD STERN, SPECIAL ENVOY FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In spite of its relatively clean energy matrix, Brazil is a major greenhouse gas emitter primarily due to massive, ongoing deforestation. The Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) has pursued a cautious, defensive approach in international climate change negotiations, steering [...]	2009-07-31 10:45:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ENRG ECON ETRD EINV EFIN PREL BR
09BRASILIA947	KEY BRAZILIAN NEGOTIATOR SEEKS MODEST, SHORT-TERM, CLIMATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Ministry of Exterior Relations (MRE) leads the Brazilian delegation to the ongoing climate change negotiations. The key MRE negotiator on the delegation is Luiz Figueiredo Machado, who is also a Vice-Chair of one of the working groups under the UN Framework Convention on C [...]	2009-07-31 13:25:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ECON KSCA BR
09BRASILIA955	USG SPONSORED WORKSHOP ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLACIAL MELT [...] SUMMARY. In July 2009, a USAID and NSF-sponsored workshop brought together U.S. and Peruvian experts on climate change impacts on highland mountain zones and they identified six major weaknesses impeding the development and implementation of adaptation strategies. These weaknesses included t [...]	2009-08-03 16:00:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
09BRASILIA960	BRAZIL: SCENESETTER FOR AUGUST 4-6 VISIT OF [...] (C) Summary: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it has ever been in recent decades, the result of the cordial personal connection already established between President Obama and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, which is building on [...]	2009-08-04 12:21:00	Embassy Brasilia	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL BR
09BRASILIA963	USG SPONSORED WORKSHOP ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLACIAL MELT [...] SUMMARY. In July 2009, a USAID and NSF-sponsored workshop brought together U.S. and Peruvian experts on climate change impacts on highland mountain zones and they identified six major weaknesses impeding the development and implementation of adaptation strategies. These weaknesses included t [...]	2009-08-04 15:50:00	Embassy Brasilia	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR EAID TBIO KSCA ECON SOCI XR BR
09BRATISLAVA369	FICO FIRES ENVIRONMENT MINISTER, BUT IT'S NO CLEANUP [...] (C) On Wednesday, PM Robert Fico fired his Minister of Environment over a public procurement scandal involving the disposal of coal ash. At the press conference announcing the dismissal, he said that he would take the ministry away from junior coalition partner, which has caused the governmen [...]	2009-08-21 09:31:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV PREL ECON KCOR LO
09BRATISLAVA389	SOY DEMARCHE: SLOVAKIA SYMPATHETIC BUT NON-COMMITTAL [...] (SBU) Taking advantage of a gathering of agricultural leaders at Slovakia's largest agricultural fair in Nitra, we discussed reftel points with industry groups, including Monsanto, and delivered reftel points to officials in the Ministry of Agriculture, including Agriculture Section Director Ja [...]	2009-09-04 13:49:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EUN TBIO USTR LO
09BRATISLAVA428	SLOVAKIA'S BORDER WITH UKRAINE [...] (U) Summary. On Monday, September 21, Embassy officers together with DHS/ICE attachi visited the Slovak-Ukraine border as the guests of the Border and Alien Police (BAP). Our purposes were (I) to assess any security changes since visa waiver accession; (ii) observe U.S.-donated inspection eq [...]	2009-10-02 15:31:00	Embassy Bratislava	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PREL PGOV LO UP PINR
09BRATISLAVA45	SLOVAKIA - 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Slovakia's once troubled economy has been transformed in the last ten years into a business friendly market-model, which led the region with GDP growth of 7.1 percent (est.) in 2008. Comprehensive structural reforms adopted by the Slovak government in the first several years of this decade led [...]	2009-01-26 15:44:00	Embassy Bratislava	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD OPIC KTDB USTR LO
09BRAZZAVILLE101	BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - APRIL 2, 2009 [...] French President's visit 2. Pointe-Noire port improvements to begin in October 3. Bilateral US-Congo trade 4. Venezuela Opens Embassy 5. First Conviction for Chimp Trafficking 6. Tibet, Anyone? 7. Who's in Charge? SARKOZY'S VISIT --------------- Â [...]	2009-04-02 16:36:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD PREL PGOV PHUM BEXP SENV CF CH FR VE
09BRAZZAVILLE12	ANNUAL OVERSEAS SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL (OSAC) CRIME AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-14 14:05:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC AMGT APER
09BRAZZAVILLE143	BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - MAY 11, 2009 [...] The date has been set: Presidential elections for the Republic of the Congo (ROC) will be held July 12. Eligibility regulations were published: a candidate must be of Congolese nationality, of good morality, must have 15 years of professional experience, be between the ages of 40 and 70, and [...]	2009-05-11 14:39:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EINV ETTC ETRD PGOV CF
09BRAZZAVILLE228	SUBJECT : OVERVIEW OF FRENCH AID TO THE REPUBLIC OF THE [...] (U) Summary: In a detailed press interview, Nicolas Normand, French Ambassador to the ROC, described the major areas of GOF aid efforts in the ROC. Currently, the GOF has a multi-faceted aid program that focuses on intervention in infrastructure development, cultural advocacy, environmental is [...]	2009-07-30 11:02:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL CF FR
09BRAZZAVILLE285	BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF - OCTOBER 1, 2009 [...] (U) President Denis Sassou Nguesso and a large delegation of sixty arrived in New York on September 17. Sassou, First Lady Antoinette, the Foreign Minister, the Minster of Forestry, the Minister of the Environment and 25 others travelled on a chartered plane via Cape Verde. 2. (U) In hi [...]	2009-10-01 12:56:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL CF
09BRAZZAVILLE345	BRAZZAVILLE IN BRIEF: DECEMBER 10, 2009 [...] (U) According to the GROC, there are now 77,488 displaced persons in camps spread along the Congo-Brazzaville bank of the Oubangui River, primarily in the Likouala region. Reports on both sides of the border indicate that what began as an ethnic conflict has now evolved into an organized rebel [...]	2009-12-10 10:42:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL CF EFIN EAGR EINV ETRD

09BRAZZAVILLE349	(SBU) EUROPEAN UNION ASSESSES SUPPORT TO NATIONAL PARKS [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-14 07:15:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID CF CT CG CM GB
09BRAZZAVILLE79	(SBU) IMF, WORLD BANK ON SAME PAGE ON CONGO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the conclusion March 6 of a mission by the IMF to assess Congo's progress with its current PRGF (Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility) program, mission chief Robert York briefed interested diplomatic missions and international organizations, along with key financial interl [...]	2009-03-18 16:07:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN IMF IBRD
09BRAZZAVILLE97	CONGO/BRAZZAVILLE INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-01 14:55:00	Embassy Brazzaville	UNCLASSIFIED	OPIC USTR EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV KTDB CF
09BRIDGETOWN377	ANTIGUA GOVT HOLDS TRUMP CARD OVER CORRUPT [...] (c) On June 22, UK High Commissioner Duncan Taylor passed to the Charge a copy of a "confidential opinion" from a law firm hired by the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to investigate possible corrupt activities by the previous government with regards to repayment of a development loan. The [...]	2009-06-26 12:45:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM CVIS XL
09BRUSSELS1172	COMMISSION PERSPECTIVES ON UNFCCC, MEF, AND TROIKA VISIT TO [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-25 10:05:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY TSPL
09BRUSSELS1174	COMMISSION PERSPECTIVES ON UNFCCC, MEF, AND [...] (SBU) This is a corrected version of BRUSSELS 1165 to correct for formatting. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Artur Runge-Metzger, Head of Unit for International Climate Negotiations in the European CommissionQs Directorate General for Environment, said that emissions targets for developed and developi [...]	2009-08-25 12:23:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY
09BRUSSELS1183	USEU SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW [...] (SBU) You are visiting Brussels at an ideal time to discuss Afghanistan and Pakistan with the EU. Already a major contributor of development and humanitarian assistance, the EU is in the midst of writing a new Af/Pak strategy paper for release in October. Although European public opinion is sk [...]	2009-08-26 12:27:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID EUN AF PK IK
09BRUSSELS1202	USEU SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW [...] (SBU) You are visiting Brussels at an ideal time to discuss Afghanistan and Pakistan with the EU. Already a major contributor of development and humanitarian assistance, the EU is in the midst of writing a new Af/Pak strategy paper for release in October. Although European public opinion is [...]	2009-09-01 10:26:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID EUN AF PK IK
09BRUSSELS1404	ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The European Parliament (EP) has become increasingly influential in EU legislation and policy making; the new Lisbon Treaty, when ratified, will significantly accelerate this trend, in particular in the areas of justice and home affairs, agricultural budgets and [...]	2009-10-21 05:30:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PGOV OVIP OEXC PINR EUN
09BRUSSELS1412	CORRECTED VERSION: ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The European Parliament (EP) has become increasingly influential in EU legislation and policy making; the new Lisbon Treaty, when ratified, will significantly accelerate this trend, in particular in the areas of justice and home affairs, agricultural budgets and [...]	2009-10-22 05:15:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PGOV OVIP OEXC PINR EUN
09BRUSSELS1722	European Commission Publishes Consultation Paper on the [...] Summary. On December 14, 2009 the Commission published a consultation paper requesting comments for the definition and criteria for Highly Biodiverse Grasslands in EU legislation concerning sustainability criteria for biofuels. Biofuel feedstock that comes from these grasslands will not count t [...]	2009-12-23 16:28:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ENRG EUN SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS198	EU'S PROPOSED COPENHAGEN STRATEGY TARGETS OECD [...] (SBU) Summary: The EU Commission's Communication proposing the EU's approach for the UN climate change negotiations recommends strong emissions reduction ommitments and funding from developed countries, but suggests only "actions" (rather than commitments) from developing countries, including t [...]	2009-02-11 15:21:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS259	EU EAGER TO WORK WITH U.S. ON CAP AND TRADE SYSTEMS [...] (SBU) Summary: EU Commission officials, industry reps, climate traders, and NGOs, are eager for a U.S. cap and trade system and anxious to share their experiences on the 2008 revision process of the EU,s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Seeking U.S. leadership on climate change, all aspire to a [...]	2009-02-23 16:21:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS424	NEW EU LOGGING REGULATIONS COULD PRESENT [...] (U) The European Parliament in mid-February 2009 approved amendments to draft legislation which placed far stricter requirements on the logging industry in an attempt to prevent illegally logged timber from entering the European Union. Proposals added to the legislation include the creation of [...]	2009-03-24 15:47:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EUN SENV
09BRUSSELS449	EU COMMISSION PLEASED BY MAJOR ECONOMIES FORUM [...] (SBU) Representatives from the cabinets of EU Commission President Barroso and Environment Commissioner Dimas and from DG Environment expressed their pleasure at the initiative shown by President Obama to continue the Major Economies Process in the form of the Major Economies Forum on Energy a [...]	2009-03-27 15:32:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS455	AFRICOM'S AMB YATES MEETS WITH BELGIAN MFA AND MOD [...] (C) Summary. AFRICOM's Deputy to the Commander for Civ/Mil Activities (DCMA) Mary Carlin Yates met with the Belgian MOD March 12 and MFA March 13 to share opinions and learn about Belgium's efforts in Africa. Ambassador Yates explained AFRICOM's mission and its holistic approach to supportin [...]	2009-03-30 15:12:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS SOCI MNUC CG BE
09BRUSSELS566	THE PLIGHT OF MON810: POLITICS TRUMPS SCIENCE IN THE EU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 14, the German Ministry of Agriculture announced a ban on the cultivation and sale of Monsanto's GMO corn MON810, the only GMO varietal currently approved for cultivation in the European Union, in Germany. The German action follows the March 22 announcement by Luxembou [...]	2009-04-16 13:15:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV EFIN ELAB PGOV BE
09BRUSSELS592	SENATOR BINGAMAN DISCUSSES CAP AND TRADE SYSTEMS [...] (SBU) Summary. Senator Bingaman met separately on April 5-6 with officials from the EU Commission, EU Council, European Parliament, and private industry to discuss the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and cap and trade systems in general. The underlying theme presented by the Europeans th [...]	2009-04-24 11:09:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS664	INDIAN CLIMATE NEGOTIATOR TELLS EUROPEAN AUDIENCE [...] (SBU) In an April 30 speech delivered to the Center for European Policy Studies, Shyam Saran, India's Special Envoy for Climate Change, stated that the "western" approach to financing and mitigation in developing countries will not work and that financing should be based on the developing coun [...]	2009-05-11 11:26:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG KTDB SENV TPHY
09BRUSSELS708	EU OFFICIALS VIEW OFFSETS AS POSSIBLE OBSTACLE TO [...] (SBU) Summary: EU Commission officials, EU Parliament officials, NGOs, and industry are looking to the United States for development of a comprehensive cap and trade program that can benefit from the EU's experience with its own Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The use of carbon offsets in th [...]	2009-05-19 14:52:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS916	Commission Hosts Discussions on U.S. - EU Development [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 15-16, the European Commission hosted a Technical Meeting on Development in Brussels. The meeting was a continuation of a series of discussions between the U.S. and EU aimed at promoting a renewed trans-Atlantic dialogue on development. Sessions were held on food securit [...]	2009-07-06 05:01:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EIND ETRD SENV EUR ECON EAGR TPHY TSPL
09BRUSSELS923	GUANTANAMO DETAINEES: S/E FRIED THANKS E.U. FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-06 16:18:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER EUN
09BRUSSELS936	OPPORTUNITY TO COMMENT ON EU'S APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) Summary. The European Commission currently is internally debating how to address the effects of indirect land use change (ILUC) on the greenhouse gas emissions from biofuels. To assist in the process, the Commission has released a list of eight possible approaches and has opened up a p [...]	2009-07-07 15:35:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BUCHAREST24	ROMANIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2009 [...] Following is Embassy Bucharest's submission for the 2009 Investment Climate Statement. A. OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT ENCOURAGING INVESTMENT Romania actively seeks direct foreign investment. The Agency for Foreign Investment (ARIS),created in 2004, is designed to advertise the co [...]	2009-01-14 13:09:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR RO
09BUCHAREST396	ROMANIA: SHARP Q1 2009 CONTRACTION AFTER TEN BOOMING YEARS [...] (U) Summary. Romania's economy posted a steep and widely anticipated drop in GDP growth in the first quarter (Q1) of 2009 according to official statistics released on June 9th by the National Statistics Institute (INS). The economy showed a 6.2 percent decline overall against the first quart [...]	2009-06-15 09:17:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EIND EFIN RO
09BUCHAREST863	ROMANIAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW CABINET, ENDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 23 the Romanian Parliament approved the new Cabinet assembled by Prime Minister designate Emil Boc with an unexpectedly large majority. The new Cabinet includes members of the Democratic Liberal Party (PDL),the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) [...]	2009-12-24 06:17:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL RO
09BUENOSAIRES1156	AMBASSADOR MEETS ARGENTINE VP COBOS [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Vice President Julio Cobos, long estranged from the Kirchners and now the country's most popular politician and leading contender for the presidency in 2011, received the Ambassador for a warm and friendly half-hour introductory courtesy call in his Senate office Octobe [...]	2009-10-23 12:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER SNAR KTIP SENV AR
09BUENOSAIRES1175	Argentina's 2010 Budget: New Tricks but Same Old Story [...] (SBU) The 2010 Argentine budget does not represent a great departure from the budgets of past years during the Kirchner era. It pays lip service to fiscal restraint that is unlikely to be pursued in practice, and uses numerous accounting tricks and gimmicks to understate expenditures. However [...]	2009-10-30 20:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB AR
09BUENOSAIRES1237	ARGENTINA: INFORMATION FOR COUNTRY REVIEW REGARDING TITLE [...] (U) Post answers to questions in paragraph 5 of reftel A follow. 2. (C) "Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba." Answer: No. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner visited Cuba January 18-21 and did not publicl [...]	2009-11-20 17:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETRD ETTC CU AR
09BUENOSAIRES1244	ARGENTINA'S POSITION ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ESTOffs met on November 12 with the GOA's Climate Change Negotiator, Ambassador Silvia Merega, to ascertain Argentina's position and flexibility ahead of COP-15 in Copenhagen. From our conversation with Merega, it appears that the GoA's position is firmly in line with classic G [...]	2009-11-13 18:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ENRG EIND TRGY PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES1257	ARGENTINA FACES CHALLENGING AML/CFT REVIEW [...] (S/NF) The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) held a two week peer review of the Argentine anti-money laundering and counter terror finance (AML/CFT) regime. Although hoping to see some positive moves by Argentina, the FATF operational team leader is skeptical of the GoA's intentions to combat mone [...]	2009-12-01 16:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER SNAR ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KCOR AR
09BUENOSAIRES302	ARGENTINA'S CONSIDERABLE RENEWABLE ENERGY POTENTIAL [...] Summary: Argentina is a potential world leader in renewable energy. Already a leading producer and exporter of biodiesel, Argentina's extensive forestry resources could provide ample biomass for second-generation biofuels (ref A). The country's southern Patagonia region enjoys some of the m [...]	2009-03-18 10:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON SENV AR
09BUENOSAIRES35	ARGENTINA'S 2008 EPHEDRINE BUBBLE MAY BE POPPED, [...] (SBU) Summary: The legal entry into Argentina of ephedrine bound for illicit uses appears to have slowed substantially by late 2008 following government decrees to sharply limit permitted trade in the chemical, though law enforcement continues to pursue up to eight metric tons of excess ephed [...]	2009-01-09 14:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN AR
09BUENOSAIRES387	ARGENTINA'S CURRENCY SWAP WITH CHINA; WILL IT HELP [...] (C) The Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) and the People's Bank of China appear to have reached a preliminary agreement on a currency swap arrangement (Peso-Yuan) for the equivalent of about US$10 billion. However, there may be some internal disagreement on the Argentine side: while BCRA President [...]	2009-04-01 21:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES603	ARGENTINA: A USEFUL PARTNER ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] Summary: With its reliance on agricultural exports and hydro-electric power generation, Argentina is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. As such, the country's plans tend to focus on adaptation rather than mitigation. Argentina was an early participant in the negotiations lea [...]	2009-05-22 11:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KGHG ENRG PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES614	ARGENTINA: INFORMATION FOR COUNTRY REVIEW [...] (SBU) Post responses to questions in para 5 of ref A follow: 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? Answer: No. The GOA has not taken public or private actions in the past year to promote the advancement of [...]	2009-05-26 20:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ETTC CU AR
09BUENOSAIRES984	DAS MCMULLEN BRIEFS ARGENTINE OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) Summary: WHA DAS Christopher McMullen visited Buenos Aires August 26-27 to brief Argentine authorities on the USG's Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) with Colombia ahead of the August 28 UNASUR conference hosted by Argentina in Bariloche. He had excellent meetings with Cabinet Chief Min [...]	2009-08-28 22:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS SNAR PTER PARM PGOV CO AR
09BUJUMBURA445	MEETING WITH FNL CHIEF RWASA [...] (C) Introduction and Summary. As part of a series of calls on political party chiefs, we met August 28 with Agathon Rwasa, the head of the last rebel group to become part of the peace process and demobilize, the Forces Nationales de Liberation, or FNL. Protected by South African troops, he p [...]	2009-08-31 11:28:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINR PINS BY
09CAIRO1341	EGYPTIAN IDEAS ON SOMALIA [...] (S/NF) Key Points: -- Assistant Minister for African Affairs Mona Omar told the Ambassador that the Government of Egypt (GoE) considers the current situation in Somalia to be the most important on the African continent, and it has put together a plan to try to prevent Al Shibaab from succeed [...]	2009-07-13 14:08:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER KTFN ER SO QA EG
09CAIRO1889	RISING TENSIONS AMONG SINAI BEDOUIN [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-01 14:33:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV EG
09CAIRO1992	SCENESETTER FOR A/S CARSON'S VISIT TO EGYPT [...] However, the GoE decided in September to return the pirates to Puntland for prosecution, contending the suspects were not involved in the original hijacking of the ships but had been hired by the pirates to guard the fishing vessels. Egypt questions whether individual nations have jurisdiction to p [...]	2009-10-20 13:11:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL SU SO ER ET EG
09CAIRO2172	SCENESETTER FOR U/S HORMATS MEETING WITH MINISTER [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-19 08:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID ETRD PGOV PREL EG
09CAIRO300	AYMAN NOUR'S RELEASE [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-19 09:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO328	DINNER WITH PARLIAMENT'S FOREIGN RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: On February 22, the DCM hosted a dinner for several members of the Foreign Relations Committee of the People's Assembly. The attendees included two National Democratic Party (NDP) MP's, one independent, and two Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentarians, including the head of the M [...]	2009-02-23 13:57:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL PTER EAID KPAL PA IS EG
09CANBERRA109	NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT): CONTACT [...] In the Government of Australia, primary points of contact for all NPT matters are: -- John Sullivan, Assistant Secretary, Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch, International Security Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; and -- Chris King, Acting Director, Arms Control [...]	2009-02-02 08:35:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT AS
09CANBERRA1096	ANTICIPATED LABOR SHORTAGE COULD STRENGTHEN UNIONS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Australia's resources and energy sector is forecast to continue growing but companies are worried about skilled labor shortages and new labor laws, which unions are keen to exploit. The GOA estimates there are 80 planned or approved energy and resource projects that are likely [...]	2009-12-13 20:52:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EMIN ECON ETRD PGOV AS
09CANBERRA1119	AS POLICE PLAN THEIR "SURGE" IN AFGHANISTAN, UNION [...] (C/NF) Summary: The Australian Federal Police (AFP) union has been loudly critical of Prime Minister Rudd,s plans to increase Australia,s police presence in Afghanistan, and has vowed to fight any "significant" expansion of the AFP commitment. Officials predicted that between 10 and 20 new [...]	2009-12-23 03:46:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINS AS AF
09CANBERRA1123	RUDD GOVERNMENT REPORT CARD 2009 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Rudd government remained politically dominant in 2009, largely on the back of better than expected economic conditions, Rudd's enduring high popularity, government unity, and a dysfunctional opposition. Foreign Minister Smith stepped out of Rudd's shadow and the resignation [...]	2009-12-23 06:11:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AS
09CANBERRA136	VICTORIA WILDFIRES: CANBERRA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Though the worst of the fires appear to be over, Australia is reeling as rescuers discover more victims from Victoria's wildfires, with the death toll expected to pass 200 (ref B). Deputy PM Gillard termed the fires "one of the darkest days" in Australia's peacetime history. T [...]	2009-02-10 21:00:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID SENV AS
09CANBERRA188	ALP FACTIONS BIDE THEIR TIME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite the apparent desire of Australian Labor Party (ALP) leader and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to end the power of ALP factions, the January outbreak of a dispute between members of the Right faction in Victoria is a reminder that they still control politics at the local level. [...]	2009-02-25 07:23:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ELAB AS
09CANBERRA281	AUSTRALIA TRADE POLICY UPDATE: BEEF DECISION CLOSE? [...] (SBU/NF) Summary: We are hearing rumors of possible movement on Australia,s ban on imports of US beef. The GOA is "disappointed" at the delay in Trans-Pacific Partnership. Australia signed an FTA with the ASEAN countries and New Zealand that has been positively received, and covers 21% of A [...]	2009-03-23 03:50:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR ASEAN AS
09CANBERRA545	GILLARD: ON TRACK TO BECOME AUSTRALIA'S NEXT PRIME [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Described by her many supporters as "smart, tough, loyal, and the best parliamentary performer in the Australian Labor Party (ALP)," Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard - who visits Washington later this month - has positioned herself as the heir apparent to Prime Minister Kev [...]	2009-06-10 22:19:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV ELAB AS
09CANBERRA559	FOOD SECURITY: PM RUDD PLANNING TO ATTEND L'AQUILA [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 4. 2. (U) Per instructions in reftel, Econoff and Ag Counselor discussed information in reftel with AusAID and the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry on June 12. We subsequently passed a copy of the points in reftel to the Ameri [...]	2009-06-15 05:35:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID PREL AS
09CANBERRA675	TEXT OF MOUS BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND IRAQ [...] (C/NF) START SUMMARY: On July 17, Lloyd Brodrick (protect),Director of the Iraq Section at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade provided to the Embassy the texts of six MOUs signed by Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, during her visit to Baghdad on June 27. The texts were signed i [...]	2009-07-22 06:58:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MOPS PREL MARR IZ AS
09CANBERRA681	Australians Moonstruck over Apollo 11 Anniversary [...] (U) SUMMARY: The 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing generated much excitement and good will throughout Australia, but especially in the Canberra region, where tracking stations 40 years ago played a crucial role in broadcasting the video images of Neil Armstrong's first steps onto the l [...]	2009-07-27 05:25:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA KPAO PGOV AS
09CANBERRA802	RESPONSE TO REPORTING REQUEST - NPT REVIEW [...] (SBU) Australia is a strong partner with the U.S. and the multilateral community in working to prevent nuclear proliferation. As an NPT signatory, the GOA takes a multi-dimensional approach to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. The GOA is a major supporter of the Nuclear Non-Prolifer [...]	2009-08-31 21:59:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09CANBERRA920	CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION: INDUSTRY MOSTLY [...] (C/NF) Summary: Recent discussions with Australian companies and civil society groups suggest they largely accept that the government will succeed in passing climate change legislation this year (Ref A). While most interested parties appear to believe that the Carbon Pollution Reduction Schem [...]	2009-10-09 07:17:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV ECON ETRD AS
09CANBERRA965	AUSTRALIAN VIEWS ON THE BANGKOK UNFCCC MEETINGS [...] (SBU) Summary. Australia is generally positive about the outcomes of the recent Bangkok UNFCCC meetings. The assessment that the negotiations will be tough has not changed, but there is a strong sense that key issues like adaptation, legal form of an agreement, and REDD can be moved ahead at [...]	2009-10-28 06:57:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG PREL AS
09CAPETOWN56	SOUTH AFRICA IS HYDROCARBON POOR, BUT HAS BIG PLANS FOR [...] (SBU) This cable is not for Internet distribution. This cable is a collaboration between Embassy Pretoria and Consulate General Cape Town. Summary. South Africa has limited reserves of crude oil and natural gas and imports 70 percent of its requirements, which are for the most part refined l [...]	2009-03-12 12:33:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB SF
09CARACAS1318	VENEZUELA: LOOMING POWER BLACKOUTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) has not adequately invested in the electrical sector nor addressed its deteriorating infrastructure resulting in hundreds of isolated local power outages and regular nation-wide outages. Domestic electricity consumption has increased ov [...]	2009-10-14 15:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS136	VENEZUELA: SERVICE COMPANIES FEEL THE PINCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: PDVSA,s cash shortage is exacting an increasingly heavy burden on oil services companies. As reported in the press, Ensco and Helmerich& Payne have already chosen to cease certain drilling operations. Ensco has allowed PDVSA to operate its rig while negotiating quietly for outstanding [...]	2009-02-03 12:43:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV VE
09CARACAS1444	GBRV STRATEGY ON COLOMBIA-DCA DISPUTE BECOMING [...] (SE) Summary: Following President Chavez's November 8 urging that the Venezuelan public "prepare for war" to defend the country against anticipated Colombian-U.S. cross-border aggression (Ref A),the Venezuelan government (GBRV) and its local allies issued a series of supportive and similarly [...]	2009-11-10 20:46:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET	PREL PINS MARR MCAP MOPS VE
09CARACAS511	CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL GIVES UP ON VENEZUELA [...] (C) SUMMARY: NGO Conservation International closed its doors in Venezuela on March 31 saying it wanted to focus on countries where it can have an impact on host government environmental policies. The Venezuelan head of another US-based NGO, The Nature Conservancy, said the government would g [...]	2009-04-23 15:55:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR SENV VE
09CARACAS693	VENEZUELA HARASSES CLASSIFIED POUCH TRANSFERS [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan Protocol Director phoned Charge on June 4 to detail new procedures that compromise the ability of the Embassy to receive classified escorted diplomatic pouches. Despite claiming to be just "tidying up" procedures, this action represents renewed efforts to harass [...]	2009-06-05 16:18:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL AOPR AREP VE
09CASABLANCA181	AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN MOROCCO: ON THE EDGE OF [...] (SBU) Every year thousands of sub-Saharan migrants enter eastern Morocco from Algeria intent on making the final push to Spain. While some are successful, many more end up languishing in the transit towns or settling into longer term residence in Morocco. Poloff visited the camps of clandest [...]	2009-09-15 17:17:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PTER PINR MO AG
09CASABLANCA182	AFRICAN MIGRANTS IN MOROCCO: ON THE EDGE OF [...] (SBU) Every year thousands of sub-Saharan migrants enter eastern Morocco from Algeria intent on making the final push to Spain. While some are successful, many more end up languishing in the transit towns or settling into longer term residence in Morocco. Poloff visited the camps of clandest [...]	2009-09-15 18:51:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER PINR MO AG
09CHENGDU114	SOUTHWEST CHINA: SICHUAN OFFICIALS ON GREEN ENERGY [...] (SBU) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Sichuan has rich developed and potential hydro and biogas power resources, but far fewer solar and wind energy development opportunities, according to a recent pr [...]	2009-06-29 11:54:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EINV SENV CH
09CHENGDU149	US NGOS SUPPORT LIVELIHOOD PROJECTS AMONG ETHNIC TIBETANS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information -- not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Ethnic Tibetans and other minority communities benefit from income-boosting and cultural preservation projects in northwest Yunnan implemented by U.S. NGOs and fun [...]	2009-08-11 04:02:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SOCI PGOV CH
09CHENGDU230	TOP LAWYER USING YUNNAN ENVIRONMENTAL COURTS TO EXPAND [...] (C) Summary: An open-minded chief judge and new guidance for environmental courts make Yunnan Province the logical place to pursue public interest environmental litigation, one of China's top public interest lawyers said. Similar courts and early cases in Guizhou and Jiangsu have set new prece [...]	2009-10-16 05:06:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV PGOV PHUM CH
09CHENGDU247	TIBET: CLIMATE CHANGE, GREEN ENERGY, MINING, POACHING, AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Climate change is moving faster in Tibet than in other areas of China, and fastest at the highest elevations, leading the State Council to pass an ambitious plan for ecological protection earlier this year, Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) officials told us October 22 in Lhasa. G [...]	2009-11-06 02:47:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ENRG EMIN EAGR CH
09CHENGDU251	TIBET VICE GOVERNOR: SLAMS DALAI LAMA, DENIES POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: The Dalai Lama and his "clique" masterminded the "March 14" incident as part of a bid to take back feudal power in Tibet, Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) Vice Governor Wu Yingjie told Consul General October 20. The many people praying at temples in Lhasa testify to the government [...]	2009-11-09 06:36:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EINV EAGR SENV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU252	TIBET 15 YEARS LATER: CONGENOFF'S OBSERVATIONS OF CHANGING [...] (C) Introduction and Summary: ConGen Chengdu Officer visited Lhasa in mid-October for the first time since 1994, when he was a university student in religious studies (including Buddhism). This cable provides his informal vignettes of life in Lhasa. ConGenOff noted that Western tourists in Lhas [...]	2009-11-09 07:49:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
09CHENGDU277	GUIZHOU PROVINCE: GREEN INITIATIVES BELIE ITS CONSERVATIVE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Southwest China's Guizhou Province, an early adopter of Beijing's relatively new "Ecological Culture" policy, has become a leader on some environmental issues. Guiz [...]	2009-11-30 17:19:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PGOV PREL ECON EMIN SOCI CH
09CHENGDU283	TIBET: NEPAL SEEKS INCREASED PRC TRADE/AID/TRANSPORT LINKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Nepal seeks to be a transit point between India and China and hopes to see increased development assistance and investment from the PRC, Nepalese Consul General in Lhasa told CG recently during a visit to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Nepal seeks lower content requirement [...]	2009-12-02 07:46:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EAID EINV ELTN SOCI NP CH
09CHENGDU284	BURMA'S CG IN SOUTHWEST CHINA DISCUSSES RISING TRADE, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to Burma's Consul General in Kunming, July-August unrest on the border with China's Yunnan province did not significantly affect overall bilateral trade, which continues to increase. Trade between China and Burma increased annually by: 11-18 percent between 2005 and 2 [...]	2009-12-03 07:38:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV PREL SNAR SENV KTIP CH BM
09CHENGDU304	SICHUAN QUAKE DONATIONS DEMONSTRATE GREEN BUILDING [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Guangyuan, one of Sichuan's poorest prefectures, is the site for a demonstration of earthquake resistant, environmentally friendly bamboo shelters. The standards being [...]	2009-12-14 23:32:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID ECON PGOV CH
09CHENGDU31	SOUTHWEST CHINA: VISITING GUIZHOU'S MIAO MINORITY [...] (C) Summary: A recent trip with an ethnic Miao anthropologist to his home in the Miao/Hmong heartland of Guizhou, China's poorest province, provided an interesting window on rapid changes currently underway in rural areas of the region. Large government and private investments in tourist dev [...]	2009-02-17 05:28:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON SOCI CH
09CHENNAI161	ANDHRA POLICE KILL KEY MAOIST LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Police in Andhra Pradesh (AP) killed two top members of a violent Maoist group ("Naxalite") in an encounter on May 24. They also recovered several firearms. The police link one of those killed to several high-profile terrorist attacks, including assassination attempts against [...]	2009-05-28 06:37:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV ASEC PHUM IN
09CHENNAI223	THE SONS ALSO RISE: KARUNANIDHI KEEPS POWER IN THE FAMILY [...] (SBU) Summary: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi consolidated his family's hold over the DMK party in the wake of its surprisingly strong performance in the national elections. Karunanidhi signaled that his son Stalin is his heir apparent by naming him Deputy Chief Minister of Tamil Nad [...]	2009-07-09 04:03:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KBIO IN
09CHENNAI327	SOUTH INDIA'S FIRST BJP GOVERNMENT MUDDLES THROUGH A [...] (SBU) Summary: South India's first state government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) teetered on the verge of collapse for nearly two weeks as Karnataka's Chief Minister fought off attempts by the Tourism Minister to unseat him. National-level BJP authorities brokered a truce on Novemb [...]	2009-11-12 07:57:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF IN
09CHENNAI53	MAOISTS SUFFER FURTHER BLOW IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (SBU) Konapuri Ilaiah ,former Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh State Committee (APSC) of India's indigenous Maoist insurgency (also known as Naxalites),surrendered to police on February 15, allegedly because of his ill health. Deputy Inspector General of the Special Intelligence Branch B. Shiv [...]	2009-02-24 06:48:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PHUM IN
09CHENNAI81	WOMEN IN INDIA: TAMIL NADU'S IRON LADY J. JAYALALITHAA [...] (SBU) Summary: Movie-star turned politician J. Jayalalithaa's political career embodies many of the contradictions inherent in the history of successful female politicians in India's otherwise patriarchical society. A man brought her into politics but she rose to the height of power on her own [...]	2009-03-19 03:44:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM IN
09CHIANGMAI103	HMONG IN NORTHERN THAILAND ARE ASSIMILATING AND NETWORKING [...] (U) Over the past twenty years, the Hmong in northern Thailand have accepted a sedentary lifestyle and continue to assimilate into Thai society. Today, there are many agricultural Hmong communities in northern Thailand where trade in handicrafts and other products is growing. These Thai-Hm [...]	2009-07-17 01:56:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECIN ECPS EINT EIND ELAB ETRD EINV PHUM
09CHIANGMAI109	IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN: HILL TRIBES, ENVIRONMENTALISM, [...] (SBU) In northern Thailand, differing opinions of environmental cause and effect have led to highly charged debates about forest management policies, often pitting "conservationists" against agriculturally-dependent ethnic hill tribe minorities and their supporters. The Royal Forest Departm [...]	2009-07-24 09:55:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR EAID ELAB SENV TH
09CHIANGMAI114	GOING "GREEN" TO EARN GREEN: CONSERVATION POLICIES USED TO [...] (SBU) In the past, the Thai Royal Forest Department (RFD) has encouraged and, sometimes forced, upland dwellers to resettle outside of highly valued national parks and protected forests. Recently, NGOs have begun to worry that carbon trading initiatives designed to slow climate change will [...]	2009-07-30 02:48:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR EAID ELAB SENV TH
09CHIANGMAI115	LAND CRUNCH AND AGRIBUSINESSES HURT HIGHLAND AGRICULTURE AND [...] (SBU) Agriculturally-dependent hill tribe people, as well as other upland farmers, face increasing pressures stemming from a general shortage of available agricultural land, problematic development policies, and the growth of agribusinesses in northern Thailand. In recent years, development p [...]	2009-08-03 02:23:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR EAID ELAB SENV TH
09CHIANGMAI170	IF WE BUILD IT WILL THEY COME? NORTHERN THAILAND AND THE [...] (SBU) Projects in northern Thailand's Chiang Rai province to improve the Greater Mekong Subregion's (GMS) north/south economic trade corridor between southern China and central Thailand continue to move forward. A new bridge over the Mekong River at Chiang Khong, the last link for the Kunm [...]	2009-11-12 03:12:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD SENV EINV PREL BTIO CH LA TH
09CHIANGMAI178	PM'S PLANNED NOV. 29 VISIT GALVANIZES RED-SHIRTS TO ACT IN [...] (C) In the wake of anti-government red-shirt rhetoric tantamount to death threats against Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, red-shirts and supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin are gearing up for a potential showdown with security forces in Chiang Mai during Prime Minister Abhisit's plan [...]	2009-11-25 11:10:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM CASC ASEC TH
09CHIANGMAI28	AMBASSADOR HIGHLIGHTS U.S. "SOFT POWER" IN VISIT TO NORTHERN [...] (U) The Ambassador's February 17-20 visit to four northern provinces highlighted the array of "soft power" tools the USG brings to bear in its 175-year-old relationship with Thailand. After opening the visit by participating in the closing ceremony of the 28th annual Cobra Gold military exerci [...]	2009-02-26 07:39:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF PHUM ECON SCUL KPAO TH
09CHIANGMAI75	NGOS ASSIST HILL TRIBES IN DIVERSE WAYS, BUT CAPACITY [...] (U) Although the Royal Thai Government (RTG) passed two laws in 2008 that improved citizenship eligibility, stateless persons living in northern Thailand still face a host of legal, administrative, and practical obstacles to citizenship. Recognizing the many disadvantages confronting statele [...]	2009-06-04 09:49:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON SMIG PREF PREL KWMN BM TH
09CHISINAU43	MOLDOVA 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Embassy Chisinau submits the Investment Climate Statement in response to reftel: Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ 2. Moldova continues to take small steps toward developing a stronger economy, reforming a cumbersome regulatory framework, combating corrupti [...]	2009-01-22 10:39:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD PGOV KTDB OPIC USTR MD
09CHISINAU5	GRINCH STEALS CHRISTMAS AGAIN IN MOLDOVA [...] (SBU) Summary: Once again, the central government has interfered with Chisinau Christmas celebrations in an attempt to thwart Chisinau Mayor Dorin Chirtoaca and assert its control over public space in the capital. Like last year, the confrontation began with a wandering Christmas tree; this y [...]	2009-01-06 13:06:00	Embassy Chisinau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM MD
09CHISINAU792	LOOKING AHEAD TO OCTOBER 23 PRESIDENTIAL [...] (S) Summary: The Alliance has nominated Marian Lupu as their unified candidate for the Presidential vote now scheduled to take place in the Parliament on October 23. With October 17 as the deadline for registration of candidates, it is not clear yet if the PCRM will nominate an alternative [...]	2009-10-13 14:35:00	Embassy Chisinau	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR MD
09COLOMBO1048	MALDIVES SEEKS ASSISTANCE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE [...] ESTHOff met with Maldivian government officials on the margins of the Climate Vulnerable Forum November 9-10 (reftel) and in Male November 15 to discuss a range of climate change and other environmental issues. The Government of the Maldives (GOM) has called climate change its number one nati [...]	2009-11-19 10:20:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SENV PGOV TSPL KGHG TPHY KICR IO CE
09COLOMBO1077	INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT FOR [...] Per reftel, below is the 2009/10 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report for Sri Lanka. The INCSR for the Maldives will be transmitted septel. SUMMARY -- 2. Sri Lanka has a relatively small-scale drug problem. The Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) remains committed to targeting drug [...]	2009-11-27 07:02:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR CE
09COLOMBO231	SRI LANKA: ACCESS TO GENETIC RESOURCES IN ADVANCE OF [...] Per ref A request, the following information concerning Sri Lanka's regulations governing access to genetic resources and benefit sharing is keyed below to ref A, para 20. Additional questions raised by AmEmb New Delhi (ref B) are not relevant at present as Sri Lanka's patent law does not pro [...]	2009-03-02 02:15:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID SENV TBIO CE
09COLOMBO573	SRI LANKA: NEED FOR RAPID PROGRESS IN RESOLVING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USAID/OFDA and PRM officers' monitoring of Vavuniya area sites for internally-displaced persons (IDPs) on May 18-22 revealed the post-May 15 outflow of civilians from the conflict severely stretched the Government's capacity to respond. While US-funded UN agencies and INGOs are [...]	2009-06-01 03:03:00	Embassy Colombo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF MOPS PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC CE ECON
09CONAKRY103	CATERPILLAR INFESTATION HIGHLIGHTS WEAK AGRICULTURAL [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. SUMMARY. The rare plague of caterpillars that devastated farm land in north and central Liberia has spread into the southern Forest Region of Guinea destroying crops, polluting water sources, and forcing farmers and families to remain i [...]	2009-02-13 10:27:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON KSCA GV
09CONAKRY110	ARRESTS, APPOINTMENTS, AND MACHINATIONS: A [...] (U) SUMMARY. Politics in Guinea continue to be fluid since the coup d'etat on 23 December 2008. Given these circumstances, post will transmit as needed roundups of presidential appointments, military arrests, and any other political machinations. This roundup covers the period between 27 Jan [...]	2009-02-19 12:12:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL GV
09CONAKRY156	MILITARY JUNTA OPERATES UNDER CHAOS AND DYSFUNCTION [...] (C) SUMMARY. The chaotic and dysfunctional nature of President Moussa Dadis' government appears to be deepening. Military Camp Alpha Yaya is apparently the President's preferred base of operations where he feels secure surrounded by trusted officers and friends. Most presidential business is [...]	2009-03-12 10:53:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC GV

09CONAKRY157	LES FORCES VIVES NOW REPORTEDLY PUSHING FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a March 5 meeting with Charge, opposition political leader Jean-Marie Dore said that he had been selected by his peers as the spokesperson for Les Forces Vives. Critical of recent CENI activities, including the proposal of an election timeline to the CNDD, Dore said Les [...]	2009-03-12 13:32:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY185	GUINEA POST-COUP: A POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR 6 MARCH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Politics in Guinea continue to be fluid since the coup d'etat on 23 December 2008. Given these circumstances, Post will periodically transmit roundups of significant political and economic events not covered in other reporting. This roundup covers the period between 6 March [...]	2009-03-26 12:09:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EMIN PREL KDEM ASEC PHUM GV
09CONAKRY208	EXPLORING FGM- SORCERY, SECRECY, AND LIVELIHOODS [...] (U) SUMMARY. During a recent visit to the Forest Region, Assistant Poloff explored the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM),which affects an estimated 96% of the female population in Guinea. An interview with two women who perform FGM revealed that the exclusion of men and the belief [...]	2009-04-08 16:12:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM GV
09CONAKRY214	USG-FUNDED FISTULA REPAIR CENTER PROMOTES [...] (U) SUMMARY. During a recent trip to the Forest Region, Assistant Poloff explored health issues that affect women, including Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and obstetric fistula. A visit to Engender Health's Fistula Repair Center and Waiting House illustrated the organization's emphasis on [...]	2009-04-17 12:53:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM EAID PREL PGOV
09CONAKRY240	IN GUINEA'S FOREST REGION, CITIZENS SUPPORT DADIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A recent trip to Guinea's Forest Region, CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara's natal home, suggests that there is significant popular support for the military junta. Forest residents generally viewed the CNDD's activities since the coup in a favorable light. Many of them also [...]	2009-04-30 16:15:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY255	ELIMINATING FGM- NGO ACTIVITIES IN THE FOREST [...] (U) SUMMARY. During a recent visit to the Forest Region, Assistant Poloff explored the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM),which affects an estimated 96% of the female population in Guinea. Meetings with local authorities, citizens, and NGOs working to combat the practice of FGM rev [...]	2009-05-07 11:53:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV EAID GV
09CONAKRY296	HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER PROVIDES DIFFERENT VIEW ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. Comments from one of the country's leading lawyers and human rights advocates, Maitre Mounir, indicate that he is increasingly demoralized by the political situation in Guinea. He described a heated and unproductive meeting between the Bar Association and Dadis, which he believ [...]	2009-05-26 16:27:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ELAB PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY311	RIO TINTO DOWNSIZES IRON ORE PROJECT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Mining giant Rio Tinto has all but halted its multi-billion dollar iron ore mining project in Simandou. According to the company's local project manager, Rio Tinto based its decision on Guinea's continued lack of political stability. After cutting staff by more than 50% and hal [...]	2009-06-02 16:11:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	EMIN PGOV PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY36	CIVIL SOCIETY LEADER CRITICIZES USG POLICY, CALLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A prominent civil society leader and former minister of social affairs privately criticized the USG's decision to suspend non-humanitarian aid during a January 7 meeting with Poloff. She blamed the international community for Guinea's current situation and called for greater [...]	2009-01-13 13:28:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI PREL PGOV KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY377	CNDD TURNS GREEN [...] (C) Summary: The Ministry of Environment (MOE) publicly closed the Societe Aurifere de Guinee (SAG) mine in early June and demanded $10 million USD as compensation for environmental degradation to reopen the area. The Ministry of Mines (MOM) was caught unaware of the decision made by MOE Minis [...]	2009-06-29 13:55:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EINV EFIN EIND EMIN GV
09CONAKRY399	MINISTERS ON THE ROAD FOR DADIS [...] (U) SUMMARY. In an effort to stem his plunging popularity and increase CNDD visibility, CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara has directed his ministers to get out of their offices and confront the problems facing common people, namely the lack of electricity and water. Two ministers worked the F [...]	2009-07-09 17:11:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY400	REPORTED INCREASE IN MILITARY TENSION NOT VISIBLE [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to information obtained by Embassy's DAO, some elements of the military appear to be solidifying alliances with either Captain Jean Claude Pivi or the Minister of Defense Sekouba Konate. Military sources agree that tensions within the army are very high, though there is [...]	2009-07-10 14:26:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY422	PAPA KOLY'S RISE TO THE TOP [...] (SBU) Summary: Papa Koly Kourouma, the Minister of Environment and Sustainable Development, is gaining power in the CNDD government. Although he was appointed to this position during the Conte regime, Papa Koly began asserting his power under the CNDD and taking over several key roles at the M [...]	2009-07-21 16:37:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EMIN ENRG EAGR EINV PGOV SENV PREL GV
09CONAKRY440	LAWLESS SOLDIERS UNCHECKED BY MILITARY JUNTA [...] SUMMARY. The security situation in Guinea continues to deteriorate. The recent beating of the country's second highest political and military figure at the hands of enlisted men, points to a broader problem with the army in general and the Presidential Guard, or red berets in particular. Soldi [...]	2009-07-30 16:03:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY463	FORCES VIVES LEADER WORRIED ABOUT DADIS RUNNING [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a meeting with A/DCM, Forces Vives spokesman Jean-Marie Dore claimed that CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara is planning to present himself as a candidate in Guinea's upcoming election. Dore was visibly agitated at the prospect, claiming that such an announcement would bring [...]	2009-08-10 16:17:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY465	CIVILIAN LEADERS COMMENT ON GROWING MILITARY [...] (S) SUMMARY. According to key civilian leaders, growing factionalism within the military is cause for concern. Younger contacts seem to think that an implosion is imminent while older contacts were less urgent, but worried. Comments suggest that there are several factions within the military [...]	2009-08-11 15:00:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET	PGOV ASEC PREL KDEM GV
09CONAKRY50	DADIS CAMARA APPOINTS CABINET MINISTERS [...] (U) On January 14, a military spokesperson announced a presidential decree appointing 29 cabinet ministers. Under the order, some ministers will serve directly under the prime minister, while others will bypass the PM and answer only to the president. Preliminary information on the cabinet m [...]	2009-01-16 13:10:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET	PGOV PREL BIOS GV
09CONAKRY501	MACENTA - KONATE LOBBIES FOR DADIS, YOUTH PROTEST [...] (U) Youth rioted on August 25 in the city of Macenta, which is located in the Forest region approximately 14 hours from Conakry. The protest was sparked by the Mayor's failure to deliver to the Macenta youth a hundred million Guinean francs (GNF)(approximately $20,000 USD) that Minister of Def [...]	2009-08-26 14:13:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY506	FORCES VIVES REPORTEDLY UNITED AGAINST DADIS [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to political leader Francois Fall, Guinea's Forces Vives are determined to prevent CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara from running in the upcoming presidential elections. Coalition members are reportedly discussing strategies for next steps while the country's youth a [...]	2009-08-26 16:46:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY51	YOUTH LEADER "DISAPPOINTED" WITH MILITARY JUNTA [...] (S) SUMMARY. A key youth leader who has been working with the military junta since the coup was in the early planning stages says he is "disappointed" with the result. He commented at length about the new cabinet (septel),asserting that cabinet members are closely tied to CNDD president Mo [...]	2009-01-16 13:11:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY514	FORCES VIVES PLAN TO BOYCOTT AUGUST 31 MEETING [...] (U) CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara issued a communique on August 26 calling for an "important meeting" to be held on August 31 at the People's Palace to discuss Guinea's transition process. A wide range of groups were invited to send representatives, including Les Forces Vives, political [...]	2009-08-28 12:31:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY518	TRANSITION MEETING TURNS INTO PRO-DADIS POLITICAL [...] (SBU) CNDD President Moussa Dadis Camara's meeting on Guinea's transition went forward today as planned at the People's Palace, although it started more than two hours late due to Dadis' habitual tardiness. Members of Les Forces Vives did not participate, in accordance with the group's state [...]	2009-08-31 15:33:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY529	DEMORALIZED YOUTH LEADERS AFRAID THAT JUNTA IS [...] (C) SUMMARY. According to youth contacts, Dadis and the CNDD are successfully attracting scores of political supporters, and using "billions of francs" to do so. At the same time, the CNDD is using fear, among other tactics, to paralyze the opposition. Demoralized, the youth leaders see fe [...]	2009-09-03 14:54:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY532	NEW VOICE EMERGING WITHIN LES FORCES VIVES [...] (C) SUMMARY. The leader of one of Guinea's newest political parties, Aboubacar Syllah, may be playing an increasingly important role within Les Forces Vives. A journalist by trade, Syllah has been working closely with former Prime Minister Francois Fall, and has been behind some strongly wo [...]	2009-09-03 16:42:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY537	CONAKRY SECURITY SUMMARY - SEPTEMBER 4, 2009 [...] (U) The security situation in Guinea is calm but tense. The last two weeks ushered in violent protests upcountry, anti-CNDD demonstrations in Conakry, and an unremarkable Presidential rally at the People,s Palace. The following serves as summary of significant security-related events during [...]	2009-09-04 13:24:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC KDEM PGOV PREL PMIL GV
09CONAKRY545	HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. A leading human rights activist is concerned about rising political tensions in Guinea, and fears that the country is on the verge of a potentially violent conflict. Commenting extensively on the CNDD's efforts to bolster support, Contact highlighted polarizing tactics focused [...]	2009-09-10 15:30:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY551	FULANI YOUTHS DISCUSS ANTI-DADIS MOVEMENT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. A group of Fulani youth leaders who identified themselves as the organizers of recent anti-Dadis demonstrations in Conakry told A/DCM of their plans to organize more such demonstrations in the weeks ahead. They cited ongoing concerns about security and claimed that the CNDD is [...]	2009-09-11 13:46:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY590	CIVIL DEMONSTRATIONS UP COUNTRY, PEOPLE WORRIED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Protests/demonstrations took place in three distinctly different parts of the country on September 24, all of them connected to CNDD efforts to organize pro-Dadis political rallies. In Labe, thousands of people peacefully took to the streets to protest CNDD efforts to rally s [...]	2009-09-25 13:53:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY600	UFDG SUPPORTERS SEEKING TO MEDEVAC CELLOU DIALLO [...] (SBU) UFDG party supporters report that former Prime Minister turned political party leader, Cellou Dalein Diallo, is in a weakened state of health due to the severe beating he endured at the stadium yesterday (reftel). According to contacts, Diallo has several broken ribs along with numerous [...]	2009-09-29 13:56:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY603	CONAKRY RELATIVELY CALM AS CITIZENS FOCUS ON [...] (SBU) Conakry remains relatively calm as of 1300 on September 30, although there have been sporadic reports of violence. There was a small demonstration in Taouyah with youths throwing rocks, but police intervened and peacefully dispersed the crowd. There are currently reports of gunfire in [...]	2009-09-30 13:56:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY604	DADIS VISITS THE WOUNDED, DECLARES TWO DAYS OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The ruling CNDD military junta is placing the blame for Monday's violence squarely on Guinea's political actors, noting that the demonstration was illegal and security forces had no choice but to react to the violent behavior of the demonstrators. Over a national television b [...]	2009-09-30 14:04:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY605	BUSINESS ROUNDUP AFTER SEPTEMBER 28 EVENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. Commerce in Conakry, Faranah, Labe, Mamou, and several other of Guinea's larger cities, has come to an almost complete halt this week. Gas stations throughout the country have been closed since Monday morning, and the major roads between Guinea,s farmlands and its capital city re [...]	2009-09-30 16:36:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ASEC PHUM PGOV EINV GV
09CONAKRY632	FORCES VIVES DESCRIBE EXPERIENCES, MAINTAIN THAT [...] (SBU) Summary: Key members of Les Forces Vives met with DAS Fitzgerald on October 5 to discuss Guinea's political impasse. Clearly shocked and angered by the September 28 violence, they were eager to describe their experiences at the stadium, many of them either victims of beatings or witness [...]	2009-10-07 17:39:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY635	EYEWITNESS REPORTS ENCOUNTER WITH CIVILIAN MILITIA [...] (SBU) A long-time Embassy contact (a Peuhl) told A/DCM on October 7 that he had personally seen a group of 40 civilian militias exit from Camp Alpha Yaya on September 28 at approximately 1300. According to source, these civilians were naked from the waist up, sported tattoos on their bodies, [...]	2009-10-08 16:03:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY637	(C) INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES WANT CNDD TO GO [...] (C) Summary: DAS William Fitzgerald met with a group of foreign investors on September 7 to discuss the current political and economic landscape in Guinea. The group agreed that the security situation has limited their ability to plan for future investments. They also expressed their belief tha [...]	2009-10-08 16:17:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG ECPS ASEC PGOV PREL GV
09CONAKRY645	PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF POST-SEPTEMBER 28 ATTACKS [...] (S) A close Embassy contact visited EconOff at her house October 8 to discuss what he described as ethnically-based violence that took place on Tuesday, September 29 in Conakry. Source also provided photographic evidence of the violence, and Embassy is in possession of these photographs. Source [...]	2009-10-09 12:14:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET	PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY65	YOUTH LEADER WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FOR DADIS AND THE [...] SUMMARY. An important youth leader, Dansa Kourouma, claims to have backed Moussa Dadis Camara even before President Conte's death, and to have helped Dadis and others plot the coup that overthrew the government. However, Dansa told Poloff on January 22 that he is disappointed with the CNDD' [...]	2009-01-27 14:12:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET	PGOV SOCI PREL ASEC GV
09CONAKRY650	POLITICAL DETAINEE ALLEGES TORTURE AND ONGOING [...] (C) SUMMARY. A victim of the September 28 violence at the stadium was detained for more than 24 hours by Red Berets, during which time he claims to have been tortured for more than two hours. Contact was held with eleven other detainees who he stated are still being held in a military camp. [...]	2009-10-09 16:11:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY651	SIXTEEN YEAR OLD RAPE VICTIM DESCRIBES EXPERIENCE [...] (C) On October 9, EconOff met with two young sisters who were attacked on September 28 at the stadium. One girl, barely sixteen years old, was raped by multiple soldiers and severely beaten and stabbed. The other, who was about eighteen years old, narrowly escaped rape, but was beaten and cut [...]	2009-10-09 16:17:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ASEC PREL PGOV SOCI GV
09CONAKRY654	CNDD SUPPORTS TWO DAYS OF GENERAL STRIKE [...] (U) Guineans are continuing to observe a "ville morte" throughout the country (reftel),including in the Forest region where the CNDD finds the bulk of its support. On October 11 and 12, the CNDD repeatedly played a statement announcing their support for the national strike, saying that all Gu [...]	2009-10-13 10:56:00	Embassy Conakry	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ECON GV
09CONAKRY699	CONTACT CLAIMS DADIS ARMING FORESTIER YOUTHS WITH [...] (C) A long-time contact who works at Conakry's international airport told DCM November 3 that two flights originating in Libya had landed in Conakry in pre-dawn hours loaded with weapons, including assault rifles and rocket launchers. One flight landed in the early hours of November 1, the oth [...]	2009-11-03 16:14:00	Embassy Conakry	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GV
09CONAKRY716	GUINEA IN THE AFTERMATH OF VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) This comprehensive look at Guinea three weeks after the September 28 killings in the stadium reflects accurately the situation in Conakry at that time. Drafted by then Acting DCM Cazeau who subsequently left post under ordered departure, this piece retains its value. Since the message wa [...]	2009-11-13 13:29:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC GV
09CONAKRY76	ARRESTS, APPOINTMENTS, AND MACHINATIONS: A [...] (U) SUMMARY. Politics in Guinea continue to be fluid since the coup d'etat on 23 December 2008. Given these circumstances, post will transmit as needed roundups of presidential appointments, military arrests, and any other political machinations. END SUMMARY. ---------------------------- [...]	2009-01-28 16:37:00	Embassy Conakry	SECRET	PGOV PHUM EINV PREL BIOS KIPR GV
09COPENHAGEN105	DENMARK: FEBRUARY ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] 2008 was a dreadful year for the Danish financial sector, and 2009 has thus far shown no indication that it will be any better. Most large Danish financial firms came out of 2008 with a loss or, at best, reduced profits compared to 2007. The largest Danish bank, Danske Bank, ended 2008 with [...]	2009-03-02 08:51:00	Embassy Copenhagen	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV DA
09COPENHAGEN139	Climate Conferences Build Toward COP-15 [...] (SBU) Summary: Denmark has recently been host to a flurry of climate-related conferences in the run-up to the UNFCCC's Conference of Parties (COP-15) meeting in December. One of them, sponsored by the International Association of Research Universities and held here in Copenhagen, attracted i [...]	2009-03-19 07:14:00	Embassy Copenhagen	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG DA
09DAKAR105	FOREIGN ASSISTANCE IMPACT OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON [...] Summary: In response to Ref B request, Post submits the following information on the possible impact of the global financial crisis on assistance programs in Senegal. Ref A and previous reports have outlined the general impact of the global financial crisis on Senegal's broader economic cond [...]	2009-01-27 13:26:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EFIN ECON SOCI KMCA SG
09DAKAR858	UNIVERSITY POLITICS AND POSSIBLE POLITICAL REFORM IN ST. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In her first official visit to St. Louis May 6-8, Ambassador Bernicat heard that the Ministry of Higher Education is trying to make Gaston Berger University, Senegal's highest quality university, more like the other, mass, institutions. The university rector has not only resi [...]	2009-07-07 17:37:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINS KDEM SG
09DAKAR890	Animism in Senegal [...] SUMMARY: During a trip to the Kedougou Region of southern Senegal, Poloff visited the Bedik village of Ewol whose people still practice a nature based form of animism and who have long resisted conversion to Islam or Christianity. While it is difficult to estimate how many true animists remain [...]	2009-07-14 10:39:00	Embassy Dakar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINS KISL SG
09DAMASCUS734	EU AGREEMENT INVITATION MEETS SYRIAN DEMAND TO [...] (C) Summary: Following the Swedish Ambassador's October 14 delivery of an invitation to attend the October 26 signing ceremony for the Syria-EU Association Agreement, FM Muallim brusquely asserted Syria needed more time to study the text. On the same day, Political Security agents arrested Hait [...]	2009-10-15 15:04:00	Embassy Damascus	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL EU KMPI SY
09DAMASCUS735	CORRECTED CLASSIFICATION FROM UNCLASS TO [...] (C) Summary: Following the Swedish Ambassador's October 14 delivery of an invitation to attend the October 26 signing ceremony for the Syria-EU Association Agreement, FM Muallim brusquely asserted Syria needed more time to study the text. On the same day, Political Security agents arrested Hait [...]	2009-10-16 08:04:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL EU KMPI SY
09DHAHRAN246	SAUDI AUTHORITIES CRACK DOWN ON SHIA IN AL-AHSA [...] (C) Saudi authorities have stepped up discriminatory actions against Shia citizens in the Eastern Province (EP) oasis of al-Ahsa over the past year. Contacts point to the governor of al-Ahsa, HH Prince Badr bin Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Saud, as the main force behind the most recent uptick in s [...]	2009-09-16 13:30:00	Consulate Dhahran	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KIRF KISL PGOV PHUM SA
09DHAKA1040	BANGLADESH EMBRACES USG GLOBAL HUNGER AND FOOD SECURITY INITIATIVE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 8. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Bangladesh and Mission Dhaka are moving ahead with plans to collaborate on food security, as laid out in the USG's new Global Hunger and Food Security Initiative. The Ambassador and senior officials from [...]	2009-11-17 09:19:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BG EAGR EAID IT KWMN PINR PREL SOCI
09DHAKA1096	BANGLADESH HAS HIGH HOPES FOR COPENHAGEN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST -------------------------- 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will lead a large Bangladeshi delegation with high hopes for a meaningful agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. As le [...]	2009-12-09 08:57:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EAGR SENV SMIG TPHY BG
09DHAKA124	BANGLADESH: CHITTAGONG HILS TRACTS MINISTER [...] (U) The new State Minister for Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Affairs told the Ambassador that his top priority was resolving land disputes that frequently flare up between ethnic minorities indigenous to the CHT and Bengali migrants. During the Ambassador's February 1 courtesy call, the new S [...]	2009-02-03 10:53:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	BG EAID PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SENV
09DHAKA301	BANGLADESH INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] This is Embassy Dhaka's submission for reftel tasking. 2. Begin text of the 2009 Bangladesh Investment Climate Statement: Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ Bangladesh actively seeks foreign investment under its industrial policy and export-oriented, private [...]	2009-03-29 09:26:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR BG
09DHAKA32	LIST OF MINISTERS AND STATE MINISTERS IN THE NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Enclosed is a list of officials in the newly elected government of Bangladesh. Ministers of State are not of cabinet rank but can be head of a ministry. 2. (U) Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Armed Forces Division Cabinet Division Electricity, Oil and Mineral Resources Ministry: A) Ele [...]	2009-01-08 10:37:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM BG
09DHAKA350	BANGLADESH, A CLIMATE CHANGE FRONT LINE STATE [...] Already faced with numerous environmental challenges, Bangladesh is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. With an area the size of Wisconsin, Bangladesh supports a population of 150 million in a deltaic landscape at the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna River [...]	2009-04-07 08:50:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EAGR SENV SMIG TPHY BG IN
09DHAKA476	CHITTAGONG HILL TRACTS: COMPETING TRANSNATIONAL [...] (U) The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) is a region of serious concern for the stability of Bangladesh. Strife between indigenous ethnic groups and lowland Bengali migrants led to a long insurgency by the indigenous people in the 1980s and 1990s. The insurgency ended with the 1997 signing of t [...]	2009-05-13 07:24:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EAID ECON PGOV PHUM SENV BG
09DHAKA637	NO EASY WAY OUT: THE QUANDARY OF THE UNREGISTERED [...] (C) As more unregistered Rohingya originally from Burma continue to settle outside one of the two official refugee camps in southeast Bangladesh, their situation becomes increasingly tenuous. Malnutrition rates among this population of 15,000 to 25,000 unregistered refugees remain high, as [...]	2009-06-25 15:22:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL BG BM
09DHAKA70	NEW FOREIGN MINISTER HIGHLIGHTS TRADE, AID AND CT [...] (C) Bangladesh's new Foreign Minister, Dr. Dipu Moni, told the Ambassador January 15 her government's priorities included fulfilling the Awami League's election manifesto and strengthening Bangladesh's democracy. In her first meeting with the Ambassador since taking office January 6, Moni exp [...]	2009-01-19 13:00:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD EAID PTER EFIN PHUM BG
09DHAKA710	Bangladesh: Urgent Engineering/Contracting Needs for [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 2 and 11. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Post needs Washington engagement and support to implement Mission Dhaka's $34 million cyclone shelter construction project, the centerpiece of emergency supplemental funds Congress provided followi [...]	2009-07-20 08:37:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PGOV ECON PTER BG
09DHAKA827	AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO SYLHET DIVISION WITH SENIOR GOB [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and USAID Mission Director visited USG-supported development assistance project sites in Sylhet Division August 2-5 to highlight U.S. support in health and environment and enhanced U.S.-Government of Bangladesh (GOB) and intra-GOB cooperation. They attended the inaugurati [...]	2009-08-23 10:12:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EINV PREL TBIO BG
09DHAKA849	SCENESETTER FOR FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Dipu Moni's September 14 - 17 visit to Washington will be the highest level bilateral meeting in almost three years and comes almost nine months after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government took office. As A/S Blake noted during his June visit to Bangla [...]	2009-08-30 08:07:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EAID PINR PTER BG
09DHAKA851	SCENESETTER FOR FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Dipu Moni's September 14 - 17 visit to Washington will be the highest level bilateral meeting between the U.S. and Bangladesh since 2006 and comes almost nine months after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government took office. The newly elected administrat [...]	2009-08-31 09:39:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EAID PINR PTER BG
09DHAKA942	BANGLADESH WANTS CONCERTED CLIMATE CHANGE [...] The Government of Bangladesh believes both developed and developing countries share responsibility for addressing climate change, according to State Minister for Environment and Forests Dr. Hasan Mahmud, in a meeting with the Ambassador. Mahmud praised President Obama's engagement on climate [...]	2009-10-05 10:32:00	Embassy Dhaka	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EAGR SENV SMIG TPHY BG
09DHAKA98	NEW FINANCE MINISTER FOCUSED ON PRICES, RURAL [...] (C) Bangladesh's new Finance Minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhit, said the new government's top three priorities are managing inflation, developing the energy sector and improving education. In a January 22 meeting with the Ambassador, the Finance Minister said he planned to focus on rural devel [...]	2009-01-26 09:46:00	Embassy Dhaka	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EFIN EAGR ETRD ENRG PREL PGOV BG
09DJIBOUTI1296	DJIBOUTI JULY-SEPTEMBER ECON-ESTH ROUNDUP [...] In this issue: --Djibouti's new banks expand product ranges, customer base --Djibouti aiming to exploit underutilized fishing stocks --A new airline and an increase in passengers --GODJ economic statistics point to gains in tourism, import-export, and agriculture --New Environm [...]	2009-10-18 13:53:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SENV EFIN ETRD EFIS ELAB EWWT EAGR DJ
09DURBAN118	RICHARDS BAY'S HEAVY MINERAL INDUSTRY [...] (U) Embassy Minerals and Energy Officer and Specialist, and Consulate Pol/Econ Officer, visited Richards Bay Minerals and Exxaro's KZN Sands in Richards Bay, KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) on November 17 and 18. This cable is a collaboration between Embassy Pretoria and Consulate Durban. 2. (SBU) S [...]	2009-12-23 11:34:00	Consulate Durban	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EMIN ENRG EPET EINV ETRD ECON SENV SF
09DUSHANBE1330	SECOND ANNUAL RENEWABLE ENERGY CONFERENCE: SHOWING THE WAY, [...] SUMMARY. Dushanbe hosted the Second Annual Renewable Energy Conference on November 9, sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Regional Environmental Center for Central Asia (CAREC),and the Renewable Energy Association of Tajikistan (REAT). Attendees came from all the [...]	2009-11-27 10:31:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG SENV ECON ZK TI
09DUSHANBE225	ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAMS: THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN [...] (U) Summary: Programs that teach English language and develop the skills of local English teachers are among the most popular and necessary public diplomacy offerings in Tajikistan. Learning English is viewed as the key to a better life for many young Tajiks, and U.S. programs fill the gap crea [...]	2009-02-23 14:51:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO TI
09DUSHANBE845	TAJIKISTAN - FORMER UTO COMMANDER ZIYOEV KILLED [...] (C) Summary: On July 11 former United Tajik Opposition (UTO) commander and Minister of Emergency Situations Mirzo Ziyoev was killed in mysterious circumstances in Tavildara district. He was with the armed group led by Ne'mat Azizov and Mullo Abdullo in the week preceding his death. There are [...]	2009-07-14 12:32:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PINR PTER KCRM KISL TI
09FRANKFURT846	Blue Skies for Frankfurt Airport Expansion, Partly Cloudy [...] Summary: Construction of a fourth runway for Frankfurt Airport began at the start of 2009, following years of debate and political wrangling. The runway and a new terminal will take several years to complete, meeting Frankfurt's anticipated capacity needs through 2020 and ensuring its future [...]	2009-03-26 12:34:00	Consulate Frankfurt	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON EIND ENRG SENV EU GM
09FREETOWN216	PRESIDENT LAYS OUT SIERRA LEONE'S DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) Summary: On May 19, President Koroma presented his new poverty reduction strategy, the "Agenda for Change" focusing on four priority sectors: Power and Water Upgrades; Agricultural Output; Transportation Networks; and Human Development (Education and Health). President Koroma noted that hi [...]	2009-06-11 17:03:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID PREL PGOV SL
09FREETOWN34	SIERRA LEONE LAW ENFORCEMENT AND JUDICIAL TRAINING [...] In response to reftel, Embassy Freetown's Law Enforcement Working Group was convened on January 23 to discuss law enforcement and judicial capacity. Responses to reftel questions are presented in the following paragraphs. Please note that judicial capacity, including the court system and Depar [...]	2009-01-29 16:41:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KCRM ASEC SL
09GABORONE663	REPORT ON SPEAKER/SPECIALIST NTARE MWINE [...] SUMMARY: Mr. Ntare Mwine, an Ugandan-born American playwright, film-maker and actor, worked with PAS Gaborone on a program on HIV/AIDS advocacy from June 15-20. Mwine reviewed the theatre pieces that directors from the local NGO Youth Health Organization (YOHO) had produced since a previous wo [...]	2009-08-20 09:18:00	Embassy Gaborone	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO OEXC SCUL KHIV BC
09GABORONE665	A SMART POWER SUCCESS STORY IN AFRICA -- THE CASE [...] (C) The U.S.-Botswana partnership is a model for what smart power could achieve in Africa. Over four decades, Botswana has invested in its people, promoted independent institutions, and trained and deployed a civilian-controlled military for national development priorities. We have multipli [...]	2009-08-20 16:29:00	Embassy Gaborone	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SENV MASS ETRD KHIV EAID MARR EINV
09GABORONE853	BOTSWANA: SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT IAN KHAMA'S [...] (C) Botswana's President Ian Khama visits Washington November 5-7 to chair the Conservation International annual meeting in a confident mood, fortified by a strong election victory on October 16 that allowed him to assume the presidency for a 5-year term. Khama has emerged as a principled, ou [...]	2009-10-30 09:34:00	Embassy Gaborone	SECRET	PREL PGOV ECON KHIV MASS SENV KPKO OVIP BC
09GENEVA1145	START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATIONS, GENEVA [...] (U) This is SFO-GVA-VII-083. 2. (U) Meeting Date: December 2, 2009 Time: 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Place: Russian Mission, Geneva ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Working Group met with their Russian counterparts [...]	2009-12-13 12:14:00	Mission Geneva	SECRET	KACT MARR PARM PREL RS US START
09GENEVA252	ENERGY PACT CONFERENCE [...] SUMMARY: A new foundation, the Energy Pact, hosted a conference in Geneva March 16-17, featuring Ministers of Oil from Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Oman; Swiss and Danish Ministers of Environment; and several academics. Oil Ministers gave assurances about the adequacy of the supply of oil and argu [...]	2009-03-24 13:37:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON SENV
09GENEVA350	UNCTAD Commodities and Development Meeting and Actions [...] This is an Action request, see para 12. 2. SUMMARY: At UNCTAD's Multi-Year Expert Meeting on Commodities and Development on April 6-7, expert discussion focused on the need for regulation of commodity markets and the need to address the problem of speculation, which was considered to be a [...]	2009-05-06 14:55:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV EFIN UNCTAD
09GENEVA360	CLIMATE CHANGE: UN AGENCIES DESCRIBE CHALLENGES TO A/S [...] SUMMARY: Mission Geneva organized an event on May 5 to discuss climate change, taking advantage of the visit of Assistant Secretary Esther Brimmer. Guests to the event, who had been selected on the basis of their involvement in threading climate change concerns into their home organization's [...]	2009-05-11 15:43:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG ECON WMO
09GENEVA459	WTO METING TO MONITOR ACTION IN RESPONSE TO THE GLOBAL [...] Summary - On April 14 the WTO held a meeting of the WTO's Trade Policy Review Body (TPRB) for the purposes of monitoring actions taken by WTO Members and observers in response to the global economic situation. The meeting was relatively low key and non-contentious. Members refrained from fin [...]	2009-06-11 08:25:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD WTRO USTR
09GENEVA895	The Environment and Security Initiative [...] SUMMARY: The Environment and Security Initiative (ENVSEC) is a collaborative effort between multiple international organizations to assess and address environmental problems that threaten security, stability and peace across borders, particularly in conflict regions. It also utilizes environ [...]	2009-10-20 14:11:00	Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV UNEP EPA
09GEORGETOWN123	NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) The following is Embassy Georgetown's submission of information requested in reftel for the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report. 2. (SBU) GUYANA'S TIP SITUATION: A. Sources of information used to compile this report include: the Guyanese media; the Ministry of Home Affairs; the Minis [...]	2009-02-27 16:27:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KTIP PREF ELAB SMIG ASEC KCRM KWMN KFRD GY
09GEORGETOWN149	PRESIDENT JAGDEO TO EMBARK ON MIDDLE EAST TOUR [...] (SBU) Summary: President Bharrat Jagdeo has announced that he will travel to several Middle Eastern countries beginning on March 20, with his visit centered around the March 31 Second Summit of Arab-South American Countries in Qatar. Other countries on the planned itinerary include Syria, Jord [...]	2009-03-18 20:36:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID ECIN ECON EFIN EINV ETRD GY XF
09GEORGETOWN367	GUYANA'S GREAT CARBON-BASED HOPE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Jagdeo recently launched a Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) which he hopes will transform Guyana,s economy, conserve its forests and contribute to the global effort of reducing climate-changing carbon emissions. The strategy,s feasibility hinges on UN climate nego [...]	2009-07-10 14:15:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	CARICOM EAGR ECON ENRG
09GEORGETOWN522	GEORGETOWN POL/ECON ROUND-UP, OCTOBER 14-28, 2009 [...] (U) This cable inaugurates a new practice of bi-weekly "round-up" reporting cables highlighting developments in Guyana's politics and economy. This first installment covers October 14-28, 2009. CANCELLATION OF UK SECURITY SECTOR REFORM GOES PUBLIC 2. (C) Responding to a BBC Caribbean repor [...]	2009-10-28 19:06:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL GY
09GRENADA64	GRENADA'S MEDIA STRUGGLES [...] (SBU) Summary: Grenada, which endured the experience of media censorship during the "revolutionary" era from 1979-1983, continues to struggle with the concept of a free press. Grenada's media workers often choose to side with one political party or the other; it's easy and often rewarding. Tho [...]	2009-07-13 12:38:00	Embassy Grenada	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO PGOV GJ
09GUANGZHOU400	The "Airborne" Leaders in Guangxi [...] (SBU) Summary: The leadership of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has no shortage of "airborne" (kong jiang) officials, as leaders who have previously served in Beijing are known, and it has witnessed major personnel changes since 2007. This is due in large part to the efforts by the Guangxi g [...]	2009-07-02 07:36:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR CH
09GUANGZHOU480	Environmental Law in Guangzhou's Universities [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Brian L. Goldbeck for reason 1.4 (d). 2. (SBU) Summary: Interest in the study of environmental law is on the rise in Guangzhou. Sun Yat-sen University Law School, South China Agricultural University and South China University of Technology are all expanding [...]	2009-08-07 07:41:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI ECON SENV CH
09GUANGZHOU716	Guangxi Snapshot: Local Volunteer Association Flourishing [...] (SBU) Summary: Volunteer organizations formed with the support of local government appear to be spreading to third-tier cities in China as illustrated by the example of the Beihai Civil Volunteer Association (BCVA) in coastal Guangxi. The organization has more than 400 members and is engaged i [...]	2009-12-30 09:55:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SOCI ECON PGOV SCUL EAID PHUM CH
09GUATEMALA162	COLOM'S FIRST YEAR HAS SUCCESS IN SOCIAL POLICY, [...] (C) President Colom's first year in office was characterized by a number of successes in the social field, and growing challenges in others. Controversial First Lady Sandra de Colom led the government's efforts to fulfill campaign promises of poverty alleviation and social inclusion of indig [...]	2009-02-20 11:47:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR ASEC SNAR EAID GT
09GUATEMALA263	Making CAFTA-DR Produce in a Down Market [...] Summary: CAFTA-DR has substantially improved Guatemala's ability to participate and compete in global markets. Regulatory structures were modernized and wide swaths of the Guatemalan economy were opened to international competition. As a result, trade increased substantially, foreign direct [...]	2009-03-19 13:08:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON ELAB PGOV PREL GT
09GUATEMALA290	AMBASSADOR INTERVENES TO PROTECT CITI FROM [...] (C) In a March 19 meeting, the Ambassador urged Attorney General Velasquez not to let politicians influence the investigation of Citibank in the Mercado de Futuros (MDF) embezzlement case, in which $11.2 million of congressional funds were stolen and lost in risky commodities investments. The [...]	2009-03-26 17:11:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV GT
09GUATEMALA703	PUTTING OUT FIRES: THE OAS OFFICE IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. A recent trip by PolOff to the Organization of American States (OAS) office in the Belize-Guatemala Adjacency Zone (AZ) found an effective team performing difficult tasks under often arduous conditions. By resolving territorial disputes early in the process and at a local level, [...]	2009-07-21 22:24:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	OAS PBTS PREL PGOV PINR PNAT GT
09GUATEMALA940	Nomination of Alternate U.S. Representative to the Oversight [...] This is an action cable. 2. U.S. Embassy Guatemala nominates Luis Alejandro Pontaza Behrens, Chief Financial Management and Accountant Specialist of USAID Guatemala, as the Alternate U.S. Representative to the Oversight Committee established to monitor implementation of the debt [...]	2009-09-25 15:40:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID OTRA GT
09GUATEMALA955	President Calderon Bolsters Ties with Guatemala in Oct 26-27 [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 26-27 visit to Guatemala, Mexican President Felipe Calderon discussed a number of initiatives with his Guatemalan counterpart, Alvaro Colom, to better control migration and enhance security along their shared border. The two leaders pledged to reinforce joint eff [...]	2009-10-29 23:51:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS SNAR SENV ENRG CVIS MX GT
09GUAYAQUIL21	Lunch with Correa's Mother and Sister - [...] (C) Summary: At a friendly lunch with President Rafael Correa's mother (Norma Delgado) and Sister (Pierina Correa) Correa?s mother expressed great admiration for Secretary Clinton, gratitude for her extended family's opportunities in the United States and recognition that "Rafael" could somet [...]	2009-01-27 20:03:00	Consulate Guayaquil	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EC
09HALIFAX58	ATLANTIC CANADA ENERGY UPDATE: ENERGY EXPORTS TO THE U.S. [...] The Atlantic Provinces Economic Council (APEC),a well-respected regional think tank, focused its latest analytical report on the importance of the energy sector in Atlantic Canada. APEC economists concluded that the sector has grown to become the most important group of industries in Atlanti [...]	2009-09-28 13:20:00	Consulate Halifax	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET ECON ELAB PGOV PBTS PREL SENV CA
09HANOI1088	PRIME MINISTER TO LEAD VIETNAMESE COPENHAGEN DELEGATION [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-14 11:27:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ECON KGHG VM

09HANOI1186	VIETNAM'S ECONOMY Q3 2009: STRONG RECOVERY, CONTINUING RISKS [...] (U) Summary. Vietnam's economic growth during the third quarter continued to accelerate, aided by the Vietnamese Government's (GVN) economic stimulus program. Growth of gross domestic product (GDP) for the first nine months was up 4.6% and is now expected to reach 5.2% for 2009, which will ma [...]	2009-11-05 09:33:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV KTDB VM
09HANOI138	GVN ROLLS OUT STIMULUS PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary. The GVN is in the process of implementing its stimulus package. The package consists of three main parts; USD 1 billion in interest rate subsidies, one-time payments to poor families, and reductions in the value-added, corporate and personal income taxes. Additional measures [...]	2009-02-19 09:56:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON VM
09HANOI1392	VIETNAM'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SESSION SHOWS INCREASING BUT [...] (SBU) Summary and comment. The 12th National Assembly's (NA) 6th month-long legislative session, closing at the end of November, set Vietnam's key social and economic targets, including for the 2010 State Budget. The legislature passed seven laws, including the Law on Royalty Tax and the Law [...]	2009-12-18 09:01:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINT KTDB VM
09HANOI1440	VIETNAM OK WITH COP 15 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Vietnamese climate change negotiating team is pleased with the results of the Conference of the Parties-15 (COP-15) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen and will recommend to the Prime Minister that Vietnam officially support the Copenhagen [...]	2009-12-31 04:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ECON KGHG VM
09HANOI178	2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - VIETNAM - PART 1 of [...] (U) Per the instructions in refels, post provides the following responses to the reporting questions asked in paragraphs 23-27 of ref. A, taking into account the additional guidance and reporting requirements required by the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act [...]	2009-02-27 10:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM
09HANOI179	2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - VIETNAM - PART 3 of [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-27 10:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM
09HANOI241	FINANCIAL CRISIS CAUSING INCREASED UNEMPLOYMENT; FULL [...] (SBU) Summary: The global economic slowdown and declining Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is increasingly affecting Vietnam's economy, including employment levels. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) says unemployment is rising and labor officials predict that up to 400,000 workers in the formal [...]	2009-03-16 10:24:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EAID EINV ELAB VM
09HANOI297	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCAIN'S VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Your April 6-8 visit to Vietnam comes at an opportune moment. Our bilateral relationship with Vietnam has progressed much since your last visit to Hanoi in April 2000 and is arguably at its highest point since relations were normalized in 1995. Propelled by a series of senior bilateral [...]	2009-03-31 07:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR VM
09HANOI329	VIETNAM POVERTY REDUCTION SURVIVING ECONOMIC DOWNTURN [...] (U) Summary: Despite high inflation and the global economic crisis, Vietnam managed to bring down poverty levels in 2008 to 13.1% from 14.7% the previous year. Vietnam has made dramatic strides in poverty reduction since it began to adopt market economy policies. As the global financial cri [...]	2009-04-09 10:10:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID ETRD EINV ELAB PGOV SOCI VM
09HANOI339	VIETNAM'S 1st QUARTER NUMBERS BRING REALITY AND NEW [...] Summary: Vietnam's economic growth in the first quarter of 2009 was 3.1 percent, down by more than half from 7.49 percent for the same period last year. Committed FDI came in at USD 6 billion, 40.4 percent lower year-on-year. First quarter 2009 exports grew modestly at 2.4 percent, but import [...]	2009-04-13 11:20:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV KTDB VM
09HANOI354	Vietnam's Agriculture and Rural Development Minister to [...] (U) SUMMARY. Vietnam's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat and a delegation of 10 will visit the United States April 20-23, beginning with visits to the University of California-Davis and ending with meetings in Washington, D.C. that include calls on USDA Secretary Vilsa [...]	2009-04-15 09:44:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD WTRO TBIO EAGR PINR SOCI USTR EAID VM
09HANOI37	VIETNAM'S ECONOMY 2008: SLOWER ECONOMIC GROWTH, RECORD FDI, [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 6.2 percent in 2008, the lowest since 2000. Inflation rose sharply, with the 2008 average monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) rising 23 percent compared to the 2007 monthly average, though price rises slowed toward the end of [...]	2009-01-14 03:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON VM ETRD
09HANOI532	VIETNAM NOMINATIONS FOR 2009 AWARD FOR CORPORATE [...] Summary: Mission Vietnam is pleased to nominate Intel Vietnam and Boeing Corporation in the multinational enterprise category, and the Protec Helmet Company in the small-to-medium enterprise category, for the 2009 Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). End Summary. --- [...]	2009-06-10 00:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON BEXP AMGT VM
09HANOI670	VIETNAM FLEXIBLE ON CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Vietnam (GVN) will send a high-level delegation to the fifteenth Conference of the Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 15) in Copenhagen this December. While the GVN plans a flexible approach to the COP, it is somewhat [...]	2009-07-21 00:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ECON KGHG VM
09HANOI704	VIETNAM'S FIRST HALF WEAK, BUT SHOWING SIGNS OF RECOVERY [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam's economic growth in the first half of 2009 was 3.9 percent year-over-year (yoy). Exports were $27.6 billion, 10.1 percent lower yoy, while imports fell more drastically, by 34 percent, to $29.7 billion. The trade deficit was $4.6 billion, excluding the re-export of gold. [...]	2009-07-29 08:09:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV KTDB VM
09HANOI71	VIETNAM ECON HIGHLIGHTS: FORECASTS OF LOWER TRADE, TAX [...] (U) The Government of Vietnam's (GVN) preliminary trade estimates for January 2009 show a significant drop in trade. The GVN expects imports to be 45% lower than for the same period of 2008, and exports to fall down by 24%. The silver lining is that the trade deficit for January 2009 is expec [...]	2009-01-23 08:01:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON VM
09HANOI741	VIETNAM'S NEW BIODIVERSITY LAW: A GOOD IDEA, BUT TOO FEW [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 1, 2009, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) announced the implementation of its new Biodiversity Law, which had been ratified by the National Assembly in November 2008. The Vietnamese biodiversity law is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. While biodiversity advocates [...]	2009-08-06 09:29:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV SOCI EAGR VM
09HANOI88	Prime Minister's Edict on Religion-Related Land and [...] (SBU) In the wake of sustained land-use protests involving Catholic parishioners throughout 2008, PM Nguyen Tan Dung recently issued a four-page edict concerning "religion-related land and facilities." (See paragraph four for an unofficial translation.) The edict specifies that government age [...]	2009-02-05 08:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM
09HARARE163	ZIM NOTES 02-27-2009 [...] SUMMARY ----------- Topics of the week: - MDC and ZANU-PF Going Head to Head in Government... - SADC Looking to Raise US$2 Billion for Zimbabwe... - Roy Bennett Granted Bail, but Still in Jail... - Tsvangirai to Attend Bob's Birthday Bash? ... - USAID Employee Released... - WOZA Women [...]	2009-03-02 08:55:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ECON ZI
09HARARE258	ZANU-PF INSIDER ON POLITICS [...] (C) Walter Mzembi, ZANU-PF Minister of Tourism, spoke with us on March 20. Mzembi is considered a "young Turk" within the party. He is close to Mugabe, but at the same time is one of the few ZANU-PF officials who has been confident enough to speak openly with us without fear of repercussion [...]	2009-03-26 09:58:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
09HARARE303	TSVANGIRAI UPDATES U.S. AND UK AMBASSADORS [...] (C) In an April 10 meeting, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai acknowledged the problematic nature of recent farm invasions and the continuing presence of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Gideon Gono. He noted that his personal situation had removed him from the fray for three weeks. H [...]	2009-04-14 12:12:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC PHUM ZI
09HARARE42	2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - ZIMBABWE [...] The Government of Zimbabwe's corruption and mismanagement have severely crippled the local economy making it unlikely to attract or absorb significant foreign direct investment in 2009. GDP has declined by roughly 50 percent in the past eight years, the largest peacetime drop ever recorded. [...]	2009-01-15 14:55:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC ZI
09HARARE857	WAR ENDS WITH WAR: ANOTHER FARMER LOSES THE LONG STRUGGLE [...] (SBU) As part of a trip to research the impact of recent farm invasions, poloffs visited farms and farmers in central Zimbabwe on October 21 and 22 (septel). On October 21, we met with Manie and Lucy Grove who, after battling to keep their property since 2002, were homeless just five days afte [...]	2009-10-28 14:05:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB PGOV ASEC ZI
09HAVANA366	CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: LESS THAN [...] (C) Summary: Canada's democracy)oriented foreign policy toward Cuba apparently is being implemented more vigorously in Ottawa than in Cuba, although some help may be on the way. End Summary. CANADA'S PRIORITIES IN CUBA --------------------------- 2. (C) USINT read with interest refte [...]	2009-06-23 14:31:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU CA
09HELSINKI150	FINLAND: STUBB PUSHES FOR NEW THINKING IN FIRST [...] (C) Summary. Reflecting the influence of Foreign Minister Stubb, who has called for Finland to move away from "old phobias" and to abandon "empty and ritualistic rhetoric," Finland,s new Russia Action Plan seeks to create a comprehensive, realistic and honest set of guidelines to govern Finla [...]	2009-04-24 15:18:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS FI
09HELSINKI289	FINLAND: MIGRATION IN FINLAND IN FINANCIAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-30 05:10:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR ECON ELAB SMIG PREL PGOV FI
09HELSINKI329	FOOD SECURITY: FINLAND COMMITTED TO INCREASING [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-01 12:21:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID EI ETRD FI
09HELSINKI332	FINLAND SUPPORTS APPROVAL OF BIOTECH CORN [...] Econoff delivered reftel points to Matti Aho Director General for the Department of Food and Health at the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture. Aho noted that Finland had received no imports of US soy products containing dust from biotech corn MON88017, and therefore had no reports of volunt [...]	2009-09-04 13:48:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EUN TBIO EAGR FI
09HELSINKI34	FINNISH MINISTER TO PRESENT NEW TRANSATLANTIC AID [...] At the upcoming Informal Council meeting in Prague January 29-30, Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Paavo Vayrynen will seek support from EU Development ministers for the creation of a U.S.- EU Transatlantic Partnership for Sustainable Development. The purpose of the partner [...]	2009-01-28 13:13:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ETRD EU FI PREL
09HELSINKI355	FINLAND: HALONEN ASSUMES TRADITIONAL POSTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY. On August 11 Finnish President Halonen met, dined and relaxed with Russian President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin for five hours in the Black Sea city of Sochi. This was the third presidential meeting this year, and Finnish officials describe each as a warm encounter. Typic [...]	2009-09-28 10:58:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	FI PGOV PREL RS
09HELSINKI402	FINLAND: PUTIN WARMS UP IN LATEST MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a dramatic departure from their meeting last June, on October 25 Russian Prime Minister Putin warmly greeted Finnish Prime Minister Vanhanen in St. Petersburg. Describing Finland as a good partner, a smiling Putin put a positive face on Finnish-Russian relations. Putin pointed [...]	2009-10-29 11:11:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	FI PREL EPET ETRD WTO RS
09HOCHIMINHCITY171	BIOFUEL OR BUST: ONE COMPANY'S QUEST TO TRANSFORM VIETNAM'S [...] (U) Summary: One enterprise in Vietnam is forging a biofuel initiative based on crude oil from a new-generation biofuel feedstock, jatropha curcus. GreenEnergy, Vietnam (GEV) has completed the first stage of its project to plant and refine crude oil from the jatropha bush, a hardy perennial p [...]	2009-03-10 01:54:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR ETRD EFIN SOCI PGOV VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY213	CAMBODIA BORDER AND CENTRAL HIGHLANDS PROVINCES BRUSHING OFF [...] (SBU) Summary: While provinces on the outskirts of Vietnam's Southern Key Economic Zone (SKEZ) feel cushioned from the global economic downturn because their largely agricultural economies can easily absorb unemployed workers, these areas are suffering from declining global commodity prices. [...]	2009-03-24 09:17:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND EINV ETRD PGOV PREL SOCI VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY31	ENVIRONMENTAL FEES FIGHT POVERTY, SAVE FORESTS IN VIETNAM'S [...] (SBU) Summary. Vietnam has lost a staggering 80 percent of its old-growth forest in the last 20 years, a calamity that the GVN's underfunded and unenforced Forest Protection program '661' has failed to prevent. A USAID-supported Payment for Environmental Services (PES) initiative, however, is [...]	2009-01-13 01:00:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAGR EIND SENV SOCI PGOV PREL VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY456	GLOBAL DOWNTURN SQUEEZES HCMC EXPATS, BUT MOST STAYING PUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Contrary to anecdotal evidence of a mass exodus, interviews with international schools, relocation firms and expat chambers of commerce indicate that the actual effect of the economic downturn on HCMC's expat community is more complex: Koreans are leaving in large numbers, the [...]	2009-06-10 06:51:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ELAB PREL SOCI VM
09HOCHIMINHCITY674	LOWER MEKONG INITIATIVE: FORECAST MEKONG IN THE DELTA [...] (U) Summary: One practical byproduct of the Secretary's Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) is the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) effort to help the Mekong countries assess how climate change and human activities impact the Mekong basin. USGS held a Forecast Mekong workshop in Can Tho city Decemb [...]	2009-12-16 11:26:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON ENRG EAGR SOCI PREL PGOV EAID TH VN
09HOCHIMINHCITY688	A TALE OF THREE CENTRAL COAST PROVINCES: THE GOOD, THE WEIRD [...] (SBU) Summary: The three south-central coastal provinces of Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen and Binh Dinh may occupy the same long stretch of coast, but strong local leadership commitment to economic reform enables Binh Dinh to thrive while Khanh Hoa meanders and Phu Yen stumbles. The annual Vietnam Provi [...]	2009-12-28 07:01:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV SOCI VM
09HONGKONG114	HONG KONG GOVERNMENT DELAYS CONSULTATION ON 2012 [...] (C) Summary: While taking questions from the Legislative Council (LegCo) January 15, Hong Kong Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang announced that, owing to the current financial crisis, the Hong Kong government will delay consultation on electoral reforms for 2012. The decision breaks a pledge [...]	2009-01-16 10:03:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CH HK
09HONGKONG841	MACAU RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: REVERSION WAS ONLY THE [...] (C) Summary and comment: According to representatives of several of Macau's major religious communities, Macau's 1999 reversion to PRC rule allowed other faiths to gain equal status with the formerly state-supported Catholic Church. The Buddhist and Protestant communities now receive governmen [...]	2009-05-07 08:04:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF CH MC
09ISLAMABAD10	PRESERVING INFORMATION SHARING [...] (S) Post notes with some concern the report (Ref A) that the GOI Ministry of External Affairs plans to release information from its investigation into the Mumbai attacks next week to all countries that lost citizens and "that therefore any information sharing will be overtaken by events." Ref A say [...]	2009-01-03 12:47:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PREL PTER PK IN
09ISLAMABAD1001	PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 11, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-11 09:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1387	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF [...] (C) The Pakistani government signaled that the long-awaited offensive in the Mehsud areas of South Waziristan was imminent, but limited its action in the area to aerial and artillery bombardment. Meanwhile, its ongoing precursor action in Frontier Region Bannu drew to a close with an agree [...]	2009-06-24 10:12:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD190	PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 29, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-29 09:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2218	PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-14 09:38:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD238	PAKISTAN STANDBY ARRANGEMENT: SO FAR SO GOOD, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: IMF and Ministry of Finance contacts agree that, based on preliminary indications, Pakistan has performed well in fulfilling IMF performance criteria as required in Pakistan's November 24 Standby Arrangement (SBA). After retiring $1.24 billion in debt, borrowing from the State [...]	2009-02-04 13:36:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2391	PAKISTAN MUSLIM LEAGUE - NAWAZ MOVING TOWARDS [...] (C) Summary: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif stated that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is moving towards forcing mid-term legislative elections due to the poor performance and growing unpopularity of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government. Shahbaz viewed these moves towar [...]	2009-10-05 16:50:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PK
09ISLAMABAD2518	PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM, KERRY-LUGAR BILL, [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-16 10:16:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2576	EXTREMISM IN SOUTHERN PUNJAB AND NORTHERN SINDH [...] (SBU) Summary: Though the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) continue to grab headlines for terrorist violence, poor and underdeveloped regions in the rest of "settled" Pakistan are increasingly the recruiting and training ground for extremism and mil [...]	2009-10-23 03:49:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2773	PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY, [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-18 09:13:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2942	WAY FORWARD ON AFGHAN REFUGEES REMAINS UNCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: A new inter-ministerial subcommittee has been established to find a way forward on Afghan refugee status, repatriation, and security-related issues in Pakistan. While establishment of the subcommittee has rolled back progress on finalizing Pakistan's draft Afghan Management and R [...]	2009-12-08 09:49:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV PREL EAID PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD415	SHARIFS DISQUALIFIED FROM OFFICE [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled February 25 that both Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif from the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party are ineligible to hold public office. President Zardari told Charge that he had temporarily appointed PPP Governor Taseer as Chief Execut [...]	2009-02-25 15:14:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KJUS EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD511	PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 10, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-11 09:36:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISTANBUL351	ISLAM, AKP, HEADSCARVES, FETHULLAH GULEN, AND THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-14 12:04:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PREL TU
09ISTANBUL357	ISLAM, AKP, HEADSCARVES, FETHULLAH GULEN, AND THE [...] (SBU). SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. A wide range of our contacts dismissed the notion that Turkey is at risk of becoming an Islamic Republic. Their consensus is that the political system is flexible enough to accommodate pious Turks, growing political activism. Though this activism will contin [...]	2009-09-17 14:25:00	Consulate Istanbul	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PREL TU
09ISTANBUL398	USAID AND TIKA PUSH FOR TRILATERAL COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 6 meeting on the sidelines of the IMF/WB summit with the leadership of Turkey's aid and development organization, TIKA, the members of the USAID delegation discussed food security in Central Asia and Africa. They also discussed opportunities for trilateral coopera [...]	2009-10-16 13:34:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU UZ
09ISTANBUL57	ISTANBUL PREPARES TO GREET THE WORLD AT THE FIFTH [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Over 20,000 people, including many heads of state, are expected to attend the 5th World Water Forum (WWF) in Istanbul on March 16-22. The WWF is the premier international water meeting, held once every three years, and a prime venue to showcase U.S. commitment and [...]	2009-02-03 13:06:00	Consulate Istanbul	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ENRG KPAO PGOV TU
09JAKARTA1016	ILLEGAL TIMBER SEIZURES IN INDONESIA [...] Summary: Recent seizures of suspected illegal timber in East Java and Papua highlight the continued challenge of illegal logging in Indonesia. The USG continues to support the Government of Indonesia's efforts to tackle the problem through capacity building. This support includes an upcoming [...]	2009-06-16 10:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID KGHG ECON PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1022	DRAFT USAID COUNTRY STRATEGY FOR INDONESIA (2009- [...] This is an action message. See paragraph five. 2. Today the Mission transmitted to USAID Washington its proposed Country Strategy for Indonesia: A Partnership for Prosperity. 3. The draft USAID Country Strategy for Indonesia (2009-14) represents 18 months of systematic effort by staff t [...]	2009-06-17 06:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ID
09JAKARTA1030	Indonesian President's in-law sentenced in corruption case [...] (SBU) The Anti-Corruption Court sentenced Aulia Pohan -- President Yudhoyono's son's father-in-law -- to 4 1/2 years on corruption charges on June 17. The court also sentenced three additional central bank deputy governors, bringing the total to nine public officials convicted in this central [...]	2009-06-18 08:46:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCOR PREL ID
09JAKARTA1041	SCENESETTER FOR HDAC CODEL VISIT JUNE 30 TO JULY 2 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Embassy Jakarta welcomes CODEL Price to Indonesia. You will arrive one week before Indonesia's second direct Presidential elections, July 8. This is a critical time for building relations between the U.S. and Indonesia, the world's second and third largest democracies. [...]	2009-06-19 10:45:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1079	Indonesia: Improving Transparency in Timber Administration [...] Summary: Indonesia is taking another significant step to improve transparency in the forestry sector by requiring the labeling/bar-coding of logs. This online timber tracking system will be phased in gradually. The Government of Indonesia (GOI) is targeting nation-wide implementation by the [...]	2009-06-25 07:12:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID KGHG ECON PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1095	KOPASSUS--ALLEGED PAPUA INCIDENTS NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report claims that Indonesian Army Special Forces (KOPASSUS) continue to violate human rights in Papua. However, the report draws this conclusion based on six incidents in a single Papuan town with a history of corruption, violence, and other gove [...]	2009-06-26 09:44:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR PHUM ID
09JAKARTA1204	AMBASSADOR, DIRECTOR GENERAL RETNO ASSESS PROGRESS [...] (U) Action request in Para 5. 2. (SBU) On July 16, Ambassador and DCM met with Department of Foreign Affairs Director General for America and Europe, Amb. Retno Marsudi, to provide updates on elements of the developing comprehensive partnership between the United States and Indonesia. They [...]	2009-07-17 00:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ID KN PGOV
09JAKARTA1292	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL NELSON VISIT AUGUST 14-16 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Embassy Jakarta welcomes CODEL Nelson to Indonesia. You will arrive the day of the National Day Address to Parliament by President Yudhoyono, who will be inaugurated on October 20 for his second term after a landslide victory. Indonesia has done well under his administ [...]	2009-08-05 00:01:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1295	YUDHOYONO'S 2010 BUDGET PROPOSAL: MAINTAINING A [...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesian President Yudhoyono ("SBY") presented a 2010 budget bill aimed at maintaining a steady course. SBY highlighted Indonesia's success in weathering the current global downturn, building a stronger, more self-reliant domestic economy and taking a place at the G-20 table [...]	2009-08-05 02:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV PTER ID
09JAKARTA1321	INDONESIA SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT AT UNGA FOR RE-ELECTION TO [...] Embassy received a diplomatic note dated July 30, 2009 from the Department of Foreign Affairs requesting USG support towards the candidacy of Indonesia to the Governing Council of United Nations Environment Program (GC UNEP),an unofficial translation of which is provided below. Begin text. [...]	2009-08-11 04:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV AORC PREL ID
09JAKARTA1330	USG-SPONSORED DISASTER EXERCISE SUPPORTS [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The U.S. Army-led 2009 Disaster Response Exchange and Exercise (DREE),conducted in Riau Province, Sumatra, focused on response and prevention policies for wild land fires. Riau Province is Sumatra's ground zero for s [...]	2009-08-11 10:45:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MARR SENV ID
09JAKARTA1339	SUMATRA: FOREST FIRES IN RIAU DISRUPT LIFE AND IMPACT [...] (SBU) Summary. Increasingly serious levels of haze and smoke resulting from forest fires mainly concentrated in Riau Province, Sumatra, have had a severe impact on daily life in the province during the first half of August. The smoke and haze caused by the fires have created flight diversions a [...]	2009-08-13 05:01:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EAIR SENV ID
09JAKARTA1421	Views on Environment for POTUS Visit from Indonesia [...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesia Presidential Advisor on Environment Emil Salim and Secretary to the Coordinating Minister of Social Welfare Indroyono Soesilo strongly advocate an ambitious agenda for the upcoming POTUS visit, including: -- Fisheries-based food security initiative through establishin [...]	2009-08-27 12:09:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ENRG TSPL PREL PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1456	DCM REVIEWS PARTNERSHIP, PLANNED PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The DCM met September 1 with Ambassador Retno Marsudi of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). Marsudi said her visit to Washington last week had gone well. She then reviewed Indonesian perspectives on the Comprehensive Partnership and the GOI's desire for info [...]	2009-09-01 09:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ID
09JAKARTA1484	AMBASSADOR REVIEWS PROGRESS ON PARTNERSHIP WITH GOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Ambassador Retno Marsudi of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) on September 4. The two reviewed the status of key items related to the Comprehensive Partnership. Marsudi asked when an advance team would come to Jakarta to make preparat [...]	2009-09-04 09:11:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ID
09JAKARTA1509	PRESIDENT'S CHIEF OF STAFF READY TO MAKE POTUS [...] (C) Summary: In a September 10 meeting with the Ambassador, Cabinet State Secretary Hatta Rajasa revealed that Indonesia had decided to purchase from Boeing a presidential aircraft, supported Indonesian training for Afghan police, underscored President Yudhoyono,s determination to sign a Scie [...]	2009-09-10 10:11:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT BEXP EDU ID PREL SENV XD
09JAKARTA1511	ENSURING COMPREHENSIVE PARTNERSHIP LONG-TERM SUCCESS: JAKARTA REACTION TO NIC REPORT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Comprehensive Partnership with Indonesia offers an opportunity to guide Indonesia toward the "ASEAN Leader" scenario in the February 2009 NIC Report, "Indonesia: Scenarios for the Future and Implications for US Interests. Above all, Indonesia,s future depends on the quality of [...]	2009-09-11 00:49:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	KDEM KISL PINR PREL XB
09JAKARTA1552	Indonesia Launches Climate Change Trust Fund [...] On September 14, Indonesia's Ministry of National Development Planning announced the "soft" launch of the Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF). Through the ICCTF, the Government of Indonesia (GOI) aims to achieve a low-carbon economy with greater resilience to climate change and to lin [...]	2009-09-16 06:04:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID KGHG SENV PREL ID
09JAKARTA1562	Climate Change - Taking Advantage of SBY's Moment [...] (U) This is an action message; please see para 8. 2. (SBU) Summary: The U.S. has an opportunity to shape newly re-elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) climate agenda. The U.S. could seek a Yudhoyono presidential declaration - perhaps timed for President Obama's potential visit [...]	2009-09-16 10:41:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID KGHG SENV PREL ID
09JAKARTA1574	Dozens Feared Dead in Massive North Sumatra Floods [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Embassy Jakarta. 2. (U) Widespread flooding caused by heavy rains in the Mandaling Natal Regency in the interior of the province of North Sumatra on September 15 resulted in at least 15 deaths with at least 38 more people missing and feared dead. Flash [...]	2009-09-18 05:41:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SENV EAID ID
09JAKARTA1583	Indonesia's Food Security Challenges [...] Summary: The Government of Indonesia (GOI) recognizes four major challenges to food security. One is the need for human resource development through agriculture research, education and extension. Another is the need for substantial new investment in agricultural infrastructure. They are exac [...]	2009-09-23 00:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ETRD SENV KGHG PREL ID
09JAKARTA1601	VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT BOEDIONO CONFIDENT INDONESIA [...] (C) Summary: In a September 24 meeting with Ambassador and DCM, Vice President-elect Boediono (one name only) welcomed the strengthening of bilateral relations, urged continued deepening of people-to people ties, asked whether U.S. companies wanted to invest in clean energy in Indonesia, and i [...]	2009-09-24 11:06:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP EAID ECON ETRD ID KJUS PGOV PREL SENV
09JAKARTA1638	PAPUA -- CONTINUED PROBLEMS, AND POSSIBLE NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Eastern Indonesia's Papua and West Papua provinces remain troubled. The region is politically marginalized and many Papuans harbor separatist aspirations. Low-level violence continues, including a series of shootings near an American-owned mine, although it poses little immedia [...]	2009-09-30 10:00:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PNAT ECON ID
09JAKARTA1685	SINO-INDONESIAN RELATIONS -- POLITICAL WARINESS AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI views its deepening ties with the United States as an important element of a strategy to maintain regional balance in light of expanding Chinese influence. Sino-Indonesian ties are currently dominated by booming trade relations, which have in turn brought concerns that [...]	2009-10-07 08:01:00	Embassy Jakarta	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR ECON ID CH
09JAKARTA1749	SCENESETTER FOR EPA ADMINISTRATOR LISA JACKSON [...] SUMMARY: Mission warmly welcomes EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and her presidential delegation to Indonesia. You are arriving on the eve of President Yudhoyono and Vice President Boediono's inauguration. Ten years of political and economic reform have made Indonesia democratic, stable, and [...]	2009-10-16 11:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KGHG SENV ECON KDEM ID
09JAKARTA175	IMPACT OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON EAST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The global financial crisis is having a significant impact on the natural resource dependent economy and politics of East Kalimantan, Indonesia's second largest province. The drop in commodity prices is slowing illegal logging, but deforestation continues. Furthermore, the inab [...]	2009-02-03 11:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON ETRD SENV EAID ID
09JAKARTA1766	SHAPE OF NEW INDONESIAN CABINET EMERGES DESPITE [...] (C) SUMMARY: After weeks of frenzied media speculation, Indonesians were expecting to learn today who President Yudhoyono had selected for his new cabinet. Although most of the positions are pencilled in, analysts speculate that the delay could be due to a last-minute attempt by Yudhoyono to [...]	2009-10-21 11:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ID PREL
09JAKARTA1772	EPA ADMINISTRATOR JACKSON'S OCT. 19-22 JAKARTA VIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson led the Presidential Delegation to President Yudhoyono's October 20 inauguration. On October 21 the Administrator held separate meetings and discussions with key players on the environment. Several officials stated that a U.S.-China deal was the k [...]	2009-10-22 12:04:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KGHG SENV ECON KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1773	PROMISING ALLIES FOR COMPREHENSIVE PARTNERSHIP IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-23 00:05:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM ID PREL
09JAKARTA1774	PROMISING ALLIES FOR COMPREHENSIVE PARTNERSHIP IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-23 00:06:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM ID PREL
09JAKARTA1794	CLIMATE CHANGE PARTNERSHIP FOR POTUS BILAT AT APEC [...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Retno Marsudi agreed that the planned bilateral meeting between President Obama and President Yuhoyono at APEC in Singapore presents an opportunity to advance our bilateral relationship. Citing President Yudhoyono's brave unilateral declaratio [...]	2009-10-28 09:59:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID KGHG SENV PREL ID
09JAKARTA1801	DAS YOSHIDA VISIT TO INDONESIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Department of Energy DAS Phyllis Yoshida met recently with Indonesian officials to discuss the timing of the next round of the Energy Policy Dialogue, and seek further engagement with the Indonesian government. Former Energy Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro supported a near time fr [...]	2009-10-29 09:10:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EPET EINV ID
09JAKARTA1808	Naming Indonesia as a Priority Country for Food Security [...] Summary and Action Request. Food security is a priority for President Yudhoyono, and U.S. assistance would yield concrete poverty-alleviating results for up to 150 million vulnerable Indonesians. Indonesia suffers from a high incidence of food insecurity, particularly in eastern regions wher [...]	2009-10-30 07:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ETRD SENV PREL ID
09JAKARTA1882	ENHANCING US-INDONESIA PARTNERSHIP THROUGH SCIENCE [...] (SBU) Summary. Post proposes a long-term science engagement strategy based upon three pillars: 1) upgrading Indonesia's science capacity through joint research that will provide ongoing mentoring relationships and connections to the U.S. science community; 2) assisting the recognition and dev [...]	2009-11-13 09:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL TBIO SCUL SENV ENRG PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1894	EUROPEAN UNION AND INDONESIA SIGN PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The European Union and Indonesia signed a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) in Jakarta on November 9. The accord was held up since 2007 due to the GOI's anger over the EU's flight ban on Indonesian carriers. This is the latest such cooperative accord signed by the GOI [...]	2009-11-16 10:10:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ID EUN
09JAKARTA19	CORRUPTION PROSECUTIONS OFF TO A STRONG START IN [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Corruption prosecutions are off to a strong start in 2009 with the January 5 conviction of a sitting member of Parliament on graft charges. Meanwhile, anti-corruption results in 2008 were posi [...]	2009-01-06 10:21:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA1901	INDONESIA'S 100-DAY PLAN: 15 PRIORITY PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) Summary: President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) has identified 15 priority programs for his second administration in the government's 100-day plan. The heated dispute between Indonesia's police, Attorney General's Office and the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) prompted the pre [...]	2009-11-17 11:00:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID EFIN ETRD EINV ENRG KCOR PREL PTER SENV
09JAKARTA1968	Copenhagen - Advancing U.S.-Indonesia Environmental [...] (SBU) Summary: Cooperation in climate change, energy and environment is a key component of the U.S.-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership, which President Obama is likely to launch formally when he visits Indonesia in 2010. Bilateral cabinet-level meetings during climate negotiations in Copenha [...]	2009-12-01 11:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG EAID EFIS PREL ID
09JAKARTA1970	Climate Change Funds for Southeast Asia Best Spent in [...] (SBU) The Department should invest limited U.S. funds for climate change where potential gains are the greatest. In Southeast Asia, that place is Indonesia. I urge that the proposed Asia Regional Center for Excellence on Climate Change (ARC) be put in Indonesia. Political Rationale ------- [...]	2009-12-02 08:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID KGHG SENV PREL ID
09JAKARTA1994	Coordinating Minister for Social Welfare Supports NAMRU [...] (SBU) Summary: New Coordinating Minister for Social Welfare Agung Laksono told Ambassador Hume December 3 that he supports the finalization of details to form a joint biomedical research center to replace the Naval Medical Research Unit-2 (NAMRU2) before the end of March. Laksono also confirme [...]	2009-12-04 10:06:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID KGHG SENV PREL ID
09JAKARTA1996	Indonesian Environment Minister Highlights Peat Emissions, [...] (U) During a December 4 meeting, Indonesia's new Environment Minister Gusti Muhammad Hatta highlighted monitoring and mitigation of peat land emissions as a key area for partnership and U.S. assistance. Government of Indonesia (GOI) ministries are busy preparing plans to achieve President Yud [...]	2009-12-04 10:19:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG EAID PREL ID
09JAKARTA2081	INDONESIA-UNITED STATES STRATEGIC CONSULTATIONS ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During the first session of the December 11 inaugural U.S.-Indonesia Strategic Consultations, Under Secretary Bill Burns led the U.S. delegation in a discussion of bilateral cooperation under the Comprehensive Partnership (CP). The U.S. and Indonesian delegations discussed ways [...]	2009-12-21 09:03:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID SENV PREL PARM KGHG MARR OVIP
09JAKARTA255	ILLEGAL LOGGING: 5 INDONESIAN OFFICIALS, 19 OTHERS [...] (U) Summary: The recent convictions of 24 suspects including three police officers reflect the Government of Indonesia's sincere effort to combat illegal logging. Enforcement has had a clear dampening effect on illegal logging activity, although forest conservation remains a major challenge. [...]	2009-02-13 03:34:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR KGHG ECON PGOV ID
09JAKARTA318	WE CAN COOPERATE, INDONESIANS TELL U.S. CLIMATE ENVOY [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Envoy on Climate Change Todd Stern reassured senior Indonesian officials that the United States will be "ready" for Copenhagen. They welcomed U.S. leadership on climate change under President Obama and offered to help the USG in any way possible, including as an intermed [...]	2009-02-25 01:03:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG EAID AORC EFIS PREL ID

09JAKARTA33	INDONESIA ESTH HIGHLIGHTS: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2008 [...] On November 24, Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Freddy Numberi inaugurated a new marine conservation area (MCA) in Kaimana, West Papua Province. Members of the local community, who contributed their indigenous land rights to the new 600,000-hectare MCA, are working collaboratively wi [...]	2009-01-09 04:51:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TPHY TBIO TRGY ENRG ID
09JAKARTA378	INDONESIA -- ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT 2009 [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya and Consulate Medan. 2. (SBU) OVERVIEW: The past year did not witness significant change in overall trafficking patterns in Indonesia. There is a continuous trend of Indonesians seeking work abroad as high unemployment and [...]	2009-03-04 08:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF ELAM EAID ID
09JAKARTA392	YUDHOYONO CONSIDERS REPLACING ACEH MILITARY [...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY. President Yudhoyono is struggling with how and when to replace the hardline Aceh Regional Military Commander, Major General Sunarko. The only question is whether this happens before or after the April 9 national legi [...]	2009-03-05 10:16:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL ID
09JAKARTA396	PAPUA -- TENTATIVE NEW EFFORTS TO ADDRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Residents of eastern Indonesia's Papua and West Papua provinces remain frustrated at their region's relative economic and political marginalization. Many Papuans feel the province's Special Autonomy Law has so far failed to deliver promised economic benefits or given them a gre [...]	2009-03-06 08:44:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ID
09JAKARTA507	NOMINATING USG REP TO INDONESIAN TROPICAL FOREST [...] This is an action cable, see paragraph 4. 2. Post anticipates concluding a Tropical Forest Conservation Act Agreement with the GOI soon. As a part of this process, Post nominates Walter North, USAID Mission Director, as the Voting Member of the Oversight Committee that will be created to [...]	2009-03-20 07:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KGHG EAID PREL ID
09JAKARTA574	INDONESIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA -- GOOD NEIGHBORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia has overcome past tensions to forge a neighborly and increasingly cooperative cross-border relationship with Papua New Guinea (PNG). Although traffic and trade between Indonesia and PNG remains small, Indonesian officials are seeking to expand it. A new border crossin [...]	2009-03-31 10:02:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ID PP
09JAKARTA665	YUDHOYONO WINS MANDATE TO PURSUE REFORM AGENDA [...] (C) SUMMARY: With President Yudhoyono's Partai Demokrat (PD) apparent outright victory in the April 9 national legislative elections, Yudhoyono is positioned to push ahead on his reform agenda. He has the upper hand, stating that parties which want to join his next coalition will need to sig [...]	2009-04-13 10:31:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA883	COMPREHENSIVE PARTNERSHIP -- AMB MARCIEL'S MEETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia would like to close the gap on several pending agreements between the GOI and the USG, a senior GOI official told Ambassador Marciel on May 21. During their meeting, Ambassador Marciel and Ambassador Marsudi confirmed the general structure and mechanisms of the propose [...]	2009-05-22 07:15:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ID
09JAKARTA951	Indonesia Takes Landmark Step on Timber Legality [...] On Friday, May 29, Indonesia's Minister of Forestry M.S. Kaban signed a decree on a timber legality verification standard (Standar Verifikasi Legalitas Kayu, or SVLK). The SVLK is a landmark step because it significantly empowers officials to clamp down on illegal timber harvesting, transport [...]	2009-06-04 04:04:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR KGHG ECON PGOV ID
09JAKARTA985	Asia Forest Partnership - Dynamic, Diverse, Widely [...] Summary: The 8th Meeting of the Asia Forest Partnership (AFP) and AFP Dialogue underscored the value of its open membership and the informality of its discussions on sometimes-sensitive topics related to deforestation and forest degradation. AFP members and other participants at the May 27-29 [...]	2009-06-10 05:53:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR KGHG ECON PGOV ID
09JAKARTA986	ANTI-CORRUPTION BODY PURSUES HIGH PROFILE CASES; [...] (C) SUMMARY: The arrest of the former chair of Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has given prosecutors new impetus on the anti-corruption front. Since this arrest, the KPK has declared as suspects seven former and current lawmakers in corruption cases. In the meantime, th [...]	2009-06-10 07:06:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA992	Indonesia Ready to Sign Forest Conservation Deal [...] The Government of Indonesia (GOI) is prepared to sign the Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA) agreements and proposes a signing date of June 29. Mahendra Siregar, Deputy Minister for International Economic and Financial Cooperation, confirmed this at a GOI interagency meeting on June 10. [...]	2009-06-10 09:31:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR KGHG ECON PGOV ID
09JAKARTA994	USG Partner Launches 1st Green Stock Index in SE Asia [...] On June 8, the Indonesia Stock Exchange and the Indonesian Biodiversity Foundation (KEHATI) launched an investment index intended to raise awareness of companies' environmental and social track records. Named the Sustainable and Responsible Investment index (or SRI-KEHATI),it is the second [...]	2009-06-11 08:41:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR KGHG ECON PGOV ID
09JEDDAH292	EVIDENCE OF MORALITY POLICE CRACKING DOWN IN [...] (C) Summary. The city of Jeddah is experiencing what appears to be one of the periodic crackdowns by the CPVPV (Committee for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice) morality police. Last month's cancellation of the Jeddah Film Festival was one likely manifestation of stricter enforcemen [...]	2009-08-07 10:35:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ASEC KISL KPAO PGOV PHUM SA SOCI
09JERUSALEM1294	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (07/29): A Freeze in Settlement [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-29 09:37:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
09JERUSALEM2323	IMMINENT PUBLICATION OF TENDERS FOR 692 NEW [...] (C) Summary: On December 27, Israel press sources reported the impending publication of 692 construction tenders for new residential units in three Israeli neighborhoods of East Jerusalem: 377 units in Neve Yaakov, 198 in Pisgat Zeev, and 117 in Har Homa. While the details of the tenders a [...]	2009-12-28 15:28:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG KPAL IS
09KABUL130	Badghis Chief Prosecutor Alleges Widespread Corruption [...] (SBU) During a recent meeting with the PRT, Badghis' chief prosecutor, Gaws Mohammad, detailed a disturbing portrait of wide-scale corruption and neglect within the province, singling out Governor Mohammad Ashraf Naseri, among several other provincial officials, for his alleged misappropriation [...]	2009-01-19 11:47:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ETRD EAID AF
09KABUL1651	06/23/09 MEETING, ASSISTANT AMB MUSSOMELI AND MOI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Ambassador Mussomeli discussed a range of issues with Minister of Interior (MoI) Hanif Atmar on June 23. On the Kunduz Regional Training Center (RTC) DynCorp event of April 11 (reftel),Atmar reiterated his insistence that the U.S. try to quash any news article on the inciden [...]	2009-06-24 11:37:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS AF
09KABUL1860	REVISED SHIA LAW: NOT THE BEST BUT THE BEST NOW [...] (C) President Karzai's chief of staff (strictly protect) told the Embassy July 12 that President Karzai signed a decree July 11 enacting the revised Shia Family Law and ordered the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to publish it as soon as possible, using his authority under Article 79 of the Constitu [...]	2009-07-13 14:52:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV AF PREL PHUM KDEM
09KABUL2098	AFGHANISTAN/COUNTERNARCOTICS: BURN POPPY BURN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 21 July, Minister of Counternarcotics (CN),Khodaidad Khodaidad, Deputy Minister of Interior for CN, Mohammad Daud, and the Governor of Helmand, Gulab Mangal joined Embassy Kabul Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs (CDDEA),Ambassador Wayne at Safar vil [...]	2009-07-29 03:30:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PREL SNAR AF
09KABUL2143	HELMAND'S NOW ZAD CHALLENGE: WHAT'S NEXT? [...] (C) SUMMARY: State Rep to the Second Marine Expeditionary Brigade (2d MEB) visited Now Zad district over a three-day period in mid-July. The area was once home to Helmand's second largest city and famous for its pomegranates and lush orchards. British units saw past heavy fighting in Now Zad [...]	2009-08-01 13:59:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM EAID AF
09KABUL2438	GOVERNOR WAHIDI HOSTS TIMBER CONFERENCE IN KUNAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 28, Kunar Governor Wahidi convened a shura of timber merchants, land owners, and tribal elders with three key GIRoA ministers to promote his vision for the future of Kunar,s timber industry, including a halt to smuggling and the disposition of massive existing timber s [...]	2009-08-20 09:25:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAGR EAID AF ECON
09KABUL2599	BADGHIS: GOVERNOR ARMAN REQUESTS MORE US ASSISTANCE [...] (C) Summary: A subdued but confident Badghis Governor Delbar Jan Arman told Ambassador Eikenberry on August 13 that the situation in his province is difficult and getting worse. He requested U.S. support, both in troops and diplomatic efforts, to help overcome the lack of activity on the par [...]	2009-08-29 07:05:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL2825	AFGHANISTAN MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE DISCUSSES COUNTRY'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: During a September 4 meeting with visiting USDA officials, Afghan Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation, and Livestock (MAIL) Rahimi said good rains this year contributed to surging agriculture production of grapes, apples, apricots, and pomegranates. He said the country is not rea [...]	2009-09-17 10:28:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECIN EAID AF
09KABUL3100	AFGHANISTAN: VIGNETTES FROM THE FIELD [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. U.S. civilians in the field continue to work closely with the Afghan Government and their military colleagues to support governance, economic development, and security. New structures and strategies have been integral to placing our people in key positions in the field whe [...]	2009-10-05 13:24:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV AF
09KABUL3109	CORRECTED COPY - AFGHANISTAN: VIGNETTES FROM THE FIELD [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. U.S. civilians in the field continue to work closely with the Afghan Government and their military colleagues to support governance, economic development, and security. New structures and strategies have been integral to placing our people in key positions in the field wh [...]	2009-10-06 04:58:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV AF
09KABUL313	IEC "SATISFIED" WITH VOTER REGISTRATION AFTER [...] (SBU) Two senior officials of the Independent Election Commission (IEC),with ISAF support, traveled February 2-4 to Helmand, Kandahar, and Uruzgan to monitor voter registration operations, reach out to voters and key political figures, and assess the neuralgic question of equitable Pashtun [...]	2009-02-11 04:26:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV AF
09KABUL3390	Sarkani Pilot District Visit [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 19, Coordinating Director for Development and Economic Affairs, Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne, and Commander of the International Assistance Security Force Joint Command (COMIJC) Lieutenant General David Rodriguez visited the District Center in Sarkani, Kunar Province, [...]	2009-10-22 10:38:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR SOCI EAID AF
09KABUL3462	SCENESETTER FOR NOVEMBER 2-3 VISIT TO WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) Summary. Since 2002, Canadian forces have engaged in the strategically important southern Afghan province of Kandahar along side the United States. On August 21, 2009, both countries signed "The Canada-U.S. Kandahar Coordination Plan," which outlines the joint priorities and projects w [...]	2009-10-29 04:17:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM MOPS AF CAN
09KABUL3479	KUNAR: PROPER MANAGEMENT OF TIMBER SALES NEEDED TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The lifting of the timber sales ban in the eastern Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan offers a long-awaited opportunity to reduce smuggling that funds insurgent activities and criminal networks. Such gains could be undermined, however, if mismanagement of timber sales leads [...]	2009-11-01 07:04:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ETRD PREL PK AF
09KABUL3792	Kunar's Timber Industry and Smuggling: Solutions Await a [...] (SBU) Summary: With some of the most dangerous pockets of insurgency in Afghanistan, Kunar province sits on the country's eastern border with Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Rampant timber smuggling has long undermined faith in the government and supported local insurge [...]	2009-11-28 06:40:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ENRG SENV ETRD EMIN EAGR EINV PREL AF
09KABUL3874	ELECTORAL FRAUD --"IS ANYONE LISTENING OUT THERE?" [...] (C) SUMMARY: The inability of a Provincial Council candidate to obtain redress for his allegations of voting fraud highlights the breakdown of Afghan electoral watchdogs and the absence of any backup mechanism to right these wrongs. Recently, Eqbal Safi, an MP representing Kapisa Province, [...]	2009-12-04 08:11:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL AF
09KABUL866	MAJORITY OF MPS SUPPORT COURT STATEMENT ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A majority of MPs in both houses of Parliament voiced support for the Supreme Court's March 31 statement backing President Karzai's remaining in office following the May 22 constitutional expiration of his term. An overwhelming number of Upper House MPs and a majority of Lower [...]	2009-04-05 13:28:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AF
09KABUL904	Paktikas Bermel District: Governance and Development [...] (U) Summary: Bermel district is home to most of AfghanistanQs Waziri tribesmen, who remain closely connected with the Waziri tribes across the border in PakistanQs North and South Waziristan tribal agencies. Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Paktika found questionable distribution of USAI [...]	2009-04-12 10:43:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL AF
09KAMPALA1249	UGANDA: MUSEVENI AND NRM SPEAK OUT AGAINST TORTURE [...] (C) President Museveni vowed on October 14 to "severely" punish any Ugandan security officials guilty of torture, and a senior National Resistance Movement (NRM) spokesperson also condemned the use of torture. While Ugandan officials continue to say the right things, their willingness to restr [...]	2009-10-27 13:48:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UG
09KAMPALA1356	UGANDA: CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS ACCOMPANY ARRIVAL [...] (C) Summary: ExxonMobil interest in Tullow Oil's Ugandan operations, and Italian oil giant ENI's attempt to purchase Heritage Oil's local holdings, mark a clear shift from exploration to the beginnings of production. The remote location of Uganda's oil wells, the difficult chemistry of the oil with [...]	2009-12-03 06:13:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EPET ECON EINV ENRG KCOR UG
09KAMPALA272	2008 SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE [...] (S) Demonstrations A. Are there any ethnic or religious communities in country prone to carrying out significant anti-American demonstrations? Not generally, however during the reporting period there was one public protest of significance held by the local Muslim population on 16 January [...]	2009-03-12 11:28:00	Embassy Kampala	SECRET	APER ASEC
09KAMPALA347	UGANDA/DRC: KONY'S DOCTOR ESCAPES, DISCUSSES OLT [...] Summary: The following is the account of Kotto Kpenze, a Central African Republic (CAR) abductee, who served as Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony's "doctor" for the past year. Kpenze escaped from the LRA on March 30 near Sakure, a village on the border between Sudan and the Dem [...]	2009-04-06 11:50:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PREF MOPS MARR UG SU CG CT
09KAMPALA77	SUBJECT: 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-16 05:29:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR UG
09KAMPALA94	UGANDA/DRC: ADDRESSING JOINT MILITARY OPERATION'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacks against Congolese residents in retaliation for joint Ugandan-Congolese-Sudanese military operations have raised concerns about the protection of civilians. Several assessment teams have traveled to the area of operations to make recommendat [...]	2009-01-23 06:47:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM UG SU CG
09KARACHI136	SINDH - MARINE LIFE ALONG PAKISTAN'S COAST IN JEOPARDY [...] (SBU) Industry and government officials are concerned over the state of Pakistan's marine life, an issue that could affect the livelihoods of thousands along the country's coast. They claim that the fisheries are threatened by increased toxic waste, illegal fishing, mangrove deforestation, an [...]	2009-04-18 06:59:00	Consulate Karachi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIS SENV EIND PGOV ECON PK
09KATHMANDU1078	NEPAL: PM STILL MULLING PROMOTION OF CONTROVERSIAL [...] (C) During a November 24 meeting at his request, Chief Secretary Madhav Ghimire told Charge that Prime Minister Nepal had not made a final decision to promote General Toran Jung Bahadur Singh to Lieutenant General, despite press reports to the contrary. Post had previously expressed concern a [...]	2009-11-25 07:15:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM MARR NP
09KATHMANDU1104	NEPAL'S CABINET TO MEET ON EVEREST [...] (U) Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and 24 Cabinet ministers are scheduled to meet at the foot of Mount Everest on December 4 in an effort to draw the world's attention to the adverse impact of global warming on the Himalayas. The Government of Nepal (GON) is calling for urgent internation [...]	2009-12-03 11:16:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID TBIO PGOV NP
09KATHMANDU1112	NEPAL: PM NEPAL'S NEGATIVE ASSESSMENT OF PEACE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 4 meeting, Prime Minister M.K. Nepal took a hard-line on the Maoists, showing little flexibility on reenergizing the peace process. The "ultra-left" and "untrustworthy" Maoists will be allowed to come into government only after their combatants leave the canton [...]	2009-12-07 11:52:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM NP
09KATHMANDU1142	NEPAL TO TOE DEVELOPING NATION LINE IN COPENHAGEN [...] (U) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal departed for Copenhagen on December 14 to attend the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) summit, at which he is expected to join his counterpoints from other developing nations in demanding that developed nations do more address [...]	2009-12-15 11:04:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID TBIO PGOV NP
09KATHMANDU334	MOMENTUM BUILDS FOR THE GLOBAL TIGER INITIATIVE [...] The World Bank-supported Global Tiger Initiative (GTI) significantly advanced diplomatic efforts to save the world's remaining endangered wild tigers at an April 10-12 workshop of the Association of Southeast Nations Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN-WEN) in Pattaya, Thailand. This workshop [...]	2009-04-23 09:30:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO ETTC ASEAN SAARC XC XD NP TH
09KATHMANDU357	AIR POLLUTION IN KATHMANDU VALLEY [...] Air pollution in Kathmandu Valley is bad and getting worse, but no substantial effort is being conducted to address the problem. Its impact on the most vulnerable, the young, and the elderly is severe. Numerous studies have shown a strong linkage between the level of air pollution and the shar [...]	2009-05-01 10:44:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO EAID XD NP
09KATHMANDU379	HARD TIMES FOR SOUTH ASIA'S HONEY BEES [...] An eight-month drought in Nepal has reduced honey production by half and will contribute to rising prices of edible oil during the monsoon season. Although generally not affected by colony collapse disorder (CCD),honey bees in South Asia have to contend with an increasing population of parasi [...]	2009-05-07 03:46:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO EAGR XD NP
09KATHMANDU484	THE WORLD'S WETTEST PLACE [...] On location at the world's wettest place in Cherrapunjee, in the Indian state of Meghalaya, the South Asia Regional Environment Officer (REO) found a modest trend towards more erratic rainfall patterns since the 1960s. Over the past winter the area went without rain for five months and with li [...]	2009-06-10 01:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO XD NP
09KATHMANDU552	NEPAL: THIRD CABINET EXPANSION [...] (U) On June 24 Prime Minster Madhav Kumar Nepal expanded his cabinet for a third time, swearing in five ministers and one state minister. The expansion brings in two more ministers for Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF),two from the second largest Terai-based party, the Terai Madhes Democr [...]	2009-06-25 09:15:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NP
09KATHMANDU74	DISLOCATION, ENVIRONMENTAL DEPRIVATION, AND CONFLICT IN [...] Mining concessions in India's eastern states of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh are causing the dislocation of tens of thousands of tribal people and threatening their traditional way of life, which is highly dependant on the natural environment. In the process, tribal people have become targets for [...]	2009-01-30 03:49:00	Embassy Kathmandu	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EIND EMIN PREL XD IN
09KATHMANDU748	UNMIN PESSIMISTIC ON NEPAL PEACE PROCESS PROSPECTS [...] (C) Summary: The UN Secretary General's representative in Nepal, Karin Landgren, told P-5 missions on August 11 that prospects for Nepal's peace process over the next six to eight weeks are "slim." Obstacles include the failure of political leaders to develop a "high-level mechanism" for re [...]	2009-08-12 09:06:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PTER KDEM UNSC IN NP
09KATHMANDU840	NEPAL: ADVOCACY CONTINUES AS BOEING'S HOPES FADE [...] (SBU) The Charge d'Affaires continues to advocate at the highest levels of government for the state-run Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) to conduct its decision-making process on the purchase of new aircraft in a fair and transparent manner, even as Boeing officials report that the NAC Board o [...]	2009-09-11 10:15:00	Embassy Kathmandu	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ETRD PREL PTER NP
09KHARTOUM1160	OUTSTANDING REFERENDUM LAW AND ELECTION ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 14, Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Vice President, Riek Machar told Charg Whitehead that a deal on outstanding Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) issues is near. Machar and Taha met on October 13 and 14 to resolve the outstanding issues including acceptance of [...]	2009-10-15 09:19:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO SOCI SU
09KHARTOUM1212	SPLM MAKING PROGRESS ON CPA ISSUES BUT REJECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 23, while hosting a visit of the South African Vice President, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) held an emergency Polit-Bureau meeting chaired by Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) President Salva Kiir. The meeting focused on the SPLM boycott of the Nat [...]	2009-10-27 15:07:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SU
09KHARTOUM1262	SOUTHERN SUDAN ASKS FOR HELP IN PREPARING FOR ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Voter registration began in Southern Sudan on November 1 amid logistical and political hurdles. (Septel will report on registration progress.) This cable discusses the Government of South Sudan's (GoSS) urgent plea for help in preparing security for the elections following an O [...]	2009-11-08 07:05:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINS SU
09KHARTOUM1400	NCP AND SPLM BREAK THE IMPASSE BUT NOT THE CYCLE; [...] (C) Summary: Three days of talks between Government of National Unity (GoNU) President Al-Bashir and GoNU First Vice President (and Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS)) President Salva Kiir and their respective delegations broke through on December 13, resolving three of five outstanding issue [...]	2009-12-14 11:48:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINS PREL SU
09KHARTOUM1455	VOTER REGISTRATION CONCLUDES IN SUDAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Voter registration concluded in Sudan on December 7. According to election advisors, and based on the National Elections Commission's (NEC) preliminary, unverified results, voter registration turned out significantly better than anyone might have expected, although problems were [...]	2009-12-28 06:52:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPKO SU
09KHARTOUM321	NGO EXPULSIONS FURTHER DAMAGE SPLM-NCP RELATIONS [...] (C) The government's decision to expel 13 INGOs (and dissolve 3 local NGOs) from operating in Sudan has not just damaged the regime's relations with the West, it has also damaged the ruling party's relations with the SPLM, which was not consulted at all about the decision, according to SPLM De [...]	2009-03-08 14:21:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PREL PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM700	USG-GOSS MEETING ON SOUTHERN SUDAN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Monday, May 25, USAID provided a presentation to Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) officials regarding a USAID assessment and recommendations for possible interventions in the agricultural sector. The audience included officials from a number of the GOSS Ministries, as well a [...]	2009-05-28 16:26:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC PGOV PREL KPKO SOCI AU UNSC SU
09KHARTOUM775	USAID-GOSS PARTNERSHIP CONFERENCE [...] SUMMARY. On Monday, June 15, officials from USG and the semi-autonomous Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) held their first Partnership Conference. This conference brought together representatives from USAID and the State Department based in Juba, Khartoum and Washington, along with more than [...]	2009-06-24 05:21:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL SOCI ASEC KPKO AU UNSC SU
09KIGALI279	SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR RICE: RWANDA UN ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: I am delighted you will participate in the UN Security Council's May 17-18 visit to Rwanda. The Mission staff and I look forward to assisting you during your visit. Your participation underscores the importance of our relationship with Rwanda and our support [...]	2009-05-08 06:15:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC MOPS PHUM PINR RW
09KIGALI410	THE WAGES OF (GENOCIDE) SIN IN RWANDA -- YOUR CASE [...] (C) Summary. Over the past several months, as the National Gacaca Service closes out its million-plus caseload, politically sensitive cases are being heard. Senior Hutu officials in Parliament, in the executive branch and in the military are finally facing their accusers. Conviction, acqu [...]	2009-07-09 11:36:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM RW
09KIGALI531	RWANDA PUSHING FOR "CLEAN AND GREEN" ENERGY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Rwanda (GOR) is pressing forward with development of diversified renewable energy sources to satisfy the majority of its power generation needs by 2012. Methane gas from Lake Kivu, hydroelectric and geothermal power will provide the bulk of its "on the grid" el [...]	2009-08-27 05:31:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ENRG ETRD RW
09KIGALI784	WESTERN PROVINCE FOCUSES ON AGRICULTURAL REFORMS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 17, local officials in Western Province said they were focused on implementing agricultural reforms and improving delivery of basic services. Lack of financing and inadequate transportation infrastructure remained challenges. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On November 17, Em [...]	2009-11-24 16:52:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAGR RW
09KIGALI822	RWANDAN CABINET SHUFFLE, NEW FOREIGN AND FINANCE [...] (C) Summary. In the third cabinet shuffle of the year, President Kagame replaced his Foreign and Finance ministers and rearranged cabinet responsibilities for other ministers. The new Foreign Minister, Louise Mushikwabo, had been Minister of Information. She came back to Rwanda and became In [...]	2009-12-03 13:34:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RW
09KIGALI823	RWANDA'S NEW CABINET LINEUP [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-03 14:19:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR RW
09KIGALI830	RWANDAN VIEWS ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Many Rwandans are aware of the negative impacts of climate change on their country and are taking a proactive approach, both domestically and internationally, to mitigate against those impacts. The government of Rwanda (GOR) is aggressively promoting "clean and green" energy (Ref [...]	2009-12-04 14:41:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR EAID ECON RW
09KIGALI874	RPF FLEXES ITS MUSCLES DURING CONGRESS, CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 12, approximately 2500 Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) members from across Rwanda held a party congress in Kigali to hear remarks by Rwandan president Paul Kagame and other senior figures and to elect individuals to fill party leadership slots. RPF rank and file n]F 6v [...]	2009-12-22 06:15:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RW
09KINGSTON277	REQUEST FOR LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR THE [...] Post request Department's assistance in screening the following candidate(s) of the Jamaican Constabulary Force (JCF) to participate in the International Sea Cargo Interdiction Training 2, being held April 27-May 8, 2009 here in Jamaica, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Po [...]	2009-04-08 14:08:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM JM
09KINGSTON753	JAMAICA: OPPOSITION GRILLS PRIME MINISTER IN PARLIAMENT ON [...] (SBU) The continuing controversy over the Christopher "Dudus" Coke extradition request exploded into partisan rancor and bitterness in Jamaica's Parliament on December 8, as Peter Phillips, Member of Parliament (MP) for the opposition People's National Party (PNP) and former Minister for Nation [...]	2009-12-10 17:45:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CVIS SNAR PINR ASEC CJAN KCOR KCRM JM XL
09KINSHASA1033	CLAN FIGHTING: EQUATEUR PROVINCE REMAINS TENSE [...] Summary: Dongo, the sleepy Ubangui river town that was the scene of recent fighting between the rival Enyele and Manzaya clans, is calm, but completely deserted. A small detachment of MONUC's Ghanaian force is in Dongo, along with 300 Congolese Rapid Intervention Police (PIR) elements. The [...]	2009-11-24 17:08:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM PGOV CG
09KINSHASA1036	DRC INSTILLS CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY [...] (U) Summary: Since the approval of the Forestry Code by the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (GDRC) in 2002, the Congolese government has engaged in several mandatory reforms. In fact, the GDRC has begun to recognize the multiple social, economic, and environmental values of [...]	2009-11-25 14:11:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	DCOM ECON EFIN EMIN ELAB EAIR PGOV CG
09KINSHASA1079	CAMPAIGN FOR 2011 ELECTIONS KICKS OFF AS KABILA [...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 7 State of the Nation address, President Kabila implicitly launched his campaign for the 2011 local and presidential elections, focusing his points primarily on domestic political issues. Kabila predicted GDP growth of 5.4% in 2010, and he lauded the progress ma [...]	2009-12-14 06:35:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN SENV KDEM EINV CG
09KINSHASA1095	Greenpeace, Rainforest Foundation, Global [...] (U) Summary: In an eight -page "open letter" to the World Bank, co-signed by Greenpeace Africa, Rainforest Foundation UK, Rainforest Foundation Norway and Global Witness, the four agencies raised wide-ranging questions to the World Bank regarding the forest policy reform program in the DRC. I [...]	2009-12-16 12:16:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID EFIN ETRD PGOV CG
09KINSHASA120	DRC: A Look Back on 2008 and a Preview of 2009 [...] (SBU) The Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (GDRC) faced substantial challenges in 2008 but made tangible progress in dialogue with armed groups, judicial, decentralization, and economic reforms and development cooperation. In 2009, the DRC faces many of the same challenges that [...]	2009-02-05 18:38:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF EAID KDEM KPKO CG
09KINSHASA140	FOREIGN MINISTER'S FEBRUARY 11 BRIEFING TO AMBASSADORS ON [...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs contacted embassy late February 9 to request ambassador's attendance at briefing next day by Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwanke at MFA headquarters. Present at the briefing were ambassadors of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, China, South Af [...]	2009-02-11 14:27:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG UN EUN
09KINSHASA164	EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 19 [...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Operations against the FDLR --------------------------- 2. (SBU) The 21st FARDC [...]	2009-02-19 11:59:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA172	OPERATION LIGHTNING THUNDER: SITUATION FROM DUNGU [...] (SBU) Summary: Goma poloff recently traveled to Dungu in Haut Uele with MONUC escorts to gather information related to Operation Lightning Thunder. All MONUC personnel remain garrisoned at the Dungu airstrip, which is well guarded by an unknown number of UPDF and FARDC battalions. No MONUC f [...]	2009-02-23 14:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA226	EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 10; IDP UPDATE FOR NORTH KIVU [...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. 2. (SBU) U.S. personnel met on March 9 with Gloria Fernandez, head of OCHA in the D [...]	2009-03-10 12:39:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA23	EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 8 [...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. CNDP Internal Discord --------------------- 2. (C) A senior MONUC political offi [...]	2009-01-08 15:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA246	EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 17: ONGOING INSECURITY IN KIVUS [...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Continuing LRA Attacks ---------------------- 2. (U) Both Caritas and MSF have i [...]	2009-03-17 12:03:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA292	EASTERN DRC NOTES - MARCH 27 [...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation in the Kivus ------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Near Pin [...]	2009-03-27 15:37:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA307	EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 1: DRC SENATE COMMISSION [...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Amnesty Law ----------- 2. (U) The DRC Senate's Defense, Security and Border Cont [...]	2009-04-01 13:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA323	OPERATION KIMIA II - MORE STICK, LESS CARROT? [...] (SBU) Summary: MONUC and the FARDC are ramping up preparation for Operation Kimia II with an aggressive campaign to increase steadily pressure on the FDLR. In contrast to Operation Umoja Wetu, the new operation will not include DDRRR outreach efforts to convince Rwandan rebels to return home [...]	2009-04-06 08:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA347	DRC FORESTRY TITLE CONVERSION PROCESS: [...] (U) Summary: The government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (GDRC) has initiated the post-conversion process of forestry titles following the completion in January 2009 of a government year-long review of 156 logging titles. The review was completed following a presidential decree that o [...]	2009-04-09 11:16:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON EAID ETRD EINV PGOV CG
09KINSHASA400	VISIT TO A FORMER FDLR STRONGHOLD [...] (SBU) Summary: The Joint Monitoring Group Task Force (JMG-TF) travelled on April 17 to Nyabiondo, which lies 20 kilometers southwest of Masisi, to assess the situation on the ground, particularly with regard to the status of the FDLR in the area. JMG-TF members received a briefing from the MON [...]	2009-04-23 14:53:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF CG
09KINSHASA403	EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 24 [...] The items contained in this report consist rincipally of spot information from various soures. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all te information contained therein be confirmed at ths time. Security Situation ----------------- 2. (SBU) Based on movements of LRA cadre, MOUC beli [...]	2009-04-24 10:08:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA410	EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 27 [...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation ------------------ 2. (SBU) MONUC sources say the villages of [...]	2009-04-27 11:03:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA424	EASTERN DRC NOTES - APRIL 30; BOSCO ALLEGEDLY PART [...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Bosco Allegedly Part of Kimia II -------------------------------- 2. (U) BBC and [...]	2009-04-30 09:17:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA45	DRC: 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (U) Per reftel, following is the text of the Investment Climate Statement for the DRC for 2009. OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT ------------------------------- 2. (U) The DRC's rich endowment of natural resources, large population size (approximately 65 million) and generally open trading [...]	2009-01-15 12:14:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ECON ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR CG
09KINSHASA471	EASTERN DRC NOTES - MAY 15 [...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. South Kivu Integration ---------------------- 2. (SBU) We followed up with sever [...]	2009-05-15 11:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA529	VIRUNGA NATIONAL PARK: OPEN FOR BUSINESS AGAIN [...] (U) Summary: Virunga National Park in the eastern DRC reopened for limited tourism in early May 2009 following two years of inactivity. There are still pockets of FDLR rebels and Mai Mai militia in the park, but Park Director Emmanuel de Merode believes tourism is vital to the park's surviva [...]	2009-06-08 07:44:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EIND PGOV PREL PREF CG
09KINSHASA552	EASTERN DRC NOTES - JUNE 12 [...] (U) The information contained in this report consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Anti-LRA Operations ------------------- 2. (SBU) MONUC reported that 10 abduct [...]	2009-06-12 11:37:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA562	EASTERN DRC NOTES - JUNE 16 [...] (U) The information contained in this cable consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Anti-LRA operations ------------------- 2. (SBU) Precise information about LRA [...]	2009-06-16 15:44:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG
09KINSHASA574	MAI MAI KIFUAFUA STILL SUPPORT INTEGRATION, BUT [...] (C) Summary: A spokesman for the Mai Mai Kifuafua told us that, although the group has repeatedly demonstrated its interest to integrate more of its troops, FARDC unresponsiveness and ineptitude has prevented the process from moving forward. Kifuafua claims to support FARDC operations again [...]	2009-06-18 08:47:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PHUM PINR CG
09KINSHASA575	RWANDA VISIT ADDS PERSPECTIVE FOR JMG-TF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Rwanda (GoR) sponsored a visit of the Joint Monitoring Group Task Force (JMG-TF) to Rwanda June 4-6 to enhance understanding of the repatriation process for FDLR rebels remaining in the DRC. The 18-member group of DRC-based diplomats (Note: Goma Liaison Offic [...]	2009-06-18 12:16:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG
09KINSHASA691	EASTERN DRC NOTES - JULY 16 [...] (U) The information contained in this cable consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation - LRA ------------------------ 2. (SBU) Press reports state [...]	2009-07-16 11:17:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG
09KINSHASA736	EASTERN DRC NOTES - AUGUST 5 [...] (U) The information contained in this cable consists principally of spot reports from various sources. This cable is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Security Situation - LRA ------------------------ 2. (SBU) In an August 4 BBC i [...]	2009-08-05 12:25:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS KPKO CG
09KINSHASA78	EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 23: NKUNDA CAPTURED [...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Nkunda Captured --------------- 2. (SBU) Multiple press sources reported that Nk [...]	2009-01-26 07:22:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG

09KINSHASA842	Scopes of work for follow-up actions to the [...] See guidance request at para. 3. 2. Ref A provides a matrix for follow-up actions to the Secretary's August 10-11 visit to Kinshasa and Goma. Additional information on the overall themes and strategy for each action item can be found in Refs B and C. This cable (para. 4) provides, as ind [...]	2009-09-18 09:39:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCOR PGOV PREF ECON EAGR EAID KJUS EINV
09KINSHASA85	EASTERN DRC NOTES - JANUARY 27 [...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Joint Plan Briefing ------------------- 2. (SBU) MONUC reported that GDRC repres [...]	2009-01-27 12:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA896	DDRRR, the FDLR, and Kimia II [...] (SBU) Summary: Goma PolOff recently met with DDRRR officials, who presented a snapshot of their efforts in the Kivus. Many ex-CNDP units, "integrated" into the FARDC, continue to use child soldiers, according to DDRRR interlocutors. FARDC cooperation with DDRRR over the last month has impro [...]	2009-09-30 15:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREF PGOV PREL PHUM CG
09KINSHASA98	EASTERN DRC NOTES - FEBRUARY 2 [...] (U) The items contained in this report consist principally of spot information from various sources. This report is not exhaustive, nor can all the information contained therein be confirmed at this time. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) During a February 1 press conference, President Kabil [...]	2009-02-02 12:28:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MOPS PHUM PREF KPKO CG
09KINSHASA990	The Rapid Exodus of IDPs from the Camps in Goma, DRC [...] (U) A rapid field study of the sudden exodus of an estimated 65,000 residents of camps for displaced populations in the Goma area has revealed evidence of excessive use of violence and the violation of humanitarian principles during the camps closure. The sudden camp closures also damaged relat [...]	2009-11-04 09:48:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF CG
09KOLKATA101	MAOISTS ATTACK ORISSA MINE ON EVE OF INDIAN NATIONAL [...] (SBU) On April 12, several days before polling began in the eastern India state of Orissa for both the parliamentary and state assembly elections, approximately 200 left-wing extremists, known as Maoists or Naxalites, mounted an armed attack on the public sector enterprise National Aluminum Com [...]	2009-04-17 10:23:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV EMIN IN
09KOLKATA105	BHARAT BALLOT 2009: UPA DISCORD AND ANTI-INCUMBENCY FAVOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the mineral-rich tribal state of Jharkhand was carved out of the eastern Indian state of Bihar in 2000, it has been plagued by a string of poorly performing governments and political instability. Discord within the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and underlying anti-inc [...]	2009-04-22 07:14:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EMIN IN
09KOLKATA167	WEST BENGAL: POLICE WIN FIRST ROUND AGAINST MAOISTS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-24 03:41:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PGOV CASC IN
09KOLKATA194	POLICE IN WEST BENGAL ASSERT PRESENCE IN ALLEGED MAOIST [...] (SBU) Summary: Joint operations by state and central police have brought more areas under control in and around West Bengal's rural Lalgarh without any significant opposition from the armed groups of the Communist Party of India - Maoist (hereinafter referred to as Maoists, also known as Naxal [...]	2009-07-16 05:39:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC CASC IN
09KOLKATA256	ONE YEAR LATER, KANDHAMAL RESIDENTS REBUILD DIVIDED [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-17 11:41:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF IN
09KOLKATA287	MAOISTS/NAXALS DETAIN AND RELEASE TRAIN IN WEST BENGAL [...] (SBU) On October 27 a group of armed and unarmed Maoist/Naxal supporters (press has reported 300) halted an express Bhubaneswar - New Delhi train in Jhargram, West Bengal to protest the deployment of central security forces in anti-Maoist operations and call for the release of one of their lead [...]	2009-10-28 09:20:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ASEC IN
09KOLKATA335	CLIMATE CHANGE HERE AND NOW FOR SUNDERBANS: NGO'S ADAPTATION [...] (U) Summary: The famed Sunderbans, a deltaic region in the Bay of Bengal with more than one hundred islands and four million people, is one of India's most vulnerable areas to rising sea levels and extreme climatic events. On one of the islands, Mousuni, public and private actors have foc [...]	2009-12-23 12:00:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG ECON TSPL KSCA KGHG IN BG
09KOLKATA55	NEW AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK IN WEST BENGAL - A CROSS BORDER [...] (U) On February 24, the GOI reported a second outbreak of the avian influenza (AI) virus H5N1 in backyard poultry in West Bengal's Darjeeling district, this time in the forest village of Punding (See Reftel). The village is about 630 km north of Kolkata and the district physically borders the [...]	2009-03-05 09:15:00	Consulate Kolkata	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SENV CASC PGOV AMED KFLU IN BG
09KUALALUMPUR402	MALAYSIAN CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ON LICENSE FOR [...] (C) Summary: At an AMCHAM luncheon on May 18, the Ambassador told Bank Negara Governor Zeti that the U.S. continued to object to the GOM decision to license First East Export Bank PLC (a subsidiary of Iran's Bank Mellat) to open in Labuan (ref A). The Ambassador explained that there was no [...]	2009-05-26 08:30:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETTC IR MY PREL
09KUALALUMPUR699	HAZE IN MALAYSIA CAME EARLY, STICKING AROUND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The annual haze came early to Malaysia this year, starting in late May. Forest and peat fires primarily in Indonesia are the main cause of the haze, although some burning in Malaysia, including in the Bakun Dam region of Sarawak, has contributed to the problem. The haze has dra [...]	2009-08-18 08:49:00	Embassy Kuala Lumpur	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO AMED CASC EAGR AMGT PGOV MY ECON
09KUWAIT1092	ANGRY WORDS AND CRITICISM OF RULING FAMILY MARK [...] (C) Summary: Partisan differences characterized parliament's November 17 session, which swirled around ongoing plans to interpellate the PM and several other Cabinet ministers. Important legislative items were deferred while MPs wrangled over attempts by public prosecutors to lift immunity o [...]	2009-11-18 14:13:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KU
09KUWAIT111	KUWAIT'S CABINET PASSES RESCUE PACKAGE [...] (C) Summary: Kuwait's cabinet approved draft legislation to support Kuwait's banking sector by guaranteeing or purchasing distressed assets for up to 15 years. The draft legislation also encourages new lending to "the real economy" and has provisions to address liquidity and solvency problems [...]	2009-02-08 08:39:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV ECON KU
09KUWAIT161	OPPOSITION MPS SUSTAIN CALLS TO "GRILL" PRIME [...] (C) Though the Kuwaiti Parliament is on recess for the February 24-25 national and liberation holidays, this respite only delays until its March 3 reconvening the targeting of PM Shaykh Nasser for opposition grilling. The beleaguered PM, who has been out of the country for the past two weeks, [...]	2009-02-24 12:07:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KU
09KUWAIT202	KUWAIT POLITICAL CRISIS STYMIES BAILOUT LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) Key Points: -- Latest political crisis could prevent passage of "rescue package" for months. -- Major investment companies could collapse, including London-traded Global Investment House. -- Leading Kuwait banks in relatively sound shape. -- No GOK proposals for stimulus spendi [...]	2009-03-08 05:40:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV KU
09KUWAIT530	KUWAIT: 18 U.S. MILITARY H1N1 CASES MADE PUBLIC; [...] (C) Summary: News of 18 confirmed H1N1 cases among U.S. military personnel in Kuwait dominated newspaper headlines and TV news shows on May 24 and 25 (ref A). The Ministry of Health moved promptly to stymie panic, including holding a well-received press conference on May 24. Separately, Kuwai [...]	2009-05-26 14:10:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	KFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO
09KUWAIT550	AMIR PLEADS FOR NATIONAL UNITY AS HE INTRODUCES [...] (C) Kuwaiti Amir Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmad al-Jaber Al Sabah on May 30 swore in sixteen new and returning ministers, introducing them to recently elected parliamentarians at the National Assembly's convening on May 31. This latest iteration of the government represents the 27th cabinet since Kuwai [...]	2009-06-01 15:16:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KWMN KU
09KUWAIT574	UPDATE ON H1N1 CASES AMONG U.S. MILITARY IN KUWAIT [...] (C) During an introductory meeting with the new Minister of Health, Dr. Hilal Musaed Al-Sayer, Ambassador provided an update on the status of H1N1 influenza cases among U.S. military transiting through Kuwait and informed the Minister that the USG would likely notify the WHO of additional cases [...]	2009-06-08 11:34:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	KFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO
09KUWAIT633	KUWAIT H1N1 LESSONS LEARNED -- WALKING THE LINE [...] (C) Summary: Reports of multiple H1N1 influenza cases among U.S. military personnel in Kuwait in mid-May strained U.S.-Kuwait relations and threatened the seamless monthly flow of 50,000 OIF troops. Emboffs and senior Army officers worked diligently to maintain GOK trust in the USG's ability [...]	2009-06-28 03:11:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	KFLU MARR MOPS AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO
09KYIV1981	UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ OPTIONS FOR GAS PAYMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine is expected to need about $1 billion to cover gas purchased from Russia in November and December. Prime Minister Tymoshenko has called on President Yushchenko to allow the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) to make its foreign currency reserves available for the gas payments. [...]	2009-11-13 11:16:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG EREL PGOV PREL PINR UA RU
09KYIV1982	TYMOSHENKO'S DESPERATE BUDGET SCRAMBLE [...] (C) Summary. Members of parliament (MPs),the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Ministry of Finance doubt there will be any movement on Ukraine's draft 2010 budget before the presidential election, despite cajoling statements from Rada Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn. With the IMF's fourth loan tranche [...]	2009-11-13 13:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EREL ETRD PGOV PINR UP XH
09KYIV316	SITE SURVEY PURSUANT TO ELIMINATION OF UKRAINE'S [...] (C) Following up on the November 17 meeting in Kyiv (ref a) and subsequent demarche (ref b),Embassy met with Acting Head of the Economic Department of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense Novosiolev to discuss progress on possible cooperation to eliminate Ukraine's SCUD missiles. Emboff briefed No [...]	2009-02-13 15:53:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL UP
09KYIV428	POLITICAL INFLUENCE IN UKRAINE'S MURKY JUDICIAL [...] (C) Ukrainians continue to view their judicial system as corrupt and open to political influence. The courts remain chronically underfunded, while judicial immunity and lifetime appointments for judges insulate their decisions. PM Tymoshenko is widely seen as controlling the Supreme Court, whi [...]	2009-03-06 16:27:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV UP
09LAGOS142	NIGERIA: DOCUMENTARY HIGHLIGHTS RISING SEA LEVELS, [...] (U) Summary: Nigerian film director Desmond Majekodunmi, with funding from the Heinrich Boll Foundation, produced "Global Warming: Nigeria Under Attack", a documentary screened in Lagos on November 19. The 40 minute-long film documents the threat of rising seas levels on recent developments o [...]	2009-03-19 05:52:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI PGOV ECON NI
09LAGOS285	NIGERIA: EDO STATE REFORMS ON TRACK [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 18 PolOff met with senior officials of Edo State Government in Benin City to discuss progress on the reforms initiated by the Governor Adams Oshiomhole (Action Congress - AC) since he took office following an Appeals Court decision in his favor in November 2008. The sta [...]	2009-07-08 07:33:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON KCOR NI
09LAGOS290	NIGERIA: HARNESSING BIO-DIVERSITY FOR MEDICINE IN [...] (U) Summary: On June 19, PolOff visited the Pax Herbal Clinic and Research Laboratories at Ewu in Edo State, where Benedictine monks have been developing herbal medicines based on indigenous bio-resources. Pax Herbal combines indigenous knowledge and resources with modern diagnostic and labora [...]	2009-07-09 13:06:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SENV NI
09LAGOS377	NIGERIAN GREEN GOVERNORS SIGN CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) Governors Babtunde Fashola and Emmanuel Uduaghan of Lagos and Delta states, respectively, have agreed with global counterparts to work together to promote clean transportation, support national climate change legislation, include forests in climate policy development, and recognize the ro [...]	2009-10-06 18:02:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SENV ENRG PREL PGOV NI
09LAGOS462	SOUTHERN REACTIONS TO YAR'ADUA'S AILING HEALTH [...] (S) Lagos has remained outwardly calm over the recent Eid-el-Kabir holiday weekend, and during the week of November 30 over reports of President Yar'Adua's ailing health. The main southern Nigerian preoccupation, if there is one apparent now, is speculation and concern over the staying power [...]	2009-12-04 07:00:00	Consulate Lagos	SECRET	PGOV PREL SOCI NI
09LAGOS96	NIGERIA: NIGERIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INVOLVES [...] (U) Summary: Mr. Alade Adeleke, Technical Director of Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) told Pol-Econ Associate on February 17 that the organization is seeking partnerships with U.S. universities specializing in climate change and the consequences it has on resource conservation and enviro [...]	2009-03-02 14:42:00	Consulate Lagos	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR SENV EAID PGOV GH NI
09LAPAZ1028	BOLIVIA: 2008-09 COUNTERNARCOTICS PERFORMANCE MIXED [...] (SBU) Summary: The Morales Government,s 2008-2009 counternarcotics performance continues to be mixed, with slowly rising eradication levels and increased seizures in interdiction, but with legislative reform on hold until after the December 2009 presidential elections. UNODC,s recent coca sur [...]	2009-07-13 11:55:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID BL
09LAPAZ1597	President Morales will Travel to COP-15 to Advocate for [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Morales confirmed December 8th that he will attend the 15th Conference of the Parties under the UN Climate Change Convention (COP-15). He will travel to Denmark from Cuba where this weekend he will attend the ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas) 5th Anniversa [...]	2009-12-11 13:02:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KGHG BL
09LAPAZ232	ALLEGED GOVERNMENT LAND GRAB AFFECTS U.S. RANCHER [...] (SBU) Summary: Recently, the Bolivian Government and landowners in the Cordillera province of Santa Cruz have clashed violently concerning land rights. The government acuses the landowners, including a high-profile AmCit rancher, of labor abuses and serfdom against the resident Guarani popula [...]	2009-02-11 16:41:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR PGOV PHUM EINV CACS BL
09LAPAZ501	SANTA CRUZ LEADERS ALARMED BY EROSION OF [...] (C) Summary: During several recent trips by embassy officials to Santa Cruz, leaders and common citizens alike have expressed concern over the growing anti-democratic tendencies of the Morales government. Issues such as the continued imprisonment of Pando Prefect Leopoldo Fernandez, the self [...]	2009-03-31 21:23:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KDEM PHUM SNAR ASEC BL
09LAPAZ508	GOVERNMENT OF BOLIVIA FOLDS REGULATORY BODIES BACK [...] (C) The Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) economic model firmly places the state at the center of all economic activity. One more step will be taken toward this goal with the dismantling of the regulatory system that won accolades upon its creation in the early 1990s. The system featured sup [...]	2009-04-01 20:35:00	Embassy La Paz	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL EINV BL EFIN ASEC SENV
09LAPAZ631	BOLIVIA SCENESETTER FOR FORMER PRESIDENT CARTER [...] Embassy La Paz offers a warm welcome to Former President Carter and accompanying team to Bolivia April 30-May 3. The information in this cable on U.S. government engagement in Bolivia is designed to complement the background paper provided by the Department of State, which summarized political [...]	2009-04-29 19:42:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL BL
09LAPAZ69	BOLIVIA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 [...] (U) Bolivia remains a difficult place to do business. Economic activity is often disrupted by social unrest resulting from centuries of economic, political, and social inequality, and indigenous, labor, and anti-globalization organizations have recently targeted private investment )- particula [...]	2009-01-15 17:10:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED	BL EFIN EINV ETRD KTDB PGOV ELAB
09LIBREVILLE14	INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 - GABON [...] Per reftel, following is the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for Gabon. ------------------------------ Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ 2. Gabon is generally open to foreign investment, with foreign firms controlling the country's three main sources of inco [...]	2009-01-13 10:56:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV OPIC USTR KTDB EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV GB
09LIBREVILLE23	GABON: BONGO'S NEW GOVERNMENT LOOKS A LOT LIKE THE [...] (SBU) Following weeks of public hints that a government shakeup was imminent, Gabonese President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba announced a modest cabinet reshuffle January 14. The already-bloated cabinet grew from 43 to 48 positions (including deputy ministers). The new government, while it doe [...]	2009-01-15 15:28:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR GB
09LIBREVILLE281	GABON: U.S. INTERESTS IN THE POST-BONGO ERA [...] (C) About a dozen African heads of state, French President Sarkozy, AU Chair Jean Ping and other luminaries are expected in Libreville for Gabonese President Omar Bongo's June 16 state funeral. Drawing on our excellent condolence message, any U.S. delegation should honor Bongo's memory and f [...]	2009-06-12 11:53:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR GB
09LIBREVILLE412	GABON: THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: DOUBTS ABOUT [...] (C) Gabon,s presidential election process continues to move forward. On September 4, Ali Bongo Ondimba was announced as the winner of the August 30 presidential election (Reftel). Opposition requests for an independent vote count were rejected. Losing candidates have 15 days (until Septembe [...]	2009-09-11 10:08:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GB
09LIBREVILLE467	GABON: ALI BONGO ARRESTS KEY PLAYERS IN REGIONAL BANK [...] (SBU) Summary: Newly installed Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba recalled Philibert Andzembe, the Governor of the Central Bank of Central African States (BEAC),who is Gabonese, in the wake of revelations about the $82 million financial scandal. Press sources are reporting that two other [...]	2009-10-20 14:47:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KCOR GB
09LIBREVILLE47	CENTRAL AFRICAN LEADERS CONFRONT ECONOMIC CRISIS [...] SUMMARY: The heads of state of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) met in Libreville to discuss regional implications of the current world economic crisis and to plan concerted measures to deal with the crisis. Also on the agenda were the estimated USD 584 million inves [...]	2009-02-06 09:17:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EAID ECIN GB CM CT CD CF EK ZF
09LIBREVILLE48	ECHOES OF WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS SOUND IN GABON [...] SUMMARY: With an economy almost entirely dependent on the export of raw materials -- mainly petroleum, manganese, and timber -- Gabon has experienced significant recessionary effects linked to the current international economic crisis. Private sector decision-makers are taking a cautious appro [...]	2009-02-06 09:35:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EPET EMIN EAGR GB
09LIBREVILLE495	GABON: NATIONAL PARKS FACING SIGNIFICANT [...] (SBU) Summary: Gabon's newly-appointed director of the National Parks Agency (ANPN),biologist and environmentalist Dr. Lee White, reviewed the current status of the parks authority, anticipated next steps to develop eco-tourism and the parks, and provided a general background on the status of [...]	2009-11-12 07:18:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GB
09LIBREVILLE499	GABON: GOVERNMENT DEVELOPS ROADMAP FOR THE FUTURE [...] SUMMARY. Ali Bongo's new cabinet spent the weekend of November 7-9 at an off-site seminar in Lope National Park, located several hours by train from Libreville. The Prime Minister and members of government were tasked by President Bongo to develop a road map for "Emerging Gabon: Building a Sh [...]	2009-11-16 11:27:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GB
09LIBREVILLE539	GABON: PRESIDENT BONGO SAYS HE WILL FOCUS ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-09 05:02:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	TSPL SENV GB
09LIBREVILLE545	GABON: COMIFAC DEMARCHE DELIVERED DEPUTY MINISTER [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-11 12:22:00	Embassy Libreville	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON SENV GB
09LIBREVILLE547	GABON: PRESIDENT BONGO TO STRENGTHEN COOPERATION [...] (c) Summary: In a December 4 meeting with the Ambassador, Gabon,s President Ali Bongo Ondimba said he would like to strengthen the good bilateral cooperation that already exists with the U.S., and pledged to stay involved in facilitating solutions to regional conflict. President Bongo comment [...]	2009-12-15 12:34:00	Embassy Libreville	CONFIDENTIAL	KHUM KTIP PGOV PREL GB
09LILONGWE29	MALAWI ELECTIONS UPDATE - DELAYS AND DISPUTES [...] (SBU) Summary: The latest extension in Malawi's voter registration process will delay completion of the exercise to January 28, pushing the deadline for Presidential and Parliamentary nominations into early February. With no decision yet on Muluzi's candidacy, potential delays from legal cha [...]	2009-01-21 14:34:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM MI
09LILONGWE363	MUTHARIKA ANNOUNCES A COMPREHENSIVE AND [...] (SBU) Summary: In his State of the Nation address on June 23, President Mutharika highlighted his first administration's achievements in food security, economic growth, and respect for democracy through successful and peaceful elections. Mutharika said the voters gave him an overwhelming mand [...]	2009-06-25 15:30:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAID MI
09LIMA1114	SCENE SETTER FOR CODEL PRICE [...] (SBU) Summary: Peru is a close U.S. partner in a complicated South American region. Our bilateral relationship is anchored in a shared vision of opportunities and challenges - specifically, that a pro-growth strategy is best suited to reduce poverty and that strengthening institutions is the [...]	2009-08-04 19:13:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR PTER PHUM USAID OVIP PE
09LIMA1389	AMAZON WORKING GROUPS: FRUSTRATIONS AMID DIALOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Following the deadly June 5 Amazon clashes in which 24 police officers and 10 civilians were killed, then-PM Yehude Simon signed accords with indigenous groups that established the National Coordinating Group for the Development of Amazon Populations ("Grupo Nacional" -- reftels) [...]	2009-09-17 21:47:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB ETRD ECON PE
09LIMA1629	Amazon Dialogue: Negotiating Through Distrust [...] (C) Summary. Working groups formed to resolve issues arising out of the deadly June 5 Amazon clashes have shown uneven progress thus far. GOP contacts assure us that the dialogue process will lead to a new forestry law that brings Peru back into compliance with the PTPA by the August 2010 d [...]	2009-11-04 17:46:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB ETRD ECON PE
09LIMA1740	Peru Environment Minister Lists Priority Concerns and Hopes [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 2, Post's ESTH bilateral and regional teams met Environment Minister Antonio Brack, to formally introduce the new ESTH Officer for Peru and the ESTH Hub Officer for South America, as well as to discuss priority environmental issues for Peru and the Region. We engaged [...]	2009-11-14 01:43:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID EMIN ETRD SENV PE
09LIMA1836	Peru Environment Minister Lists Priority Concerns and Hopes [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 2, Post's ESTH bilateral and regional teams met Environment Minister Antonio Brack, to formally introduce the new ESTH Officer for Peru and the ESTH Hub Officer for South America, as well as to discuss priority environmental issues for Peru and the Region. We engaged [...]	2009-11-25 20:57:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID EMIN ETRD SENV PE
09LIMA1934	PERU PROPOSING 47 PERCENT REDUCTION IN EMISSIONS AND [...] (SBU) The Ambassador delivered reftel A points to Minister of Environment Antonio BRACK Egg, who will lead the Peru delegation to Copenhagen (COP 15). Brack already seemed to be familiar with the USG position, and was supportive. 2. (SBU) Brack informed the Ambassador that Peru will [...]	2009-12-10 21:47:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ETRD TSPL KGHG PE
09LIMA272	2009 ESTH FSN COURSE - LIMA NOMINATION [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-02 16:54:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV AFSI KSCA AFSN TSPL ECON PE
09LIMA405	ACCESSING GENETIC RESOURCES IN MEGADIVERSE PERU [...] As one of the five most biodiverse countries on the planet, Peru has been at the forefront of international discussions on accessing genetic resources. In Peru, genetic resources are part of the national patrimony, making the national Government of Peru (GOP) responsible for their management [...]	2009-03-23 19:12:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR SENV TBIO PE
09LIMA77	PERU 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The Government of Peru (GOP) seeks to attract investment -- both foreign and domestic -- in nearly all sectors of the economy. The U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA),signed by President Bush and President Garcia on December 14, 2007, and set to enter into force on February 1, 2009, sh [...]	2009-01-21 18:52:00	Embassy Lima	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD KTDB ELAB PGOV OPIC USTR PE
09LIMA777	AMAZON PROTESTS SPARK DEBATE OVER DECREES [...] (C) Summary: Prolonged and effective protests by Amazon indigenous community groups have caused Congress to reassess the legality of a number of legislative decrees regarding the use of national resources in Peru's jungle lowlands. Should Congress and President Garcia give in to the pressure, [...]	2009-06-01 23:13:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD EAGR SOCI SENV PE
09LIMA793	AMAZON PROTESTS: NOT SO HIDDEN POLITICAL AGENDA [...] (C) Summary: Amazon community groups have invoked the supposed unconstitutionality of nine legislative decrees as the reason for protests that have gone on for almost two months now. These nine decrees are technical laws that seek to facilitate investment and promote development in one of Pe [...]	2009-06-05 19:20:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB ECON ETRD PE
09LIMA822	CONGRESS SUSPENDS DECREES TO DEFUSE PROTESTS [...] (C) Summary: In an effort to reduce tensions and defuse protests, the Congressional plenary on June 10 voted to suspend decrees 1064 and 1090 for 90 days. Security forces are preparing for planned June 11 nation-wide protests, including one in downtown Lima. The Prime Minister has met with C [...]	2009-06-10 21:50:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI ELAB ETRD ECON PE
09LIMA888	AMAZON PROTESTS SUBSIDE, COPYCATS CONTINUE [...] (C) Summary: After Congress repealed two legislative decrees (ref),prolonged protests by Amazon communities appear to have subsided. The GOP must now negotiate with indigenous and regional leaders to develop new laws. Should a majority of legislators vote to "censure" the PM, who has been s [...]	2009-06-22 21:50:00	Embassy Lima	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PTER PE
09LISBON138	EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM 2009 PORTUGAL [...] Embassy Lisbon requests Science Fellows for 2009/2010 to expand the Embassy's contacts with Portuguese counterparts and develop relationships and collaboration with research institutions. While all applications are welcome, Post is particularly seeking specialists in renewable energy sources, [...]	2009-03-06 16:26:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TSPL TBIO EAGR ENRG ECON AMGT APER PGOV
09LISBON564	PORTUGAL 2009 FOREST FIRE ROUNDUP [...] (U) Portugal forest fire experts Mark Beighley and Tiago Oliveira said 2009 was a light forest fire season in Portugal, and the government of Portugal (GOP) has strengthened its firefighting capabilities since 2006. Education programs to reduce human-caused ignitions and forest fuel reduction [...]	2009-10-30 13:56:00	Embassy Lisbon	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR SENV PGOV PO
09LJUBLJANA275	SLOVENIA-CROATIA: PM WILLING TO COMPROMISE ON [...] (C) Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor informed DAS Stuart Jones on August 30 that he was willing to be flexible on the language of the June 15 Rehn proposal (Rehn 2) despite the political risks, but he needed a public statement from the Government of Croatia (GoC) agreeing to the Rehn 2 fr [...]	2009-09-03 16:42:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN HR SI
09LJUBLJANA291	SLOVENIA: SCENESETTER FOR MOD STATE SECRETARY [...] (C) State Secretary Uros Krek, Slovenia's Deputy Minister of Defense, is visiting the U.S. primarily to determine if there is true U.S. political support /appreciation for Slovenian past and current military efforts in Kosovo, Afghanistan and NATO. This is an opportunity for senior U.S. offi [...]	2009-09-18 13:38:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR NATO SI
09LJUBLJANA303	RENEWABLE ENERGY INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN [...] On September 22, Emboff met with Mr. Hinko Solinc, head of the Department of Efficient Energy Use and Use of Renewable Energy Sources within the Slovenian Ministry of the Environment. Slovenia is highly committed to renewable energy. Its target is for 25% of its energy consumption to come from [...]	2009-09-29 08:25:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON SI
09LJUBLJANA36	SLOVENIA WARY OF LMOS, WON'T ATTEND MEETING ON [...] Emboffs met with Simona Rogl, Head of Service for EU Coordination and International Affairs and State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food on February 11 to discuss cross-border movement of living modified organisms (LMOs) and the U.S. position on the Cartegena Protocol, [...]	2009-02-13 15:14:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD KPAO TBIO SI
09LJUBLJANA44	SLOVENIA: NO RESPONSE ON BIOTECH CORN, BUT [...] (SBU) Emboff delivered demarche per reftel A on February 20 to Alenka Zupancic, Acting Head of Service for EU Coordination and International Affairs and State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food. Zupancic said she could not give a response to this issue. However, mini [...]	2009-02-24 15:01:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ETRD EUN KPAO TBIO SI
09LOME17	TOGO - 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The following is Togo's 2009 Investment Climate Statement as requested in reftel: OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT 2. Togo has traditionally provided a hospitable environment for foreign investment. However, political instability has diminished both opportunities and investor confidence. T [...]	2009-01-16 11:36:00	Embassy Lome	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR TO
09LONDON1605	EMBASSY LONDON AND THE "NEXT BIG THING" ON CLEAN [...] (U) Summary: Embassy London will propose septel a major U.S./UK initiative to accelerate technical progress on climate change and clean energy technologies. We will outline a strategy to quickly build on U.S./UK cooperation to achieve economically viable technical solutions in the near to m [...]	2009-07-10 12:54:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ENRG KGHG KPAO SENV UK
09LONDON205	AU SUMMIT: UK PRIORITIES AND PING'S VISIT TO LONDON [...] (C) Summary. FCO Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown will represent HMG at the January/February AU Summit in Addis Abba. Malloch-Brown has been invited to speak about the London Summit in April. He intends to explain the aims and objectives of the London Financial Summit and to highlight [...]	2009-01-23 13:34:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AU XA UK
09LONDON2509	TORIES ABANDON EU REFERENDUM, BUT CRY "NEVER AGAIN" [...] (C/NF) Summary. Conservative leader David Cameron abandoned his party's plans for a UK referendum on the European Union's Lisbon Treaty as the treaty becomes law on December 1. In a November 4 speech, Cameron lamented that the country, under Labour governments, was denied the chance for a referen [...]	2009-11-05 18:05:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV EU UK
09LONDON2680	DPRK: AMB BOSWORTH'S DEC 2 MEETINGS WITH UK [...] (C/NF) Summary. Foreign Office junior minister Ivan Lewis and Asia Pacific Director Scott Wightman told Special Representative for North Korea Policy Ambassador Stephen Bosworth in separate December 2 meetings that the UK and EU want to support the USG's efforts to see North Korea return to multil [...]	2009-12-02 15:48:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PINR PGOV ECON SOCI KN CH KS FR UK
09LONDON694	AFRICAN LEADERS CONSULTED IN RUN-UP TO APRIL [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Gordon Brown hosted African leaders (listed in para 17) in London at a consultative pre-London Economic Summit meeting on March 16, where African leaders delivered pre-agreed positions and a statement on proposals for the G20 to mitigate the worst effects of the g [...]	2009-03-19 14:13:00	Embassy London	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON EAID XA UK
09LONDON811	TURKISH PM ERDOGAN ON ECONOMY AND POLITICS [...] (SBU) Turkish PM Erdogan spoke at a Chatham House event April 3, in which he commented on the accomplishments of the London Economic Summit, Turkey's economic progress, and his party's recent election "success." In response to questions from the audience, he was vague on Turkey's relations wi [...]	2009-04-03 16:34:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS EU NATO TY DA FR RS IZ IS AJ JA
09LUSAKA426	COMESA LAUNCHES CUSTOMS UNION, PURSUES BROAD AND AMBITIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. Leaders from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) launched a customs union and a regional payment and settlement system during the recent COMESA Summit in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Eight of COMESA's 19 Member States are disposed to join the Customs Union, [...]	2009-06-16 14:27:00	Embassy Lusaka	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECIN ETRD PREL SENV XW XA ZU
09LUSAKA749	ZAMBIA BUDGET: HAPPY TALK AND HORSE FEATHERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Zambian Minister of Finance Situmbeko Musokotwane presented the Zambia government's (GRZ) 2010 budget to Parliament October 9 three months earlier than the traditional speech (ref A). The proposed budget's themes were similar to last year's with a slight change from "Embracing" [...]	2009-10-23 08:23:00	Embassy Lusaka	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID EFIN PGOV KCOR ZA
09MADRID836	SPAIN'S CONTROVERSY OVER OFFICIAL LANGUAGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The use of Castilian and other official Spanish languages has been a long-standing divisive political issue in several areas of Spain. In regions where Catalan, Galego, or Euskera are spoken, local legislation has further politicized the issue. Those Spanish citizens who believ [...]	2009-08-20 11:09:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PREL SP
09MALABO27	EQUATORIAL GUINEA RAW, PAPER 4: THE BUSINESS OF CORRUPTION [...] (U) Triggered by changes underway in Washington D.C., upcoming personnel rotations in Embassy Malabo and animated by the recent attack on the capital, this is the fourth in a series of cables intended to update our perspective on Equatorial Guinea, and to provide a ground-level view of one of t [...]	2009-03-12 10:40:00	Embassy Malabo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECIN ECON EFIN PGOV EPET ENRG KCOR PINR
09MANAGUA1009	EL NINO EFFECT HURTING NICARAGUAN ECONOMY [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-14 16:02:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EAGR ETRD EINV USTR NU
09MANAGUA1041	NICARAGUANS RESPOND TO COURT RULING ON RE-ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: After the Supreme Court's (CSJ) ruling allowing Presdient Daniel Ortega's re-election, civil society across the board has stated clearly its opposition to the decision. They have labeled the decision as illegal and a major step backward for Nicaragua's democracy. While NGOs con [...]	2009-10-22 21:23:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM NU
09MANAGUA1084	NICARAGUA: INPUT FOR THE 2010 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE [...] The U.S. goods trade deficit with Nicaragua was $611 million in 2008, a decrease of $103 million from $714 million in 2007. U.S. goods exports in 2008 were $1.1 billion, up 22.8 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Nicaragua were $1.7 billion, up 6.3 percent. Nicarag [...]	2009-10-30 18:23:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ETRD EAGR EFIN ECPS SOCI TBIO NU
09MANAGUA1130	NICARAGUAN ARMY THREATENS TO EXPROPRIATE U.S. CITIZEN [...] (SBU) The Nicaraguan Army has threatened to expropriate property owned by U.S. citizen Gloria Molina to extend a military airstrip. Mrs. Molina and her family have attempted to meet with the Nicaraguan Army and the Attorney General's Office to resolve this dispute, but neither government agency [...]	2009-11-06 16:31:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ECON KIDE NU
09MANAGUA1192	(U) SANDINISTA SUSPICIOUS SALE OF TIMBER-RICH ANCESTRAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In August, approximately 12,400 hectares of indigenous land in the North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN) was sold to a foreign-owned timber company under suspicious circumstances. The tract from the Awas Tingni community, home to a large Sumo Mayagna indigenous group, was on [...]	2009-11-18 14:47:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PINS SENV ETRD EIND EAGR NU
09MANAGUA259	NICARAGUA: ALBA ENTITY BUYS SEMINOLE RANCH AND HOTEL [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 26, President Ortega announced that he had authorized the use of funds generated through Nicaragua's membership in the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) to purchase a cattle ranch and hotel from the Seminole Tribe of Florida. FSLN officials have designated a [...]	2009-03-09 19:42:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EAGR ETRD ECON NU
09MANAGUA273	NICARAGUA LIFTS BAN ON U.S. CATTLE, BEEF, AND BEEF BYPRODUCTS [...] (SBU) Minister of Agriculture and Forestry (MAGFOR) Ariel Bucardo told the Ambassador during a March 4 meeting that he had lifted a ban on the importation U.S. beef and live cattle. MAGFOR enacted the ban in 2003 when an animal infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy was discovered in t [...]	2009-03-13 17:17:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD EAID ECON NU
09MANAGUA496	NICARAGUA: TIMBER INDUSTRY AT A STANDSTILL [...] (SBU) Summary: Nicaraguan timber exports in 2008 reflected a complete collapse of the timber industry - a collapse that began in 2006 with the passage of Law 585 (known as the "Veda Forestal," or forestry ban),which included a logging ban and a moratorium on timber exports. Nicaragua's expor [...]	2009-05-18 18:30:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SENV ETRD EINV ECON NU
09MANAGUA501	NICARAGUA: AMBASSADOR TRIP TO RAAN OVERSHADOWED BY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 21 and 22 Ambassador Callahan traveled for the first time to Puerto Cabezas in Nicaragua's North Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN). During his two-day trip, he met with opposition, religious and indigenous leaders, held a press conference, and inaugurated a USAID-funded [...]	2009-05-19 16:58:00	Embassy Managua	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM OTRA NU
09MANAGUA754	NICARAGUA: 2009 ECONOMIC INDICATORS BLEAK SO FAR [...] (U) Key Nicaraguan economic indicators from the first quarter of 2009 forecasted a challenging future for the rest of the year. Not surprisingly, remittances from Nicaraguans working abroad have suffered declines given the economic slowdown in the United States. Imports and exports have both s [...]	2009-08-03 16:41:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EAID ECON PGOV PREL NU
09MANAGUA806	NICARAGUA FY2010 FOOD FOR PROGRESS PROGRAM REQUEST [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Nicaragua (GON) has requested a $4.8 million FY2010 government-to-government U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food for Progress (FFP) program to continue work with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAGFOR) to improve Nicaragua's sanitary and phytosa [...]	2009-08-17 17:06:00	Embassy Managua	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR NU CS
09MANILA1274	NOMINATION FOR CORPORATE EXCELLENCE AWARD: CHEVRON [...] Post is pleased to nominate Chevron Philippines Incorporated in the large enterprise category for the 2009 Award for Corporate Excellence in recognition of its significant contributions to the Philippines over the past 90 years. Chevron began operations in the Philippines in 1917, making it on [...]	2009-06-15 08:12:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP EINV ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV RP
09MANILA1941	Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Fund [...] Summary: The USG-funded Philippine Tropical Forest Conservation Fund (PTFCF) decided in recent meetings to become a sustainable source of funding for forest conservation work and to consider climate change mitigation and adaptation as a factor in selecting projects for funding. Since 2005, P [...]	2009-09-14 09:18:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON RP CN XE XD
09MANILA214	Geek Swaps Benefit U.S. and Philippines [...] Summary: U.S. agencies and private institutions have active science partnerships in the Philippines that build goodwill and capacity in both nations and add to global knowledge. The synergy that results from USG active engagement in science in the Philippines is beneficial to the work of USG [...]	2009-02-02 08:54:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA TSPL SENV ENRG TRGY TSPA EAGR RP
09MANILA2469	MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE: INFLUENTIAL MAYOR AND [...] (C) Moving with unwonted speed after the brutal November 23 massacre in Maguindanao Province that left at least 57 persons dead -- including 28 from media organizations -- the Philippine government took into custody a key member of a powerful Muslim clan and said it would charge him with multi [...]	2009-11-27 07:39:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KCRM KUS ASEC RP

09MANILA2483	Philippines Appears to Moderate Pre-Copenhagen Climate [...] (SBU) Summary. The Philippines' lead climate change negotiator, former Senator and Environment Secretary Heherson "Sonny" Alvarez, has spelled out a pragmatic position on greenhouse gas emissions, calling for mandatory cuts for 'all the big boys', including China. This replaces earlier Philipp [...]	2009-12-02 00:01:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON KGCC RP
09MANILA2548	PRESIDENT ENDS MARTIAL LAW IN MAGUINDANAO, CLAIMS [...] (C) President Arroyo on December 12 lifted martial law in Maguindanao province. The government announced the eight-day period of martial law had achieved its objectives after the government arrested suspects in the November 23 massacre and disarmed the Ampatuan clan's well-armed private army. [...]	2009-12-14 07:18:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS MOPS KDEM KJUS KCRM ASEC RP
09MANILA326	NEXT STEPS ON VFA AND MARINE LCPL DANIEL SMITH [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 11. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Mission continued its intensive efforts to ascertain Philippine government views and intentions following the Philippine Supreme Court's Feb. 11 decision upholding the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) but directing the Philippine g [...]	2009-02-13 05:53:00	Embassy Manila	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP
09MANILA384	Nomination of FSN Maria Villa for 2009 Environment, [...] Embassy Manila is pleased submit the following nomination for the 2009 ESTH course: a. Name: Maria Theresa "Bimbi" N. Villa, grade 10 b. Date of Birth: January 11, 1963 c. Nationality: Filipino d. Passport No.: pending application e. Agency: Department of State f. Position title: Economic [...]	2009-02-23 04:12:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV AFSI KSCA AFSN TSPL RP
09MANILA647	Philippines: A Valuable Partner on Climate Change and the [...] Summary: The Philippine government has demonstrated its commitment to climate change mitigation and adaptation through legislation, appointment of a presidential task force, ambitious emission reduction targets, active participation on the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, and robus [...]	2009-03-24 09:27:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID TPHY TRGY TSPL RP
09MANILA85	Philippines: 2009 Investment Climate Statement, Part One [...] Part One of PostQs 2009 Investment Climate Statement is transmitted in paragraph 2, in accordance with reftel instructions. 2. Begin text: 2009 Investment Climate Statement -- The Philippines Openness to Foreign Investment The Government of the Philippines (GRP) generally acknowle [...]	2009-01-14 08:54:00	Embassy Manila	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ELAB ETRD KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR RP
09MAPUTO521	FAMOUS AUTHOR PROVIDES A SNAPSHOT OF ENVIROMENTAL [...] (SBU) This cable represents the third in a series of innovative collaboration in environment/science reporting between Embassies Maputo and Pretoria. Embassy Pretoria ESTH Officer and Maputo Economic/Commercial officer visited environment and science projects in Niassa, Sofala and Cabo Delgad [...]	2009-04-27 10:36:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EINV MZ
09MAPUTO54	MAPUTO'S PROPOSAL FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY FUNDS [...] Summary: Embassy Maputo requests funding from the FY 2009 Biotechnology Outreach Strategy Fund to bring two subject matter experts to Mozambique to meet with regulators, academia, consumers, and legislators on currently relevant topics such as risk assessments, field trial management, labeli [...]	2009-01-21 11:39:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD SENV TBIO KPAO MZ
09MAPUTO65	2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - MOZAMBIQUE [...] Mozambique encourages foreign direct investment. CPI, the government's Investment Promotion Center, seeks to bring investors to Mozambique and should be a potential investor,s primary contact with the government. CPI is particularly interested in increasing investment in the central and nor [...]	2009-01-22 14:25:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC MZ
09MAPUTO971	EMBASSY MAPUTO HOSTS U.S. INVESTOR CONFERENCE [...] SUMMARY: In an environment of economic crisis, Mission Maputo's State and USAID colleagues partnered to increase investor interest in Mozambique's commercial opportunities, drawing upon the Department of State's FY09 Business Facilitation Incentive Fund (BFIF) and joining efforts with the U [...]	2009-09-01 14:18:00	Embassy Maputo	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP EINV ECON ETRD AMGT MZ
09MASERU215	LESOTHO: NEW TWIST IN THE CALL FOR MINISTERS TO BE FIRED [...] Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) Youth League members allegedly wrote a letter, dated June 6, 2009, which urged the Prime Minister to fire some cabinet ministers for incompetence. The letter has sparked controversy, as some sources accuse Mothetjoa Metsing, the Minister of Communications (w [...]	2009-06-30 08:36:00	Embassy Maseru	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV LT
09MBABANE18	SWAZILAND: UPDATE ON WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-20 10:32:00	Embassy Mbabane	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID WZ
09MBABANE85	EFFECTS OF WORLD ECONOMIC DOWNTURN ON SWAZILAND'S INSULATED [...] SUMMARY. Swaziland's financial market, fairly insulated from the global banking crisis, has kept banks that operate in Swaziland safe. Swaziland's small domestic market makes it heavily dependent on sugar exports and exports to the South African market. This vulnerability to commodities pricing [...]	2009-03-31 07:34:00	Embassy Mbabane	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON EFIN WZ
09MELBOURNE28	US WILDFIRE EXPERTS ARRIVE IN MELBOURNE [...] (SBU) A team of 60 U.S. wild fire personnel arrived in Melbourne on February 15 and were met by Consul General and Victorian officials. The arrival received wide media coverage. Six large fires continue to burn, and while they have not crossed containment lines, the blazes continue to threate [...]	2009-02-17 05:53:00	Consulate Melbourne	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV CASC AS
09MELBOURNE95	RIGHT OF CENTER UNIONS DOMINATE IN VICTORIA [...] (C/NF) Unionized workers represent almost twenty percent of the Australian workforce, yet hold disproportionate political influence in federal and Victorian politics. Victorian right-of-center unions maintain a powerful sway over federal and state Ministers by engaging in backroom diplomacy, f [...]	2009-08-12 03:56:00	Consulate Melbourne	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR PREL PGOV AS
09MEXICO1192	EPR MEDIATION TALKS DISSOLVE [...] (U) Summary. On 21 April, the Mediation Commission (COMED) that had the role of mediator for dialogue between the EPR and the Mexican Government formally removed itself from any future exchanges. The COMED was composed of civil society representatives that had been identified by the EPR la [...]	2009-04-28 22:11:00	Embassy Mexico	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER MX
09MEXICO3321	Ninth World Wildlife Congress Promotes [...] (U) Summary: The ninth World Wildlife Congress (WILD 9),a wilderness conservation conference hosted annually by the WILD Foundation, convened in Merida, Mexico from November 6-13. In a nod to next month's climate change talks in Copenhagen, the theme of the conference was "Wilderness, the [...]	2009-11-23 23:40:00	Embassy Mexico	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR MX
09MONROVIA19	LIBERIA: WEAK LEADERSHIP UNDERMINES COMMERCIAL FORESTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: Weak leadership at the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) has delayed resumption of commercial logging, placed millions of dollars of potential revenue at risk and jeopardized the success of the forestry reform program. The companies bidding on logging concessions consistent [...]	2009-01-07 13:29:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR PGOV ECON EAID SENV LI
09MONROVIA373	LIBERIA: REFORMS BOOST INVESTMENT CLIMATE [...] Liberia continues to work at improving the business climate and moving up the IFC's "Doing Business" index. Eighteen new reforms, following up on 21 last year, simplify requirements for Starting a Business, Trading Across Borders, Registering Property, and Construction Permits. (See para. 5. [...]	2009-05-29 11:05:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV BEXP ETRD EAID ECON KMCA LI
09MONROVIA375	LIBERIA: DRAFT BUDGET IS BIGGER AND MORE DETAILED [...] (U) The GOL submitted its 2009-10 draft budget for legislative consideration on May 19. Despite the global financial crunch, the budget, at $347 million, shows a 16% increase over last year's and over 400% growth from the $80 million budget when the Sirleaf administration took office. It incl [...]	2009-05-29 11:51:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ECON EAID PGOV LI
09MONROVIA390	UN SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING WITH PRESIDENT SIRLEAF [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting with the UN Security Council during their May 19-20 visit to Liberia, President Sirleaf expressed strong support for a continued UNMIL presence until Liberia can take over its own security. On several occasions, she called the peace "fragile" and easily able to be rever [...]	2009-06-02 16:39:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO LI PGOV PREL UNSC
09MONROVIA479	LIBERIA INKS MORE TRANSPARENT DEAL FOR SHIP REGISTRY [...] SUMMARY: The Liberian Ship and Corporate Registry (LISCR) signed a new 10-year deal with the GOL June 30 to manage the country's lucrative "flags of convenience" business. Weary from years of haggling with the Bureau of Maritime Affairs (BMA) over control of revenues, and spurned by specious [...]	2009-07-06 15:10:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EWWT EINV LI
09MONROVIA618	CODEL BUTTERFIELD MEETING WITH PRESIDENT SIRLEAF [...] (U) August 17, 2009; Monrovia, Liberia. 2. (U) PARTICIPANTS: U.S. Charge d'Affaires, a.i. Brooks Robinson Representative G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) Representative Lacy Clay (D-MO) Representative Gwen Moore (D-WI) Representative Steven Cohen (D-TN) [...]	2009-08-27 17:34:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON LI OVIP EINV ETRD EAIR EAGR EWWT
09MONROVIA751	LIBERIA: AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW 2009 [...] (U) COUNTRY BACKGROUND SUMMARY: Liberia has a government that was democratically elected in multi-party elections in October/November 2005. The government has moved to exert its authority throughout the country but security still depends on the 10,000-strong United Nations Mission in Liberia [...]	2009-10-13 16:45:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON LI ETRD
09MONROVIA76	LIBERIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 [...] There is growing investor interest in Liberia, particularly in agriculture, construction, the extractive industries and tourism. UN sanctions on timber exports were lifted in 2006 and on diamonds in early 2007 as Liberia became compliant with the Kimberly Process. The removal of sanctions open [...]	2009-01-22 10:18:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB ECON PGOV OPIC USTR KTDB LI
09MONROVIA786	FLAWED TIMBER CONCESSIONS PASS LEGISLATURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The National Legislature ratified four new Forest Management Contracts (FMCs) in a closed-door session September 23, despite civil society objections and a ruling from the Public Procurement and Concession Commission (PPCC) overturning the concessions on technical grounds. Polit [...]	2009-10-26 08:28:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR LI
09MONROVIA90	LIBERIA: PRESIDENT CALLS FOR CONTINUED REFORM IN THIRD [...] (U) SUMMARY. In her third State of the Nation Address before a joint session of the National Legislature January 26, President Sirleaf summarized the achievements of her government in 2008 and called for Liberia to "sustain this progress" in 2009. She vowed to continue the fight against corru [...]	2009-01-28 18:04:00	Embassy Monrovia	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EAID EINV KCRM CACS LI
09MONTERREY175	BORDER STATES CLIMATE CHANGE WORKSHOP AND MEXICO'S CLIMATE [...] Summary. The Mexican state and federal governments reaffirmed their commitment to combating climate change at the Border States Climate Change Workshop held April 22-23 in Monterrey, Mexico. The conference, sponsored by the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC),was the first ever [...]	2009-05-14 15:52:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG EPET ECIN ECON PGOV MX
09MONTERREY292	NUEVO LEON ECONOMIC OUTLOOK IMPROVING SLIGHTLY [...] (SBU) Summary: The State of Nuevo Leon's Secretariat of Economic Development (SEDEC) estimates that the 2009 GDP decline for the state will be less than the national average and that employment will increase during the remaining months of the year. SEDEC expects monthly exports to stabilize [...]	2009-07-31 14:13:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETRD EIND EINV ELAB ECON MX
09MONTERREY376	CONSULATE GENERAL MONTERREY ORGANIZES THE FIRST EVER [...] The city of Monterrey, Mexico's economic powerhouse, is home to Mexico's most proactive fitness culture. Relatively high disposable incomes, the abundance of recreational activities such as rock-climbing and mountain biking, and an appreciation for the health benefits of physical exercise yiel [...]	2009-10-13 16:04:00	Consulate Monterrey	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SCUL OIIP OEXC MX
09MONTEVIDEO121	URUGUAY: PRESIDENT VAZQUEZ TO TRAVEL TO BRASILIA [...] (C) President Vazquez plans to travel to Brasilia March 10 for a meeting with President Lula. That summit is expected to produce agreement on several issues, according to FM Gonzalo Fernandez, including commitments to eliminate a longstanding tariff problem between the two countries and to in [...]	2009-03-03 16:23:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECIN EINV ETRD
09MONTEVIDEO181	URUGUAY ADVANCES ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] An environmental current is gathering momentum in Uruguay, with a notable increase in the number of public and press events related to climate change. On March 17, President Vazquez announced the launching of a National Agenda on Climate Change that creates a $6 million emergency fund to help [...]	2009-04-02 11:16:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KGHG UY
09MONTEVIDEO265	GOU LOOKS TO PRIVATIZE AIRPORTS IN THE INTERIOR [...] (U) Recent press reports indicate that the GOU will introduce two bills in Parliament in the coming weeks to make possible the privatization of the Colonia, Salto, and Rivera airports in the Uruguayan interior. The planned procedure is to auction the administration and development of the airpo [...]	2009-05-12 16:59:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON UY
09MONTEVIDEO316	ENCE Sells Forestry Holdings, New Owners Announce an [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Spanish forestry firm ENCE announced on May 22 the sale of most of its forestry plantations to a consortium formed by Finnish-Swedish Stora Enso and Chilean Arauco, and that it will not continue with plans to build a $1.2 billion cellulose plant. Stora Enso/Arauco announced they [...]	2009-06-08 13:28:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD PREL PGOV UY
09MONTEVIDEO32	MONTEVIDEO PROPOSAL FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY SPEAKER ON [...] Summary: Post has prepared a proposal for the organization of a biofuels speaker program in Uruguay in FY2009. Given Uruguay's interest in energy diversification and our recent bilateral alternative energy MOU, post believes this funding possibility could spur development of Uruguay's biofu [...]	2009-01-21 10:22:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO ENRG EAGR ECON PGOV KPAO ETRD UR
09MONTEVIDEO401	URUGUAY'S POTENTIAL AS A RENEWABLE ENERGY LEADER IN THE [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (U) Uruguay has the potential to become an alternative energy-based economy if it continues its current effort and improves the policy environment and needed infrastructure. I [...]	2009-07-13 12:45:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENGY EAGR UY
09MONTEVIDEO553	URUGUAY: FERTILE GROUND FOR OPIC-SUPPORTED GLOBAL RENEWABLE [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Montevideo considers Uruguay fertile ground for potential OPIC-supported Renewable Energy Fund investments. Uruguay has a tremendous amount of potential in the field of alternative energy and is already a regional leader in some aspects. Several projects in both the private an [...]	2009-09-25 11:01:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED	ENGY UY
09MONTEVIDEO7	URUGUAY: DROUGHT CONTINUES, BUT GOVERNMENT NOT YET [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. Summary: - - - - 2. (SBU) Uruguay continues to suffer from a serious drought, but Deputy Chief of Staff Jorge Vazquez told Ambassador Baxter January 8 that the GOU does not yet consider it necessary to requ [...]	2009-01-09 14:51:00	Embassy Montevideo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV EAID EAGR ECON SOCI UY
09MONTEVIDEO78	URUGUAY: FM LAUDS BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP, [...] (C) Getting to know officials in the new U.S. administration and helping them understand Uruguay's excellent relationship with the U.S. is a priority for President Vazquez during his last year in office, Foreign Minister Gonzalo Fernandez told the Charge February 6. Complicating that challenge [...]	2009-02-10 15:13:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS TBIO UY
09MOSCOW1249	KADYROV FEELING THE PRESSURE AFTER TERRORIST [...] (C) Summary: Less than one month after Moscow lifted the counter-terrorism regime in Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov is beginning to show even less patience with opposing views. He has declared an end to the amnesty procedure by which former fighters came down from the mountains and out of the fore [...]	2009-05-18 14:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM PINR PREF RS
09MOSCOW1565	2009 REPORT FOR RUSSIA ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (U) Per reftel request, attached is post's draft 2009 Report for Russia on Investment Disputes and Expropriation Claims. We have also e-mailed to EUR/RUS and EEB/OIA the draft report as a Word document marked to show changes from the 2008 Report for Russia. Begin text of draft report: 2. ( [...]	2009-06-15 13:37:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV KIDE ETRD ECON RS
09MOSCOW1609	DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. DOE Deputy Secretary Poneman and DOE Moscow representatives met with Russian Federation Energy Minister Sergey Shmatko on June 10, 2009 in Moscow to discuss future cooperation in areas of mutual interest to include energy and climate change. During the ninety-minute meeting, Shmatk [...]	2009-06-19 05:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP PREL PTER RS
09MOSCOW1612	DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. DOE Deputy Secretary of Energy Poneman and Ambassador Beyrle met with Russian Federation Minister of Education and Science (MES) Andrey Fursenko on June 10, 2009, in Moscow to discuss future DOE-MES cooperation in energy efficiency, carbon capture and sequestration, and nanotech [...]	2009-06-19 06:23:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP PREL PTER SENV TSPL TNGD KGHG EAID
09MOSCOW2106	RUSSIA IN DENIAL OVER GEORGIA'S CIS EXIT [...] (SBU) Summary: While Moscow officials speculate that Georgia under a new leadership might choose to reapply for CIS membership, analysts take Georgia's departure from that organization as an indication that the CIS only has "symbolic" importance, as former Soviet Union countries increasingly d [...]	2009-08-18 12:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV GG RS
09MOSCOW2211	RUSSIA'S ALTAI REPUBLIC FACES ECONOMIC PROMISE AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Rising tourism presents an economic opportunity for the Altai Republic's mostly rural population, but also threatens its unspoiled wilderness. Threats include desecration of ancient cultural sites, poaching of endangered wildlife, and, to a lesser extent, illegal logging. Develop [...]	2009-08-27 14:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON EAID SOCI PGOV KCRM KDEM PREL RU
09MOSCOW2366	RUSSIAN ILLEGAL LOGGING -- AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The USG has an opportunity to work with Russia to combat illegal logging, and increasing reasons to do so. Russia contains more of the world's forested area than any other country -- approximately 20 percent -- and between 10 and 30 percent of wood is harvested illegally. Illeg [...]	2009-09-15 11:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR KGHG EAID KCRM SOCI PREL RS
09MOSCOW2490	STAFFDEL BRUDER VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Senate Staff Delegation Bruder visited Moscow August 31-September 4 to seek ways to sustain momentum in the U.S.-Russian relationship after the successful July 2009 Presidential meeting in Moscow. While Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Margelov suggested re [...]	2009-09-30 12:29:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SENV OREP RS
09MOSCOW2542	BELYKH FACES ROUGH YEAR AHEAD IN KIROV [...] (C) Summary: Our September 23-25 visit to Kirov revealed a newly-settled government slowly expanding its influence within the region. Strict limitations placed on Governor Belykh and his staff by local security services six months ago appear to have eased significantly, and the new government remai [...]	2009-10-08 06:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM PINR KCOR RS
09MOSCOW2579	START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATIONS, MOSCOW (SFO-MOSCOW): [...] (U) This is SFO-MOS-001. 2. (U) Meeting Date: October 12, 2009 Time: 10:05 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The first meeting of the two delegations to the START Follow-on (SFO) Treaty ne [...]	2009-10-14 15:36:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	JCIC KACT MARR PARM PREL RS US START
09MOSCOW2690	U.S. EXPLORES ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two conferences organized the week of October 2 in Vladivostok and Moscow highlighted both the importance of and challenges to increasing U.S.-Russian cooperation on environmental crimes. A 2007 prosecution of an Amcit for illegal hunting in Kamchatka failed in part because of [...]	2009-10-30 12:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KCRM KJUS PGOV PHUM PREL CH RS
09MOSCOW2886	BELYKH WANTS TO REFORM KIROV [...] (C) Summary: Kirov Oblast Governor Nikita Belykh met with Ambassador Beyrle November 18 to provide a review of his first year in office and discuss the road ahead. A former member of the opposition, Belykh declared, "I did not want power, and still do not want power, but power must be made to [...]	2009-11-27 08:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM EAID ECON EFIN EMIN RS
09MOSCOW3013	RUSSIA SLOW TO MOBILIZE ON ENVIRONMENT WORKING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian working-level coordinator of the Environment Working Group under the Bilateral Presidential Commission told us on December 11 that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) would likely be interested in working with the United States under the Working [...]	2009-12-15 08:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SENV EAID KCRM KGHG EFIS RS
09MOSCOW3090	KREMLIN-CREATED RIGHT CAUSE PARTY'S INTERNAL [...] (C) Summary: The triumvirate leadership of Right Cause has been in conflict since its establishment, with all three struggling to define the future of the party. Right Cause Co-Chair Boris Titov remains doubtful about the viability of his party in future elections, and confirmed that he is co [...]	2009-12-23 13:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS
09MOSCOW454	RUSSIAN ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY PROPOSES MEETING WITH NEW EPA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 23, the Director of International Cooperation at the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology (MNRE) praised past U.S.-Russian environmental cooperation and suggested an initial meeting between EPA Administrator Jackson and MNRE Minister Trutnev this spring. [...]	2009-02-24 15:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW534	GROWING CONCERNS OVER RUSSIA'S EXTERNAL DEBT [...] (C) Russia's external debt situation has become a source of increasing concern and speculation among local analysts and international bankers. The mid-February tempest over a press report that the GOR planned to coordinate a large-scale restructuring of much of Russia's private external debt [...]	2009-03-04 15:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS PGOV PREL
09MOSCOW592	43 BILLION FOR LABOR UNLIKELY TO PROVIDE RELIEF [...] (C) Billions of rubles programmed for regional employment stimulation are unlikely to ease labor market stress owing to unrealistic targets, local government corruption, and poor planning. The Russian federal government intends to use new regional labor programs to create one million jobs, tra [...]	2009-03-12 06:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW604	RUSSIA PROPOSES TO START DISCUSSIONS ON ACCESS TO GENETIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 2, officials of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology (MNRE) and the Federal Agency for Natural Resources Management Supervision (Rosprirodnadzor) told EST that Russia's policies and procedures on access to genetic resources and sharing of benefits are fragmented [...]	2009-03-12 14:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SENV TBIO KIPR PREL PGOV KRVC EFIS RS
09MOSCOW842	Engaging Russia on Climate Change - Untapped Opportunities [...] In response to State, USAID, and DOE discussions over the future direction of the Global Climate Change (GCC) and Clean Energy Initiative programs in the Europe and Eurasia region, Post's Assistance Coordination Working Group has reviewed potential approaches to engage Russia. As the country w [...]	2009-04-02 12:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ENRG KGHG KSCA OSCI RS SENV TSPL
09MOSCOW987	GOR BAILOUTS DONE, DEBT RESTRUCTURING NOW FLAVOR [...] (C) As we have previously reported (Refs A - D),the GOR has made a major change in policy in the last two months with respect to assisting cash-strapped Russian firms with their foreign debts. Several recent cases have made clear that the GOR is serious and that these firms can no longer exp [...]	2009-04-17 13:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
09MUMBAI187	BHARAT BALLOT 09: POLLING IN MADHYA PRADESH GENERATES HEAT, [...] (U) Summary: As Madhya Pradesh went to the polls in two phases in April, observers described the campaigns as lackluster, with little drama and few issues to excite the voters. The state, one of the poorest in India, has been ruled at the state level by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) since [...]	2009-05-12 08:45:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM IN PINR
09MUMBAI269	EDUCATION AND POVERTY PROGRAMS FAIL TO REACH RURAL THANE [...] (U) Summary: In rural Thane district, just thirty miles from the towering skyscrapers of Mumbai, Congenoff found a variety of common development challenges in three tribal villages, where government intervention is incomplete or non-existent. Here, some tribal communities struggle to maint [...]	2009-06-24 05:15:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON IN
09MUMBAI291	NAXALITES KILL OVER THIRTY POLICEMEN IN WESTERN [...] (U) Summary: On July 12, at least thirty state security personnel were killed by suspected Maoist rebels in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The attacks, amongst the worst to hit the insurgent-ridden state in years, occurred in three stages over the course of the day in the rural [...]	2009-07-13 13:20:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS PTER ASEC IN PINR
09MUMBAI320	SPECIAL ENVOY STERN HEARS THAT INDIAN INDUSTRY IS READY TO [...] (SBU) Summary. Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern met with several leading private Indian businessmen to ascertain their views on mitigating climate change. He found that India's private sector is actively engaged in clean technology investment, particularly for renewable energy. [...]	2009-08-05 07:38:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY ETRD IN
09MUMBAI373	A USER'S GUIDE TO THE RESERVE BANK OF INDIA AND THE INDIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the last decade, the Indian banking sector has deepened, matured, and grown, and many of its banks have become leaders in the new Indian economy. Moreover, foreign banks have also succeeded in expanding in the Indian market, and have become a significant part of the banki [...]	2009-09-11 08:56:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV IN
09MUMBAI43	MUMBAI MASALA: CONSUL GENERAL VISITS KUTCH, MUNDRA SEZ AND [...] (U) On a recent trip to Gujarat, the Consul General inaugurated a medical camp near Bhuj, in the remote desert region of Kutch. This is the 35th consecutive year that the month-long camp has served the needs of local inhabitants, in one of the most remote parts of the state. The camp is sta [...]	2009-01-27 08:29:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV TSPL ECON IN
09MUSCAT16	ALLEGATION OF QATARI PERFIDY AT GCC SUMMIT, UN [...] (C) Egyptian Ambassador to Oman, Ezz El Din al Fahmy, informed the Ambassador January 6 that he had worked feverishly during the GCC summit (reftel) to defeat a determined Qatari effort to get the GCC to formally endorse an emergency Arab League Summit to address the Gaza crisis. On instruct [...]	2009-01-07 08:04:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MU
09NAIROBI1167	KENYA POLICE OVERVIEW: PART ONE [...] (C) Summary: This cable is the first in a three-part series on the police in Kenya. This cable provides an overview of police structure and leadership, and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the main police agencies. Part two will summarize our recent and planned engagement with and assi [...]	2009-06-11 09:17:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS ASEC KCRM KE
09NAIROBI1172	KENYA POLICE OVERVIEW, PART TWO: U.S. ASSISTANCE [...] Summary: This cable is the second in a three-part series on the Kenyan police forces. This cable summarizes our recent and planned engagement with and assistance to Kenyan law enforcement agencies. Part three will discuss challenges facing those agencies, progress to date on police reform, and [...]	2009-06-11 14:37:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC KCRM KJUS PGOV KE
09NAIROBI119	KENYA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS: JANUARY 2009 [...] (SBU) IMF SEES SLOW GROWTH/RECESSION IN 2009 2. (SBU) TEACHERS STRIKE; POLICE MAKE ARRESTS 3. (SBU) CIVAIR LEADERSHIP UP IN THE AIR Â [...]	2009-01-21 14:56:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SENV EAGR ELAB EINV EFIN ETRD EAID BEXP PINR
09NAIROBI1293	THE REFORM AGENDA - KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON KIBAKI [...] (C) The reform agenda will only be implemented if President Kibaki and PM Odinga exert strong leadership to make this happen. We must continue to make clear to them the importance the U.S. at the highest levels attaches to this (which complements domestic-driven pressure for reform). I recen [...]	2009-06-26 10:47:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1295	The Reform Agenda - Energizing Youth and Public Support [...] Summary. The Ambassador and members of the Mission team used a late May visit to Eldoret and Kisumu to support grassroots youth organizations to press peacefully for implementation of the reform agenda, and to energize other public support for this. The three-day trip included inauguration of [...]	2009-06-26 12:11:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KE
09NAIROBI1772	SOMALIA - Peaceful Protests Across Somaliland [...] (SBU) As Somaliland's political crisis continues, on August 20 the two opposition parties protested peacefully in all six regions of the self-declared republic. Although police tried to block demonstrations in public areas, thousands of protestors took to the streets. Opposition party leader [...]	2009-08-20 15:03:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM SO
09NAIROBI1811	Pushing the Reform Process - Follow-up to the Secretary's [...] (S/NF) Summary. In the wake of the Secretary's high impact visit, we are moving quickly to sustain pressure for implementation of the reform agenda. In concert with Washington, we are engaging intensively with key political leaders, while working to energize civil society, the private sector, [...]	2009-08-26 12:36:00	Embassy Nairobi	SECRET	PREL PGOV KDEM US KE
09NAIROBI1829	VISAS DONKEY: CORRUPTION 212(F) VISA DENIAL [...] (C) Embassy is seeking a security advisory opinion under Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA),Proclamation 7750, precluding the entry into the United States of Henry Kiprono Kosgey and his family. Kosgey was born in Nandi district, Rift Valley Province, Kenya on July 14, 194 [...]	2009-09-01 08:58:00	Embassy Nairobi	SECRET	CVIS KCOR KCRM PGOV PREL ECON KE
09NAIROBI2005	PARLIAMENT ON RECESS AFTER CENSURING RINGERA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a contentious late night session on September 16, Parliament passed a motion declaring as null and void President's reappointment of Aaron Ringera as the director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission. Parliament also adopted the report of the Mau Forest Task Force, se [...]	2009-09-23 14:19:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL KCOR PGOV KE
09NAIROBI2083	KENYA - 2010 HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLANNING [...] On September 23 and 24, the Kenya U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) organized the 2010 Kenya Emergency Humanitarian Response Plan (EHRP) workshop to asses current and projected countrywide humanitarian conditions to inform the development of the 2010 EHRP schedul [...]	2009-10-01 12:21:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM PREL PREF KE
09NAIROBI2184	KENYA: AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW 2010 [...] This cable is not/not for internet distribution. 2. Country: Kenya 3. Current Status: Eligible 4. Country Background Summary: The population of Kenya is 38.6 million (mid 2008 estimate),estimated 2008 GDP is $30.4 billion, and per capita income is $770. An estimated 54% of the [...]	2009-10-16 08:07:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON ETRD EINV ENRG ELAB AGOA PGOV PREL
09NAIROBI2349	African Elephant Conservation Fund - Monitoring of [...] "Monitoring of African Elephants along the North Kenyan Coast" by Save the Elephants 2. Greater Ewaso Elephant Conservation by the Mpala Research Center Â [...]	2009-11-12 13:02:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL US KE
09NAIROBI2412	KENYA: NOVEMBER ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] IMF APPLAUDS KENYA'S NEW INFLATION CALCULATION 2. EVICTIONS PROCEED IN MAU FOREST 3. KENYA SIGNS COMMON MARKET TREATY Â [...]	2009-11-25 12:04:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON EINV ETRD PINR KCOR SENV KE
09NAIROBI373	TOURIST NUMBERS DEPRESSED WHILE POACHING OF WILDIFE, [...] SUMMARY: Kenya Wildlife Service, Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, and Ministry of Tourism officials are concerned by a sudden spike in the numbers of elephants, especially in Amboseli and Tsavo East National Parks, apparently poached for their tusks. At the same time, they along with count [...]	2009-02-26 12:20:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ETRD KCRM KSCA ECON KE
09NAIROBI719	SOMALIA - Somaliland Sets Election Date Amid Protest [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 6, Somaliland's National Electoral Commission (NEC) announced September 27 as the new date for presidential elections citing technical and legal reasons for postponing the date from May 31. Although the voter registration law requires the NEC to make decisions regardi [...]	2009-04-08 17:36:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SO
09NAIROBI759	Visit to Aberdares and Mount Kenya Highlights [...] Summary. A recent visit to the Aberdares Forest and Mount Kenya highlighted the serious environmental challenges Kenya confronts. Conservation efforts in the Aberdares have yielded impressive results, reflecting good cooperation between the Kenyan government and non-governmental groups. Effort [...]	2009-04-15 14:25:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SENV KE
09NAIROBI808	FRAGILE PEACE IN RIFT VALLEY: THE KALENJIN [...] Summary: On a recent trip to Rift Valley province, poloffs accompanied Ambassador Ranneberger to an important peace event at Ndeffo and Egerton University near Nakuru and then met with a range of contacts to discuss the situation on the ground and possible approaches to achieving the desired en [...]	2009-04-24 11:08:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC KE
09NAIROBI809	KIBAKI ADDRESSES OPENING OF PARLIAMENT [...] Summary: At the April 21 opening of the third session of Parliament, 199 of 222 members of Parliament (MPs) attended and listened attentively to the President's and Speaker's speeches. In their opening prayers, religious leaders called for peace, unity, and strength even as the country was goin [...]	2009-04-24 12:05:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAGR SENV KE UG
09NAIROBI991	WESTERN KENYA USAID/OFDA FLOOD ASSESSMENT [...] A USAID/OFDA visit to flood affected areas in western Kenya reveals no cause for alarm as seasonal flooding is mostly held in check by dykes. A flash flood did cause limited displacement in Nyatike district; victims are being assisted by the GOK and the Kenya Red Cross. Dyke construction and [...]	2009-05-15 08:35:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM PREL KE
09NASSAU349	UK DIRECT RULE COMING SOON TO TURKS AND CAICOS [...] (SBU/NF) SUMMARY: The UK is set to introduce direct rule in the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) to address evidence of official corruption and financial mismanagement as the protests of the embattled ex-Premier and his successor fall on deaf ears. Domestic op [...]	2009-06-03 15:09:00	Embassy Nassau	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SMIG PHUM ECON ETRD EFIN BF TK UK
09NDJAMENA399	FORMIN FAKI SAYS CHAD ACTING RESPONSIBLY ON JEM, [...] (U) ACTION MESSAGE: This is an action message: See para 8. ------- SUMMARY -------- 2. (SBU) Chad FORMIN Faki told Ambassador September 16 that he was looking forward to representing Chad as Head of Delegation at the UNGA and afterwards in Washington. Faki said that Chad had cont [...]	2009-09-16 12:06:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PREF SU PHUM LY QA CD
09NDJAMENA460	CHAD CONFRONTS CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND [...] (U) This is the first of three cables on Chad's approach to environmental affairs, conveying information gathered in the course of the recent visit of the Regional Environmental, Science, Technology, and Health Officer (REO) to N'Djamena, and also following a number of high-level interventions [...]	2009-10-20 13:47:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TBIO EFIS EAID CD
09NDJAMENA461	CHAD STEPS UP WILDLIFE CONSERVATION AND PROTECTION [...] This is the second of three cables on Chad's interest in environmental affairs. The Republic of Chad is facing serious environmental challenges but working slowly to improve conditions and protect elephants from poaching at Zakouma, the country's flagship national park. At the same time, reco [...]	2009-10-20 15:27:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO EFIS EAID CD
09NEWDELHI1054	NEW DELHI EST HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 18 TO MAY 22, [...] (U) Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of May 18 - 22, 2009, including the following: -- It's Official - Panna Tiger Reserve Has Lost All Its Native Tigers -- Oil Spill Threatens Gahirmatha Marine Sanctuary -- Indian [...]	2009-05-22 14:13:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TSPL TBIO ECON IN
09NEWDELHI1098	NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 25 TO [...] Below is a compilation of Environment and Science & Technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of May 25-29, 2009, including the following: -- Cyclone Aila Impacts Sundarbans Tiger Reserve -- Delhi Government Plans Climate Change Fund -- ISRO to Launch Second Space Capsule Rec [...]	2009-05-29 13:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI1099	GOVERNMENT SIGNALS PERFORMANCE IS PARAMOUNT IN KEY ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary. The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) announced the remainder of its 79-member council of ministers on May 28, who join the earlier round of ministers announced on May 22 (see reftel). The week-long process of selection seems to have placed more weight on capable [...]	2009-05-29 14:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EAGR PREL PGOV PTER IN
09NEWDELHI1221	NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEKS OF JUNE 01 TO [...] (U) Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 08-12, 2009, including the following: -- Not-So-Expert Group Recommends Dilution of Environmental Clearance Process -- India to Establish Environmental Protection Autho [...]	2009-06-12 12:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TSPL TBIO MNUC ECON KGHG TRGY IN
09NEWDELHI1278	BJP IMPLOSION OR REINVENTION? [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's (UPA) unexpectedly decisive victory in India's general election has left the country's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in disarray. The fallout of this drubbing has shattered the image of the BJP a [...]	2009-06-18 14:53:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1290	NEW INDIAN S&T AND ENVIRONMENT MINISTERS [...] (SBU) Environment, Science and Technology (EST) issues have taken on renewed emphasis in India with the appointment of two key Ministers that are well respected, action and results oriented, and favorably disposed toward the U.S. MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, MINISTRY OF EARTH SCIENCES [...]	2009-06-22 10:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TSPL ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI1349	NAXALITES: AN EMERGING NATIONAL THREAT [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent violence in West Bengal has focused attention on India's Maoist insurgency, which has become one of the most violent of its domestic conflicts. The broad network of Maoist cells, known as the Naxalite movement, is present in at least eleven of India's twenty-eight states [...]	2009-06-29 13:29:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI1379	NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 29 TO [...] Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of June 29-July 2, 2009, including the following: -- World Bank: Don't Require Deep Emission Cuts from India -- India Against International Climate Change Monitoring, Carbon Tax -- [...]	2009-07-02 13:59:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO ENRG ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI1434	NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 6 TO [...] Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of July 06-July 10, 2009, including the following: -- A Plan for Cheetah Reintroduction? -- Insurgency Takes a Toll on Wildlife -- Forest Fires in Jammu and Kashmir -- India Increas [...]	2009-07-11 12:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TSPA ECPS SCUL EAGR IN
09NEWDELHI1514	SPECIAL REPORT: MEDIA COVERAGE OF SECRETARY [...] The Secretary's press conference with External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna generated lead stories today. Reports said U.S. and India announced they had agreed on an "end-use monitoring" pact that takes a major step toward allowing the sale of sophisticated U.S. arms to India. 2. Secretar [...]	2009-07-21 12:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI1637	SPECIAL ENVOY STERN ENGAGES INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND NGO [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern held a series of meetings July 20-21 in New Delhi with Government of India officials and NGO representatives to discuss the upcoming Copenhagen Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC as well as potential areas for U.S. - India bila [...]	2009-08-04 11:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG ECON TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN

09NEWDELHI1649	U.S.-INDIAN RELATIONS: NEXT STEPS IN THE STRATEGIC [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Following on the August 5 Interagency Policy Committee meeting to discuss the Strategic Dialogue, Mission offers its views on next steps in the run up to the Prime Minister's November visit. We spell out dialogue goals, describe ways to move forward, flag pitfalls and propose po [...]	2009-08-06 15:44:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MASS ENRG EFIN CVIS AMGT IN
09NEWDELHI1657	NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR JULY 27 TO AUGUST 07, [...] (U) Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for July 27 to August 07, 2009, including the following: -- Environment Minister Opposes Mining Project -- Arunachal Pradesh Civil Rights Group Opposes Hydro Power Projects -- National Dis [...]	2009-08-07 14:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO ENRG ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI1658	New Delhi Weekly Econ Office Highlights for the Week of [...] (U) Below is a compilation of economic highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of August 3-7, 2009, including the following: -- Exports Decline for 9th Straight Month; Imports Decline More -- Possible Law to Clarify Sector-specific Investment Caps -- India and South Korea Sign Trade A [...]	2009-08-10 02:45:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR EFIN EPET ETRD BEXP KIPR IN XB XA
09NEWDELHI1856	NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 31, [...] Below is a compilation of Environment, Science, and Technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of August 31 - September 04, 2009, including the following: -- Minister of Environment and Forests Ramesh visits China -- Valmiki Tiger Reserve Bounces Back -- Ministry of Human Reso [...]	2009-09-04 13:23:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO ENRG ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI1952	NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER [...] Below is a compilation of Environment, Science, and Technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of September 14 to September 18, 2009, including the following: -- India Plans to Reduce Emissions through Legislation -- India Starts to Get Serious About Environmental Protection - [...]	2009-09-18 11:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO TSPA ENRG ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI20	MEDIA REACTION: INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS, MIDDLE [...] "UNNECESSARY STEP," editorial in January 5 right-of- center DAINIK JAGRAN Hindi daily: "Home Minister P. Chidambaram's upcoming U.S. visit to share evidence of Pakistani links to the Mumbai attacks means the U.S. is not convinced of Pakistan's complicity in the Mumbai carnage. With an FBI team [...]	2009-01-06 10:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI2074	NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 05 [...] Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of October 05-October 09, 2009, including the following: -- Cleaning the Ganga by 2020 -- Phasing out HCFCs by 2030 -- Dramatic rise in Indian Scientific Output -- US-India Joint [...]	2009-10-09 05:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KSCA KGHG SENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI2192	Disaster Management Capabilities and Engagement [...] (U) SUMMARY: Disaster Management (DM) in India means preparing for both natural and man-made disasters, everything from avalanches to chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) incidents to terrorist attacks. India has chosen a tiered approach to DM in which states and districts ha [...]	2009-10-28 12:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL KSCA SENV EAID PGOV PTER ECON SOCI IN
09NEWDELHI2207	SCENESETTER FOR U/S OTERO'S VISIT TO INDIA [...] (SBU) Under Secretary Otero: Mission India warmly welcomes you to New Delhi to relaunch the Global Issues Forum (GIF) in the run-up to Prime Minister Singh's November 22-26 state visit to Washington. The Embassy has worked hard to make progress across all five pillars and 18 sub-dialogues o [...]	2009-10-30 12:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ECON IN KDEM KGHG KWMN PREL SENV
09NEWDELHI2334	Secretary Chu Focuses on Clean Energy and Climate Change in [...] (SBU) Summary: During November 13-14 meetings with Government of India (GOI) officials, scientists, students, NGO and industry representatives in New Delhi, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu stressed the vast scope for bilateral cooperation, noting that the world's current emphasis on clean energ [...]	2009-11-19 06:31:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV EFIN EINV PREL TSPL KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI2335	Secretary Chu Focuses on Clean Energy and Climate Change in [...] (SBU) Summary: During November 13-14 meetings with Government of India (GOI) officials, scientists, students, NGO and industry representatives in New Delhi, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu stressed the vast scope for bilateral cooperation, noting that the world's current emphasis on clean energ [...]	2009-11-19 06:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV EFIN EINV PREL TSPL KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI2344	U/S OTERO ENGAGES INDIAN MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the Global Issues Forum held November 5 (Reftel),Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Otero met with Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF)Secretary Sharma on November 6 to discuss areas for global cooperation on environmental issues including forestry [...]	2009-11-20 03:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV PREL TSPL KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI2354	TURBULENCE IN PARLIAMENT AWAITS PRIME MINISTER ON RETURN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The winter session of Parliament kicked off on a stormy note on November 19 as the opposition parties brought parliament and the capital to a halt over the issue of sugarcane prices to farmers. The Opposition effectively mobilized over 25,000 farmers from western Uttar Pradesh to [...]	2009-11-20 13:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM EAGR IN
09NEWDELHI2441	INDIAN DELEGATION HEADS TO COPENHAGEN WITH SOFT WORDS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Armed with the Kyoto Protocol and the Bali Action Plan, India's delegation to COP-15 is planning a highly legalistic defense of the G-77 and the entitlement of developing countries to financial flows from the developed world. U.S. negotiators should expect more nit- [...]	2009-12-04 11:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ETRD TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI2550	ENVIRONMENT MINISTER DEFENDS COPENHAGEN ACCORD; LOCAL NGOS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister of Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh claimed victory for India's Copenhagen negotiating team in a parliamentary session December 22. Ramesh used his response to opposition attacks to sensitize the nation to the idea India needs to realize its responsibilities as a [...]	2009-12-22 13:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ETRD TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI35	MEDIA REACTION: INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS, [...] "HERE'S THE PROOF," editorial in January 7 centrist NAVBHARAT TIMES: "Pakistan is a nuclear capable nation and no one wants a nuclear war. But there's a limit to taking atrocities lying down, and very soon India will reach that point of no return. If the world thinks India is not capable of la [...]	2009-01-08 10:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL IN
09NEWDELHI40	DELHI DIARY, JANUARY 2-9, 2009 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for January 2-9, 2009, that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- J&K: Omar Abdullah Sworn-In as Chief Minister -- PDP Pulls out of UPA Coalition -- Shootout in Poonch -- UAE Naval Commander Vis [...]	2009-01-09 07:27:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PTER IN
09NEWDELHI421	INDIA: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ACCESS TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: The following answers reftel, paragraph 20 request for information on Government of India (GOI) regulations governing benefit sharing and access to genetic resources. India's National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) is the body responsible for managing and approving access to India [...]	2009-03-06 01:12:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SENV TBIO
09NEWDELHI453	OES ACTING ASSISTANT SECRETARY HARNISH ENGAGES GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Oceans, Environment and Sciences Bureau (OES) OES Acting Assistant Secretary Reno Harnish lead a multi-stakeholder delegation to New Delhi to engage GOI ministries on the lessons learned from the 2008 Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC) in order to suppor [...]	2009-03-11 06:16:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ENRG PREL TSPL TRGY KSCA KGHG BEXP IN
09NEWDELHI533	NEW DELHI WEEKLY EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (U) Below is a compilation of Environment, Science, and Technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of March 16 - 20, 2009, including the following: -- Haryana State Forest Department Goes After High Profile Development and Mining Interests -- Forest Fires In National Parks Cau [...]	2009-03-20 13:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TBIO KGHG TRGY NASA TSPA TNGD IN
09NEWDELHI617	NEW DELHI WEEKLY EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] Below is a compilation of Environment, Science, and Technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of March 23-27, 2009, including the following: -- Indo-German Southern Ocean Iron Fertilization Experiment Fails -- Indian Meteorological Department Gearing Up To Monitor Air Pollut [...]	2009-03-31 12:54:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TSPL TBIO ECON IN
09NEWDELHI661	NEW DELHI WEEKLY EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF [...] (SBU) Below is a compilation of Environment, Science, and Technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of March 30 to April 03, 2009, including the following: -- India to Conduct Next Tiger Census in October 2009 -- Maoist Attack in Orissa's Similipal Wildlife Sanctuary Surprises [...]	2009-04-03 10:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TSPA TRGY TNGD ECON SOCI KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI699	INDIA SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BERMAN [...] (SBU) Dear Chairman Berman and Delegation: Embassy New Delhi warmly welcomes you to India. Your visit coincides with a historically unprecedented level of U.S.-India collaboration encompassing everything from defense cooperation to agriculture and reflecting widespread support in both countr [...]	2009-04-09 11:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI749	HOLBROOKE-MULLEN VISIT TO INDIA: RECENT [...] (C) In each of the three important substantive meetings with Indian officials on April 8 (Foreign Secretary Menon, Ambassador S.K. Lambah, and National Security Advisor Narayanan),Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff A [...]	2009-04-16 05:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER MOPS PK IN
09NEWDELHI756	SUBJECT: BHARAT BALLOT 09: INDIA GOES TO THE [...] Summary: (U) On April 16, Indian voters cast their ballots in 124 election districts across 17 states and territories in the first of five phases of parliamentary elections, thus marking the start of the biggest democratic exercise the world has ever seen. Polling in the first round was gene [...]	2009-04-16 15:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NEWDELHI775	NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEKS OF APRIL 6 TO [...] (U) Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the weeks of April 06-17, 2009, including the following: -- New Protocols for Tiger Relocations in National Parks -- Poll Indicates Political Parties Unconcerned About the Environment -- [...]	2009-04-17 14:32:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TSPL TBIO KSCA TRGY IN
09NEWDELHI777	CHARGE BURLEIGH ENGAGES INDIAN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR CLIMATE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging meeting on April 14, 2009, Charge Burleigh discussed climate change, renewable energy, nuclear non-proliferation, and next steps for the Indo-U.S. Civil Nuclear Agreement with Indian Special Envoy fo [...]	2009-04-20 06:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TRGY PREL ECON KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI828	NEW DELHI EST OFFICE HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 20 TO [...] (U) Below is a compilation of environment, science, and technology highlights from Embassy New Delhi for the week of April 20-24, 2009, including the following: -- Tiger Deaths in Madhya Pradesh - Poaching on the Rise -- EST Section Celebrates Earth Day -- Famous Tiger Gets Lifetime Achieve [...]	2009-04-24 20:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TSPL TBIO ECON SOCI KSCA KGHG IN
09NEWDELHI987	BHARAT BALLOT 2009: UTTARAKHAND SUFFERING FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOff and PolFSN traveled north to Uttarakhand on May 11 to assess the political landscape of this small state with five parliamentary seats up for grabs. In discussions with a mix of local journalists, academics, business leaders, and state civil servants, the themes that we h [...]	2009-05-15 11:14:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09NIAMEY22	2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT: NIGER [...] Openness to Foreign Investment The Government of Niger (GON) welcomes foreign private investment and considers it to be critical to economic growth. Under the Investment Code (revised in 2000) industrial investments enjoy tax and customs exemptions and even, in some cases, exemptions from th [...]	2009-01-20 07:18:00	Embassy Niamey	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR NG
09NOUAKCHOTT128	MAURITANIA: SIX MONTHS AFTER THE COUP [...] (C) Summary: Six months after the coup, the Country Team, senior LES, and external contacts are virtually unanimous in their opinion that Mauritania is in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. Political uncertainty and deadlock continue and the economy steadily worsens. The economic and so [...]	2009-02-12 14:12:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM ECON EAID MR
09NOUAKCHOTT260	MAURITANIAN ECONOMY DETERIORATING AND LIKELY TO [...] (C) Summary: The foreign exchange market in Mauritania has stopped functioning and the Central Bank has been rationing foreign currency since November 2008. The difference between the parallel and official exchange rates has grown from zero to 10%. While large companies with connections abroa [...]	2009-04-12 09:31:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EMIN PGOV MR
09OSLO270	NORWAY SHOULD SUPPORT KOSOVO IMF/WORLD BANK [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-15 13:53:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL NO
09OSLO363	OSLO NEC - SUPREME COURT HEARING CONCLUDES, OUTCOME [...] (SBU) Summary: From May 12 - 14, opponents of the NEC sparred with GON lawyers before Norway's Supreme Court, contending that the Oslo City Council's rezoning decision in favor of the NEC should be overturned. After three appeals spanning the period 2006 - 08, all of them unsuccessful, our o [...]	2009-05-26 06:47:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ABLD AMGT KLIG NO
09OSLO73	NORWAY ? 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE REPORT [...] (U) Summary. Here is the submission for Norway's 2009 Investment Climate Report. Per reftel, it will be incorporated in the Country's Commercial Guide. End summary. Chapter 6: Investment Climate Openness to Foreign Investment Conversion and Transfer Policies Expropriation and Compensati [...]	2009-01-14 13:18:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV OPIC KTDB USTR NO
09OTTAWA161	CANADA: INFORMATION FOR LONDON G-20 MEETINGS [...] (sbu) Ref a requested information regarding Post's outlook on the continuing impact of the economic and financial situation on Canada, as well as Canada's expected priorities and objectives for the London G-20 Summit on April 2. Econcouns John Carwile (carwilejl@state.sgov.gov) and EMIN Eric B [...]	2009-03-04 20:00:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CA ECON EFIN
09OTTAWA246	Canada's Green Investments in its Stimulus Package [...] Begin Summary: Canada's federal budget for FY 2009 (April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010) introduced on January 29, 2009 announced approximately C$3.64 billion dollars (USD$2.97 billion at current exchange rates) for "Green Spending"; the Budget was passed on March 12, 2009. The federal budget for F [...]	2009-03-26 18:13:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ENRG CA KGHG SENV
09OTTAWA311	TOUJOURS EN PLACE: THE BLOC QUEBECOIS [...] (C) Summary. The Bloc Quebecois, a federal political party exclusively devoted to promoting Quebec's interests in Parliament, emphasizes that Quebec's values -- including the primacy of French, the "crucial" role of culture, and Quebec's immigration policy -- differ from the rest of Canada. [...]	2009-04-22 21:28:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CA
09OTTAWA70	Canada's Coming Federal Budget and Stimulus Prospects [...] (SBU) Summary: With the economy dominating the political landscape (ref a),Canada's opposition parties have made the January 27 federal budget a litmus test of PM Harper's ability to make his Conservative minority government work. Ottawa observers estimate that the budget will pass with just [...]	2009-01-26 13:07:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA719	CANADA: ODDS RISE FOR GOVERNMENT TO SURVIVE -- THIS WEEK [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-15 19:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV CA
09OTTAWA74	40th PARLIAMENT'S THRONE SPEECH - TAKE TWO [...] (SBU) Summary: At the January 26 opening of the second session of the 40th Parliament, the government's latest Throne Speech was brief, sober in tone, focused exclusively on the economy, and unabashed in hitting key Liberal Party buttons in a clear bid to secure bipartisan political support. T [...]	2009-01-26 21:44:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA748	Treasury Discussions with Canada Regarding Export Credits [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 2, Treasury DAS for Trade and Investment Sharon Yuan, Treasury Director for Trade Finance Steve Tvardek, Embassy EMIN, Embassy Commercial MC and Senior ECON FSN met with officials from key GOC departments and representatives from Canada's export financing agency to [...]	2009-09-25 19:53:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND EFIN EAIR ECON EINV PREL CA
09OTTAWA80	Canada Budget Offers Economic Stimulus [...] (SBU) Summary: Although battered by economic shocks, Canada is well positioned for economic recovery if and when commodity prices rise and U.S. demand returns. To best position Canada for eventual recovery, the Conservative government's January 27 budget provides massive (by Canadian standards [...]	2009-01-30 21:13:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND PREL PGOV CA
09OTTAWA811	Ambassador meets with Liberal Party leadership [...] (C) Summary. In a luncheon on October 23, Ambassador discussed key bilateral issues, notably ""Buy America"" and climate change policies, with Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff and key staff. Ignatieff reiterated that Canadians do not want an election now, but said that he could not be [...]	2009-10-23 20:23:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD SENV PGOV CA
09OUAGADOUGOU1038	BURKINABE STILL CONFIDENT OF PROGRESS ON GUINEA - BUT NOT TOO QUICKLY [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-18 12:43:00	Embassy Ouagadougou	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GV UV
09OUAGADOUGOU1166	BURKINA FASO: 2009-2010 INSCR PART II MONEY LAUNDERING AND [...] (U) Per reftel request, below is Part Two of the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report concerning Money Laundering and Financial Crimes. 2. (U) The following are the responses for Burkina Faso to the 2010 INCSR, Part II, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes (paragraph numbers a [...]	2009-12-16 16:37:00	Embassy Ouagadougou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR UV
09OUAGADOUGOU27	BURKINA FASO 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] In response to reftel, the following is the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for Burkina Faso. Table of Contents ----------------- A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment 2. Conversion and Transfer Policies 3. Expropriation and Compensation 4. Dispute Settlement 5. Perfor [...]	2009-01-15 17:09:00	Embassy Ouagadougou	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ECON PGOV EFIN KTDB OPIC USTR UV
09PANAMA184	PANAMA: MARTINELLI'S "GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR CHANGE" [...] (C) Leading presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli of the Alliance for Change on February 11 released his "Government Plan for Change," that lays out 179 proposals designed to "make a better Panama reach everyone" (que un mejor Panama llegue a todos). The document is flashy, includes big c [...]	2009-03-06 15:38:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA237	PANAMA: AMBASSADOR VISITS THE DARIEN [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and several members of her Country Team visited the Darien province March 10-11. During the first day of her visit she received a briefing on the security situation from Director of the National Frontier Service (SENAFRONT) Frank Abrego and met with Darien Governor Juan [...]	2009-03-20 19:28:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAO PM
09PANAMA265	PANAMA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HOYER [...] (SBU) Summary. Since the 1989 restoration of democracy, Panama has established and consolidated a democratic, stable and responsive government; accelerated economic growth through open markets; and strived to ensure that the benefits of that growth reach all citizens. While a hemispheric leader [...]	2009-03-30 18:50:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP EWWT OVIP PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV PM
09PANAMA306	PANAMA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LEVIN [...] (SBU) The fate of the U.S./Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA) will determine the trajectory of our bilateral relationship through the foreseeable future. Congressional passage and a successful implementation of the FTA would serve to maintain extraordinary, yet vulnerable, U.S. influence in Pan [...]	2009-04-14 23:03:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP EWWT OVIP PREL PGOV ECON ETRD EINV PM
09PANAMA902	Panama Environmental Team in Disaray as it Prepares for [...] (SBU) Summary: Panama's National Authority for the Environment will not lead the Panama delegation to Copenhagen and has lost the support of the Panamanian environmental NGO community. Additionally, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a new environmental point of contact who is getting up to s [...]	2009-12-04 18:35:00	Embassy Panama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG PM
09PARAMARIBO294	2010 ELECTION DATE ANNOUNCED DURING STATE OF THE REPUBLIC [...] (U) Summary. On October 1, 2009, President Ronald Venetiaan delivered the annual State of the Republic speech at the National Assembly. At this time, he made the first official announcement that the 2010 National Assembly and Resort (Local) Council elections will be on May 25, 2010. He also d [...]	2009-10-01 19:51:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL NS
09PARAMARIBO32	SURINAME: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009 [...] (U) Post submits the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for Suriname. OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT ------------------------------- 2. The Government of Suriname (GOS) welcomes Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into the country and has on several occasions identified it as key in achieving [...]	2009-01-26 12:08:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB OPIC KTDB PGOV USTR NS
09PARAMARIBO396	Demarche Delivered: Energy and Climate Partnership of the [...] (SBU) On November 17, EconOff conveyed the points in Ref. A to Tom Kartoebi, Acting Head of the Americas Division in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When asked for what potential activities may interest the Government of Suriname (GOS),Kartoebi did not have any explicit suggestions other tha [...]	2009-11-24 19:15:00	Embassy Paramaribo	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ENRG SENV KGHG KSUM NS
09PARIS1039	FRANCEâ€™S POSITION ON NUCLEAR ISSUES IN THE RUN-UP [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: French officials have made clear that nuclear issues enjoy the sustained attention of President Sarkozy and have become a major foreign policy priority, especially in the run-up to the spring 2010 Review Conference (RevCon) of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). France's concerns go [...]	2009-07-31 06:59:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL MNUC IR CH UK FR
09PARIS1294	FRENCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS WEST AFRICA WITH DAS [...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA, Presidency, and MOD on September 17 expressed general agreement with AF DAS William Fitzgerald on a range of West African issues, including Togo (need to keep pressing for proper presidential elections),Benin (a success story but with serious corru [...]	2009-09-23 11:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PINR PGOV KCOR SNAR XY FR
09PARIS1369	GUINEA: MFA PROVIDES OVERVIEW TO DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA provided on October 8 a briefing on Guinea to Paris diplomats, stressing the need for Dadis Camara to step down or otherwise be replaced as Guinea's leader, with elections to follow. French officials said that any military intervention force would have to be led by Afr [...]	2009-10-08 15:08:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM PINS GV FR
09PARIS1387	SEPTEMBER 2009 PARIS CLUB MEETING; NEGOTIATION WITH CAR [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 15, the Paris Club and the Central African Republic (CAR) negotiated a new debt relief agreement recognizing that country's completion of the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. Creditors agreed voluntarily to go beyond HIPC terms to forgive [...]	2009-10-14 11:59:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
09PARIS1465	GUINEA: AMBASSADOR MOLLER'S CONSULTATIONS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials generally agreed with U.S. Ambassador to Guinea Patricia Moller on the need for the international community to develop a visible process or framework on Guinea that could lead to a transition to a democratic government, with Burkina Faso President Campaore's inter [...]	2009-10-30 17:21:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINR KDEM GV FR
09PARIS1553	FRANCE/BRAZIL: THE ECONOMIC AGENDA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Behind the cultural exchanges and warm diplomatic relations with Brazil (Ref A),France is embarking on a long-term strategy to court a country it sees as a resource-rich future global powerhouse and foothold in Latin America. Since the 2005 "Year of Brazil in France," commercial tie [...]	2009-11-23 16:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EINV BEXP ETRD EAID SENV FR BR
09PARIS1610	GABON: PRESIDENT ALI BONGO'S VISIT TO FRANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Ali Bongo of Gabon enjoyed a successful visit to France November 18-20, according to MFA DAS-equivalent Stephane Gruenberg. The visit marked for both sides Bongo's assumption of the presidency and his initial steps to develop his own identity as national leader apart [...]	2009-12-02 08:24:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SENV GB FR
09PARIS304	FRANCE ON ENERGY SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary. French energy security policy centers on energy independence, security of supply through diversification, affordable but competitive energy prices via vertically-integrated utility companies, and low-carbon economic growth. French activism in pushing its civilian nuclear know- [...]	2009-03-02 16:49:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET SENV PREL FR
09PARTO14	SECRETARY CLINTON'S JULY 23 MEETING WITH LOWER [...] (U) July 23, 2009; 4:30 p.m.; Phuket, Thailand. 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Eric John EAP A/S Kurt Campbell Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan EAP DAS Scot Marciel Spokesman Ian Kelly Lt GEN Paul Selva, Military Advisor to the Secretary Greg Smith, Nationa [...]	2009-08-25 16:57:00	US Delegation, Secretary	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV ECON SOCI OVIP CLINTON HILLARY XC
09PARTO22610	(U) Secretary Clinton's February 18, 2009 [...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d). 2. (U) Thursday, February 18, 2009; 4:15 p.m.; Jakarta, Indonesia. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Cameron R. Hume A/S Christopher R. Hill, EAP Lt. Gen. Paul J [...]	2009-02-26 19:16:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OVIP CLINTON HILLARY KGHG ID
09PESHAWAR105	INDIGENOUS FUNDING FOR SWAT MILITANTS [...] (C) As major operations against militants once again commence in Swat district in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP),press reports and Consulate contacts provide insight into the methods of funding that Swat militants have realized from their effective control over large parts of the distr [...]	2009-05-22 11:36:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV ECON PK
09PESHAWAR135	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 29 [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-22 08:27:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR143	FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 19 [...] (C) The intensity of Pakistani military operations accelerated in South Waziristan during the fourth week in June, with the government conducting intensive airstrikes into Mehsud territory and sending ground troops to secure key locations along the critical Wana-Jandola road in preparation [...]	2009-07-08 04:18:00	Consulate Peshawar	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PHNOMPENH102	CAMBODIA RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON CARTAGENA PROTOCOL [...] (U) Econoff delivered Reftel demarche to Oum Pisey, Ministry of Environment (MOE) Technical Advisor and national contact for Cambodia's National Biosafety Framework development. There is an inter-ministerial biosafety planning group that includes the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishe [...]	2009-02-13 09:14:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO CB
09PHNOMPENH272	MGSF01: CAMBODIAN RESPONSE TO GLOBAL H1N1 OUTBREAK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. There has not yet been any evidence suggesting cases of H1N1 in Cambodia. The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) issued a statement April 27 outlining its activities since the outbreak in Mexico began, including increased animal and human health surveillance and inventories of [...]	2009-04-29 11:32:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR
09PHNOMPENH283	CLIMATE CHANGE RISING ON THE RGC'S RADAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Climate change is a relatively new issue in Cambodia, but it is increasingly gaining the attention and concern of the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC). As a Least Developed Country (LDC),Cambodia stands to lose much if the predicted effects of climate change come true. The [...]	2009-05-04 09:08:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR ENRG EAID EIND CB
09PHNOMPENH285	LAND IN CAMBODIA, PART II: LAND CONCESSIONS AND URBAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Land concessions, or government-approved leases of state land, are among the primary tools the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) uses to encourage economic development. The 2001 Land Law includes size, time, and use limits on Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) designated for ind [...]	2009-05-05 06:52:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAGR SENV KDEM CB
09PHNOMPENH287	GOVERNMENT-DONOR QUARTERLY MEETING: ECONOMIC CRISIS TAKES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) April 28 hosted the 14th Meeting of the Government-Donor Coordination Committee (GDCC) to review progress made toward their national development strategy and discuss policy impediments. The RGC presented thoughtful economic analyses and s [...]	2009-05-05 08:58:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAID CB
09PHNOMPENH336	CAMBODIA CONTINUES TO BATTLE PHYSICAL REMINDERS OF [...] Summary: Nearly three decades of war and civil unrest have left Cambodia as one of the most heavily mined and explosive remnants of war (ERW) contaminated countries in the world. In addition to landmines, contamination includes cluster submunitions as well as abandoned explosive ordnance droppe [...]	2009-05-26 09:35:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EAID MOPS CB
09PHNOMPENH364	U.S. Companies Eye Opportunities in Cambodian Agriculture [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the effects of the global economic crisis hit Cambodia's other important growth sectors, the government is pinning its hopes on growth in the expanding agriculture sector to shelter Cambodians from the global downturn. In an effort to support the government's growth initiat [...]	2009-06-03 08:09:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EINV ETRD EAID CB
09PHNOMPENH368	CASE AGAINST MU SOCHUA'S LAWYER COULD SET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the public political struggles over defamation have played out between Prime Minister (PM) Hun Sen and Sam Rainsy Party Parliamentarian Mu Sochua, the PM's high-profile lawyer has pursued an ethics complaint at the Cambodian Bar Association in a parallel course of action aga [...]	2009-06-04 08:28:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS CB
09PHNOMPENH370	CORRECTED COPY: U.S. COMPANIES EYE OPPORTUNITIES IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the effects of the global economic crisis hit Cambodia's other important growth sectors, the government is pinning its hopes on growth in the expanding agriculture sector to shelter Cambodians from the global downturn. In an effort to support the government's growth initiat [...]	2009-06-04 09:17:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EINV ETRD EAID CB
09PHNOMPENH373	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION AND US [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche and talking points June 5 to NAO Thouk, IWC Alternate Commissioner for Cambodia and Delegate of the Royal Government of Cambodia in Charge of Fisheries Administration, Ministry of Agriculture, Forests, and Fisheries. Mr. Nao praised Commissioner Dr. Hogar [...]	2009-06-05 06:28:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC CB
09PHNOMPENH379	LAND IN CAMBODIA, PART III: EVICTIONS, RESETTLEMENT, LAND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The lax land titling system (Ref A) and the Royal Government of Cambodia's (RGC's) push to develop land through concessions (Ref B) has led to widespread land disputes and more forced evictions. The issue of forced evictions ranks high on civil society, opposition party, and do [...]	2009-06-09 01:24:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAGR SENV KDEM CB
09PHNOMPENH406	CAMBODIA PREPARES PREAH VIHEAR PLAN FOR UNESCO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In advance of his participation in the 33rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Seville, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Council of Ministers Sok An asked to see the Ambassador June 16 to outline progress by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) in develo [...]	2009-06-17 10:53:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SCUL KTIA KJUS UNESCO EAID TH CB
09PHNOMPENH518	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST TO ATTEND PARK PROTECTION [...] This is an action cable. See Paragraph Six. 2. Reftel is guidance for screening nominees for U.S. sponsored training programs. 3. To comply with the Leahy amendment relative to U.S. sponsored security assistance training, the U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh has conducted local human rights vetti [...]	2009-07-27 04:44:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KSTC PARM PREL KNNP CB
09PHNOMPENH520	Ambassador Raises Concerns on TIP and Security with Preah [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Rodley called on Preah Sihanouk provincial Governor Sbong Sarath July 21 to discuss cooperation in combating trafficking in persons and pedophilia in the province. She raised concerns about weak prosecution of sex offenders in the provincial courts and the need to foc [...]	2009-07-27 09:23:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KTIP ASEC CB
09PHNOMPENH71	2009 Investment Climate Statement - Cambodia [...] Cambodia, a developing country, began the transformation from a command economy to the free market in the late 1980s. It is now integrating into the regional and world trading framework. In 1999, Cambodia joined the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and in September 2004, became [...]	2009-01-28 10:02:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD KIPR OPIC KTDB USTR CB
09PHNOMPENH743	MGEAP1: CAMBODIA COPING WITH KETSANA, SO FAR [...] (U) Summary: Ketsana's high winds and heavy rains continue to impact people in eight of Cambodia's 24 provinces. NGOs, the Cambodia Red Cross (CRC) and provincial governments appear to be meeting immediate needs of the displaced without requesting additional donor assistance. The Royal Gover [...]	2009-10-07 10:33:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR ASEC CASC MARR PREL PINR AMGT EAID CB
09PHNOMPENH813	RGC GEARS UP FOR COPENHAGEN WITH NATIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (U) Over the course of a two-day conference, technical and policy experts educated Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) officials on the threat of climate change and began formulating the country's official position for the December UN Framework Convention on Climate Change's (UNFCC) 15th Confere [...]	2009-10-30 08:27:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR ENRG EAID EIND CB
09PODGORICA148	MEET THE NEW GOVERNMENT AND MINISTERS [...] (SBU) Parliament confirmed the new Government of Montenegro (GoM) on June 11. Milo Djukanovic, designated Prime Minister for the sixth time, promised a "government of continuity." The new GoM consequently contains mostly holdovers from the previous government. Ref A described changes in the [...]	2009-06-16 17:08:00	Embassy Podgorica	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL MW
09PODGORICA32	NEW DPS GOVERNMENT LIKELY TO LOOK A LOT LIKE OLD DPS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With pre-term parliamentary elections set for March 29 (reftel) and Prime Minister Djukanovic's Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) the favorite to return to power, key cabinet members are already jostling for a spot in the next government. While there is plenty of speculation [...]	2009-02-05 11:33:00	Embassy Podgorica	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR MW
09PORTAUPRINCE13	CODEL DURBIN MEETING WITH PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) The Haitian President and Prime Minister told Codel Durbin December 17-18 that Haiti's main priorities after the August-September hurricanes are economic growth and job creation, infrastructure-building, education, environmental restoration, and strengthening Haiti's political institutio [...]	2009-01-07 17:10:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID SNAR HA
09PORTAUPRINCE134	HAITI MONTHLY -*JANUARY 2009 [...] (U) This is a monthly report on a variety of topics of interest which do not merit full reporting cables. End summary. Foreign Economic Assistance --------------------------- 2. (U) Association of Caribbean States. Haiti hosted the Council of Ministers of the Association of Caribbean St [...]	2009-02-10 12:47:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EAID EAGR EINV ETRD BEXP HA
09PORTMORESBY30	SOLOMON ISLANDS FEELING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Solomon Islands (SI) is beginning to feel the effects of the current global economic crisis. Donors view the situation as serious. SI leaders are looking for options to replace logging revenues that are quickly disappearing due to a drop in demand caused by the current economic c [...]	2009-03-06 08:06:00	Embassy Port Moresby	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BP
09PORTOFSPAIN119	SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS: PRIME MINISTER MANNING [...] (C) Prime Minister Patrick Manning met CDA Charles Shapiro March 16 to discuss Summit of the Americas issues. Manning envisions a major role for the President, including an event in Port of Spain's main park (the Savannah) for 100,000s. The PM will make a quick March 18-21 trip to six natio [...]	2009-03-17 10:33:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KSUM MASS TD
09PRAGUE453	TOP 09: THE CZECH REPUBLIC'S NEWEST POLITICAL PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Former Czech Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek split from the Christian Democratic Party (KDU-CSL) shortly after the fall of PM Topolanek's government in March, ostensibly because of its shift to the left. After the European Parliament elections in early June, Kalousek launche [...]	2009-08-04 14:32:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE473	PROPERTY RESTITUTION IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC [...] (SBU) Summary: The United States has an interest in three broad categories of property restitution in the Czech Republic: U.S. citizen, religious communal (including Jewish communal) and Jewish private property. The restitution process started in the early 1990s, yet some restitution issues r [...]	2009-08-14 13:10:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EFIN EZ
09PRETORIA1009	SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY MONTHLY [...] (U) Summary: This is the South African Environment, Science and Technology Monthly Briefings Newsletter, May 2009, Volume 4, Number 5, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Pretoria, South Africa. Topics of the newsletter: -- Scientists Develop New Carbon Emission Reduction Process -- South Afri [...]	2009-05-19 14:53:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI ETRD SF
09PRETORIA1029	PART 3 OF 3: A LOOK AT JACOB ZUMA'S CABINET [...] (SBU) President Jacob Zuma finalized his Cabinet appointments on May 10, modifying several existing ministries and creating a few new ones. Below are short biographies for each of the newly appointed ministers and deputies. This is the third of three cables looking at each of the Cabinet ap [...]	2009-05-20 15:12:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM ASEC SF PGOV
09PRETORIA1259	THE STATUS OF SOUTH AFRICA'S MEGA-HYDROCARBON PROJECTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: South Africa is aiming at a number of mega-hydrocarbon projects, highlighted at a recent oil and gas conference. U.S. firm Forest Oil is very close to gaining its long-awaited production license for an offshore gas field in the Western Cape, which could alleviate regional power [...]	2009-06-23 11:53:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EMIN EINV SENV SF
09PRETORIA136	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER JANUARY 23, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 4 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Manuel: First Wave of Unemployment Being Seen in Africa - Retail Nosedive Raises Clamor for Big Rate Cut - Tata Increases Stake in Neotel [...]	2009-01-23 11:13:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV
09PRETORIA1615	South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...]	2009-08-07 14:04:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF
09PRETORIA1914	South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...]	2009-09-17 14:45:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF
09PRETORIA2150	South Africa: Partnering for Global Hunger and Food [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-22 14:03:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD EAID

09PRETORIA2169	RECONFIGURED MINISTERIAL CLUSTERS LEAD TO [...] (C) The South African Government on October 19 announced plans to reconfigure ministerial clusters (committees within the Cabinet intended to improve coordination within government). The announcement set off immediate speculation by political analysts and economists over whether the reconfig [...]	2009-10-23 17:45:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SF ECON EFIN EINV
09PRETORIA245	SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY MONTHLY [...] (U) Summary: This is the South African Environment, Science and Technology Monthly Briefings Newsletter, January 2009, Volume 4, Number 1, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Pretoria, South Africa. Topics of the newsletter: -- NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY BILL PASSED INTO LAW -- SOUTH AFRICA CELEBRA [...]	2009-02-09 13:51:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI ETRD SF
09PRETORIA378	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 27, [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 9 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Q4 GDP Down 1.8% - U.S. Trade with South Africa - Government and Auto Industry Officials to Discuss Loan Package - Task Team Recommen [...]	2009-02-27 14:19:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV
09PRETORIA487	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 6, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 11 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Business Confidence Hits 10-Year Low on Slowdown - State 'Will Not Give Up' on Car Industry - South Africa Needs a Homegrown Response to [...]	2009-03-13 09:28:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV
09PRETORIA533	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER MARCH 20, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 12 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - Manufacturing Production Has Steepest Fall in Almost Two Decades - Gold Production Declines Sharply - Retail Sales Grow - Moody's to Re [...]	2009-03-20 13:39:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV
09PRETORIA570	SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY MONTHLY [...] (U) Summary: This is the South African Environment, Science and Technology Monthly Briefings Newsletter, February 2009, Volume 4, Number 2, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Pretoria, South Africa. Topics of the newsletter: -- DEBATE CONTINUES OVER QULALITY OF DRINKING WATER IN SMALL TOWNS - [...]	2009-03-25 14:41:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI ETRD SF
09PRETORIA596	South Africa: Minerals and Energy Newsletter "THE ASSAY" - [...] (SBU) Introduction: The purpose of this newsletter, initiated in January 2004, is to highlight minerals and energy developments in South Africa. This includes trade and investment as well as supply. South Africa hosts world-class deposits of gold, diamonds, platinum group metals, chromium, z [...]	2009-03-27 11:52:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB KHIV SF
09PRETORIA628	EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOW PROGRAM 2009 SOUTH AFRICA [...] (U) Post submits two proposals for Science Fellows. Proposal One requests a Science Fellow for May 2009. Proposal Two requests three dimensional modeling of the world's largest repository of the platium-group elements in the Bushveld complex. --------------------------------------------- -- [...]	2009-03-31 07:01:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TSPL TBIO EAGR ENRG ECON AMGT APER
09PRETORIA78	2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT SOUTH AFRICA [...] (U) Summary. In response to Ref A, this cable presents the first part of post?s two-part 2009 Investment Climate Statement for South Africa. This is also Chapter 6 of the Country Commercial Guide for South Africa. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT Chapter 6 Investment Climate Statement FY2009 6.1 Op [...]	2009-01-15 14:56:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD ELAB PGOV OPIC KTDB
09PRETORIA80	2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT - SOUTH AFRICA [...] (U) Summary. In response to Ref A, this cable presents the first part of post's two-part 2009 Investment Climate Statement for South Africa. This is also Chapter 6 of the Country Commercial Guide for South Africa. 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT Chapter 6 Investment Climate Statement FY2009 6.1 Op [...]	2009-01-15 16:38:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD ELAB PGOV OPIC KTDB
09PRETORIA81	2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT SOUTH AFRICA (PART [...] (U) Summary. In response to Ref A, this cable presents part two of post's two-part 2009 Investment Climate Statement for South Africa. This is also Chapter 6 of the Country Commercial Guide for South Africa 2. (U) BEGIN TEXT Chapter 6 Investment Climate Statement FY2009, continued [...]	2009-01-15 16:38:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD ELAB PGOV OPIC KTDB USTR SF
09PRETORIA872	SOUTH AFRICAN ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY MONTHLY [...] (U) Summary: This is the South African Environment, Science and Technology Monthly Briefings Newsletter, April 2009, Volume 4, Number 4, prepared by the U.S. Embassy Pretoria, South Africa. Topics of the newsletter: -- ANC OFFICIAL ARRESTED IN ABALONE BUST -- SADC SKIPPER FINED R1.5M FO [...]	2009-04-30 10:45:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV SOCI ETRD SF
09PRETORIA875	SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER APRIL 30, 2009 [...] (U) Summary. This is Volume 9, issue 18 of U.S. Embassy Pretoria's South Africa Economic News Weekly Newsletter. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - South African Reserve Bank Cuts Repo Rate - Company Failures Rise - Finance Minister Will Have Role in Next ANC Government - South Afri [...]	2009-04-30 14:16:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EMIN EPET ENRG BEXP KTDB SENV
09PRETORIA942	FINAL LIST OF PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA'S CABINET [...] (U) Newly elected President Jacob Zuma completed his Cabinet appointments May 10. Attached is the completed list of all Cabinet ministers and their deputy ministers. National President - Jacob Zuma Deputy President - Kgalema Motlanthe * National Planning Commission in the Presidency - Tr [...]	2009-05-11 06:11:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM ASEC SF
09PRETORIA988	PART 1 OF 3: A LOOK AT JACOB ZUMA'S CABINET [...] (SBU) President Jacob Zuma finalized his Cabinet appointments on May 10, modifying several existing ministries and creating a few new ones. Zuma increased the Cabinet's size from 28 to 34 ministries. Below are short biographies for each of the newly appointed ministers and deputies. This i [...]	2009-05-14 15:36:00	Embassy Pretoria	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM ASEC SF PGOV
09PRISTINA162	KOSOVO: HOUSING RECONSTRUCTION IN NORTH MITROVICA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The return of warm weather in Kosovo brings with it annual interest among Kosovo Albanian displaced persons in rebuilding houses north of the Ibar River. Suvi Do/Suhadoll, a village just west of the Kosovo Serb populated north Mitrovica area, has been the site of interethnic cla [...]	2009-04-24 13:06:00	Embassy Pristina	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KV
09QUITO1015	Ecuador's Position Towards the upcoming Copenhagen Climate [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ecuadorian Government will continue to support G-77 positions related to climate change at the upcoming COP-15 in Copenhagen. According to Ambassador Federico Meneses, Director General for the Environment at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ecuador has placed adaptation [...]	2009-12-02 21:51:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ENRG ECON EC
09QUITO204	ECUADOR'S MFA PITCHES YASUNI ITT CONSERVATION PROJECT TO [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 5, 2009 the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry presented a revised proposal to forego development of oil fields in the environmentally sensitive Yasuni Park in exchange for international compensation. The new initiative focuses on compensation based on carbon credits rather [...]	2009-03-24 19:15:00	Embassy Quito	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET PREL SENV ECON EC
09QUITO657	CONFUSING SIGNALS ABOUT ECUADOR'S YASUNI ITT CONSERVATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. On June 24, the ... id: 218811 date: 7/30/2009 12:24 refid: 09QUITO657 origin: Embassy Quito classification: CONFIDENTIAL destination: 09QUITO204 header: VZCZCXYZ0013 RR RUEHWEB DE RUEHQT #0657/01 2111224 ZNY CCCCC ZZH R 301224Z JUL 09 ZDK FM AMEMBASSY QUITO TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WAS [...]	2009-07-30 12:24:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PREL SENV ECON EC
09QUITO937	Ecuador: Yasuni-ITT Initiative Still Searching for its First [...] (C) Despite Ecuadorean President Correa's frequent claims to be raising funding among European nations for Ecuador's Yasuni-ITT rainforest/oil conservation initiative (Ref A),the reality is that the Europeans are so far skeptical. During an October 27 conference at Chatham House in London, Pr [...]	2009-11-06 19:39:00	Embassy Quito	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PREL SENV ECON EC GM UK SP
09RABAT1018	GUINEA LATEST: DADIS AND BEYOND? [...] (S/NF) Summary: XXXXXXXXXXXX told PolOffs on December 30 that despite Dadis Camara's apparent desire to depart Morocco (Ref A),he is in no condition to travel and will not be able to resume control of the country. Minister of National Defense Sekouba Konate and an assistant, Mr. Bah, along wi [...]	2009-12-31 14:55:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET//NOFORN	PINS PGOV PREL PINR GV MO
09RABAT106	MOROCCO REQUESTS JOINT COMMITTEE TO ADVANCE [...] (SBU) Summary: This is an Action Request. Please see Paragraph 7. Government of Morocco (GOM) officials told EconOff and visiting ESTH Regional Hub Officer on January 26 that Morocco would like to create a Joint Committee of U.S. and Moroccan officials to determine priority areas for colla [...]	2009-02-04 15:50:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL EINV MO
09RABAT132	TAOUNATE TOUGH ON CANNABIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Following success in western Morocco, Morocco's anti-cannabis efforts now focus on Taounate, a province in the Rif mountains on the eastern side of the major growing areas. Provincial authorities are making strong efforts to educate local residents about the negative aspects [...]	2009-02-10 17:50:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCOR KCRM SP MO
09RABAT237	THE OTHER MOROCCO PART 2, ECONOMICS: MISERY IN THE [...] (C) In February, Berbers in the snow-bound region of the Middle Atlas Mountains felt disconnected from Morocco's broader economic boom. They expressed anger at the urban-centered influence networks that they said treated their villages and raw materials like chattel, preventing communities f [...]	2009-03-26 15:47:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM ECON MO
09RABAT389	MOROCCO: VIRGINIA GOVERNOR'S VISIT SUCCEEDS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Virginia Governor Tim Kaine explored opportunities for deepening the economic relationship between Virginia and Morocco with key Moroccan officials, focusing on the already important agricultural trade and port cooperation. On April 23, Prime Minister El Fassi said Morocco wa [...]	2009-05-06 12:18:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAGR BEXP BTIO ETRD PREL MO ENERG
09RABAT391	TFFLU01: MOROCCAN INFLUENZA PREPARATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Morocco has reinforced its influenza surveillance and response measures as H1N1 influenza cases draw nearer to the Kingdom. The Government of Morocco (GOM) has instituted surveillance of arriving travelers and is purchasing more anti-viral medication to add to its current sto [...]	2009-05-08 06:56:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC AMED CASC TBIO PINR AMGT TF KFLU KFLO
09RABAT46	MOROCCO SIGNS BILATERAL SEISMIC AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: As one of his final official acts, Ambassador Riley signed on January 12, "The Bilateral Agreement Between The Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Kingdom of Morocco Regarding the Development and Operation of a Seismic Monitoring Station in the [...]	2009-01-16 15:37:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PARM PREL TPHY KTBT KSCI KTIA MO
09RABAT486	GOM COUNTER-DRUG EFFORTS IN CHEFCHAOUAN HAVE [...] (C) Summary: Moroccan efforts to eradicate cannabis cultivation in the northern part of the country have been successful enough to prompt some voters to boycott the coming local elections. In the northern province of Chefchouan, heart of Morocco's cannabis producing region, various party ca [...]	2009-06-10 11:29:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR SOCI PGOV MO
09RABAT646	MOROCCO WILLING TO HOST CITES WORKSHOP [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-24 15:14:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD SENV MO
09RABAT988	GUINEA: UPDATE ON DADIS CAMARA'S HEALTH [...] (S) Summary: In separate meetings on December 16 with the Moroccan Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri and XXXXXXXXXXXX the Mission learned that the health of wounded Guinean junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara has improved and that his release from the hospital may be imminent. Fassi Fihr [...]	2009-12-17 18:40:00	Embassy Rabat	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PGOV PREL XA MO
09RANGOON134	BURMA: TAY ZA EXPANDS HIS EMPIRE [...] (C) Tay Za, the regime's favored crony, continues to expand his empire in Burma. Over the past three months he has purchased three large hotels, expanded his airline business, and entered the telecommunications industry. Embassy Rangoon recommends OFAC add Tay Za's newest companies and key [...]	2009-03-04 04:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAIR ETRD PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON221	BURMA: NGO WORKING TO PROTECT TIGER POPULATION [...] (C) American NGO Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) continues to work with the Burmese government to protect Burma's dwindling tiger population. While the GOB established the world's largest tiger reserve in the Hukong Valley in 2004, it has yet to approve a WCS petition to expand the pro [...]	2009-04-09 23:20:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ECON ETRD PGOV BM
09RANGOON299	(C) BURMA: SILVERWAVE CO. BENEFITS FROM REGIME TIES [...] (C) Minn Minn Oung, Chairman of Silverwave Group and a number of affiliated companies involved in the agricultural, timber, mining, and energy sectors, provides significant economic and political support to the Burmese regime. Minn Minn Oung admits his companies received government contracts [...]	2009-05-21 00:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PINR BM
09RANGOON316	BURMA: STATE MEDIA LINK BOMBS TO OPPOSITION GROUPS [...] (SBU) On May 27 state media reported that two bombs exploded near government buildings in Mon State. According to police, there were no casualties when the bombs detonated near the Economic Bank and Forestry Department in the state capital Mawlamyine. So far, the police have not responded to [...]	2009-05-28 07:33:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RANGOON33	BURMA: 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Per reftel, this is Embassy Rangoon's submission for the 2009 Investment Climate Statement. Preface ------- 2. U.S. Investment Subject to Sanctions: On May 20, 1997, by Executive Order 13047, the President imposed economic sanctions prohibiting new investment by U.S. persons or entiti [...]	2009-01-14 08:32:00	Embassy Rangoon	UNCLASSIFIED	OPIC KTDB USTR ECON EFIN EINV ETRD BM
09RANGOON34	CONSERVATION GROUP CREATES COMMUNITY FORESTS, [...] (C) The Biodiversity and Nature Conservation Association (BANCA) implemented its third grant through Embassy Rangoon's small grants program to start a community forestry program in the Kyeintali area of Rakhine State, near the Yoma Elephant Sanctuary. During our December 2008 visit to monitor [...]	2009-01-20 01:24:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM SENV
09RANGOON357	BURMA: INCREASING MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN TIMBER [...] (C) Although state-owned Myanmar Timber Enterprise (MTE),controlled by the Ministry of Forestry, is legally responsible for regulating Burma's timber trade, contacts confirm that MTE continues to lose ground to the military's Regional Commanders who control forest-rich areas. MTE remains t [...]	2009-06-12 06:28:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SENV PREL PGOV ETRD PINR BM
09RANGOON361	BURMA: CIVIL SOCIETY INVOLVEMENT IN THE TIMBER [...] (SBU) In response to the reporting requirements of the JADE Act, this cable provides background on the current and potential future role of civil society in monitoring Burma's timber industry. 2. (C) There are a limited number of civil society organizations in Burma that focus on enviro [...]	2009-06-16 01:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SENV PREL PGOV ETRD PINR BM
09RANGOON362	BURMA TIMBER INDUSTRY THREATENS ELEPHANT [...] (C) Burma's wild elephant population continues to dwindle. Environmentalists estimate fewer than 4,000 roam wild, compared to 5,500 in 1996. Although elephants are revered by the Burmese people, wild populations are threatened by habitat destruction, declining breeding rates, and poaching. [...]	2009-06-16 01:44:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SENV PREL PGOV ETRD BM
09RANGOON374	BURMESE TIMBER EXPORTS DECLINING [...] (SBU) The value and quantity of legal Burmese timber exports dropped in 2008 by eight percent and 21 percent respectively over the previous year. EU sanctions appear to impact Burma's timber trade, as the value of direct exports to Europe has dropped by 65 percent since 2007. Timber indust [...]	2009-06-19 01:40:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON SENV PREL PGOV ETRD PINR BM
09RANGOON388	BURMA: ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF DEFORESTATION [...] (C) The Burmese Government estimates the rate of deforestation to be only 0.3 percent annually, but local environmentalists argue the rate is as high as 2 percent a year. The highest levels of deforestation occur in Kachin and Sagaing Divisions. Former Forestry Department officials report [...]	2009-06-25 04:34:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ECON ETRD PGOV PINR BM
09RANGOON432	BURMA: INCREASING DRUG RESISTANCE FOR MALARIA [...] (C) Malaria is one of the most prevalent diseases and leading causes of mortality in Burma. In 2008, the Ministry of Health (MOH) reported more than 564,000 cases, with 959 deaths. NGOs emphasize that these figures grossly underestimate Burma's true morbidity, which they estimate is two mi [...]	2009-07-13 05:45:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON TBIO EAID SOCI PGOV AMED BM
09RANGOON811	TWO FARMERS WHO COMPLAINED TO ILO SENTENCED; ILO [...] (C) Rangoon-based International Labor Organization (ILO) representative Steve Marshall told Poloff December 14 the Burma government is "embarrassed" by the recent sentencing of two farmers to seven years each in prison for cutting down eucalyptus trees on their property, but has not yet addre [...]	2009-12-18 10:07:00	Embassy Rangoon	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM
09RIGA129	Embassy Science Fellows Program 2009 (Latvia) [...] Embassy Riga submits the following proposal for an Embassy Science Fellow (ESF) to assist Latvia in developing forest biomass energy potential. The ESF will work with the Latvian Ministry of Agriculture, in coordination with the Latvian State Forest Research Institute, Forest and Wood Product [...]	2009-03-06 15:27:00	Embassy Riga	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG SENV AMGT APER LG
09RIGA607	LATVIA: RISKS AND POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF [...] (C) Some state-owned enterprises (SOEs),including the national electric monopoly, would benefit greatly from the management improvements and infusion of capital that even a partial privatization could bring. However, the GOL is delaying any consideration of the issue until after October ele [...]	2009-12-21 12:34:00	Embassy Riga	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG PGOV LG
09RIODEJANEIRO311	Rio Radar - September 18, 2009 [...] Rio Radar is a weekly compilation of key economic, political, commercial, and other developments in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, and Sergipe. This week's subjects: RIO MAYOR WANTS FURTHER COOPERATION WITH USG 2. (U) On September 11, Principal Officer m [...]	2009-09-22 09:58:00	Consulate Rio De Janeiro	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EIND EAIR EINV EPET ENRG PREL PHUM SOCI BR
09RIYADH1299	MISSION NOMINEES: 2010 EDUCATIONUSA ADVISER PROFESSIONAL [...] Embassy hereby nominates three Mission education advisors to attend the 2010 EducationUSA adviser professional development (REFTEL 089093). Over 21,000 Saudis are now studying in the United States. Increasing the number of Saudis studying in the U.S. is a Mission priority. Education advising is [...]	2009-09-30 13:30:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OEXC SCUL SA
09ROME1119	UNIFIL: ITALY LOOKING FOR A SIGNAL FROM US [...] (C/NF) Summary. We have a window -- albeit one that is beginning to close -- to reverse an evolving decision by the GOI to cut its posture in UNIFIL by nearly half as it cedes the command to Spain. The decision comes as the GOI looks for ways to trim its budget while maintaining funding for [...]	2009-09-30 16:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS KPKO IT LE IS
09ROME1141	Climate Change - Italy Supportive on MEF and Emerging [...] (SBU) Summary: Italian officials involved in international climate negotiations feel the September Major Economies Forum (MEF) meeting went well, and recommend close U.S.-EU coordination before the October 18-19 MEF meeting. They confirmed that Italian Environment Minister Prestigiacomo had p [...]	2009-10-08 11:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KGHG ENRG TRGY KSCA UN IT
09ROME1415	ITALY FISHERIES ENFORCEMENT UPDATE: ENFORCEMENT DATA [...] (SBU) Summary. Italian fisheries authorities have provided data on Port Captaincy-Coast Guard enforcement activities in 2008 and 2009, for USG consideration in the context of the U.S. Moratorium Protection Act. Although the 2009 data covers only the year to October, it shows an increase in in [...]	2009-12-28 07:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIS SENV ETRD ICCAT IT
09RPODUBAI148	IRAN REGIONAL PRESENCE OFFICE - WINDOW ON IRAN - MARCH 31, [...] [S/NF] Roxana Saberi: Iranian-Americans as Diplomatic Leverage : As IRPO has reported and will report further septel, various spoilers in Iran facing the prospect that improved US-Iran ties will erode their standing within Iran have taken deliberate and well-timed steps to preempt such improved [...]	2009-03-31 12:56:00	Iran RPO Dubai	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM CACS ECON IR
09SANAA1015	SALEH SEES FOREIGN HAND BEHIND YEMEN,S INTERNAL [...] (S) Summary. During a 40-minute meeting at his residence in Taiz, President Saleh confirmed to D/D CIA Kappes his intention to permit Yemenis to enter the Saudi rehab program upon their release from Guantanamo, an issue that he said he will discuss King Abdullah during a visit to Riyadh on May 31. [...]	2009-05-31 12:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER YM
09SANAA2072	DONORS QUESTION ROYG COMMITMENT TO DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. Donors questioned the pace of Yemen's development in a meeting with visiting World Bank Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Vice President Samshad Akhtar on November 7. Akhtar responded to donor concerns, emphasizing that the ROYG appears to understand its development issues, [...]	2009-11-17 07:33:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID PREL PGOV YM
09SANAA489	SALEH BIG WINNER IN YEMEN'S PARLIAMENTARY [...] (U) A February 26 decision by Yemen's Parliament is expected to lead to a two year delay of the parliamentary elections scheduled for April 27. This message examines what that delay will actually mean. The delay is seen by some as a chance for true reform of Yemen's political system. Judgin [...]	2009-03-22 10:18:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM YM
09SANJOSE217	SCENESETTER FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Embassy San Jose warmly welcomes Vice President and Dr. Biden and their delegation, and provides this broad overview as requested by the OVP. The Arias administration has made progress on key elements of its 2006-2010 agenda, most notably entering the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Repub [...]	2009-03-23 16:05:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CS ECON ETRD OTRA OVIP PREL PGOV SNAR SOCI
09SANJOSE23	MAGNITUDE 6.2 EARTHQUAKE STRIKES COSTA RICA, [...] (U) SUMMARY: On January 8, a localized but devastating 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Costa Rica about 30 kilometers north of San Jose, near Poas volcano, a popular tourist destination. As of January 14, there were 23 known dead, nearly 100 injured and 11 still missing. The killer earthquak [...]	2009-01-16 14:50:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MASS PGOV SOCI EAID AEMR ASEC PHUM SEVN
09SANJOSE312	COSTA RICA WELCOMES QENERGY AND CLIMATE PARTNERSHIP OF THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior Costa Rican officials, including the Minister of Foreign Trade and the Minister of Environment, Energy, and Telecommunications (MINAET),welcomed President ObamaQs planned announcement of an QEnergy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) at the upcoming Summit of t [...]	2009-04-16 12:33:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ECON KSUM KGHG PREL PGOV CS
09SANJOSE682	COSTA RICAN COURT'S DENIAL OF EXTRADITION RAISES CONCERNS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 26, a Costa Rican court denied a USG extradition request for Nicole Kater, an American citizen wanted in California on charges of parental child abduction. The court's lengthy and convoluted decision revolved around Costa Rica's need to ensure Kater's fundamental human r [...]	2009-08-11 17:36:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PREL PGOV KOCI CR
09SANJOSE697	CENTRAL AMERICANS RENEW "CONCAUSA III" PUSH FOR CLIMATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Central American environment ministers continue to seek greater U.S. cooperation with the region on climate change through a revival of the Central American-United States Joint Declaration ("CONCAUSA") process launched in 1994. As Costa Rica serves as Presiden [...]	2009-08-17 16:31:00	Embassy San Jose	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG KGHG CS
09SANSALVADOR433	SERVIR PROJECT SUPPORTS DISASTER RELIEF AND ENVIRONMENTAL [...] SUMMARY: The SERVIR project has closed a successful two-year global development alliance with USAID that created innovative geographic imaging tools to help manage disaster relief operations, monitor environmental trends and study the effects of climate change in Central America. In its next p [...]	2009-05-18 13:04:00	Embassy San Salvador	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID SENV EAGR SV
09SANTIAGO1018	Santiago Oct. 27 Media Report [...] After three months of negotiation, the Ministers of the Environment and Finance signed an agreement with the heads of the political alliances in Congress to speed up the project that creates a ministry and regulatory agency for the environment. Senator Pablo Longueira (USI) labeled t [...]	2009-10-27 19:45:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1028	Santiago Oct. 30 Media Report [...] The Ministry of Education warned public teachers who are on strike that it could be forced to extend classes until December 29 to complete the days required for any given academic year (Conservative, independent, La Tercera, 10/30). Chile-U.S. 2. President Obama invi [...]	2009-10-30 20:04:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1070	Santiago Nov. 9 Media Report [...] The national scholastic test for fourth graders shows that only 24% have the level of language skills required for that grade. The test also confirms that the gap that exists between private and public education remains unchanged; only 12% of low-income school students achieved adva [...]	2009-11-09 20:12:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1114	STAFFDEL MEACHAM - CHILE'S ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Member Carl Meacham traveled to Chile October 26-28 to review the state of the economy, the history of Chile's development, and the work of international financial institutions (IFIs) in country. The Chilean economy suffered a rece [...]	2009-11-18 20:17:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PREL OVIP CI
09SANTIAGO1136	Santiago Nov. 24 Media Report [...] The dollar exchange rate dropped to 492 pesos, the lowest in the last 16 months. Meanwhile, copper reached a new record of 3.15????, the highest since September 2008 (Conservative, influential El Mercurio, 11/24). 2. U.S.-Related News 2. In his debut before the OAS Permanent Co [...]	2009-11-24 19:31:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1154	Santiago Nov. 30 Media Report [...] Just two weeks after the Fulbright commission questioned the method used by "Becas Chile" to issue scholarships, the German Academic Exchange Service has asked the Chilean organization to change its application system (Conservative, independent La Tercera 11/29). 2. The U.S [...]	2009-11-30 19:50:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO1200	SUBJECT: CHILE: Presidential Candidates' Energy Platforms - [...] SUMMARY: The energy platforms of Chile's three leading presidential candidates aim to improve Chile's energy security while supporting economic growth and, to a lesser extent, include environmental protection and social welfare components. There are significant shared elements: diversificat [...]	2009-12-10 19:51:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG SENV TRGY PGOV CI
09SANTIAGO1238	Santiago Dec. 18 Media Report [...] "Why didn't the FBI detect mustard gas in 2005, when Justice Madrid claims there are (traces of it)?" At the end of 2004, the judge investigating the death of former President Eduardo Frei Montalva, Alejandro Madrid, requested the FBI's assistance to confirm if the exhumed remains belong [...]	2009-12-18 19:54:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO132	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 12 [...] Dailies report that the Central Bank is likely to lower the interest rates today. Other front-page news highlighted the U.S. dollar exchange rate, which dropped below 600 pesos for the first time since late last year. Dailies also ran front-page photographs of Bachelet with Cuban President R [...]	2009-02-12 16:34:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO157	PRESIDENT BACHELET IN CUBA -- A FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fidel Castro's statement bashing Chile following a private meeting with President Bachelet has generated unusually heated debate in Santiago. Critics -- including the Concertacion's Christian Democrats -- call the visit an "embarrassing" policy setback, some contending the sole [...]	2009-02-20 20:06:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM CU CI
09SANTIAGO164	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - FEBRUARY 24 [...] Dailies highlighted an investigation in Uruguay that revealed an Argentine agent, Ivan Velazquez, had hacked into e-mails of at least eight Chilean government officials in 2007, including that of former Defense Minister Jaime Ravinet. The GOC has asked Uruguay for additional information. Ano [...]	2009-02-24 18:06:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO199	AMBASSADOR VISITS VALDIVIA, SPEAKS AT CONSERVATION FINANCE [...] Summary: The Ambassador recently visited Valdivia -- a forestry and scientific research hub in southern Chile -- to deliver remarks at the closing session of a Harvard-affiliated conference, "Conservation Capital in the Americas," at the Universidad Austral. In his first visit to the recently- [...]	2009-03-04 18:47:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SENV ENRG PGOV TRGY CI
09SANTIAGO215	CHILE'S NATIONAL PARKS LACK INFRASTRUCTURE, AMERICAN HELPS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador recently met with Chile's National Tourism Service (SERNATUR) and National Forestry Commission (CONAF) to provide feedback on his January trip to Chilean Patagonia. He inquired about resources for improving the infrastructure in Torres del Paine National Park, on [...]	2009-03-06 18:51:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENVR EAID EAGR ETRD TBIO CI
09SANTIAGO217	CHILE: BIWEEKLY ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: This continues a series of updates on major developments in Chile's economy since the acceleration of global financial turmoil. President Bachelet said publicly that Chile's economic growth will slow in 2009, but remain positive. Chile's economy contracted by 1.4%. The unemploymen [...]	2009-03-09 10:22:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO342	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 13 [...] Final figures are not yet in, but Holy Week holiday is expected to leave close to US$200 million in profits for the tourism industry. Market analysts say that Chile's forestry and retailing sectors are most vulnerable to the economic crisis. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Editor [...]	2009-04-13 21:17:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO390	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 23 [...] The IDB has frozen loans to Chile until the government reimburses the bank for a loan issued to finance the public transportation system, Transantiago. Dailies also reported that the new Transparency Law revealed that the government issued -- without a bidding process -- half a million dollar [...]	2009-04-23 18:22:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO393	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 24 [...] Unemployment figures in the Metropolitan Region reached a record high of 12.8% in March. Peak unemployment is expected between June and August during Chile's winter months. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. Chile's Wood Corporation (CORMA),which encompasses about 200 private forest [...]	2009-04-24 16:59:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV PTER ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO398	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 27 [...] Presidential candidate Sebastian Pinera placed all his assets into a blind trust, with the exception of television station Chilevision. Pinera did, however, resign from the TV station's board of directors. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. President Bachelet invited Governor Arnold [...]	2009-04-27 21:09:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO409	TV CO-OP NOMINATIONS FROM SANTIAGO, CHILE [...] SUMMARY: Following are two PAS Santiago proposals for TV CO-OPs during FY 2010. In priority order the topics are: (a) renewable energy: the generation of fuels from forest residual, such as sawdust, tree trunks, and other organic materials; and (b) volcanic eruptions and natural disasters. [...]	2009-04-29 18:09:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO ENRG ENVR PGOV ECON EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO410	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - APRIL 29 [...] Chile has no confirmed cases of swine flu. Dailies also report that Chile's Air Force bought 18 F16s from Holland, making Chile's fleet the largest in Latin America. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. The President of industrial holding COPEC, Roberto Angelini, commented on the subsi [...]	2009-04-29 20:20:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO422	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MAY 4 [...] Colombia has confirmed a case of AH1N1 influenza, the first in South America. Chile has no cases of the disease and high risk groups have been vaccinated for seasonal influenza. U.S.-Related News ----------------- 2. The USTR placed Chile on its Priority Watch List for lack of IPR prote [...]	2009-05-04 21:37:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO425	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - MAY 5 [...] Polls show that PS Congressman Marco Enriquez-Ominami is just 14 points behind the Concertacion's presidential candidate Eduardo Frei. Dailies also report that a Mapuche organization has claimed responsibility for the arsonist attack on a building owned by the Association of Chilean Farmed Sa [...]	2009-05-05 17:39:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO480	COUNTRY REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD ACT -- CHILE [...] (U) Post provides the following information in response to Ref A request. Responses are keyed to the specific questions identified in Ref A. Refs B-E are Post's reporting covering the preceding six-month period. Promotion of Democracy and Human Rights ------------------------------------- [...]	2009-05-20 20:20:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ETCC PREL CU CI
09SANTIAGO493	AMBASSADOR'S OUTREACH IN PUNTA ARENAS AND TORRES DEL PAINE [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador visited Punta Arenas and Torres del Paine National Park, May 12-13, to celebrate the Park's 50th anniversary and to give a speech about the first 100 days of the Obama administration at the University of Magallanes (UMAG). In Punta Arenas, the Ambassador also stop [...]	2009-05-26 20:05:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SENV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO558	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JUNE 15 [...] Chile has 2,335 confirmed cases of AH1N1, but only two deaths. The Health Ministry informed that it will stop the daily count of cases and will now issue reports only on Tuesdays and Fridays. President Bachelet signed the Health Emergency Decree that empowers the Ministry of Health special mea [...]	2009-06-15 19:39:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO575	STAFFDEL MEACHAM - CLIMATE CHANGE, WATER, AND U.S. [...] SUMMARY: Senior Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Member Carl Meacham on May 27-June 3 met with Chilean officials, NGOs, as well as academics to review the effects of climate change. He also conducted a site visit to the El Maule region, which has been impacted by climate change. All [...]	2009-06-19 20:43:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ENVR ETRD PGOV PREL OVIP CI
09SANTIAGO584	CHILE MEDIA REPORT -- June 22 [...] The media highlighted President Michelle Bachelet plan to call for an early retirement of Investigative Police Director Arturo Herrera as a result of his undistinguished performance in removing high-ranking officials involved in a prostitution ring. Newspapers also noted the Chamber of Deputi [...]	2009-06-22 16:20:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV OPRC PREL SNAR CI
09SANTIAGO618	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 2 [...] The prosecutor's office has made public an array of e-mails which reveal that pharmaceutical chains not only colluded amongst themselves to hike prices of medical products, but also with pharmaceutical laboratories, who suggested on their part to raise "base" prices of an array of medications. [...]	2009-07-02 21:32:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO648	CHILE: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS JUNE 6 - JULY 10 [...] SUMMARY: Chile's economy contracted for the seventh straight month by 4.4%, the Central Bank reported July 3. The Finance Minister claimed Chile's economy has stabilized, but a noted economist associated with the opposition disagreed. The unemployment rate increased for the sixth period in [...]	2009-07-13 14:21:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ECIN PGOV PREL CI
09SANTIAGO697	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JULY 23 [...] Eduardo Frei's campaign advisors want National Television Network TVN to review anchorwoman Karen Doggenweiler's contract. The anchor, "a station symbol," is married to presidential candidate Marco Enriquez Ominami and "can be influential," they argue. The station backed Doggenweiler: "Karen h [...]	2009-07-23 19:15:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO78	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - JANUARY 23 [...] Chilean dailies highlighted the detention of the former National Registry Service Director for mismanagement and embezzlement; the more than 40% rate reduction for calls to cell phones; and the violent attack of an estate in the indigenous Mapuche area in southern Chile. U.S.-Related News - [...]	2009-01-23 15:30:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO786	CHILE MEDIA REPORT - AUGUST 17 [...] After three years, President Bachelet will enact the General Education Law this week. The new law answers some of the demands of the 2006 student revolt (La Tercera, conservative, independent, 8/16) Honduras -------- 2. Chilean Foreign Minister Mariano Fernandez said that in his meeting [...]	2009-08-17 20:43:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAO PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO790	CHILEAN INVESTMENTS IN VENEZUELA UNDER FIRE [...] (C) Summary: The restrictions on Chilean companies, ability to repatriate funds from Venezuela has become a major irritant between the two countries. Blocked returns exceed $80 million, and the Chilean Congress and companies have pressed the Bachelet Administration to defend Chilean companie [...]	2009-08-19 20:20:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL CI VE
09SANTIAGO840	Sept. 8 Santiago Media Report [...] The rain caused three mudslides in the area of Farellones near Santiago. A woman died and her 2-year old remains missing (All dailies, 9/7). U.S.-Related News ------------------------ 2. Starting tomorrow, the capital of the Second Region, Calama, will be the center of the Des [...]	2009-09-08 21:29:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTIAGO843	CHILE: Indigenous Conflict Tops Domestic Political Agenda [...] (SBU) Summary: Indigenous conflict -- particularly between Mapuche and non-indigenous land owners in southern Chile -- has forced itself prominently on to President Bachelet's political agenda following the August 12 police killing of a Mapuche activist. Over the past 20 years, relations between th [...]	2009-09-10 21:36:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI CI
09SANTIAGO996	Santiago Oct. 20 Media Report [...] A protected witness revealed that the five individuals implicated in last week's attack in the Region of Araucania, where a toll booth was destroyed and several trucks were set on fire, were planning to attack trucks transporting gas and oil from Argentina (Conservative, influential [...]	2009-10-20 19:32:00	Embassy Santiago	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KMDR KPAO PGOV PREL SNAR EFIN CI
09SANTODOMINGO1266	GRUESOME MURDER OF THREE HAITIANS SPARKS [...] SUMMARY: The gruesome killing and incineration of three Haitians in the Dominican Republic, two of whom were minors, engaged in cutting down trees to make charcoal near the southwestern border town of Jimani on 10/20, has shocked both countries. The Foreign Ministry condemned the action, whi [...]	2009-10-30 14:29:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF PREL SENV DR
09SANTODOMINGO1307	CARBONIZATION OF DOMINICAN FORESTS BY HAITIANS AND [...] (U) EconOff recently traveled to the Sierra de Bahoruco National Park (SBNP) with a group of NGOs to assess the deforestation occurring in the heart of the most biologically diverse region of Hispaniola. Deforestation has devastated the Haitian side of the border for decades, and now threaten [...]	2009-11-30 14:38:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV EAGR DR HA
09SANTODOMINGO1313	Read-out on Climate Change Meeting (Dominican Republic) [...] EconOff delivered the demarche on the UGS's position on the Copenhagen Climate Change meetings on 12/2/09, to Victor Garcia, Office Director, and Carol Franco, Environmental Economist, for the National Climate Change Council. The GoDR plans to send approximately 20 delegates to Copenha [...]	2009-12-03 12:03:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KGHG DR
09SANTODOMINGO1319	Critical UNDP Report Spells Finis for Cement Factory Near [...] SUMMARY: The findings of a United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report are highly critical of the environmental impact study commissioned by the Government of the Dominican Republic (GoDR) to support the construction of a cement production facility by the Consorcio Minero Dominicano [...]	2009-12-08 15:45:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR DR

09SAOPAULO343	MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT'S JUNE 4 SPEECH IN CAIRO: A NEW [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-18 17:21:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC OIIP XM XR XF BR
09SAOPAULO602	SAO PAULO EXPERTS DETAIL CONTINUING HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Summary: Forced labor, lack of land titles, Trafficking in Persons (TIP),the pace of justice and poor prison conditions emerged as recurring themes in an extensive round of recent meetings with Sao Paulo (SP) human rights experts. While contacts cited improvements --a rise in the number [...]	2009-10-13 18:24:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL PREL BR
09SARAJEVO934	BOSNIA - HIGHREP PUTS TEMPORARY LID ON BUBBLING [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ten months after the October 2008 municipal elections, Mostar's elected officials have yet to find a resolution to the city mayor stalemate (Reftel). As a result, the Mostar City Council is unable to adopt a permanent budget and therefore pay city employees. Disgruntlement with [...]	2009-07-31 10:17:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KDEM BK
09SEOUL1006	SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; June 24, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-24 23:07:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US
09SEOUL1177	SOUTH KOREA ECONOMIC BRIEFING - JULY 2009 [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified and not/not intended for Internet distribution. ------------- In This Issue ------------- -- South Korea's GDP Ranking Falls to Fifteenth Highest -- Inflation Rate Slows to 2 Percent in June -- Producer Prices Fall in June -- Trade Surplus Re [...]	2009-07-28 00:16:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD KS
09SEOUL1282	SSANGYONG STRIKE'S END UNLIKELY TO FORESTALL [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-13 01:03:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ETRD KS
09SEOUL1402	SOUTH KOREA ECONOMIC BRIEFING - AUGUST 2009 [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified and not/not intended for Internet distribution. ------------- In This Issue ------------- -- Producer Prices Reverse Course, Rise on Monthly Basis -- July Consumer Inflation Slowed -- Household Debt Risks Expected to Rise -- FX Reserves Conti [...]	2009-09-02 02:19:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD KS
09SEOUL146	PRESS BULLETIN - January 29, 2009 [...] Clean Energy Race Could Leave Korea Behind (Chosun Ilbo, January 29, 2009, Page 27) Features 2. Secretary Clinton: "The Six-Party Talks Are Essential... We Will Also Pursue Direct Contact with North Korea" (JoongAng Ilbo, January 29, 2009, Page 17) 3. O'Connor: "Political Leaders Shou [...]	2009-01-29 08:47:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO PGOV PREL MARR ECON KS US
09SEOUL1711	SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; October 28, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-28 07:49:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US
09SEOUL1726	OPPOSITION WINS 3 OF 5 IN BY-ELECTION; BALANCE OF [...] (C) Summary: The opposition Democratic Party (DP) won three of five open National Assembly (NA) seats in an October 28 by-election, including the two swing seats in the Seoul capital region. The ruling Grand National Party (GNP) won two seats and was disappointed not to win one of the seats i [...]	2009-10-30 05:52:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KS
09SEOUL1873	SOUTH KOREA ECONOMIC BRIEFING - NOVEMBER 2009 [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified and not/not intended for Internet distribution. ------------- In This Issue ------------- -- Korea's Trade Dependency Over 90 Percent -- Foreign Currency Reserves Continue to Rise -- International Organizations Raise ROK Economic Outlook -- P [...]	2009-11-30 06:26:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD KS
09SEOUL2016	KOREA'S "AFRICA GREEN GROWTH PARTNERSHIP" RAMPS UP [...] (C) The "Africa Green Growth Partnership," launched by President Lee in November, will double ROK Official Development Assistance (ODA) to Africa by 2012. A key facet of the initiative, which is part of a broader program to expand the ROK's development assistance programming, will be the dis [...]	2009-12-30 02:17:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID EINV ETRD SENV XA KS
09SEOUL278	ROKG ANNOUNCES FOUR-YEAR "GREEN NEW DEAL" TO INVEST USD 38 [...] Summary: The South Korean government has announced that it will invest 50 trillion won (USD 38.1 billion) over the next four years on environmental infrastructure projects in a "Green New Deal." The program, comprising nine major projects and 27 secondary projects, is intended to spur slumpin [...]	2009-02-24 11:22:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ECON PGOV KS
09SEOUL353	SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; March 6, 2009 [...] The leaders of the ROK and Australia, during their March 5 summit in Canberra, adopted a nine-point joint declaration to strengthen cooperation on security issues in the region and around the globe. In a related development, Blue House Spokesman Lee Dong-kwan told reporters that the joint decla [...]	2009-03-06 06:37:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US
09SEOUL354	SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; March 6, 2009 [...] The leaders of the ROK and Australia, during their March 5 summit in Canberra, adopted a nine-point joint declaration to strengthen cooperation on security issues in the region and around the globe. In a related development, Blue House Spokesman Lee Dong-kwan told reporters that the joint decla [...]	2009-03-06 07:55:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US
09SEOUL525	SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; April 1, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-01 07:35:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US
09SEOUL633	SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; April 17, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-17 07:35:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US
09SEOUL645	SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; April 21, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-21 06:43:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US
09SEOUL694	SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; April 30, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-30 07:26:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US
09SEOUL721	Delayed ROKG Response to Ban on Trade in Live Swine [...] Econ and FAS delivered reftel demarche to the appropriate officials of the Ministries of Agriculture and Foreign Affairs and Trade officials regarding Korea's ban on the importation of live swine from the United States. 2. Mr. Kim Yong Sang at Korea's Ministry of Food, Agriculture, Forestry [...]	2009-05-07 07:06:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD ECON KS
09SEOUL729	MGSF01: PUBLIC OUTREACH AND SURVEILLANCE RESULT IN [...] Summary: South Korea has confirmed three cases of H1N1 influenza during the recent outbreaks. The first case was a nun who had recently returned from a visit to Mexico. The second case was a nun at the same convent who had close contact with the first. The third case was a woman who was o [...]	2009-05-08 07:25:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09SEOUL810	SEOUL ESTH UPDATE - APRIL 2009 [...] On April 27, the Korean government unveiled an interim plan for its four major river restoration projects, aimed at flood control, securing sufficient water supplies, upgrading river water quality, and reviving ecosystems, as well as boosting local economies through job creation to carry out t [...]	2009-05-21 05:51:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR ECON ENRG TBIO TPHY TRGY TSPA KGHG KS
09SEOUL973	SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; June 18, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-18 07:13:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US
09SEOUL982	SEOUL - PRESS BULLETIN; June 19, 2009 [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-19 05:57:00	Embassy Seoul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV MARR ECON KPAO KS US
09SHANGHAI105	(SBU) YANGTZE RIVER DELTA PROPERTY DEVELOPERS FEELING THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Prospective home buyers in the Yangtze River Delta are holding off on home purchases for now, preferring to wait on the sidelines in anticipation that home prices will continue to fall, according to a wide range of Consulate contacts Econoff spoke with in recent weeks. Banks, [...]	2009-03-04 10:28:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CH ECON EFIN PGOV
09SHANGHAI148	WORLD EXPO 2010: ENVIRONMENTAL FOCUS ON "BETTER CITY, BETTER [...] SUMMARY: Shanghai officials and event organizers are already touting the "green" focus of Expo 2010, set to open May 1, 2010 and run for six months. With the theme "Better City, Better Life," the Expo will showcase new approaches to urban development, human habitats, lifestyles, and working c [...]	2009-04-02 08:33:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV ETRD ENRG TRGY SCUL BEXP CH
09SHANGHAI190	SHANGHAI 2010 WORLD EXPO: YANGTZE RIVER DELTA CITIES HOPE [...] (SBU) A number of Yangtze River Delta (YRD) cities are looking to Shanghai's upcoming World Expo 2010 as an opportunity to advance infrastructure development and tourism promotion. A March 8 press conference about the Shanghai 2010 World Expo held during the Central Government's annual legisla [...]	2009-04-24 09:17:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV KPAO SCUL CH
09SHANGHAI209	HEFEI OFFICIALS PAINT OPTIMISTIC PICTURE OF PROGRESS IN [...] (U) Summary. As part of Consulate efforts to scale up outreach to Anhui Province, the least affluent part of our consular district, the Consul General and Pol/Econ chief visited the provincial capital of Hefei April 8-9. During the visit, the Consul General met with Governor Wang Sanyun an [...]	2009-05-07 08:20:00	Consulate Shanghai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON ELTN CVIS TPHY SENV SCUL KIPR CH
09SHENYANG31	LIFE IN CHINA'S NORTH: SNAPSHOTS FROM HARBIN TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leaders in Heilongjiang Province displayed a well-informed interest and concern about the global economic slowdown while remaining upbeat on prospects for development, particularly in the transportation and environmental areas. Sector-specific industries related to exports and Ru [...]	2009-02-27 03:18:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON ENRG ETRD KN KS PREL RS SENV
09SINGAPORE294	SINGAPORE MAKING CHANGES TO AVOID TAX HAVEN LABEL [...] This cable is classified Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Government of Singapore (GOS),concerned that being labeled as a non-cooperative tax haven would dent its ambitions to become a global financial center, announced on March 6th that [...]	2009-03-30 07:38:00	Embassy Singapore	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV SN
09SKOPJE332	MACEDONIA: DANGEROUS DRIFT? [...] (C) PM Gruevski's government continues a very mixed performance. He and his closest cronies continue to engage in highly questionable practices on government tenders and in squeezing EVN, the Austrian-owned electricity distributor. Substantial judicial reform lags, but Gruevski has directed t [...]	2009-07-10 13:50:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MK
09SKOPJE88	Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety [...] As requested reftel, Post discussed the demarche points with State Counselor for Multilateral Relations at the MFA Svetlana Geleva, Head of International Cooperation Department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Waterways Lidija Cadikovska, Head of Legal Affairs of the Veterinary Dir [...]	2009-02-25 08:40:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO MK
09SOFIA27	BULGARIA: 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The following is the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for Bulgaria: A. OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT Bulgaria has put in place a liberal foreign investment regime, including low, flat corporate and income taxes and competitive incentives to attract high levels of foreign investment. Prom [...]	2009-01-20 15:14:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR BU
09SOFIA407	BULGARIA: NEW BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PM-designate Boyko Borissov formally submitted his cabinet to President Parvanov on July 23, parliamentary approval expected on July 27. The cabinet of 16 (vice 18 in the former government),including two deputy PMs (vice 4) is a nearly even mix of GERB party members and West [...]	2009-07-24 14:48:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV BU
09SOFIA450	BULGARIA: PM FOCUSED RULE OF LAW; U.S. PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Borissov stressed the importance of U.S. support on rule of law reform in his first meeting with new Charge d,Affaires Ordway, and urged Washington to send top-level law enforcement officials to Bulgaria to help advance his reform agenda. Buoyed by very positive [...]	2009-08-14 14:49:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BU
09SOFIA476	BULGARIA SUPPORTS FASTER APPROVAL PROCESS FOR [...] (SBU) Embassy officials delivered reftel biotech points to new Bulgarian Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Miroslav Naydenov who is fully up to speed on the issue and will attend the September 7 EU Agriculture Ministers Council meeting. Naydenov told us August 21 that Bulgaria will join [...]	2009-08-24 09:14:00	Embassy Sofia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EUN TBIO BU
09SOFIA515	SCENESETTER FOR BULGARIAN DEPUTY PM'S VISIT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov will be in Washington from September 23 to 29 for rule of law discussions with senior U.S. officials and experts. Tsvetanov will be accompanied by the Justice Minister, Chief Prosecutor, head of the Anti-Organized Cri [...]	2009-09-14 15:10:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BU
09STATE10843	EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM 2009 [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION MESSAGE WITH A DEADLINE OF MARCH 6, 2009. SEE PARAGRAPHS 16-19 FOR INSTRUCTIONS. AGENCY DESCRIPTIONS ARE AT PARAGRAPHS 20-30. SUMMARY: -------- 2. (U) OVERVIEW: THE EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM (ESFP) OFFERS POSTS AN OPPORTUNITY TO REQUEST AND HOST A SCIENTIST [...]	2009-02-05 23:14:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TSPL TBIO EAGR ENRG ECON AMGT APER
09STATE117224	DEMARCHE REQUEST - POSSIBLE LIBYAN CONNECTION TO [...] (SBU) This is a demarche request. Embassy Tripoli is requested to demarche the Libyan government regarding a possible Libyan connection to light arms transfers into Guinea, drawing from the suggested talking points in para 5. BACKGROUND ---------- 2. (S) Embassy Conakry has received r [...]	2009-11-13 14:07:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM PINS AU GV
09STATE117709	WHALING: REQUEST FOR POLITICAL ENGAGEMENT [...] (C/NF) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. Post is requested to discuss with State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Tetsuro Fukuyama the potential for reaching a political agreement regarding Japan's whaling practices. Background: 2. (C) Department of Commerce Principal Deputy Undersecretar [...]	2009-11-14 00:05:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIS PREL SENV KSCA IWC JA
09STATE123722	EUROPEAN UNION DISCUSSES FIJI AND DONOR [...] Classified by EAP/ANP Director Alcy Frelick. Reasons: 1.4 (b and d) 2. (U) November 19, 2009; 8:30am - 3:30pm; Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 3. (U) Participants United States: Frankie Reed, EAP/ANP Deputy Assistant Secretary Alcy Frelick, Director EAP/ANP Stephen Schwartz, Deputy Direct [...]	2009-12-02 21:45:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL ADB XU XV
09STATE127514	AF A/S CARSON CONVERSATION WITH BLAISE COMPAORE [...] (C) Summary: On December 9, 2009 (10AM),Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Johnnie Carson called Burkinabe President and ECOWAS/AU mediator Blaise Compaore to discuss the political impasse in Guinea. During the conversation, Carson stressed the opportunity presented by Defense Minister [...]	2009-12-14 14:23:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	GV PGOV PHUM PINR PREL UV
09STATE128320	FORWARD THINKING TO NEGATE "DEFAMATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-16 03:18:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KISL KDEM PGOV OPDC
09STATE128866	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on license 050174483 for the export of one (1) International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)-controlled Bell UH-1H [...]	2009-12-17 13:37:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC SF
09STATE132604	PREPARING FOR ADDITIONAL SOMALI REFUGEE FLOWS [...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: In view of likely significant refugee outflows from Somalia to neighboring countries in the Horn of Africa in early 2010, addressees are requested to urgently provide their best advice on how the USG can work with host governments, including in consultation with other rel [...]	2009-12-31 21:14:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL DJ ET EU KE SO YM
09STATE18520	EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE, [...] This is an action cable (please see para 10.) 2. Summary: The Bureau of Oceans, Environment and Science (OES),in cooperation with the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (EAP),Embassy Jakarta, and the Regional Environmental Offices (REO) in Bangkok and Suva, announces its biennial co [...]	2009-02-27 15:40:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR EAID EFIS ENRG KGCC KSCA TBIO TPHY TSPL XB
09STATE19794	DEMARCHE REQUEST: MAFF STORAGE OF IMPORTED RICE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (U) BACKGROUND: The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) publicly released findings of its December 2008 and January 2009 inspection of imported rice that is kept in long-term government storage. The inspections resu [...]	2009-03-03 22:45:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD PREL JA
09STATE206	DEPARTMENT CLEARANCE FOR CHINA LEAHY VETTING REQUEST - ILEA [...] (SBU) The Department of State reviewed its files and finds that, as of this date, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights for the individual from the State Forestry Administration, Department of Forest Police listed below. This individual is a candidate to att [...]	2009-01-02 18:47:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM PTER PREL MARR SNAR HK CH TH
09STATE254	OES BUREAU COMMENTS ON ACCRA REO FY 2009 WORKPLAN [...] Summary: The Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) thanks Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO),Geoffrey Hunt, and program assistant for the REO, Patience Charway, for their participation in the recent digital video conferen [...]	2009-01-02 20:04:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO EFIS TSPA XA XY ZF GH
09STATE26022	SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR INFO ON GREEN INVESTMENTS IN [...] Summary. This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph five. Department requests information on green investments in the economic stimulus packages of major economies, in order to aid Washington,s efforts to develop a sense of comparative as well as aggregate efforts among the G-20. End Su [...]	2009-03-18 19:08:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ENRG SENV KGHG
09STATE528	OES BUREAU COMMENTS ON GABORONE REO FY 2009 [...] Summary: The Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) thanks Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO),Anthony Woods, Ambassador Stephen Nolan, Deputy Chief of Mission, Phillip Drouin, USAID Natural Resource Manager, Chris Schaan, [...]	2009-01-05 16:09:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO EAID ZU BC
09STATE529	OES BUREAU COMMENTS ON ADDIS ABABA REO FY 2009 [...] Summary: The Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) thanks Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO),Kirsten Bauman, Refugee and Environmental Assistant, Shawna Hirsch, and Regional Environmental Specialist, Moges Worku, for thei [...]	2009-01-05 16:10:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TBIO EFIS XA XW ET
09STATE56782	INSTRUCTIONS ON RESPONSE TO UN REGARDING [...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 2-3. 2. USUN is requested to deliver the U.S. response in paragraph 3 to the UN regarding its views on a "possible high-level event on sustainable development" under cover of a Diplomatic Note. This response was requested in a note verbale from th [...]	2009-06-02 23:18:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA SENV AORC
09STATE60500	BRAZIL -- 2009 TIP REPORT: PRESS GUIDANCE AND [...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...]	2009-06-11 21:06:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG BR
09STATE60544	CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC -- 2009 TIP REPORT: [...] This is an action cable; see paras 5 through 7 and 10. 2. On June 16, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. EDT, the Secretary will release the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at a press conference in the Department's press briefing room. This release will receive substantial coverage in domestic an [...]	2009-06-11 22:35:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG CT
09STATE60588	SECRETARY CLINTON'S JUNE 9, 2009 CONVERSATION [...] (SBU) June 8, 2009; 3:00 p.m.; Washington, D.C. 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Scot Marciel, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Ian Kelly, PA Spokesman Jake Sullivan, Senior Advisor Debra Benavidez, EAP/MTS (Notetaker) INDONESIA Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda Bunyan Sapt [...]	2009-06-11 23:35:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP CLINTON HILLARY PGOV PREL ECON ID
09STATE62420	RETURNS OF RWANDAN AND BURUNDI REFUGEES IN THE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Paragraphs 4-6. -------- ISSUE -------- 2. (C ) Issue: Department is concerned that in the current process of returning and reintegrating Burundi and Rwandan refugees in the Great Lakes, international refugee principles of access to an asylum [...]	2009-06-17 00:25:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF RW BY UG
09STATE65114	UNSC CONSULTATIONS: LIBERIA AND COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (U) USUN may draw on the points in paragraph 3 for the June 25 Security Council consultations. We understand that U/SYG LeRoy will brief on his recent visits to both Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire, so have included points on both countries. 2. (U) The Secretary-General's June 10 report on Liber [...]	2009-06-23 19:37:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPKO LI
09STATE66632	CONTACT GROUP FOR PIRACY OFF THE COAST OF [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 7. ----------------- OBJECTIVE ----------------- 2. Post,s objective is to gain agreement by current CGPCS participants on the participation of aspirant countries Canada, Cyprus, Liberia, Malaysia, Panama, and Singapore, and potentially other [...]	2009-06-26 19:26:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL
09STATE66681	EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT, [...] SUMMARY: The Department convened a regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Officers Conference (ESTHOC) on April 15 - 17 for officers and foreign service nationals (FSNs) covering ESTH issues at posts in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. The Bureau of Oceans, Envir [...]	2009-06-26 21:26:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV XB XC XE XU ID
09STATE6843	KUDOS FOR ABUJA [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-26 19:31:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR TBIO SOCI NI
09STATE78981	CITES SCIENTIFIC AUTHORITY CAPACITY BUILDING [...] This is an action request: see para 5. 2. SUMMARY: The DOI International Technical Assistance Program (DOI-ITAP) will be conducting a four-day workshop to build capacity within Scientific Authorities for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Flora and Fauna (CITES [...]	2009-07-29 15:10:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD SENV XF
09STATE80163	(S) REPORTING AND COLLECTION NEEDS: THE UNITED [...] (S/NF) This cable provides the full text of the new National HUMINT Collection Directive (NHCD) on the United Nations (paragraph 3-end) as well as a request for continued DOS reporting of biographic information relating to the United Nations (paragraph 2). A. (S/NF) The NHCD below supercedes the [...]	2009-07-31 20:24:00	Secretary of State	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR KSPR ECON KPKO KUNR
09STATE82013	NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) BILATERALS [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Susan Burk, Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation met with key Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) interlocutors in London, Paris, and Berlin from July 14 ) 17. The meetings demonstrated that we have very few differences with these government [...]	2009-08-06 18:19:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC CDG ENRG FR KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UK UNGA
09STATE85758	ACTION REQUEST: MOVING BEYOND MEMBERSHIP IN THE [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 6. ----------------- OBJECTIVE ----------------- 2. Post,s objective is to inform participants in the Contact Group for Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) of USG views and intentions articulated in paragraph 6 with regard to expanding par [...]	2009-08-18 13:13:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SO
09STATE94942	IAEA: GUIDANCE FOR USDEL TO 2009 IAEA GENERAL [...] Summary. The Department appreciates the Mission's analysis and recommendations for the September General Conference (GC) meeting (refs A and B). Instructions for USDEL for the GC are provided in paragraphs 2-27 below and follow the provisional agenda in document GOV/2009/19. U.S. position [...]	2009-09-11 23:38:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	IAEA KNNP TRGY AORC ENRG PTER KN XP
09STOCKHOLM201	A VISIT TO SWEDEN'S BIOREFINERY COAST [...] Summary: During a March 10-11 trip to three cities on the north east coast, embassy staff visited the heart of a traditional export industry - paper and pulp - in the process of redefining itself. These large paper and pulp mills are developing biofuels from previous waste by-products: ethano [...]	2009-03-24 10:10:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG SENV KGHG PGOV EAID SW
09STOCKHOLM418	EUR A/S GORDON'S JULY 3 MEETINGS WITH THE EU [...] (U) Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Phil Gordon met with the 27 EU Member State Political Directors in Stockholm July 3. He then met with the EU Political Directors "troika," comprising Swedish PolDir Bjorn Lyrvall, EU Council Secretariat DG Robert Cooper, EU External Re [...]	2009-07-09 16:15:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PGOV IR RS SW
09STOCKHOLM609	DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT IN SWEDEN [...] Summary: Diaspora communities are vibrant and visible in Swedish life. Many of these groups arrived because of war and conflict at home. Some of the largest diaspora groups in Sweden include Iraqis (110,000),Iranians (80,000). Kurds (60,000) and Somalis (25,000). In-country outreach to imm [...]	2009-09-25 12:41:00	Embassy Stockholm	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL BEXP BITO EAID OEXC OIIP PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM732	STOCKHOLM: RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF [...] (U) The information in this message is keyed to questions posed in reftel. 2. (C) Has Sweden worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? -- The official position of the Swedish MFA is that to "support democratic forces" and to contribute to "positive changes [...]	2009-11-23 12:05:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL PGOV CU SW
09STPETERSBURG30	KARELIA: STRIVING FOR ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL STABILITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Worsening economic conditions and the uncertain prospects of recovery dominated the Consul General's meetings in Petrozavodsk. Local officials and business people are skeptical that the regional administration can solve the problems of the export-oriented Karelian economy, and [...]	2009-03-19 08:30:00	Consulate St Petersburg	UNCLASSIFIED	RS PGOV ECON
09STPETERSBURG32	PSKOV OBLAST - VERTICAL OF POWER WITHOUT APOLOGY [...] (SBU) Summary. Pskov Oblast and City has a new political hierarchy with strong Kremlin ties -political and financial. The opposition sees these personnel moves as an effort to consolidate Muscovite control over the region. Local authorities say the oblast's and city's economies have not suff [...]	2009-03-24 10:29:00	Consulate St Petersburg	UNCLASSIFIED	RS PGOV PREL ECON EN LG
09SURABAYA27	SURABAYA RIVER POLLUTION LEADS ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Summary: Surabaya City faces immense challenges to its water supply: pollution, seawater intrusion, and dwindling ground water. The Surabaya River, which provides 90% of the city's tap water, is being overwhelmed with industrial waste. Enforcement of environmental regulations has been i [...]	2009-03-19 04:56:00	Consulate Surabaya	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID ECON PGOV ID
09SURABAYA43	NEWMONT'S FUTURE IN SUMBAWA [...] (SBU) Summary. ConGenOff visited western Sumbawa from April 21-24, meeting with Newmont representatives as well as government officials and non-governmental organizations (NGO). The General Manager of Newmont Nusa Tenggara (PTNNT) said the recent arbitration ruling offers clarity in regard to [...]	2009-04-30 14:42:00	Consulate Surabaya	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EMIN EFIN ETRD EINV PREL SENV SOCI ID
09SUVA253	FIJI'S REGIME MIGHT REVEAL ITS ELECTIONS ROADMAP IN TWO [...] (U) Fiji strongman Frank Bainimarama announced June 14 that his military-led regime plans to reveal a national roadmap to elections that will replace the defunct President's Political Dialogue Forum (PPDF) process. Bainimarama said that the roadmap will be announced in a "couple of weeks." H [...]	2009-06-16 04:50:00	Embassy Suva	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL FJ KDEM
09SUVA26	Fiji Investment Climate Statement 2009 [...] Paragraph 2 contains the text of the 2009 Investment Climate Statement for Fiji, per reftel. 2. Begin text: Openness to Foreign Investment In light of political events in Fiji and concerns about the treatment of some established foreign investors by Fiji authorities, potential investors [...]	2009-01-22 05:07:00	Embassy Suva	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV KTBD OPIC USTR FJ
09SUVA330	12th Pacific Roundtable for Nature Conservation Meets in [...] Summary: The Pacific Roundtable on Nature Conservation held its 12th annual Meeting in Honiara, Solomon Islands from June 27 to July 3. The meeting focused on improving roundtable support to countries in implementing their national nature conservation strategies. It adopted a monitoring framew [...]	2009-08-11 00:33:00	Embassy Suva	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID BP XV
09TAIPEI73	Taiwan Biotech: 2009 Outreach Proposals [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 6, 7, and 12. Background ---------- 2. (SBU) Taiwan is the U.S.'s sixth-largest agricultural export market. In 2007, the United States exported more than USD 3.2 billion of agricultural, fish and forest products to Taiwan, half of which was [...]	2009-01-20 09:16:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD KPAO OEXC OIIP SENV TBIO TW
09TALLINN237	AFHGAN ILLEGAL MIGRATION CORRIDOR THROUGH ESTONIA [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-06 09:16:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CVIS SMIG PHUM PREF KFRD KCRM EN
09TASHKENT1496	UZBEKISTAN PREPARES FOR DECEMBER PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan slated for December 2009 are likely to result in minimal changes to the overall structure of decision-making in the country; however, what may define the development of governmen [...]	2009-08-17 06:15:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM UZ
09TASHKENT1548	UZBEKISTAN PREPARES FOR DECEMBER PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for public internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The parliamentary elections in Uzbekistan slated for December 2009 are likely to result in minimal changes to the overall structure of decision-making in the country; however, what may define the development of governme [...]	2009-08-25 12:19:00	Embassy Tashkent	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID KDEM UZ
09TASHKENT715	ACTIVIST SHARES VIEWS ON TRENDS IN UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) Summary: On May 7, the Ambassador met with Bukhara-based human rights activist Shukhrat Ganiev, who argued that the recent government crackdown on independent groups over the past few months was largely driven by worries over presidential succession and the upcoming December 2009 Parliament [...]	2009-05-12 11:58:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL UZ
09TBILISI132	GEORGIA: POLITICIANS HIT THE AIRWAVES [...] (C) Summary/Comment: In a televised first, President Saakashvili answered four hours of call-in questioning from the general public on January 23. Opposition figures called the session a "Putin-like" stunt. In our view, the event actually resembled more of a "town-hall" political event and [...]	2009-01-26 14:52:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL GG
09TBILISI17	GEORGIA'S ENVIRONMENT MINISTER PLANS REFORMS [...] (SBU) Begin summary. During a December 23 meeting with the Ambassador, new Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, Giorgi Khachidze, was upbeat and energized about his plans for reforms, including the finalization of a strategic environmental plan for the country. He desc [...]	2009-01-06 13:46:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SENV SCUL BEXP AID GG
09TBILISI24	GEORGIA: RUMORS, MANEUVERING, AND ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary/Comment: Well informed International Republican Institute Country Director, Dimitry Shashkin (strictly protect) has passed on several far fetched but widely circulated rumors in Tbilisi alleging a US or EU engineered plot to oust President Saakashvili in the spring. While the lik [...]	2009-01-06 14:50:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL GG
09TBILISI951	GEORGIA: SHOOT OUT WITH AT-LARGE MUTINY SUSPECTS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-21 13:38:00	Embassy Tbilisi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RU GG
09TEGUCIGALPA1192	TFH01: NATIONAL PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PEPE [...] (C) Summary. National Party candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo is the presidential candidate who, two weeks away from election day, polls suggest is on track to win the election scheduled for November 29. Lobo's pledge to Hondurans is that he will improve families' finances, generate employment [...]	2009-11-20 16:41:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM HO
09TEGUCIGALPA127	AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON NEWLY APPOINTED [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with newly appointed Defense Minister Edmundo Orellana on February 12, and discussed their mutual concern over the ungoverned spaces in the Mosquitia, Honduras' cooperation with Nicaragua, arms destruction, the Honduran Armed Forces' (HOAF) involvement in inter [...]	2009-02-27 16:37:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PGOV HO
09TEGUCIGALPA353	Mission Integrated Strategy to Fight Crime and Illicit [...] Summary and Background: The Mosquitia is a huge swath of territory accounting for nearly 20 percent of Honduras' land mass on the eastern border with Nicaragua. The area is swampy, undeveloped, difficult to access and virtually uninhabited (only 60,000 people),which over the centuries has mad [...]	2009-05-15 00:11:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SNAR PREL SOCI KCRM KJUS EAID MOPS MARR HO
09TEGUCIGALPA355	NATIONAL PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PEPE LOBO'S [...] (C) National Party (NP) Presidential candidate Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo travels to Washington at a delicate moment in Honduras. Democracy has been successful in Honduras over the past 28 years, but the system remains institutionally weak and fragile. Although we maintain a strong working relatio [...]	2009-05-15 00:17:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM SMIG EFIN HO
09TEGUCIGALPA39	HONDURAS: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] SUMMARY: This report is a response to the U.S. Department of Labor action cable (Reftel) regarding the worst forms of child labor in Honduras. The Government of Honduras (GOH) has made clear progress addressing the worst forms of child labor with a new more effective eradication plan, a nation [...]	2009-01-20 19:08:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EIND ELAB ETRD PGOV PHUM SOCI HO
09TEGUCIGALPA741	TFH01: STATUS OF USG ASSISTANCE TO HONDURAS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following the events of June 28 the United States Government has halted communications with high-level GOH officials and has been steadily suspending programs with the GOH in compliance with USG policy guidance. The following is a summary of the current status of actions taken b [...]	2009-08-13 18:58:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EAID EAGR ETRD MASS OEXC PGOV PREL SCUL
09TEGUCIGALPA866	THF01: ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN BEGINS [...] (U) Summary. The official campaign period for the November 29 election began on August 31. While most attention will focus on the presidential candidates (plus three presidential designees),128 congressional representatives and 298 mayors will also be elected. The Supreme Electoral Tribuna [...]	2009-09-01 23:30:00	Embassy Tegucigalpa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM
09TELAVIV138	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast Summary: -------- Veteran journalist Eitan Haber wrote on page one of the mass-circulation, pluralist Yediot Aharonot: "[And] we,in our little corner, in the Middle East, in Israel, are tensely waiting to see whether you will continue the tradition of American presidents of the pas [...]	2009-01-20 12:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1398	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-30 10:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1832	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-18 09:44:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
09TELAVIV1841	ISRAEL MEDIA REACTION [...] Mideast 2. U.S.-Israel Relations ------------------------- Key stories in the media: ------------------------- The Jerusalem Post quoted a senior Israeli diplomatic source as saying yesterday that U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell is well aware that the Netanyahu government has [...]	2009-08-19 10:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR IS
09THESSALONIKI24	THESSALONIKI: GREECE IMPLEMENTING PROMISED MEASURES FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Greek Government continues to implement several measures it announced in February 2007 (Ref A) aimed at addressing concerns of the Turkophone Muslim minority in Thrace, northeastern Greece. While the GoG has made progress in hiring imams and cancelling taxes on Musli [...]	2009-04-27 10:16:00	Consulate Thessaloniki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV SOCI GR TU
09THESSALONIKI9	NORTHERN NOTES - FEBRUARY 2009 [...] (SBU) In Komotini, a Muslim woman challenged successfully a decision by the local mufti to give custody of two of her four children to her husband, reportedly an alcoholic suffering from psychological problems. On February 18, the Greek first instance Court of Rhodopi gave the woman custody [...]	2009-03-05 15:35:00	Consulate Thessaloniki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ODIP OPRC PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG SOCI GR TU
09TOKYO1008	MGSF01 APRIL 30 UPDATE ON JAPAN'S RESPONSE TO H1N1 OUTBREAK [...] (SBU) Summary: No human cases of swine flu have been reported in Japan. The Health Minister said Japan remains at pandemic alert level one and will increase the number of "fever clinics" within hospitals, bolster antiviral stocks, and accelerate vaccine production. The Health Ministry instru [...]	2009-04-30 08:20:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU AEMR AESC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR

09TOKYO1177	JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 05/26/09 [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-26 00:45:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA

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