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06MINSK108	Minsk Election Weekly VII (January 28-February 3) [...] This is the seventh in a weekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19, 2006 presidential elections. ----------------- Signature Results ----------------- 2. After a month of signature collection, the CEC announced the following [...]	2006-02-03 09:14:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BO

06MINSK1084	NEW EU INTEREST IN VISA BANS ON STATE MEDIA [...] (C) Embassy Minsk recommends that the Department renew its efforts to persuade European allies to expand the current EU visa ban against top officials of the Lukashenko regime to include twelve state media executives and journalists, who are responsible for some of the most egregious propaganda [...]	2006-10-05 09:55:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1099	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - OCTOBER 06, [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS ELECTIONS --------- - Milinkevich as Campaign Aide for Local Candidates (para. 2) CIVIL SOCIETY ------------- - Opposition Activist Jailed for 2005 Bombings in Vitebsk (para. 3) - Opposition, [...]	2006-10-06 12:20:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON KTDB KHIV BO
06MINSK11	Minsk Election Weekly III (December 31 - January 6) [...] This is the third in a weekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19, 2006 presidential elections. ------------- The Campaigns ------------- 2. Expelled BSU Students Not For Kozulin Independent online news source Charter 97 post [...]	2006-01-05 14:06:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1109	AMBASSADOR REINFORCES UNITY MESSAGE TO OPPOSITION [...] (C) On October 11, Ambassador met with three senior leaders of the United Democratic Forces (UDF) opposition coalition: Belarusian Party of Communists leader Sergey Kalyakin, United Civic Party leader Anatoliy Lebedko, and Belarusian Popular Front Vintsuk Vyachorka. UDF leader Aleksandr Mil [...]	2006-10-13 14:21:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1116	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - OCTOBER 16, [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS ELECTIONS --------- - Opposition Parties Agree on Campaign Cooperation (para. 2) - Authorities Approves Election Deadlines, Restrict Media (para. 3) CIVIL SOCIETY ------------- - Lower Chamber [...]	2006-10-17 03:14:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON KTDB EPET BO
06MINSK1117	INDEPENDENT POLLING: MILINKEVICH SUPPORT RATINGS DECLINE [...] Summary: Independent Belarusian pollster Manaev September 25 gave Poloff results of his fifth post election survey conducted in August. Opposition coalition presidential candidate Milinkevich's support rating dropped 8.8 points since March to 11.6%, whereas President Lukashenko's support rati [...]	2006-10-17 04:57:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO
06MINSK1123	"16" NOT SO SWEET: DAYS OF SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN [...] (C) September 16, 2006 marked the first anniversary of the "Days of Solidarity" opposition campaign in Belarus. Planned as a series of monthly candle-lighting ceremonies on the 16th of each month honoring the memories of disappeared opponents of the Lukashenko regime, the campaign evolved into [...]	2006-10-18 11:44:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1141	MILINKEVICH PROMOTES HIS OWN MOVEMENT IN MEETING [...] (C) On October 20, Ambassador met with opposition coalition leader Milinkevich to discuss the status of the United Democratic Forces (UDF). Milinkevich stressed that the coalition was generally united despite internal disagreements on strategy, a second coalition congress, and UDF leadership. [...]	2006-10-24 13:13:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1142	HOSIERY, HYPERMARKETS AND HOT RODS; ECONOMIC [...] (C) The first-time visitor to Minsk will quickly notice pockets of conspicuous consumption belying tour book descriptions of Belarus as a museum of all things Soviet. On the road from the airport one will pass new multi-story dachas, a Porsche dealership and a billboard advertising designer l [...]	2006-10-24 13:16:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV BO
06MINSK1143	PROTESTANTS PREPARED TO "FIGHT UNTIL THE END" TO [...] (SBU) On October 21, approximately 600 people gathered in Minsk to protest the GOB's confiscation of the New Life Church's (NLC) property. Amidst heavy security presence, NLC Senior Pastor Vyacheslav Goncharenko called on the people to defend their right to freedom of religion. On October 17 [...]	2006-10-24 14:10:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KIRF BO
06MINSK1149	LOCAL ELECTION PROCESS DOES NOT LOOK PROMISING FOR [...] (SBU) The Belarusian Central Election Committee (CEC) approved a calendar of the process for the January 14, 2007 local council elections, listing the dates territorial election commissions are to be formed, the time period for nominees to gather signatures( and the date marking the beginning [...]	2006-10-27 05:20:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK1157	COALITION LEADERS SETTLE ON HOLDING SECOND [...] (C) The United Democratic Forces (UDF) Political Council recently agreed to convene a second congress of democratic forces on March 25, 2007. The dec)sion was included in th% Political CounciX's approved "Agreement on the UDF Political Campaign" that also called for the creation of a Political [...]	2006-10-31 05:31:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK1159	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - OCTOBER 31, [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS CIVIL SOCIETY ------------- - Milinkevich Wins European Parliament's Sakharov Award (para. 2) - Skrebets Will Be Released in November (para. 3) - Activist Arrested Near Presidential Administration ( [...]	2006-10-31 10:15:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON KTDB EPET BO
06MINSK1164	SATISFYING THE MARKET IN A STATE-DOMINATED ECONOMY [...] (C) Profitable Belarusian businesses, even if they are completely privately owned, must respond in large part to the dictates of the state. This is especially true when private companies try to compete in the same markets with state-owned enterprises. The complex business environment, which e [...]	2006-11-01 09:47:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV BO
06MINSK1174	U.S.-EU AMBASSADORQ SHOW SUPPORT FOR CHURCH UNDER [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and EU Heads of Mission recently visited the embattled New Life Church (NLC) to show their support for religious freedom in Belarus. The NLC ended its 23-day hunger strike on October 29 after the Supreme Economic Court agreed to review the church's appeal of the forced [...]	2006-11-03 14:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM KIRF BO
06MINSK1184	LUKASHENKO AND RUSSIA: A TALE OF UNREQUITED LOVE? [...] (C) Lukashenko and Putin likely will achieve little during a possible November 10 meeting in Moscow. Both countries continue to play hardball with one another in energy negotiations, which are expected to drag on until the end of the year. Belarus will eventually have to settle for increased [...]	2006-11-09 12:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV BO
06MINSK1187	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - NOVEMBER 9, [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. This edition includes events thru the November 6- 7 Revolution Day holiday. The next edition will cover items thru November 17. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - U.S. and EU Ambassa [...]	2006-11-09 13:51:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON KTDB EPET BO
06MINSK1188	BELARUS NOT DOING WHAT IS NEEDED TO PREVENT GSP [...] (C) On October 12, the European Commission (EC) postponed its decision to suspend the General System of Preferences (GSP) for Belarus, giving Belarus more time to implement the International Labor Organization's (ILO) 12 recommendations to improve labor rights (ref A). According to some estim [...]	2006-11-13 09:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV ECON PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK1212	BELARUSIAN ECONOMIC FUTURE IN DOUBT [...] (C) Belarus' current trend of robust GDP growth faces numerous challenges. The so-called economic miracle rests largely on Russian subsidies, with the government failing to harness the windfall to prepare for its seemingly inevitable end. Russia's preparations to join the WTO threatEn toQ ha [...]	2006-11-24 06:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV BO
06MINSK1220	MINSK FORUM: BITING THE HAND THAT PATS YOUR BACK? [...] (C) November 9-11 witnessed the Minsk Fgrum, an annual German-sponsored conference designed to be a platform for open dialogue. The GOB's denial of visas to at least eight would-be attendees overshadowed the substance of the conference. The row highlights the hazards of attempting even seemi [...]	2006-11-24 14:31:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK1225	INDEPENDENT POLLING REPORTS INCREASE IN INDEPENDENT RADIO [...] Independent Belarusian pollster Manaev November 21 gave Ambassador the results of his sixth and final post election survey. According to his results, both the amount of Belarusians who listen to foreign radio broadcasts and who use the internet continue to increase. Support ratings decreased s [...]	2006-11-29 11:25:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO
06MINSK1226	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - NOVEMBER 24, [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS LUKASHENKO PRESS CONFERENCE --------------------------- - Lukashenko Admits GOB Falsified Presidential Vote (para. 2) - Lukashenko Explains Reasons for "Last Dictator" (para. 3) INTERNATIONAL RELA [...]	2006-11-29 11:47:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK1231	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR IN MINSK: GAS PRICE TO INCREASE [...] (C) During an introductory courtesy call, Ambassador was told by her Russian counterpart that the price of natural gas will be going up "right away" and that the Belarusian opposition was still in early stages of development. Russian Ambassador Surikov also noted that efforts continue behind [...]	2006-11-30 13:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EPET PINR BO RS
06MINSK1234	LUKASHENKO'S NEW FOREIGN POLICY: A METHOD TO THE [...] (C) Belarus' rocky relationship with Russia has forced the isolated country to pursue a different course in its foreign policy. The GOB has ratcheted up its efforts to strengthen ties with countries like Iran, Venezuela, Azerbaijan, and China over the past year. Belarus is attempting to div [...]	2006-12-01 14:03:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON CH VE AJ IR BO
06MINSK1235	LUKASHENKO ADMITS RIGGING ELECTIONS [...] (C) President Lukashenko admitted during a press conference with Ukrainian journalists in Minsk that he rigged the March 2006 presidential electionq. Lukashenko claimed that the GOB deliberately understated the official vote tally to satisfy European Q 9QI9M9 The dictator also criticized Ru [...]	2006-12-01 14:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK1244	LUKASHENKO FOCUSES ON ENERGY SECURITY DURING CIS [...] (SBU) On November 28, Minsk hosted the CIS Heads of State summit. Although the agenda called for discussions on CIS reform and other issues, few agreements were reached. Lukashenko used the summit to negotiate with Russian President Putin on gas prices and the fate of Belarus' pipeline Beltra [...]	2006-12-05 12:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK1245	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - December 4, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS CIVIL SOCIETY ------------- - Milinkevich Meets Bush, Faces Two Months in Jail (para. 2) - Union of Left-wing Parties Favors Election Boycott (para. 3) - Youth Activists Attempt to Demonstrate Durin [...]	2006-12-05 13:01:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK1272	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - December 8, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS ELECTIONS --------- - Nomination Stage in Local Elections Over (para. 2) - Ten Members of BPC Withdraw From Local Elections (para. 3) CIVIL SOCIETY ------------- - Milinkevich Urges G8 Leaders [...]	2006-12-12 13:47:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK1283	LUKASHENKO, UNDER RUSSIAN PRESSURE, TRIES TO SHORE [...] (C) News Russia would begin charging full export duties on oil shipments to Belarus effective January 1 caught Lukashenko off guard, necessitating a hastily planned December 15 visit to Moscow. Although the GOB has downplayed the significance of the decision, the imposition of 100 percent of [...]	2006-12-15 14:03:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EPET BO RS
06MINSK1290	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - DECEMBER 15, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - Lukashenko, Putin Meet in Moscow (para. 2) - Sudanese Foreign Minister to Visit (para. 3) - Chinese Military Delegation Arrives in Minsk (para. 4) [...]	2006-12-19 05:30:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK1299	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - DECEMBER 22, 2006 [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-22 07:17:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK1307	COURT UPHOLDS FIRING OF ELECTION MONITORING [...] (C) A Minsk court recently upheld a university's decision to fire a professor who had served as an independent election observer during Belarus' fraudulent March 2006 presidential elections. The university's case against reinstatement rested upon hearsay witnesses and threats of criminal inv [...]	2006-12-27 13:00:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK131	40 DAYS TO ELECTION DAY: PROSPECTS FOR DEMOCRATIC [...] (C) Summary: With presidential elections only a month and a half away, the campaign "process" is well underway, but more in form than substance. Incumbent President Lukashenko, 10 Coalition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich, former Belarusian State University rector Anatoly Kozulin, and pro-L [...]	2006-02-08 09:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK1314	GOT CAS? THE COLD WAR BETWEEJ BELARUS AND GAZPROM [...] (C) NEGOTIATIONS IN MOSCOW OVER GAS PRICES AND A RUSSIAN STAKE IN BELTRANSGAZ CONTINUE DOWN TO THE WIRE, WITH BOTH SIDES RATCHETING UP THE RHETORIC. GHILE THE EXACT TERMR AND TIMING OF A FINAL DEAL REMAIN UNCERTAIN, IT APPEARS *-QM!Q9-=WILL FINALLY CONC%DE A STAKE IN @ELTRANSG!Z IN RETURN DOR [...]	2006-12-29 11:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PGOV PREL BO RS
06MINSK1315	MINSK EAC DISCUSSES POSSIBLE INTERRUPTION IN [...] (SBU) Charge convened post's Emergency Action Committee December 28. In attendance were A/DCM, A/POL/ECON chief, RSO, CONS, GSO, IMO, ITO, A/DCM, CLO, MSG DET Commander, USAID and A/PAO. 2. (SBU) The EAC met to discuss the continuing dispute and negotiations between Gazprom and the Gover [...]	2006-12-29 11:15:00	Embassy Minsk	SECRET	ASEC CASC AMGT ENRG BO
06MINSK1317	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - DECEMBER 29, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT ---------------------------------- - Russian Bank Acquires Belvneshekonombank (para. 2) ELECTIONS --------- - Lebedko Denied Permission to Meet With Voters (p [...]	2006-12-29 13:25:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK147	Analyzing Belarusian Trade [...] (SBU) Summary: Trade figures for the first nine months of 2005 show a strong increase in Belarusian imports and exports, leading to a shrinking trade deficit. Russia remained by far Belarus' largest trading partner, accounting for 48% of trade. However, trade with Russia fell in both relative [...]	2006-02-13 09:29:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO
06MINSK149	EMBASSY MINSK BIWEEKLY REPORT - February 10, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------ Human Rights ------------ 2. Officer Punished For Illegal Seizure On February 9, the district prosecutor in Svetlagorsk disciplined a police officer for illegally seizing equipment and print material f [...]	2006-02-13 11:00:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK154	Minsk Election Weekly VIII (February 3-February 10) [...] This is the eighth in a weekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19, 2006 presidential elections. --------------------------- Signatures and Registration --------------------------- 2. Grodno Commissions Reject Milinkevich's Sig [...]	2006-02-14 08:23:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK17	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - January 5, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------ Human Rights ------------ 2. Independant Pollster Warned for Illegal Polling On December 30, the Prosecutor General's office issued a warning to head of the Independent Institute of Social, Economic an [...]	2006-01-10 09:17:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK173	STATE MEDIA VILIFIES AMERICA, OFTEN [...] (C) Summary: In recent months Belarusian state media has become increasingly venomous in its daily attacks against the U.S. and the West. Common themes include charges of espionage, of Western attempts to destabilize the country, and of attempts to overthrow the government in a forced "color" [...]	2006-02-16 14:45:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK174	BELARUS AND THE ELECTIONS ACCORDING TO 2001 [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador recently met with former trade union leader and 2001 &single8 opposition presidential candidate Vladimir Goncharik to discuss the current political and economic environment in Belarus. Goncharik noted Belarus, worsening political and economic situation and Belarusians, [...]	2006-02-16 14:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK178	Minsk Election Weekly IX (February 11 - February 17) [...] This is the ninth in a weekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19, 2006 presidential elections. Post will report on the February 17 registration of candidates process in septel. --------------------- Campaign Preparations --------- [...]	2006-02-17 15:10:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK192	BKGB ARRESTS ELECTION OBSERVERS [...] (C) On February 21, BKGB officers arrested four pro-democracy activists, Partnership leaders Nikolay Astreyka and Enira Bronitskaya, NDI employee Aleksandr Shalaika (strictly protect),and Timofei Dranchuk, aide to imprisoned opposition member Andrei Klimov. They arrested the first, Dranchuk, [...]	2006-02-22 15:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK195	Belarus Special 301 Review [...] Summary and recommendation: Post once again recommends placement of Belarus on the watch list for 2006. Little has changed since Post's 2005 Special 301 input (ref B). Pirated optical media remains the norm, being readily available across the country, including in state-owned stores, and enfo [...]	2006-02-23 05:50:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD ECON BO
06MINSK200	Minsk Election Weekly X (February 18 - February 24) [...] This is the tenth in a weekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19, 2006 presidential elections. ----------------------- Candidates Get Air Time ----------------------- 2. As per the law, state television and radio scheduled ai [...]	2006-02-24 07:13:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK208	EMBASSY MINSK BIWEEKLY REPORT - February 24, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------ Human Rights ------------ 2. Jailed Businessman Now a Fugitive On February 9, businessman Nikolai Avtukhovich who is facing tax evasion charges disappeared from house arrest in Grodno on the first day [...]	2006-02-27 14:40:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK222	DAS KRAMER V. MFA, ROUND II [...] (C) Summary: Visiting EUR DAS Kramer met on February 23 with MFA America's Desk head Maksim Ryzhenkov. The MFA at the last minute cancelled a higher-level meeting because Kramer refused to allow the GOB to control his schedule. The meeting itself was cordial, despite the repeated accusations [...]	2006-03-02 12:39:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK225	ELECTION OFFICIAL TELLS EUR DAS KRAEER ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-02 13:08:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PRED
06MINSK232	EUR DAS KRAMER MEETS ANALYSTS, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) Summary: Visiting EUR DAS David Kramer met with political analysts, civil society leaders, and students on February 24 to discuss the upcoming presidential elections and the accompanying GOB harassment. Analysts noted Russia,s change in policy from previous campaigns to support President [...]	2006-03-07 09:26:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK234	DAS KRAMER DISCUSSES ELECTIONS WITH MILINKEVICH [...] (C) Summary: On February 24, EUR DAS David Kramer met with deputy campaign managers of the single opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich's campaign team Victor Korneyenko and Aleksandr Dobrovolsky. Korneyenko confirmed Milinkevich's plan to hold a rally on March 2, the same day as Presid [...]	2006-03-07 15:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK25	Latest Polling: Milinkevich Creeps Ahead in Polls, But Not [...] Summary: The results of IISEPS' latest polling shows that Lukashenko retains high ratings, around 53 percent. Opposition support remains low, even for the 10+ opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich. Although Milinkevich's approval ratings did climb several points to 6.6 percent, a growin [...]	2006-01-12 12:48:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK256	Trustbank Profits Soar Despite USG Sanctions (C-NE5-00153) [...] On February 28, a spokesman for Belarus' Trustbank (formerly known as Infobank) told the press his bank's profits in January were 6.1 times higher than a year previously, reaching BYR 92.3 million [USD 43,000] that month. Trustbank's gross assets rose 6.2% in January to BYR 156.9 billion [USD [...]	2006-03-14 09:42:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PINR EINV ETRD PREL BO
06MINSK260	Trustbank Profits Soar Despite USG Sanctions (C-NE5-00153) [...] On February 28, a spokesman for Belarus' Trustbank (formerly known as Infobank) told the press his bank's profits in January were 6.1 times higher than a year previously, reaching BYR 92.3 million [USD 43,000] that month. Trustbank's gross assets rose 6.2% in January to BYR 156.9 billion [USD [...]	2006-03-14 09:43:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN PINR EINV ETRD PREL BO
06MINSK264	Kozulin Continues With Campaign, More Violence [...] (C) Summary: Campaign managers for presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, Aleksei Korol and Oleg Volchek met with Poloffs on March 6 following Kozulin's March 2 beating at the hands of security forces. Although charged with hooliganism, Kozulin has continued with his campaign and his manag [...]	2006-03-14 13:35:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK266	EUR DAS Kramer Meets Analysts, Civil Society [...] (C) Summary: Visiting EUR DAS David Kramer met with political analysts, civil society leaders, and students on February 24 to discuss the upcoming presidential elections and the accompanying GOB harassment. Analysts noted Russia's change in policy from previous campaigns to support President [...]	2006-03-14 13:40:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK268	EMBASSY MINSK BIWEEKLY REPORT - March 10, 2006 [...] Refrigerator and freezer inventories increased 127 percent in January to 20,000 units. Tire inventories increased 29.7 percent to 28,000 units, chemical fiber inventories increased 20.3 percent to 20,700 tons, and television inventories increased 280 percent to 98,000 units. Meanwhile, truck [...]	2006-03-14 13:50:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK274	DAS Kramer Discusses Elections with Milinkevich [...] (C) Summary: On February 24, EUR DAS David Kramer met with deputy campaign managers of the single opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich's campaign team Victor Korneyenko and Aleksandr Dobrovolsky. Korneyenko confirmed Milinkevich's plan to hold a rally on March 2, the same day as Presid [...]	2006-03-15 10:09:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
06MINSK275	DAS Kramer Discusses Elections with Kozulin's [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS David Kramer met with opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin and his campaign team during his recent trip to Belarus. Kozulin claimed the authorities are afraid and are working to increase the level of fear among the population. Kramer underscored the need [...]	2006-03-15 10:10:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
06MINSK277	Can't Sell Those Belarusian Goods [...] Summary: Many Belarusian companies, especially those owned by the state (which controls 80% of economic activity),are having problems selling the goods they produce. In February Belarusian warehouses were holding goods totaling 52.9% of average monthly production, worth over USD one billion. [...]	2006-03-15 12:07:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV BO
06MINSK278	Belarus Buying Indian SU-30s [...] (SBU) In February a number of Indian and Russian press sources announced that Belarus was intending to buy 18 used Sukhoi SU-30 aircraft from India. According to these press reports, India acquired a number of SU-30K fighters in 1997-1998, but is now modernizing its air force. Belarus theref [...]	2006-03-16 11:10:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC BO
06MINSK279	Russian Printing Press Stops Producing Independent [...] (SBU) Summary: The Smolensk Printing Plant annulled its contracts with independent newspapers Narodnaya Volya (NV),BDG Gazeta, and the democratic Communist Party of Belarus' Tovarishch on March 13, citing an overwhelming workload. The plant director later stated that the annulments were due [...]	2006-03-16 14:08:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV BO
06MINSK28	LUKASHENKO FEARS WEAK OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: Political analyst Valeriy Karbalevich explained that Lukashenko fears the opposition, even though the opposition poses no real threat in the March elections. Lukashenko, perhaps believing his regime's own propaganda, seemingly has not decided whether to allow his two main oppositi [...]	2006-01-13 11:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
06MINSK282	Milinkevich Campaign Manager Discusses Last-Minute [...] (C) Summary: On March 15, Sergey Kalyakin, campaign manager for Ten Plus Coalition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich, provided Pol/Econ Chief an assessment of the candidate's campaign rallies leading up to the March 19 elections. Kalyakin stressed Milinkevich and the campaign team [...]	2006-03-17 07:56:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK285	Lukashenko Leads February Poll [...] (SBU) Summary: In a poll conducted just before the presidential campaign began, Lukashenko dominated the field and most Belarusians relied on state media for information. Still, despite lack of access and constant pro- Lukashenko/anti-opposition propaganda, pro-democracy candidate Milinkevich [...]	2006-03-17 08:46:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK286	Independent News Does Make a Difference [...] (C) Under the auspices of a DRL Human Rights and Democracy Fund (HRDF) small grant (reftel),the IISEPS polling service conducted the second of six opinion polls in mid-February (septel). IISEPS conducted the first such grant in early December, and plans to conduct the third in April. [Note: [...]	2006-03-17 08:46:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM BO
06MINSK287	Russian Printing Press Stops Producing Independent [...] (SBU) Summary: The Smolensk Printing Plant annulled its contracts with independent newspapers Narodnaya Volya (NV),BDG Gazeta, and the democratic Communist Party of Belarus' Tovarishch on March 13, citing an overwhelming workload. The plant director later stated that the annulments were due [...]	2006-03-17 11:16:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV BO
06MINSK29	BELARUS PERSONNEL RE-SHUFFLE: TAKING NO CHANCES [...] (C) Summary: In recent weeks Belarusian dictator Lukashenko has reshuffled several senior positions in his Presidential Administration (PA) and removed the Minister of Health. The odious Viktor Sheiman has moved from heading the Presidential Administration to running Lukashenko's presidential [...]	2006-01-13 11:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR BO
06MINSK290	Minsk Election Weekly XIII (March 11-March 17) [...] This is the thirteenth in a weekly series of election- oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19 presidential elections. --------- Observers --------- 2. OSCE PA and ODIHR Launch Short-Term Observer Mission On March 16, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Pr [...]	2006-03-17 14:24:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK294	KOZULIN MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR, SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: In his March 14 meeting with Ambassador, opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin presented pictures and names of security service officers who beat him on March 2 (reftel),and noted a letter of appreciation to Secretary Rice and his plea to Russian President Vladimir [...]	2006-03-17 16:40:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK299	MILINKEVICH CALLS FOR STREET PROTESTS [...] (U) Summary: Opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich told a press conference on March 20 that the opposition does not recognize Lukashenko as the winner of the obviously falsified elections. Milinkevich is demanding a repeat election, held in a democratic manner without repres [...]	2006-03-21 07:50:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK307	Mass Arrests Follow Elections [...] Summary: The human rights NGO Vyasna and independent press report that at least 108 people, and likely more, were arrested late March 20th and early March 21st. The detained include Anatoly Lebedko, deputy to Milinkevich and leader of the United Civic Party, and his deputy Aleksandr Dobrovolsk [...]	2006-03-21 15:53:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK308	Crowd Size Drops On Second Day of Opposition Protests [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, opposition presidential candidates Aleksandr Milinkevich and Aleksandr Kozulin organized another protest rally on October Square in Minsk. Emboff observers estimate that between 18:30 and 20:00, 5,000 to 6,000 Belarusians participated in the rally, a significant de [...]	2006-03-21 16:05:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK311	Lukashenko Gives Victory Speech and Fiery Press [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, a defiant Aleksandr Lukashenko accepted his presidential "victory" at a press conference held in the cavernous Palace of the Republic and spoke to a full audience, including practically the entire Belarusian government, on live television. Lukashenko stressed Belarusians [...]	2006-03-22 15:51:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK312	Sitrep 1: Numbers and Spirits Drop On Third Day of [...] (C) Summary: In the evening on March 21, Poloffs observed the third protest rally on October Square organized by Ten Plus Coalition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich and Belarusian Social Democratic Party ("Gramada") Aleksandr Kozulin. At the height of the rally, Poloffs estimated that approxim [...]	2006-03-22 15:51:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK314	LUKASHENKO GIVES VICTORY SPEECH AND FIERY PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, a defiant Aleksandr Lukashenko accepted his presidential &victory8 at a press conference held in the cavernous Palace of the Republic and spoke to a full audience, including practically the entire Belarusian government, on live television. Lukashenko stressed Belar [...]	2006-03-23 07:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK315	LUKASHENKO GIVES VICTORY SPEECH AND FIERY PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 20, a defiant Aleksandr Lukashenko accepted his presidential &victory8 at a press conference held in the cavernous Palace of the Republic and spoke to a full audience, including practically the entire Belarusian government, on live television. Lukashenko stressed Belar [...]	2006-03-23 07:04:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK320	Sitrep 1: Numbers and Spirits Drop On Third Day of [...] (C) Summary: In the evening on March 21, Poloffs observed the third protest rally on October Square organized by Ten Plus Coalition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich and Belarusian Social Democratic Party ("Gramada") Aleksandr Kozulin. At the height of the rally, Poloffs estimated that approxim [...]	2006-03-23 15:44:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK322	Situation Report 3: Opposition Crowd Dwindles, Ten Plus [...] (C) Summary: The number of protesters on October Square continues to diminish. On March 22, the fourth night of protests on the square, Emboffs observed approximately 1,000 protesters. Ten Plus Coalition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich congratulated protesters for their determination to remain [...]	2006-03-23 15:55:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK323	Even More Arrests and Many Convictions Follow Elections [...] Summary: From March 21 to March 23, human rights activists and independent press reported that more people have been arrested and several dozens have already been sentenced for participating in demonstrations following the March 19 presidential elections. Anatoly Lebedko, deputy to Milinkevich [...]	2006-03-23 15:56:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK331	SITUATION REPORT 5: POLICE BREAK-UP PROTEST [...] (C) Summary: Just after 0300 March 24, security forces converged on October Square and arrested nearly everyone taking part in the opposition's on-going demonstration. Although estimates vary and authorities have not released any information, Post believes between 150 and 400 people were arres [...]	2006-03-24 12:49:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL BO CASC
06MINSK332	Milinkevich: 500 Arrested Today [...] (C) Summary: On March 24 opposition presidential candidate held a press conference where he estimated that around 500 of his supporters had been arrested early that morning, along with nearly 300 more the previous two days. He called on authorities to release all detainees, and appealed to the [...]	2006-03-24 16:25:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK333	Sitrep 6: Detainees Exceed 200 [...] (SBU) According to human rights NGO Vyasna, there are now 227 identified protesters who were arrested early this morning. Trials are already underway at many Minsk city courts. According to Vyasna, the sentences of those who have already stood trial range from 5-15 days in jail. Human rights [...]	2006-03-24 16:32:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK336	Sitrep 7: March 25 Protests End In Violence [...] (U) Summary: When police denied an estimated 7,000 protesters access to October Square for the March 25 "Freedom Day" rally, opposition leaders Aleksandr Milinkevich and Aleksandr Kozulin led the crowd to the alternate meeting point Yanka Kupala Park. Milinkevich used this opportunity to launch [...]	2006-03-27 15:24:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK337	Up to 1,000 Arrested, Trials Have Begun [...] Summary: Trials for those arrested March 24, when police raided the protest tent camp on October Square, started on March 24. Most of the detained are being sentenced to 10-15 days in trails that last 10 minutes at most. Reportedly, so one has been acquitted. Police detained another estimated [...]	2006-03-27 15:31:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK341	Minsk Election Weekly XIV (March 18-March 24) [...] This is the fourteenth in a weekly series of election- oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19 presidential elections. ---------------- Election Results ---------------- 2. CEC Gives Final Results On March 23, CEC Head Lidiya Yermoshina described L [...]	2006-03-28 13:08:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK342	250 ACTIVISTS CONVICTED IN ONE DAY, KOZULIN BEATEN [...] (U) Summary: As of March 27, approximately 250 people who were detained for participating in post-March 19 election protests were sentenced to up to 15 days in jail. Those sentenced included former presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich's stepson, a former Polish ambassador to Belarus, [...]	2006-03-28 15:01:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK343	Candidates React to Regime Crackdown [...] (U) On March 26, opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich issued a statement expressing solidarity with all those beaten and arrested by authorities on March 25, including his rival opposition leader Aleksandr Kozulin. Expressing his desire to continue to challenge the illegiti [...]	2006-03-28 16:10:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK348	Where's Lukashenko? [...] Summary: On March 28 the GOB indicated Lukashenko's inauguration would not take place March 31 as had been widely reported and prepared for. This followed an eight-day period where Lukashenko disappeared from public view. Only on March 28 did a wan and de- energized Lukashenko reappear for a [...]	2006-03-29 11:28:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR BO
06MINSK358	480 PEOPLE SENTENCED [...] (C) Summary: As of March 28, nine Minsk district courts had convicted in two days of trials 480 people for participating in post-presidential election demonstrations. Human rights lawyers have called the authorities' treatment of detainees "barbaric" and claim detainees are regularly denied fo [...]	2006-03-29 14:55:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK364	USD 2.5 BILLION IN RUSSIAN SUBSIDIES IN 2005 [...] (U) Summary: According to the best numbers available, Russia provided approximately USD 2.531 billion in subsidies, mostly energy, to Belarus in 2005. Of that, USD 1.236 billion came from the sale of discounted natural gas, USD 1.149 billion from the sale of discounted crude oil, and USD 146 [...]	2006-03-31 06:59:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET PREL ENRG ETRD BO
06MINSK365	BKGB USES COLD WAR TECHNIQUES TO GRAB POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Belarusian security services seem to have employed old tools of the trade to silence a senior opposition activist, Vyacheslav Sivchik. On March 23, unknown persons impersonated Embassy local employees and possibly used falsified diplomatic plates to abduct Sivchik. They then seve [...]	2006-03-31 07:27:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK369	PROTESTER POSSIBLY DEAD, KOZULIN CHARGED FOR [...] (C) Summary: Independent news sources on March 30 circulated a story that Sergei Otroshchenko, allegedly a protester beaten by security forces on March 25 who subsequently went missing, died from his injuries in a Minsk hospital. The GOB denies the death and claims they have no information a [...]	2006-03-31 14:18:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK370	EMBASSY MINSK BIWEEKLY REPORT - March 31, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------- Post Elections ------------- 2. Milinkevich Tells All in Poland During his March 29 trip to Poland, former opposition candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich opined that the democratic movement in Belarus wi [...]	2006-04-03 09:22:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK381	GAZPROM'S THREATS A PLOY FOR STRENGTHENING UNION? [...] (U) Summary: Gazprom and Minsk have been arguing for years over control of the GOB's Beltransgaz pipeline network. To date Lukashenko has fended off Russian attempts to take over the company, and at the same time has secured rock-bottom natural gas prices for his country-one of the main factor [...]	2006-04-07 09:46:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ECON PREL ENRG ETRD BO
06MINSK383	KOZULIN'S WIFE MEETS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: On April 4, Irina Kozulin, wife of imprisoned opposition presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin, told Ambassador that her husband is still suffering from back pain and has bronchitis, but visible signs of his beatings have disappeared. However, he is receiving good treatment a [...]	2006-04-07 14:11:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK386	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - April 7, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. -------------- Post Elections -------------- 2. Milinkevich's European Tour Opposition leader and former presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich traveled to Vienna (April 3 and 4) and Strasbourg (April 5 and [...]	2006-04-10 13:41:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK390	OPPOSITION COALITION TO STAY TOGETHER [...] (C) Summary: In recent days Poloffs and Ambassador have spoken with a number of senior members of Milinkevich's 10 Plus coalition. All agreed that the coalition will continue to exist and will keep Milinkevich as the leader, despite some resistance from one coalition party. Post election the [...]	2006-04-11 06:19:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO PHUM

06MINSK397	LUKASHENKO INAUGURATED: A PALE IMAGE [...] (C) Summary: Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko was inaugurated in a brief, highly orchestrated and sparsely attended ceremony in Minsk April 8. In an unusually short speech, a depressed looking Lukashenko stressed his re-election represented the people,s will and lashed out at outside [...]	2006-04-12 15:21:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK408	MARINICH RELEASED [...] (C) Summary: Imprisoned opposition member Mikhail Marinich was released from jail April 14 after serving two years on trumped up charges. A Minsk court April 12 ruled to release Marinich a full year earlier than his sentence required. The 66-year-old Marinich, Belarus' former Ambassador to L [...]	2006-04-14 12:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL
06MINSK413	Oil-for-Food: GOB Not Investigating Self [...] The GOB has taken and almost certainly will not take any actions as a result of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) looking into Iraqi Oil-for-Food violations (ref A). Post asked the MFA if there was any domestic investigation. The MFA replied that this is a complicated situation, and tha [...]	2006-04-14 13:17:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KFIN PGOV IZ BO
06MINSK420	Economic Problems Growing, but Reform Only by Force [...] (U) Summary: On April 7, DCM hosted a discussion among a number of leading Belarusian economists. All agreed that the GOB is facing Russian pressures to sell Beltransgaz, but disagreed whether Lukashenko would allow this sale. While admitting that the Belarusian economy has had a number of su [...]	2006-04-18 12:08:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO
06MINSK427	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - April 18, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. -------------- Post Elections -------------- 2. Milinkevich in Germany Former 10+ Coalition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich on an April 7 trip to Berlin met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Deputy [...]	2006-04-19 13:19:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK43	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - January 17, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------ Human Rights ------------ 2. Polish Activists Fined The Grodno Border Control Unit on January 5 fined two Union of Belarusian Poles (UBP) activists Andrei Pochobut and Andrei Pisalnik the maximum USD 1 [...]	2006-01-19 05:41:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK431	MILINKEVICH'S WIFE MEETS AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary: On April 17, Ambassador met with Ten Plus Coalition leader Aleksandr Milinkevich's wife, Inna Kulei, who is the president of the newly formed Committee for the Defense of the Repressed (PCDR). This committee provides educational, employment, humanitarian, and medical assistance [...]	2006-04-20 10:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL INR BO
06MINSK433	EU VISA BAN IMMEDIATELY EFFECTIVE [...] (C) Summary: On April 10, the EU expanded its visa ban list for Belarus from six to 37 senior GOB officials involved in election fraud and human rights abuses. Switzerland announced on April 12 that it would abide by the ban as well. In the first week of existence the ban has already prevente [...]	2006-04-20 13:07:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR CVIS BO
06MINSK436	OPPOSITION COALITION LACKS PLANS [...] (C) Summary: On April 21, Ambassador met with the senior leadership of the United Civic Party (UCP),one of the main members of the opposition 10 Plus coalition. Anatoly Lebedko, head of the UCP, made it clear that the opposition had no plans for what to do after the elections, and even now h [...]	2006-04-21 13:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK443	BELARUS, RUSSIA, S-300S AND IRAN [...] (C) Summary: A prominent British journal recently wrote that Moscow might be selling S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems to Iran, using Belarus as a middleman to hide the sale. Although all three governments have denied such a sale, on April 21 Minsk received its first delivery of Russian S-3 [...]	2006-04-24 13:41:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETRD ETTC MARR IR BO
06MINSK445	The GOB Prepares For Bird Flu [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB on March 24 ratified a plan to prevent avian influenza (AI) from appearing in Belarus and to isolate it in case of an outbreak. Belarus has long banned poultry product imports and animal feed from nations with confirmed cases of AI but just recently issued decrees on pr [...]	2006-04-24 13:56:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU PGOV PHUM ECON CASC BO
06MINSK446	POLITICAL PROTESTANTS WANT CHANGE [...] (C) Summary: Prominent Belarusian Protestant leaders recently described for Ambassador their continued registration problems and the increasing hostility that they face from the GOB. Most of the leaders agreed that their communities are ready to bring change to Belarus, claiming that young [...]	2006-04-24 14:02:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK448	ELECTION OBSERVERS REMAIN IN JAIL, OTHER ACTIVISTS [...] (U) Summary: Opposition activists are still coping with security service harassment and fighting court cases based on nefarious charges. Authorities extended the pre-trial detention of election observers of the NGO Partnership by another two months. They are still not allowed to meet with r [...]	2006-04-26 13:14:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM
06MINSK451	Belarus Makes and Russia Loses Billions on Oil [...] Summary: During a recent seminar an energy expert from Belarus' Ministry of Economics explained that Belarus buys crude oil from Russia for well below market rates. With current high oil prices the GOB stands to benefit by USD 3.9 billion this year (14% of GDP),while the Russian budget could [...]	2006-04-27 08:52:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ECON ETRD PREL ENRG USTR BO
06MINSK456	Belarus to Export Sugar to Cuba [...] Belarusian Prime Minister Sergey Sidorsky led a delegation of GOB officials and state-owned businesses to Cuba April 20 to 23. In addition to the usual exhortations of fraternal socialist comradeship, in a deal only possible between two command economies Belarus agreed to import 100,000 tons of [...]	2006-04-27 09:57:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PREL USTR EAGR CU BO
06MINSK458	LUKASHENKO BOTCHES POTASH EXPORTS [...] (U) Summary: Potash is Belarus' second largest export commodity, earning the country USD 609 million in 2005. Most of this revenue went to the GOB, which owns the sole potash producer. In order to squeeze more money from this valuable export, last year Lukashenko created a potash exporting c [...]	2006-04-27 10:13:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EMIN ETRD EAGR BI
06MINSK460	MILINKEVICH DISCUSSES STATE OF THE OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: In an April 24 conversation with Ambassador, Belarusian opposition leader and former Ten plus Coalition presidential candidate Aleksandr Milinkevich described tensions within the democratic forces. He named United Civic Party leader Anatoliy Lebedko as the strongest dissenter. C [...]	2006-04-27 14:23:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK462	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - April 28, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. -------------- Post Elections -------------- 2. Lebedko Fined $30 for Swearing On April 25, Minsk Sovetsky district judge Oksana Relyavo found United Civic Party chairman Anatoly Lebedko guilty of petty hooliganis [...]	2006-04-28 11:32:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK463	Post-Election Polling: Lukashenko Wins, but Not by As Much [...] Summary: The IISEPS polling service recently unveiled the results of the first post-election poll. IISEPS found that about 64% of the electorate voted for Lukashenko, 20% less than the regime claims. Despite this discrepancy, a slim majority of Belarusians view the elections as free and fair. [...]	2006-04-28 11:35:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO
06MINSK479	The Gas Dance Begins [...] Summary: Belarus and Gazprom have entered into negotiations of sorts on the price of gas for 2007. Gazprom announced that Minsk can expect to pay USD 145/tcm (up from USD 466.68/tcm),while the GOB responded it could agree to an 11 percent price increase (to USD 51.81). Other than consecutive [...]	2006-05-04 05:52:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ECON PREL ENRG ETRD USTR BO
06MINSK493	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - May 5, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Lukashenko: Consolidation of Political Forces Is No Problem During a meeting in St. Petersburg, Aleksandr Lukashenko told Russian President [...]	2006-05-05 14:25:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK494	Regime Nationalizing and Milking Economy [...] Summary: By most estimates the GOB controls about 80% of economic activity, but the state has refused to divulge the exact amount. Over the past few years the state's share of the economy has been growing as the GOB renationalizes previously privatized companies and increases its ownership sta [...]	2006-05-05 14:31:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO
06MINSK50	Minsk Election Weekly V (January 16-January 20) [...] This is tha fifth in a wEekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the March 19, 2006 presidential elections. ------------------ Signature Campaign ------------------ 2. SIgnature Updates The initiative groups of the following presidential [...]	2006-01-20 13:56:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK501	NOVAK POST-ELECTION RESULTS MIRROR THOSE OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-11 14:16:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK514	LUKASHENKO'S NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Aleksandr Lukashenko has formed a new government with a more streamlined organization and new directives relating to information media, energy, housing, construction, and trade. New cabinet appointments included a new deputy prime minister and five new ministers: energy [...]	2006-05-16 06:03:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
06MINSK521	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - May 12, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------- Civil Society ------------- 2. Zubr Leader Nikita Sasim Sentenced to Three Months in Jail On May 12, Zubr youth leader Nikita Sasim was sentenced in Baranichsky Regional Court to three months arrest f [...]	2006-05-16 14:26:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK527	DEMONSTRATORS BRIEFLY DETAINED NEAR RUSSIAN EMBASSY [...] (U) Approximately 70 people at 20:00 on May 16 gathered in front of the Russian Embassy, which is adjacent to the U.S. Embassy, wearing EU handkerchiefs and holding candles to protest the Kremlin's support of President Lukashenko. Five minutes into the demonstration, a dozen OMON riot police o [...]	2006-05-17 14:19:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK528	THE BELARUSIAN PARTY OF FREEDOM: AN ACTIVE PLAYER [...] (C) Summary: On May 16, Poloffs met with the leader of the unregistered Belarusian Party of Freedom (BPF) Sergey Visotsky at the latter's request to discuss his party's activities. The BPF first appeared in 1993 as a student initiative and, according to Visotsky, remains a youth organization [...]	2006-05-18 10:29:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK530	KAZAKHS ON LUKASHENKO'S HEALTH, CORRUPTION [...] (C) Summary: On April 27, Pol Chief met with the Kazakh Political Counselor, Bakhram Auanasov, who claimed to have information that Lukashenko received treatment by Russian doctors after the election, possibly for prostate cancer or for exhaustion. He also explained that Lukashenko remains in [...]	2006-05-22 07:43:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK531	DESPITE RHETORIC, MOSCOW NOT TO PUSH MINSK HARD [...] (C) During a recent conversation with Pol/Econ Chief, Vladimir Pavlenko, Counselor for Internal Political Affairs in the Russian Embassy, noted that despite strong statements from Gazprom, the Kremlin would not allow gas prices to stand in the way of an "extremely close alliance with Belarus." [...]	2006-05-22 07:47:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG BO
06MINSK532	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - May 19, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Lukashenko Receives Syrian Baath Party Official On May 18, Aleksandr Lukashenko told Abdullah al-Ahmar, assistant secretary general of Syri [...]	2006-05-22 11:32:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK537	MILINKEVICH ON THE LEBEDKO PROBLEM, RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: On May 22, Ambassador met with leader of the unified opposition Aleksandr Milinkevich. Milinkevich had just completed a long-delayed talk with Anatoly Lebedko, a likely contender for Milinkevich's position. Milinkevich stated this talk convinced him Lebedko would not quit the co [...]	2006-05-22 13:58:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK538	Belarus Suffers Large Crop Loss, Still Expects [...] (SBU) Summary: Spring has finally come to Belarus and, along with it, President Aleksandr Lukashenko's mad fervor to attain an unrealistic harvest yield. Lukashenko raised the national quota of grain to 8.4 million tons, a 700,000-ton increase to Lukashenko's 2005 quota that was never achieved [...]	2006-05-22 14:12:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK555	GRODNO/VOLKOVISK TRIP HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16-17, Ambassador toured the Grodno oblast in the western part of Belarus, stopping first in Grodno and then in Volkovisk. Recently released political prisoner Levonevskiy described his deplorable prison conditions. Free trade unionists noted increasing GOB pressure on [...]	2006-05-26 08:35:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM EINV BO
06MINSK556	GRODNO/VOLKOVISK TRIP HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16-17, Ambassador toured the Grodno oblast in the western part of Belarus, stopping first in Grodno and then in Volkovisk. Recently released political prisoner Levonevskiy described his deplorable prison conditions. Free trade unionists noted increasing GOB pressure on [...]	2006-05-26 08:35:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM EINV BO
06MINSK557	GRODNO/VOLKOVISK TRIP HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 16-17, Ambassador toured the Grodno oblast in the western part of Belarus, stopping first in Grodno and then in Volkovisk. Recently released political prisoner Levonevskiy described his deplorable prison conditions. Free trade unionists noted increasing GOB pressure on [...]	2006-05-26 08:35:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM EINV BO
06MINSK560	LEBEDKO EXPLAINS HIS OPPOSITION TO MILINKEVICH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 23 meeting with Ambassador, Belarusian opposition figure and United Civic Party (UCP) chairman Anatoliy Lebedko discussed his recent visit to Washington, points of disagreement within the opposition coalition and commented on Russian-Belarusian relations. Lebedko is push [...]	2006-06-01 12:17:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK565	Lukashenko's State of the Republic Tirade [...] (SBU) Summary: In his May 23 annual address before parliament, Lukashenko declared all is well in Belarus. He raised the trial balloon of establishing a Party of Power, but said he himself did not need it. He ordered the parliament and government to work with the four pillars of society, labo [...]	2006-06-01 12:23:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK572	Another Monument to a Repressor [...] (U) On May 26, authorities unveiled a statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky on the grounds of Belarus' Military Academy. The 10.5-foot bronze statue is identical to the one that for years stood in front of the KGB's infamous Moscow headquarters, the Lubyanka, and was the first icon removed by demonstrat [...]	2006-06-01 12:52:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK574	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - May 26, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Iran To Aid Belarus' Nuclear Industry, Lukashenko To Visit Iran On May 25, Iranian Ambassador Abdolhamid Fekri said at a news conference in [...]	2006-06-02 06:08:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK580	Opposition Activist Convicted of Sedition [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 25, a Milinkevich campaign worker, Sergei Lyashkevich, was tried in Shchuchin regional court on charges of inciting mass disorder. The prosecution's evidence included seized electronic media, written testimony, and oral testimony by two dubious witnesses. Following the [...]	2006-06-02 10:13:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK588	TEN PLUS APPROVES TWO-YEAR STRATEGY [...] (U) Summary: The Ten Plus Coalition's Political Council on May 22 approved a two-year plan aimed at removing Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko and promoting democracy. The plan concentrates most of its energy in the "For Freedom" movement, which calls for pro-democratic civil society gr [...]	2006-06-05 12:45:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK599	BELARUS: 2006 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (SBU) Post submits its annual contribution for the 2006 Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriation Claims. During the year the Belarus Government continued with its policy of fundraising through confiscation of transiting goods, although this process appears to be declining. The State Cu [...]	2006-06-09 04:44:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC EFIN EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV BO
06MINSK600	IMF: Belarus Faces Falling Growth [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent briefing a visiting IMF team acknowledged that the Belarusian economy has seen strong growth the past few years, driven mainly by the re-export of Russian oil, but also to a lesser extent to growing productivity. However, Belarus also faces a number of significant pr [...]	2006-06-09 07:59:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO
06MINSK602	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - June 2, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Belarus Skeptical about UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur On May 31, following consultations with representatives from Russia's MFA, Belar [...]	2006-06-09 09:22:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG BO
06MINSK605	CZECHS BLOCK SENIOR GOB VISAS, PASS [...] (C) Summary: The Czech Embassy recently passed over information that Lukashenko's son, Dmitry, and Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky and his family all applied for Czech visas. The Czechs did not issue to Dmitry or Sidorsky, even though neither is on the EU's visa ban list. The Czech Charge also [...]	2006-06-09 12:57:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM BO
06MINSK608	REGIONAL OUTREACH TO GOMEL REGION HIGH, SUPERVISED [...] (U) Summary: On June 1-2, Ambassador traveled to the regional capital city Gomel and surrounding villages to conduct public outreach. Opposition and civil society representatives described the repressive conditions in which they exist, but the civil society representatives also criticized the [...]	2006-06-09 13:33:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PHUM BO
06MINSK627	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - June 9, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Russian Ambassador Against Belarus' Retaliation for Travel Bans On June 8, the Russian Ambassador to Belarus, Aleksandr Surikov, described [...]	2006-06-14 06:08:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG BO
06MINSK629	Gas Negotiations Drag On, and On [...] Summary: Gas price negotiations have continued behind closed doors between the GOB and Gazprom, with no deal apparently reached at the most recent session on June 1. Russian media, quoting Gazprom officials, claim that Gazprom sent the GOB a contract listing USD 200 as the price for 2007, an i [...]	2006-06-14 12:43:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ECON PREL ENRG ETRD USTR BO
06MINSK639	MOTHER OF FUGITIVE OPPOSITION ACTIVIST DELIVERS [...] (C) On June 12, Galina Sivchik, mother of opposition activist Vyacheslav Sivchik, told DCM that prosecutors dismissed her complaint against the authorities' failure to investigate the circumstances surrounding her son's March abduction and beating during post presidential election demonstratio [...]	2006-06-16 05:23:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK640	THE NATIONAL LIBRARY: LUKASHENKO'S DIAMOND OR [...] (U) Summary: The June 9 grand opening of the Belarusian National Library, a 23-story glass diamond-shaped monstrosity on the outskirts of Minsk, was again postponed. Although the authorities did not give a reason for the delay, independent news sources expect it is related to the perennial pro [...]	2006-06-16 05:30:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BO
06MINSK648	Sudan and Belarus Sign Military Pact, Minsk Stays Silent [...] (U) On June 16, on-line Sudanese newspaper the Sudan Tribune announced that Sudanese Defense Minister General Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein signed a military cooperation protocol with his Belarusian counterpart Leonid Maltsev on June 15 in Minsk. The article claimed Hussein was in Belarus June 13 [...]	2006-06-19 10:06:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM ETRD UNSC SU BO
06MINSK652	Lukashenko's Potash Hole Grows Deeper [...] (U) On June 13, Belarus closed all four of its potash mines. With exports falling due to Lukashenko's insistence on above-market prices, Belarus no longer had any place to store the potash it was digging up. The problem began in 2005 when Lukashenko ignored market reality and ordered the ferti [...]	2006-06-20 09:55:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV EMIN ETRD EAGR USTR PHUM BO
06MINSK653	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - June 20, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. Putin Signals Hike in Gas Price to Belarus, Impatient on Union During a Shanghai Cooperation Organization Press Conference, Russian Preside [...]	2006-06-20 10:01:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ETRD EINV
06MINSK654	DEMONSTRATION [...] (SBU) At 20:00 on June 16 near the Russian Embassy (adjacent to U.S. Embassy),45 activists were briefly detained while observing the Day of Solidarity. The Day of Solidarity takes place on the 16th of every month in support of jailed and missing opposition activists. Similar to the May 16th [...]	2006-06-20 11:42:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL BO
06MINSK659	CSTO Castigates NATO And Its Neighbors [...] Summary: The Russian Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on June 20 gave a press conference in which he ridiculed NATO and opined that its military installations in Eastern European countries were part of a military agenda in Russia's backyard. He stated CST [...]	2006-06-21 12:10:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV BO
06MINSK669	POLL OF BELARUSIAN ELITES SHOWS SUPPORT FOR OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 9, Oleg Manaev, head of the de- registered IISEPS sociological research center, presented the results of additional post-election polling to the Ambassador. Throughout May, IISEPS polled 60 respondents, described as "laders and experts" inside and outside Belarus' gvernm [...]	2006-06-23 05:45:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO
06MINSK671	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - June 23, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------------- International Relations ----------------------- 2. State Weekly Says Belarus Should Freeze Opposition U.S. Accounts On June 22, BelTA correspondent Viktor Lovgach wrote in the pro- governme [...]	2006-06-23 12:21:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ETRD
06MINSK682	Media Focuses on Lukashenko and Putin at CSTO-EAEC Summit [...] SUMMARY: On June 23, the heads of state and foreign ministers of countries belonging to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Community (EAEC) met in Minsk for the organizations' tandem summits. Belarusian media coverage focused heavily on statements by [...]	2006-06-28 13:38:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON EINV WTRO USTR BO
06MINSK683	GOB Mocks U.S. Financial Sanctions But Responds In Kind [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB has threatened to freeze the assets of President George Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in response to the financial sanctions imposed by the U.S. on President Lukashenko and nine other members of his regime. Affected Belarusian officials have denied the exis [...]	2006-06-29 11:11:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV BO
06MINSK689	State Dominates Banking Sector [...] Summary: Belarus has a poorly developed capital market, and the financial sector almost exclusively consists of banks. The joint stock exchange/currency exchange lists very few companies and is mostly engaged in currency exchange for the government. The banking sector is almost completely dom [...]	2006-06-30 12:31:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV KCOR BTIU PGOV AFIN BO
06MINSK690	BELARUS NAMES FOR ASSET FREEZE, TRANCHE 2 [...] (C) Post provides the following information to supplement that gathered by the Department in consideration of freezing the assets of certain Belarusian regime officials. This is the second cable in this series (reftel). Aleksandr Radkov ---------------- 2. (C) Radkov became Minister o [...]	2006-06-30 12:35:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM BO
06MINSK692	OPPOSITION LEADER OUTLINES MULTIPLE PROBLEMS IN [...] (C) Summary: During a June 26 meeting with Ambassador, pro-democracy Belarusian Party of Communist (BPC) head Aleksandr Kalyakin described the United Democratic Forces (UDF) plan of action outlining "concrete" measures to coordinate the activities of the UDF leaders and to mobilize activists. [...]	2006-06-30 13:27:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF BO
06MINSK694	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - July 7, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------- Civil Society ------------- 2. On July 6, the trial of former presidential candidate Aleksandr Kozulin began in Moskovsky District Court in Minsk. Kozulin supporters, journalists, and representatives i [...]	2006-07-10 05:15:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ETRD
06MINSK701	LUKASHENKO PRAISES ECONOMY, SEEKS BETTER RELATIONS WITH [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Aleksandr Lukashenko gave his Independence Day address on July 1 at the Palace of the Republic. He vowed that Belarusians would never forget the sacrifices their families made during WWII and thanked survivors for rebuilding Belarus into a strong nation. He then praised [...]	2006-07-10 06:40:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PREL PHUM BO
06MINSK719	BELARUS ON THE EVE OF THE G8 SUMMIT [...] (C) Many in the Belarusian opposition are hopeful G-7 leaders will raise Belarus at the G8 Summit in St. Petersburg in an effort to convince Russia to stop both its support for the repressive Lukashenko regime and its efforts to establish a union with Belarus that could extinguish defacto Belar [...]	2006-07-12 13:48:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
06MINSK737	Opposition Leader Assures Ambassador He's A Man of [...] (C) Summary: United Democratic Forces leader Aleksandr Milinkevich and his wife Inna Kulei provided a frank, yet optimistic assessment of the opposition coalition during the Ambassador's July 14 farewell meeting with them. Ambassador stressed that many in the opposition, especially the youth [...]	2006-07-17 13:37:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK738	Opposition Party Leader Arrested in Rally Near Russian [...] (SBU) On July 17, a Belarusian court sentenced United Civic Party (UCP) leader Anatoly Lebedko to 10 days in jail for "minor hooliganism" for attempting to participate in a July 16 protest near the Russian Embassy in Minsk. Authorities also charged activist Evgeny Askerko, whose trial followed [...]	2006-07-17 14:06:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK740	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - July 17, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ----------------- Political Parties ----------------- 2. Pro-Lukashenko Communists Proclaim Merger with Opposition Communists On July 15, the leadership of the pro-Lukashenko Communist Party of Belarus (CPB) de [...]	2006-07-18 03:48:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG BO
06MINSK758	IISEPS Polling: Lukashenko Still Enjoys Popular Support [...] SUMMARY: On July 10, Director of the independent polling service IISEPS Oleg Manaev gave Ambassador the results of two opinion surveys conducted in June. Lukashenko maintains a high support rating, with 55 percent of those polled claiming they would vote for Lukashenko again should elections b [...]	2006-07-21 05:35:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PINR SOCI ECON BO
06MINSK763	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY REPORT - July 21, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. --------- Elections --------- 2. United Opposition Forces Preparing for Early Local Elections On July 18, Belarusian Popular Front Deputy Chairman Viktor Ivashkevich announced that, despite the government's tentati [...]	2006-07-21 13:33:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG BO
06MINSK77	Minsk Election Weekly VI (January 20-January 27) [...] (U) January 27 is the final day for presidential contenders to submit signatures. Each contender must submit a minimum of 100,000 signatures to the Central Election Committee. This is the sixth in a weekly series of election-oriented reports, providing brief items of interest related to the Ma [...]	2006-01-30 14:06:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK787	LUKASHENKO FINDS A NEW FRIEND IN HUGO CHAVEZ [...] Summary: On July 23-25, Lukashenko hosted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Minsk, marking the first official visit of a Latin American leader in Belarus' history. During the series of meetings and ceremonies, the leaders lauded each other's political and economic policies and occasionally [...]	2006-07-27 10:57:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ETRD VE BO
06MINSK794	PRESSURES ON LUKASHENKO: CURRENT STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) Summary: Although Lukashenko secured a third term in office through rigged March presidential elections, the regime is grappling with unprecedented political and economic pressure from the East and the West, and to a limited extent, from within. Belarusians interpret Gazprom's plans to q [...]	2006-07-31 13:09:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
06MINSK809	NO ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE FROM RUSSIAN PIPELINE [...] Belarusian and Russian press are reporting that on July 27 an oil leak occurred on the Unicha-Polotsk section of the Druzhba pipeline in the Russian region of Bryansk, which is near the Belarusian border. News reports indicate that the accident resulted from corrosion in the pipeline. Russi [...]	2006-08-01 13:31:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK840	OPPOSITION LEADER VYACHORKA PRAISES USG EFFORTS, [...] (C) Summary: In their first meeting, Belarusian opposition leader Vyachorka asserted to Charge on August 2 that United Democratic Forces (UDF) members were united behind UDF leader Aleksandr Milinkevich and are recruiting and mobilizing a growing number of citizens frustrated with the regime. [...]	2006-08-04 14:43:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BO
06MINSK847	LUKASHENKO CRITICIZES U.S. BUT SEEKS GREATER [...] (U) Summary: President Lukashenko, meeting with his Belarusian Ambassadors August 1, stated that increased U.S.-EU harassment was due to Belarus' increasing geopolitical importance and its role in forming a multi-polar world. The President claimed Belarus was ready for bilateral partnerships [...]	2006-08-09 04:51:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM BO
06MINSK911	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - August 18, 2006 [...] (U) The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - Lukashenko Stipulates Eurasian Customs Union (para. 2) - Belarus and Ukraine Discuss Cooperation (para. 3) - Lukashenko Greets Indian, South Korea [...]	2006-08-21 13:36:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG KTDB BO
06MINSK937	BELARUS' MOST PROFITABLE STATE-RUN COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: The GOB published its list of state-owned companies contributing the most revenue to the GOB budget in 2005. This list suggests some significant changes in the Belarusian economy, particularly in the fertilizer and oil industries, since the GOB prohibited publication of its list [...]	2006-08-28 10:54:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL USTR BO
06MINSK938	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - AUGUST 28, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ----------------------- - Lawmaker Calls Union State Act 99 Percent Ready (para. 2) - CSTO Consultations on Military Training (para. 3) LOCAL ELECTIONS --------------- - Op [...]	2006-08-28 11:33:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET EAGR ENRG KTDB BO
06MINSK95	EMBASSY MINSK BIWEEKLY REPORT - January 31, 2006 [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. ------------ Human Rights ------------ 2. GOB Deems Defamatory Documentary "Not Discriminatory" On January 14, the Prosecutor General's Office ruled the controversial documentary about gypsies in Belarus that aired [...]	2006-02-01 05:45:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON BO
06MINSK951	MILINKEVICH, BACK IN BELARUS, TOUTS SOLIDARITY AND [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Charge on August 29, United Democratic Forces (UDF) leader Milinkevich argued that the opposition remains united and said he would be publicly involved in the run up to the local elections. He and his wife spoke of their efforts to create solidarity among Belaru [...]	2006-08-31 13:15:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK963	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - SEPTEMBER 5, [...] The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS LOCAL ELECTIONS --------------- - Opposition Council Discusses Local Coalitions (para. 2) CIVIL SOCIETY ------------- - Milinkevich Visits France, Opposes Union State (para. 3) - Police Seize Prot [...]	2006-09-05 10:32:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG KTDB BO
06MINSK971	BELARUS GEARING UP FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT [...] (C) The GOB continues to advocate the construction of a nuclear power plant (NPP) in Belarus. Although a decision has not officially been made, the state media's positive propaganda indicates that Lukashenko plans to build an NPP whether Belarusians agree or not. GOB officials maintain the N [...]	2006-09-07 08:51:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG TRGY PARM MNUC BO
06MINSK975	BREST OPPOSITION PUSHES ON DESPITE GOB PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: An August 22-23 visit by Poloffs to the Western border city of Brest received heavy attention from state security services. Local activists, already under siege by the regime, kept their commitments to meet with Poloffs despite the threat of even further scrutiny from the BKGB. [...]	2006-09-11 12:28:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREF BO
06MINSK976	PRO-REGIME NEO-NAZIS INTIMIDATE INDEPENDENT MEDIA, [...] (C) Summary: Following March's stolen presidential elections, the pro-government, pan-Russian, neo-Nazi group "Russian National Unity" (RNE) appears to have undertaken a campaign of intimidation against Belarus' independent media and opposition political parties. This campaign apparently incl [...]	2006-09-11 13:01:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO
06MINSK978	REGIONAL OPPOSITION PARTIES COALESCE FOR LOCAL [...] (C) In preparation for Belarus' upcoming municipal elections, the regional chapters of parties within the opposition United Democratic Forces (UDF) coalition continue to sign cooperation agreements with their Belarusian Social Democratic Party "Gramada" (BSDP) counterparts. Despite enthusias [...]	2006-09-11 13:52:00	Embassy Minsk	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR BO
06MINSK994	EMBASSY MINSK WEEKLY POL/ECON REPORT - SEPTEMBER 8, [...] (U) The following are brief items of interest compiled by Embassy Minsk. TABLE OF CONTENTS LOCAL ELECTIONS --------------- - Opposition Party Forms Bloc For Independence (para. 2) - Opposition Coalition Secretariat In Operation (para. 3) - Brest Opposition Questions Council Members (pa [...]	2006-09-12 11:23:00	Embassy Minsk	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EPET ENRG KTDB BO
06MONTEVIDEO570	CHINESE AND KOREAN AMBASSADORS' PERSPECTIVES ON [...] (C) Summary: Charge met separately with Ambassadors from the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and South Korea to discuss regional perspectives in the wake of Assistant Secretary Shannon's trip to Asia on April 8-15. Chinese SIPDIS Ambassador Wang Xioyuan said he had been briefed on A/S Shann [...]	2006-06-22 19:26:00	Embassy Montevideo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD PINR OTRA CH JA KS UY
06MONTREAL572	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ICAO'S TCB DEPUTY DIRECTOR ON [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request (para 9): The Deputy Director of ICAO's Technical Cooperation Bureau (TCB) Bachar Hakim, visited the Ambassador on May 17, 2006 to inform him of TCB's recommendations to Syrian Arab Airlines on the replacement of ten aging Boeing aircraft, which are currently [...]	2006-05-18 19:18:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ETRD ECON PREL ICAO CA SY UNDP
06MONTREAL616	Visit of NASA Deputy Administrator Dale to the [...] (U) Summary: On May 23, NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale and NASA Assistant Administrator Michael F. OBrien met with the Acting President of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Carole Lacombe and a team of CSA experts to discuss current and future areas for U.S.-Canadian space cooperation. E [...]	2006-06-01 12:59:00	Consulate Montreal	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA CA
06MOSCOW10013	RUSSIAN FEDERATION COUNCIL CHAIRMAN ON US, [...] (C) Summary: In advance of his trip to the US to commemorate 9/11, Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergey Mironov previewed with the Ambassador a fall legislative effort to amend the Law on Extremism. Mironov said the reaction to the announced merger of leftist political parties was en [...]	2006-09-10 08:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV RS
06MOSCOW10227	BREAKFAST WITH ROGOZIN: TALES OF A KREMLIN PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary: As the political season commences, the rise and fall of former Rodina Party Chairman Dmitry Rogozin is a cautionary tale for other politicians seeking poster-boy status in Kremlin electoral projects and a timely reminder of the ability of the Presidential Administration to int [...]	2006-09-13 15:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
06MOSCOW10230	RUSSIAN REACTION TO TORGAU '06 POSTPONEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to U.S. insistence on extending Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) protection to personnel participating in this year's Torgau '06 bilateral military exercise, the GOR seized the initiative to postpone, but not cancel, the event and left the door open for continued bi [...]	2006-09-14 07:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP MOPS PREL RS
06MOSCOW10247	OPIC FINANCE: SDM BANK [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-14 11:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN OPIC RS
06MOSCOW10248	TOP OFFICIAL AT RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK GUNNED DOWN [...] (C) The Central Bank of Russia's (CBR) First Deputy Chairman Andrei Kozlov was fatally shot on September 13. Kozlov was a key figure in the GOR's efforts to crack down on money laundering, insider trading, and other illegal banking activity. His death is most likely connected to his efforts [...]	2006-09-14 12:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW1025	MFA HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIAL ON REGULARIZING TIES, UN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 18 meeting, A/S Lowenkron and Vladimir Parshikov, Director of the MFA Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, agreed to more frequent consultations. Lowenkron laid out the USG position on the UN Human Rights Council, and Parshikov responded that the [...]	2006-02-01 14:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PHUM RS
06MOSCOW10285	RUSSIA PROTESTS JAMESTOWN CONFERENCE ON NORTH [...] (C) Acting MFA North Americas Department Director Aleksandr Khudin requested a meeting with PolCouns to express GOR concern over the September 14 Jamestown Foundation conference in Washington on "The Future of the North Caucasus." Noting that Jamestown conferences on the North Caucasus had b [...]	2006-09-14 14:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER PINR RS
06MOSCOW10289	RUSSIAN PUBLIC'S VIEWS ON POLICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: An overwhelming majority of the Russian public believes that human rights abuse by police is widespread according to recent polling data. The police, on the contrary, believe they are unfairly maligned, but recognize problems within the MVD. These and other findings presented on Se [...]	2006-09-14 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW10309	RUSSIAN MFA UNCLEAR ON TRANSNISTRIAN REFERENDUM [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Embassy three days before Transnistria's September 17 referendum, MFA Transnistrian negotiator Valeriy Nesterushkin provided no clarity on how Russia will treat the referendum result. While acknowledging that whatever the result, Transnistria would not be recog [...]	2006-09-15 09:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE PBTS MD RS

06MOSCOW10324	RUSSIAN COMMUNISTS PROTEST MILITARY COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Russia's Communist Party (KPRF) followed through September 14 on its promise to demonstrate against military cooperation with NATO and the U.S., including the now-postponed Torgau '06 exercise (reftel). According to media reports, demonstrations took place in Moscow, Saratov, Omsk, Yar [...]	2006-09-15 13:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PGOV RS
06MOSCOW10370	ORTHODOX CLASSES NOW MANDATORY IN SOME RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Public schools in the Bryansk, Kaluga, Smolensk, and Belgorod regions have incorporated a mandatory Orthodox culture course into their curriculums. Eleven other regions are offering the subject as an elective. Supporters say the move is needed to counter the spiritual vacuum left [...]	2006-09-18 07:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW10382	LAVROV'S MIDDLE EAST DIPLOMACY [...] (C) Summary: With FM Lavrov's September 7-9 trip to the Middle East, promotion of a "universal" peace process, experts' conference, renewed Syria track, and support for the Arab League ministerial session at UNGA, the GOR continues to seek "player" status in the region. Practically, GOR sup [...]	2006-09-18 11:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM IS SY LE RS
06MOSCOW1043	UZBEKS REFUSED ASYLUM IN RUSSIA [...] (C) The Russian Federal Migration Service has refused to grant asylum to 13 Uzbeks whom the Government of Uzbekistan wants extradited for alleged connections to the uprising in Andijon last May. The group's lawyer, at the urging of UNHCR, has appealed that decision to Russian courts and will [...]	2006-02-02 14:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW10432	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: FGUP [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Federal State Unitary Enterprise Research Institute for Co [...]	2006-09-19 07:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW10434	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: STATE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, State Research Institute of Aviation, Moscow, Russia. The company is [...]	2006-09-19 07:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW10438	RUSSIA AND KOSOVO: THE POLITICS OF DELAY [...] (C) Summary: Russia will seek to delay the conclusion of the Kosovo status process beyond year's end, arguing that a negotiated settlement will be more enduring than one forced on Serbia. The GOR does not like UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's draft status recommendations and might balk at agre [...]	2006-09-19 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM UNMIK SR YI RS
06MOSCOW10439	RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY ON IRAN, FROZEN [...] (C) Summary: In a September 18 meeting, Russian Security Council Secretary Ivanov briefed on his September meetings in Spain with Iranian Security Council Secretary Larijani, UNSYG Annan, and former President Gonzales; raised concerns over mixed messages to Iran; and reiterated Russia's willi [...]	2006-09-19 12:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETTC PARM IR RS
06MOSCOW10486	REFERENDUM RESULTS: PRICEY WRINKLE TO THE FIVE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Lavrov's short statement encapsulates GOR reaction to the referendum: the results were no surprise and the partners should return to the talks. MFA Transnistrian negotiator Valeriy Nesterushkin contended that the Transnistrians will most likely demand removal of the post [...]	2006-09-19 15:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OSCE PBTS MD RS
06MOSCOW105	WIDENING PROBLEMS FOR RUSSIAN POLICY IN THE NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY. The North Caucasus is a crucible in which the weakness of the Russian state and its ambivalence about how to overcome that weakness are compounded. In part thanks to its failed policy there, the challenge for Russia in the North Caucasus has changed over the last ten years. Jus [...]	2006-01-11 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PHUM EAID PREL RS
06MOSCOW10502	THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN MOSCOW, PART ONE [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is part one of a two-part series on the typical experiences of immigrants in Moscow. The current cable describes the experiences of a partly disabled Chechen male who has lived on and off in Moscow for the past 20 years. The second cable relates the experiences of a Kazakh f [...]	2006-09-20 12:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW10603	A CLOSER LOOK AT THE MURDER OF RUSSIA'S #2 BANKER [...] (C) Summary. One week after the brutal murder of First Deputy Central Bank Chairman Andrey Kozlov, there have been no apparent breaks in the case, and few believe the perpetrators will ever be caught. In contrast to the cynicism surrounding the criminal investigation, a wide swath of the econo [...]	2006-09-21 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC ECON PTER PREL RS
06MOSCOW10605	KREMLIN UNHAPPINESS CAUSES MOSCOW'S "DOMASHNIY" [...] (C) Ekho Moskvy Editor-in-Chief Aleksey Venediktov confirmed to Embassy September 19 that a newly-minted television program hosted by him and telejournalist Svetlana Sorokina had been pulled from the air following a September 10 episode that the authorities had apparently found too controversi [...]	2006-09-21 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW10606	AEROFLOT-BOEING DEAL: STILL ALIVE - FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: A surprising "white knight" - billionaire Alexandr Lebedev, minority shareholder in Aeroflot - with $40 million from his own pocket has resuscitated the Boeing deal that as of September 15th, looked near demise. Lebedev's move might give the Kremlin a face-saving to allow the Boei [...]	2006-09-21 15:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EAIR RS
06MOSCOW10607	RUSSIA PREEMPTS SAAKASHVILI UNGA SPEECH: UNOMIG [...] (C) Summary: Convoking the Friends of Georgia on September 21, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin expressed concern over the deteriorating status of Georgian-Abkhazian relations, passed draft language on an UNOMIG resolution that condemns -- sharply and at length -- GOG operations in t [...]	2006-09-21 16:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
06MOSCOW10620	RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ANATOLIY CHUBAYS [...] (C) Summary: In a September 19 meeting with the Ambassador, UES CEO Chubays was very upbeat about UES reform and the liberalization of electricity prices. He confidently predicted that strategic investors and IPOs in London and Moscow would raise the investment UES needs to meet its five y [...]	2006-09-22 08:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	AF ECON ENRG IAEA KNNP PGOV RS
06MOSCOW10665	THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE IN MOSCOW, PART TWO [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is part two of a two-part series on the typical experiences of immigrants in Moscow. The first cable described the experiences of a partly disabled Chechen male who has lived on and off in Moscow for the past 20 years. The current cable relates the experiences of a Kazakh fem [...]	2006-09-22 13:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW10689	RUSSIA: PUBLIC CHAMBER MEMBER ON PRESS FREEDOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pavel Gusev, owner and editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK) and member of the Public Chamber, described a "media vertical" of direct government ownership and indirect corporate persuasion that has left the majority of Russians with a limited range of viewpoints and most o [...]	2006-09-22 13:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM RS
06MOSCOW10692	ODIHR DIRECTOR STROHAL'S VISIT: OSCE "REFORM" AND [...] (C) Summary: During a September 19 meeting with OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Director Strohal, DFM Grushko emphasized once again Russia's desire for OSCE "reform." However, ODIHR's harshest critic had much softened his tone, according to Strohal, while sti [...]	2006-09-22 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE RS
06MOSCOW10704	HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN LUKIN ON NGO [...] (C) In a September 22 meeting with the Ambassador, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin endorsed moving forward on the proposed U.S.-Russian roundtable on democracy and human rights, and said he was prepared to discuss modalities when in Washington October 10-12. Lukin offered to intercede on [...]	2006-09-25 09:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW10719	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: (A) VNESH OPT [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, (A) Vnesh Opt Torg and (B) FSUE Scientific and Tech. Atlas, Moscow, [...]	2006-09-25 10:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW10720	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: VF COMPANY, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Vtoroy Front Company (VF Company),Moscow, Russia. The company is li [...]	2006-09-25 10:57:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW10777	RUSSIAN ENERGY:CASPIAN PIPELINE CONSORTIUM UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. This fall the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) faces both its long-awaited expansion decision and a serious tax case being brought against the CPC's Russian (CPC-R) operations. Expansion will once again be on the agenda of the September 27-28 shareholders meeting, where western [...]	2006-09-26 04:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW1083	RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER BORIS NEMTSOV REJOINS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Boris Nemtsov, erstwhile co-leader of the Union of Right Forces (SPS),will head an SPS committee charged with forging a permanent alliance among democratic opposition forces. News of the appointment came January 28, just a day before GOR officials charged Nemtsov's former busi [...]	2006-02-03 13:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PINR RS
06MOSCOW10839	RUSSIA REMAINS OPPOSED TO SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION [...] (C) We shared reftel points September 25 with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's IO Department, asking that Russia work with other Security Council members to form a consensus on the need for the Burmese regime to undertake democratic reforms. Safronkov [...]	2006-09-26 14:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS
06MOSCOW10842	GOR ENFORCES NGO REGISTRATION DEADLINE [...] (C) Russian Federal Registration Service officials have clarified that foreign NGOs that have not been re-registered by October 18 will have to stop their external activities, but will be able to continue "internal operations." NGOs are hurrying to submit their paperwork, but according to reg [...]	2006-09-27 05:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EAID PREF KDEM PREL RS
06MOSCOW10855	RUSSIAN STOCK MARKET REPORT 2006 [...] Since its consolidation in 1996, the Russian stock market has experienced growth that has led emerging markets and rivaled developed markets. Capitalization was close to USD 1 trillion by the end of August, compared to USD 346 billion at the end of August 2005, and USD 177 billion at the end [...]	2006-09-27 08:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON EINV RS
06MOSCOW10861	RUSSIA'S "DEMOCRATS" IN DISARRAY [...] (C) Summary: Russia's "democrats" remain in near-terminal disarray. Personality disputes, disagreements over accommodating with the Kremlin, differences over the viability of political activity, and difficulties in political party registration undercut efforts aimed at uniting in advance o [...]	2006-09-27 11:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
06MOSCOW1088	RCFS DIRECTOR CONVICTED, PUT ON PROBATION [...] (SBU) A Russian court on February 3 convicted Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) Executive Director Stanislav Dmitriyevskiy of inciting national hatred, as had been widely expected. The Nizhniy Novgorod court gave Dmitriyevskiy a two-year suspended sentence and placed him on probation [...]	2006-02-03 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PREF RS
06MOSCOW10982	RUSSIA SUPPORTS ONE YEAR EXTENSION OF SUDAN PANEL [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-28 14:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC SU RS
06MOSCOW10984	RUSSIAN ENERGY: PSAS -- THE VIEW FROM SAKHALIN AND [...] (C) Summary. From discussions in Moscow and Sakhalin this week, Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) may be out of favor, but they are far from being driven out of business. Shell (Sakhalin-2) appears to have dodged the bullet of having its environmental license revoked, but still faces tough [...]	2006-09-28 14:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW10985	AMBASSADOR'S SEPTEMBER 27 MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) In a September 27 meeting with the Ambassador, Russian Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin gave few details on debt relief for Afghanistan, but noted he hoped to conclude a bilateral agreement by February 2007. On Iraq, Kudrin said resolving the Qurna-2 license issue was important but not a [...]	2006-09-28 14:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW10986	"NOT WAR, BUT CLOSE:" RUSSIAN REACTION TO GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: DFM Karasin told Ambassador September 28 the arrest of Russian officers in Georgia "could have been a casus belli." Russian reaction "will be more reasonable." Russia "has the impression that it cannot rely on its American partners." Karasin asked for U.S. help in freeing the o [...]	2006-09-28 15:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO GG RS
06MOSCOW10990	NATO SOFA RATIFICATION: VERDICT STILL OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the Foreign Ministry, the Russian Government is completing its review of the NATO Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) -- which was signed last year -- and expects to send it to the Duma "within weeks." The MFA assured us that all GOR entities, including the Ministry o [...]	2006-09-29 07:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PGOV RS
06MOSCOW11002	RUSSIA: CENTER-REGIONAL RELATIONS UNDER STRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Federal-local relations in Russia are under increasing stress due to the implementation of the Local Self-Government Law of 2003. This law cuts the flow of tax dollars to regional and local government in order to spur the localities to become entrepreneurial in developing their [...]	2006-09-29 11:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL RS
06MOSCOW11024	INITIAL REACTION TO 2006 IRF REPORT [...] (U) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Mikhail Kaminin told reporters that the 2006 International Religious Freedom Report amounted to a repetition of groundless claims that there are restrictions on religious freedom in Russia. He said that U.S. officials had repeatedly ignored GOR explan [...]	2006-09-29 14:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW11029	RUSSIAN REACTS TO ARRESTS OF SOLDIERS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador strongly encouraged restraint in a September 29 telephone conversation with Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin. Karasin responded that he appreciated U.S. responsiveness and welcomed Tbilisi's decision to permit joint patrolling of the Kodori Gorge. The MFA confir [...]	2006-09-29 15:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO GG RS
06MOSCOW11032	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Technoservicepribor, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS li [...]	2006-10-02 08:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW11079	CPC AND SHTOKMAN: SOME RESIGNATION, SPRINKLED WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. On September 28, Ambassador met with Chevron's VP for Business Development Jay Pryor and the company's Russia chief, Ian MacDonald. On Shtokman, Chevron believes it has little chance of affecting the outcome of the now-politicized deal, but noted that market realities (missing t [...]	2006-10-03 07:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW11107	RUSSIAN SANCTIONS ON GEORGIA TO STAY FOR NOW [...] (C) Following President Putin's October 1 comments that Georgia's arrest of Russian officers was an act of "state terrorism," new measures targeting Georgia are being enacted. As of October 3, flights between Georgia and Russia have been halted for "recertification." Ferry service between So [...]	2006-10-03 13:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW11137	UNITED RUSSIA SEEKS MAJORITY IN OCTOBER 8 [...] (C) A September 28 - 29 visit to Chuvashiya in the run-up to the October 8 State Council elections found: -- five of the Republic's twenty-two parties on the ballot, with a sixth --the Party of Pensioners-- denied registration, and joining the Party of Life in supporting Rodina's quest to cr [...]	2006-10-04 12:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW11169	POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) Summary: DFM Alekseyev told the Ambassador October 4 that Russia recognized the seriousness of the situation following the DPRK's announcement and understood U.S. concerns. Alekseyev urged that the Security Council move deliberately to craft a response, but was lukewarm about a potenti [...]	2006-10-04 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KN RS
06MOSCOW11172	UNITED RUSSIA IGNORES THE PARTY OF LIFE IN LIPETSK [...] (SBU) Lipetsk oblast and city are tightly controlled by United Russia Governor Oleg Korolyev. Oblast regional elections will be held on October 8 and it is widely believed in Lipetsk that YR will win a decisive majority. While the Communist Party (KPRF) continues to have loyal followers, it ap [...]	2006-10-04 15:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW11241	YOUR MOSCOW VISIT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA [...] (C) We welcome your visit to Moscow as a chance to engage the GOR face-to-face on sensitive regional issues and begin to chip away at Moscow's misconceptions about U.S. intentions in the region. It is a commonplace assumption that Moscow's policies in Central and South Asia are fueled by a [...]	2006-10-06 07:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG PTER SNAR RS
06MOSCOW11252	RUSSIA: DAS KRAMER MEETINGS ON NGOS AND HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS David Kramer reinforced US concerns over NGO re-registration and encouraged Human Rights Ombudsman Lukin to finalize details of an "unofficial" human rights/democracy dialogue. Both Lukin and Public Chamber member Nikonov acknowledged bureaucratic difficulties and endo [...]	2006-10-06 07:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV RS
06MOSCOW11256	RUSSIA: E/CBA FRANK MERMOUD'S ENERGY DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Summary: During his September 18-21 visit to Moscow, E/CBA Frank Mermoud's GOR and private sector interlocutors described continued GOR debate on new subsoil and strategic sectors legislation, growing displeasure with Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) coupled with assurances that existi [...]	2006-10-06 09:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW11260	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: CHANCE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Chance 2003 LLC, Kostroma, Russia. The company is listed on BIS lice [...]	2006-10-06 11:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW11261	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: TETIS PRO, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Tetis Pro, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license appl [...]	2006-10-06 11:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW11262	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Elektroneftemash, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS licen [...]	2006-10-06 11:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW11264	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Federalnaya Sluzhba Ohrany, Moscow, Russia. The company wa [...]	2006-10-06 11:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW11266	KREMLIN HUMAN RIGHTS CHAIRWOMAN PROMISES NO [...] (C) Chairwoman of the Presidential Administration Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Ella Pamfilova emphatically assured Ambassador October 5 that "nothing would happen" to curtail the activities of NGOs not re-registered by the October 18 deadline. Pamfilova's office was monitoring t [...]	2006-10-06 11:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW11275	RUSSIA: NGO REGISTRATION UPDATE; DEADLINE [...] (C) Summary: In an October 5 conversation with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yakovenko, the Ambassador urged the GOR to extend an October 18 deadline for the re-registration of foreign NGOs and underscored the damage that would result from a suspension in their external programs. Yakovenko [...]	2006-10-06 14:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL RS
06MOSCOW11276	UNITED RUSSIA AIMS TO WIN BY A WIDE MARGIN IN TUVA [...] (SBU) Embassy visited the Republic of Tuva October 1-5, in advance of the October 8 regional election. Tuva is tightly controlled by Regional Head Sherig-Ool Oorzhak, who became a member of United Russia (YR) eight months ago, and it is widely believed that YR will win a decisive majority, wit [...]	2006-10-06 14:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL SOCI RS
06MOSCOW11279	THE OCTOBER 8 REGIONAL ELECTIONS AS A PROVING [...] (C) The October 8 elections are being viewed by commentators here as a rehearsal for the 2007 State Duma elections (which some see as a rehearsal for the 2008 presidential contest). Viewed from that vantage point, the contests, in nine regions and republics of Russia, should offer the Kremlin [...]	2006-10-06 15:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL SOCI RS
06MOSCOW11280	PREPARING THE GROUND FOR UNSC ACTION ON DPRK [...] (S) Summary: DFM Alekseyev told the Ambassador October 6 that Russia found a DPRK nuclear test to be "absolutely unacceptable" and stressed that the North Korean regime had received this message from Russia in clear and unmistakable terms. Responding to the Ambassador's urging that Russia [...]	2006-10-06 15:08:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PARM KNNP UNSC KN RS
06MOSCOW11310	MANAGED DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: ASTRAKHAN REGIONAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In advance of October 8 regional elections, we visited Astrakhan Oblast and found: -- The Kremlin-backed United Russia party in the lead and expecting to gain a majority in the regional Duma; -- A popular United Russia governor who touts his ability to use his contacts in th [...]	2006-10-06 16:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM RS
06MOSCOW11313	RUSSIA: DEMARCHE ON MURDER OF POLITKOVSKAYA [...] (C) In an October 9 conversation with First Deputy Foreign Minister Denisov, the Ambassador delivered reftel demarche, underscoring deep U.S. concern over the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, referring also to Department and White House public statements, and stressing the need for a [...]	2006-10-09 10:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW11315	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: NO LET-UP [...] (S) Russian officials continue to reject relaxation of economic sanctions. About 150 Georgians have been deported. Police document checks have intensified. Georgians here on work permits are seeking other citizenship. However, official actions in Moscow hit ethnic Georgian Russian citizens [...]	2006-10-09 10:54:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL MARR ETRD UNSC GG RS
06MOSCOW11316	POLITKOVSKAYAâ€™S DEATH SENDS SHOCK WAVES THROUGH [...] (C) The October 7 murder of internationally-known investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya has sent shock waves through Moscow. A public demonstration has been held, the co-owner of Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper where Politkovksaya had worked since 1999, is offering a 25 million ruble reward for [...]	2006-10-09 11:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW11317	MOSCOW'S REACTION TO THE DPRK NUCLEAR TEST [...] (S) The Ambassador met twice with Deputy Foreign Minister Alekseyev on October 9 to discuss North Korea's nuclear test and next steps. Alekseyev said that Russia takes extremely seriously the test and Russia agrees that strong measures are warranted. Alekseyev handed over a statement (text b [...]	2006-10-09 11:28:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PARM KNNP UNSC KN RS
06MOSCOW11371	RUSSIAN ENERGY: RUSSIANS RETHINK SHTOKMAN [...] (C) Summary. Gazprom's October 8 decision to reject foreign equity participation in the giant Shtokman gas and LNG project in the Barents Sea, in favor of developing the field itself, reflects a growing trend towards energy nationalism, and genuine concern about maintaining control of such a [...]	2006-10-10 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW11372	RUSSIA-ABKHAZIA: SEEKING A DEAL AT THE UNSC [...] (C) DFM Karasin convoked Ambassador October 10. He hoped for "a more constructive and flexible" U.S. approach to the Russian draft UNSCR on UNOMIG mandate renewal and said the Europeans are willing to be flexible. If the resolution included a "blunt message" to Tbilisi on its Kodori operatio [...]	2006-10-10 15:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR UNSC GG RS
06MOSCOW11388	ELECTION LAW REQUIREMENTS FOR PROSPECTIVE DUMA [...] (U) This message reviews the electoral procedures in place for participating in the 2007 elections to the Duma. There have been no amendments to the electoral law since the Duma eliminated the "against all candidates" ballot option before the summer break. In order to be elected a Duma Deputy, [...]	2006-10-11 13:05:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM RS
06MOSCOW11413	REGIONAL ELECTION RESULTS: UNITED RUSSIA WINS AS [...] (SBU) As expected, the Kremlin's United Russia received a plurality or majority of votes cast in the elections for nine regional legislatures on October 8. Other key findings: -- the experiment with managed, two-party democracy seems to have succeeded from the perspective of the Presidential [...]	2006-10-11 14:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW11488	DPRK NUCLEAR TEST RESOLUTION: DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche October 12 to MFA First Asia Department Senior Counselor Oleg Davydov, who advises DFM Alekseyev on North Korean issues. Davydov said that his superiors will "mull" over the draft resolution to assess what had been changed from earlier drafts and the Russian [...]	2006-10-12 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP UNSC KN RS
06MOSCOW11489	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: BACKLASH AGAINST THE BACKLASH? [...] (C) Summary: The Public Chamber has condemned bureaucratic moves that have targeted ethnic Georgians, but few elected officials have followed suit. Deportations have temporarily slowed, but arrests of Georgians who are accused of not having legal status in Russia continue. There is anecdo [...]	2006-10-12 14:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM GG RS
06MOSCOW11490	PUTIN REACTS TO POLITKOVSKAYA ASSASSINATION [...] (C) President Putin, three days after the murder of outspoken investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, issued his definitive public statement that everything would be done to find the killers and bring them to trial. Russia's Prosecutor General, in fact, has already assumed charge of the [...]	2006-10-12 16:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW11533	THIRD CONTRACT KILLING EVOKES MEMORIES OF 1990'S [...] (C) Summary. Vneshtorgbank banker Alexander Plokhin was gunned down October 11 in an apparent contract killing, the third in Moscow in a month. Foreign investors are growing increasingly concerned by the perception of lawlessness in the streets of Moscow, although local business leaders are ta [...]	2006-10-13 12:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETTC PREL PTER RS
06MOSCOW11539	RUSSIA-GEORGIA UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Arrests and deportations of Georgians accused of violating immigrations laws continue, but no new measures have been enacted against Georgia or against ethnic Georgians living in Russia. No reliable numbers are available for the number of Georgians found not to have legal stat [...]	2006-10-13 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF GG RS
06MOSCOW11540	RUSSIAN-CHECHEN FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY ORDERED CLOSED [...] (U) A Nizhniy Novgorod court on October 13 ordered the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) to be closed. According to press reports, the court found that the organization violated the NGO law. Specifically, it ruled that RCFS had allowed its Executive Director Stanislav Dmitrievskiy to [...]	2006-10-13 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL RS
06MOSCOW11582	GEORGIA UPDATE: OCTOBER 16 [...] (C) Deportations of undocumented Georgian nationals continue. Round-ups have slowed in Moscow, but picked up in St. Petersburg. Russian and Georgian officials continue to trade insults and veiled threats. Harassment of ethnic Georgians may have peaked thanks to a backlash from Russians of m [...]	2006-10-16 15:36:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL MARR ETRD PREF GG RS
06MOSCOW11584	INFORMATION REGARDING UNSCR 1718: DEMARCHE [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche October 16 to MFA First Asia Department Senior Counselor Arkadiy Lavrov, who advises DFM Alekseyev on North Korean issues. (Note: Alekseyev is currently in South Korea, accompanying PM Fradkov and will not return to Moscow before October 23). Pointing to Rus [...]	2006-10-16 15:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP UNSC KN RS
06MOSCOW11629	GEORGIA UPDATE, OCTOBER 17 [...] (C) A Georgian detainee from St. Petersburg died of an asthma attack as he waited at a Moscow airport to board the plane deporting him to Georgia. This was the third plane to deport Georgians, bringing the number of deported to over 400. Some 300 more Georgians have received deportation or [...]	2006-10-17 14:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PREF GG RS
06MOSCOW11631	RODINA: SATISFIED BUT SUING [...] (SBU) Rodina had a poor showing in the October 8 regional elections; it crossed the 7 percent threshold for representation in only one region: Astrakhan. Nevertheless, Deputy Chair of Rodina's Executive Committee Maksim Puchkov in an October 12 conversation found cause for optimism in the vo [...]	2006-10-17 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW11632	YABLOKO AT A LOSS AFTER OCTOBER 8 ELECTIONS [...] (C) In an October 11 meeting, Yabloko Deputy Chairman Sergey Mitrokhin and Political Department Head Galina Mikhaleva said the party is facing an existential crisis following the poor results of the October 8 elections, where the party polled in the two percent range. Mitrokhin charged red ta [...]	2006-10-17 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW11637	NGO RE-REGISTRATION STATE-OF-PLAY AS OF OCTOBER 17 [...] (U) With the October 18 NGO re-registration deadline looming, the Federal Registration Service reports that: -- 80 NGOs have been re-registered, 42 of them U.S. NGOs; -- 70 re-registration applications are pending; -- only three NGOs have to date been denied re-registration. One of them, a T [...]	2006-10-17 14:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL PREF RS
06MOSCOW11652	PSYCHIATRY ABUSED FOR COMMERCIAL ENDS [...] (C) Anecdotal evidence suggests that psychiatry is increasingly being used as a tool, especially in more "sophisticated" urban areas like Moscow, in the resolution of family squabbles or business disputes. The interpretation of a 2001 law on legal expertise activities allegedly has been used [...]	2006-10-18 10:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW11690	GEORGIA UPDATE: OCTOBER 18 [...] (C) Deportation orders against Georgian continue; the Georgian Embassy claims about 1000 Georgians have been told to leave without being detained. Georgians are expected to take Russian citizenship in greater numbers as a protective move. Georgian restaurants are reopening. The official mood [...]	2006-10-18 14:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PREF GG RS
06MOSCOW11695	ELECTORAL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) Central Electoral Commission (CEC) Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov reviewed the October 8 regional elections, recent developments in electoral technology, prospects for the 2007 regional and national (Duma) elections, and possible further amendments to the election law in a meeting with Embas [...]	2006-10-19 06:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW11698	MOSCOW EXPERTS ON DPRK NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) Summary. Despite the GOR's strongly negative reaction to the reported nuclear test and its cooperation on UNSC 1718, Moscow's Korea watchers were for the large part critical of U.S. policies, arguing that the impasse over the DPRK program could have been avoided had the U.S. acted differ [...]	2006-10-19 06:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP UNSC KN RS
06MOSCOW1171	RUSSIA COMFORTABLE WITH STATUS QUO IN BELARUS [...] (C) Summary: The MFA's official stance on Belarus seems to have shifted from resigned noninterference to passive support for Lukashenko and the status quo. However, Russian activists and leaders of the Belarusian opposition based in Moscow have not given up hope that determined resistance wi [...]	2006-02-08 08:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR BO RS
06MOSCOW11729	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: DAS BRYZA CONVERSATION WITH [...] (C) DAS Matt Bryza and Ambassador called on Russian DFM Grigoriy Karasin October 6. Karasin said Russian patience with Georgia was at an end, and catalogued Russian views of the worsening relations, culminating with the arrest of Russian soldiers immediately after NATO offered Georgia Intensi [...]	2006-10-19 09:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM PREF GG RS
06MOSCOW11765	OCT 18 MEETING WITH KREMLIN ECONOMIST DVORKOVICH [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a wide ranging discussion with Economic Minister-Counselor October 18, Arkadiy Dvorkovich, Head of the Experts Group of the Russian Presidential Administration exuded quiet confidence about the difficult path of economic reform in Russia. He cited recent positive movement acro [...]	2006-10-19 13:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG ETRD KIPR
06MOSCOW11771	GEORGIA UPDATE, OCTOBER 19 [...] (C) News of detention of Georgians continues to appear, with the Volga Federal District the latest site. The Georgian Embassy claims that educational institutions are still being used in some areas to locate undocumented Georgians, though a Moscow official denies this ever happened inside th [...]	2006-10-19 14:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PREF GG RS
06MOSCOW11773	A/S BOUCHER HEARS RUSSIAN WORRIES ABOUT AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: During October 9 consultations in Moscow, A/S Boucher outlined U.S. intentions in Central Asia, stressed steps we were taking to address terrorism and narcotics trafficking in Afghanistan, and reviewed U.S. nuclear policies in South Asia. Foreign Ministry officials and the Rus [...]	2006-10-19 15:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER SNAR ENRG XD ZK RS
06MOSCOW11775	RUSSIA IPR: OUTSPOKEN LIBERAL LEGISLATOR ON CIVIL [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not intended for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. Federation Council Senator Ludmila Narusova shares our sense that the Duma will likely pass a flawed Part IV of the Civil Code this fall. She intends to speak to Putin about her co [...]	2006-10-20 05:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR RS
06MOSCOW11778	MIGRATION SERVICE DIRECTOR ROMODANOVSKIY ON NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Federal Migration Service Director Konstantin Romodanovskiy told PRM/Admissions Director Terry Rusch October 6 that Russia would consider resettlement of North Koreans to the U.S. on a case-by-case basis, repeating what other GOR interlocutors have told us previously. Separately, [...]	2006-10-20 06:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL RS
06MOSCOW11821	DELIVERY OF JOSEPH-KISLYAK LETTER [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel letter to Sergey Petlyakov, Chief Counselor in the Arms and Technology Transfer Policy Division of the Foreign Ministry's Department for Security Affairs and Disarmament (DVBR) on October 19. 2. (S) Petlyakov said he would ensure Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ki [...]	2006-10-20 14:02:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM PREL MCAP KNNP LY RS
06MOSCOW11830	SCENESETTER: TREASURY U/S LEVEY'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) On behalf of the U.S. Mission in Russia, we extend a warm welcome to you and your delegation. Your visit offers an opportunity to continue your discussions with the Russians on combating terrorism financing as well as our grave concerns about Iran's and North Korea's activity in this rega [...]	2006-10-20 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KTFN EFIN PTER OTRA OVIP RS
06MOSCOW11831	NGO RE-REGISTRATION UPDATE: NDI, IRI APPROVED [...] (U) The Federal Registration Service (FRS) informed NDI and IRI on October 20 that they had been re-registered. IRI has already been added to the list of approved organizations on the FRS website. Both were told to pick up their documents on October 23. Amid heightened international and Ru [...]	2006-10-20 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM PREF RS
06MOSCOW11833	RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO ATGM TRANSFER TO SYRIA [...] (S) SUMMARY: Russia's investigation into the transfer of anti-tank guided missiles to Syria has confirmed that some Russian-made weapons had been funneled to Hizballah. As a result, the head of the Tula design bureau responsible for the transfer has been fired, and the Foreign Ministry has [...]	2006-10-20 15:23:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PARM ETTC RS SY IS
06MOSCOW11834	HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN GIVEN ADDITIONAL POWERS [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 16, President Putin signed into law amendments to the Federal Constitutional Law on the Human Rights Commission, which considerably broaden the Human Rights Ombudsman Office's powers. The new legislation gives the Ombudsman the right to propose parliamentary probes in [...]	2006-10-20 15:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW11931	S/CT URBANCIC DISCUSSES CHECHNYA WITH DEPUTY [...] (C) Summary: Russia's Deputy Presidential Representative to the Southern Federal District briefed Deputy S/CT Urbancic on Chechnya, placing it solely in the category of a terrorist conflict. Recognizing that mistakes were made by the GOR, he noted the importance of economic opportunity and [...]	2006-10-24 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW11938	INVITATION ACCEPTED: THE NEW DELHI NOVEMBER 18-19 [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-25 05:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG ETRD EAGR KPWR EAID BEXP PGOV RS
06MOSCOW11987	EUR A/S FRIED MEETS RUSSIAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: In his October 21 meeting with EUR A/S Fried, Russia's Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin urged presidential endorsement of the unofficial human rights dialogue initiative organized by his office and the Moscow Carnegie Center, against a backdrop of public disenchantment wit [...]	2006-10-25 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW11988	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: MOSCOW [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Moscow Institute of Radio-Technique Electronics and Automation (MIRE [...]	2006-10-25 14:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW11989	IN ANNUAL Q&A, PUTIN EXCLUDES THIRD TERM, WORRIES [...] (SBU) On October 25, President Putin hosted his annual "direct line to the President," during which he answered questions from Russia's regions and from Russian speakers abroad (Sevastopol, Ukraine). This year's "direct line" lasted 2 hours and 54 minutes, outstripping last year's by one minu [...]	2006-10-25 14:16:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM SOCI PINR RS
06MOSCOW11994	A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH U.S. NGOS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Representatives of four U.S-based NGOs told EUR A/S Fried that they were trying to keep a low profile in light of the NGO law, approaching elections, and increasing GOR assertiveness, especially statist, in key economic sectors. Although NGOs were under increasing scrutiny and [...]	2006-10-26 07:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EINV KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12000	DRAFT MOSCOW LEGISLATION MAY LIMIT "RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Moscow City Duma is considering a quality-of-life bill which, if adopted in its present form, would allow authorities to fine those engaged in many forms of street solicitation, including "religious agitation." Some religious organizations here worry that if passed as curren [...]	2006-10-26 11:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW12029	PRESERVING LEBANESE PM SINIORA'S GOVERNMENT: [...] (S) We delivered reftel demarche October 25 to MFA Middle East and North Africa Department Senior Counselor Vladimir Baibakov. Baibakov provided the following points: -- the GOR was aware of the concern over the SARG's attempt to undermine the Siniora government; -- Russia sees Siniora a [...]	2006-10-27 05:49:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS RS

06MOSCOW12035	OLMERT VISIT: AUSPICIOUS START [...] (C) Summary. Israeli PM Ehud Olmert's first working visit to Moscow as prime minister coincided with the 15th anniversary of Israel-Russia renewed diplomatic ties. The issues discussed in Olmert's three meetings--with President Putin, FM Lavrov and Defense Minister Ivanov--included the Middl [...]	2006-10-27 10:45:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PGOV PINR IS RS
06MOSCOW12036	TRANSNISTRIA: WHY IS VALERIY NESTERUSHKIN SMILING? [...] (C) Russian diplomacy has become more active with Moldova since Putin and Voronin met August 8. The rise of Yanukovich in Ukraine has helped Russia exert leverage over Moldova, helping to roll back the agreement between Moldova and Ukraine on customs that so irritated the Transnistrians. Russ [...]	2006-10-27 11:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ETRD MD RS
06MOSCOW12042	FORMER RUSSIAN PM KASYANOV: OPPOSITION WOES, [...] (C) In a recent one-on-one lunch with Ambassador, a confident ex-prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov cited reasons to be optimistic about his presidential prospects: -- the business community's alleged latent support for his economic reform agenda; -- the weakness of current contenders Medve [...]	2006-10-27 11:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI RS
06MOSCOW1212	PUBLIC CHAMBER HEAD VELIKHOV DESCRIBES EFFORTS TO [...] SUMMARY. In a February 6 meeting with the Ambassador, Public Chamber Secretary Yevgeniy Velikhov expressed hope that the Chamber could positively influence the implementing regulations for the controversial NGO legislation. He dismissed recent spying accusations against NGOs as nonsense. He [...]	2006-02-08 12:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW12139	GOR DOWNPLAYS PROSPECT OF VIOLENCE IN BISHKEK [...] (C) In an October 31 meeting, Maksim Peshkov, Director, First CIS Department (Central Asia),attributed Kyrgyzstan's current turmoil to the failure of the Bakiyev-Kulov "tandem" to achieve political and economic stability. He said that Bakiyev, representing the South, and Kulov, the North, co [...]	2006-10-31 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KG RS
06MOSCOW12143	NINETEEN PARTIES REGISTERED FOR 2007 ELECTIONS; [...] (C) The Federal Registration Service (FRS) has completed its inspection of the 35 political parties that filed for re-registration according to the new, more stringent requirements of the amended electoral law. A FRS representative at an October 26 press conference reported that sixteen of th [...]	2006-11-01 07:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW12158	RUSSIA IPR: AMBASSADOR'S 10/31 MEETING ON CIVIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an October 31 meeting with Presidential Advisor Veniamin Yakovlev and Duma Legislative Committee Chairman Pavel Krasheninnikov, Ambassador outlined top USG concerns regarding draft Part IV of the Civil Code on IPR and strongly urged action now to correct serious inconsistencie [...]	2006-11-01 10:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD WTO RS
06MOSCOW12159	CHECHEN PRESIDENCY: KADYROV SAYS HE HAS PUTIN'S [...] (C) Ramzan Kadyrov said privately that Putin has told him he will name Kadyrov President of Chechnya before the end of the year. Dagestani Duma Member Gadzhi Makhachev (protect) told us November 1 that Kadyrov revealed this to him in a conversation at Kadyrov's Bayram ('Id al-Fitr) party in G [...]	2006-11-01 11:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER MARR RS
06MOSCOW12161	DOT DEPUTY SECRETARY CINO'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a October 24 meeting with Deputy Secretary Cino, Russian Railroads (RZhD) Vice President Vadim SIPDIS Morozov discussed on-going RZhD restructuring efforts and competition in the rail sector. Morozov said GE's diesel engines had been found incompatible with Russia's mostl [...]	2006-11-01 11:47:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELTN OVIP PREL RS
06MOSCOW12168	RUSSIA: LEFT-OF-CENTER PARTY MERGER FINALIZED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 28, the new Spravedlivaya Rossiya ("A Just Russia") party was formally established in a merger of the Russian Party of Life, Rodina, and the Party of Pensioners. The leader of the new party is Federation Council Chairman and Russia Party of Life Chairman Sergey Miron [...]	2006-11-01 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR KDEM PGOV RS
06MOSCOW1219	DANISH CARICATURE CONTROVERSY PRODUCES FALLOUT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 6, Chechnya's controversial Acting Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, announced that Danish NGOs would be banned in his republic because of the insult to Muslims caused by the caricatures in a Danish newspaper. GOR officials distanced themselves from Kadyrov's position, [...]	2006-02-08 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW12200	MOSCOW WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESUMPTION OF [...] (U) The Russian government welcomed the agreement to resume the Six-Party talks. Russian officials, including Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov, Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov, and Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Alekseyev accepted the announcement as "exceedingly positive." Alekseye [...]	2006-11-02 09:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP KN RS
06MOSCOW12231	DEMARCHE ON DISRUPTION OF CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL [...] (C) We made reftel demarche November 1 to Ambassador Valeriy Nesterushkin, MFA negotiator for Transnistria. Nesterushkin made two notes of fact. In the first tick, he said the decision to cancel trains no. 47 (Moscow-Chisinau) and 48 (Chisinau-Moscow) was taken by Russian Railroads, not the G [...]	2006-11-02 14:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PBTS MD UP RS
06MOSCOW12232	PROPOSED ECONOMIC SANCTIONS BILL LIKELY TO PASS [...] (U) On October 27, United Russia Duma Deputies submitted a bill that would empower the Russian President to impose economic sanctions against any country, legal entity, or person in the event of an "emergency situation." The bill is still in its early stages. While there are differing views [...]	2006-11-02 14:19:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON RS
06MOSCOW12257	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: FM BEZHUASHVILI GETS RUSSIA'S [...] (C) Georgian FM Bezhuashvili told Ambassador November 2 that he "got the message" passed to him bluntly November 1 by FM Lavrov and Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov: that the Russians believe Georgia will begin military action in Abkhazia or South Ossetia; that Russia will confront Georg [...]	2006-11-02 14:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW12259	RUSSIAN MFA CRITICIZES DAS BRYZA'S FINANCIAL TIMES [...] (C) MFA North America Deputy Director Vladimir Vinokurov contacted Political M/C November 2 to highlight the ministry's critical reaction to comments made about the Northern European Gas Pipeline (NEGP) by DAS Bryza in an October 30 Financial Times of Germany interview. Vinkurov told us the [...]	2006-11-02 15:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG RS
06MOSCOW12261	RUSSIAN ELECTRICITY SECTOR PRIVATIZATION BEGINS [...] (C) Summary. Russian electricity monopoly, RAO UES, on October 31 sold 14.4 percent of daughter company WGK-5 for $459 million, marking the first of the restructured power generating companies to be successfully privatized. Speculation that Gazprom would acquire the entire offering proved to [...]	2006-11-02 16:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS
06MOSCOW12265	OWNER VOWS TO PUSH FOR VIGOROUS INVESTIGATION OF [...] (C) A resolute Marat Gelman told us October 31 that he intended to use his remaining official contacts to energize a languishing criminal investigation of the October 21 attack on his Moscow Gelman Art Gallery. Law enforcement officials had "done nothing" since ten men smashed twenty paintings [...]	2006-11-03 04:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM SCUL RS
06MOSCOW12310	MORE NGOS RE-REGISTERED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The re-registration of foreign NGOs is continuing apace, with 148 approved by the backlogged Federal Registration Service. A majority of U.S. NGOs known to the Embassy are re-registered, with Human Rights Watch expecting approval any day. In the North Caucasus, the FRS and tax [...]	2006-11-03 16:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PREF EAID KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12311	RUSSIA: NATIONALISTS TO MARCH ON NOVEMBER 4 [...] SUMMARY: On Russia Unity Day, November 4, a large nationalist "Russia March" is planned for several Russian cities, including Moscow. Russia March is being organized by the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) and is supported by several other nationalist and fascist groups, and by som [...]	2006-11-03 16:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR PINS RS
06MOSCOW12347	RUSSIAN MFA ON TALKS WITH GEORGIA [...] (C) The Russian MFA was disappointed that Georgian FM Bezhuashvili brought no deliverables with him to his November 1-2 talks in Moscow. The Russians are hearing rumors of a major cabinet reshuffle in Tbilisi. Proposed talks between President Saakashvili and South Ossetian leader Kokoity are [...]	2006-11-07 15:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR GG RS
06MOSCOW12369	RUSSIAN NATIONALIST MARCH FIZZLES [...] (SBU) Decisive action by the Moscow city authorities and waning enthusiasm for the enterprise produced smaller-then-predicted attendance at the March 4 nationalist "Russian march." In the end, fewer then three thousand Muscovites participated on Saturday, a fraction of the number of police an [...]	2006-11-08 16:18:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW12371	MOSCOW'S REACTION TO BISHKEK VIOLENCE: "ANOTHER [...] (C) The GOR has reacted cautiously to events in Bishkek. After the news of the November 7 violence reached Moscow, DFM Denisov told the Ambassador that the GOR was keeping a close watch on the situation and urging calm. Director of the MFA's First CIS Department (Central Asia) Maksim Peshkov t [...]	2006-11-08 16:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KG RS
06MOSCOW12390	RUSSIA ON DEBT RELIEF FOR IRAQ [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-09 12:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN IZ RS
06MOSCOW12394	RUSSIA IPR: PART IV OF CIVIL CODE ADVANCES [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and is not intended for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The State Duma passed Part IV of the Civil Code in its second reading on November 8. The third and final reading of the law is likely to take place within the next ten days. [...]	2006-11-09 14:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD WTO RS
06MOSCOW12395	TREASURY U/S LEVEY'S MEETING WITH RUSSIA'S FEDERAL [...] (C) In a meeting on October 24 with Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey, Federal Financial Monitoring Service SIPDIS (FFMS) Chief Viktor Zubkov said he shared the USG's concern about North Korean financial flows. He recounted how the FFMS had investigated information on North Korean enti [...]	2006-11-09 14:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN ETTC ECON PTER PREL RS
06MOSCOW12396	TREASURY U/S LEVEY DISCUSSES DPRK, IRAN WITH [...] Summary. (C) In meetings October 23 and 24 with Treasury Under Secretary Levey, officials from the Central Bank (CBR),Finance Ministry and private Russian banks downplayed the possibility that North Korean and Iranian entities are actively using the Russian financial system to launder money [...]	2006-11-09 14:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN ETTC ECON PTER PREL RS
06MOSCOW12402	RUSSIAN DFM KISLYAK: BILATERAL RELATIONS UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: In a November 8 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Kislyak expressed concern over the potential impact of US congressional elections on WTO and bilateral nuclear cooperation. He argued again that US sanctions against Sukhoi were symbolic of the failings in bilateral relations -- [...]	2006-11-09 15:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNDP ECON ETRD RS
06MOSCOW12424	RUSSIA: TERRORISM FINANCING COORDINATING OFFICER [...] (C) Post's Terrorism Financing Coordinating Officer (TFCO) is Kathleen Doherty, Economic Policy Unit Chief, 7-495-728-5186. Unclassified email is: DohertyKA@state.gov. Classified email is: DohertyKX@state.sgov.gov. 2. (C) Post's Deputy TFCO is Clayton Hays, Financial Economist, 7-495-728-5 [...]	2006-11-13 15:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN PTER RS
06MOSCOW12441	RUSSIAN REACTION TO EVENTS IN GEORGIA [...] (C) MFA 4th CIS Department Director Andrey Kelin told us November 13 that Georgia shows no willingness to meet Russia's "simple" demands for normalizing relations. He downplayed the effects of the sacking of former DefMin Okruashvili. He fretted that an "alternative election" in South Osseti [...]	2006-11-14 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PBTS UNSC OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW12448	BRYANSK: CASE STUDY OF A REGIONAL PARTY OF POWER [...] (SBU) Summary: Once a keystone of post-Soviet Communist control, the political scene in Bryansk region is now dominated by United Russia (YR). YR has attracted the youth, business, and elite vote - votes that used to be divided between the Communist Party and liberal parties like the Union of [...]	2006-11-15 09:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW12457	RUSSIA'S DEFENSE MINISTER RAISES PUBLIC PROFILE [...] (C) SUMMARY; Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov has made himself more available to the media and the general public in recent weeks. Although he is careful to limit his remarks to issues within his core portfolio, an "interactive interview" in a prominent newspaper las [...]	2006-11-15 15:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MCAP PREL RS
06MOSCOW12458	RUSSIAN ENERGY: UPDATE ON SAKHALIN-1 OPERATIONS [...] (SBU) In light of press reports indicating that the GOR was slowing the Sakhalin-1 consortium's operations, we contacted ExxonMobil's Sakhalin office to get an update. According to Michael Allen, ExxonMobil's government relations head on Sakhalin, as of November 16 the consortium had still not [...]	2006-11-16 05:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12470	COUNTRY RESOLUTIONS IN THE UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE: [...] (C) In a November 16 conversation, Grigoriy Lukyantsev, Head of the UN Division of the MFA's Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, told us that Russia would oppose resolutions on the human rights situations in Iran, Belarus and Uzbekistan. He said Russia would support a N [...]	2006-11-16 13:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC RS
06MOSCOW12471	NGO REGISTRATION UPDATE: NOVEMBER 16 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Federal Registration Service (FRS) has now re-registered 159 foreign NGOs, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. We understand FRS has rejected five NGOs, although none appear to be U.S. organizations. The authorities have disseminated draft guidelines [...]	2006-11-16 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV PREF EAID KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12473	RUSSIA WELCOMES CONSULTATIONS ON U.S. MISSILE [...] (S) Oleg Burmistrov, Chief of the Political-Military Section of the Foreign Ministry's North America Department, told us 13 November that Moscow appreciated the 3 November visit of Undersecretary of Defense Stephen Cambone, who briefed Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergey Ivanov [...]	2006-11-16 15:08:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MARR MCAP PARM PREL RS
06MOSCOW12481	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: LE MONTI MR. [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Le Monti Mr. Evgeny Mirmovich, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed [...]	2006-11-17 11:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12482	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: (A) JSC CHOP [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, (A) JSC CHOP Vityaz-S (D359202) AND (B) JSC CHOP Vityaz-S (D358555),[...]	2006-11-17 11:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12498	FURTHER ELECTORAL LAW CHANGES: MORE LEVERS OF [...] (SBU) Summary. A draft electoral law, which passed its third and final Duma reading on November 17, contains vague provisions which could be used to increase levers of central control over the electoral process. The draft would allow the exclusion of candidates who run negative TV ad campaign [...]	2006-11-17 14:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12528	A/S FRIED CONVERSATION WITH RUSSIAN DFM KARASIN, [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin focused on Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova in a two hour discussion November 15. Karasin dismissed Georgian conciliatory steps as cosmetic; Fried said they are real and Russia should respond by ending sanct [...]	2006-11-20 13:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PBTS ETRD GG MD UP RS
06MOSCOW12549	A/S FRIED'S NOVEMBER 15 MEETING WITH DFM TITOV ON [...] (C) Summary: In a November 15 meeting with DFM Titov, A/S Fried made clear that the U.S. intended to move forward on Kosovo quickly after UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari presented the sides with his proposal after the Serbian parliamentary elections. He stressed that putting off the status decis [...]	2006-11-21 11:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI RS
06MOSCOW12557	UNITED RUSSIA STUMBLES ON REGIONAL LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: United Russia is far from united on the direct election of mayors. United Russia Duma members introduced legislation to eliminate the direct election of mayors, in what may have been a misguided attempt to implement Putin's call to transfer more authority to the regions. Predict [...]	2006-11-21 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR KDEM PGOV RS
06MOSCOW12563	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: M.P.CHUMAKOV [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, M.P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and viral encefalitides of [...]	2006-11-22 05:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12569	PUTIN RAISES BANK SECTOR CONCERNS WITH STATE [...] (SBU) On November 14 President Putin delivered his first ever full-length address dedicated to Russia's banking system. He called for expanded lending to the real economy, especially small and medium business and regionally beyond the lucrative markets of Moscow and St. Petersburg. He presse [...]	2006-11-22 08:17:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD RS
06MOSCOW12572	RUSSIA: WINTER POWER SHORTAGES EXPECTED [...] (C) Summary. Government officials and industry analysts are expecting power shortages in Russia this winter as electricity consumption growth strains the existing power infrastructure. UES Head Chubays has warned GOR officials all year about looming electricity shortfalls. UES is considering [...]	2006-11-22 08:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG PREL RS
06MOSCOW12587	RUSSIAN ENERGY: CRUNCH TIME FOR CPC [...] (C) Summary: On November 20, the Ambassador met with Chevron Vice Chairman Peter Robertson and head of Chevron's Russian operations, Ian MacDonald. The conversation centered on CPC expansion but included brief discussions of the Burgas-Alexandropoulis bypass pipeline (BAP),and the on-going t [...]	2006-11-22 13:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12591	RUSSIA: BARRIERS TO BUSINESS: CREDIT, TAXES, AND [...] (SBU) Summary. A recently-released survey of 3,000 business shows a surprising convergence of opinion between small, medium, and large enterprises about what stands in the way of commercial success in Russia. Respondents uniformly identified the high cost of credit, high tax rates, and ineff [...]	2006-11-22 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINT RS
06MOSCOW12592	RUSSIAN MFA ON DRAFT IRAQ UNSCR [...] (C) We shared reftel documentation, including the draft Iraq UNSCR, on November 21 with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department. Safronkov said that Russia had no problem with the draft in principle and had so instruct [...]	2006-11-22 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IZ RS
06MOSCOW12593	RUSSIA: TERRORIST FACILITATORS AND INCITERS [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-22 15:02:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KTFN EFIN ETTN PTER PREL RS
06MOSCOW12595	PRESIDENT PUTIN, DEFMIN IVANOV ADDRESS RUSSIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Putin and Defense Minister Ivanov candidly acknowledged many of the military's internal problems during a 16 November senior commanders conference in Moscow. The two leaders promised various remedies ranging from higher salaries and better treatment for soldiers to steep increas [...]	2006-11-22 15:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP PREL PGOV PHUM RS
06MOSCOW12600	RUSSIA'S RELATIONS WITH BELARUS [...] (C) Summary. Another Putin-Lukashenko meeting has come and gone with few evident results. It occurred against a widespread perception here that Putin would like to rein in Lukashenko as part of Russia's growing assertiveness. Unresolved problems, most notably those related to energy, plague [...]	2006-11-24 10:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON BO RS
06MOSCOW12609	BELGOROD: UNITED RUSSIA, THE GOVERNOR, AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Major local business owners, who are United Russia regional deputies, in conjunction with the Russian Orthodox Church, dominate all spheres of activity in Belgorod Oblast, which Embassy visited recently. Governor Savchenko is a strong leader who combines a flair for populist s [...]	2006-11-24 11:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12628	RUSSIA KEEPS UP THE PACE IN MIDDLE EAST DIPLOMACY [...] (C) Summary: Following the assassination of Lebanese Minister Gemayel, Russia has become increasingly concerned about political violence in Lebanon, but is unwilling to press Damascus on its role. The MFA preferred to offer legalistic arguments about whether there was compelling proof of S [...]	2006-11-27 08:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS SY LE IZ RS
06MOSCOW12630	CENTRAL ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER REVIEWS TRIP TO [...] (C) Central Electoral Commission Chairman Aleksandr Veshnyakov described to Ambassador November 21 his reaction to State Duma-adopted amendments to the existing electoral law (reftel). Veshnyakov's key judgments: -- elimination of the minimum threshold for voter turnout in Russia was premat [...]	2006-11-27 09:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM RS
06MOSCOW12631	VOLGOGRAD: INTERESTED IN INCREASED ACADEMIC AND [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for internet distribution. Propriety Information. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: During Ambassador Burns' November 16-17 trip to Volgograd, government, business and civil society representatives emphasized their desire to see stronger academic and business coopera [...]	2006-11-27 09:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV PGOV EAGR SOCR PINR RS
06MOSCOW12637	DUTCH NGO REFUSED RE-REGISTRATION [...] (SBU) The Federal Registration Service refused the NGO Stichting Russia Justice Initiative (RJI) last week, citing technical problems with its application. The technical reasons included questions about RJI Executive Director Ole Solvang's authority to represent RJI during the process and in [...]	2006-11-27 13:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM EAID KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12643	DEMARCHE ON DEPORTATION OF UZBEK ASYLUM SEEKER [...] (C) We met November 22 with MFA Human Rights and Humanitarian Cooperation Department Deputy Director Mikhail Lebedev and his staff to discuss the deportation of Rustam Muminov to Uzbekistan and to underline U.S. concerns about deportation of other asylum seekers to Uzbekistan given Tashkent' [...]	2006-11-27 14:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF UZ RS
06MOSCOW12646	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Federalnaya Sluzhba Ohrany, Moscow, Russia. The company wa [...]	2006-11-28 05:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12666	RUSSIA'S APPROACH TO POST-ORANGE UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary: Russia has reinvigorated its engagement with Ukraine, focusing on practical cooperation. Last month's Fradkov-Yanukovich meeting, which yielded a gas deal, set the stage for the December 23 Putin-Yushchenko Summit. Russian attitudes, however, still seem to lack an appreciation [...]	2006-11-28 16:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
06MOSCOW12702	RUSSIA: CEMENTING OUR ECONOMIC RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: After thirteen years of tough negotiations, we finally have in hand a bilateral agreement on Russia's accession to the WTO. Understanding that we are not yet out of the woods, with hard work ahead in the multilateral forum, we should take full advantage of the improved atmosphere [...]	2006-11-30 03:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR ENRG ETRD PREL RS EINV
06MOSCOW12708	COMMUNIST PARTY: NOT DEAD YET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Most observers describe the Communist Party (KPRF) as a party on life-support sustained by nostalgic pensioners. The cliche has it that as party stalwart's die off, so too will the KPRF. This assessment, however, ignores a relatively constant level of support, despite the dem [...]	2006-11-30 12:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12709	A GUIDE TO RUSSIAN POLITICAL YOUTH GROUPS: PART 1 [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is part one of a two-part message describing Russian political youth groups. This cable contains a summary of the major political youth movements in Russia. Russian political youth groups can be broadly divided into two categories: grassroots organizations driven by idealis [...]	2006-11-30 13:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL RS
06MOSCOW12711	CIS SUMMITS: GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS? [...] (C) Summary: After a series of low-impact/low-turnout meetings, CIS Heads of State gathered again in Minsk on November 28. The meeting -- billed as a "working" summit -- will be followed by another, more formal gathering in Astana in December to commemorate the CIS's fifteenth anniversary. [...]	2006-11-30 13:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PINR BY RS
06MOSCOW12712	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Federalnaya Sluzhba Ohrany, Moscow, Russia. The company wa [...]	2006-11-30 14:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12713	UNITED COMPANY RUSAL: MAKING OF A RUSSIAN NATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. The proposed merger this coming spring of Russian Aluminum (RUSAL),Siberian Ural Aluminum (SUAL Group),and Glencore International AG (Glencore) into "United Company RUSAL" will create the world's largest aluminum producer, unseating Alcoa. Industry insiders cast the deal more [...]	2006-11-30 14:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON RS
06MOSCOW12717	RUSSIAN YOUTH POLITICS, OR LACK THEREOF: PART 2 OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. This is the second part of a two-part message describing Russian political youth groups. Russia's youth is overwhelmingly apolitical, and youth groups in general have very little impact on political life in Russia. The small bit of political life that does exist is restricted to t [...]	2006-11-30 17:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
06MOSCOW12750	RUSSIA: SOME "DEMOCRATS" UNITE, LARGER DIVISIONS [...] (C) Poor performances in the October 8 regional elections notwithstanding, the democratic, western-leaning political parties and movements --Yabloko, SPS, Other Russia, the Republican Party of Russia-- show few signs of being willing to join forces to contest the March 2007 regional elections [...]	2006-12-01 14:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW12751	LITVINENKO ASSASSINATION: REACTION IN MOSCOW [...] (C) The November 23 death by radiation poisoning of former FSB agent Aleksandr Litvinenko in London has spawned a welter of conspiracy theories in Russia. The media have variously traced Litvinenko's demise to XXXXXXXXXXXX, suicide, Putin's Kremlin, Putin himself, those determined to undermine Put [...]	2006-12-01 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW12752	RUSSIAN POSITION ON CFE, ISTANBUL COMMITMENTS [...] (C) The Chief of the Conventional Arms Control Division in the Foreign Ministry's Department of Security Affairs and Disarmament, Anton Mazur, told us 28 November that we could expect "little or no change" in the GOR's approach to Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) issues at next week's OSCE [...]	2006-12-01 15:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR OSCE PREL RS
06MOSCOW12757	GORDEYEV ON THE WARPATH, AND THE DUTCH STRIKE BACK [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: According to the Dutch AgCouns in Moscow, Dutch veterinary and plant health authorities have run out of patience with their Russian counterparts and are proposing temporarily to halt plant quarantine certification by Dutch authorities of exports of all plant products to Russia. [...]	2006-12-01 20:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAGR ETRD PREL WTO RS
06MOSCOW12763	CPC UPDATE: FURTHER MOVEMENT TOWARD FINISH LINE? [...] (C) SUMMARY. On December 1, Ian MacDonald, head of Chevron Russia and former head of CPC told us that the hoped-for "seniors'" meeting -- at which a CPC expansion MOU may have been signed -- did not come off this week. However, CPC shareholders held a highly positive meeting which cleared aw [...]	2006-12-04 03:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12764	RUSSIANS STILL CYNICAL ABOUT NATIONAL PRIORITY [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-04 03:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN PGOV PREL RS POL
06MOSCOW12781	MFA UNHAPPY WITH PALESTINIAN RESOLUTION ON UN [...] (C) We discussed reftel talking points on the 10th UNGA Emergency Special Session with Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department. Safronkov said that the MFA had already instructed its mission in New York to push for ch [...]	2006-12-04 15:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA IS RS
06MOSCOW12783	MFA ON UNSC ACTION ON IRAN [...] (C) We raised reftel points with two of our working-level MFA contacts involved on the Iran nuclear issue. They provided separate readouts on the current status of discussions in the Security Council and expressed the GOR's intent to reach agreement on a resolution text. Neither was willing [...]	2006-12-04 16:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC PARM UNSC RS
06MOSCOW12784	FOREIGN NGO RE-REGISTRATION NEARING ITS END [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Federal Registration Service (FRS) has re-registered 176 foreign NGOs as of December 1, with another 15 still under consideration, and it is nearing the end of this process. Of the 29 NGOs tracked by USAID, 21 have been re-registered, and eight are awaiting decisions from [...]	2006-12-04 16:30:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PREF PHUM EAID KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12819	KOSOVO: RUSSIAN POSITION ON UNSC VETO HARDENING [...] (C) SUMMARY: In late-November meetings in Moscow, Kosovo Prime Minister Ceku failed to get assurances that Russia would not use its veto when the Security Council takes up the status issue early next year. Russian officials have signaled that they might ultimately deploy a veto to block a UN [...]	2006-12-07 07:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEV UNMIK SR YI RS
06MOSCOW12838	RUSSIA WANTS "PREDICTABILITY" IN POST-START [...] (S) Russia will insist on predictability in any arrangement that follows expiration of the START Treaty in 2009, according to Vasiliy Boryak, Chief of the START Office in the Foreign Ministry's Department for Disarmament and Security Affairs. First and foremost, Boryak told us December 7, wa [...]	2006-12-07 14:16:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM MCAP PREL RS
06MOSCOW12851	METROPOLITAN KIRILL SEES POPE BENEDICT AS MORE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-08 13:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW12856	COMMUNIST PARTY DEPUTY CHAIRMAN LOOKS TO HIS [...] (SBU) Summary. In a December 6 meeting with EUR/RUS Director Mary Warlick, Communist Party (KPRF) Deputy Chairman Ivan Melnikov offered reactions to current domestic political events that confirmed his rumored social democratic leanings, and that suggested he was positioning himself to replace [...]	2006-12-08 15:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12857	UNITED RUSSIA APPROVES PARTY PLATFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: United Russia (YR) approved its party platform and action plan for the next ten years at its convention in Yekaterinburg on December 2. Party luminaries followed a tight script, staked United Russia's claim to the political center with a populist tilt, and rallied its members for [...]	2006-12-08 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV KDCM RS
06MOSCOW12878	GAYDAR'S WEEKEND INTERVIEWS LEAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT [...] (C) A December 6 Financial Times article and two TV interviews with ex-Prime Minister Gaydar broadcast the weekend of December 8 have shed little light on Gaydar's alleged poisoning November 22 in Dublin. Although Gaydar's Moscow doctors have been unable or unwilling to state that Gaydar had [...]	2006-12-12 08:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
06MOSCOW12897	AMBASSADOR VISITS NORTH CAUCASUS, DECEMBER 4-5 [...] (C) Ambassador Burns traveled to the North Caucasus December 4-5 -- the first American Ambassador to visit the region in fifteen years. In Kabardino-Balkaria he discussed with President Kanokov prospects for economic development and political reform. Kanokov provided regional views on frozen [...]	2006-12-12 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETRD PINR GG RS
06MOSCOW12900	CHITA: CONDEMNED LAND SEEKS FUTURE AS GATEWAY TO [...] (C) Summary. Squeezed between China and the rest of Siberia and challenged with an oppressively harsh climate, Chita Oblast has historically served as a place of exile and remains one of Russia's poorest regions. The break-up of the Soviet Union led to the collapse of the region's livestock [...]	2006-12-13 06:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD PINR KN RS
06MOSCOW12901	"A JUST RUSSIA": DIFFICULT BEGINNING, UNCERTAIN [...] (C) Spravedlivaya Rossiya (SR) (&A Just Russia8),often referred to as the &second8 Kremlin party, has been officially registered. The party has moved to constitute itself at the federal and local levels, by combining elements of its constituent parties --Rodina, the Russian Party of Life, an [...]	2006-12-13 11:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW12912	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ROSNEFT'S BOGDANCHIKOV [...] (C) Summary. On December 12, the Ambassador met with Rosneft's President Sergey Bogdanchikov who confirmed that Rosneft is interested in bits of Yukos but that the rumor it will purchase Surgutneftegaz (SNG) is a "fairy tale." He claimed that CPC expansion will be "automatic" once an inter-g [...]	2006-12-13 15:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12914	RUSSIA: KIRIYENKO REVIEWS TEHRAN VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 13 meeting with the Ambassador, Rosatom Director Kiriyenko provided his impressions from his recent trip to Tehran. He said Foreign Minister Mottaki had been full of bluster, claiming to be unafraid of sanctions and unconcerned about the United States. Mottaki had [...]	2006-12-13 15:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PREL ETRD RU IR UN AORC
06MOSCOW12916	KASPAROV'S UNITED CIVIC FRONT OFFICES SEARCHED BY [...] (C) On December 13, United Civic Front Chairman Garry Kasparov confirmed press accounts that police had searched his organization's offices the afternoon of December 12. Kasparov told us he thought that "intimidation" was the purpose of the search, which the police for their part described to [...]	2006-12-13 16:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW12917	DFM YAKOVENKO: "DISAPPOINTMENT" OVER US RAISING OF [...] (C) On December 13, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Yakovenko called the Ambassador to register "concern and disappointment" over U.S. efforts in the Security Council to raise the plight of Belarusian opposition leader Aleksandr Kozulin, despite Belarus not being on the UNSC agenda [...]	2006-12-13 16:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UNSC RS BO
06MOSCOW12924	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: TREADING WATER [...] (C) Summary: Russian-Georgian relations are treading water until after both countries recover from their break for New Years and Orthodox Christmas, around mid-January. Georgia has taken pains to tone down the rhetoric, and Putin has noticed. Georgia is dismantling some of the restrictions f [...]	2006-12-14 10:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW12930	RUSSIAN ENERGY: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SHELL ON [...] (C) SUMMARY. On December 14, the Ambassador met with Chris Finlayson (U.K. citizen),head of Shell's Russia operations, and Alf D'Souza (Australian citizen),Shell's VP for corporate affairs, to discuss the latest developments on the Sakhalin-2 project. Finlayson characterized negotiations w [...]	2006-12-14 14:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12932	AN ENDGAME FOR DETAINED UZBEKS IN IVANOVO? [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNHCR is developing contingency plans for what may be a final GOR decision on 13 detained Uzbeks in Ivanovo. Our UNHCR and NGO contacts do not have credible information on what the GOR may do, but they expect whatever decision has been made to be implemented as soon as December [...]	2006-12-14 15:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW12934	MFA NEGATIVE ON UNSC BURMA RESOLUTION [...] (C) In a December 14 discussion about reftel draft UNSCR, Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department, told us Russia's initial reaction was negative. He acknowledged Russia had its own concerns about the situation in Bur [...]	2006-12-14 15:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS
06MOSCOW12935	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Villart Export, Elektrostal, Russia. The company was liste [...]	2006-12-15 06:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12936	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: S- [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, S-Terra, Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia. The company was liste [...]	2006-12-15 06:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12942	RUSSIAN DUMA DEFENSE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN TOUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Viktor Zavarzin, Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee, gave his annual briefing to Moscow's military attache corps December 12. During the 90-minute presentation, Zavarzin summarized his committee's legislative activities -- weapons modernization and improvements in s [...]	2006-12-15 13:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MCAP PREL SOCI PGOV RS
06MOSCOW12960	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ROSNEFT'S BOGDANCHIKOV [...] (C) Summary. On December 12, the Ambassador met with Rosneft's President Sergey Bogdanchikov who confirmed that Rosneft is interested in bits of Yukos but that the rumor it will purchase Surgutneftegaz (SNG) is a "fairy tale." He claimed that CPC expansion will be "automatic" once an inter-g [...]	2006-12-18 10:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12963	RUSSIAN ENERGY: WINTER GAS, BELARUS, AND THE [...] (C) Summary. This year is no exception to the rule that Gazprom's annual gas tariff negotiations with its CIS customers are blunt instruments, and generally go down to the wire. Deals have not yet been cut with Belarus, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Gazprom did manage to ink one with Ukraine, th [...]	2006-12-18 12:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW12966	RUSSIA-MOLDOVA: DEAL IN THE WORKS? [...] (C) Summary: The Romanian Embassy in Moscow alleged to us that Moldova and Russia are close to a package bilateral deal that would normalize bilateral political and economic relations, guarantee Moldovan "neutrality" for 50 years, resolve Transnistria along the lines of the Kozak Memorandum, [...]	2006-12-18 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD MARR MD RS
06MOSCOW12981	THREE DEMONSTRATIONS AND A CONVENTION [...] (C) Political groupings of all stripes made their presence known in Moscow over the December 16-17 weekend: -- "Other Russia" staged its "March of the Discontented." About 2,500 participants from a hodgepodge of groups, united only by their opposition to the current government and rejection [...]	2006-12-19 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW12986	RUSSIA/LEBANON: PM SINIORA'S VISIT [...] (C) PRIME MINISTER SINIORA CAME AWAY SATISFIED WITH HIS DECEMBER 14-16 VISIT TO MOSCOW; THE ATMOSPHERICS WERE EXCELLENT ACCORDING TO LEBANESE AMBASSADOR ASSEM JABER'S READOUT TO THE CHARGE. BESIDES PUTIN, SINIORA MET WITH SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY IGOR IVANOV, EX-FOREIGN MINISTER PRIMAKOV A [...]	2006-12-19 17:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID IR LE RS

06MOSCOW12992	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ITRC "MIR", [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, ITRC "MIR", Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license app [...]	2006-12-20 13:35:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12993	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Supreme Commercial Court, Moscow, Russia. The company was [...]	2006-12-20 13:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
06MOSCOW12999	SOUTH OSSETIA: TALKS AND OBSERVERS [...] (C) We met with Russian MFA Ambassador-at-Large for South Ossetia Yuri Popov on December 19 and 20, delivering reftel demarche on the latter date. Popov said he had not been following the budget issue -- he has just returned from leave -- and said he was unwilling to repeat previous Russian s [...]	2006-12-20 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW13001	PATRUSHEV'S NEST OF DANISH SPIES [...] (SBU) FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev alleged that foreign intelligence services were increasingly using NGOs and press bureaus as cover in his annual year-end review December 19. Speaking on the eve of the day in honor of the security services, Patrushev singled out the Danish Refugee Counci [...]	2006-12-20 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PREF RS
06MOSCOW13002	RUSSIAN DEVELOPMENT "BANK" TAKES SHAPE [...] (SBU) At a meeting of cabinet ministers on December 14, Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref delivered a presentation on the prospective scope and functions of a new Russian Development Bank (RDB). Gref's proposal would consolidate the Foreign Economic Activity Bank of the USSR [...]	2006-12-20 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV RS
06MOSCOW13003	BOEING RUSSIA: AEROFLOT 787 DEAL DEPENDS ON [...] (SBU) According to Boeing sources, Minister of Finance Kudrin, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Gref, and Minister of Industry and Energy Khristenko agreed on December 19 to delay the GOR's decision on Aeroflot's acquisition of 22 wide-bodied jets until the GOR receives written propos [...]	2006-12-20 15:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EAIR USTR RS
06MOSCOW13005	RUSSIA'S 2007 BUDGET: A QUICK OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) Despite considerable chatter to the contrary, Russia's 2007 Federal Budget (signed into law December 20 by President Putin) continues to reflect substantial fiscal restraint, with expenditures set to rise by just 1.5 percent of GDP and the primary surplus targeted at 5.3 percent of GDP. [...]	2006-12-20 15:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV RS
06MOSCOW13006	"DENGI FEVER": RUSSIA'S IPO AND CAPITAL MARKET BOOM [...] (SBU) Russia's initial public offering (IPO) bonanza continued to gain momentum in 2006. Fifteen Russian companies launched IPOs this year, raising over $17.5 billion. At the same time, Russia's domestic exchanges have enjoyed explosive growth. Russian companies are increasingly able to ta [...]	2006-12-20 16:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EFIN RS
06MOSCOW13012	Novosibirsk: United Russia Stronghold With High [...] (SBU) United Russia's (YR) dominance in Russia's regions is evident in Novosibirsk, where YR holds the governorship, has an absolute majority in the regional parliament, does not view the emergence of the second Kremlin party "A Just Russia" as a threat, and dismisses the influence of "democra [...]	2006-12-21 08:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ETRD RS
06MOSCOW13022	RUSSIA ENERGY: GAZPROM SET TO ACQUIRE CONTROLLING [...] (C) Summary. The British Economic M/C in Moscow confirmed December 20 his understanding that agreement is likely by the end of this week between Sakhalin Energy's partners and Gazprom on the terms of Gazprom's cash acquisition of a controlling stake in Sakhalin-2. Agreement would bring to a [...]	2006-12-21 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET PREL RS
06MOSCOW13025	MOSCOW REACTION TO TURKMENBASHI'S DEATH [...] (C) Summary. The Russian government reacted cautiously to Turkmenbashi's death and will send the Prime Minister and Head of the Presidential Administration to his funeral. Unofficial reactions encompassed the full range of speculations about succession, and stability in Turkmenistan. Some a [...]	2006-12-21 15:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TX RS
06MOSCOW13071	NIZHNIY NOVGOROD: VERTICAL CONTROL INSUFFICIENT? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With President Putin's appointment of Governor Valeriy Shantsev in August 2005, a United Russia political elite with strong business interests now firmly controls Nizhniy Novgorod and its region. The establishment of the regional branch of the second Kremlin-sponsored party, " [...]	2006-12-22 11:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW13073	GERMAN FM STEINMEIER'S MOSCOW VISIT: MIDDLE EAST, [...] (C) SUMMARY: GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTER FRANK-WALTER PAGE 02 RUEHMOA3073 C O N F I D E N T I A L STEINMEIER MET WITH PRESIDENT PUTIN, FIRST DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER MEDVEDEV, AND FM LAVROV IN MOSCOW ON DECEMBER 21. ACCORDING TO A READOUT FROM GERMAN AMBASSADOR WALTER SCHMIDT, WHO PARTICIPAT [...]	2006-12-22 13:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR LE GE RS
06MOSCOW13074	BLACK SEA FLEET RELOCATION: A PORT TOO FAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly ten years after the 1997 bilateral agreement with Ukraine to use Sevastopol as a base for its Black Sea Fleet, Russia is doing little to plan for the Fleet's possible relocation after the agreement expires in 2017. While the Black Sea Fleet will be on the agenda for the [...]	2006-12-22 14:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MCAP RS UP
06MOSCOW13092	NGO RE-REGISTRATION UPDATE: BACK TO WORK IN THE [...] (SBU) The Federal Registration Service (FRS) has re-registered 192 foreign NGOs as of December 22, including all of those providing aid in the North Caucasus. According to UN sources, the re-registration of International Rescue Committee (IRC) and World Vision, along with the French NGO Acti [...]	2006-12-26 15:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PHUM EAID KDEM PGOV RS
06MOSCOW13098	MIDDLE EAST: MFA ON LEBANON, SYRIA AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: President Putin sought to lower tensions between Lebanon and Syria during back-to-back mid-December visits by PM Siniora and President Asad, according to the Russian MFA, and had urged that a solution to Lebanon's ongoing political crisis be found through negotiations and not i [...]	2006-12-26 16:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LE SY IZ RS
06MOSCOW13123	PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS CAUGHT IN YUKOS NET [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian Prosecutors at the Federal Tax Service (FTS) have brought a civil case against International accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in connection with their role as outside auditor of the Russian oil company Yukos. In addition, the firm has been defending itself i [...]	2006-12-27 15:17:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EINV ECON RS
06MOSCOW13124	RUSSIA'S BROKEN ASYLUM SYSTEM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Asylum seekers in Russia face legal and bureaucratic obstacles in obtaining protection from the GOR, as well as a growing backlash against migrants in general. For many, the only workable solution is resettlement to a third country, as the GOR has yet to devote sufficient attent [...]	2006-12-27 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM RS
06MOSCOW13136	ZHIRINOVSKIY,S LDPR LOOKS TO THE 2007 ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) December marks the 17th anniversary of the establishment of the Liberal Democrat Party of Russia (LDPR). LDPR's lack of any discernible platform is compensated for by the indomitable LDPR Chairman Vladimir Zhirinovskiy, whose instinct for the outrageous continues to resonate with a sig [...]	2006-12-28 15:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PINR SOCI RS
06MOSCOW13137	POST-NIYAZOV TURKMENISTAN: VIEWS FROM MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary. While the GOR has officially downplayed its concern about the status of existing energy contracts with Turkmenistan following Niyazov's death, observers here consistently report that gas supplies and Turkmenistan's continuing neutrality are Moscow's foremost concerns as the succe [...]	2006-12-28 15:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON TX RS
06MOSCOW13166	INVITATION TO ARF WORKSHOP ON UNSCR 1540 [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-29 09:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM KNNP ETTC ARF RS
06MOSCOW13167	IRAN: INFORMATION REGARDING UNSCR 1737 [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-29 09:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MNUC KNNP UNSC RS
06MOSCOW13168	ALTAI KRAI: PICKETS AND PLURALISM [...] (SBU) Summary: While Altai Krai is one of the most economically depressed regions in Russia, it has an unusually high level of civic activity and political pluralism and is home to outspoken liberal Republican Party Head Vladimir Ryzhkov. United Russia dominates, but the Communists, Agrarians, [...]	2006-12-29 09:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW13171	RUSSIA AND IRAN: AFTER THE SANCTIONS RESOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: Russia has repeatedly told us that when it comes to preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, it shares our strategic goal but differs with us over tactics. Moscow's reluctance to agree to coercive measures was on full display during consideration of UNSCR 1737, but in th [...]	2006-12-29 12:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM ETRD KNNP MASS IR RS
06MOSCOW13172	HARD TIMES FOR RUSSIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMUNITY [...] (C) Civil society and liberal political party leaders are sharply divided over the role of NGOs in partisan politics. While Moscow's most prominent human rights activist strongly defends the policy of overt political opposition, many NGO representatives are uncomfortable with, or opposed to, a [...]	2006-12-29 15:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM PINR SOCI RS
06MOSCOW13174	RUSSIA ENERGY: DOWN TO THE WIRE ON BELARUS GAS [...] (C) Summary. Lukashenko's two-year saga to avoid higher gas prices and the sale of 50 percent of Beltransgaz (BTG - the Belarusian gas pipeline operator) appears to be coming to a close, and he is standing firm on both accounts. Gazprom has dropped its insistence that BTG be part of the deal, [...]	2006-12-29 16:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
06MOSCOW13175	RUSSIA NOTIFIED OF ISNPA SANCTIONS [...] (S) DCM delivered on December 29 the notification of new U.S. sanctions levied on four Russian entities for violating the Iran-Syria Non-Proliferation Act. In delivering reftel points, the DCM explained the sanctions reflected our serious concern about potentially destabilizing arms transfers [...]	2006-12-29 16:17:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM MTCR PREL MNUC ETTC RS
06MOSCOW1322	AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO KAZAN: FEDERALISM, ECONOMIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's February 6-7 visit to Tatarstan featured themes of federalism, economic opportunity for U.S. firms, and Islam. Republic President Shaymiyev, in a lengthy tour d'horizon, noted that he was taking initiatives not encouraged by Moscow, including diversifying the ec [...]	2006-02-10 15:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL ETRD PINR RS
06MOSCOW1323	RUSSIAN DFM SALTANOV ON INVITATION TO HAMAS [...] (C) On February 10 Ambassador Burns called on DFM Saltanov seeking clarification of Putin's invitation to Hamas leadership to visit Moscow. Ambassador said the announcement of an invitation to Hamas had come as an unwelcome surprise to Washington (and other Quartet capitals). It was very im [...]	2006-02-10 15:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER RS
06MOSCOW1324	PRESSING RUSSIA FOR RESTRAINT ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: In a February 9 meeting with Chief of Defense General Baluyevskiy, Ambassador Burns urged that Russia exercise restraint in its dealings with Georgia. Baluyevksiy was blunt in complaining about Georgian demands to withdraw peacekeepers from Georgia and charged Tbilisi with inte [...]	2006-02-11 14:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PBTS GG RS
06MOSCOW1388	FSB OPERATION IN STAVROPOL DISTRICT: ANOTHER [...] (U) Press February 13-14 reported an FSB operation against an "extremist Islamist" cell in the town of Tukuy-Mekteb, in Russia's Stavropol Kray. Tukuy-Mekteb lies along a regional road about 15 km west of the Dagestani Border and 45 km north of the border with Chechnya. Initial reports said t [...]	2006-02-14 09:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PINR PGOV RS
06MOSCOW1431	RUSSIA MOVING SLOWLY ON DIVERSITY CONVENTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-14 13:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD SCUL UNESCO RS
06MOSCOW1433	MOSCOW DEFERS TO GRULAC CONSENSUS ON NEXT UNSC REP [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-14 14:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN UNSC GT VE RS
06MOSCOW1435	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: EXPECT SHARP RUSSIAN REACTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the absence of DFM Karasin from Moscow, A/DCM spoke with MFA 4th CIS Department Director Andrey Kelin to emphasize the efforts the USG has been making to moderate Georgian parliamentary action on CIS peacekeepers in South Ossetia (per ref e-mail request). Kelin took careful no [...]	2006-02-14 15:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG
06MOSCOW1445	SPRING STATE DUMA SESSION OFF TO SLOW START [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The spring semester of the Russian State Duma, which began on January 11 and will run through mid-June, got off to a slow start. Deputies are burdened with almost 600 draft laws, with 52 designated as priority bills focusing on water and forestry regulation, transportation safe [...]	2006-02-15 12:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAGR EFIN ENRG ETRD PREL PHUM SOCI RS
06MOSCOW152	ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACK ON CHABAD SYNAGOGUE IN MOSCOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the evening of January 11, a 20-year-old man broke into a Lubavitch synagogue in Moscow during prayer services and injured eight men, including an AmCit. None of the victims has life-threatening injuries, but some are reportedly in serious but stable condition. The Foreign [...]	2006-01-12 16:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RS SOCI
06MOSCOW1536	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: HARD RUSSIAN LINE ON SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Both the Russians (4th CIS Department Director Kelin) and Georgians (State Minister for Conflict Resolution Khaindrava) gave us separate readouts of their February 16 talks in Moscow. The talks focused on South Ossetia in the wake of the Georgian Parliamentary resolution callin [...]	2006-02-16 18:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS RS GG
06MOSCOW1635	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: AMBASSADOR PRESSES DFM KARASIN FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador on February 17 outlined to DFM Karasin ongoing U.S. efforts to encourage Georgian restraint on South Ossetia, and urged Russia to act constructively. Ambassador expressed appreciation for FM Lavrov's recent message to the Secretary, and said he expected a formal reply [...]	2006-02-18 06:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS GG RS
06MOSCOW1637	HAMAS VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. A/DCM met February 17 with MFA Middle East and North Africa Director Sergey Vershinin to follow up on earlier discussion (reftel) on the forthcoming visit of a Hamas delegation to Russia, which will take place March 3. .... END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Timing and Level. Vershinin [...]	2006-02-20 10:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS
06MOSCOW18	NSC SENIOR DIRECTOR GRAHAM'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. NSC Senior Director Thomas Graham met December 21 with Modest Kolerov, who was named several months ago to run a new Kremlin directorate dealing with Russia's ties to its neighbors. Kolerov rejected the notion that the U.S. and Russia should engage in a dialogue on Russia's nei [...]	2006-01-09 12:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW1840	RUSSIAN DFM SALTANOV ON HAMAS VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) On February 27 the Ambassador called on Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Saltanov to discuss the upcoming Hamas visit to Moscow and to underline the importance of coordination. Saltanov confirmed that the Hamas delegation, headed by Khalid Meshal and composed of Hamas outsiders, is set [...]	2006-02-27 16:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW19	2006 DEFENSE BUDGET AND PROPOSED DEFENSE REFORMS - [...] (C) Summary. On December 27 President Putin signed a defense budget of 666 billion rubles (23 billion dollars) for 2006, a nominal increase of nearly 26 percent. It is not clear, however, what if any impact on Russian military capability that allocation towards defense will have. The highe [...]	2006-01-09 12:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PARM EFIN ECON RS XB
06MOSCOW1974	RUSSIA'S RODINA CONTENDS WITH KREMLIN PRESSURE AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Rodina Party has embarked on a campaign to polish its image, softening (but not completely eliminating) its harsh criticism of minority migrants, while focusing on economic opportunity and social justice as the primary avenues for "transforming nationalism into patriotism." [...]	2006-03-01 08:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR RS
06MOSCOW2020	PRESSING RUSSIANS ON HAMAS VISIT [...] (C) Ambassador spoke separately to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Saltanov and Middle East Envoy Kalugin the evening of February 28, and again on March 1, to stress the importance of sticking firmly to Quartet principles during the Hamas visit to Moscow March 3. Ambassador made clear that [...]	2006-03-01 15:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW2070	SOUTH OSSETIA: DEALING WITH A DYSFUNCTIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Moscow's approach to Georgia is driven by frustration with Tbilisi's defiant attitude to Russian interests, reflected in its pursuit of NATO membership, its championing of anti-Russian alliances in the neighborhood, its strategy of trying to compensate for Georgia's weakness in [...]	2006-03-02 14:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS GG
06MOSCOW2132	NGO LEGISLATION: LOOKING AHEAD TOWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: A bit over a month before Russia's new NGO legislation goes into effect, most independent NGO activists are concerned about its implementation but retain a wait-and-see attitude. In recent weeks, the government has initiated investigations against some independent NGOs, but it h [...]	2006-03-03 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
06MOSCOW2212	MOSCOW REACTS TO HAMAS VISIT [...] Summary: While the MFA was able to point to few concrete results from Foreign Minister Lavrov's March 3 meeting with a Hamas delegation, we were told March 6 by the MFA Middle East Peace Process desk that the Moscow-Hamas channel was likely to remain open. In Moscow's estimation, Hamas Polit [...]	2006-03-06 14:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW2260	TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIA OPPOSES UKRAINIAN CUSTOMS [...] (C) Russian Special Envoy Valeriy Nesterushkin told us March 6 that the Ukrainian customs implementation threatened the future of peace negotiations between Moldova and Transnistria, including the current 5 2 format in which the U.S. participates as an observer, and its prospective April sess [...]	2006-03-07 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS ETRD UP MD RS
06MOSCOW2327	NORTH CAUCASUS MUSLIMS: INDEPENDENT VOICE? [...] (C) Summary: The election of Magomed-Khadzhi Albogachiyev as leader of the Coordinating Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus marks a clear step to distance the Moscow-based Center -- and by extension the Muslim clerics in the region, whom it purports to represent -- from the clan-based lead [...]	2006-03-10 11:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
06MOSCOW2446	NO SURPRISES IN RUSSIA'S "SUPER SUNDAY" REGIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. In regional legislative elections in eight of Russia's regions on March 12, the pro-Kremlin United Russia party appears to have scored a clear victory. Four political parties ran in all eight elections, while Rodina and some smaller parties were kept off the ballot in some of th [...]	2006-03-13 16:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW2447	COURT CASES STIR MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN ASTRAKHAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Two ongoing court cases in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan have stirred part of the local Muslim community to protest against perceived discrimination. On a February 28 - March 1 trip to Astrakhan, we found that some in its Muslim community suspect that a city order to de [...]	2006-03-13 16:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM KDEM RS
06MOSCOW2502	G8 NGO FORUM OFFERS GOR A CHANCE TO BOOST ITS [...] (C) SUMMARY. A range of NGOs, including those involved in human rights issues, took part in a March 9-10 G8 NGO forum in Moscow. The plenary sessions and working group meetings featured lively discussions, both on the GOR's G8 agenda items and on concerns about the state of Russia's civil so [...]	2006-03-14 15:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL ECON ENRG RS
06MOSCOW2593	TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO HOLD MOLDOVA [...] (C) In the absence of Russian Envoy Valeriy Nesterushkin, we delivered reftel demarche on the situation in Transnistria on March 15 to MFA Second CIS Department Deputy Director (Moldova Office Director) Nikolay Fomin. Fomin rejected Transnistrian responsibility for blockading itself, claimin [...]	2006-03-15 15:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD MARR PBTS PREL ML RS
06MOSCOW2594	TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO HOLD MOLDOVA [...] (C) In the absence of Russian Envoy Valeriy Nesterushkin, we delivered reftel demarche on the situation in Transnistria on March 15 to MFA Second CIS Department Deputy Director (Moldova Office Director) Nikolay Fomin. Fomin rejected Transnistrian responsibility for blockading itself, claimin [...]	2006-03-15 15:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD MARR PBTS PREL ML RS
06MOSCOW262	UPDATE ON ATTACK ON MOSCOW SYNAGOGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the aftermath of the January 11 attack on a Chabad synagogue in Moscow (ref A),a prosecutor reported finding ammunition, a list of synagogues and nationalist literature in the home of the attacker. The prosecutor said the attacker was not a member of an extremist organization [...]	2006-01-13 16:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS
06MOSCOW2760	MOSCOW CALLS LUKASHENKO'S REELECTION "LEGITIMATE" [...] (SBU) The MFA called Belarus' presidential election "legitimate" in a March 20 press release. (Informal translation of text in para 4). According to the press release, the election took place according to recognized norms of transparency and reflected the will of the Belarusian people. In [...]	2006-03-20 15:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE BY RS
06MOSCOW2761	MFA ON DETAINED UZBEKS [...] (C) REFCOORD delivered ref A demarche to Dmitriy Knyazhinskiy, chief of the migration section in the Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights at the MFA. Knyazhinskiy said his office had written "numerous" requests to the Procurator General in support of UNHCR's request for acc [...]	2006-03-20 16:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW2914	RUSSIAN MFA ON AMIS RE-HATTING [...] (C) On March 21 Poloff delivered reftel demarche on re-hatting the African Union (AU) Mission in Sudan to MFA Department of International Organizations Counselor Oleg Kravchenko. Kravchenko agreed that there was no ambiguity in the AU March 10 statement and that its intention was clearly to [...]	2006-03-22 14:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PREL SOCI SU RS
06MOSCOW2927	FORMER RUSSIAN PRIME MINISTER SAYS "CORPORATION" [...] (C) In a March 21 meeting with the Ambassador, former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov: -- Claimed current GOR and Kremlin officials were mainly interested in preserving their interests within the status quo, which affected policy decisions and the competition to succeed President Putin in 2 [...]	2006-03-23 11:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON PINR RS
06MOSCOW2928	NGO LEGISLATION: VARYING EXPECTATIONS ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOR continues to be opaque about implementation of its controversial new NGO legislation, which is to go into effect next month. It has revealed almost nothing publicly about the legislation's implementing regulations, although one NGO contact told us he had seen draft repor [...]	2006-03-23 11:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW2969	TRANSNISTRIA: RESPONDING TO RUSSIA'S SHIPMENT OF [...] (C) Ambassador made reftel demarche to DFM Karasin March 23. Karasin reiterated that the GOR had serious concerns about developments in Transnistria, but his comments went primarily to political pressures centered in the Duma and in some regions. He acknowledged that current conditions do no [...]	2006-03-23 15:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PBTS OSCE UP MD RS
06MOSCOW2974	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: LOOKING AHEAD [...] (C) Summary: Emotions seem to be cooling (at least temporarily) between Russia and Georgia, and we are seeing a return to low-level business. Statements that would have caused an uproar just a few weeks ago are being dismissed with good humor. But that is a long way from making real progre [...]	2006-03-24 06:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ETRD PBTS NATO GG RS
06MOSCOW3035	AFTER THE ELECTION: MOSCOW VIEWS ON BELARUS AND [...] (C) Summary. Russia's embrace of President Lukashenko's victory in the March 19 Belarus election reflects official Moscow's strong preference for stability in Minsk and its belief that the status quo offers the best chance for that stability. Contacts close to the Belarusian opposition in M [...]	2006-03-27 05:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BO RS
06MOSCOW306	PUTIN SIGNS NGO LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOR announced January 17 that President Putin signed the controversial NGO legislation on January 10. That news was made public when a GOR newspaper that publishes such announcements printed the bill's text with an indication of the date of its signing. While Putin had defe [...]	2006-01-17 12:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RS
06MOSCOW3115	NEW COUNTERTERRORISM MEASURES CREATE "VERTICAL OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. On March 6 President Putin signed a bill "On Counteracting Terrorism" that had hastily moved through the Duma and Federation Council in the preceding days. Passed on its first reading in December 2004 (reftel) after the Beslan tragedy, the bill was then shelved because of several [...]	2006-03-28 10:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER RS
06MOSCOW312	TWO FOREIGN AID NGOS REPORTEDLY BANNED IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian press reported January 16 that an Ingush court had banned two international NGOs working in the North Caucasus and was also considering banning a USG-funded American NGO. The basis of the court's ruling is unclear, and it appears none of the three NGOs was aware that a b [...]	2006-01-17 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PGOV PREL EAID RU
06MOSCOW3190	CIVIL SOCIETY COUNCIL CHAIR PAMFILOVA DISCUSSES [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a March 24 meeting with the Ambassador and visiting Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia Thomas Adams, Ella Pamfilova, head of the Presidential body that oversees civil society issues, said her office would help monitor the controversial NGO legislation when i [...]	2006-03-29 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL EAID RS
06MOSCOW3202	AMBASSADOR'S MARCH 29 MEETING WITH RUSSIAN DFM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Burns met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin March 29 to discuss the outcomes of the Belarusian and Ukrainian elections and recent developments in Moldova, Georgia, and Nagorno-Karabakh. Karasin was sanguine about the March 26 Ukrainian parliamenta [...]	2006-03-29 14:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD BO UP GG MD RS
06MOSCOW3218	THE "FEBRUARY THESES": SURKOV'S PRIMER ON PUTINISM [...] (C) SUMMARY. A February speech by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov to a United Russia conference sketched out "basic ideological theses" of the Putin Administration. While not attempting to break new ground or crystallize a doctrine of "Putinism," the speech p [...]	2006-03-30 10:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RS
06MOSCOW3333	U.S. NUCLEAR PRIMACY ARTICLE HITS A NERVE [...] (C) Summary: A Foreign Affairs article asserting the advent of U.S. nuclear primacy has caused a stir in the Russian political elite and media and forced Russian leaders to defend the viability of Russia's deterrent force. The thesis plays to the belief that the U.S. regards Russia as a pot [...]	2006-03-31 08:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC PGOV RS
06MOSCOW3335	PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION MANEUVERING: EARLY STIRRINGS [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-31 09:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR RS
06MOSCOW3345	THE RUSSIAN ARMS DEAL WITH ALGERIA: A MODEL FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Putin's March 10 visit to Algeria demonstrated that Russia is actively working to expand into new arms markets to sustain the Russian military-industrial complex. Russia reportedly will sell Algeria 70 combat and trainer jet aircraft, 300 T-90S tanks, air defense syste [...]	2006-03-31 10:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR MARR MOPS RS AG
06MOSCOW3356	CIVIL SOCIETY HITCHES A RIDE WITH IRATE DRIVERS [...] (C) SUMMARY. When a court in February sentenced an ordinary citizen to four years in prison for his involvement in a 2005 car accident that killed then-Altay Kray Governor Mikhail Yevdokimov, it sparked popular outrage. The perceived injustice of the court's decision inspired a grassroots o [...]	2006-03-31 11:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
06MOSCOW3362	P-5 HOLD UN CONSULTATIONS MARCH 2 IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: Russia hosted a meeting of P-5 IO Directors March 2 in Moscow to discuss UN Security Council and management reforms, the proposed Human Rights Council, the Peacebuilding Commission, and other issues related to implementation of the World Summit Outcome Document, as well as appoin [...]	2006-03-31 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC RS
06MOSCOW3388	RUSSIAN DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION LEADER BORIS NEMTSOV [...] (C) In a March 27 meeting with the Ambassador, democratic opposition leader Boris Nemtsov: -- Strongly condemned the falsified election results in Belarus, where the people faced a "catastrophic situation"; -- Suggested that negotiations to form a new government in Ukraine would be prolon [...]	2006-03-31 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW3389	GOR PLANS TO TAKE NO ACTION AS A RESULT OF [...] (C) The Russian Government does not intend to take any steps as a result of the findings of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) which investigated the UN's Oil-for-Food (OFF) Program. Despite the IIC's findings that the GOR itself and Russian business firms, political parties and politi [...]	2006-03-31 13:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KFIN IZ RS
06MOSCOW3457	MFA PROPOSAL ON COUNTER-NARCOTICS EFFORTS IN [...] (SBU) MFA North America Department Director Igor Neverov recently delivered to the DCM a nonpaper suggesting ways the U.S. and Russia, within the context of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO),can cooperate more closely in the fight against narco-trafficking in Afghanistan. [...]	2006-04-03 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AF RS
06MOSCOW3507	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: SOME POSITIVE STEPS -- AND SOME [...] (C) Summary. Russian MFA Fourth CIS Department Director Andrey Kelin told A/DCM April 4 that he was pleased with the "good cooperative spirit" he had met in Tbilisi when finalizing the agreement on withdrawing Russian bases by 2008 that was signed in Sochi March 31. The March 27 South Osset [...]	2006-04-04 10:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PBTS ETRD OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW3510	RUSSIAN VIEWS ON POST-ELECTION UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. A week after the Ukrainian election results were announced, reactions in Russia vary widely. Officially, Moscow has been neutral, while the media has buzzed with speculation about the new government's formation and especially Tymoshenko's possible role. Russian pundits are con [...]	2006-04-04 10:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP
06MOSCOW3647	SUDAN: CONTRIBUTION TO UN PEACEKEEPING OPERATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-06 14:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO SU RS
06MOSCOW3687	RUSSIAN MFA ON BELARUS, UKRAINE ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Charge d'Affaires delivered demarche on Belarus elections (ref A) April 7 to Vyacheslav Kovalenko, who was acting for Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin on CIS affairs. Charge urged Russia to use its influence to help secure release of peaceful protesters who had been detained by [...]	2006-04-07 17:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BO RS
06MOSCOW3751	CODEL FRIST MEETING WITH FM LAVROV [...] (SBU) Summary. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Richard Burr (R-NC),accompanied by Ambassador Burns, met April 10 for with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to discuss current bilateral and multilateral issues. On Iran, Lavrov warned that Rus [...]	2006-04-10 13:19:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL RS
06MOSCOW3803	CODEL FRIST MEETING WITH RUSSIAN EXPERTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an April 10 breakfast meeting with Codel Frist and the Ambassador, Russian experts described the range of challenges facing Russia in the political, economic, and social sphere. Experts agreed that high oil profits disincline the political leadership to push new policy init [...]	2006-04-11 13:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM ECON EATO KHIV RS
06MOSCOW3815	RUSSIAN NATIONALIST DMITRIY ROGOZIN GOING ... [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rodina Party chairman Dmitriy Rogozin resigned from that position March 25, as observers expected, and also stepped down from his position as Rodina faction chairman in the State Duma April 4. The departure of the mercurial Rogozin has done nothing to mend internal rifts within [...]	2006-04-12 07:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR RS
06MOSCOW387	RABBI LAZAR ON SYNAGOGUE ATTACK, IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 17 meeting with the Ambassador, Berl Lazar, one of the leaders of Russia's Jewish community, said that though concerns about extremism in the country had been mounting, the January 11 synagogue attack had been a "wake-up call." He said the incident offered opportunit [...]	2006-01-18 13:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW3945	"OPEN RUSSIA" ON THE ROPES, BUT IRINA YASINA HOPES [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 12 a Moscow court upheld an earlier ruling freezing the assets of the Open Russia Foundation, which had been founded by and received the bulk of its funding from Mikhail Khodorkovskiy. Open Russia head Irina Yasina told the Ambassador on April 13 that though she planned [...]	2006-04-14 06:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW396	OVERZEALOUS IN INGUSHETIYA: NGO BAN CLARIFIED [...] (C) SUMMARY: We have confirmed, as reported reftel, that one foreign NGO has been banned from working in Ingushetiya, while Ingush authorities have acknowledged that a republic Procuracy announcement that another was banned was erroneous. A third, American NGO apparently is still under inve [...]	2006-01-19 04:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM EAID RS
06MOSCOW3979	INCREASING DIPLOMATIC PRESSURE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-14 12:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC IAEA KNNP RS IR
06MOSCOW4079	HOSSEINI-TASH COMING TO MOSCOW TO MEET EU-3; [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislyak told Ambassador in an April 18 meeting that Iran Supreme National Security Council Deputy Secretary Ali Hosseini-Tash, accompanied by an Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister, would be returning to Moscow to meet with the EU-3 April 19 on the margins of cu [...]	2006-04-19 04:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC RS IR CH
06MOSCOW4174	DAS KRAMER'S MEETING WITH HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 18 EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary David Kramer met with Russian Federation Ombudsman for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin. Addressing Kramer's concern about the recently enacted NGO law, Lukin said that it was still unclear how it would be implemented, but no major moves ag [...]	2006-04-20 05:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RS
06MOSCOW4180	PUBLIC CHAMBER GETS INTO GEAR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the three months since its inaugural plenary, the Public Chamber has displayed a flurry of activity. Its many commissions, sub-commissions and working groups have begun a busy schedule of meetings on a broad range of issues. Early tensions with the State Duma and other bodi [...]	2006-04-20 07:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW4198	TRANSNISTRIA: "THREE PLUS TWO" TALKS IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: "3 2" talks on Transnistria took place in Moscow April 19 including the mediators -- Russia, Ukraine and the OSCE -- and observers -- U.S. and EU. Russia tried to focus discussion on the customs regime between Moldova and Ukraine. All other sides pushed back, hardest of all Ukr [...]	2006-04-20 11:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS ETRD OSCE UP MD RS
06MOSCOW4265	A/S RADEMAKER'S APRIL 12 MEETING WITH DVBR [...] (C) SUMMARY. In an April 12 meeting with Anatoliy Antonov, Director of the MFA's Department for Disarmament and Security Affairs, ISN Assistant Secretary Stephen Rademaker explained that U.S. concerns about Russian treaty compliance were the main obstacles to U.S. support for Russian members [...]	2006-04-21 06:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC RS
06MOSCOW4316	THE CENTRALIZING RUSSIAN STATE MEETS THE NORTH [...] (C) Summary: The lesson of 500 years of Russian statecraft is clear: when the Center is strong, it centralizes, eliminating alternative power structures. Putin, seeking to show that he -- and Russia under his leadership -- are strong, is seeking to centralize. He is doing so by eliminating [...]	2006-04-21 14:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS RS
06MOSCOW4353	KOMI: SOCIO-ECONOMIC SITUATION IMPROVING FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Economic progress is visible in the resource-rich Komi Republic, we found on a recent trip to that remote region. Its economy is doing well, in part because of global price gains in oil, gas, and metal, but also because of its growing paper and furniture industries and budding [...]	2006-04-24 13:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL RS
06MOSCOW4374	ZIMBABWEAN TRADE DELEGATION VISITS RUSSIA [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Africa Department Counselors Mikhail Gulyakin and Andrey Stolyarov April 21 to discuss the April 3-13 visit to Moscow and St. Petersburg of Zimbabwean Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono and Transport Minister Chris Mushohwe to promote Russian investment in Zimbabwe. Gu [...]	2006-04-24 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ZI RS
06MOSCOW4405	VARNITSA PORT SEIZURE: RUSSIAN VIEWS [...] (C) We raised the April 21 Transnistrian seizure of Varnitsa Port (ref. a) with Russian Transnistria negotiator Nesterushkin April 25. Nesterushkin compared the seizure to the incident several years ago when Moldovan farmers tried to farm land on the Left Bank after receiving privatization vo [...]	2006-04-25 11:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS MD RS
06MOSCOW4435	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH KREMLIN ADVISOR [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met April 25 with Sergey Yastrzhembskiy, President Putin's Special Representative for Issues of Development of Relations with the European Union. Yastrzhembskiy said preparations for the EU-Russia summit in Sochi in late May were going well, and identified several agr [...]	2006-04-25 14:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
06MOSCOW4572	$4.5M U.S. Investment, Andy Warhol and American Corner [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified - Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Burns' visit to Samara April 17-18 revealed a city ripe for additional U.S. investment and eager for increased contacts and exchanges with American academic and business counterparts. The Ambassado [...]	2006-04-27 12:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV PGOV SOCI PINR RS
06MOSCOW4614	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: MUTUAL COMPLAINTS CONTINUE [...] (C) MFA Georgia Office Director Grigoryev told us April 28 that relations with Georgia were "at a dead end," and he did not know how to get them going again. "Some impetus is needed," he said, "but I find it hard to imagine what it could be." He ran through a litany of complaints: -- Parli [...]	2006-04-28 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD GG RS

06MOSCOW4615	IRAN AND ENERGY THE FOCUS OF RUSSIAN-GERMAN TALKS [...] (C) Summary: President Putin and Chancellor Merkel focused on Iran and energy issues during largely positive talks on April 26-27 in the Siberian city of Tomsk. Putin's message to Merkel on Iran was that Moscow was willing to put diplomatic pressure on Tehran but was extremely uneasy that [...]	2006-04-28 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PARM ETRD ENRG GM RS
06MOSCOW4799	RUSSIA SUPPORTS THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (SBU) On May 3 poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Legal Department Acting Director Vladimir Tarabrin. Tarabrin said the GOR continues to support the Third Additional Protocol and will support the statutory amendments to the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement at the conference in Geneva [...]	2006-05-04 14:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF PREL ICRC RU
06MOSCOW4839	LOOKING AHEAD TO PUTIN'S ADDRESS TO THE FEDERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ending lengthy speculation, the Kremlin announced on May 2 that President Putin will present his annual Address to the Federal Assembly on May 10. Delays in its delivery, which some had expected to take place in early April, fueled rumors that Putin had been dissatisfied with ea [...]	2006-05-05 06:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW4951	PUTIN'S ADDRESS TO THE FEDERAL ASSEMBLY BREAKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Putin's hour-long Address to the Federal Assembly on May 10 lacked the broad vision for Russia's future that some had expected. In a lengthy discussion of economic issues, he stressed national priority projects and technological development, and expressed commitment [...]	2006-05-10 14:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL PGOV KIPR KCRM RS
06MOSCOW5000	EKHO MOSKVY'S VENEDIKTOV ON SUCCESSION, KREMLIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 4 meeting, well-connected Ekho Moskvy head Aleksey Venediktov told us he believed the prospects for an extension of President Putin's presidency beyond 2008 had increased, because the two figures Putin was "testing" as potential successors were both gaining little politi [...]	2006-05-11 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR RS
06MOSCOW5030	MOSCOW OPPOSES CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIAN [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel demarche points May 12 with Anatoliy Taksubayev, Deputy Director of the MFA Third CIS (Central Asia) Department. (NOTE: We were unable to make this demarche to the MFA New Threats and Challenges Department, as the Deputy Director and principal staffers responsible [...]	2006-05-12 13:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR RS
06MOSCOW504	A/S LOWENKRON'S MEETING WITH NGO REPRESENTATIVES [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 17, the same day as the announcement that President Putin had signed the controversial NGO legislation, NGO leaders told A/S Lowenkron and the Ambassador that the legislation was flawed and ambiguous. Although the new legislation will come into force around mid-April, [...]	2006-01-20 11:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM RS
06MOSCOW510	MSF RUSSIA: CHECHNYA IS STILL A HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) MSF-Russia asked us to meet with heads of mission from MSF-France (Manuel Lannaud) and -Belgium (Goran Svedin) January 20 to receive a report on the humanitarian situation in Chechnya (MSF-Holland HOM was out of Moscow). MSF declared that there was still a humanitarian crisis in Chechnya, [...]	2006-01-20 14:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID PREF RS
06MOSCOW5104	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: BORJOMI MINERAL WATER BAN [...] (C) Summary: Jacques Fleury, Managing Director of Georgian Glass and Mineral Waters (GGMW),producer of Borjomi water, outlined for us May 12 the company's recent troubles with the Russian government. A press campaign had turned into threats by the GOR to ban import of the water; the ban was [...]	2006-05-15 09:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW5264	RUSSIANS AGAINST DELISTING MONIB [...] (C) On May 12 poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Afghanistan Section Chief Yuriy Khokhlov, and followed up on the issue with him in a May 15 discussion. On May 17 econoff double-tracked the demarche with Aleksandr Ubilava and Nikolay Ostrokhov from the MFA New Threats and Challenges Dep [...]	2006-05-18 12:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KTFN UN AF RS
06MOSCOW5372	IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NGO LAW: SO FAR, MUCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the month since Russia's controversial new NGO legislation formally went into effect, there has been widespread uncertainty about how to comply with it and about its long-term impact. Though implementing regulations have been issued, they fail to address many practical questio [...]	2006-05-19 13:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PROG PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW5375	LETTER FROM U/S BURNS TO DFM KARASIN ON SOUTH [...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel letter May 19 to MFA IV CIS Director Andrey Kelin. Kelin said he would immediately pass the letter to DFM Karasin and DFM Kislyak. The latter needed to see it because, Kelin said, the letter makes an "overstatement" in asserting that "the G8 has decided to in [...]	2006-05-19 14:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW5377	VLADIMIR LUKIN, RUSSIA'S PRAGMATIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russia's Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin will visit the U.S. May 23-26. A former diplomat (who was once Russia's Ambassador in Washington) and Duma member from the Yabloko Party, Lukin has had a mixed reputation in Russia's human rights community. Many activists view him a [...]	2006-05-19 16:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
06MOSCOW5378	RUSSIA'S DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION TO CONTINUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met separately May 16 with democratic opposition leaders Nikita Belykh of the Union of Right Forces (SPS) and Irina Khakamada of Our Choice. Belykh insisted that the democratic opposition must do more to rejuvenate the movement and demonstrate that it is capable of i [...]	2006-05-19 16:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW5427	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 22 MEETING WITH HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This is an action request - see paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met May 22 with Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, who will visit New York and Washington May 23-26 (reftel). Lukin said President Putin had encouraged him to visit the U.S. to expand the bilateral dialogue on [...]	2006-05-22 13:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW5454	HELSINKI COMMISSION STAFFDEL MEETS WITH MFA NGO [...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 16 meeting with Staffdel Finerty, Valeriy Kuzmin, who heads the MFA department responsible for interaction with Russia's regions, the Parliament, and civil society groups, said that his department also assists domestic NGOs in making contact with international counterpa [...]	2006-05-23 12:29:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
06MOSCOW5458	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 23 MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN [...] (C) Ambassador met with DFM Karasin May 23. Karasin was to leave later that day for a Nagorno-Karabakh trip. He hoped to be pleasantly surprised. With regard to U/S Burns' letter on South Ossetia, Karasin stressed positive movement and labeled the rest a matter of interpretation, but argued [...]	2006-05-23 13:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG IR AJ AM GG BO UP RS
06MOSCOW5492	GEORGIAN DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON CIS WITHDRAWAL, [...] (C) Summary: Georgian Deputy PM Baramidze told the Ambassador May 23 that he expected Georgia to leave the CIS in a matter of months. Negotiating bilateral agreements with the non-Russian members of the organization would be a priority; it would be important to protect the interests of Georg [...]	2006-05-24 14:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW5513	KALININGRAD AGRIBUSINESS FORUM: GERMAN FARMERS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kaliningrad Oblast's first international agribusiness forum intended to stimulate foreign investment drew a respectable, German-dominated audience of foreign farmers and processors. The oblast minister of agriculture conceded that openly inviting German farmers to come to the o [...]	2006-05-25 06:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON PGOV PINR PREL GM RS
06MOSCOW5532	RUSSIAN DFM KARASIN'S REPLY TO LETTER FROM U/S [...] (C) The Russian MFA on May 25 passed to us without comment a written reply from DFM Grigoriy Karasin to the May 19 letter U/S Burns sent him on South Ossetia (Ref A). The letter echoes the principal arguments Karasin made during his May 23 conversation with the Ambassador (Ref B). We underst [...]	2006-05-25 13:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW5557	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 23 MEETING WITH DUMA FIRST DEPUTY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador met May 23 with Duma First Deputy Speaker Oleg Morozov, who agreed that inter-parliamentary exchanges should be encouraged. He noted that a newly created Duma working group will address legislative initiatives proposed by President Putin in his Annual Address. Morozo [...]	2006-05-26 07:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PHUM PREL RS SOCI
06MOSCOW5645	CHECHNYA: THE ONCE AND FUTURE WAR [...] (C) Introduction: Chechnya has been less in the glare of constant international attention in recent years. However, the Chechnya conflict remains unresolved, and the suffering of the Chechen people and the threat of instability throughout the region remain. This message reinterprets the history of [...]	2006-05-30 09:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS RS
06MOSCOW5740	RUSSIA: PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION SNAPSHOT [...] (C) SUMMARY. Adding fuel to already intense speculation about who will succeed him, President Putin confirmed to state media May 13 that he will endorse a candidate before the March 2008 election. Both Kremlin-connected and independent analysts believe Putin's choice will be driven by a desire [...]	2006-05-31 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON PINR RS
06MOSCOW5741	RUSSIA SHARES TRILATERAL CONCERNS ABOUT UN [...] (C) Responding to a May 26 demarche (ref A) by Australian, New Zealand and U.S. emboffs on the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP),Grigoriy Lukyantsev, Head of the UN Division of the MFA's Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights said that Moscow h [...]	2006-05-31 13:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM AORC UN RS
06MOSCOW5742	RUSSIA WANTS TO SEND OBSERVER TO BLACK SEA FORUM [...] (C) We discussed reftel May 25 with MFA Romanian Section Chief Igor Inyushkin. He agreed that the U.S. and Russia shared common interests in the Black Sea region and appreciated Washington's endorsement of existing regional institutions, underlining Russia's hope that Moscow would be able t [...]	2006-05-31 13:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MARR MOPS RO RS
06MOSCOW5760	MFA HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIALS ON THE NGO LAW, [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a May 29 meeting with Mikhail Lebedev, Acting Director of the MFA Department on Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Barks-Ruggles underscored USG concerns that the new NGO law be implemented fairly and transparently. Barks-Ruggles also em [...]	2006-05-31 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KUNR KREL RS
06MOSCOW5821	MFA STATEMENT ON THE SECRETARY'S MAY 31 [...] (U) Following in para 2 is the Embassy's unofficial translation of the text of a Russian MFA statement, released on June 1, on the Secretary's May 31 Iran announcement. 2. (U) Begin text of translated MFA statement: Moscow welcomes the announcement by the American side of its willingne [...]	2006-06-01 12:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL IR RS
06MOSCOW585	PUBLIC CHAMBER BEGINS ITS WORK [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Public Chamber began its work on January 22, choosing Academician Yevgeniy Velikhov as its head and picking chairpersons of the seventeen commissions that are expected to do the bulk of its work. President Putin, presiding at the opening plenary, laid out priorities for the C [...]	2006-01-23 16:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW5870	AMBASSADOR'S MAY 26 MEETING WITH FEDERATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador met May 26 with Federation Council Deputy Speaker Dmitriy Mezentsev to discuss interparliamentary relations and cooperation. Mezentsev extended invitations for U.S. participation in the 4th Baikal Economic Forum to be held in Irkutsk in September 2006 and the 15th C [...]	2006-06-02 12:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV PREL RS
06MOSCOW5933	SOUTH OSSETIA: RUSSIAN MFA ON HEIGHTENED TENSIONS [...] (C) Summary: The Russian MFA negotiator on South Ossetia assured us June 2 that Russia supports Georgia's territorial integrity and borders, despite a June 1 public statement implying otherwise. He denied that Russia intends a "creeping annexation" of South Ossetia. In a separate June 2 di [...]	2006-06-02 14:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PBTS OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW5934	RUSSIAN PROCURATOR GENERAL DISMISSED [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Putin removed Vladimir Ustinov as Procurator General on June 2. He did not name an immediate replacement. PolPreds Dmitriy Kozak and Aleksandr Konovalov are considered leading candidates to replace Ustinov. The suddenness of the move surprised observers, although rumo [...]	2006-06-02 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW5951	DEMARCHING RUSSIA ON A BURMA RESOLUTION [...] (C) Poloff made reftel demarche June 5 to Petr Ilichev, UN Political Affairs Senior Counselor, MFA International Organizations Department. Ilichev said that Burma did not represent a threat to international peace and security, or to security in the region, and thus was not an appropriate sub [...]	2006-06-05 12:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS
06MOSCOW5997	RUSSIAN HOSTAGES IN IRAQ [...] (C) Upon learning of the killing of a GOR security guard and the kidnapping of four Russian Embassy employees outside a local market in Iraq on June 3, Ambassador called DFM Saltanov to express condolences and the desire of the U.S. to provide needed assistance. The Ambassador followed up wit [...]	2006-06-05 14:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS IZ
06MOSCOW5998	CIVIL SOCIETY GEARS UP FOR THE G8 SUMMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Faced with the controversial new NGO law and other worrisome developments, independent civil society activists are looking to the G8 Summit as an opportunity to strengthen their positions or at least publicize their causes. Some are willing to take part in the official G8 event f [...]	2006-06-05 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW6065	SQUEEZING BELARUS, BUT NOT UNTIL IT POPS [...] (C) Summary. Moscow's embrace of Lukashenko before and immediately after his March 19 reelection has tightened into a clench. Analysts here agree the GOR has sent a blunt message to Lukashenko: he needs to move from talk to action on at least economic integration. Some observers see Moscow [...]	2006-06-07 04:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BO RS
06MOSCOW6130	FORUM FOR THE FUTURE PLANNING MEETING, MOSCOW, MAY [...] (SBU) Summary. Participants at the second Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) Forum for the Future planning meeting agreed that the 2006 Forum will take place at the Dead Sea on December 3, preceded by a senior officials meeting and working dinner for ministers on December 2. Jordan [...]	2006-06-07 12:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KMPI RS
06MOSCOW6131	RUSSIAN MFA DEMARCHED ON TRANSNISTRIA MAY PROTOCOLS [...] (C) With Ambassador-at-Large Nesterushkin on vacation until the end of the week, poloff delivered reftel demarche June 7 to Mikhail Yalkin, Moldova Section Chief, MFA Second CIS Department. Yalkin said that there was no change whatsoever in Russian policy or approach to Transnistria. He cha [...]	2006-06-07 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PBTS PREL MS RS UP
06MOSCOW6173	NGO REPRESENTATIVES CONCERNED ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. DRL Deputy Assistant Secretary Erica Barks-Ruggles discussed the controversial NGO law and the broader human rights and democracy situation in Russia with a range of NGO representatives on May 30-31. She expressed support for NGOs in Russia and asked about current trends for civ [...]	2006-06-08 11:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KDEM RS
06MOSCOW6229	GORBACHEV AND A POLITICAL ALLY BUY INTO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev announced at a June 7 meeting with foreign journalists that he and a political ally, Duma Deputy Aleksandr Lebedev, had purchased a 49 percent stake in the fiercely independent newspaper "Novaya Gazeta." They made the purchase from the [...]	2006-06-08 13:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW6262	RUSSIA SUPPORTS WEDGEWOOD CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-09 12:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM RS
06MOSCOW6263	RUSSIA ON PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-09 12:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPAL RS
06MOSCOW6268	SEARCH FOR NEW RUSSIAN PROCURATOR GENERAL OVERLAID [...] (C) SUMMARY. Over the past week analysts have tried to read the tea leaves swirling around Vladimir Ustinov's abrupt June 2 dismissal as Procurator General. Speculation has largely shifted from the reasons behind his departure to educated guessing about the effects the choice of his replacem [...]	2006-06-09 16:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KCRM RS
06MOSCOW6307	MFA ON PROCESSING OF NORTH KOREANS IN RUSSIA [...] (C) Deputy Political Minister-Counselor delivered reftel points to Mikhail Lebedev, Acting Director of the MFA Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, on June 13. Lebedev said the GOR would have to consider the U.S. request before responding officially. 2. (C) Lebedev sa [...]	2006-06-13 10:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF KN KS RS
06MOSCOW6334	GROWTH AND CORRUPTION IN RUSSIA'S REGIONAL [...] SUMMARY: While none would dispute that Moscow leads Russia in economic development, it is increasingly clear that many cities beyond Moscow are experiencing healthy growth. Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners in large provincial cities report expanded opportunities and gradually imp [...]	2006-06-14 10:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV ELAB SOCI POL RS
06MOSCOW6341	PUTIN-SAAKASHVILI TALKS: PRELIMINARY READOUTS [...] (C) Georgian DCM Shugarov and Russian MFA Caucasus conflicts division chief Dvinyanin gave us preliminary readouts of the June 13 discussion between Russian President Putin and Georgian President Saakashvili in St. Petersburg. They had received brief telephone readouts from their respective su [...]	2006-06-14 12:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD MARR GG RS
06MOSCOW6354	RUSSIA SUPPORTS EXTENDING MNF-I MANDATE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA IO/UNSC Section Chief Vladimir Safronkov June 14. Safronkov said Russia fully supports continuing the MNF-I mandate and the DFI/IAMB arrangements and that the GOR would not present any obstacle to the extension. The Russian side would support a po [...]	2006-06-14 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IZ RS
06MOSCOW6358	U.S.-RUSSIA TALKS ON THE CAUCASUS [...] (C) DAS Kramer accompanied by the DCM called on Russian MFA Fourth CIS Department Director (DAS equivalent) Andrey Kelin June 13 to discuss Caucasus issues. (Kramer met subsequently one-on-one with DFM Karasin on other regional agenda items.) Kramer pushed Kelin hard on Russia's support for s [...]	2006-06-15 05:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS OSCE GG AM AJ RS
06MOSCOW6389	HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN LUKIN AGREES WITH USG [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 14 meeting, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin agreed with the proposals put forward by EUR DAS David Kramer regarding a U.S.-Russian human rights dialogue. Lukin shared the view that it would be beneficial to announce the creation of the dialogue at the G8 summit. [...]	2006-06-15 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW6390	RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGNERS IN NORTH OSSETIA [...] (C) Summary: On March 21 the Russian Government issued a decree that puts most of the Republic of North Ossetia off-limits to foreigners. Local authorities began enforcing the decree this month, with immediate effects on international assistance organizations. Most local observers relate th [...]	2006-06-16 07:06:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PGOV PREF PBTS MARR MOPS EAID OSCE RS GG
06MOSCOW6464	RUSSIAN MFA ON ICTY PIFWC LIKELY IN RUSSIA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche June 19 to Andrey Kalinin of the MFA Legal Department. Kalinin and his superior, Department Section Chief Igor Panin (who was traveling at the time),are the only officials in the MFA with a thorough knowledge of the ICTY and the status of PIFWCs. Russia [...]	2006-06-19 11:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS KCRM PREL ICTY KAWC PHUM BK SR RS
06MOSCOW650	SOUTH OSSETIA: JCC ADRIFT AS RUSSIAN-GEORGIAN [...] (C) Russian, Georgian and South Ossetian representatives have been unable to agree to a venue for the next Joint Control Commission (JCC) meeting, according to Russian MFA 4th CIS Department Deputy Director Semyon Grigoriyev. Grigoriyev told us January 24 that Russian Ambassador-at-Large for [...]	2006-01-24 13:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RS
06MOSCOW6515	CHECHNYA: DEATH OF SADULLAYEV [...] (C) Summary: Accounts of the June 17 killing of Chechen rebel "President" Sadullayev vary, but it was probably a chance firefight. Reaction has been low-key. Sadullayev's relevance was more political than military, and his death will probably have little effect on the rebels' military or te [...]	2006-06-20 09:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MOPS PINR RS
06MOSCOW6535	RUSSIAN MFA ON PUTIN-SAAKASHVILI TALKS [...] (C) Summary: The Russian MFA notetaker at the June 13 meeting between Presidents Putin and Saakashvili said the discussion was a constructive start to dialogue. He stressed several times that Russia was not a party to any of the frozen conflicts, and that it was the South Ossetians and Abkha [...]	2006-06-20 12:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PBTS GG RS
06MOSCOW6547	YURIY CHAYKA NOMINATED AS RUSSIA'S PROCURATOR [...] (SBU) President Putin nominated current Minister of Justice, Yuriy Chayka, as the next Procurator General to replace Vladimir Ustinov, who resigned June 2. The Federation Council's Committee on Legal and Judicial Affairs supported the nomination June 19; it will go before the full Federation [...]	2006-06-20 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KCRM RS
06MOSCOW6563	RUSSIAN SCO REPRESENTATIVE ON JUNE 15 SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary. Russian Ambassador-at-Large for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Vitaliy Vorobiyov gave us a readout June 20 of the June 15 SCO Summit. He encouraged the United States to have more dialogue with the SCO to avoid misunderstandings, perhaps as a formal "dialogue partne [...]	2006-06-21 10:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER RS IR AF CN KZ
06MOSCOW6575	NEW TRIAL ORDERED FOR SYNAGOGUE ATTACKER [...] (SBU) On June 20 the Russian Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Aleksandr Koptsev, who on March 27 had been convicted of knifing nine people in the Chabad synagogue in Moscow on January 11. The trial court had sentenced Koptsev to thirteen years in prison on several counts of attempted mur [...]	2006-06-21 14:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KCRM RS
06MOSCOW6608	G-8 POLITICAL DIRECTORS/SENIOR GROUP JUNE 14 [...] (C) Summary. Meeting in Moscow June 14, G-8 Political Directors/Senior Group Members discussed outstanding issues relating to the St. Petersburg Summit statement on nonproliferation, including sensitive technology transfers, the U.S.-India agreement, and how to deal with the DPRK and Iran. [...]	2006-06-22 09:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PHUM RS
06MOSCOW6762	OUT AS PROCURATOR GENERAL, USTINOV RETURNS AS [...] (U) On June 23 President Putin nominated Vladimir Ustinov -- who on June 2 had been removed from his prior position as Procurator General -- to be Minister of Justice. In his new position Ustinov succeeds former Justice Minister Yuriy Chayka, who on June 19 was named as Ustinov's successor as [...]	2006-06-26 13:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RS
06MOSCOW6812	U.S. COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 23 the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) met with Federal Registration Service (FRS) Director Sergey Movchan to discuss the expected impact of the recently adopted and not yet implemented NGO law on religious organizations. Movchan upheld the GOR [...]	2006-06-27 07:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
06MOSCOW6815	SOCIAL MOBILITY IN RUSSIA: WHICH WAY TO THE MIDDLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With real average incomes up 66 percent over the past five years, Russia's middle class has begun to emerge from the shadows -- after all, someone other than the mega rich has to be buying all those TV sets, cars and cell phones. Understanding that the movement is now well unde [...]	2006-06-27 11:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON SOCI EINV ELAB EFIN PGOV RS
06MOSCOW6820	DFM YAKOVENKO SAYS MOSCOW WELCOMES FRANK [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with a visiting delegation from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom June 24, Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Yakovenko: -- Welcomed frank discussion of Russia's human rights record, emphasizing that his ministry routinely facilitated visits by [...]	2006-06-27 13:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL RS
06MOSCOW6839	AN ARRAY OF CIVIL SOCIETY EVENTS AROUND THE G8 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The menu of civil society events around the G8 Summit has taken shape, although a few uncertainties remain. The main GOR-sponsored event, the so-called Civil G8 to be held on July 3-4, has been supplemented with a human rights roundtable, which some independent activists view as [...]	2006-06-27 13:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW6843	RUSLAN KHASBULATOV ON CHECHEN DYNAMICS [...] (C) Ruslan Khasbulatov, Yeltsin's opponent in the 1993 White House standoff and now professor of economics at the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics, gave us his perspective June 27 on dynamics in his native Chechnya. Khasbulatov was upfront about his dislikes in the current political alig [...]	2006-06-28 09:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MOPS PINR RS
06MOSCOW7047	HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN LUKIN SUGGESTS CHANGES TO [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 30 meeting, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin discussed the paper outlining the proposal for a U.S.-Russian Roundtable on Democracy and Human Rights with the Ambassador. Lukin was positive about the proposal, but based on his consultations with the MFA and Kremlin F [...]	2006-07-03 09:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM PINR RS
06MOSCOW7084	INITIAL REACTIONS IN MOSCOW TO DPRK MISSILE LAUNCH [...] (C) Summary. The Russian MFA issued a strongly worded statement at 2:00 p.m. Moscow time on July 5 in response to the DPRK missile launches. The MFA spokesman was on the record as day began in Moscow calling the launches a "provocation." Our colleagues in the ROK and Japanese embassies tol [...]	2006-07-05 11:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KN RS
06MOSCOW7118	RUSSIAN DFM ON DPRK MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche July 6 to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Alekseyev. Alekseyev said he was in absolute agreement that it was very important to send the North Koreans a strong and clear signal of the unacceptability of their missile launches. He had deli [...]	2006-07-06 07:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PARM UNSC KN RS
06MOSCOW7124	PUTIN MEETS WITH NGO REPRESENTATIVES AS PART OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: The main GOR-sponsored civil society event, the Civil G8, was held July 3-4 in Moscow. The event brought together a wide range of NGOs for lively discussions on themes, including G8 agenda items as well as the state of Russia's civil society. Putin attended several Civil G8 event [...]	2006-07-06 08:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW7293	FSB CONFIRMS DEATH OF SHAMIL BASAYEV [...] (C) The Federal Security Service (FSB) confirmed to LEGATT at 1715 local that Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev was killed in an operation in the early hours of July 10. LEGATT's FSB contacts, who had minutes earlier been unaware of the reports, refused to give further details. 2. (C) Acc [...]	2006-07-10 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PGOV PINR RS
06MOSCOW7340	RUSSIA CLOSES BORDER WITH GEORGIA [...] (C) Russia closed its one border crossing with Georgia on July 8. In response, on July 9 Georgia closed its "border" crossing into South Ossetia. The South Ossetians have hyped the Georgian move, making the false charge that Georgia has cut the road between South Ossetia and Russia's North O [...]	2006-07-11 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR PBTS ETRD GG RS
06MOSCOW7385	RUSSIA'S GEORGIA POLICY: "THE CAUCASUS BENEATH ME" [...] (C) Russia's policies towards Georgia are the product of three factors: anger unleashed by perceptions of betrayal and disrespect, fear of encirclement by a West intent on dismembering Russia's conception of the "Post-Soviet space," and solidarity with the separatist Abkhaz and South Ossetian [...]	2006-07-12 11:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS GG RS
06MOSCOW7493	WORLD RELIGIOUS LEADERS SUMMIT IN RUSSIA CALLS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting in Moscow July 3-5, more than 200 religious leaders and clergy from over 40 countries called on believers of all faiths to engage in dialogue and partnership to resolve global problems, as well as to challenge terrorism, extremism, and efforts to restrict religious freed [...]	2006-07-14 06:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI PINR RS
06MOSCOW754	SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY IVANOV ON LARIJANI TALKS [...] (S) SUMMARY. Ambassador met January 25 with Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov, who provided a read-out of his January 24 meeting with Iranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani. Ivanov said "nothing extraordinary" came out of the discussion with Larijani, [...]	2006-01-25 17:40:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL KNNP RS IR
06MOSCOW7666	NEW RESTRICTIVE RUSSIAN ELECTORAL LEGISLATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. A flurry of new, more restrictive legal measures affecting the conduct of elections appeared during the last few weeks of the spring sessions of both houses of the Russian parliament. On July 12, President Putin signed amendments passed by both houses that end the option of voti [...]	2006-07-18 12:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW7723	RUSSIA: APPEAL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS FOR HAITI INTERIM [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche July 19 to Sergey Tarasov, Caribbean Section Chief in the MFA Latin America Department. Tarasov said he would pass the information to his superiors but could not predict whether Russia would provide any assistance to Haiti. He was aware of the High Lev [...]	2006-07-19 12:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN HA RS
06MOSCOW7863	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: PUTIN-SAAKASHVILI MEETING OFF, LEAVING LITTLE CLARITY AND MUCH SUSPICION [...] (C) Georgian President Saakashvili will not meet President Putin in Moscow at the July 21-22 informal CIS Summit. Both sides agreed to announce they would set up a special meeting in the near future. In a bid to improve the atmosphere Georgian DFM Antadze, meeting with Russian DFM Denisov July 19, [...]	2006-07-21 14:40:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL MARR MOPS GG RS
06MOSCOW789	RUSSIA/GEORGIA: IVANOV DISMISSIVE OF SAAKASHVILI'S [...] (C) SUMMARY. At the end of a January 25 meeting devoted primarily to Iran (ref A),Ambassador raised the Georgian energy supply issue with Russian Security Council Secretary Igor Ivanov. In a brief response, Ivanov dismissed Georgian President Saakashvili's accusations against Russia, callin [...]	2006-01-26 12:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG RS GG
06MOSCOW7956	POST-MORTEM ON G8-RELATED NGO EVENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Looking back on the four non-governmental events ahead of the G8 Summit, NGO activists and opposition politicians have widely diverging assessments about their implications. Ella Pamfilova's July 3-4 Civil G8 highlighted the broad range of NGOs in Russia, notably those involveQin [...]	2006-07-26 10:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW797	A/S LOWENKRON'S MEETING WITH RUSSIA HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 18 meeting with DRL A/S Lowenkron and the Ambassador, Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin said that his office has seen an increase in complaints of human rights violations. Lukin highlighted his office's critical analysis of the first draft of the NGO law, saying [...]	2006-01-26 14:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RS
06MOSCOW802	A/S LOWENKRON DISCUSSES NGO LAW WITH STATE DUMA [...] (C) SUMMARY. On January 18 DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron and EUR DAS David Kramer met with State Duma Deputy Andrey Makarov. Makarov vigorously )- and at times heatedly )- defended the new NGO legislation, insisting that the text met international legal standards, but he conceded there could be prob [...]	2006-01-27 07:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW8024	GOR REITERATES REQUIREMENTS FOR FOREIGNERS' ACCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 2, Russian security forces issued revised requirements for foreign NGO workers, reporters, and diplomats seeking access to Chechnya. While our contacts acknowledged that they raised the potential for tighter restrictions on NGOs working in the region, they reported that [...]	2006-07-27 12:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PREF EAID PGOV RS
06MOSCOW8047	GEORGIA-RUSSIA: MFA ON KODORI GORGE [...] (C) We discussed the Kodori Gorge situation July 27 with Dmitriy Tarabrin, Acting Director of the MFA Fourth CIS Department. Tarabrin said the operation had a "military character" that made it a violation of the May 11 1994 ceasefire agreement on Abkhazia. Russia did not, however, want to "d [...]	2006-07-27 14:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS GG RS
06MOSCOW8117	GOR HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT 61ST UNGA [...] (SBU) The MFA told us that Foreign Minister Sergey Viktorovich Lavrov will likely lead the Russian delegation at the 61st UNGA. The Foreign Ministry is awaiting Kremlin approval of the delegation list. There are no plans at this time for President Putin or PM Fradkov to attend. 2. (SBU) [...]	2006-07-31 12:54:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA RS
06MOSCOW8148	EXTREMISM LAW SIGNED BY PUTIN [...] (C) SUMMARY. As expected, President Putin signed into law July 28 amendments to legislation "On Countering Extremism," despite concerns among many that the law may restrict legitimate criticism of the government. As noted in reftel, the revised law expands the definition of extremist activity [...]	2006-07-31 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM RS
06MOSCOW8210	RUSSIAN GOALS FOR APEC 2006 [...] (C) We discussed U.S. APEC priorities on August 2 with MFA APEC Section Chief Pavel Alyanov and sought his views on Russian priorities at the Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in September. Alyanov said Russia shared many of the same goals as the U.S. in APEC and particularly agreed on the impo [...]	2006-08-02 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD PTER APECO RS
06MOSCOW8334	GOR INTENDS TO EXTRADITE IVANOVO 13 TO UZBEKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOR has announced it intends to extradite 13 men detained at Uzbekistan's request for alleged involvement in the events in Andijon. UNHCR and human rights NGOs have told us that the men have further legal appeals available, but they are pessimistic there will be any reversa [...]	2006-08-04 13:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL RS
06MOSCOW8427	AFTER BASAYEV [...] (C) Shamil Basayev leaves behind questions about the future direction of Chechnya, the future direction of the North Caucasus, and future prospects for terrorism, extremism, and militant Jihadism in the region. With no unifying enemy, the leadership of Chechnya is beginning to show rifts. M [...]	2006-08-08 07:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS PINR PTER RS
06MOSCOW8507	THE POLITICAL SKIRMISH BEHIND THE "MOSKOVSKIYE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Late last year, Israeli businessman Arkadiy Gaydamak bought the liberal weekly newspaper "Moskovskiy Novostiy" (MN) and promptly announced it would become a pro-Kremlin publication. The newspaper's deputy editor in chief, Svetlana Babayeva, told us July 31 that over half a year [...]	2006-08-09 13:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR RS
06MOSCOW857	RCFS DIRECTOR LIKELY TO BE CONVICTED [...] (C) The trial of Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) Executive Director Stanislav Dmitriyevskiy is expected to conclude February 3. Oksana Chelysheva, an RCFS staff member, and other human rights contacts have told us they expect Dmitriyevskiy to be convicted. He is charged with incit [...]	2006-01-27 14:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV EAID PREF RS
06MOSCOW861	NGOS CHILLED BY SPY ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Five days after Russian television aired accusations by the Federal Security Service (FSB) that four UK diplomats and a Russian were caught spying and that one of the diplomats was directly involved in transferring funds to Russian NGOs, the fallout continues. The State Duma den [...]	2006-01-27 16:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW868	A/S LOWENKRON'S MEETING WITH KONSTANTIN KOSACHEV, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 19 DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron, Ambassador Burns, and EUR DAS David Kramer met with State Duma International Relations Committee Chairman Konstantin Kosachev. Defending the new NGO legislation, Kosachev insisted that it would clarify the role of NGOs in Russia, not limit t [...]	2006-01-30 10:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW873	KABARDINO-BALKARIA: AFTERMATH OF OCTOBER ATTACKS [...] (C) Summary: Few local officials in Kabardino-Balkaria are willing to talk about the October 13-14 attacks in Nalchik by Islamic extremists against government, law enforcement and security sites. Those who did during a January 25-26 visit to the Republic by Embassy officers cited joblessness [...]	2006-01-30 11:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ECON EAID RS
06MOSCOW9015	SOUTH OSSETIA: AN "AMUSING" MEETING GETS NOWHERE [...] (C) The Joint Control Commission to negotiate a settlement in the South Ossetia conflict met in Moscow August 17-18 and produced no results. The meeting's main accomplishment was to continue over the full two days without breaking up in acrimony. Georgian DCM Shugarov told us August 18, while [...]	2006-08-18 14:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR OSCE GG RS
06MOSCOW9018	RUSSIA AND UKRAINE: TWO CHEERS FOR YANU? [...] (C) Summary: Moscow was pleased that new Ukrainian PM Viktor Yanukovich made his first foreign trip to Russia to meet with President Putin and PM Fradkov in Sochi. Observers here expect that the tone of the relationship will improve, but on substance, few saw Yanukovich as a pushover. On t [...]	2006-08-18 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD UP RS
06MOSCOW9206	KHODORKOVSKIY-ASSOCIATED NGO HIT WITH HUGE TAX BILL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian tax authorities recently imposed a USD 180,000 bill for back taxes on an NGO headed by one of Mikhail Khodorkovskiy's lawyers. The Federal Tax Service claims the Center for International Legal Defense (CILD) owes taxes on grants it has received from the National Endowment [...]	2006-08-23 14:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM RS
06MOSCOW921	CIVIL SOCIETY COUNCIL CHAIR PAMFILOVA: "WE'LL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 18 meeting with visiting DRL A/S Barry Lowenkron, the Ambassador and EUR DAS Kramer, Ella Pamfilova, head of the Presidential body that oversees civil society issues, said she had strongly opposed the controversial NGO legislation and had weighed in with President Pu [...]	2006-01-30 12:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW922	A RANGE OF EXPECTATIONS ABOUT THE PUBLIC CHAMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the Public Chamber gets down to work following its inaugural plenary on January 22, its members have differing expectations about what it will accomplish. Publicly, many members expressed at least guarded optimism about the Chamber. Privately, views differ appreciably. One C [...]	2006-01-30 13:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
06MOSCOW923	MINISTRY OF JUSTICE SEEKS TO CLOSE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) said publicly on January 27 that it is seeking to revoke the registration of the Russian Human Rights Research Center, which allegedly failed to provide required documentation about its activities in recent years. Center officials and other human rig [...]	2006-01-30 13:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL PINR RS
06MOSCOW930	MOSCOW COMFORTABLE WITH UKRAINIAN DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Moscow continues to tell itself that it got the best of Kiev in the year-end negotiations on gas supply, according to the Russian MFA and a number of Embassy contacts. As they see it, the gas deal was an economic boon for Gazprom and the GOR, despite allegations of corruption a [...]	2006-01-30 13:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP
06MOSCOW9311	DPRK: RUSSIAN VIEWS ON IMPLEMENTING UNSCR 1695 [...] (C) Russia will comply with the requirements of UNSCR Resolution 1695 but is unlikely to adopt additional legal requirements directed against the DPRK's missile or WMD programs. MFA Korea Section Chief Aleksandr Vostrikov told us August 23 that responsibility for implementing the resolution [...]	2006-08-25 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP MNUC KN RS
06MOSCOW9346	LEBANON/UNIFIL: RUSSIA MAY SEND LIMITED CONTINGENT [...] (C) The MFA told us August 25 that Russia is actively considering sending a limited contingent of military personnel to serve in UNIFIL. Vladimir Safronkov, Chief of the UN Political Affairs Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department, said that President Putin had requested [...]	2006-08-25 14:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR KPKO LE RS

06MOSCOW9354	RUSSIA WEIGHING ADDITIONAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE [...] (C) In addition to contemplating a limited contingent of military personnel to serve in UNIFIL (septel),Russia is considering providing additional shipments of humanitarian assistance to Lebanon according to the MFA and the Lebanese Ambassador in Moscow. MFA Syria and Lebanon Section Chief [...]	2006-08-25 14:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID LE RS
06MOSCOW9356	BASAYEV'S WIDOW ABDUCTED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The abduction of a female journalist in Chechnya that prompted public appeals from human rights groups could have consequences for the Chechen newspaper that employed her as a stringer and the groups seeking her release, following the revelation that she is Shamil Basayev's wido [...]	2006-08-25 15:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PTER PINR RS
06MOSCOW9412	15TH ANNIVERSARY OF 1991 "COUP": APATHY, PROMISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The fifteenth anniversary of the August 1991 "coup" passed with little fanfare. There were no official events, and the Russian population greeted the anniversary with apathy or political antipathy. Despite concern in some circles over increasing restrictions on personal freedo [...]	2006-08-28 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM RS
06MOSCOW9414	ABKHAZIA: DFM KARASIN SPELLS OUT TOUGH RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: At his initiative, DFM Karasin on August 28 briefed Western Friends Chiefs of Mission on developments in Abkhazia, which he had recently visited. He said Georgia's July operation in the Kodori Gorge was a violation of the 1994 ceasefire agreement and had created a "disbalance" in [...]	2006-08-28 14:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS UNSC GG RS
06MOSCOW9415	DFM KARASIN ON UPCOMING RUSSIAN DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS [...] (C) Summary: After DFM Karasin briefed Friends of Georgia Chiefs of Mission August 28 (Septel),he met with Ambassador Burns bilaterally. They discussed upcoming travel and visits. Karasin favors an end October-early November date for his own meetings in Washington. Karasin briefed on Russ [...]	2006-08-28 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MD UP BO RS
06MOSCOW9436	A/S LOWENKRON'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) SUMMARY. A/S Barry Lowenkron visited Moscow in July attending "The Other Russia" conference sponsored by opposition political parties on the eve of the G8 summit. He also had consultations with a number of Russian officials, politicians, and NGO leaders. These included: Chairperson of th [...]	2006-08-29 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
06MOSCOW9482	RUSSIAN OIL TO LITHUANIA -- MIXING REVENGE AND BUSINESS [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-30 12:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL LH RS
06MOSCOW9533	A CAUCASUS WEDDING [...] (C) Weddings are elaborate in Dagestan, the largest autonomy in the North Caucasus. On August 22 we attended a wedding in Makhachkala, Dagestan's capital: Duma member and Dagestan Oil Company chief Gadzhi Makhachev's son married a classmate. The lavish display and heavy drinking concealed the deadl [...]	2006-08-31 06:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PINR RS
06MOSCOW96	NGO DRAFT LEGISLATION: STILL UNSIGNED BY PUTIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Putin has yet to sign or veto the controversial NGO legislation passed in late December by the Duma and Federation Council. Most observers remain convinced that he will sign it, although there is some confusion about the timeframe in which he must make a decision. Assu [...]	2006-01-11 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM RS
06MOSCOW9627	RUSSIAN DUMA CHAIRPERSON KOSACHEV ON US, IRAN, LEBANON, CIS, NGOS, INTERNAL POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: In an August 31 meeting with the Ambassador, Chairman of the International Relations Committee of the Russia Duma Konstantin Kosachev expressed concern over the deteriorating tone in US-Russian relations. Kosachev explained his opposition to imposing sanctions against Iran abs [...]	2006-08-31 14:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM RS
06MOSCOW963	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN DFM KARASIN, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Burns met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin January 31 to discuss recent developments on regional issues. They spent most of the meeting discussing Georgia; it was clear that President Saakashvili's accusations concerning the January 22 pipeline explosion [...]	2006-01-31 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG UNSC AJ AM GG BO UP IAEA IR RS
06MOSCOW9817	RUSSIAN POLITICAL SEASON BEGINS WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Kremlin's involvement, with Deputy Head of Presidential Administration Surkov's apparent encouragement and Putin's purported blessing, in engineering a union of three leftist political parties of marginal to moderate popularity as an officially sanctioned opposition is the [...]	2006-09-06 08:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM RS
06MOSCOW9823	RUSSIAN MFA ON HELICOPTER INCIDENT IN SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) Summary: Following the September 3 firing on a Georgian military helicopter over South Ossetia, the Ambassador contacted DFM Karasin to highlight the danger posed by the incident and to urge Russia to use its influence with the South Ossetians to prevent its repetition. Karasin acknowl [...]	2006-09-06 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS GG RS
06MOSCOW9953	RUSSIA NONCOMMITTAL ABOUT FIVE PLUS FIVE MEETING [...] (SBU) After providing reftel talking points to the MFA earlier, we checked with MFA North America on September 8 to see whether FM Lavrov would attend a meeting of the Five Plus Five on the margins of the upcoming UN General Assembly meetings. We were told that no decision had been made abou [...]	2006-09-08 10:54:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KNNP MNUC PARM KN RS
06MOSCOW9955	RUSSIA SUPPORTS RENEWAL OF APEC COUNTER TERRORISM [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche September 7 to MFA Asian Cooperation Department Deputy Director Valeriy Sorokin and MFA New Challenges and Threats Deputy Director Nikolay Kudashev. Sorokin and Kudashev endorsed extension of the Counter Terrorism Task Force (CTTF) mandate, underlining the i [...]	2006-09-08 11:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PTER APECO RS
06MOSCOW9978	U.S.-RUSSIAN COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the last U.S.-Russian Counterterrorism Working Group (CTWG) convened in Moscow in December 2005, bilateral CT cooperation has continued to move forward even as the pace has remained uneven. Russia has focused on strengthening its capacity to respond to counterterrorism chal [...]	2006-09-08 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PTER PREL PGOV RS
06MOSUL24	KURDISH VIEWS FROM NINEWA [...] (C) PRT Mosul had lengthy discussions with three Kurdish leaders in late February: two top Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) officials and one from the rival Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). All were united in their support for continued American presence in Iraq, the difficulties Ja'afari [...]	2006-03-01 08:54:00	REO Mosul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS PINT PGOV PHUM IZ MARR
06MUMBAI1375	A $5-$6 BILLION "NUCLEAR PARK" FOR U.S. REACTORS IN INDIA? [...] (C) The head of India's state-run nuclear power company told visiting Charge on July 21 that U.S. nuclear suppliers could get their own "nuclear park" of five to six reactors worth $5-$6 billion if the U.S./India civil nuclear agreement becomes reality. S.K. Jain, MD and Chairman of the Nuclea [...]	2006-07-26 08:08:00	Consulate Mumbai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY PGOV BEXP IN
06MUMBAI1803	WILL FRANCE, RUSSIA REAP THE INITIAL COMMERCIAL BENEFITS OF [...] (SBU) GE and Westinghouse fear that French and Russian companies may be the first to benefit from the commercial opportunities created by successful passage of the U.S./India civil nuclear initiative. The Nuclear Power Corp. of India (NPCIL) confirmed to us that the GOI has approved two new si [...]	2006-10-08 08:56:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY PGOV ECON
06MUMBAI2064	NPCIL OUTLINES ITS VISION OF INDIA'S NUCLEAR FUTURE AT [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 14. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) India hopes to import 20 to 25 foreign nuclear reactors in the coming decades, the head of the country's nuclear power utility told over 25 U.S. companies from the nuclear sector on December 1 in Mumbai. [...]	2006-12-13 14:25:00	Consulate Mumbai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM TSPL KNNP ETTC ENRG TRGY PGOV ECON
06MUNICH114	MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: MERKEL URGES [...] (SBU) The February 3-5 42nd Munich Conference on Security Policy ("Wehrkunde") on "Restoring the Transatlantic Partnership," explored a wide-range of security policy topics, including the future of NATO, its relationship with the EU, Russia's relationship with Europe and NATO, and Foreign and [...]	2006-02-23 16:28:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM NATO IAEA NPT ENRG IR GM
06MUNICH715	EADS/AIRBUS CRISIS -- THE SAGA CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Amid a flood of bad news, a senior EADS official told the Consulate the A380 would, despite delays, be certified for flight. However, the A380's drain on resources was adversely impacting programs such as the A350 and the A400M, possibly resulting in a postponement of the A350 program. [...]	2006-10-13 13:57:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAIR ETRD PGOV EINV PREL EUN FR GM
06MUNICH767	MR. PUTIN GOES TO BAVARIA [...] The Bavarian government warmly welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin during his visit to Munich October 11. Shortly after Putin's visit, the so-called "Days of Moscow" were opened in the Bavarian capital marking the visit of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, to whom Minister-President Stoiber aw [...]	2006-10-31 08:30:00	Consulate Munich	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL GM RS
06MUSCAT10	MEDIA REACTION: Ex-Syrian Leader's Comments, Economic [...] The privately owned daily "Al-Watan" published an editorial on January 1 under the title "Behind Khadam's Separation": "The former Syrian vice president Abdul Halim Khadam's clashes with fellow Syrian leaders date to former president Hafiz al- Asad's time, but his disputes increased during B [...]	2006-01-04 08:50:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR OIIP MU
06MUSCAT1023	MEDIA REACTION: IRAQI SECURITY; IRANIAN OIL; ARAB LEAGUE [...] On June 26, all Omani papers carried prominent front-page coverage of the previous day's Palestinian attack on an Israeli checkpoint. English-language papers carried wire-service coverage, on which Arabic papers also drew, adding that Palestinian militants had "martyred" themselves. Iran cov [...]	2006-06-28 05:44:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
06MUSCAT1090	MEDIA REACTION: GAZA, IRAQI NATIONAL RECONCILIATION [...] Israel's Gaza incursion continued to receive strongly negative coverage in the local press. In a July 7 front-page article, privately owned Arabic-language daily "Al-Watan" (circulation 42,000) reported that Israel had used unspecified "internationally-banned weapons." Arabic papers front-pag [...]	2006-07-11 07:15:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
06MUSCAT1122	MEDIA REACTION: ISRAEL-LEBANESE CONFLICT; OMANI LABOR [...] SUMMARY: Omani press decries "Israeli aggression." Private "Al-Watan" daily laments "Arab silence." The state-owned "Oman" deems Hezbollah to be conducting "legitimate resistance." In online discussion, participants applaud Oman's new labor law, even if "American pressure" is behind it, and [...]	2006-07-17 12:11:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
06MUSCAT1151	MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON; DANGER OF REGIONAL [...] SUMMARY: "Lebanon is burning, and the whole world is standing still watching," according to government-owned daily "Oman," which also calls for a ceasefire to stop "Zionist aggression." A columnist for "Oman" condemns Arab governments for "acting against the will of their citizens." Privatel [...]	2006-07-24 13:04:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
06MUSCAT1177	TFLE01: OMAN REQUESTS ASSISTANCE IN DELIVERY OF [...] During a July 30 meeting with the Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary (deputy-secretary equivalent) Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi expressed his concern regarding the logistics of delivering humanitarian assistance for Lebanese relief efforts. Sayyid Badr noted that Oman is current [...]	2006-08-01 05:30:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SOCI MU
06MUSCAT122	2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED [...] (SBU) ECONOMIC/POLITICAL FACTORS: There have been no major policy changes since the 2004 report (ref B). Oman remains a stalwart ally in the global war on terrorism and key Arab proponent of regional stability, including USG stabilization efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Long-standing milita [...]	2006-01-31 06:48:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MCAP MASS MARR MU
06MUSCAT134	YBA POSES QUESTION RE IRAN [...] (U) Please note action request in para 8. 2. (C) Begin Summary: Notwithstanding the January 30 P5 2 Statement, the Omanis believe the key to a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis may lie in a slight delay before referring the Iranian case to the UNSC, even if no action is cal [...]	2006-02-01 14:21:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ETTC IR MU UN UNSC
06MUSCAT162	MFA ARAB CHIEF ON IRAN, PALESTINE, SYRIA [...] (C) In a February 5 meeting with Pol/Econ Chief, MFA Arab Affairs Chief Ambassador Ahmed al-Harthy expressed deep misgivings about the IAEA's decision to report Iran to the UN Security Council, fearing the move pushes a diplomatic solution further out of reach. He said recent Oman-Iran discus [...]	2006-02-08 08:44:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPAL PARM KNNP PINR XF MU
06MUSCAT1707	NEA A/S WELCH MEETING WITH OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) NEA A/S Welch met December 12 with Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi in Muscat. Bin Alawi personally drove A/S Welch and the Ambassador to a meeting with Sultan Qaboos (septel),and then hosted a working lunch for them with participation from Foreign Ministry [...]	2006-12-20 07:21:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER KPAL IR IZ SY MU
06MUSCAT203	MEDIA REACTION: Economic Hopes for Hamas, Russia Hosting [...] The privately owned daily "al-Watan" published an editorial on February 8 entitled "Hamas and the Future": "The corruption that prevailed previously in the [Palestinians'] "Fatah" government was one cause of its downfall, to Hamas' benefit. One of the new government's priorities is the "Pal [...]	2006-02-13 13:46:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR OIIP MU
06MUSCAT231	OMAN FM RETURNING TO IRAN [...] (C) On February 18, MFA International Organizations Department Chief Ambassador Talib bin Miran al-Raisi affirmed to Pol/E Chief that Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi will "soon" be making a return visit to Tehran. Ambassador al-Raisi did not provide details on the pur [...]	2006-02-19 12:48:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM ETTC IR MU
06MUSCAT590	IRAN: FM SHARES NUCLEAR CONCERNS, QUESTIONS U.S. [...] (C) In his April 9 meeting with U/S Joseph, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi argued that rather than getting sucked into divisive debates about Iran's WMD capability a la Iraq, the U.S. needs to change the tack that has led to other recent conflicts and instead seek com [...]	2006-04-11 15:05:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC IR MU
06MUSCAT611	MEDIA REACTION: THE QUARTET AND THE UN, IRANIAN NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-17 11:54:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR OIIP MU
06MUSCAT686	MEDIA REACTION: DIPLOMACY AND IRAN, DAHAB POLITICAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-01 12:50:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO KMDR OIIP MU
06MUSCAT868	OMAN'S FM REPORTS INITIAL IRANIAN RESPONSE TO USG [...] (C) Omani FM Yusuf bin Alawi personally contacted Iranian Security Council Secretary Larijani and FM Mottaki in the hours following announcement of the USG initiative toward Iran. While Mottaki was tight-lipped, Larijani offered a negative reaction to the U.S. announcement, saying that it ign [...]	2006-06-01 08:33:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC OPRC IR MU
06MUSCAT910	MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-IRAN INITIATIVES, THE LESSONS OF [...] State papers voiced strong support for proposed U.S.-Iran dialogue, along with concern about the possibility of military escalation. Private daily Al-Watan accuses the U.S. of insincerity for promising to hold U.S. troops accountable for alleged Iraqi massacres while failing to impose harsh s [...]	2006-06-07 10:59:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO KMDR MU
06NAIROBI1023	PUBLIC AND POLITICIANS DEMAND EXPLANATION FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the furor over the government's assault on media freedom grew into a several thousand strong protest march, further details of the raid against the Standard Media Group suggest it was part of a much deeper effort to help the increasingly paranoid government cling to power. Alt [...]	2006-03-07 12:33:00	Embassy Nairobi	SECRET//NOFORN	PHUM KDEM PGOV PREL ASEC KE
06NAIROBI1077	MUSYOKA: LIES, LOVERS, AND MERCENARIES IN KENYA'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition politician Kalonzo Musyoka privately sees sabotage by supporters of a fellow presidential aspirant as behind the false story suggesting he was cutting a political deal with President Kibaki. The reason for the Government's own visceral reaction to this story (and raiding th [...]	2006-03-09 01:02:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS PINR KE
06NAIROBI1114	AN UNSETTLED KENYA AWAITS NEXT SHOE TO DROP [...] (S) SUMMARY: President Kibaki publicly stands firm behind the Kenyan Police raid on the Standard Media Group. Meanwhile, Standard journalists and others privately say the raids were prompted by a State House belief that the paper possesses documents implicating the President's family in grand [...]	2006-03-10 12:48:00	Embassy Nairobi	SECRET//NOFORN	PINS SNAR ASEC ECON PREL KCOR KDEM KE
06NAIROBI1187	"MERCENARIES" IN KENYA TURN TABLES ON THEIR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Stepping out of the shadows, Kenya's "foreign mercenaries" stun Kenya with claims the opposition, not the government, tried to hire them to bankroll regime change. Following the foreigners' March 13 staged press conference, ostensibly to clear their names, the intensity of the [...]	2006-03-15 13:27:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PREL CVIS KE
06NAIROBI274	INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] Following is the 2005 Investment Climate Statement for Kenya. This information will also be transmitted to EB/IFD/OIA via e-mail and included in Chapter 6 of the 2006 Country Commercial Guide for Kenya, to be delivered through FCS channels. ----------------------------------- A.1. Opennes [...]	2006-01-20 05:43:00	Embassy Nairobi	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV KE
06NAIROBI988	MICHUKI UNBOWED, BUT OPPOSITION GROWS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Security Minister Michuki remains unbowed in his conviction that the police actions against independent media were fully legal and justified in the name of national security. Civil society, the media and opposition parliamentarians plan a day of peaceful protest against what many [...]	2006-03-06 11:54:00	Embassy Nairobi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM ASEC KE
06NDJAMENA521	CHAD: FRENCH AMBASSADOR LOOKS AT POST-ELECTION [...] (C) Summary: French Ambassador Bercot, in conversation with Ambassador Wall April 7, confirmed that the March 30 battle went badly for the Chadian armed forces, but said that Deby was using oil tax payments to buy helicopters and was building up for an imminent riposte against the rebels led [...]	2006-04-09 09:52:00	Embassy Ndjamena	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM KDEM CD FR
06NDJAMENA545	DASH ACROSS CHAD: FRENCH VERSION [...] (SBU) Summary: The French, according to Ambassador Bercot and his Defense Attache, only became aware two days before the fight in Ndjamena on April 13 that the rebel force was aiming at the relatively undefended city. The city and government were saved, they say, because the rebels stalled [...]	2006-04-16 06:51:00	Embassy Ndjamena	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PGOV PREL SU FR CD
06NEWDELHI1220	EXPANDED CSLA SCOPE IS BLOCKING AGREED PROGRESS IN [...] (C) Summary: Approaching the President's visit to India, we need action by Washington principals in order to consolidate recent progress on civilian space cooperation and disentangle this from our trade agenda. The original NSSP goal to permit Indian launch of US satellites and foreign satel [...]	2006-02-16 11:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC ETRD KSCA TSPA KNNP IN OVIP POTUS
06NEWDELHI1268	PM RESPONDS TO IRAN VOTE CRITICISM IN PARLIAMENT [...] (C) Summary: In his February 17 statement to Parliament addressing the domestic criticism of India,s vote on the Iran nuclear issue at the IAEA Governing Board, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered a vigorous defense of his government's position, maintaining that the UPA's stance was consist [...]	2006-02-17 15:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP ENRG EPET IN IR
06NEWDELHI1321	CHIRAC VISIT PUSHES US AGENDA ON CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: President Chirac's February 19-21 trip to New Delhi, which focused on political, economic, defense and energy cooperation, served as a preview for President Bush's upcoming visit. In a program and agenda very similar to our President's, the GOF made progress on "soft power" issue [...]	2006-02-22 14:35:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG TRGY MASS TSPA KNNP FR IN
06NEWDELHI1559	NEW DELHI-BASED CHIEFS OF MISSION BRIEFED ON [...] (U) Drawing from reftel, DCM briefed New Delhi-based Chiefs of Mission and senior officers from key Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG) and IAEA member countries on March 3, including Israel and Pakistan, regarding the March 2 announcement that President Bush and Indian Prime Minister Singh had reac [...]	2006-03-06 11:03:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL ENRG ETTC KSCA KNNP IN IAEA
06NEWDELHI1854	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BOND [...] (SBU) Senator Bond, your delegation's 22-23 March visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating India-US relationship on the heels of President Bush's historic summit and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After forty years of mutual indiffe [...]	2006-03-17 14:25:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM INCB IN
06NEWDELHI1974	RUSSIAN PM,S VISIT UNLIKELY TO REVIVE DECLINING [...] (C) Summary: Russian Premier Mikhail Fradkov's visit to New Delhi (March 16-17) was intended to reinvigorate the declining India/Russia relationship, but there is little indication that the visit broadened Indo-Russian relations or injected much forward momentum. The delegation included the [...]	2006-03-22 12:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	POV ETRD PGOV PREL TSPA MASS TRGY EPET ENRG
06NEWDELHI2231	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HAGEL [...] (SBU) Senator Hagel, your delegation's 8-12 April visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating transformation of the India-US relationship following President Bush's historic March 1-3 meeting and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After fo [...]	2006-03-31 15:07:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM INCB PTER
06NEWDELHI2255	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL HASTERT [...] (SBU) Speaker Hastert, your delegation's 9-12 April visit to India provides a significant opportunity to assess the accelerating transformation of the US-India relationship following President Bush's historic March 1-3 meeting and help shape the next phase of this growing partnership. After [...]	2006-04-03 13:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MASS OREP KSTC KOMC PARM PTER ECON
06NEWDELHI2496	MEA PROVIDES A/S BOUCHER WITH TOUR D'HORIZON OF [...] (C) Summary: Over an April 7 lunch, MEA regional Joint Secretaries provided Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher with SIPDIS a review of India's relations with its neighbors in South and Central Asia. Boucher probed them specifically on Nepal, Pakistan (including Kashmir),Afghanistan, Cent [...]	2006-04-13 06:09:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ENRG ETRD PBTS MOPS ELTN EPET KDEM
06NEWDELHI2603	GOI REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO AFGHANISTAN DURING [...] (C) Summary: During President Hamid Karzai's April 9-13 visit to India, the GOI reinforced its substantial support for Afghanistan with the announcement of an additional USD 50 million in assistance, the signing of three MoUs, and positive statements from both sides about their bilateral part [...]	2006-04-18 13:33:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID PTER MASS IN AF
06NEWDELHI265	NSA SUGGESTS INDIA WILL VOTE AGAINST IRAN [...] (S) Summary: NSA MK Narayanan told the Ambassador on January 12 that India ""would like to"" vote for IAEA referral of Iran to the UN Security Council. New Delhi considers Iran in violation of its NPT obligations. However, he said, the GOI must still determine how to ""sell the vote"" domestical [...]	2006-01-12 14:49:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV KNNP IN IR
06NEWDELHI2655	A/USTR HARTWICK DISCUSSES WAY FORWARD ON CSLA [...] (SBU) Summary: Awsistant US Trade Representative Doug Hartwick heard Indian objections to the draft Commercial Space Launch Agreement (CSLA) and explained USG reasoning behind the draft in a meeting with MEA and Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) interlocutors on April 18. Ambassador H [...]	2006-04-20 10:36:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD KSTC ETTC KSPA KNNP IN
06NEWDELHI2867	EXPECTED SONIA GANDHI ELECTORAL VICTORY NOT ENOUGH [...] (C) Summary: Poloff's April 19-21 trip to Uttar Pradesh (UP) revealed that the political equation has changed since our previous visit in January. Then, most considered the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) to be on its way out. However, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav has since used American [...]	2006-04-27 11:21:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM KISL SCUL IN
06NEWDELHI294	NSA NARAYANAN MULLS SENATOR KERRY'S SUGGESTIONS ON [...] (C) Summary: In a January 11 meeting with visiting Senator John Kerry that focused exclusively on the civil nuclear agreement and nuclear non-proliferation, NSA MK Narayanan reiterated the GOI's support for its draft separation plan, and allowed that New Delhi "will not backtrack" on obligati [...]	2006-01-14 09:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG MNUC KNNP SENV PTER IN PK CH
06NEWDELHI3270	INDIA SKEPTICAL OF SCO AS SECURITY FORUM [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to MEA Joint Secretary for Eurasia Bhagwati on May 10 seeking India's help to prevent the inclusion of anti-US language at the upcoming SCO meeting in Shanghai. Bhagwati stated clearly that as an observer to SCO, India has no role in drafting th [...]	2006-05-11 13:56:00	Embassy New Delhi	SECRET	PREL PGOV MASS PTER SNAR SCUL ETRD ENRG IN
06NEWDELHI4206	INDIA SHARES OUR CONCERNS ABOUT DECLARATION ON [...] SUMMARY: A senior Indian official said India shared U.S. views on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, found the self-determination clauses unacceptable, and was not comfortable with the process by which the declaration had been framed, but would not be averse to an extension o [...]	2006-06-15 14:20:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM AORC PREL IN
06NEWDELHI4254	MEA AWAITING CENTRAL ASIAN ENERGY TRADE [...] (C) Summary: USAID South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy (SARI/E) regional coordinator delivered ref A demarche to the GOI Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary for Eurasia Jaimini Bhagwati, who was generally supportive of all trade initiatives but cautious about the prospects [...]	2006-06-16 12:17:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID EINV ENRG EPET ETRD IN PGOV
06NEWDELHI4588	INDIA WALKED A FINE LINE ON IRAN AT THE SCO SUMMIT [...] (C) Indian Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Murli Deora told the Ambassador June 28 that he had informal conversations with Iranian President Ahmedinejad 3-4 times at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, and while Ahmedinejad had been reserved due to India's IAEA votes against I [...]	2006-06-29 12:01:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL PK IN
06NEWDELHI512	UNDERSECRETARY BURNS AND FS SARAN DISCUSS NEXT [...] (C) Summary: Undersecretary Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Saran reviewed ten potential deliverables for the SIPDIS President's visit during a January 20 working lunch. In a meeting later that day, U/S Burns stressed to Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia that I [...]	2006-01-25 05:44:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAGR PGOV PINR ENRG PHUM PTER SCOI IN
06NEWDELHI5549	SCA A/S BOUCHER MEETS WITH GOI CENTRAL ASIA CHIEF [...] SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher used an August 7 meeting with Minister of External Affairs Joint Secretary (Eurasia) Jaimini Bhagwati to brief on current U.S. SIPDIS relations with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and to probe India's relationships with Central Asia. Boucher specific [...]	2006-08-08 11:30:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EPET PBTS TRGY OVIP IN KZ KG
06NEWDELHI556	JEHADI TERRORISM STALKS INDIA'S TIES WITH AMERICA [...] (C) Summary: India enters the new year under the continued threat of jehadi terrorist attacks that could harm American interests and negatively affect Indo-Pak relations. The nature and scope of terrorist attacks launched by jehadi groups, particularly Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT),ev [...]	2006-01-25 14:18:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV PINR ASEC KISL IN PK
06NEWDELHI583	GOI PROMISES MILITARY SUPPORT TO SRI LANKA AND [...] (C) Summary: During U/S Burns' January 21 consultations on regional issues, the GOI relayed its concerns over the increasingly possible return to war in Sri Lanka and the conflict between the need for Iranian gas and the looming crisis over Tehran's nuclear program. Indian Foreign Secretary [...]	2006-01-27 08:41:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MOPS ENRG EPET IR CE IN
06NEWDELHI6254	G-8 SEEKS TO COORDINATE CT EFFORTS WITH INDIA [...] (U) Summary: G-8 officials met on August 31 to discuss joint efforts to strengthen counter-terrorism cooperation with GOI in light of a rising trend in terrorist attacks in recent years. Most meeting participants stressed India's interest in gaining international cooperation against Pakist [...]	2006-09-07 12:55:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KTFN EFIN IN RS
06NEWDELHI6431	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: AERONAUTICAL [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and CS FSN Prem Narayan conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at the Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA),Bangalor [...]	2006-09-14 11:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC ETRD BEXP IN
06NEWDELHI6582	INDIA KEEPING AN EYE OPEN FOR OPPORTUNITIES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: MEA Joint Secretary for Eurasia Jaimini Bhagwati argued that India's role as an observer in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a useful opportunity to help the organization set reasonable priorities. Bhagwati expressed interest in cooperating with the U.S. on techni [...]	2006-09-21 12:06:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KISL MARR AF UZ TI TX KZ KG
06NEWDELHI6770	INDIA WELCOMES COORDINATION WITH US AS IT PURSUES [...] SUMMARY: India's senior foreign ministry official charged with managing relations with Asia, Ashok Khanta, unofficially expressed interest in pursuing a four-party dialogue with the US, Japan, and Australia with a focus on regional issues including maritime security, science and technology c [...]	2006-09-28 12:15:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR AORC EAID EIND MOPS OVIP PHSA
06NEWDELHI6913	THE COMMUNISTS AND CONGRESS SPAR OVER THE INDO/US [...] (C) In its September 12-13 Central Committee meeting the CPI(M) leadership assailed the UPA government's relationship with the US, accusing it of sacrificing Indian autonomy and taking dictation from Washington on foreign policy and economic issues. The CPI(M) pledged to continue agitating [...]	2006-10-05 12:26:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON ENRG EPET MARR MASS PGOV PREL IN PK
06NEWDELHI699	INDIANS SEEK FRENCH CIVIL NUCLEAR DEAL, BUT THE [...] (C) Summary: As part of the preparations for Jacques Chirac's February 19-20 trip to India, Special Representative of the President Maurice Gourdault-Montagne visited New Delhi on January 27 for the fifteenth round of strategic dialogue focused on fleshing out the details of a France-India Civ [...]	2006-01-31 13:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP MNUC ENRG MASS FR IN
06NEWDELHI7106	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: OIL AND NATURAL [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12(c) of the Export Administration Act. 2. Export Control Officer (ECO) Michael Rufe and BIS FSN Kavita Vijh conducted a Post-shipment Verification (PSV) at Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd. (ONGC),Kolkata, on [...]	2006-10-16 09:40:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC ETRD BEXP IN
06NEWDELHI7274	INDIA'S LATEST DEFENSE SCANDAL: FEW LONG-TERM [...] (C) Summary. Former NDA Defense Minister George Fernandes was accused on October 10 of receiving bribes in a 2000 defense procurement contract for Barak missiles from Israel. The scandal revived memories of last year's Denel affair, where a South African company was blacklisted and all outsta [...]	2006-10-20 13:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MASS KCRM ECON IN
06NEWDELHI7289	INDIA,S CENTRAL ASIA EXPERTS HIGHLIGHT CHALLENGES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leading Indian experts on Central Asia, Russia and China offered India,s perspective on South and Central Asia regional cooperation at a roundtable with PolOffs October 19. Participants identified Afghan security and ensuring a secular Central Asia as India,s priorities in the [...]	2006-10-23 10:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ENRG KISL IN
06NEWDELHI7442	CABINET SHUFFLE GENERATES LITTLE EXCITEMENT IN [...] (C) Summary; The opposition BJP and de facto opposition Left parties (supporters of the UPA coalition),criticized the government's October 24 Cabinet shuffle. The BJP interpreted the move as confirming the overriding influence of Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi over the Prime Ministe [...]	2006-10-30 12:04:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR IN
06NEWDELHI7667	FOREIGN MINISTER MUKHERJEE POSITIONED TO HELP [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first call on Pranab Mukherjee in his new position as Minister for External Affairs (bio in reftel),the Ambassador emphasized the importance of the broad vision for US-India relations outlined by the President, to which Mukherjee readily added his support and commitment. [...]	2006-11-08 08:05:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM PTER PINR PBTS MOPS KDEM KISL
06NEWDELHI7725	INDIA STILL TESTING THE WATERS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: In a recent visit to Dushanbe, New Delhi PolOff met with MFA and Ministry of Energy officials and local diplomats to explore Indo-Tajik relations. Indian rehabilitation and construction efforts include a small hydropower project, construction of a tunnel, rehabilitation of the a [...]	2006-11-09 13:44:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS ECIN ENRG SNAR TI IN
06NEWDELHI7762	AN INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH COMMUNIST LEADER [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting with PolCouns, CPI(M) leader and ideologue Sitaram Yechury expressed a desire to maintain regular relations with the Embassy. With a straight face, Yechury was adamant that good relations benefited both India and the US and had moved beyond the stage of [...]	2006-11-13 11:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB PGOV PINR PREL IN BG NP SL
06NEWDELHI8003	INDIA'S COMMUNIST PARTIES DEBATE HOW TO USE THEIR [...] (C) Summary: India's Left parties have a guaranteed niche in Indian politics and enjoy some advantages. India has the largest number of poor people of any country on earth, including many of the most exploited and oppressed populations found anywhere. These make a natural constituency for [...]	2006-11-28 06:58:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON IN CH NP
06NEWDELHI8137	PM SINGH VISIT TO JAPAN: TIME FOR THE U.S. TO SEIZE THE DAY ON CLOSER TRILATERAL COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Singh will visit Tokyo December 13-16 as a follow-on to the ASEAN summit. He and PM Abe are expected to have a feel-good series of meetings, including talks on deepening the bilateral relationship, economic and cultural "deliverables," recognition of the expansion of I [...]	2006-12-05 08:10:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KDEM JA IN
06NEWDELHI8273	BURNS AND MENON DISCUSS PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 7 U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue working lunch, Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon discussed: -PAKISTAN: Menon said that the latest round of Foreign Secretary-level talks was productive, but Pakista [...]	2006-12-11 12:00:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PARM PBTS IN PK
06NEWDELHI8298	INDIAN MP'S ARE GUARDEDLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT THE [...] (C) Summary: A selected group of Members of Parliament from the India/US Forum of Parliamentarians (IUFP) discussed a broad range of issues with U/S Burns and Ambassador Mulford during their December 8 meeting. The MPs were mostly from the Congress party, although the BJP and regional partie [...]	2006-12-12 10:42:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ETTC EAID ECON EAGR PINR PTER KDEM
06NEWDELHI8365	PIPELINES, EDUCATION AND SECURITY IN CENTRAL ASIA: [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a Dec. 13 meeting, Joint Secretary (Eurasia) Jaimini Bhagwati expressed concerns to P/DAS Steven Mann about whether Turkmenistan could live up to its obligations in a proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline. Citing the Indo-Pak relationsh [...]	2006-12-15 06:52:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KISL EPET ELTN TX KZ TI KG
06NEWDELHI8511	SENATOR SPECTER MEETING WITH P.M. SINGH [...] (C) Summary. Visiting Senator Arlen Specter (R - PA) called on Indian P.M. Manmohan Singh December 24. Both agreed on the historic impact of the U.S./India civil-nuclear agreement on bilateral relations. P.M. Singh offered the caveat that the significance will be historic once the 123 Agre [...]	2006-12-26 11:50:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG ETRD ETTC EAGR IR IS IZ JO KN
06NEWDELHI95	GOI SEEKS PERMANENT MEMBERSHIP OF UN HRC [...] (U) This message contains an ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 7. 2. (C) Summary: MEA's UN Economic and Social division reiterated the GOI's support for the creation of the UN Human Rights Commission (HRC),and requested that the USG engage in a closer dialogue with New Delhi on UN reform [...]	2006-01-05 12:57:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KUNR IN
06NICOSIA1092	CYPRUS: MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS WAVE LOOMS OVER [...] (SBU) Summary. Up until June 2006, the Cypriot financial landscape could be described as rather bland and predictable, although offering impressive gains over the past two years to the few foreign investors who dared venture in the island's shallow stock exchange. All of this changed mid-Jun [...]	2006-07-11 07:41:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON CY
06NICOSIA1160	CYPRUS WILL FOLLOW EU LEAD ON TRANSNISTRIA [...] (C) On July 14, poloff delivered reftel message to Vasos Chamberlen, in the MFA's Division of Bilateral Affairs. Chamberlen said the Transnistrian referendum was likely a response to economic restrictions placed on the region. He said that Russia was probably seeking to draw parallels betwee [...]	2006-07-17 11:17:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PBTS PREL RS MD
06NICOSIA1885	CYPRUS: 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Per Reftel request, Post submits in para 2 below Part I (Drugs and Chemical Control) of the 2006-2007 INCSR. The report is based on an update of last year's published version. 2. BEGIN TEXT Cyprus Cyprus has been divided since the Turkish military intervention of 1974, following a c [...]	2006-11-03 15:27:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR CY
06NICOSIA1889	CYPRUS: 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Per Reftel request, Post submits in para 2 below Part II (Financial Crimes and Money Laundering) of the 2006-2007 INCSR. The report is based on an update of last year's published version. As requested Reftel, we will also e-mail a track-changes version of this report to the officials request [...]	2006-11-06 11:30:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR CY
06NICOSIA1970	NEW CYPRUS PROPERTY LAW: TURNING THE SCREWS [...] (C) SUMMARY. New ROC legislation introducing stiff prison sentences for those buying Greek Cypriot property in the north has upped the stakes in the ongoing property war between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. Three non-Cypriot land-buyers have already been arrested under the new law, and more a [...]	2006-11-29 16:42:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON CASC EUN TU CY
06NICOSIA2050	UN REP, P-5 AMBS TAKE STOCK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hosting local Perm Five ambassadors and the resident UN chief to a working lunch December 18, the Ambassador orchestrated a tour d'horizon that touched on the UN transition in New York, horsetrading over the UNFICYP mandate renewal, developments on the UN negotiating track in Ni [...]	2006-12-20 15:45:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP UNGA CY
06NICOSIA2052	UN REP, P-5 AMBS TAKE STOCK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hosting local Perm Five ambassadors and the resident UN chief to a working lunch December 18, the Ambassador orchestrated a tour d'horizon that touched on the UN transition in New York, horsetrading over the UNFICYP mandate renewal, developments on the UN negotiating track in Ni [...]	2006-12-20 15:50:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNFICYP UNGA CY
06NICOSIA293	AREA ADMINISTERED BY TURKISH CYPRIOTS: SIXTH [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified--not/not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Embassy Nicosia hereby submits information for the March 2004-March 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy point of contact is Bridget Alway, Political Section, Tel: (357) 22-39-3545, Fax (3 [...]	2006-03-01 14:44:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CY ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
06NICOSIA313	REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS: SIXTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified--not/not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Embassy Nicosia hereby submits information for the March 2005-March 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Embassy point of contact is Bridget Alway, Political Section, Tel: (357) 22-39-3545, Fax (3 [...]	2006-03-02 12:34:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CY ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
06NICOSIA315	CYPRUS AGREES TO RAISE ISSUE OF ODIHR ELECTION [...] (C) On March 1, poloff delivered reftel message to Vasos Chamberlain, who handles Russian and Eastern European issues in the MFA's Division of bilateral affairs. Chamberlain was not aware of Belgian FM De Gucht's plan to send three personal representatives to observe the OSCE Office of Democ [...]	2006-03-02 12:45:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PHUM PREL BE CY

06NICOSIA373	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON HAMAS' RUSSIA AND TURKEY [...] (C) On March 13, poloff delivered reftel message to Charalambos Hadjisavvas, who follows Middle Eastern issues in the MFA's office of bilateral affairs. Hajisavvas worried that Hamas' hardened rhetoric, combined with a lack of funding for the PA's daily government operations, would leave the [...]	2006-03-13 14:47:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS CY
06NICOSIA374	CYPRUS WILL CONSIDER SUGGESTIONS FOR REACTION TO [...] (C) On March 1, poloff delivered reftel message to Vasos Chamberlain, who handles Russian and Eastern European issues in the MFA's Division of bilateral affairs. Chamberlain said that Belarus was discussed at the Informal Meeting of EU Foreign Affairs Ministers held March 10-11 (Gymnich) in [...]	2006-03-13 14:47:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV EUN BO CY
06NICOSIA553	POST ASSISTS IN REPATRIATION OF UKRAINIAN [...] (C) On April 13, Ukrainian Ambassador Borys Humeniuk telephoned Ambassador Schlicher about a 23-year old Ukrainian woman, Oxana Nahod, who had been trafficked to the northern part of Cyprus -- where she was reportedly being mistreated and forced to work against her will in a night club. In a [...]	2006-04-14 12:01:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP TU CY KCRM KWMN
06NICOSIA558	POST ASSISTS IN REPATRIATION OF UKRAINIAN [...] (C) On April 13, Ukrainian Ambassador Borys Humeniuk telephoned Ambassador Schlicher about a 23-year old Ukrainian woman, Oxana Nahod, who had been trafficked to the northern part of Cyprus -- where she was reportedly being mistreated and forced to work against her will in a night club. In a [...]	2006-04-14 15:17:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UP TU CY KCRM KWMN
06NICOSIA757	TURKISH CYPRIOT ECONOMY ENJOYING DOUBLE-DIGIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past three years the service- based Turkish Cypriot economy has experienced double-digit annual economic growth -- an estimated 10.6 percent in 2005, 15.4 percent in 2004 and 11.4 percent in 2003, according to Turkish Cypriot statistics. This growth has been fuelled by [...]	2006-05-19 14:07:00	Embassy Nicosia	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV CY
06NICOSIA791	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel message to Vasos Chamberlain, who handles Russian and Eastern European issues in the MFA's Division of bilateral affairs. Chamberlain said that Cyprus supported the EU's efforts to find a peaceful solution in South Ossetia, and he agreed to pass the points to his [...]	2006-05-26 12:53:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL RU GG OSCE PGOV CY
06NICOSIA815	CYPRUS RELEASES STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR U.S. [...] (C) On June 2, following Ambassador Schlicher's interventions with President Papadopoulos and Presidential Diplomatic Advisor Tasos Tzionis (ref b),the Cypriot MFA released a statement of support for our May 31 announcement on Iran. 2. (U) Begin text of the MFA Statement: The Cypriot [...]	2006-06-02 13:35:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR CY
06NICOSIA911	CHURCH OF CYPRUS WILL HOLD ELECTIONS SEPTEMBER 24 [...] (C) Summary: Father Isaiah Kykkotis of the Kykkos Monastery updated us on June 8 on the Church of Cyprus's upcoming elections. Cyprus's bishops declared the Archbishop's throne vacant at the enlarged Orthodox synod hosted by the Ecumenical Patriarch in Switzerland in May. They later agreed t [...]	2006-06-15 07:46:00	Embassy Nicosia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CY
06OSLO101	A/S FRIEDÂ´S VISIT: NORWAY AN ENERGY SECURITY PLAYER [...] (C) Summary. A/S Fried met with Foreign Minister Jonas Stoere and continued our "High North Dialogue" with Deputy Foreign Minister Kjetil Skogrand during his January 26-27 visit to Oslo to participate in an E-PINE Political Directors meeting (reported septel). Stoere enthusiastically presented the [...]	2006-01-31 15:11:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NO ENGR
06OSLO1054	NORWAY: THE SYRIA/IRAN ARMS EMBARGO, POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post delivered reftel A on August 22 to the head of Norway's Middle East Section, Kaare Eltervaag. Eltervaag assured us that Norway was in full support the embargo and that no new 'political' delegations were scheduled to travel to Damascus or Tehran. Eltervaag also explained the [...]	2006-08-23 14:20:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	IS LE MARR MOPS NO PGOV PREL
06OSLO1188	NORWEGIANS DIFFUSE THREATENED RUSSIAN FISH EXPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Russian authorities will not place a ban on all Norwegian seafood following discussions between Norwegian and Russian food safety authorities. Russian veterinary officials threatened to ban all fish exports from Norway as of October 1 following their discovery of forged Norwe [...]	2006-09-26 14:33:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIS PREL SENV NO
06OSLO132	NORWAY DETERMINED - NO CHANGE OF COURSE IN [...] (C) Summary. Opposition parties in Parliament rallied behind Prime Minister Stoltenberg on February 8 when he announced "we will not give way to pressure," reinforcing the message that Norway remains committed in Afghanistan, despite calls from some left-wing Parliamentarians for Norway to w [...]	2006-02-08 16:10:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR KDEM NO NATO
06OSLO1326	COMMERCE A/S SPOONER VISIT ADVANCES SETTLEMENT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Norwegian and U.S. officials have moved closer to terms of an agreement that would end one of the USG's longest running trade disputes -- the 15-year old antidumping and countervailing duties on fresh and chilled Norwegian salmon. Assistant Commerce Secretary David Spooner and [...]	2006-10-27 09:46:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EFIS PREL NO
06OSLO1350	EB A/S SULLIVAN MEETS NORWEGIAN DEPUTY FM [...] (SBU) Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs Dan Sullivan met October 20 on the margins of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Conference with Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Liv Monica Stubholt to discuss EITI and a range of international and bilateral [...]	2006-11-02 12:58:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EMIN EPET ENRG ETTC EINV IZ IR RU NO
06OSLO1389	2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT FOR NORWAY [...] (SBU) Per Ref B request, the draft 2007 National Trade Estimate (NTE) Report for Norway follows in paragraph 2. The report was conveyed on November 7 to USTR in Microsoft Word format (Ref A). Post understands that USTR will fill in trade statistics when available. 2. Begin text of 2007 [...]	2006-11-09 09:05:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EFIN NO
06OSLO140	HIGH NORTH ENERGY, IRAN INVESTMENTS, RUSSIAN [...] (U) * Developing the Barents Sea as a new oil and gas province will be of global importance, underscored Statoil Chief Executive Helge Lund. Statoil's Snoehvit project is building a new energy bridge to the United States and Europe and bringing greater employment and prosperity to northern No [...]	2006-02-10 13:28:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EPET ENRG EFIN ETRD SENV NO
06OSLO146	NORSK HYDRO CEO URGES GREATER U.S. ATTENTION TO HIGH NORTH ENERGY, RUSSIAN ENERGY/GAS MARKET DESIGNS [...] (C) Norsk Hydro CEO Eivind Reiten told the Ambassador in an introductory call on February 8 that the United States appeared disinterested in High North energy and advised that we pay greater attention. Reiten also urged that we track closely Russias long-term strategic designs for the future global [...]	2006-02-13 14:03:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS NO
06OSLO1494	WINE, GMOS, AND WTO DISCUSSIONS WITH NORWAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Wine imports, GMOs, and WTO were the main topics of discussion during Agriculture Attache Roger Wentzel's introductory visit to Oslo on December 4. Wentzel heard Norwegian Agriculture and Food Safety officials explain their anti-GM stance, MFA officials express little hope for [...]	2006-12-11 10:48:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON ETRD PREL NO
06OSLO1495	NORWAY: PARLIAMENTARY PRESIDENT ON SENDING FORCES [...] (C) In a December 8 meeting with DCM and P/E Couns, Thorbjorn Jagland, Parliamentary President and senior Labor Party statesman, reviewed Norway's debate over sending forces to southern Afghanistan. Jagland has very publicly favored sending more troops, and is optimistic that the GON will rec [...]	2006-12-11 15:12:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV AF NO
06OSLO1496	NORWAY: MANAGING THE BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary. On December 6, MFA State Secretary Liv Monica Stubholt, who recently took on the US portfolio, met with the Ambassador for a tour d'horizon. Both agreed that key ways to deepen the already strong relationship included increasing educational exchanges, finding joint projects rega [...]	2006-12-11 16:27:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG NO PGOV PINR PREL
06OSLO1498	NORWAY UNVEILS HIGH NORTH STRATEGY [...] (SBU) SUMMRY: Norway's recently unveiled High North stratgy combines domestic and regional policies to promote economic and social development in the region improve scientific understanding of the BarentsSea, and bolster economic and social ties with Rssia -- including a proposal to establi [...]	2006-12-13 15:27:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SENV ENRG EIND RU NO
06OSLO1524	U.S.-NORWAY ENERGY TALKS FOCUS ON HIGH NORTH, [...] (C) A delegation of USG energy analysts headed by Department of Energy Intelligence Chief Rolf Mowatt-Larssen visited Oslo December 7 for an energy symposium with Norwegian officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Petroleum and Energy, and other government agencies. The talks include [...]	2006-12-21 06:13:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG PREL SENV PINR RS NO
06OSLO184	REASONS THE SECRETARY SHOULD VISIT NORTH NORWAY [...] Summary (C) The time is ripe for you to come to Norway. In the wake of the Mohammed cartoons, your visit would be a tangible demonstration of our solidarity and friendship with Norway. Norway is becoming increasingly important as a reliable major energy supplier, particularly as energy resou [...]	2006-02-17 13:11:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG NO
06OSLO189	PETROLEUM MINISTER SEEKS CLOSER BILATERAL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. Petroleum Ministry Wants Closer Bilateral Dialogue --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (SBU) In the Ambassador's February 15 introductory call on Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy Odd Roger Enoksen, Enok [...]	2006-02-21 07:38:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET PREL PGOV NO
06OSLO2	NORWEGIAN ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS, NOVEMBER- DECEMBER 2005: [...] (SBU) Summary of combined November-December monthly highlights: * The past year was an exceptionally good one for the Norwegian economy: mainland real GDP grew by 3.9 percent; offshore petroleum investments reached a record high; the value of exports soared on account of rising crude oil p [...]	2006-01-01 12:00:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB EPET ETRD NO
06OSLO213	NORWEGIAN FM STOERE TALKS HIGH NORTH WITH THE RUSSIANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: High North energy and fisheries issues were at the top of the agenda during Norwegian FM Stoere's February 15-17 visit to Russia. Stoere met with Russian FM Lavrov and Deputy Prime Minister Medvedev in Moscow and called on regional governors in Murmansk and St. Petersburg durin [...]	2006-02-24 17:35:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG SENV EFIS RS NO
06OSLO276	NORWAY SKEPTICAL ABOUT INDIA NUCLEAR DEAL [...] (C) On March 7 we delivered reftel points to Roald Naess, Ambassador and Chair of the Nuclear Suppliers Group Consultative Group (NSG) and Hilda Janne Skorpen, Assistant Director General at the MFA. Naess said that in his capacity as NSG chair he had "no particular views" on the points. Howev [...]	2006-03-08 15:22:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETTC PARM PREL IN NO KNNP KSCA SIPDIS
06OSLO348	AMBASSADOR PRESSES CONCERNS ON IPR, JOINT STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: In his initial call on Norwegian Trade and Industry Minister Odd Eriksen on March 17, the Ambassador raised concerns about weak "process" patent protections for pharmaceuticals and urged that Norwegian industry aggressively seek Joint Strike Fighter program contracts. Eriksen [...]	2006-03-22 09:01:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR MARR MASS EFIS PREL NO
06OSLO352	NORWAY DESK OFFICER VISITS OSLO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 9 and 10, Norwegian desk officer Ray Dalland visited Oslo and held meetings with officials at the Norwegian Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs. Lack of significant progress in Norway's border delineation dispute with Russia in the High North, and the impact on [...]	2006-03-22 11:39:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ENGR RU NO
06OSLO363	AMBASSADOR MEETS NORWEGIAN PETROLEUM [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met with leading U.S. and Norwegian petroleum firm executives during his initial visit to Stavanger, Norway's "oil capital," March 13-15. Discussions with Statoil, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Marathon and Halliburton focused largely on the firms' operations and plans on [...]	2006-03-23 14:36:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EINV ECON PREL SENV NO
06OSLO396	NORWEGIAN CLAIMS IN HIGH NORTH EXPANDING? [...] (C) Summary and action request. Norway may soon lay claim to a large swath of Arctic resources around the Svalbard archipelago. Already the source of international disputes over fishing rights, Svalbard's unique (and in some cases unclear) status internationally has the potential to create [...]	2006-03-30 13:16:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EPET ENRG UK NO
06OSLO406	NORWAY-RUSSIA: KEEPING UP APPEARANCES [...] (C) Russian Prime Minister Fradkov's March 28 and 29 visit to Oslo generated extensive press play and further heightened expectations about Norway's role in developing Russia's Shtokman gas field, but achieved little movement on substantive issues like Barents border delineation, the Russian [...]	2006-04-03 14:28:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG SENV EFIS RS NO
06OSLO448	SUPPORTING NORWAY'S ANTI-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS [...] Norway continues to expand its anti-trafficking efforts, which include government funding of NGO-run programs, media campaigns and intensive law enforcement training. Despite such preventative measures, trafficking does exist, as indicated by a recently publicized trafficking case in the city [...]	2006-04-06 14:15:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB NO KCRM KWMN KFRD
06OSLO462	NORWAY LIMITS BARENTS DEVELOPMENT, FOR NOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Barents Sea is home to one of Europe's most productive fisheries and some of the most significant offshore oil and gas reserves in the Arctic. With the March 31 announcement of its new Integrated Management Plan for the Barents region, the Norwegian government has settled, [...]	2006-04-10 15:59:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV EPET ENRG NO
06OSLO498	RESPONSES TO CFE ENTITLEMENT QUESTIONS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-20 21:35:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE MARR NATO PARM PREL NO
06OSLO523	OSLO ROLLS OUT RED CARPET FOR BELARUS' MILINKEVICH [...] (C) Summary. Belarussian presidential candidate Alexander Milinkevich's April 19-22 visit to Oslo (sponsored by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee) included high-level meetings with top Norwegian officials, numerous press activities and an afternoon coffee hosted by Ambassador and Mrs. Whitney [...]	2006-04-26 05:14:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL BO NO
06OSLO583	RUSSIANS LIFT BAN ON NORWEGIAN SALMON [...] (U) Two Norwegian salmon producers resumed exports of fresh chilled salmon to Russia after receiving export approvals from Russian authorities on April 24. Producers began shipping in the first week of May, officially ending the four month old Russian ban on Norwegian salmon. According to th [...]	2006-05-08 12:47:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD WTO EFIS NO
06OSLO584	NORWAY SUPPORTS MAINTAINING SMALLPOX STOCKS [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-08 12:47:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL TBIO WHO NO
06OSLO661	U/S SHINER'S VISIT TO OSLO [...] (U) Summary: On May 16, Under Secretary Josette Shiner met in Oslo with Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and the PM,s team working on the UN High Level Panel for Reform. The Norwegians laid out their plans for moving forward the work of the panel, including establishing the advance [...]	2006-05-22 14:08:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREL ENRG UN NO KPAL
06OSLO668	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-23 15:33:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL RU GG NO
06OSLO72	AMBASSADORÂ´S CALL ON DEVELOPMENT MINISTER SOLHEIM [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador made his introductory call on International Development Minister Erik Solheim January 19 and discussed Solheims upcoming trip to Sri Lanka, the state of play in Sudan, and the Ministers development priorities. Solheim stressed that he is eager to cooperate with the Unite [...]	2006-01-23 12:52:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR CE SU NO
06OSLO86	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON DEPUTY FM [...] (SBU) "High North" issues -- energy, the environment, non-proliferation and cooperation with Russia -- dominated the Ambassador's January 25 introductory call on Deputy Foreign Minister Liv Monica Stubholt. Stubholt stressed that the new government's High North policy was national, rather tha [...]	2006-01-26 12:00:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EPET ENRG SENV NO
06OTTAWA1904	Northwest Passage Conference in Ottawa Offers Bold [...] Sensitive But Unclassified, not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (SBU) Summary: Panelists at an Ottawa conference on Canada's arctic waters called for Canada and the U.S. to open talks on the Arctic route because the increasing melt rate of Arctic sea ice could allow significant su [...]	2006-06-19 21:46:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT PREL PBTS MARR CA
06OTTAWA2391	OTTAWA LAUNCHES IPR TOOLKIT [...] The Mission Canada IPR Working Group is pleased to announce that the Canada IPR Toolkit is now available on Embassy Ottawa,s general website, in response to Ref A. The toolkit is designed to assist smaller businesses in locating the information necessary to protect their IP in Canada. As no [...]	2006-08-09 21:55:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	CA KIPR ECON
06OTTAWA3010	CANADA'S TAKE ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (SBU) On October 4, Janice Fitchett (Senior Nuclear Non-Proliferation Advisor at Foreign Affairs) provided POL M/C with initial Canada's comments on the GI draft documents, which she said had been widely cleared throught the Department. She confirmed that these comments were also being shared [...]	2006-10-04 20:18:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KGIC KNNP MCAP PINR PINS CA
06OTTAWA3164	GLOBAL INITIATIVE: POLDIR TO LEAD CANADIAN DEL TO [...] (SBU) We joined our Russian counterpart to convey reftel to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for International Nuclear Cooperation, Compliance and Export Control Shawn Caza, and Senior Adviser Janice Fitchett. Caza reaffirmed earlier word that DFA [...]	2006-10-18 21:48:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KNNP PREL MCAP IAEA CA
06OTTAWA3458	CANADA SUPPORTS UNIFIED APPROACH TO GEORGIA AND [...] (U) Urgent action request. Please see para four (4). 2. (SBU) We conveyed reftel demarche on November 22 to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Political Director Colleen Swords, and on November 24 to OSCE Desk Officer Neil Brennan. Canada is in strong agreement [...]	2006-11-24 20:53:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PBTS EUN NATO OSCE MO GG RU CA
06OTTAWA3591	CANADA ANNOUNCES NEW FUNDING FOR OVERSEAS HIV/AIDS [...] Canada's International Cooperation Minister Josee Verner announced on December 1, World AIDS Day, C$120 million to fight HIV/AIDS overseas. This is over and above what Canada has previously pledged to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. The new funding will support glob [...]	2006-12-13 20:54:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV TBIO EAID CA XA
06OTTAWA40	WHO EXECUTIVE BOARD: DEMARCHE REQUEST ON SMALLPOX [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-06 17:16:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC TBIO CA WHO
06OTTAWA539	2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: CANADA [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-02 12:23:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF KCRM KWMN KFRD SMIG ASEC ELAB CA
06OTTAWA563	2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: CANADA [...] (SBU) The Government of Canada's (GOC) approach to Trafficking in Persons issues emphasizes a criminal justice and law enforcement perspective through the country's immigration framework, rather than seeking to provide basic, humanitarian assistance to trafficking victims. Individual provin [...]	2006-03-02 21:34:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF KCRM KWMN KFRD SMIG ASEC ELAB CA
06PANAMA1650	AMBASSADOR LUNCH WITH CFZ GENERAL MANAGER NILDA [...] (SBU) Colon Free Zone (CFZ) General Manager Nilda Quijano told Ambassador on 14 August 2006, that she is disappointed over the lack of GOP action to gain support for the Canal Referendum. A self-described "leftist radical," Quijano enjoys good support from Panama's business community and has been [...]	2006-08-24 15:12:00	Embassy Panama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EWWT PM
06PARIS1129	French Investment Flows Double in 2005 [...] SUMMARY. Based on preliminary data, direct investment flows both to/from France doubled in 2005. French companies continued to invest twice as much abroad than foreign companies invested in France. France plans to intensify economic relations with countries with high investment potential, n [...]	2006-02-23 16:30:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON PGOV FR
06PARIS1130	GOF REAFFIRMS QUARTET CONDITIONS, NO-CONTACT WITH [...] (C) Summary: MFA and Elysee contacts continue to reiterate GoF attachment to the Quartet conditions and that the GoF has no intention of seeking contacts with Hamas. At the same time, GOF contacts remain reluctant to prejudge the consequences of Hamas refusal to meet Quartet conditions on EU [...]	2006-02-23 17:07:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS PTER EUN FR
06PARIS1137	FRANCE: SPECIAL 301 REVIEW YEAR 2006 [...] (SBU) In 2005, the French government stepped up its efforts to combat counterfeiting and piracy. In particular, 2005 was marked by an increase in joint activities with French companies and cooperation between the government and the private sector. The GOF has also worked closely with the pr [...]	2006-02-24 10:57:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD ECON FR
06PARIS1138	FRANCE: ENERGY SECTOR UPDATE [...] This is another in a series of occasional updates on the French energy sector. Feedback is welcome to help us make this product as useful as possible for our inter-agency USG audience. Contents: -- EDF's appetite for takeovers grows as profits double (para 2) -- Italians again eyeing Ele [...]	2006-02-24 10:58:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR
06PARIS1186	FRENCH ON FEBRUARY 27 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pol Deputy delivered points to Pascal LeDeunff, deputy chief of the MFA's CFSP unit, on February 17; poloff followed up with LeDeunff on February 24. According to LeDeunff, the GAERC will issue strong conclusions on Iran, but none on Iraq or the Israeli-Palestinian situation. END [...]	2006-02-24 17:26:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL YI MW SR BK BO IR IZ KPAL CG FR EUN
06PARIS1199	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq GWOT - Guantanamo - [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-27 12:13:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1222	FRANCE AGREES WITH USG POINTS ON ODIHR ELECTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-27 16:24:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PHUM PREL BE FR
06PARIS1235	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Islam - Democracy - [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-28 11:38:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1236	2/21 STAFFDEL TALWAR VISIT: IRAN, IRAQ, [...] (C) Summary: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Professional Staff Members Puneet Talwar and Tomicah Tilleman met a series of senior French officials February 21, in discussions that addressed Iran, Iraq, Syria/Lebanon, NATO/Darfur, Hamas, regional reform, and counterterrorism. On Iran, Chirac's Mi [...]	2006-02-28 11:43:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR PARM IZ SY LE KPAL IS KDEM PTER SU
06PARIS1264	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush to India [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-01 11:11:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1301	UNESCO: REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE, UNESCO CHAMPIONS [...] SUMMARY AND REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE: UNESCO has an array of programs related to celebrity advocates, such as goodwill ambassadors, who help focus the world's attention on UNESCO as an organization. The US Mission to UNESCO requests guidance on approaching Mr. Tiger Woods about becoming a UNESC [...]	2006-03-02 09:39:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO SCUL UNESCO
06PARIS1347	2/27 STRAW - DOUSTE-BLAZY MEETING: MAINLY MIDDLE [...] (C/NF) Summary: UK embassy contacts described the February 27 Straw-Douste-Blazy working dinner as focused primarily on the two ministers' planned joint trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories, with no agreement on timing. Douste-Blazy wants the trip to take place before Israeli electio [...]	2006-03-03 13:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KPAL IS IR PARM ECON PINR UK AF FR
06PARIS1387	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - GWOT - Moussaoui Trial - [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-06 11:28:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1411	FM LIVNI VISIT REINFORCES UPSWING IN [...] (C) Summary: Israel embassy contacts stressed positive atmospherics during FM Livni's March 1 meetings with French PM Villepin and FM Douste-Blazy. Israeli contacts were struck by the degree to which Livni found common ground with French officials, Villepin in particular, despite differences [...]	2006-03-06 18:10:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS KPAL IR FR
06PARIS1430	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran GWOT - Moussaoui Trial - [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-07 10:50:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1455	FRENCH VISIT OF POLISH PRESIDENT, FEBRUARY 24, 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chirac and Prime Minister de Villepin received Polish President Lech Kaczynski on February 24 for his first visit to France since taking office. Chirac and Kaczynski discussed the future of the Weimar Triangle and the European constitutional treaty, and Chirac told Kaczy [...]	2006-03-07 15:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR PO EUN
06PARIS1529	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Human Rights Report [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-10 11:25:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1556	GOF Reacts to EU Energy Green Paper [...] (SBU) Summary: In meeting with EB Energy Office Director Gallogly and EconOff, the GOF expressed "satisfaction" with the EU Energy Green paper even though they judged it to be "too cautious on some issues." The January 2006 episode involving gas transits through Ukraine woke up many EU membe [...]	2006-03-10 17:42:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR EU
06PARIS1568	PARIS CLUB - MARCH 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) At the March 7 Paris Club meeting, creditors agreed on an approach for dealing with Angola's arrears to the Club, consistent with US objectives. The Secretariat will call on Angola to resume payments to Paris Club creditors in excess of scheduled debt service, such that arrears are redu [...]	2006-03-13 10:16:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS166	PRESIDENT CHIRAC'S ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a non-controversial January 10 address to the assembled diplomatic corps, President Chirac touched on the foreign policy challenges of combatting terrorism, preventing nuclear weapons proliferation, fostering progress in the Middle East and Africa, strengthening European defens [...]	2006-01-10 16:38:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN FR
06PARIS1670	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Middle East - Israel - [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-16 11:40:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1681	SARKOZY ADVISOR ON FIRST EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, END [...] (C) Summary: Former Industry Minister and close Sarkozy advisor Patrick Devedjian predicted March 15 that student and labor union opposition to the First Employment Contract (CPE) was spreading and might yet become a major test for the government. In any event, he believed that PM de Villepin [...]	2006-03-16 15:31:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB PREL FR SOCI PINR EUN
06PARIS1697	Criticism Persists at Home and Abroad over French [...] (SBU) Summary: Criticism of the proposed merger of Gaz de France (GDF) with water and power utility Suez continues both at home and abroad. Domestically, unions and the left protest proposed GDF privatization. Abroad, Brussels, Italy and other EU member states denounce French "economic patr [...]	2006-03-16 16:22:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EIND EINV ELAB PREL PGOV FR
06PARIS1711	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - U.S. National Security [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-17 10:53:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1733	UNESCO AND THE WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND GUIDANCE REQUEST: Deanna Marcum, Associate Librarian for Library Services and Chair of the Memory of the World Programme International Advisory Committee met with the UNESCO Communication and Information Sector and the Director General (DG) on March 8, 2006 to discuss th [...]	2006-03-17 17:20:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC EAID UNESCO
06PARIS1735	FRENCH ON MARCH 20 GAERC [...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA officials spent much of March 17 helping plan the EU response to the summons received by EU and US Ambassadors in Minsk late March 16; the Austrian presidency will issue a statement holding Lukashenko alone responsible for any violence surrounding this weekend's presid [...]	2006-03-17 17:57:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD YI MW SR BK BO IR IZ SU FR EUN
06PARIS1799	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq Belarus Elections [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-21 15:49:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1832	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - President Bush's [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-22 11:04:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1863	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Bush Strategy [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-23 11:14:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1922	FRANCE WILL SUPPORT BELARUS TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS [...] (C) On March 24, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on expanding a visa ban against Belarusian officials to Antoine Gosset, the MFA's Belarus desk officer. Gosset said the MFA was examining the legal implications of extending the visa ban to include Aleksandr Lukashenka, given the lack of prece [...]	2006-03-24 17:06:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CVIS BO FR EUN
06PARIS1924	CHIRAC'S DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR ON SYRIA/LEBANON, IRAN [...] (C) Amb Stapleton took the occasion of a meeting March 23 with President Chirac's Diplomatic Advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) on another subject (septel),to discuss Middle East issues, focusing on Syria/Lebanon, Iran, and Iraq. Concerning Syria/Lebanon, MGM said the GOF continues t [...]	2006-03-24 18:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR SY LE SP UNSC
06PARIS1938	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Los Angeles Demonstrations - [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-27 11:21:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS1976	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Demonstrations Against French [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-28 11:22:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS2007	UNESCO COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Communication and Information (C and I) Sector of UNESCO held two program council meetings last week - the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) Council and the Information for All Programme (IFAP) Council. IPDC members elected a new chair [...]	2006-03-29 06:21:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC EAID UNESCO
06PARIS2100	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - France Iran Middle East - [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-31 12:24:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS212	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran GWOT - Guantanamo Israel [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-12 15:06:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS2130	UNESCO: PREPARATIONS FOR JULY 2006 VILNIUS [...] Summary: In preparation for the July 8-16 2006 meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Vilnius, invited experts met at UNESCO headquarters to discuss the impact of climate change on World Heritage sites; (Their recommendations para 5). The meeting was held at the request of the July 2005 [...]	2006-03-31 17:09:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC SCUL KSCA SENV RS XG UNESCO
06PARIS2152	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Secretary Rice to Europe - [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-03 11:14:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS2195	THE FRENCH ARE STILL DELIBERATING ON ENGAGING [...] (C) Using reftel points, pol/mil officer sought on April 3 MFA support for NATO to begin Intensified Dialogue on Membership Questions with Georgia. MFA DAS-equivalent director for NATO/ESDP issues, Nicolas Niemtchinow, received our points, but declined any substantive comment, indicating that [...]	2006-04-04 13:46:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR GG FR NATO
06PARIS2200	COE CYBERCRIME [...] Summary. The first meeting of the Council of Europe's Cybercrime Convention Committee took place March 20-21, 2006. The United States (Betty Shave, U.S. Department of Justice) was selected as vice-chair of the meeting. The key achievement of the meeting was adoption of an interpretation o [...]	2006-04-04 14:46:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KJUS KCRM ECON ETRD FR COE
06PARIS2242	VISIT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALES FROM MARCH 1 TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales traveled to France from March 1 to 4, 2006. He met with Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, Director of the DST; Nicolas Sarkozy, Minister of the Interior; French Counter-terrorism Officials; Ron Noble, Secretary General of Interpol; Pascal Clement, M [...]	2006-04-05 15:17:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KJUS FR PREL PGOV KCRM PTER
06PARIS2252	A/S FRIED DISCUSSES NATO AND FORMER SOVIET SPACE [...] (C) Summary: On March 31, A/S Fried met with French MFA officials to discuss NATO partnerships, Georgia, Ukraine, Nagorno-Karabakh, Belarus, Russia and Darfur. Fried pressed French officials to remain open to offering Georgia a NATO Membership Action Plan, and noted that French and U.S. analy [...]	2006-04-06 10:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR RU BE MO
06PARIS2253	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Saddam Hussein's Trial [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-06 10:18:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS2306	POLISH EMBASSY ON FRANCO-POLISH AND FRANCO-GERMAN [...] (C) Summary: Polish Embassy PolCouns described for us April 6 an improving Franco-Polish relationship and growing French interest in the Weimar triangle grouping of France, Germany and Poland. She attributed growing French activism to attempts to offset its waning influence both vis-a-vis G [...]	2006-04-07 15:29:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN GE PL KPKO CG
06PARIS232	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Iraq Transatlantic [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-13 10:24:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS2324	LUNAR AND MARTIAN SPECTRUM COORDINATION -- FIRST [...] Summary: The first technical preparatory meeting for intergovernmental coordination on a Spectrum Use Plan for Lunar and Martian Space Exploration was held March 20-23 in Paris. The meeting was hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA) and jointly chaired by ESA and NASA. All six of the spac [...]	2006-04-10 09:18:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS TSPA FR
06PARIS2343	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Hamas Iraq [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-10 10:44:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS2362	PARIS CLUB - APRIL 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) At the April 5 Paris Club meeting, creditors accepted in principle Algeria's offer to prepay at face value its previously rescheduled Paris Club debt. The US is the third largest creditor with $1.2 billion in claims, just over half of which are pre-payable without penalty. The US stre [...]	2006-04-11 10:02:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR

06PARIS2405	FRANCE: AUSTRALIA GROUP MEMBERSHIP FOR RUSSIA [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-12 10:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL RS FR
06PARIS2406	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq - Oil For Food Iran [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-12 11:12:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS2437	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Afghanistan Italy [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-13 10:24:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS2450	FRENCH IN AGREEMENT ON BELARUS SANCTIONS [...] (C) Summary: DAS Kramer met April 11 with interlocutors from the MFA and Treasury to discuss next steps on Belarus. The French agreed on the utility and necessity of targeted financial sanctions against key members of the Belarusian regime and believed that the EU would come to consensus on th [...]	2006-04-13 13:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV FR BO RU
06PARIS2587	SUDAN SANCTIONS DEMARCHE ELICITS MFA REMARKS ON [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points April 19 to IO DAS-Equivalent Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel. In response, Simon-Michel reiterated French support for levying sanctions on the individuals in question, noting French co-sponsorship for the original UK list of names proposed for designation. 2. [...]	2006-04-19 15:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PGOV PREL SU FR UNSC
06PARIS2610	COUNCIL OF EUROPE: PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Begin Summary: A somewhat subdued Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE),meeting in Strasbourg April 10-14, continued to wrestle with its overlap with other EU institutions. The PACE dodged a potential minefield when Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) representati [...]	2006-04-20 15:07:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL COE
06PARIS2662	TERRORIST/WMD FINANCING: A/S WAYNE DISCUSSES U.S. [...] (C) French officials are interested in continuing and deepening collaboration with the USG on terrorist financing and WMD financing issues and will consider further cooperative efforts. They are open to exploring use of financial tools against WMD procurement networks. They would appreciate [...]	2006-04-24 09:37:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	KTFN EFIN PREL FR
06PARIS2663	A/S WAYNE DISCUSSES ENERGY SECURITY COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: EB Assistant Secretary E. Anthony Wayne met with GOF energy policy officials to discuss potential areas for bilateral and transatlantic cooperation to improve energy security. GOF officials emphasized the need to maintain pressure on Russia to open its oil and gas markets and, [...]	2006-04-24 10:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR EU
06PARIS2733	FRANCE: ENERGY SECTOR UPDATE [...] (U) This is another in a series of occasional updates on the French energy sector. Feedback is welcome to help us make this product as useful as possible for our inter-agency USG audience. Contents: -- De Ladoucette named head of French Energy Regulatory Authority (para 2) -- GOF Supports [...]	2006-04-26 11:03:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR
06PARIS2791	UNESCO: EXECUTIVE BOARD DECISION ON EFA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNESCO adopted a decision on a Report by the Director-General on the Global Action Plan to achieve the Education For All (EFA) Goals at the 174th Executive Board. In late March, the U.K. together with Program and External Relations Commission chair Norway convened a working gro [...]	2006-04-27 15:38:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO EAID UNESCO
06PARIS2796	USUNESCO: MEDIA FREEDOM - DANISH CARTOONS [...] (C) Classified by: PAO Caitlin Bergin for reasons 1.4; B/D 2. (C) SUMMARY: Executive Board Agenda Item 46, Title, was renegotiated by a working group during the Executive Board to address concerns about respect for culture and religion raised by the Danish cartoons of Mohammed published in [...]	2006-04-27 16:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAO PREL ECON UNESCO
06PARIS2848	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - NATO Expansion [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-02 10:43:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS2868	CHINA AND TAIWAN AT THE OECD: HARDBALL OVER SOFT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-02 16:28:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON SENV EU CH TW FR OECD
06PARIS2889	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Middle East Bolivia - [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-03 14:34:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS2923	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - U.S. Policy [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-04 12:08:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS296	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - New Chilean President - Iran [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-17 11:37:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3049	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran America's Darfur [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-10 09:51:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS31	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Russia-Ukraine Energy [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-04 11:28:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3114	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Russia Versus the U.S. - [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-11 12:00:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3152	LAURENT FABIUS ON EUROPE AND THE SOCIALIST PARTY'S [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-12 12:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV FR PINR EUN
06PARIS3167	SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY SHINER'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Embassy Paris and the U.S. Mission to the OECD welcome Undersecretary Shiner's visit to Paris. The largest component of her visit will be with the head of Agence Francaise de Developpement, AFD, Jean-Michel Severino to discuss UN reform in the areas of development policy and humanitari [...]	2006-05-12 15:36:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PREL FR
06PARIS3234	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iraq U.S. Issues - NSA [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-16 12:19:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3247	PARIS CLUB - MAY 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON AND DEBT NEGOTIATIONS [...] (U) At the May 10-12 meeting of the Paris Club, Afghanistan's three creditors, Russia, Germany and the United States, took the first step toward fulfilling their pledges to cancel 100% of Afghanistan's debt by providing assurances of debt relief during the period of Afghanistan's new IMF progra [...]	2006-05-16 15:27:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS332	FRANCE 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Investment Climate Statement Contents A. French Investment Regime A1. Openness to Foreign Investment A2. Conversion and Transfer Policies A3. Expropriation and Compensation A4. Dispute Settlement A5. Performance Requirements and Incentives A6. Right to Private Ownership and Establis [...]	2006-01-18 17:12:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ELAB PGOV KTDB FR OPIC USTR
06PARIS3382	FRENCH COMMENT ON U.S. PROPOSAL REGARDING THE 1267 [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met May 19 with officials from the MFA to discuss proposals on UN sanctions issues, especially the U.S. proposal on procedural protections and fairness in the 1267 Committee. French officials had two primary concerns about the U.S. proposal: 1) a call for national governmen [...]	2006-05-19 13:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN PGOV PREL FR UNSC
06PARIS3453	FRENCH SHARE USG CONCERNS ON RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES IN [...] (C) On May 22, poloff delivered reftel demarche on Russian activities in South Ossetia to Aurelia Bouchez, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet space, and Marie Dumoulin, Georgia desk officer. Dumoulin said on May 23 that France shares our "preoccupation" with Russian int [...]	2006-05-23 10:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL RU GG OSCE PGOV FR
06PARIS346	OECD: AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE DISCUSSES SOUTH [...] SUMMARY: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) hosted in Paris a Global Forum on 30 Nov - 1 Dec 2005, followed by two sessions of the Committee on Agriculture (CoAg). The Global Forum addressed the topic of Policy Coherence for Development in Agriculture. It was la [...]	2006-01-19 10:45:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD OECD
06PARIS3471	U.S.-FRENCH CONSULTATIONS ON UN ISSUES: UN REFORM, [...] (C) Summary: IO PDAS Jim Warlick's May 19 meeting with MFA IO A/S-equivalent Sylvie Bermann focused primarily on UN reform issues -- namely the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC),Human Rights Council (HRC),and management reform -- with SYG elections, Darfur, Cote d'Ivoire, and UNSC elections dis [...]	2006-05-23 13:11:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA UNSC AORC SU IV FR
06PARIS3501	FRANCE PLANS LIMITED REACTION TO AHMADI-NEJAD'S [...] (C) On May 23, poloffs delivered to MFA officials reftel demarche on the implications of Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad's attendance at the June SCO summit in Shanghai. Aurelia Bouchez, the MFA's DAS-equivalent for Russia and the former Soviet space, told poloff that France did not plan on de [...]	2006-05-24 15:34:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL FR
06PARIS3502	MONACO DIPLOMATIC NOTE TO ESTABLISH WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) Monegasque Embassy Secretary Frederic Labarrere delivered to Acting PolCouns May 23 a diplomatic note (informal translation para 2) and curriculum vitae with the following main points: - Monaco intends to establish an Embassy in Washington, D.C. to strengthen its relations with the Un [...]	2006-05-24 15:46:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT KREC PREL FR MN
06PARIS351	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Ivory Coast - [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-19 11:31:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3540	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - NATO - Parliamentary Assembly - [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-26 11:35:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3631	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-01 11:53:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3677	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-02 10:16:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3722	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Palestine - Hamas - [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-05 11:00:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3782	AVIAN INFLUENZA FRANCE UPDATE - 06/06/06 [...] French pharmaceutical firm Sanofi-Pasteur recently announced the preliminary, but encouraging, results of its Phase 1 trials for a pre-pandemic H5N1 vaccine. The clinical study, involving 300 people, tested two formulations of the vaccine, one with and one without an adjuvant. The tests reve [...]	2006-06-06 12:28:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU TBIO CASC AMGT FR
06PARIS379	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iranian President in Syria - [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-20 11:10:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3843	FRENCH MFA CFSP CHIEFS ON EU DYNAMICS [...] (C) Summary: In a June 6 meeting, the MFA's CFSP chiefs lamented a certain absence of political will in the EU, but argued that the EU had largely succeeded, through an increase in ESDP operations, in recapturing some momentum following rejection of the EU constitutional treaty. They indicat [...]	2006-06-07 12:56:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN COE KPAL CY TU
06PARIS3870	FRENCH COMPLAIN ABOUT RUSSIAN ACTIONS IN OSCE, [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials told visiting EUR/RPM Director Gary Robbins that France saw a "largely negative" context for the OSCE, primarily due to Russian intransigence. Generally speaking, the West had a radically different vision of the OSCE than Russia, and it was important, they said, that [...]	2006-06-08 09:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL FR CFE
06PARIS3872	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran CIA Renditions [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-08 11:04:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS3922	FRANCE ON JUNE 12 GAERC - RECOGNITION OF MONTENEGRO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy will announce at the June 12-13 GAERC that France recognizes Montenegro, according to MFA CFSP deputy chief Pascal LeDeunff. He listed as the most important topics at the GAERC preparation of the June 20-21 U.S.-EU summit, Montenegro, Cuba, Iran, I [...]	2006-06-09 16:18:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN EUN YI MW SR BO IR IZ CU KPAL FR
06PARIS3979	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Guantanamo Iraq - Camp David Talks [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-13 13:10:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4053	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - U.S. Foreign Policy - Iraq - [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-15 11:37:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4095	UNESCO-DISCUSSION OF ROTATION CAUSING CONSTERNATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Sharing worries about a threat to the status quo and the potential of a "rogue" proposition rising to open discussion and a possible vote, key donor nations from several electoral groups met for the first time to discuss their views on rotational representation on UNESCO bodies. [...]	2006-06-15 16:51:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EU UNESCO
06PARIS413	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - GWOT - Bin Laden Video [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-23 11:03:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4175	(C) HARIRI ADVISOR ON RISING IRANIAN INFLUENCE IN [...] (C) Summary: During a June 13 discussion, longtime Hariri family advisor Basile Yared put a positive spin on the recent Brammertz report, which he viewed as compounding pressure on Syria. Yared viewed the SARG as seeking to destabilize the GoL, via arms and money transfers to Palestinian mili [...]	2006-06-16 17:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE SY IR PINR PTER EAID FR
06PARIS4214	FRANCE AND NATO ID FOR GEORGIA - IT'S ABOUT RUSSIA [...] (C) 1. Summary: A French decision on Georgia's candidacy for NATO Intensified Dialogue is under review, according to Presidency and MFA officials, and President Chirac will have the final say. Based on conversations with an Elysee contact, France continues to view Georgia's future through the [...]	2006-06-19 16:36:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR FR NATO RU
06PARIS4218	AUSTRALIA GROUP: 2006 INFORMATION EXCHANGE (IE) [...] (C) The following describes highlights of the Information Exchange (IE) portion of the annual meeting of the Australia Group (AG),which met in Paris, June 12-15, 2006 (Report on AG Plenary provided septel). The IE included 48 presentations by 13 AG member states, and 2 presentations were pr [...]	2006-06-20 08:43:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL PARM ETTC AS FR CBW
06PARIS4219	AUSTRALIA GROUP 2006 PLENARY MEETING, PARIS, JUNE [...] (SBU) The Australia Group (AG) plenary continued strengthening the Regime,s nonproliferation and export control tools. Highlights included: -- Agreement to the U.S. proposal to add three biological agents to the control list; -- Agreement to add chemical processing equipment made from [...]	2006-06-20 08:48:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL ETTC AS FR CBW
06PARIS4253	PARIS CLUB - JUNE 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON, 50 YEAR ANNIVERSARY, [...] (SBU) At the June 13-16 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors reached a tentative agreement on a deal that will allow Russia to repay its remaining USD 22 billion in previously rescheduled Paris Club debt in August. The deal is still subject to approval by Moscow. Cameroon received a completi [...]	2006-06-21 09:51:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS4278	FRANCE/VENEZUELA: NO DECISIONS YET ON ARMS SALE, [...] (S/NF) Summary: On June 20, we raised ref A (possible French company arms deal with Spain for Venezuela) and ref B (Venezuelan anti-NGO bill) demarches with the MFA's PDAS and DAS-equivalents for Latin America. Regarding reports that the Spanish company Navantia has asked Thales France for pa [...]	2006-06-21 13:52:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL KDEM PGOV VE PARM
06PARIS4342	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Transatlantic Relationship - [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-23 11:12:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4406	FRANCE WILL LIKELY SEND A/S-EQUIVALENT TO RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-26 15:00:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS PGOV PHUM SOCI FR
06PARIS4415	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Situation in Occupied Territories [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-27 10:43:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4441	U/S JOSPEH, U/S LEVEY JUNE 20 MEET WITH FRENCH MFA [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a June 20 meeting between U/S Joseph and Treasury U/S Levey and French Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye, a range of proliferation-related topics were covered, including the US-French-UK-German-Italian meeting later that day aimed at preliminary consultations regarding [...]	2006-06-27 15:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM ETTC IR KN IN FR
06PARIS4482	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Surge of Violence in [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-29 10:16:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS452	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Rice Transformational [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-24 11:54:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS456	PARIS CLUB - JANUARY 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) At the January 18 Paris Club meeting, creditors agreed to raise Jordan's debt swap ceiling from 30% to 40%. The US and UK were the most vocal advocates, arguing that Jordan was an important ally facing serious economic vulnerabilities despite progress implementing key economic reforms. [...]	2006-01-24 15:05:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS4580	FRENCH STILL CONSIDERING OSCE BID, BOUCHER TOLD [...] (C) SUMMARY. Concerned officials say they will tell Kazakh Foreign Minister Tokayev that Kazakhstan will have to meet higher standards if it wants to Chair the OSCE in 2009. But, they admit, the personal relationship between the two Presidents may carry the day. During other meetings in Pari [...]	2006-07-03 15:24:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IEA OSCE PGOV ENRG ELAB ETTC TRGY ZK IN
06PARIS4596	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Guantanamo - Trial in Paris [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-05 10:32:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4628	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - North Korea Missile Tests [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-06 11:14:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4659	UNESCO: N. SCOTT MOMADAY DISCUSSES CULTURAL PRESERVATION [...] SUMMARY. UNESCO's Social and Human Sciences Division of Foresight, Philosophy and Human Sciences hastily organized a June 22 symposium on human dignity and art with N. Scott Momaday, UNESCO Artist for Peace and Native American poet, novelist, painter, and story-teller, which focused on the im [...]	2006-07-07 12:16:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNESCO OEXC SCUL
06PARIS4666	FRENCH RESPONSE TO UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) Ambassador Stapleton, accompanied by Russian Ambassador Alexander Avdeev, delivered reftel demarche to French Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy. The Minister gave a private preliminary statement of support in principle, noting France's own concerns about nuclear terrorism. France, Douste-B [...]	2006-07-07 14:39:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MCAP PINS PTER KNNP AS CA CH FR GM IT JA
06PARIS4693	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Operation Summer Rain [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-10 11:10:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4724	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - GWOT - Death of Chechen Rebellion [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-11 10:13:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4760	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Terrorist Attacks in Bombay - Iraq [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-12 11:19:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4765	WTO DOHA ROUND : AFTER GENEVA, FRENCH AGRICULTURAL OFFICERS [...] (SBU) In recent meetings with Agricultural Minister-Counselor, French Ministry of Agriculture officials stressed that they still expect a positive outcome of the Doha round of trade negotiations, despite the recent meeting in Geneva. In fact, they acknowledged that they are now more optimistic [...]	2006-07-12 13:17:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD EU FR
06PARIS4795	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - P5 + 1 Meeting in Paris [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-13 10:21:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4825	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - G8 Summit [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-17 10:35:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4854	PAKISTANI FM KASURI'S JULY 5 MEETING WITH FRENCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri discussed a range of issues with French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy in meetings in Paris on July 5. According to the MFA's Pakistan desk officer, Kasuri appeared stunned when Douste-Blazy requested a list of the sensitive techn [...]	2006-07-17 15:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR IO PK PREL
06PARIS4864	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Middle East - Iran -G8 Summit [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-18 10:47:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4913	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Israeli-Lebanese Conflict - French [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-19 11:13:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4944	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-20 10:23:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS4951	FRANCE: DEMARCHE ON JULY 20 BAGHDAD COMPACT [...] (SBU) Embassy provided reftel points to the offices of Foreign Ministry Political Director Stansilas de Laboulaye and Ministry of Finance Director General of the Treasury and Economic Policy Xavier Musca to update them after their recent meetings with Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Ki [...]	2006-07-20 14:13:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL FR IZ ECIN OTRA
06PARIS4955	UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' JULY 13 MEETING WITH INDIAN [...] (U) July 13, 2006; 10:30AM - 2:45PM; Paris, FRANCE 2. (U) Participants: U.S. U/S Nicolas Burns Anja Manuel, P Staff Political Officer Greg D'Elia, U.S. Embassy, Paris Political Officer Leslie Ordeman, U.S. Embassy, Paris (notetaker) India: Foreign Minister Saran S. Jaishankar, H [...]	2006-07-20 16:45:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL BM NP CE IR IZ VE GT CU FR
06PARIS4979	FRENCH VIEWS ON IRAQ COMPACT [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt and Counselor Zelikow briefed French MFA Political Director Stanislas de Laboulaye on planning for the Iraq Compact on July 18. Laboulaye welcomed the initiative for an Iraq Compact as "encouraging", calling it a good [...]	2006-07-21 15:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IZ FR
06PARIS4986	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-24 11:07:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5024	PARIS CLUB - JULY 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON AND AFGHAN DEBT [...] (SBU) At the July 18-19 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors agreed on exceptionally generous debt relief for Afghanistan, which achieved three main objectives: (1) 92% of Afghanistan's debt stock will be canceled immediately; (2) all interest falling due between now and the end of the IMF pr [...]	2006-07-25 12:38:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS5067	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-26 10:57:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5080	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-27 10:50:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5110	THE OECD BUDGET: GETTING TO ZERO [...] (SBU) Summary: The ambitious budget proposals by the new OECD Secretary General for the 2007-2008 biennium exceed the guidelines SIPDIS of the United States and other major contributors, resulting in a proposed increase in member contributions of 4.35 percent for 2007 that is simply unreali [...]	2006-07-28 06:52:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT EFIN AORC OECD FR
06PARIS5146	THE OECD BUDGET: PUSHING RUSSIA TO REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: The role played by the OECD at the G8 summit is only one of many OECD activities aimed at strengthening the market economy and democratic governance in Russia. A comprehensive economic survey, scheduled for completion in September, will focus on innovation and reform of public [...]	2006-07-28 16:25:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV AORC OECD FR
06PARIS526	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Palestinian Elections [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-26 14:28:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5276	U.S. DELEGATION REPORT: 30TH SESSION OF THE WORLD HERITAGE [...] Summary: The World Heritage Committee, the 21-nation governing body of the 1972 UNESCO World Heritage Convention, held its 30th Session in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 8-16, 2006. The Committee added eighteen cultural and natural sites to the prestigious World Heritage List and also decided to rem [...]	2006-08-03 16:59:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	SCUL UNESCO LH
06PARIS5423	EUR DAS BRYZA'S PARIS CONSULTATIONS ON GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary: Visiting DAS Matt Bryza met August 2 with French Deputy PolDir Baleine du Laurens to discuss developments in Georgia and Abkhazia. On Georgian reforms, Bryza countered a suggestion by Laurens that Georgia was regressing by pointing to continued improvements in press freedom, tr [...]	2006-08-10 16:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN GG NATO KDEM
06PARIS554	FRANCE AGREES WITH FOCUSING INTERNATIONAL MEDIA [...] (C) On January 27, Poloff met with Antoine Gosset, the MFA's desk officer for Belarus, to discuss reftel demarche encouraging international media attention on the March 19 Belarus presidential election. Gosset said the MFA agreed with the demarche points and furthermore, the MFA would be ramp [...]	2006-01-27 16:05:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL BO FR
06PARIS5594	UNESCO: REPORT ON NEGOTIATION OF DRAFT PRINCIPLES RELATING [...] Begin Summary. The UNESCO Intergovernmental Meeting on the Preparation of a Declaration of Principles Relating to Cultural Objects Displaced in Connection with the Second World War took place in Paris on July 19-21, 2006. The United States delegation consisted of the Permanent Representative, [...]	2006-08-21 09:55:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	KNAR PHUM SCUL UN
06PARIS560	FRENCH ON JANUARY 30 GAERC: HAMAS, IRAN, IRAQ, [...] (U) Poloff delivered ref (A) points on January 24th to MFA's deputy of CFSP unit, Pascal LeDeunff, and discussed the points with him on January 27th. 2. (C) Hamas Victory: LeDeunff referenced the January 27th Quartet statement and, echoing Prime Minister de Villepin's statement of January 2 [...]	2006-01-27 17:31:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN KPAL IS HIZ FR
06PARIS5625	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Lebanon - UNIFIL - EU-25 [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-23 10:06:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5657	FRENCH SUPPORT FOR IRAQ COMPACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt led a delegation to France August 16-17 to discuss the Iraq Compact. French officials remained positive about the Compact's goals and were visibly engaged on the issue. Officials welcomed the briefing on USG discussions with Gulf countries, espe [...]	2006-08-24 07:50:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EIND EAID PREL IZ FR
06PARIS5666	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Lebanon - UNIFIL - Israel - [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-24 11:05:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5667	FRENCH UPDATE ON CENTRAL ASIAN NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE [...] (C) On August 24, we delivered reftel demarche to Arnaud Mentre, MFA nonproliferation officer responsible for the Central Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (CANWFZ) issue. Mentre responded that France was involved in three demarches, either underway or planned, on CANWFZ: -- Today, on August 24 [...]	2006-08-24 12:30:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP MARR PREL UN FR
06PARIS5734	GOF ON KAZAKHSTAN'S OSCE 2009 CHAIRMANSHIP BID [...] (C) A/Political Counselor delivered reftel demarche August 25 to MFA DAS Equivalent for Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, Aurelia Bouchez, who was eager to discuss the U.S. position on Kazakhstan's candidacy for the 2009 OSCE Chairmanship. Drawing on reftel points, A/Polcouns highlighte [...]	2006-08-25 17:16:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KZ KDEM PGOV PHUM OSCE FR
06PARIS5764	UNESCO: DISCUSSION OF WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY WITH UNESCO [...] (U) SUMMARY. On Wednesday June 21, Ambassador Oliver hosted a luncheon with selected UNESCO Ambassadors for John Van Oudenaren of the Library of Congress (LOC) to introduce the concept of the World Digital Library (WDL). With Van Oudenaren, the Ambassadors discussed the possibilities of the [...]	2006-08-29 05:01:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	UNESCO AINF APER BBSR SCUL AINT EINT TINT KPAO
06PARIS5815	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Lebanon [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-30 10:55:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS5824	CHIRAC/MERKEL FOCUS ON LEBANON, MIDDLE EAST; [...] (C) Summary: The August 25 informal Blaesheim meeting between President Chirac and German chancellor Merkel and their foreign ministers focused on Lebanon and the situation in the Middle East. Merkel publicly supported France's position on lifting the Israeli air/sea blockade of Lebanon, wi [...]	2006-08-30 12:07:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN GE MARR MOPS PHUM XF
06PARIS5837	FM DOUSTE-BLAZY'S SPEECH TO FRENCH AMBASSADORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy addressed the annual conference of French ambassadors on August 29, echoing many of the same themes outlined by President Chirac in his address to the ambassadors the day before (reftel). Douste-Blazy stressed the exceptional role France still plays [...]	2006-08-30 15:48:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EUN UNSC TU PTER NATO FR
06PARIS5885	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Iraq, Elections and 9/11 [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-01 10:50:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS59	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Russia-Ukraine Energy War [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-05 11:57:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS599	FORMER FM VEDRINE ON MIDDLE EAST, IRAN, EUROPE, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 26 breakfast meeting with the Ambassador, former FM Hubert Vedrine provided a tour d'horizon on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (it all depends on Israel and, specifically, the eclipse of the Likud),Iran (the difficulties of preventing it from acquiring a nuclear [...]	2006-01-30 17:17:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN KNNP KPAL

06PARIS5990	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush on Secret Prisons [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-07 10:29:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS6020	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush on CIA Secret [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-08 10:22:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS6172	FRENCH COMMEMORATIONS OF 9/11 5TH ANNIVERSARY [...] On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of September 11th, Post engaged a number of French institutions and government representatives to help commemorate this significant date. Below is a listing of the events in Paris and the provinces. Ceremonies included: a religious service at the Ameri [...]	2006-09-14 11:01:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO FR
06PARIS6179	EUR DAS BRYZA MEETS FRENCH POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON [...] (C) Summary: In a September 12 meeting with EUR/DAS Matt Bryza and EUR/CARC Director Rood, French Political Director Laboulaye expressed relief over U.S. efforts to persuade Georgian President Saakashvili to avoid being overly provocative toward Russia at the UNGA. To give Saakashvili an add [...]	2006-09-14 14:52:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR GG NATO EUN KDEM
06PARIS6189	FRANCE WANTS MORE CONCRETE MEASURES TO GIVE TEETH [...] (C) Summary: MFA nonproliferation office, while reiterating France's steadfast support for international efforts to constrain North Korea's weapons program and enforce UNSCR 1695, expressed some concern about a perceived lack of concrete mechanisms -- whether in the Proliferation Security Init [...]	2006-09-14 16:08:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP MNUC WMD CT PTER KN KS FR
06PARIS6194	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran NATO - Ukraine Backs Off Islam [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-15 09:46:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS6234	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Islam and the West - Pope Benedict [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-18 10:21:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS6274	TURKISH FM GUL IN FRANCE: GOOD ATMOSPHERICS, NO [...] (C) Summary: According to the Turkish Embassy, Turkish FM Gul's September 13-14 meetings with President Chirac, FM Douste-Blazy and Minister-delegate Colonna produced nothing new in substance from the French side. The Turks nonetheless profess to have discerned some softening in French attit [...]	2006-09-19 16:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN TU CY MARR
06PARIS6323	PARIS CLUB - SEPTEMBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) At the September 13 meeting of the Paris Club, Xavier Musca, the Chairman of the Paris Club, reported that Angolan Finance Minister de Morais had told him the previous week that Angola is still considering a precautionary Stand-By Arrangement with the IMF, with the understanding that th [...]	2006-09-20 15:01:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS6360	FRANCE HOLDS EU DISADVANTAGED BY UN SCALE OF [...] (SBU) In response to reftel points, MFA IO Acting A/S-Equivalent Marc Giacomini expounded on the disadvantages for the EU of the current UN scale of assessments in a September 19 meeting with poloff. Giacomini observed that the present 22 percent ceiling on the USG assessment of the UN budge [...]	2006-09-22 09:02:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC FR KUNR UNGA UNSC
06PARIS645	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Iran Hamas [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-01 12:43:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS6558	FRANCE: ENERGY SECTOR UPDATE [...] (U) This is another in a series of occasional updates on the French energy sector. Feedback is welcome to help us make this product as useful as possible for our inter-agency USG audience. Contents: -- French PM calls for EU Energy Summit and EU Energy Chief (para 2) -- EU energy supplie [...]	2006-10-02 16:51:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ELAB EPET EIND EINV PREL PGOV FR
06PARIS6614	UNESCO REFORM: F/A EXPERTS MEETING HIGHLIGHTS BRASILIA [...] Summary and INTRODUCTION: At the September 27-29 meeting of UNESCO's Financial and Administrative (f/A) experts' group, the U.S, delegation: raised questions on the legal risks posed by the Brasilia office, underlining the Executive board's fiduciary responsibilities and urging that Brasilia [...]	2006-10-04 15:05:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	UNESCO AORC EAID
06PARIS666	INVITATION TO THE 36TH MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN [...] This is an action request with a 20 February 2006 deadline. See para 4. 2. The USG is invited to send a representative to the 36th meeting of the European Steering Committee for Youth (CDEJ) at the Council of Europe (COE) in Strasbourg, France, 1-3 March 2006. Working document [...]	2006-02-01 15:25:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	COE
06PARIS6696	FRENCH SEEK STRONG UNSC RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN [...] (C) On October 6 we provided ref A elements for UNSC action to the MFA, meeting separately with the Koreas desk officer Clea Le Cardeur and IO-equivalent action officer Benoit Guidee. Guidee told us on October 10, following receipt of ref C points, that the MFA position was one of "total soli [...]	2006-10-10 16:32:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KNNP UNSC KN FR
06PARIS6742	FRENCH MFA DIRECTOR GENERAL ON CLIMATE CHANGE, [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-12 16:16:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN SENV EAID EAIR ETRD FR
06PARIS6753	FRANCE/COTE D'IVOIRE: ECOWAS MEETING FAILS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Cote d'Ivoire desk officer Montel on October 10 expressed frustration that the October 6 ECOWAS summit accomplished little in moving the peace process forward, although she identified a number of points made by ECOWAS that were helpful (condemnation of Afi N'guessan, affirm [...]	2006-10-13 11:22:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KDEM UNSC IV SF FR
06PARIS6785	MEDIA WRAP-UP: DPRK'S NUCLEAR TEST, UNEASE WITH RUSSIA AND [...] (SBU) Three major stories emerged this week: North Korea's nuclear test, fallout and international reactions to the slaying of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya and western criticism of Putin's regime, and commentary on Al Gore's documentary film on climate change. French media unequivoca [...]	2006-10-13 16:05:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO OPRC SENV FR
06PARIS680	IRAN/IAEA: FRANCE REMAINS FIRM ON REFERRAL OF IRAN [...] (C) On Feb 2, post delivered reftel demarche to Nicolas Roche, deputy to Francois Richier in the MFA's Strategic affairs and Disarmament office, as well as to the Political Director's special assistant. Embassy Polmiloff conveyed U.S. rejection of a proposed Egyptian amendment to the resolut [...]	2006-02-02 11:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL AORC EUN IR FR
06PARIS6836	POLISH AMBASSADOR ON RUSSIA AND FRENCH/EU TIMIDITY [...] (C) Summary: In an October 13 meeting with the Ambassador, Polish Ambassador to France Jan Tombinski expressed concern about the increasing concentration of power in the Kremlin and criticized President Chirac for French reluctance to confront the Russians over their increasingly negative p [...]	2006-10-17 11:58:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR RU EU GG MD
06PARIS6842	MFA DISCUSSES COUNTER-TERRORISM COOPERATION [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (S) Summary: In a meeting on October 16, MFA DAS-equivalent for Security in the Bureau of Strategic Affairs, Pierre Thenard, outlined generally positive French views on the Terrorist Inciters/Facilitators Initiative. Thenard inquired about [...]	2006-10-17 13:35:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PTER PGOV PREL FR
06PARIS6843	FRENCH PONDER NEXT STEPS ON LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: While the French MFA's NEA and IO equivalents are convinced of the need to support PM Siniora, implement UNSCR 1701, and ensure UNIFIL's credibility, they have not yet ironed out differences in their thinking on potential next steps -- and may be seriously overestimating the poten [...]	2006-10-17 13:35:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	FR KDEM PGOV PREL SY
06PARIS685	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - State of the Union [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-02 12:05:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS6921	TOTAL DISCUSSES PROSPECTIVE IRANIAN INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 16, EB DAS for Energy, Sanctions, and Commodities Paul Simons met with Total International Relations Senior Vice President Hubert Loiseleur des Longchamps on Total's prospective investments in Iran. Simons explained that Congress had recently passed the Iran Freedom [...]	2006-10-20 11:07:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC EINV EPET FIR IR
06PARIS6946	MFA A/S-EQUIVALENT PESSIMISTIC ON TURKEY-EU TRAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA A/S-equivalent for European Union affairs Gilles Briatta told us October 20 that Turkey understood that the French National Assembly's passage of legislation criminalizing denial of the Armenian "genocide" was only a first parliamentary step, and that Turkey had managed the [...]	2006-10-23 06:06:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EU TU CY PGOV RS ENRG ETRD
06PARIS6968	FRANCE SEEKS TO REDUCE GHG EMISSIONS BY A 'FACTOR [...] On October 9, Ecology and Industry Ministers, Nelly Olin and Francois Loos, jointly presented at a 'Factor 4' Conference the final report of the Working Group on 'Achieving a four-fold reduction in GHG emissions in France by 2050.' Written under the supervision of the French Council of Econo [...]	2006-10-23 15:12:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV FR
06PARIS6969	FRANCE SEEKS TO REDUCE GHG EMISSIONS BY A 'FACTOR [...] On October 9, Ecology and Industry Ministers, Nelly Olin and Francois Loos, jointly presented at a 'Factor 4' Conference the final report of the Working Group on 'Achieving a four-fold reduction in GHG emissions in France by 2050.' Written under the supervision of the French Council of Econo [...]	2006-10-23 15:17:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV FR
06PARIS6993	PARIS CLUB - OCTOBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON AND MALAWI DEBT [...] (U) At the October 18-19 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors canceled 354 million of Malawi's 363 million dollars of Paris Club debt as its completion point treatment under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. The US was not a creditor. The Club provided financing assuranc [...]	2006-10-24 14:06:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS7021	UNESCO SEMINAR EXPLORES ACCESS TO ENERGY FOR DEVELOPING [...] Summary: Representatives from UNESCO, private companies, government agencies, and NGOs gathered for the seminar "Access to Energy for All." The conference, attended by 30 people, took place at UNESCO, but was actually organized by an NGO with ties to UNESCO. Several UNESCO secretariat members d [...]	2006-10-25 15:42:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	UNESCO ENRG PHUM
06PARIS7024	SCENESETTER FOR NSA HADLEY'S NOVEMBER 3-4 VISIT TO [...] (C) When you meet him, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne's focus will be on some of the same subjects that are currently preoccupying us: Iran, Syria/Lebanon and NATO (global partnerships, Afghanistan.) We would expect MGM to be in his usual cooperative, problem-solving mode on the first two, wher [...]	2006-10-25 17:34:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL FR NATO KNNP IR IZ LE SY IS RS GG
06PARIS7057	EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Visiting EUR DAS Bryza and EUR/CARC Conflicts Advisor Crosby met with newly arrived MFA Deputy Political Director and A/S-equivalent for non-EU Europe October 24 to exchange views -- in advance of Georgian FM Bezhuashvili's November 7 visit to Paris -- on next steps on Russia-Ge [...]	2006-10-27 08:26:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR GG RS NATO EU KDEM MARR
06PARIS7076	NOTE FROM U/S JOSEPH ON STRATEGIC SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-27 14:10:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KNNP RS UK FR
06PARIS7095	MEDIUM TERM STRATEGY ISSUE AT UNESCO 175TH EXECUTIVE BOARD [...] (U) MEDIUM TERM STRATEGY The Medium Term Strategy (MTS) for 2008-2013 (34 C/4) was the source of hours of discussion and a major "thematic" debate on UNESCO's role in the world. (Comment: we know of no other organization that is as self-absorbed as UNESCO and wastes as much time discussing i [...]	2006-10-27 16:51:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNESCO SCUL PO IS BR LE CU EU
06PARIS7139	MINISTER CONVOKES AMBASSADOR OVER COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (C) Summary: Cabinet Minister Girardin convoked the Ambassador October 31 to urge U.S. support for the French draft Security Council resolution on Cote d'Ivoire, pleading that France was in a very difficult situation. After taking into account core U.S. objections, the draft now represented [...]	2006-10-31 14:20:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC IV FR KPKO
06PARIS715	EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COMMON DEFENSE [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-03 07:04:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	FR MARR MCAP PREL
06PARIS718	EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT [...] (U) Summary: This telegram constitutes Embassy Paris's country submission for the 2005/2006 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense (requested Ref A). We report on developments that took place during calendar years 2004 and 2005 and offer cost sharing information fo [...]	2006-02-03 10:20:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MCAP FR
06PARIS720	EMBASSY PARIS SUBMISSION TO THE 2005/2006 REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-03 10:20:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR MCAP FR
06PARIS7201	PRESIDENT CHIRAC'S VISIT TO CHINA-STRENGTHENING THE [...] (SBU) French President Jacques Chirac's most recent four-day visit to China on October 25th through the 28th was notable due to the signing of trade deals worth approximately 5 billion euro and for his personal efforts to improve Franco-Chinese political ties. 2. (U) "Never have we been s [...]	2006-11-03 13:45:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET EIND EINV ELAB PREL PGOV FR CH
06PARIS7228	CHINA AND CHINESE TAIPEI AT THE OECD: RAISING THE BAR? [...] (SBU) Summary and action request: China and Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) continue to spar over Taiwan's participation, as a non-member, in the work of the OECD -- work for which statehood is not a requirement. In recent developments, Chinese Taipei has applied to participate in the activities of t [...]	2006-11-06 13:48:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL SENV EU CH TW OECD FR
06PARIS7243	UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) In a November 3 meeting, Aurelia Bouchez, MFA DAS equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, expressed general support for the U.S.-led UNGA resolution on the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. Bouchez expressed surprise, however, that the U.S. had already sent a demarche t [...]	2006-11-06 16:23:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KTIA UN FR
06PARIS7266	DEMARCHE ON DISRUPTION OF CHISINAU-MOSCOW RAIL [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel November 3 to Aurelia Bouchez, MFA DAS-equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Bouchez commented that the suspension of the Chisinau rail link came as a surprise to France, which had expected Russia to avoid provocations on Transnistria in order to d [...]	2006-11-07 14:01:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ELTN RS MD UP FR
06PARIS7269	(S/NF) G7 CONFERENCE ON WMD PROLIFERATION FINANCING [...] SUMMARY: (C/REL France, UK, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada) France hosted an experts-level meeting on October 25 with G7 partners and the EU to discus how to implement the G8 Gleneagles commitment to develop financial measures to combat WMD proliferation. Participants exchanged information on [...]	2006-11-07 14:47:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	EFIN PARM PGOV FR
06PARIS7318	INTERNATIONAL UNION'S LUNG CONFERENCE - PUNCHING ABOVE ITS [...] SUMMARY: The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease convened the 37th Union World Conference on Lung Health from October 31 to November 4, 2006 in Paris, France. The Union's annual conference is the world's premier meeting of tuberculosis and public health experts dedicate [...]	2006-11-09 10:50:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KHIV KFLU FR
06PARIS7340	FRENCH AGREE ON IMPORTANCE OF SUPPORTING REFORM [...] (C) French DAS-equivalent for Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, Aurelia Bouchez, confirmed on November 3 that France would continue strongly to support reform efforts in the Ukraine, particularly in the defense field. Bouchez noted that although France in theory was in favor of a NATO m [...]	2006-11-09 16:54:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	NATO PREL MOPS UP FR
06PARIS7363	CHAIRMAN,S SUMMARY ON WMD PROLIFERATION FINANCING [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-14 09:44:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	EFIN PARM PGOV FR
06PARIS7393	COTE D'IVOIRE/FRANCE: INVESTIGATION OF NOVEMBER [...] (C) SUMMARY: France's judicial investigation of the November 6, 2004, bombing of French forces in Cote d'Ivoire by the Ivoirian Air Force may be drawing to a close, according to recent developments reported by the press. Nine French military personnel and an Amcit civilian were killed in t [...]	2006-11-15 15:18:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MOPS IV TO BO RS UP FR
06PARIS7451	UNESCO: MAN AND BIOSPHERE COORDINATING COUNCIL PONDERS [...] Summary. The 19th session of the MAB Coordinating Council focused on the need to define the program's future, particularly in the context of the formulation of the new UNESCO Medium-Term Strategy for 2008-2013. Issues debated included: the need to devise an appropriate approach to identifying t [...]	2006-11-20 11:04:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	UNESCO SCI SENV EAID SP
06PARIS7484	TRANSNISTRIA: GOF AGREES IN SUBSTANCE ON PCE, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Aurelia Bouchez, DAS-equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, explained on November 17 that France did not disagree in substance about the need for a multilateral peacekeeping mission in Transnistria, but was doubtful that the Russians would easily be convinced. She [...]	2006-11-21 14:30:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE EUN PREL MD RS UP FR
06PARIS7486	TRANSNISTRIA: GOF AGREES IN SUBSTANCE ON PCE, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Aurelia Bouchez, DAS-equivalent for Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, explained on November 17 that France did not disagree in substance about the need for a multilateral peacekeeping mission in Transnistria, but was doubtful that the Russians would easily be convinced. She [...]	2006-11-21 15:10:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE EUN PREL MD RS UP FR
06PARIS7491	PARIS CLUB - NOVEMBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (U) At the November 15 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors decided on an initial response to Argentine Finance Secretary MacLaughlin's letter to the Club expressing the GOA's desire to restart a dialogue and normalize relations as soon as possible. Creditors agreed that Paris Club Chairman Mu [...]	2006-11-21 15:14:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS7581	ITER JOINT IMPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT FOR $10 BILLION FUSION [...] Summary: On November 21, representatives of the European Union, China, Russia, India, the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the United States signed the agreement creating the ITER international organization charged with building, operating and dismantling, at a cost of some $10 billion, a first-o [...]	2006-11-29 14:58:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG TRGY SENV KPAO FR
06PARIS7604	France Energy Policy Maker on energy independence, energy [...] (SBU) Summary: Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industry Energy Director General Dominique Maillard told us that France has diversified its energy sources so that it is not dependent on any one overseas market. A large proportion of its energy comes from nuclear energy, and no more than one- [...]	2006-12-01 05:14:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG EPET FR
06PARIS7666	U/S OF DEFENSE FOR POLICY EDELMAN'S CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Summary: Senior French officials agreed with U/S of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman that significant progress had been made at the NATO Riga Summit. The GOF highlighted its recent decision to do more in Afghanistan by ensuring that its Tajikistan-based planes continue to support ISAF and [...]	2006-12-05 08:47:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL MARR ECPS NATO AF FR
06PARIS7668	FRENCH MFA EVER MORE PESSIMISTIC ON LEBANON [...] (S) Summary: Damien Loras, Foreign Minister Douste-Blazy's cabinet advisor for the Middle East, told us December 4 that he was "quite pessimistic" about Lebanon's future and doubtful that PM Siniora's government would survive. Nevertheless, he said the MFA was not inclined at present to favor [...]	2006-12-05 10:33:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	FR LE PGOV PREL SY
06PARIS7684	DOD U/S EDELMAN'S DECEMBER 1 MEETING WITH CHIRAC'S [...] (S) Summary: In a December 1 meeting with DoD U/S Edelman devoted primarily to Syria/Lebanon, French NSA-equivalent Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) assessed that Syria was the weakest link in the Hizballah-Syria-Iran axis and wondered whether Israel could apply more pressure on Syria, a questi [...]	2006-12-06 13:08:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	FR IS KDEM LE PGOV PREL SY
06PARIS7699	DOD U/S FOR POLICY EDELMAN'S PARIS CONSULTATIONS: [...] (C) Summary: Senior French officials agreed with U/S of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman that significant progress had been made on Afghanistan at the NATO Riga Summit. The GOF highlighted its recent decisions to ensure that its Tajikistan-based planes continue to support ISAF and OEF through [...]	2006-12-07 11:54:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL MARR ECPS NATO MNUC AF FR
06PARIS7705	EXPORT CONTROL BILATS BETWEEN FRANCE AND DOC ASSISTANT [...] (C) Summary. On November 30, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Christopher Padilla met with a GOF interagency group to discuss a wide variety of export control issues and strategic trade issues. The two sides addressed the U.S. Government's proposed China Licensing Pol [...]	2006-12-07 14:28:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC EINV FR
06PARIS7714	FRANCE PROPOSES INTELLIGENCE-SHARING CONTACT GROUP [...] Summary: (C) According to the MFA non-proliferatio officer, France shares the U.S.'s conviction that financial and transportation networks that facilitate North Korea's proliferation activities must be curbed. To that end, the GoF believes there is room for more coordination and intelligence [...]	2006-12-08 09:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP PREL PGOV KN FR
06PARIS7731	FRANCE/GAERC: AGREEMENT ON MOST ISSUES EXCEPT [...] (U) We shared refs A and B points December 5 with MFA CFSP Unit Deputy (DAS-equivalent) Emmanuel Cohet (all points),DAS-equivalent for industrial questions and sensitive exports Marc Abensour (China embargo),DAS-equivalent for the Levant Herve Besancenot (Israel-Palestinian conflict and Leb [...]	2006-12-08 16:30:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN PGOV PHUM UN YI SR BK IS LE IR
06PARIS7755	A/S FRIED AND FRENCH NSA-EQUIVALENT [...] (S) SUMMARY: EUR A/S Dan Fried's December 7 meeting with presidential diplomatic advisor Maurice Gourdault-Montagne (MGM) focused largely on Russia, with France in a defensive posture. MGM raised the aborted Putin-Chirac dinner on the margins of the NATO Riga Summit, saying it had been instigated b [...]	2006-12-12 13:05:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PREL FR EUN NATO RS UNO SR YI TU CY
06PARIS7770	A/S FRIED AND MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON KOSOVO, RUSSIA, [...] (C) Summary: A/S Fried and MFA Political Director Araud on December 6 discussed whether Russia would wield a veto at the UNSC to thwart Kosovar independence. Araud called for a resolution that would facilitate a Russian abstention. A/S Fried agreed, but insisted there must be a common diplomat [...]	2006-12-12 17:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM RU TU SR FR
06PARIS7795	ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S MEETING WITH JACQUES [...] (C) Assistant Secretary Fried met with recognized intellectual and long-time Segolene Royal confidant Jacques Attali on December 6. Attali underlined that Royal, even though she is a leading contender for France's presidency in next spring's elections, has had very little experience making and [...]	2006-12-14 13:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB EUN PINR SOCI ECON PREL FR
06PARIS7800	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Poloff and Russian counterpart delivered reftel to Hughes de Longevialle, French deputy coordinator for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. Longevialle welcomed the various papers and agreed to initiate an interagency process to develop possible French proposals for the pl [...]	2006-12-14 15:52:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER KGIC KNNP PREL AS CA CH RFE GM IT JA
06PARIS7835	PARIS CLUB - DECEMBER 2006 TOUR D'HORIZON [...] (SBU) At the December 12-13 meeting of the Paris Club, creditors provided Haiti a debt restructuring based on its achievement of decision point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. This agreement consolidates around USD 69 million in debt, and will lead to the immedia [...]	2006-12-19 13:47:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB XF FR
06PARIS7864	OECD: COUNCIL DISCUSSES BUDGET, MAY MINISTERIAL AS WELL AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The OECD Council met all day on December 14 for its last regularly scheduled session in 2006. PermReps considered the program of work and budget (PWB) for 2007-2008 (see reftel),enlargement and enhanced engagement as well as planning for the May 2007 Meeting of the Council at [...]	2006-12-20 15:03:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON OECD EFIN ETRD EAID
06PARIS7884	FRANCE: 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] In 2006, France continued to pursue aggressive counterterrorism measures, including the dismantling of terror networks on its territory, notably those assisting in the recruitment or financing of terrorists to Iraq. French terrorism officials remained on high alert since the London subway bom [...]	2006-12-21 15:29:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER FR ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR KPAO
06PARIS7898	WEEKLY MEDIA WRAP-UP: HAMAS ON THE BRINK OF CIVIL WAR; LE [...] (SBU) The threat of civil war in Gaza and Palestinian President Abbas's proposal for new elections led to speculation about the Middle East as a spawning ground for civil strife. France's National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen received widespread attention in the context of an alleged "softer [...]	2006-12-22 11:08:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OPRC PREL KPAO FR
06PARIS7904	S/CT CRUMPTON MEETS RUSSIAN COUNTERPART TO EXTEND [...] (S) Summary: In an amicable December 7 dinner meeting with Ambassador-at-Large Henry Crumpton, Russian Special Presidential Representative Anatoliy Safonov agreed to move forward with several proposals that expand U.S./Russian counter-terrorism (CT) cooperation. These include: --Engaging the Americ [...]	2006-12-26 11:45:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	PARM FR
06PARIS7928	THE FIRST LADY'S JAN 14-17 VISIT TO PARIS [...] (U) The First Lady's visit to France comes at an ideal moment, just as the French are contemplating a generational change in their politics and reassessing their role in the world. The First Lady will be able to highlight our historic friendship, our effective modern-day collaboration, and ou [...]	2006-12-29 14:14:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP BUSH LAURA PREL PGOV FR EUN UNO NATO
06PARIS8	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - Russia-Ukraine Energy Tension [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-03 13:55:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS840	MEDIA REACTION REPORT - President Bush - Energy [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-09 12:37:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KMDR FR
06PARIS854	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH MINISTER-DELEGATE [...] (C) Summary: At a February 3 meeting with the Deputy Secretary, Minister Delegate for European Affairs Catherine SIPDIS Colonna affirmed a vision of an ever-deepening European Union despite recent turmoil, stated that the next enlargement should be limited to the Balkan states, and sketche [...]	2006-02-10 09:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN NATO KNNP IR SU CD CG
06PARIS945	MFA CONTACTS STRESS GOF POSITION ON HAMAS [...] (C) In conversations with us February 13, senior MFA contacts stressed that the GoF position on Hamas remained unchanged and they downplayed press reports suggesting that the GoF had endorsed Russia's initiative to invite Hamas leaders to Moscow. MFA DAS-equivalent for Egypt/Levant Herv Besan [...]	2006-02-14 15:43:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS KPAL PTER FR
06PARIS96	2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] The following text is our contribution to the INCSR, per reftel: France remains an attractive venue for money laundering because of its sizable economy, political stability, and sophisticated financial system. Common methods of laundering money in France include the use of bank deposits; f [...]	2006-01-06 14:50:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KTFN FR
06PARIS99	2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] This is part 1 of the INCSR submission for France. A section on the French Caribbean and French Guiana follows at the end of this message. I. SUMMARY: France is a transshipment point for drugs moving into, from and within Europe. Given France's shared borders with trafficking conduit [...]	2006-01-06 14:52:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR FR
06PARIS993	UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL PARRIES WITH EXECUTIVE [...] Summary: On January 19, 2006 the UNESCO Executive Board met for an information meeting with UNESCO Director-General (DG) Matsuura. Members of the Executive Board were invited to submit questions in advance of the meeting. Rather than answer questions directly, the DG read prepared remarks t [...]	2006-02-16 11:02:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO SCUL AORC SOCI UNESCO
06PARTO1	(U) Secretary Rice's July 27, 2006 conversation [...] (U) July 27, 2006; 4:45 PM; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Amb. Christopher J. LaFleur U/S Karen Hughes A/S Chris Hill NSC Senior Director Dennis Wilder Malaysia Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi Foreign Minister Hamid Amb. Rajmah Hussein MFA Depu [...]	2006-07-31 10:35:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA PREL MY US
06PARTO9	(U) Secretary Rice's February 23 Meeting with [...] (U) Classified by: Arnold Chacon, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) SIPDIS 2. (U) February 23, 2006; 1150 Beirut, Lebanon 3. (SBU) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman Deputy Assistant to the President Elliott Abrams [...]	2006-03-02 20:41:00	US Delegation, Secretary	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA KISL PGOV PHUM LE
06PHNOMPENH1406	PHNOM PENH'S CHINESE SEX TOURISM INDUSTRY [...] (U) Summary. Typically shrouded behind legitimate businesses, Phnom Penh's sex establishments catering to the Chinese operate relatively discretely. Generally, Chinese men come to Phnom Penh for business reasons, not for the purpose of sex tourism. Chinese clientele refrain from the low-e [...]	2006-08-07 08:49:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KJUS CB KWMN SNAR
06PHNOMPENH1960	CAMBODIA REVIEWS DEMOCRATIC PROGRESS SINCE 1991 [...] (U) Summary. On October 21, the International Relations Institute organized a 15-year anniversary academic forum reviewing the successes and failures of the 1991 Paris Peace Accords and their implementation during the subsequent UNTAC period. Cambodian government officials dominated the li [...]	2006-10-30 10:11:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM EAID ASEC KDEM CB
06PHNOMPENH2112	MFA ON USG-PROPOSED AGREEMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary. The MFA has told us that both the USG-proposed bilateral shipboarding and debt agreements remain under RGC consideration. The MFA has circulated among other concerned Ministries the shipboarding agreement and is awaiting comment. The bilateral debt agreement also remains un [...]	2006-11-30 10:21:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PREL KTIA CB
06PHNOMPENH2228	CAMBODIA'S BILATERAL DEBT AND JAPANESE CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Summary. Meetings with the RGC Ministry of Economics and Finance (MEF),the Japanese Embassy, and the IMF suggest that questions surrounding the relevant cut-off date for Cambodia's bilateral debt is creating misunderstandings and possibly preventing the Cambodian government from fina [...]	2006-12-27 09:18:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PREL ECON CB
06PHNOMPENH598	UN HUMAN RIGHTS REP BRIEFS COMS ON MARCH 18-28 [...] (SBU) Summary. UN Special Representative for Human Rights Yash Ghai met with COMs on March 24 to provide an outbrief of his meetings during his recent assessment visit. Ghai is not able to fully assess the political changes since his last visit but is willing to proceed on the assumption th [...]	2006-03-29 11:21:00	Embassy Phnom Penh	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KJUS PREL EAID CB
06PORTAUPRINCE2459	MINUSTAH BEGINS TARGET OPERATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the Haitian National Police (HNP) carried out a joint operation in Cite Soleil on the morning of December 22, beginning at approximately 4 a.m. (ref A). MINUSTAH,s A/Deputy Commissioner OPS Neil Warriner is pleased [...]	2006-12-26 20:52:00	Embassy Port Au Prince	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM HA
06PORTLOUIS598	MAURITIAN PRIME MINISTER ON BILATERAL RELATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: Mauritian Prime Minister told Charge October 6 that he has no particular problem with U.S. foreign policy, despite comments to the contrary broadcast on Mauritian radio. Ramgoolam emphasized that he has tried hard to maintain consistent principles in foreign affairs and denounced [...]	2006-10-06 13:42:00	Embassy Port Louis	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER VE GT MP
06PORTLOUIS763	MAURITIUS - DECEMBER ECONOMIC ROUNDUP [...] Topics in the December Economic Roundup include: - Increase in Commercial Air Traffic to Mauritius - Foreign Currency Shortage and the Depreciation of the Rupee - Bank of Mauritius: New Building and Departure of Governor - Mauritius Obtains USD 30 Million Loan from the World Bank - Plans to [...]	2006-12-21 12:25:00	Embassy Port Louis	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EFIN EAIR EAID EIND EINV SENV MP
06PORTOFSPAIN1344	MANNING AND CHERTOFF: CLOSER COLLABORATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: T&T Prime Minister Manning hosted DHS Secretary Chertoff for a bilateral meeting on October 26, SIPDIS prior to a multilateral meeting with CARICOM representatives (reported septel). In the meeting, Manning assured Secretary Chertoff on Cricket World Cup security preparations [...]	2006-11-22 17:58:00	Embassy Port Of Spain	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EAID XL TD
06PRAGUE1065	CZECHS AT GYMNICH: SUPPORT SANCTIONS FOR IRAN; [...] (C) Summery. MFA Director of the CFSP Department said EU foreign ministers will informally discuss Iran, Lebanon, and EU-Russian relations at the upcoming Gymnich meeting. No final conclusions are expected to be made. On Iran, the Czechs will support sanctions against Iran if it fails to compl [...]	2006-08-31 14:40:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EU IR KNNP PARM PGOV UN EZ
06PRAGUE1106	DAS PEKALA IN PRAGUE: MISSILE DEFENSE THE MAIN [...] (C/NF) Summary: Missile defense dominated discussions in Prague during DAS Mark Pekala's meetings. Pekala explained in public and private that a USG decision on MD site(s) in Central Europe should come in the fall; that the MD assets have no offensive capability; and that the USG welcomes a v [...]	2006-09-11 14:39:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV MARR PHUM EZ
06PRAGUE112	CZECH OPINION ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) PolOff Feb 2 conveyed reftel points to Tomas Szunyog MFA Director for South Eastern and Eastern Europe. Szunyog responded that the Czechs had been following the issue with concern for some time. Additionally, he knew that concern was growing both in the EU and in NATO. Vladimir Muller, Dep [...]	2006-02-02 14:48:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EZ PREL UP RS
06PRAGUE1167	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Cabaniss met with new Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek on September 21. Topolanek offered thanks for the Ambassador's efforts to promote bilateral relations, and expressed a desire to continue close ties in the fields of joint security, intelligence sharing and bus [...]	2006-09-22 11:33:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EZ
06PRAGUE119	CZECH REPUBLIC: FOREIGN TRADE SURPLUS FIRST IN [...] The Czech Republic posted a trade surplus in 2005 for the first time in its history, thanks to its automobile industry surge in export-oriented foreign direct investments (FDI). Local media is highlighting that the Czech Republic is the first of the four new Central European members of the EU t [...]	2006-02-06 15:36:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EZ
06PRAGUE12	CZECH FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary. Czech FM Cyril Svoboda visited Moscow December 20 for meeting with Russian FM Lavrov in Moscow. The two agreed that Russian President Putin may visit Prague in the spring, but only if the Czechs agree (under pressure) to sign IPR license agreements for Soviet-era military technolo [...]	2006-01-04 17:49:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PHUM MARR RU PL EZ
06PRAGUE1267	CZECHS ON OCTOBER 12 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. At the October 12 GAERC, the EU will focus on the Middle East, the Russia-Georgia conflict, the Balkans, Sudan, and North Korea. On the Middle East, the EU will likely support sanctions for Iran, support President Abbas in Palestine, and address the security situation in Lebanon. T [...]	2006-10-12 16:45:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN EUN SR LE IS KPAL RU EZ
06PRAGUE1331	MISSILE DEFENSE: VISIT OF DASD BRIAN GREEN TO [...] (C) Summary and comment: DASD Brian Green made a well received presentation on 19 October to a Czech Foreign Ministry co-sponsored conference on missile defense. Both supporters and opponents of possible Czech participation in a U.S. missile defense system attended the event. Following the con [...]	2006-10-24 15:29:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ MARR MOPS
06PRAGUE1334	RFE/RL ENERGY FORUM REFLECTS LACK OF EUROPEAN [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) hosted a two-day Energy Forum in Prague October 23-24. The Forum addressed a wide range of tough issues related to European energy security, including Iran, how companies influence energy policy, the role of the European Commission [...]	2006-10-25 10:25:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON ETRD PREL EZ
06PRAGUE1340	AMBASSADOR GRABER'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's October 23 introductory call, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (ODS) expressed his satisfaction with bilateral cooperation in the fields of security and democracy promotion, his concern about energy security in Europe, and his hope that the Ambassador w [...]	2006-10-26 14:39:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EZ
06PRAGUE1349	PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN CLOSED SOCIETIES: LESSONS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Czechs are well-known for their spirited and effective promotion of democracy and human rights in closed societies, such as Belarus, Cuba, Burma, Iraq, and elsewhere. This cable highlights examples of Czech public diplomacy efforts in these countries. The goal of these Czech [...]	2006-10-30 11:31:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM EZ
06PRAGUE1373	CZECH REPUBLIC: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON [...] (C) Summary: During the Ambassador's November 3 courtesy call on Czech Foreign Minister Alexandr (Sasha) Vondra, the primary topics were visa waiver and missile defense. FM Vondra expressed skepticism for the visa roadmap, but agreed to co-host the next Bilateral Consular Working Group (BCWG) [...]	2006-11-06 08:57:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV CVIS EZ
06PRAGUE1375	CZECH REPUBLIC: AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON [...] (SBU) Summary: During the Ambassador,s introductory call on Antimonopoly Office Chairman Martin Pecina on October 25, Pecina discussed antitrust issues, energy independence and the government tender review process. Pecina remains worried about EU dependence on Russian energy and monopolies wi [...]	2006-11-06 13:05:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ENRG EPET ECON EZ

06PRAGUE1387	CZECHS AGREE KOSOVO IS NOT A PRECEDENT FOR OTHER [...] (C) Summary. The Czechs strongly agree Kosovo is not a precedent for frozen conflicts, but are concerned that Russia and some EU member states already view Kosovo (and even Montenegro) that way. For this reason, drafting an UNSC resolution on Kosovo's final status may be tricky: the language c [...]	2006-11-08 13:52:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL AL BH GG MK PBTS RO SR UP EZ

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