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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL AL-1 ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD 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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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| 08TOKYO215 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-28 08:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2159 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-06 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2163 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-07 01:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO217 | DAS MARCIEL ENGAGES JAPANESE INTERLOCUTORS ON SE [...] (C) Summary: Japanese government officials and Diet members discussed Japan's relations with Southeast Asia and told DAS Marciel that Japan and the United States need to continue to work closely together to coordinate on aid and other projects; Cambodia needs to take more of an "ownership rol [...] | 2008-01-28 09:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID JA |
| 08TOKYO2176 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-07 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2179 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 02:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2190 | MOFA WARNS OF POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO THE ALLIANCE [...] (C) The U.S.-Japan Alliance would suffer lasting damage if the U.S. Board of Geographic Names were to relist the Senkaku (Diaoyutai) Islands as undesignated territory, according MOFA North American Affairs Director General Shunichi Nishimiya. Nishimiya told the DCM on August 8 that changes rela [...] | 2008-08-08 08:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR JA |
| 08TOKYO2193 | WHALING COMMISSION CHAIR DISCUSSES UPCOMING IWC [...] (C) Summary: Chairman of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Dr. William Hogarth and Japanese Alternate Commissioner to the IWC Akira Nakamae discussed outreach to key IWC members, how the IWC Working Group meeting should proceed, and other whaling issues in Tokyo August 5. The Japane [...] | 2008-08-10 22:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV IWC EFIS PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO2196 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 01:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2201 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-11 08:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2206 | FIRST LOOK AT JAPAN'S NEW CONSUMER AGENCY [...] (C) Summary: Japan's proposed Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) aims at revitalizing the Japanese economy through restoring and promoting consumer confidence in product safety and more effective enforcement of existing laws, according to a senior GOJ official who heads the office charged with sta [...] | 2008-08-11 22:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAGR ETRD PGOV OECD JA |
| 08TOKYO2209 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 01:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2215 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 07:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2219 | OVER-REGULATION TAKES AIR OUT OF WIND ENERGY MARKET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A poorly-targeted subsidy and overlapping regulatory authority between the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT) and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) hamper Japan's wind energy market, according to industry sources. As the cost and approval-tim [...] | 2008-08-12 23:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON SENV JA |
| 08TOKYO222 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-29 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2221 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 00:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2225 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2226 | AMBASSADOR, NEW DEFMIN DISCUSS DPRI, OEF [...] (C) Summary: Newly appointed Defense Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi told the Ambassador on August 12 that he will focus on winning local support for realignment and raising public awareness on the need for Japan's participation in the War on Terror. Hayashi said that during his August 19-20 visit [...] | 2008-08-13 09:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO2227 | JAPAN-DPRK REACH AGREEMENT ON ABDUCTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Japanese and North Korean negotiators have agreed to the basic outlines of a plan to move forward on resolution of the abduction issue and possible normalization of diplomatic ties. The agreement spells out the DPRK's commitment to conduct a full investigation into the fate of J [...] | 2008-08-13 09:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV JA KN |
| 08TOKYO2229 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 00:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2237 | BOUCHER FINDS GOOD PARTNER IN TOKYO ON INDIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher visited Tokyo August 7-8 to discuss India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia with a number of senior government officials. On the India civil nuclear deal, he was told that while Japan is "bas [...] | 2008-08-14 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECON PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO2242 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 22:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2244 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-15 06:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2264 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-18 00:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2268 | JAPANESE REACTIONS TO DOHA IMPASSE [...] (C) Summary: Japanese business representatives and trade officials are disappointed by the failure to reach agreement on modalities for concluding the Doha Development Round, although agricultural interests seem relieved. Industry still seeks liberalization in key NAMA sectors, such as elect [...] | 2008-08-18 06:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL JA WTRO |
| 08TOKYO2273 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-18 07:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2277 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-19 00:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2285 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-19 07:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2287 | AMBASSADOR AND VFM YABUNAKA ON AFGHANISTAN, NORTH [...] (S) Japan's failure to extend its Indian Ocean refueling operations in support of OEF would be a shock to the United States and others in the coalition whose forces are in harm's way in Afghanistan, and would marginalize Japan internationally, the Ambassador told Vice Foreign Minister Yabunaka [...] | 2008-08-19 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL MARR MOPS PINR ETRD EAID EAGR RU IN GG |
| 08TOKYO2288 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-20 00:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO229 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-29 08:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2293 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-20 07:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2301 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-21 00:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2307 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-21 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2308 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-22 00:39:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2323 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-25 00:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2330 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-25 07:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2332 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-26 01:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO234 | WHALING: GOJ FULL SPEED AHEAD [...] (SBU) On January 25, Greenpeace's vessel "Esperanza" ended its shadowing of the Japanese research whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean due to lack of fuel, a Greenpeace official in Tokyo confirmed. She told EconFSN the NGO will continue its campaign against Japan's whaling activities, but for [...] | 2008-01-29 22:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC ETRD JA |
| 08TOKYO2342 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-27 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO235 | RULING COALITION FLOATS TEMPORARY GAS TAX EXTENSION [...] (C) Summary: The ruling coalition has decided to submit a bill to extend temporarily the controversial provisional gasoline tax for two months, over the strong objections of the opposition. At this point, the opposition DPJ appears ready to hold budget-related legislation, including the gaso [...] | 2008-01-29 22:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN JA |
| 08TOKYO2351 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-27 07:40:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2357 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-28 05:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO236 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-30 01:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2364 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-28 07:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2367 | MOFA EUROPEAN AFFAIRS DDG ON JAPAN-RUSSIA-GEORGIA [...] (C) In an August 28 meeting, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) European Affairs Bureau Deputy Director General (DDG) Kanehara assured visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD)/East Asia David Sedney that Japan would continue to join the United States and the international communi [...] | 2008-08-28 13:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR RS GG JA |
| 08TOKYO2369 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-29 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2371 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - NORTH KOREA AND RUSSIA [...] LEAD STORIES: Top stories on Friday morning included the formation of a new political party by five parliamentarians. 2. "Do Not Make Concessions on Verification" The liberal Tokyo Shimbun editorialized (8/29): "A closer look at North Korea's statement (on its halt to nuclear disablement) [...] | 2008-08-29 04:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2378 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-29 07:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2379 | GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR TO TOKYO ASSERTS RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary. Russia's invasion of Georgia is designed to punish Tbilisi for efforts to move closer to the United States and to confront Washington by "fighting the U.S. in Georgia," Georgian Ambassador to Japan Ivane Matchavariani told Charge on August 29. The Georgian asked for assistance in [...] | 2008-08-29 08:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR JA RS GG |
| 08TOKYO2380 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-02 03:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2392 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-02 08:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2400 | FUKUDA RESIGNS, WITH CONSEQUENCES FOR OEF, DIET, [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Fukuda surprised the nation on September 1 by unexpectedly announcing his intention to resign in a hastily-arranged, late-evening news conference. Ruling party executives have moved quickly to set in motion plans for a new LDP presidential election, likely in the S [...] | 2008-09-02 09:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON JA |
| 08TOKYO2405 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2415 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 08:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2416 | LDP SETS DATE FOR PARTY ELECTION, AS ATTENTION [...] (C) Summary. One full business day after Prime Minister Fukuda's surprise announcement that he will step down, his ruling LDP worked quickly to stem the damage and galvanize both party members and the public behind his eventual successor. LDP executives have decided to hold elections for a n [...] | 2008-09-03 09:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO2418 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO242 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - STATE OF UNION ADDRESS [...] LEAD STORIES: All Wednesday morning papers gave top play to the ruling coalition's submission to the Lower House of a bill to extend by two months the provisional gasoline tax. 2. "How to Deal with Remaining Fissures" The liberal Asahi editorialized (1/30): "...There were no sincere words [...] | 2008-01-30 05:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2428 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2431 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 03:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2442 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-05 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2443 | LDP SENSES OPPORTUNITY: YOSANO MAY CHALLENGE ASO [...] (C) Summary. In the aftermath of Prime Minister Fukuda's surprise resignation, there is cautious optimism in the LDP that their political fortunes may be improving. In contrast, there are worries in the DPJ that the LDP will use the September 22 LDP presidential election to cast the DPJ's "o [...] | 2008-09-05 08:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON JA |
| 08TOKYO2445 | GEORGIA LETTER TO G8 SPEAKERS ON RUSSIAN ACTIONS [...] (U) The Embassy of Georgia in Tokyo delivered the following letter from the Chairman of Georgia's Parliament under cover of diplomatic note. The letter was addressed to the delegations attending Japan's G8 Speakers' Meeting in Tokyo and Hiroshima, September 1-3. A copy of the letter has been [...] | 2008-09-05 08:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR OREP JA RS GG |
| 08TOKYO2451 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-08 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2457 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2460 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-09 01:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO247 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/30/08 [...] Submit an independent, lawmaker-sponsored bill on matters pertaining to national and local tax revenues for road projects. 2. The legislative branch will finish thoroughly discussing the fiscal 2008 budget bill, the government-sponsored tax bills, and the lawmaker-sponsored bill at the same ti [...] | 2008-01-30 22:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2474 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-09 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2476 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-10 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2495 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-10 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2499 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-11 01:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO250 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-31 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2505 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-11 08:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2507 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-12 01:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2509 | GOJ RESPONSE TO BLUE LANTERN: PRE-LICENSE END-USE [...] (SBU) Ministry of Defense officials confirmed the details of the Global Gate contract with us August 22. Equipment Policy Deputy Director Takeshi Kawamura said the Ministry of Defense signed a contract with Kawasaki Heavy Industries in JFY 2005 for P-X patrol aircraft accessories. Mitsubishi [...] | 2008-09-12 01:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC ETRD JA |
| 08TOKYO2517 | CHARGE D'AFFAIRES' MEETING WITH JAPANESE MINISTRY [...] (C) Ministry of Defense (MOD) Defense Policy Bureau Director General Nobushige Takamizawa, urged the U.S. Government to confirm that the U.S. restriction on year-to-year, incremental funding for multi-year projects like the Mamizu projects in Guam is a U.S. Government-wide policy and not just [...] | 2008-09-12 07:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR JA |
| 08TOKYO2523 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/16/08-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-16 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2531 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-16 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2538 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-17 01:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2548 | Japan Economic Scope for September 16, 2008 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope from September 9, 2008 Business ---------- 2. (U) JFTC Requests Merger Plan From BHP Billiton, Establishes Exclusive Review Team The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has ordered mining giant BHP Billiton to submit its plans for a $147 [...] | 2008-09-17 05:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR PREL SENV JA |
| 08TOKYO255 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/31/08 [...] In examining a total budget bill and an annual revenue bill, in-depth discussion, including holding public hearings and question-and-answer sessions involving unsworn witnesses, should be held, and both sides should reach a certain degree of conclusion before the end of this fiscal year. 2. R [...] | 2008-01-31 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2555 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-17 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2564 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-18 01:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2576 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-18 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2581 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-19 03:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2594 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-19 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2596 | "TAINTED RICE" SCANDAL REVERBERATES THROUGH JAPAN [...] (U) Summary: Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF) Minister Seiichi Ota's resignation on September 19 marks the latest casualty from Japan's "tainted rice" scandal, following the ouster of his deputy, Vice Minister Toshiro Shirasu, on September 18. Both Ota and Shirasa have been widely [...] | 2008-09-21 22:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ECON SENV JA |
| 08TOKYO26 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-06 05:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2601 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2602 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - TERRORIST BOMBING IN [...] LEAD STORIES: All Monday morning papers gave prominent front-page coverage to the reelection on Sunday of DPJ President Ozawa as party chief, as well as the anticipated landslide victory today of LDP Secretary General Aso in the party presidential race. 2. "Review of War on Terrorism Needed [...] | 2008-09-22 02:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2612 | ASO WINS LDP PRESIDENCY; WILL BE ELECTED PM ON [...] (C) Summary. Taro Aso overwhelmed four other candidates in the September 22 ruling LDP presidential election, taking 351 of 527 votes. Aso succeeds Prime Minister Fukuda as LDP President effective immediately. He will replace Fukuda as Head of Government and name a new Cabinet on September 24 [...] | 2008-09-22 10:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO2613 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 22:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2614 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-23 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO262 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 01:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2620 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-23 07:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2629 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-24 01:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2638 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-24 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2645 | Emergency Communications Facilities in Japan [...] (SBU) Summary: Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) officials report that under the country's system for priority emergency communications, such services are provided by commercial telecommunications carriers under terms specified by Japanese law. Foreign missions do [...] | 2008-09-24 22:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ACOA AMGT ANET JA |
| 08TOKYO2646 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-25 01:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2653 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/25/08 [...] Voting on Oct. 26 if talks between both camps collapse before start of deliberations If the new cabinet receives high public support and sees the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) and other opposition parties unwilling to cooperate in enacting the extra budget bill, the government would dissol [...] | 2008-09-25 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2655 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-26 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2678 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-26 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2679 | JAPANESE FINANCIAL COMPANIES ACTING IN U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Japanese financial companies are picking up assets available as a result of the failure of Lehman Brothers and other U.S.-based financial firms to grow their international presence. Announcements Japan's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG),would purchase 10 to [...] | 2008-09-26 08:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO2682 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-29 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO270 | Japanese Police Arrest Inventor of Computer Virus [...] (U) Summary: Japanese police in Kyoto have arrested Masato Nakatsuji, alleged to have invented and distributed a computer virus. The search and subsequent arrest were based on suspected violations of Japan's copyright laws, as it is believed that the virus was delivered embedded in a video fi [...] | 2008-02-01 07:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINT ECPS TINT JA |
| 08TOKYO2708 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-29 23:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO271 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 07:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2711 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-30 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2727 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-30 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2729 | ASO'S ECONOMIC POLICY: STIMULATE THE ECONOMY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Taro Aso's campaign pledges and initial policy speech have focused on an economic stimulus policy that appeals to Japanese voters concerned about their pocketbooks and the direction of Japan's economy. Aso's short-term electoral focus is not to launch a return to t [...] | 2008-09-30 08:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO2735 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-01 01:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2742 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-01 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2744 | JAPAN INSURANCE: POTENTIAL BUYERS UNSURE OF AIG'S [...] (SBU) AIG Japan's insurance operations are potentially an attractive acquisition target, given media reports that AIG Japan's FY2007 direct premium revenue was about $24 billion. Japanese domestic insurers are showing interest, but questions remain about AIG subsidiaries' balance sheets, solve [...] | 2008-10-01 09:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO2745 | SCENESETTER FOR PACOM COMMANDER ADM KEATING'S OCT [...] (C) You will arrive in Japan in the wake of a dramatic leadership change. Newly-elected Prime Minister Taro Aso is regarded as a strong supporter of the U.S.-Japan Alliance, who we expect will try hard to maintain course for our important bilateral initiatives, including the realignment of U [...] | 2008-10-01 09:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR JA |
| 08TOKYO2747 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-02 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2754 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-02 07:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2760 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-03 01:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2771 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-03 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2775 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-06 01:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2779 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-06 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO278 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-04 01:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2781 | Japan Economic Scope for October 3, 2008 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope for October 3, 2008. Insurance and Investment ------------------------ 2. (U) Japan's FDI Stock Up Sharply in 1H 2008 Japan's stock of inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) rose more than 11% in the first half of 2008, according to prelimi [...] | 2008-10-06 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR PREL SENV JA |
| 08TOKYO2785 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 01:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2794 | JAPAN TO CALL FOR BINDING TARGETS FOR EMERGING [...] (C) Summary: Japan is looking for the more developed emerging economies, e.g., China and India, to accept binding greenhouse gas (GHG) or energy intensity targets. In the proposal Japan sent the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action for the 14th UN Framework Convention on Cli [...] | 2008-10-07 07:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV KGHG ENRG PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO2798 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO28 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-07 01:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2802 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-08 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2810 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-08 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2813 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-09 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2814 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - RUSSIA-GEORGIA [...] LEAD STORIES: Lead items on Thursday morning were concerted reductions in interest rates by six U.S. and European central banks and the 2008 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to three scholars, including a Japanese scientist currently studying in Boston. 2. "Russia Completes Troop Pullout fr [...] | 2008-10-09 01:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2817 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-09 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2824 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 01:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2834 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 08:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2843 | CITING FINANCIAL TURMOIL, UNIONS SEEK HIGHER WAGES [...] (C) Financial turmoil in the United States is exacerbating the downturn in Japan's real economy, a top trade union official told Emboffs, and the effects are likely to continue to put downward pressure on the Japanese economy into 2009. In response to workers' subsequent feelings of economic i [...] | 2008-10-10 09:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB EFIN PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO2845 | SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR HAGEL'S OCT 15-17 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) The situation you will find in Japan is one of continued political uncertainty, despite the recent election of a new government. Newly-elected Prime Minister Taro Aso is a strong supporter of the U.S.-Japan Alliance and appears to favor a more robust Japanese contribution to internation [...] | 2008-10-10 10:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PARM OVIP JA PINR |
| 08TOKYO2849 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/14/08-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-14 06:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2859 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/14/08-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-14 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2864 | USPACOM COMMANDER KEATING MEETS DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (S) SUMMARY: USPACOM appreciates the Ministry of Defense's efforts leading up to the successful deployment of the USS George Washington to Japan, visiting PACOM Commander ADM Timothy Keating told Defense Minister Hamada during an October 9 meeting. DefMin Hamada said the GW's arrival in Japa [...] | 2008-10-14 23:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | MARR PGOV PINR PREL JA CH |
| 08TOKYO2867 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - NORTH KOREA AND GLOBAL [...] LEAD STORIES: There were no papers on Tuesday morning because of a press holiday. Top stories on TV networks included the sharp rebound in share prices in U.S., European, and Asian markets on Monday following the announcement of the coordinated action plan by G7 policymakers to cope with the f [...] | 2008-10-15 00:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2869 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 01:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO287 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-04 22:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2875 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 22:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2877 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 01:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2879 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2883 | DPRK: PM'S ABDUCTIONS ADVISOR TAKES HEART FROM [...] (C) Summary: Meeting with Embassy Tokyo October 14, Prime Minister Aso's Special Advisor on the Abductions Issue Kyoko Nakayama expressed relief that, although the United States lifted the DPRK's terror designation, ongoing sanctions will continue to require the United States to vote against IM [...] | 2008-10-16 09:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KN JA |
| 08TOKYO2885 | JAPANESE FOLLOW UP ON G-7 ACTION PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Finance Minister and Financial Services Minister Shoichi Nakagawa released a statement October 14 outlining Japan's follow-up policies to its October 10 G-7 Action Plan. The Plan calls for relaxing rules on corporate stock buy-backs, greater transparency in selling short, and te [...] | 2008-10-16 09:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN JA |
| 08TOKYO2890 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-17 03:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2896 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-17 08:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2904 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-20 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO291 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-05 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2920 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-20 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2924 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-21 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2931 | OCTOBER 22 GEORGIA DONORS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) DevCon Reed met with Hideki Uyama, Director of MOFA's Second Country Assistance Planning Division, International Cooperation Bureau to deliver the points contained in reftel on October 22. 2. (SBU) Mr. Uyama advised that Japan shares the same views with the United States and it is ver [...] | 2008-10-21 05:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PREL KMCA KCRS GG JA |
| 08TOKYO2933 | TRANSPORTATION, ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT MINISTERIAL [...] The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) will convene the rescheduled Ministerial Conference on Global Environment and Energy in Transport (MEET) January 14-16, 2009 in Tokyo. On October 21, MLIT delivered by fax copies of the following letter from MLIT Minister Kan [...] | 2008-10-21 07:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | ELTN EWWT EAIR PREL AORC JA |
| 08TOKYO2934 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-21 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2935 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - FINANCIAL CRISIS [...] LEAD STORIES: All Tuesday morning papers gave top or front-page play to a monthly economic report publicized by the Japanese government on Monday that downgraded the nation's monthly economic evaluation for the second time in three months. 2. "Summit Should Present Roadmap to Overcome Finan [...] | 2008-10-21 08:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2938 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-22 01:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2953 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-22 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2954 | MAYOR OF TEHRAN VISITS JAPAN [...] (C) Tehran Mayor Mohammad-Baqer Ghalibaf visited Japan October 16 - 21, confirmed MOFA Second Middle East Director Motosada Matano. According to Matano, Ghalibaf was invited by the Japanese under the auspices of their "Opinion Leader Program." The Japanese view him as important because he is [...] | 2008-10-22 08:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KNNP IR JA |
| 08TOKYO2956 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-23 01:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2959 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - U.S-INDIA NUCLEAR PACT, [...] LEAD STORIES: Front-page items on Thursday morning included a USG announcement on Wednesday that the U.S. will host an emergency financial summit on November 15 in Washington. 2. "U.S.-India Pact to Endanger NPT Regime" The liberal Mainichi's correspondent in Vienna wrote (10/23): "Last mo [...] | 2008-10-23 04:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2963 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/23/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-23 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2966 | METI VM MOCHIZUKI ON ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND TRADE [...] (C) Summary: Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) Vice Minister Harufumi Mochizuki focused on energy, climate change, the WTO, and China, in an October 22 meeting with the DCM. Mochizuki noted a shared interest in an effective and inclusive post-Kyoto framework, as well as energy s [...] | 2008-10-23 22:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ENRG ETRD JA PREL SENV CH |
| 08TOKYO2969 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-24 04:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2971 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - FINANCIAL CRISIS, ASEM [...] LEAD STORIES: Top stories on Friday morning included the estimate by a Japanese government panel on social security that concluded that health and nursing care programs will likely require 94 trillion yen in 2025, up 50 percent from fiscal 2007. 2. "ASEM Has Heavy Responsibility" The libera [...] | 2008-10-24 05:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO2976 | ASO STILL UNDECIDED, AS UNCERTAINTY OVER NOVEMBER [...] (C) Summary. Embassy contacts from both the ruling and opposition parties remain unanimous that the chances for an election before the end of this year remain no better than 50/50. They are also in agreement that PM Aso has yet to make up his mind on the timing, and is still in the process o [...] | 2008-10-24 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON JA |
| 08TOKYO2978 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-24 08:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2980 | INR ASSISTANT SECRETARY FORT CONSULTS WITH [...] (S) SUMMARY: During a visit to Tokyo October 7, INR Assistant Secretary Randall Fort consulted with counterparts from MOFA's Intelligence and Analysis Service, the Prime Minister's Cabinet and Intelligence Research Office (CIRO),the Ministry of Justice's Public Security Information Agency (PS [...] | 2008-10-24 08:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PINR PREL CH KN GG PK RS JA |
| 08TOKYO2982 | UPCOMING CIV AIR TALKS: MORE OF THE SAME? [...] (SBU) Summary: The upcoming bilateral civil aviation talks in Tokyo October 29-30 offer an excellent opportunity to urge the GOJ to undertake needed meaningful liberalization of Japan's aviation sector. However, recent discussions with the Japan Civil Aviation Bureau (JCAB),Japanese airline [...] | 2008-10-26 22:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ELTN PGOV ETRD JA |
| 08TOKYO2983 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 01:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO2984 | JAPAN-AUSTRALIA FTA? DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH [...] (C) Successful conclusion of an Australia-Japan free trade agreement remains uncertain, Allan McKinnon, DCM at the Australian embassy, told EMIN October 16. With a seventh round of negotiations slated to commence October 27 in Canberra, he described the process to date as "onerous." The GOJ [...] | 2008-10-27 02:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD JA USTR |
| 08TOKYO2997 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 22:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3000 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-28 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3004 | NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN OF COURAGE AWARD [...] (SBU) Embassy Tokyo nominates Nami Takenaka, Chairperson of Prop Station, a non-profit welfare organization for people with disabilities, to receive the Secretary of State's 2009 Award for International Women of Courage (IWOC). 2. (SBU) Nami Takenaka was born in 1948 in Kobe, Japan. Blessed [...] | 2008-10-28 05:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO PHUM JA |
| 08TOKYO3008 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-28 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3010 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-29 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3015 | JAPANESE PLEASED WITH VISIT OF INDIAN PM SINGH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese officials are pleased with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's October 21-23 visit to Tokyo. The primary objective of the visit was to solidify and move forward with the "Strategic and Global Partnership" between India and Japan. The visit's major deliverable was the [...] | 2008-10-29 07:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ECON EAID ENRG MARR TSPA SENV KGHG |
| 08TOKYO3018 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-29 22:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3023 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-30 05:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3028 | Japan Economic Scope for October 27, 2008 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope for October 27, 2008. Business -------- 2. (SBU) Japan to Start Voluntary Carbon Footprint Labeling with Domestic Companies The Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry (METI) plans to start an experimental voluntary carbon footprint labe [...] | 2008-10-30 08:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EAGR PREL SENV JA |
| 08TOKYO3029 | NEW TAX EXEMPTION RULES FOR NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Japan passed a new tax exemption law in 2006 and is finalizing implemention now. The new law, effective December 1, is expected to make the process of getting tax exempt status more transparent and more in line with policies elsewhere in the world. Opinions on the new regulatio [...] | 2008-10-30 08:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL EAID JA |
| 08TOKYO3033 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-30 22:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3035 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/31/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 01:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO304 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-05 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3045 | HOW MANY LEGIONS DOES THE DALAI LAMA HAVE? JAPAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. There is broad pro-Tibetan sentiment in Japan, but most keep expressions of support low-key to avoid alienating China. The Diet,s Tibet Support League has 50-60 members, 140 leading Japanese cultural figures support meaningful direct talks between the Dalai Lama and PRC, and Tib [...] | 2008-10-31 07:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PREF PNAT JP |
| 08TOKYO305 | JAPAN-DPRK: DIET STEPS UP INVOLVEMENT [...] (C) LDP faction leader and long-time North Korea watcher Taku Yamasaki believes that North Korean denuclearization must be achieved this year through the Six Party talks. Delisting the DPRK as a state sponsor of terror should also be effectively leveraged for the goal of denuclearization. Yama [...] | 2008-02-05 08:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KN JA |
| 08TOKYO3051 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/31/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3065 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-04 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3070 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-04 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO308 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-06 01:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3080 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 07:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3083 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-05 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3088 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-06 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3090 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-06 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3092 | S/P DIRECTOR GORDON MEETS WITH JAPANESE FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his visit to Tokyo October 28-30 to attend Trilateral Policy Planning talks with Japanese and South Korean counterparts, S/P Director David Gordon also met with several former senior Japanese government officials who now are active in academic or advisory capacities. Gordo [...] | 2008-11-06 08:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NK CH IR JA |
| 08TOKYO3093 | PERSPECTIVES ON THE "NEW JICA", THE WORLD'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The reorganization of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA),which recently announced its largest foreign assistance project loan to date, has not slowed Japan's overseas development assistance programs. The Japanese government expects the new JICA, which consolidat [...] | 2008-11-06 22:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO3094 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-07 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3099 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-07 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3109 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-10 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3110 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - FINANCIAL CRISIS [...] LEAD STORIES: There were no papers published on Monday morning due to a press holiday. Broadcasters reported on the joint communique issued Sunday by the G20 financial ministers and the accident aboard the Russian nuclear-powered submarine Nerpa on Saturday. 2. "Serious Economic Situation W [...] | 2008-11-10 03:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO3114 | U.S. - JAPAN - KOREA TRILATERAL POLICY PLANNING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Trilateral Policy Planning talks were held in Tokyo October 28-29 by S/P Director David Gordon and his Japanese and South Korean counterparts, Deputy Vice Foreign Minister for Foreign Policy Koro Bessho, and Deputy Minister for Planning and Coordination Lim Dae-Hong. Main topics [...] | 2008-11-10 06:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON EFIN EAID SENV KGHG KSCA KDEM XE |
| 08TOKYO3115 | S/P GORDON'S TRILATERAL POLICY TALKS WITH JAPAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: North Korea was a major topic of discussion at Trilateral Policy Planning talks held in Tokyo October 28-29 by S/P Director David Gordon and his Japanese and South Korean counterparts, Deputy Vice Foreign Minister for Foreign Policy Koro Bessho, and Deputy Minister for Planning and [...] | 2008-11-10 06:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KS KN JA |
| 08TOKYO3117 | LITTLE PROGRESS IN U.S.-JAPAN CIV AIR TALKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Government of Japan officials held out little promise of broader liberalization of Japan's civil aviation sector during bilateral talks in Tokyo October 29-30. As in past civil aviation negotiations, the GOJ eschewed broader discussion of Japan's decade-old commitment to "ful [...] | 2008-11-10 07:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ELTN PGOV ETRD JA |
| 08TOKYO3120 | U.S.-JAPAN ROLES, MISSIONS AND CAPABILITIES [...] (S) SUMMARY: The bilateral Roles, Mission and Capabilities Working Group (RMC WG),co-chaired by Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Sedney and State Department Japan Office Director Russel, along with Deputy Director General counterparts from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, m [...] | 2008-11-11 22:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | MARR PGOV PINR PREL |
| 08TOKYO3124 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-11 00:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3126 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-11 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3137 | JAPAN -- 2009 DRAFT NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATES REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-11 08:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EFIN EINV ETRD JA KIPR |
| 08TOKYO3138 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-11 23:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3139 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/13/08 [...] International cooperation to overcome financial crisis ? Various countries properly implement macroeconomic policies, including fiscal disbursement (Japan has compiled a package of additional economic pump-priming measures worth approximately 27 trillion yen) 2. Mid- to long-term internatio [...] | 2008-11-12 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3143 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-12 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3146 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3150 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3153 | A/S SULLIVAN DISCUSSES G20 FINANCIAL SUMMIT AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: EEB Assistant Secretary Sullivan held meetings with METI Vice Minister for International Affairs Hiroyuki Ishige and DG for Trade Policy Hideichi Okada November 5. Topics included the upcoming G20 Summit and the potential to conclude Doha Development Agreement (DDA) modalities b [...] | 2008-11-13 08:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO3157 | IQBAL MASIH AWARD NOMINATION: ACE [...] (SBU) Embassy Tokyo nominates ACE (Action against Child Exploitation),a Japan-based NPO devoted to reducing the worst forms of child labor worldwide, to receive the "United States Department of Labor's Iqbal Masih Award for the Elimination of Child Labor." 2. (SBU) In 1995 Yuka Iwatsuki, f [...] | 2008-11-15 23:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ILAB PHUM JP |
| 08TOKYO3162 | WHA A/S SHANNON'S MEETINGS WITH JAPANESE TRADE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese businesses and trade officials told Western Hemisphere Affairs Assistant Secretary Thomas A. Shannon they continue to see long-term growth potential in Latin America, particularly in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and Peru, despite possible short-term negative effects on the re [...] | 2008-11-16 07:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO3164 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-16 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3166 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-17 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3172 | AF ASSISTANT SECRETARY JENDAYI E. FRAZER MEETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan will continue to deepen its economic and political engagement with Africa, senior Japanese officials told Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi E. Frazer October 17. MOFA officials expressed skepticism about the sustainability of Chinese development programs in Af [...] | 2008-11-17 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS EAID KPKO SO ZI SU CH JA |
| 08TOKYO3175 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-17 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3180 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-18 01:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3188 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-18 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO319 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-06 22:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3194 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-19 01:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3202 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-19 08:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3203 | JAPAN ON FUTURE OF EMBASSY IN MAURITANIA [...] (C) Japan will not open its new embassy in Nouakchott under the current political situation, according to MOFA First Africa Division Principal Deputy Director Naoaki Kamoshida. Responding to ref A talking points, Kamoshida said Japan completely shares our view on the need to avoid giving inad [...] | 2008-11-19 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MR JA |
| 08TOKYO3205 | RUSSIA FM CRITCIZES JAPAN'S ROLE IN G8 REGARDING [...] (C) Summary. Russian FM Lavrov leveled pointed criticisms and expressed displeasure with Tokyo's policies toward Russia during a November 4-5 visit to Japan. The Russian said Moscow sees little advancement in bilateral relations ) a fact for which Tokyo is solely responsible, he charged. Lav [...] | 2008-11-19 09:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON JA RS KN |
| 08TOKYO321 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-07 01:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3211 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-20 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3215 | DPRK: JAPANESE EXPERT RECOUNTS RODONG SINMUN [...] (S) DPRK expert Hajime Izumi recently recounted for Embassy Tokyo his late October meetings with Lee Yong, Beijing Bureau Chief for North Korea's Rodong Sinmun. During their discussions, Lee stressed that it would be unacceptable for a non-Six Party participant to provide energy assistance to [...] | 2008-11-21 05:39:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINR KN JA |
| 08TOKYO3218 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-21 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3222 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-25 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3233 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-25 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3235 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-26 01:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO324 | SAPPORO HOLDINGS PANEL CALLS FOR REJECTION OF [...] (SBU) Sapporo Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Sapporo Breweries, announced February 5 that an independent advisory committee it set up to analyze the February 2007 takeover bid (TOB) by U.S.-based investment fund Steel Partners had determined the bid is not in the best interests of the [...] | 2008-02-07 06:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON OECD JA |
| 08TOKYO3244 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-26 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO325 | SENIOR LDP POLITICIAN ON ELECTION PROSPECTS, [...] (C) Senior ruling party politician Koichi Kato told Embassy Tokyo February 4 that poor economic management and a lack of leadership could force the Prime Minister to dissolve the Diet in the fall, with the ruling coalition likely to lose its 2/3 super-majority in the Lower House. During the c [...] | 2008-02-07 07:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN OECD JA |
| 08TOKYO3251 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-28 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3253 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-28 06:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3264 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-01 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3272 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-01 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3279 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-02 00:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3283 | JAPAN ANNOUNCES END TO IRAQ DEPLOYMENT; LAUDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso November 28 officially announced Japan's intention to end the deployment of Air Self Defense Forces (ASDF) stationed in Kuwait in support Operation Iraqi Freedom by the end of December. MOFA contacts tell us the ASDF plans to fly its last mission [...] | 2008-12-02 06:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS IZ JA |
| 08TOKYO3285 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/02/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-02 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3288 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-03 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3296 | JAPAN ON POTENTIAL DONORS CONFERENCE FOR PAKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan supports in general the idea of holding a donors conference for Pakistan but has questions about timing, hosts, and whether Pakistan is prepared with a solid request that specifies how much is needed and for what purposes, according to MOFA Southwest Asia Division Principal [...] | 2008-12-03 07:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IFM PK JA |
| 08TOKYO3300 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-03 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3301 | ASO'S SUPPORT FALLS; ANTI-ASO MOVES INSIDE LDP [...] (C) Summary: Support for Prime Minister Taro Aso is in freefall, based on the results of the latest opinion polls. Verbal gaffes, policy miscues, a perceived inability to deal with the global economic crisis, and growing discontent within his own party have called Aso's leadership into questi [...] | 2008-12-03 08:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO3304 | ASEAN SUMMITS: MOFA WAITING FOR DIRECTION FROM PM [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) officials responsible for ASEAN affairs have resisted repeated Embassy requests to discuss the upcoming ASEAN summit, citing lack of time. Nevertheless, a working-level official in MOFA's Asian Regional Policy Division, which is responsible for the summit [...] | 2008-12-04 00:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN PREL ASEAN JA |
| 08TOKYO3305 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-04 02:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO331 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-07 09:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3314 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-04 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3315 | POSTAL PRIVATIZATION GETS POLITICAL, AGAIN [...] (C) Prime Minister Aso's recent comments about postponing the public sale of postal companies' stocks highlighted the rift between pro- and anti-reform elements in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Opposition efforts to legislate a postal privatization "freeze" appear to have made he [...] | 2008-12-04 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO3318 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-05 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3323 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-05 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3327 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-08 01:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO333 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-08 02:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3333 | ASO AND MEDVEDEV DISCUSS NORTHERN TERRITORIES [...] (C) Summary. Japan PM Aso expressed concern with the pace of working-level discussions on the Northern Territories during talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the margins of the November 22-23 APEC Summit in Lima, Peru. Medvedev said a solution would require strong political will by [...] | 2008-12-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL JA RS KN |
| 08TOKYO3334 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-08 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3336 | SUBJECT: SENATOR INOUYE EXCHANGES VIEWS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI) held discussions with the Japanese Prime Minister, the Foreign, Defense, Trade, and Finance Ministers, and several prominent Diet members during his November 30 to December 4 visit to Tokyo. The Senator underscored the importance of close bilateral r [...] | 2008-12-08 09:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO3339 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-09 01:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3340 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - NORTH KOREA [...] LEAD STORIES: Most papers gave top play to a set of recommendations by a government panel on decentralization. 2. "How to Carry Six-Party Efforts over into Obama Administration" The liberal Asahi editorialized (12/9): "...The ongoing six-party head-of-delegation meeting has unprecedented s [...] | 2008-12-09 01:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO3341 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-09 08:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3345 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-10 00:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3357 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-10 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3361 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-11 01:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3370 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-11 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3373 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-12 06:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3379 | THE OFFICIAL, PUBLIC IRANIAN LINE IN TOKYO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian Ambassador to Tokyo Sayed Abbas Araghchi continues to take advantage of opportunities to publicly promote Iran's policies, speaking most recently on December 5 at a lecture sponsored by the Sasagawa Peace Foundation. Araghchi provided a brief introduction attempting to ex [...] | 2008-12-12 07:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL IR JA |
| 08TOKYO3381 | JAPANESE OFFICIALS WEIGH IN ON THE WTO MODALITIES [...] (C) Summary: Senior METI and MOFA officials are still looking to conclude the Doha Development Agenda, but Japan remains held back by concerns over opening Japan's agricultural market. The GOJ is watching closely U.S. engagement with China, describing positive outcomes to those discussions [...] | 2008-12-12 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL EAGR JA |
| 08TOKYO3383 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-15 00:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3388 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/12/08-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-15 01:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3389 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SUMMIT AMONG JAPAN, [...] LEAD STORIES: There were no Monday morning papers because of a press holiday. 2. "Make Tripartite Summit a Regional Stabilizer" The liberal Asahi editorialized (12/15): "Holding frequent leaders' meetings to exchange frank opinions is a regular occurrence in Europe. An agreement among the [...] | 2008-12-15 02:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO3401 | POLITICAL STALEMATE DELAYING JAPAN'S ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary. Japan's response to the global economic slowdown has been short on immediate policy measures to stimulate economic growth and demand, and devoid of long-term measures to boost potential economic growth. The Japanese Government's August 29 economic policy package (headline figure [...] | 2008-12-15 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO3402 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/15/08-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-15 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3405 | JAPAN'S ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS: IN THE EARLY STAGES [...] (C) Summary: Possible Japanese participation in international efforts to combat piracy in the Horn of Africa has received extensive media, government, and political attention in Japan in recent weeks. Current Japanese legislation allows the Prime Minister to dispatch the Japanese Maritime Sel [...] | 2008-12-15 09:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PBTS PGOV PHSA PINR PREL PTER ELTN JA |
| 08TOKYO3409 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/16/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-16 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3411 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - WTO, COP14, AND [...] LEAD STORIES: Top stories on Tuesday morning included the start on Monday of the Japanese Air Self- Defense Force's withdrawal from Kuwait following the completion of its five-year airlift operation in Iraq. 2. "Fear about Possible Rise in Protectionism" The conservative Sankei's editorial [...] | 2008-12-16 01:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO3419 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/16/08 [...] In the Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy and the APEC Summit held earlier, strong statements were issued regarding the WTO Doha Round trade talks. Despite these statements, a ministerial meeting has been put off and a modalities agreement is unlikely to be reached by the end of [...] | 2008-12-16 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO342 | JAPAN MAKES ECONOMIC OVERTURES TO CHINA, BUT [...] (C) Summary: Despite growing cooperation on energy and the environment, Japanese officials in MOFA and METI report an overall lack of progress on advancing economic relations with China. To date, China has rejected Japan's request for an agreement on food safety -- a particularly hot topic [...] | 2008-02-08 06:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV ETRD EAGR PREL JA CH |
| 08TOKYO3427 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-17 01:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3430 | JAPAN'S FY2009 TAX REFORM PROPOSALS [...] (C) Summary. Japan's ruling coalition parties announced December 12 a package of tax reform proposals featuring a series of tax cuts for households and businesses. Their proposals called for exempting in-substance dividends paid by overseas subsidiaries to their Japan headquarters, lowering [...] | 2008-12-17 03:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN ECON JA |
| 08TOKYO3432 | 3-4 DECEMBER NUCLEAR SAFETY AND SECURITY GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary: During the third meeting of the G8 Nuclear Safety and Security Group (NSSG) held in Tokyo December 3-4, NSSG members reviewed the status of ongoing projects, discussed the future of initiatives proposed during Japan's 2008 G8 presidency, and reviewed a draft plan of work for t [...] | 2008-12-17 07:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM ENRG TRGY NRR MNUC PUNE JA |
| 08TOKYO3435 | DPJ SECURITY POLICY STILL MUDDLED, AS ELECTION [...] (C) Summary. The possible shift from an LDP-led administration to one led by the DPJ has potentially serious implications for Japan's security policy, as well as for the future direction of the U.S.-Japan alliance. The leading opposition party has opposed the war in Iraq and used its majorit [...] | 2008-12-17 08:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO3439 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-17 23:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3441 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-18 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3443 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - FED'S DECISION TO LOWER [...] LEAD STORIES: Top stories on Thursday morning included OPEC's decision to slash oil production. 2. "Stop Global Deflation" On the Fed's move to lower the key interest rate to near zero, the liberal Asahi editorialized (12/18): "Fed Chairman Bernanke decided on the rate reduction in order to [...] | 2008-12-18 05:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO3447 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-18 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO345 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-08 08:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3453 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-19 04:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3457 | PART 1 OF 2 -- U.S., JAPAN REACH AD REF GUAM [...] (C) Summary: U.S. and Japanese negotiators reached an ad ref agreement on December 15 for a bilateral International Agreement (IA) committing the Japanese government to provide USD 2.8 billion to construct facilities and infrastructure on Guam to support the relocation of III Marine Expeditio [...] | 2008-12-19 05:39:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO346 | KOIZUMI KIDS FACE TOUGH ROAD TO REELECTION [...] (C) Summary. The 82 "Koizumi "Children" who swept into office in the September 2005 postal privatization election, rode the coattails of Prime Minister Koizumi and his promises of reform. Today, they face widespread elimination in the next general election. The majority were elected with mi [...] | 2008-02-08 08:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO3465 | JAPAN RELEASES UPDATED PANDEMIC ACTION PLAN [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) released a draft of the GOJ's updated action plan for pandemic influenza November 28. The revised action plan, according to MHLW officials, incorporates recommendations by the ruling coalition's project team in the Diet on pandemic inf [...] | 2008-12-19 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO KSTH ECON PREL SOCI CASC JA |
| 08TOKYO3466 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-19 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3470 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-22 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3478 | LEBANON SPECIAL TRIBUNAL: NO FURTHER CONTRIBUTION [...] (S) Japan is a "strong supporter" of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and, during last June's G-8 Ministerial in Kyoto, pledged $1 million for the STL, MOFA 1st Middle East Division Deputy Director Akihiro Tsuji told Embassy Tokyo. However, at this point, Japan cannot make a new contribution o [...] | 2008-12-22 07:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL PTER LE SY UNSC EUN JA |
| 08TOKYO3483 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-22 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO35 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-07 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3500 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-24 04:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3508 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 01:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3514 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - GAZA ATTACK [...] LEAD STORIES: Top stories on Monday morning included the Israeli military's air strike on the Gaza Strip over the weekend. 2. "Israel Should First Exercise Self-Restraint" The liberal Asahi editorialized (12/29): "... Although Israel claims that its attack on the Gaza Strip was part of i [...] | 2008-12-29 05:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO3518 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3521 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-30 01:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3523 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S JANUARY 8-9 VISIT [...] (S) Madam Secretary, Welcome to Tokyo. Prime Minister Aso and Foreign Minister Nakasone will be eager to see you to exchange views. Your press events will serve as a concrete reminder to the Japanese public of the importance of our bilateral relationship. Currently, issue #1 for Japan is the [...] | 2008-12-30 02:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | OVIP PREL PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO3532 | CONSULTATIONS WITH JAPAN ON IMPLEMENTING THE OSLO [...] (S) SUMMARY: Japan is committed to ensuring that activities of U.S. forces in Japan will not be hindered or restrained following Diet ratification of the Oslo Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM),MOFA Deputy Director General Nakajima told Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Ganyard during [...] | 2008-12-30 07:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL MOPS PARM PINR ETTC NATO JA |
| 08TOKYO3534 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/30/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-30 08:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3535 | JAPAN ANTI-PIRACY UPDATE: LEGAL WRANGLING, [...] (C) Piracy issues in the Horn of Africa (HOA) remain a topic of extensive interest in Japan, both in the media and among contacts in the Japanese government. Calls from major publications for Japan to "do something" have grown louder in recent weeks, driven in part by China's December 26 dispa [...] | 2008-12-30 08:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIS ELTN EWWT JA MOPS PBTS PGOV PHSA PINR |
| 08TOKYO3538 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/31/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-31 01:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO354 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-12 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3541 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/31/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-31 03:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO3542 | JAPAN'S LOWER FDI INFLOWS REFLECT GLOBAL FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Japan's foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in the first ten months of 2008 declined year-on-year for the first time since 2003, reflecting the impact of global financial market turmoil and following record inflows in 2007. Preliminary Ministry of Finance (MOF) figures show [...] | 2008-12-31 03:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EFIN PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO3543 | Japan Economic Scope for December 29, 2008 [...] (U) This cable contains the Japan Economic Scope from December 17 to 29, 2008 Foreign Relations ----------------- 2. (U) Nippon Oil/Nippon Mining Merger Nippon Oil and Nippon Mining Holdings, Japan's largest and 5th largest oil companies, announced they have reached a basic agreement to [...] | 2008-12-31 04:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD SENV EFIN EAGR PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO364 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-12 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO365 | JAPAN UNABLE TO PROVIDE MUCH ASSISTANCE ON LEBANON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Other than public statements in support of the Lebanese government, Japan is unable or unwilling to take further steps at this time to support Lebanon. Funds are not available for the Special Tribunal, Lebanon does not qualify for Japanese official development assistance (ODA),t [...] | 2008-02-12 09:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM EFIN EINV LE SY JA |
| 08TOKYO371 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-13 01:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO385 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-13 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO39 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-08 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO394 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-14 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO400 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-14 08:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO407 | CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IN JAPAN: FEBRUARY 6 ROUNDTABLE WITH THE [...] Summary: The Japanese Diet may soon consider criminalizing the simple possession of child pornography, U.S. delegates to the G8 Lyon-Roma meeting in Tokyo learned during a meeting with six Diet members arranged by Embassy Tokyo. Although most of the Diet participants in the meeting support re [...] | 2008-02-14 17:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KOCI PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO409 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-15 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO413 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/15/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-15 07:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO416 | CLIMATE CHANGE: JAPAN REMAINS SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. [...] (C) Summary: U.S. ideas on a future climate framework and our plan for negotiations in 2008 enjoy broad support within the Japanese government, GOJ officials told U.S. Senior Climate Negotiator Harlan Watson the week of February 11-15. Successfully bringing China into an agreement is still seen [...] | 2008-02-16 08:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV ENRG KGHG JA |
| 08TOKYO423 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-19 01:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO429 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-19 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO433 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-20 01:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO444 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-20 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO454 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-21 01:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO465 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-21 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO469 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-22 01:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO473 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/22/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-22 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO476 | SCENESETTER FOR YOUR VISIT TO TOKYO [...] (S) Begin Text. Madam Secretary, You arrive in Japan at a sensitive time in our relationship. Less than three weeks ago, a 38-year-old Marine confessed to raping a 14-year-old girl. I flew to Okinawa with the Commander of U.S. Forces Japan to express our own outrage and sympathy for th [...] | 2008-02-22 11:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | OVIP PREL ECON JA |
| 08TOKYO483 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 01:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO491 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO493 | JAPAN WILL ISSUE STATEMENT ON DEMOCRACY IN CUBA [...] (C) DCM contacted MOFA Director General of North American Affairs Shinichi Nishimiya and Deputy Director General for Latin American Affairs Masahi Mizukami separately February 24. Drawing from reftel points, he urged the government of Japan to publicly express the need for real democracy and [...] | 2008-02-25 10:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL CU JA |
| 08TOKYO495 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-26 01:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO5 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-02 07:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO505 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-27 00:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO508 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-27 01:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO510 | JAPAN: SECOND SURVEY OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan has yet to seriously begin considering what actions it will take with regard to the Air Self Defense Force (ASDF) presence it has deployed in Kuwait following the expiration of MNF-I's mandate on December 31. It is likely that the basic plan governing this deployment will b [...] | 2008-02-27 02:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL IZ JA |
| 08TOKYO520 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-27 08:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO522 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-28 01:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO528 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-28 08:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO538 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 05:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO54 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-08 08:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO543 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/29/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO548 | DECISION TIME IN DIVIDED DIET OVER BUDGET, BANK OF [...] (C) Summary. The final outcome of intense Diet debate over the budget, budget-related bills, and the appointment of a new Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor remains murky as key deadlines approach. Six weeks into the Diet session, the opposition DPJ has managed to block progress on deliberations, [...] | 2008-03-01 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EFIN MARR JA |
| 08TOKYO550 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-03 01:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO559 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-03 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO56 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-09 01:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO561 | PM FUKUDA AS LEADER: AVOIDING RISK [...] (C) After five months as Prime Minister, Yasuo Fukuda has emerged as a cautious, risk-adverse, yet shrewd leader. Fukuda has played a weak hand fairly well and marginalized his opposition party opponent, Ichiro Ozawa. Unfortunately for Fukuda, his low-profile, rejection of Koizumi-style strong [...] | 2008-03-03 09:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO567 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 01:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO570 | NEW CONSERVATIVE GROUP FOCUSING ON PATRIOTISM, [...] (C) The "True Conservative Policy Study Group" was launched late last year by conservative standard bearer Shoichi Nakagawa. With close to 80 members in the Lower and Upper Houses, the group enjoys the support of conservative heavyweights Taro Aso, Takeo Hiranuma and former Prime Minister Shi [...] | 2008-03-04 08:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR JA |
| 08TOKYO571 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 08:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO576 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-05 01:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO579 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - UN SANCTIONS ON IRAN [...] LEAD STORIES: Top stories on Wednesday morning include Toyota's intention to invest 10 billion yen in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' plan to develop a small passenger aircraft model. 2. "U.S. Compromises to Apply Pressure on Iran" The liberal Asahi's report from New York said (3/5): "The UN [...] | 2008-03-05 03:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO584 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/05/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-05 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO586 | INPEX OFFICIAL DISCUSSES AZADEGAN, CHINA SOVEREIGN [...] (C) Press reports regarding Iran's pumping 20,000 barrels per day from the Japanese-invested Azadegan oil fields are misleading, Inpex Investor Relations Group Manager Hiroshi Ikeda told Econoff February 28. Iran is using seven very old wells that have not been well maintained, Ikeda said, and [...] | 2008-03-05 09:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG JA PREL RU |
| 08TOKYO597 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/06/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-06 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO601 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-07 01:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO610 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-07 07:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO616 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-10 01:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO627 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-10 08:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO628 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-11 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO648 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-11 23:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO65 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-09 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO656 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-12 05:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO665 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/12/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-12 08:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO669 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-13 00:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO677 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/13/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-13 08:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO68 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-10 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO683 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-14 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO692 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/14/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-14 07:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO694 | AMBASSADOR AND MINISTER OF JUSTICE DISCUSS BANNING [...] (C) Summary: Child pornography is a rapidly growing and serious problem, the Ambassador told the Japanese Minister of Justice Kunio Hatoyama on March 11. Japan could have a dramatic impact on the child pornography market by criminalizing simple possession. Hatoyama agreed, saying that the su [...] | 2008-03-14 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KCRM KOCI PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO697 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-17 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO707 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/17/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-17 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO71 | JAPANESE VIEWS OF SITUATION IN PAKISTAN [...] (C) Japan shares the concerns and views of the United States, as expressed ref A, and agrees that efforts must be made to keep Pakistan on the path to democracy, according to Principal Deputy Director Masaki Ishikawa of MOFA's Southwest Asia Division. Ishikawa told Embassy Tokyo Political Offic [...] | 2008-01-10 02:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PK JA |
| 08TOKYO710 | NEW IRANIAN AMBASSADOR IN TOKYO DISCUSSES NUCLEAR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Speaking on the record March 13 at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan, newly accredited Iranian Ambassador to Japan Seyed Abbas Araghchi presented Iran's views of the standoff regarding its nuclear program. He asserted that Iran began its program at the behest of the United [...] | 2008-03-17 08:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM PHUM PINR EPET SNAR KNNP UNSC IZ |
| 08TOKYO711 | NO NEW GOJ MEDIUM- OR LONG-TERM LOAN GUARANTEES [...] (C) Summary. Japan has not issued any new medium- or long-term loan guarantees for trade with Iraq for the last two years, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Nippon Export and Invstment Insurance (NEXI) officials stated during meetings with econoff March 12 and 13. Any uptick [...] | 2008-03-17 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ENRG ETTC JA PREL IR |
| 08TOKYO712 | EMBASSY TOKYO CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY [...] (U) Ambassador Schieffer hosted on March 4 Embassy Tokyo's first-ever event in honor of International Women's Day. More than 180 women, including Japanese Diet members, government officials, academics, members of the press and female diplomats from 25 nations, attended the inaugural event. Gu [...] | 2008-03-17 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL JA CH RU |
| 08TOKYO713 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-18 00:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO721 | NEW IRANIAN AMBASSADOR CALLS ON IRAQI COUNTERPART [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Recently accredited Iranian Ambassador to Tokyo Seyed Abbas Araghchi made one of his first courtesy calls on Iraqi Ambassador Ghanim Al-Jumaily on March 12. Ambassador Jumaily subsequently provided an Embassy Tokyo political officer with a readout of the meeting. Jumaily said [...] | 2008-03-18 07:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET | PREL PINS IR IZ JA |
| 08TOKYO722 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/18/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-18 08:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO723 | COUNTERTERRORISM TRILATERAL BORDER SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Government officials from Australia, Japan, and the United States met in Tokyo on February 26 for the Counterterrorism Trilateral Border, Transport, and Maritime Security Sub-Group meeting. The meeting was chaired by Paul Fujimura, Director for Asia-Pacific, Department of Homeland [...] | 2008-03-18 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | KHLS PTER PGOV PREL AS ID MY RP JA |
| 08TOKYO724 | JAPAN RECOGNIZES KOSOVO [...] (C) The Japanese Cabinet March 18 recognized the Republic of Kosovo as an independent state, according to MOFA. According to MOFA Central and South Eastern Europe Division Principal Deputy Director Yuichi Oba, immediately following the decision, the Serbian Ambassador to Tokyo requested an app [...] | 2008-03-18 08:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZL JA |
| 08TOKYO730 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-19 01:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO748 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/19/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-19 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO754 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-20 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO760 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/20/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-20 08:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO761 | BANK OF JAPAN -- ACTING GOVERNOR ONLY [...] (C) Despite the appointment of Masaaki Shirakawa as acting governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ),local and international press wasted no time in lambasting Japanese politicians for failing to appoint a new governor by March 19, the end of the previous governor's term. The vacancy is the first [...] | 2008-03-20 10:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO765 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-21 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO779 | JICA PRESIDENT OGATA MEETS SYRIA'S ASAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) President Sadako Ogata met March 12 in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Asad. According to MOFA, their discussion focused on economic assistance and did not address political issues. Japan believes it necessary to maintain c [...] | 2008-03-21 07:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF EAID KPAL KWBG IS IZ SY JA |
| 08TOKYO782 | JAPAN SUBMISSION FOR TIP REPORT [...] Embassy's point of contact on TIP issues is Political Officer Scott Hansen, Office Phone: 81 (3) 3224-5558, Fax: 81 (3) 3224-5322, Email: hansensw@state.gov. 2. Embassy Tokyo has spent a total of 608 hours researching trafficking issues, conducting awareness-raising campaigns, drafting [...] | 2008-03-21 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM KFRD PREF SMIG JA |
| 08TOKYO783 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/21/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-21 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO785 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-24 01:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO800 | MITSUBISHI REGIONAL JET SET FOR PRODUCTION [...] (C) A March 20 Nikkei article announced Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) will go forward with the Mitsubishi Regional Jet (MRJ) program. Also on March 20, a 35-year veteran of the Japanese aviation industry, Masao Suzuki, told EconOff the large ANA and JAL purchases, nearly 100 aircraft c [...] | 2008-03-24 07:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAIR PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO801 | BANK OF JAPAN CUSTODIANS PUT ON BRAVE FACE [...] (U) Working to ensure the smoothest possible operations following the Diet's inability to compromise on a central bank governor before incumbent Governor Fukui's term expired March 19, the Bank of Japan's Policy Board met on March 21 and elected deputy governor Masaaki Shirakawa as Chairman. T [...] | 2008-03-24 07:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ECON PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO803 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/24/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-24 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO809 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/25/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-25 01:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO82 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/10/08 [...] Include all major greenhouse gas emitters to reduce gases emitted from the entire world beyond the timeframe set in the Kyoto Protocol. 2. Make a flexible and diversified framework, giving consideration to each country's circumstances. 3. Give priority to both environmental preservation and [...] | 2008-01-10 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO820 | CHILD PORNOGRAPHY IN JAPAN: THE AMBASSADOR,S MARCH [...] Summary: Something must be done to save children who are being abused everyday for child pornography, the Ambassador told Komeito Chief Representative Akihiro Ota on March 19. Questions about possible human rights abuses if simple possession is criminalized are not as important as preventing [...] | 2008-03-25 07:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KOCI PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO823 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-25 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO826 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-26 01:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO828 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - TIBET [...] LEAD STORIES: Top items on Wednesday morning include the growing likelihood that gas prices will drop in April, as it has now become certain that parliamentary deliberations on the GOJ's omnibus tax bill, which includes an extension of provisional gasoline surcharges for road construction, wil [...] | 2008-03-26 05:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO829 | JAPAN: DNSA PRICE PRESSES FOR PROGRESS ON DOHA AND [...] (C) During bilateral talks with senior Japanese officials and politicians March 19 in Tokyo, Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs Daniel Price underscored the need for Japan to show more leadership now, particularly on agriculture, t [...] | 2008-03-26 07:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD EAGR PGOV WTRO EINV JA |
| 08TOKYO830 | CLIMATE CHANGE: JAPAN SUPPORTIVE OF U.S. STANCE IN [...] (C) Summary: High-level Japanese officials reiterated strong support for the Major Economies Process and the U.S. approach on climate change in meetings with Deputy National Security Advisor Daniel Price in Tokyo March 19. All agreed on the need for each of the major economies to agree upon [...] | 2008-03-26 07:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV KGHG ENRG JA |
| 08TOKYO835 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/26/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-26 22:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO837 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-27 01:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO841 | SCENESETTER FOR G-8 DEVELOPMENT MINISTERS MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary -- Japan is the world's third largest national aid donor, despite on-going budget cuts. The GOJ has been able to keep the ODA budget between $10-$13 billion using an increased reliance on yen loans to compensate for large cuts in grant aid (40 percent over the past eleven years) [...] | 2008-03-27 05:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAID JA |
| 08TOKYO846 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/27/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-27 22:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO849 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-28 01:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO854 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ AND PROBLEMS IN [...] LEAD STORIES: Several Friday morning papers front- paged the finding by Japanese police that a personal article belonging to a missing U.S. sailor was discovered in the car of a taxi driver who was stabbed to death in Yokosuka on Wednesday. 2. "Iraq War Altered World Picture" The business- [...] | 2008-03-28 06:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO858 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/28/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-28 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO859 | ANIMAL CLONING UPDATE: FSC RISK ASSESSMENT TO BE [...] (C) MOFA's Second North Americas Division informed us March 28 that it is highly likely that the Health Ministry (MHLW) will request a risk assessment on the safety of products from clones and from the offspring of clones. The submission to the Food Safety Commission will reportedly be made A [...] | 2008-03-28 08:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAGR ECON ETRD JA |
| 08TOKYO86 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-11 00:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO860 | FUKUDA GAS TAX COMPROMISE FALLS FLAT [...] (SBU) Summary: Emulating former Prime Minister Koizumi in facing down powerful interests in his own party, Prime Minister Fukuda put forward a compromise plan to resolve the ongoing gasoline tax controversy without securing the agreement of other Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leaders. The o [...] | 2008-03-28 08:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV JA |
| 08TOKYO868 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/31/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-31 06:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO876 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/31/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-31 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO881 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-01 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO888 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/01/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-01 08:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO894 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-02 01:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO898 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04//08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-02 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO901 | TOKYO GOVERNMENT PRESENTS YOKOTA AFB DUAL USE TO [...] (C) Summary. During the past week, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) gave presentations to a number of commercial organizations including the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) and an open Town Hall meeting at the Tokyo Hyatt Hotel. During these presentations, TMG speakers [...] | 2008-04-02 09:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EAIR PREL PGOV MARR JA |
| 08TOKYO905 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-03 01:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO912 | JAPAN DISCUSSIONS OF TRILATERAL ECON TIES FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary: Japan's desire to leverage cooperation with the U.S. in dealing with China figured prominently in discussions March 27 between Japanese officials and visiting economic section heads from Embassies Beijing and Seoul. On climate change, for example, the GOJ wants U.S. assistance [...] | 2008-04-03 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ENRG EINV PREL ETTC JA CH KS OECD |
| 08TOKYO913 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/03/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-03 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO920 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-04 01:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO921 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - NATO SUMMIT [...] LEAD STORIES: Several Friday morning papers gave top coverage to Thursday's arrest of a 22-year-old U.S. sailor on suspicion of fatally stabbing a taxi driver in Yokosuka last month. 2. "NATO Eastward Expansion Losing Steam" The top- circulation, moderate Yomiuri reported from Bucharest (4 [...] | 2008-04-04 02:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
| 08TOKYO929 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/04/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-04 07:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO933 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-07 01:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO944 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/07/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-07 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO947 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH OPPOSITION LAWMAKERS TO DISCUSS CHILD [...] Summary: Our consciences demand that we do something about child pornography, the Ambassador told nine Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) Diet members during an April 2 meeting. Although some people raise questions about possible abuses of police power, the experience of the other six G8 countr [...] | 2008-04-07 22:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KOCI PREL JA |
| 08TOKYO948 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-08 01:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO956 | METI SIGNALS OPPOSITION TO TCI INVESTMENT IN [...] (C) Summary: The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) signaled again April 5 it opposes the proposal by UK-based Children's Investment Master Fund (TCI) to increase its investment in electricity wholesaler Electric Power Development Company (known as J-Power.) In January, TCI, which [...] | 2008-04-08 07:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ENRG PGOV OECD JA |
| 08TOKYO959 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/08/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-08 08:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO960 | AMBASSADOR AND VFM YABUNAKA DISCUSS BILATERAL [...] (C) Recent incidents involving U.S. servicemen have highlighted the need for the United States and Japan to make efforts to strengthen grassroots public support for and understanding of our alliance's strategic importance, the Ambassador told VFM Yabunaka on April 8. While VFM Yabunaka agreed [...] | 2008-04-08 09:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR RU CH JA |
| 08TOKYO967 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-09 01:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO975 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/09/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-09 08:39:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO976 | MOFA OFFICIAL DISCUSSES G-8 PREPS, AFGHANISTAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Ministry Senior Foreign Policy Coordinator Takehiro Funkoshi told visiting EAP/J Director that the four major political issues facing the upcoming G-8 summit will be Afghanistan, climate change, Tibet, and G-8 expansion. Japan plans to step up its engagement with Afghani [...] | 2008-04-09 09:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AF AU KS CH TT JA |
| 08TOKYO979 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-10 01:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO989 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 04/10/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-10 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TOKYO991 | NAIG 7200: DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR COOPERATION [...] (U) Please see action request in paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. (S/NF) ESToff delivered points in ref to METI Security Export Control Policy Division Deputy Director Atsushi Tanizawa and Security Export Licensing Division Deputy Director Furui Ryoji. The GOJ officials appreciated receiving the n [...] | 2008-04-10 22:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC PARM PREL JA KNNP MNUC |
| 08TOKYO994 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 04/11/08 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-11 01:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
| 08TORONTO108 | Blue Lantern Level 3 Post-Shipment End-Use Check on Questar [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 2 ConOff and Pol/Econ Chief conducted a Blue Lantern end-use check at Questar International (CA)'s office in Barrie, Ontario. Questar maintains hand-written detailed end-use records for each imported weapon. The end-use details we obtained are being e-mailed to PM/DTC [...] | 2008-04-10 20:10:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC ETRD CA |
| 08TORONTO11 | ONTARIO BORDER CROSSING UPDATE - WINDSOR CITY [...] (C/NF) Summary: Ontario provincial officials have decided on the design for the Windsor access road linking the end of provincial highway 401 with the customs plaza for the new international bridge under consideration by the Detroit River International Crossing (DRIC) project. The final provi [...] | 2008-01-10 19:42:00 | Consulate Toronto | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETRD PBTS PREL CA |
| 08TORONTO123 | Canadian Auto Sector Adjusting to North American Market [...] (U) Summary: Despite being labeled the world's most expensive auto manufacturing jurisdiction, for the fourth straight year in a row, Ontario is North America's top automobile-assembly site by volume (2.542 million light vehicles in 2007),surpassing Michigan (2.295 million). However, Ontario [...] | 2008-04-24 16:27:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELAB PGOV SENV CA |
| 08TORONTO155 | Ontario Police Counternarcotics Efforts Paying Off [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Drug production, smuggling and trafficking continues to be a major challenge for Ontario law enforcement agencies. Since we last reported on counter-narcotics efforts in Ontario in mid-March, police have discovered and shut down several large-scale marijuana grow-ops and metham [...] | 2008-05-15 20:07:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM PGOV CA |
| 08TORONTO164 | Another Hurdle for ABCP Market Restructuring [...] (U) Summary: Ontario Superior Court Justice Colin Campbell, who is presiding over restructuring of the C$32 billion third-party asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market is considering how to resolve potential fraud claims. Foreign banks, whose support is crucial for the restructuring, init [...] | 2008-05-27 13:35:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV CA |
| 08TORONTO167 | Ontario Pleased that SEC to Move Forward on Mutual [...] (SBU) On May 29, following a series of meetings in May with the Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia securities regulators, the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a schedule for completion of a framework that would allow the discussion of U.S.-Canada mutual recogniti [...] | 2008-05-30 13:28:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV CA |
| 08TORONTO194 | Ontario Looks to Renew Nuclear Power Infrastructure [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In preparation for increased electricity demand and the planned closure of all coal-fired generating plants by 2014, the government of Ontario is refurbishing existing nuclear plants and planning for new reactors. Both are necessary to meet the province's nuclear capacity goal o [...] | 2008-06-18 15:35:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV SENV CA |
| 08TORONTO227 | Canadian Auto Workers Union Gets New Leader [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ken Lewenza, current president of the CAW shop in Windsor, has been formally endorsed by the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) executive board, by other senior officers and staff, and most importantly by outgoing President Buzz Hargrove to replace Hargrove, who has announced that he will [...] | 2008-07-15 17:00:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELAB PGOV PINR CA |
| 08TORONTO286 | TORONTO MAN FOUND GUILTY ON TERROR CHARGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 25, an Ontario Superior Court justice found a Toronto-area man guilty of terrorism charges in Canada's first conviction under its Anti-Terrorism Act. The man was part of a group that planned a series of bombings and a raid on Parliament Hill. Ten other men, allege [...] | 2008-09-26 19:56:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PTER CA |
| 08TORONTO32 | Ontario Auto Stakeholders Seek More Government Assistance [...] (U) Summary: Canada has become the world's most expensive auto manufacturing jurisdiction according to some auto executives. Canadian-based auto assemblers and parts manufacturers are struggling to stay competitive in the face of a strong Canadian dollar. We expect the Detroit Three to press [...] | 2008-02-05 19:34:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELAB PGOV CA |
| 08TORONTO361 | Toronto's High-Rise Condominium Market: [...] (U) Summary: Toronto's market for high-rise condominiums has begun to cool down in what was North America's busiest condo construction and sales market in 2007. The global credit crunch and slowing economy has created worries for Toronto developers with projects currently underway, and even [...] | 2008-11-20 20:26:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV CA |
| 08TORONTO44 | Toronto's Iranian Diaspora [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At over 60,000 residents, Toronto's Iranian Community is a small but visible group in a city where over half of its 4 million people are foreign-born. Concentrated in the northern neighborhoods and suburbs of Canada's largest city, Toronto's Iranian community is constantly grow [...] | 2008-02-15 13:08:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR CVIS CA IR |
| 08TORONTO66 | Canadian Banks Still Weathering North American Credit [...] (SBU) Summary: Canada's non-bank sponsored (third party) asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market will remain frozen until April or May while the Crawford Committee, charged with the market's restructuring, secures financial backing from Canadian banks. Canadian banks reported their first c [...] | 2008-03-07 21:03:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV CA |
| 08TORONTO70 | FEDERAL BY-ELECTION - PROMINENT LIBERALS PREPARE FOR MOVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the two Ontario by-elections slated for March 17, the federal Liberals appear poised to send two well-known personalities to join the ranks of the Liberal caucus in Ottawa. In suburban Toronto Willowdale, former Liberal leadership candidate Martha Hall Findlay looks to be a [...] | 2008-03-12 19:29:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR CA |
| 08TORONTO73 | Canadian Truckers Squeezed By Higher Costs and Slowing [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Canadian truck transportation services employ close to 400,000 people and generate over C$60 billion in revenues annually. The Canadian trucking industry is being squeezed by slowing export volumes (due to the appreciation of the Canadian dollar and the slowing of the U.S. econ [...] | 2008-03-17 16:37:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV PBTS CVIS CA |
| 08TORONTO85 | First Toronto Terrorism Trial Starts [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 25 the trial of one of the 18 persons originally arrested for participating in a Toronto-based terrorist group began in a provincial courtroom in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). On the first day of the first trial, an Ontario Superior Court judge unsealed some prosecut [...] | 2008-03-26 18:54:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PTER CA |
| 08TORONTO87 | Crawford Committee Seeks Retail Investor Support [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 26, Purdy Crawford, Chair of the Pan-Canadian Committee, described his committee's plan to restructure the C$33 billion third-party (non-bank sponsored) asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) market to a crowd of over 500 financial sector leaders in Toronto. Crawford is w [...] | 2008-03-27 18:13:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV CA |
| 08TRIPOLI120 | EXTREMISM IN EASTERN LIBYA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-15 12:50:00 | Embassy Tripoli | SECRET | PGOV PREL KISL PTER LY IZ |
| 08TRIPOLI14 | QADHAFI TELLS MUBARAK HE "MAY" SEEK TO ATTEND UNSC IN NEW YORK TRIPOLI 00000014 001.2 OF 002 CLASSIFIED BY: John T. Godfrey, A/DCM, Embassy Tripoli, Dept of State. REASON: 1.4 (b),(d) [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-10 14:06:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OVIP UN PHUM AU SU EG LY |
| 08TRIPOLI142 | EMBASSY VISITS HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST FATHI EL-JAHMI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-21 18:02:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR LY |
| 08TRIPOLI183 | FOLLOW-UP ON HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST FATHI EL-JAHMI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 08:01:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR LY |
| 08TRIPOLI214 | GOL STILL BRISTLING OVER VICTIMS OF TERRORISM LEGISLATION, UTA JUDGMENT REF: A) TRIPOLI 199, B) TRIPOLI 149 (EXDIS) TRIPOLI 00000214 001.2 OF 002 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-12 09:57:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EPET ECON EFIN ENRG LY |
| 08TRIPOLI220 | DETAINED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST FATHI EL-JAHMI "RELEASED" [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-13 15:03:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR LY |
| 08TRIPOLI223 | DETAINED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST FATHI EL-JAHMI "RELEASED" [...] (C) Summary: Reports by the Qadhafi Development Foundation (QDF) that detained human rights activist Fathi el-Jahmi was "released" to the custody of his family appear to be premature. Security officials continue to effectively control access to el-Jahmi at the Tripoli Medical Center. His famil [...] | 2008-03-13 16:36:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR LY |
| 08TRIPOLI226 | GOL PROPOSES GLOBAL SETTLEMENT TALKS ON TERRORIST-RELATED LEGAL CLAIMS CLASSIFIED BY: Chris Stevens, CDA, Embassy Tripoli, Dept of State. REASON: 1.4 (b),(d) [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-17 08:47:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KLIG PTER LY |
| 08TRIPOLI227 | BACK TO THE FUTURE? QADHAFI CALLS FOR DRAMATIC SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGE IN GPC SPEECH REF: TRIPOLI 166 TRIPOLI 00000227 001.2 OF 005 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-17 10:09:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN LY |
| 08TRIPOLI229 | HRW/PHR VISIT FATHI EL-JAHMI, EXPECT HIM TO RETURN HOME SOON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-17 16:47:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR LY |
| 08TRIPOLI266 | GOL DELAYS RELEASING DETAINED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST FATHI EL-JAHMI REF: A) TRIPOLI 223, B) TRIPOLI 229 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-31 09:33:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PINR LY |
| 08TRIPOLI275 | MFA WEIGHS IN ON EL-JAHMI CASE REF: TRIPOLI 266 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-01 13:37:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL PINR LY |
| 08TRIPOLI307 | MFA DISCOURAGES IDEA OF SOFT POWER PROGRAMMING IN EASTERN LIBYA REF: A) TRIPOLI 120, B) TRIPOLI 278 TRIPOLI 00000307 001.2 OF 002 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-10 13:44:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER PINR SOCI KISL |
| 08TRIPOLI372 | PD PROGRAMS FALL VICTIM TO BILATERAL TENSIONS [...] (U) Summary: Since January, Post has experienced increasing difficulties in obtaining visas for incoming Public Affairs Section visitors, both for educational and cultural programs. The Government of Libya (GOL) has canceled some programs outright, and has simply not approved visas for others. [...] | 2008-05-08 08:48:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO SCUL LY PREL OIIP OEXC CVIS PGOV |
| 08TRIPOLI374 | LIBYA'S NSC SOLICITS U.S. VIEWS ON CIVILIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION & LETHAL MILITARY EQUIPMENT SALES REF: A) TRIPOLI 340, B) TRIPOLI 372 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-08 14:11:00 | Embassy Tripoli | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ETTC KNNP MASS PINR TRGY LY RU FR |
| 08TRIPOLI391 | SIBLING RIVALRY EMERGING OVER RIGHT TO "FACILITATE" FOREIGN COMPANIES' INVOLVEMENT IN LIBYA? [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 15:50:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD LY MASS PGOV PINR PREL |
| 08TRIPOLI402 | POLITICAL-ECONOMIC REFORM, JAMAHIRIYA-STYLE [...] (C) Summary: A private sector interlocutor involved in Libya's chambers of commerce described dramatic calls for reform in a recent speech by Colonel al-Qadhafi as "a return to the natural order of things" that existed before the 1969 military coup that brought al-Qadhafi to power and inaugurated t [...] | 2008-05-16 13:12:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EINV PINR KBIO LY |
| 08TRIPOLI430 | DIE HARD IN DERNA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-02 16:59:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KISL PTER PHUM LY IZ |
| 08TRIPOLI474 | ENI'S OIL AND GAS DEAL EXTENDED, OTHER COMPANIES WORRY TERMS [...] (SBU) Summary: Soaring oil prices are allowing Libya to press for more stringent long-term contracts with foreign oil and gas producers. A twenty-five year extension for Italian firm Eni North Africa BV, which entailed a sizeable bonus payment and dramatically reduced the company's production [...] | 2008-06-17 10:53:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV LY |
| 08TRIPOLI498 | PETRO-CANADA SIGNS 30-YEAR PACT WITH LIBYA [...] (SBU) Summary: Petro-Canada has signed a series of 30-year contracts with Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC),bringing its old agreements into line with Libya's preferred EPSA-IV contract standard. The new deals stem from Libya's ongoing efforts to secure tougher terms from foreign oil co [...] | 2008-06-24 14:19:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EPET CA LY |
| 08TRIPOLI532 | GOL SENDS MIXED SIGNALS ON WHETHER IT COULD CUT OIL [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting, the head of Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) reiterated that Libya could/could cut oil production as a response to U.S. legislation facilitating attachment of Libyan assets and lawsuits against it; however, other GOL sources cautioned that his remarks wer [...] | 2008-07-03 14:30:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EINV ENRG EPET PINS LY |
| 08TRIPOLI563 | OXY'S 30-YEAR EXTENSION IN LIBYA AND WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR OTHER IOCS REF: A) TRIPOLI 555 B) 2007 TRIPOLI 983 TRIPOLI 00000563 001.2 OF 003 [...] (C) Summary: The long-awaited ratification of Oxy's contract extension in Libya has solidified its position as one of Libya's leading oil and gas players. The process by which the contract was finalized has shed light on what lies ahead for other foreign companies, all of whom are expected to be [...] | 2008-07-13 14:16:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET ECIN ECON EINV PREL LY |
| 08TRIPOLI588 | LIBYA ENFORCES TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS AGAINST U.S. OFFICIALS REF: A) TRIPOLI 530, B) TRIPOLI 412, C) STATE 55839, D) TRIPOLI 478 (NOTAL),E) 07 TRIPOLI 165, F) TRIPOLI 515 [...] (C) Summary: Four years after re-establishing diplomatic relations, the Government of Libya (GOL) remains deeply concerned about efforts to cover internal political issues and actively seeks to prevent Emboffs from traveling in-country and engaging with Libyans. The GOL has actively enforced new s [...] | 2008-07-21 16:35:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ODIP OFDP LY |
| 08TRIPOLI632 | LIBYA COMMERCIAL ROUND-UP FOR JULY 2008 [...] Flight Safety Foundation Workshop in Libya: The Flight Safety Foundation's CAAG (Controlled Flight Into Terrain and Approach and Landing Accident Reduction Action Group) brought its internationally regarded Approach and Landing Accident Reduction (ALAR) Tool Kit workshop to Tripoli, Libya last [...] | 2008-08-04 09:58:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EIND EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD LY |
| 08TRIPOLI635 | A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: A CASE STUDY IN LIBYAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 14:07:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | BTIO ECON EIND EINV SENV SOCI PGOV LY |
| 08TRIPOLI642 | HANNIBAL GOES TO SEA: INSIGHTS INTO ANOTHER AL-QADHAFI FAMILY BUSINESS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-12 15:32:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET EWWT PGOV KCOR CY LY |
| 08TRIPOLI666 | LIBYAN REACTION TO CLAIMS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT POSITIVE, [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-25 16:40:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER KPAO LY |
| 08TRIPOLI679 | SAIF AL-ISLAM AL-QADHAFI CALLS FOR FURTHER REFORM, THREATENS TO WITHDRAW FROM POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: In a lengthy, much-anticipated speech at an annual youth forum gathering, Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi, son of Muammar al-Qadhafi, implicitly criticized past decisions of his father's regime, called for dramatic changes to Libya's system of governance, claimed that much of his program of s [...] | 2008-08-28 15:12:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KDEM KPAO KPRV LY |
| 08TRIPOLI764 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF SE WILLIAMSON TO LIBYA [...] (SBU) Your trip to Libya comes one month after Secretary Rice's historic visit marked a new chapter in Libya's re-engagement with the West and nearly two months after a U.S.-Libyan agreement to settle outstanding claims for compensation for attacks including the Lockerbie bombing of 1988. I [...] | 2008-10-02 15:15:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CD SU LY |
| 08TRIPOLI851 | LIBYAN-SWISS CONTRETEMPS DRAGS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 13:50:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EAIR ECON SZ LY |
| 08TRIPOLI870 | AL-QADHAFI'S RUSSIA TRIP SIGNALS DESIRE FOR FOREIGN POLICY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-06 17:17:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MASS MARR TRGY EPET RS BO UP LY |
| 08TRIPOLI912 | LIBYA COMMERCIAL ROUND-UP FOR OCTOBER 2008 [...] (U) A New Oil Discovery by Sirte Oil Company: On October 7, Sirte Oil, a state-owned company, announced a new oil discovery in the well A1-NC216A in the Ghadames Basin. The well is located approximately 310 km southwest of Tripoli. The initial production testing established an oil rate of 1,725 [...] | 2008-11-25 11:04:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EIND ECON EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD PGOV LY |
| 08TRIPOLI924 | A RARE PEEK INSIDE LIBYA'S NATIONAL OIL CORPORATION REF: TRIPOLI 915 TRIPOLI 00000924 001.2 OF 003 [...] (C) Summary: In a recent meeting, a 15-year veteran of Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) gave an insider's account of widespread dissatisfaction with NOC Chairman Shukri Ghanem's management style. Autocratic, jealous of his prerogatives and inclined to rely on a small, subservient team, Ghan [...] | 2008-12-01 12:54:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EPET PGOV LY |
| 08TRIPOLI935 | LIBYA'S TOP AFRICA DIPLOMAT DISCUSSES CHAD-SUDAN, SOMALIA, [...] (C) Summary. Libya is pleased with recent progress on Chad/Sudan reconciliation and expects a Libyan-led peacekeeping force to be deployed along the border by year's end, according to the GOL's top diplomat for African affairs, Dr. Ali Treiki. Treiki said the GOL would soon re-start efforts to [...] | 2008-12-05 12:12:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO LY CD SU MR SO |
| 08TRIPOLI937 | LIBYA'S NASCENT BUSINESS INCUBATOR PROGRAMS A POTENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: In a recent roundtable discussion, experts at Libya's Economic Development Board (EDB) described their nascent Business Incubator Program to a visiting U.S. Commercial Law Development Program (CLDP) specialist. The Libyan program seeks to support existing businesses and to create [...] | 2008-12-10 10:10:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN ELAB EPET EMIN KIPR PGOV BBSR LY |
| 08TRIPOLI943 | DEVELOPMENTS IN EL-JAHMI AND BOUFAYED HUMAN RIGHTS CASES [...] (C) Summary: An official of the Qadhafi Development Foundation (QDF) invited CDA to meet for an update on the Fathi el-Jahmi and Boufayed group human rights cases. He said el-Jahmi remained hospitalized with a heart condition, and the QDF was in contact with his family to arrange for his treatment [...] | 2008-12-12 16:30:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV LY |
| 08TRIPOLI960 | QADHAFI DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION FACILITATES VISIT TO DETAINED HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST FATHI EL-JAHMI [...] (C) Summary: The Qadhafi Development Foundation (QDF) facilitated a visit to detained human rights activist Fathi el-Jahmi, our first since April. El-Jahmi's medical condition was visibly better than during our last visit and his doctor said his heart condition had improved and stabilized. Severa [...] | 2008-12-15 19:50:00 | Embassy Tripoli | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV LY |
| 08TRIPOLI976 | LIBYA COMMERCIAL ROUND-UP FOR NOVEMBER 2008 [...] (SBU) Economics officer and senior commercial officer met on November 30 with a representative of Bearing Point, who was in Tripoli discussing future contracts for the company with the Libyan government. Bearing Point did a Basel Core Principles assessment for Libya a few years ago, and now is [...] | 2008-12-22 08:43:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EIND EPET ENRG PGOV LY |
| 08TUNIS1059 | RULING RCD PARTY RESHUFFLES THE TOP [...] (SBU) Following President Zine el Abdidine Ben Ali's Cabinet reshuffle, the ruling Democratic Constittional Rally (RCD) announced changes in the leadership of its Political Bureau (PB) September 5. In Tunisia, Cabinet Ministers fall somewhere behind the members of the RCD Political Bureau in [...] | 2008-09-25 15:19:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR TS |
| 08TUNIS1092 | CITIZENS NOT SUBJECTS: OPPOSITION PARTY TIRED OF [...] (C) Leaders from the opposition at-Tajdid party opined that Tunisia is ready for, and needs, more freedom of expression during an October 6 meeting with the Ambassador. The party opposed the ruling party's presidential candidacy requirements proposal, and has not yet decided whether to conte [...] | 2008-10-14 15:47:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS1111 | THE AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON FM ABDALLAH: BILATERAL [...] (S) Summary: During a meeting with the Ambassador on October 18, FM Abdulwaheb Abdallah said he was making his first trip to Russia in the coming days, accompanied by 23 businessmen. An economic agreement is to be signed. The Ambassador asked for an explanation on the withdrawal of police [...] | 2008-10-20 13:58:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR PINS PHUM IZ RS TS YM |
| 08TUNIS112 | TUNISIA REPORTS NOT INVITED TO MOROCCO GI [...] (SBU) In a February 4 diplomatic note, and in response to Post's January 31 delivery of reftel demarche, the Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that it had not yet received an invitation from the Government of Morocco to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI) Seminar [...] | 2008-02-06 07:52:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KGIC IAEA TS |
| 08TUNIS1132 | TUNISIA DEFENDS RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, BUT CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C/NF) During the mid-October visit of Warren Cofsky, from DRL's Office of International Religious Freedom, Embassy officials met with a series of government officials and religious leaders involved in religious freedom issues. Though those affiliated with the government stuck closely to GOT [...] | 2008-11-03 12:49:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS1135 | GOT QUESTIONS STATUS OF AMERICAN COMMMUNITY SCHOOL [...] (SBU) Summary: The MFA held a surprise meeting on October 30 to review the status of the American Community School of Tunis (ACST). In attendance were senior school and Embassy officials. The Ministry wanted clarification for the basis of the school's existence in Tunis since 1959 since it [...] | 2008-11-03 16:13:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | ASCH PREL PGOV TS |
| 08TUNIS1137 | (S) TUNISIAN GUANTANAMO DETAINEES: WHAT NEXT? [...] (S/NF) Over the last two years, GOT officials have said Guantanamo detainees transferred to Tunisia will not be tortured or mistreated. President Ben Ali reiterated this "promise" to the Secretary in September. They have denied reports that one of the detainees transferred in 2007 was mistr [...] | 2008-11-04 11:07:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PHUM KDRG TS |
| 08TUNIS1144 | LEAD BY EXAMPLE: TUNISIA REACTS TO AMERICAN [...] (C) From GOT officials to the man on the street, the Tunisian reaction to Barak Obama's win in the presidential elections is overwhelmingly positive. Tunisians seem to be taking this exercise in political participation to heart, with Embassy officials hearing many variations of how Tunisia [...] | 2008-11-06 17:24:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS1154 | AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL DIFFICULTIES WORKING IN [...] (C) Summary: In the course of delivering petitions requesting the closure of Guantanamo Bay, the President of Amnesty International Tunisia (AIT) reported continuing difficulties operating in Tunisia because of GOT intimidation. Tactics include intervention by the Ministry of Social Affairs [...] | 2008-11-14 09:33:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL TS |
| 08TUNIS1193 | TUNISIA: GETTING READY FOR NUCLEAR POWER [...] (SBU) GOT officials expressed strong interest in U.S. civil nuclear cooperation during the November 19 visit of Ambassador Jackie Wolcott, Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation, and her interagency delegation. Wolcott discussed opportunities for increased technical exchanges, human capit [...] | 2008-12-03 08:52:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD TS |
| 08TUNIS1210 | TUNISIA: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) This cable contains highlights of recent economic developments in Tunisia on the following topics: A. GOT Ratchets Down Projected 2008 GDP Growth B. Tunisia Asks For an "Advanced Status" With the EU C. Tunisia to Offer Telephone License in 2009 D. Tunisia Enticing New FDI E. Tunisi [...] | 2008-12-08 11:39:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD TS |
| 08TUNIS1211 | TUNISIA: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) This cable contains highlights of recent economic developments in Tunisia on the following topics: A. GOT Ratchets Down Projected 2008 GDP Growth B. Tunisia Asks For an "Advanced Status" With the EU C. Tunisia to Offer Telephone License in 2009 D. Tunisia Enticing New FDI E. Tunisi [...] | 2008-12-08 11:39:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD TS |
| 08TUNIS1213 | CODEL HASTINGS PRESSES GOT ON 2009 ELECTION [...] (SBU) In December 3 meetings with Tunisia's Minister of Foreign Affairs and six parliamentarians, Representative Alcee Hastings pressed the importance of credible international election observers for Tunisia's 2009 presidential and parliamentary elections. He discussed increased multilateral [...] | 2008-12-10 13:06:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL TS |
| 08TUNIS1221 | TUNISIAN AGRICULTURAL MINISTER TOUTS COOPERATION [...] (U) Recently appointed Minister of Agriculture Abdesselem Mansour, long a contact of the US Embassy, told the Ambassador in a December 12 meeting that he will seek to improve cooperation. Mansour asked for scholarships for Tunisian agricultural engineers and suggested the two governments explor [...] | 2008-12-16 11:08:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD FAS ESTH TS |
| 08TUNIS1228 | TUNISIA - ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) This cable contains highlights of recent economic developments in Tunisia on the following topics: A. Tunisia Tourism Revenue Up B. Tunisia Gets US $30.6 million Loan For Water Project C. Sotrapil Cancels Tunisian Oil Pipeline Project D. Tunisiana Banned From Third Telecoms License [...] | 2008-12-17 17:02:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD TS |
| 08TUNIS1229 | TUNISIA - ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) This cable contains highlights of recent economic developments in Tunisia on the following topics: A. Tunisia Tourism Revenue Up B. Tunisia Gets US $30.6 million Loan For Water Project C. Sotrapil Cancels Tunisian Oil Pipeline Project D. Tunisiana Banned From Third Telecoms License [...] | 2008-12-18 07:33:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD TS |
| 08TUNIS125 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUPPORT LEBANON NOW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-08 14:13:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EFIN EINV LE TS |
| 08TUNIS1256 | SITUATION IN GAZA: AMBASSADOR DELIVERS ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel Arab League demarche in a December 30 meeting with MFA Chief of Staff Mahmoud Khemiri. In doing so, he acknowledged the MFA statement of December 27, underscoring, however, that Hamas is responsible for the current situation. Meanwhile, Gaza has dominated local [...] | 2008-12-30 17:49:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL TS |
| 08TUNIS126 | TUNISIAN JOURNALISTS UNION - PUPPET THEATER? [...] (C) The January 14, 2008 evolution of the Tunisian Journalists Association in favor of the National Syndicate of Tunisian Journalists was viewed by some observers, including the General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, as "historic reform." To other observers, the new [...] | 2008-02-08 14:55:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB KDEM KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL TS |
| 08TUNIS130 | BEYWATCH: TUNISIAN BLOGGERS CENSORED BY STATE AND [...] (U) While blogging may have lost its novelty (though not its popularity)in the United States and much of the rest of the world, it is still a nascent phenomenon in Tunisia. Only in the past year or so has the Tunisian "blogosphere" begun to take shape, and its creators and contributors seem to [...] | 2008-02-12 08:38:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO SOCI TS |
| 08TUNIS160 | S/CT AMB. DAILEY PRESSES GOT TO COMBAT FOREIGN [...] (S/NF) During his February 10-12 visit to Tunisia, State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism (CT) Ambassador-at-Large Dell Dailey urged the GOT to take steps to prevent the flow of Tunisian foreign fighters into Iraq. Several senior GOT officials, including the Minister of Foreign Affa [...] | 2008-02-20 13:14:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER MARR PGOV PREL SOCI KISL TS |
| 08TUNIS172 | TUNISIA: 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Post recommends that Tunisia not be placed on the Special 301 Watch List. GOT officials at the highest levels -- including President Ben Ali himself -- continue to publicly stress the importance of intellectual property rights (IPR),demonstrating the high-level commitment that exists f [...] | 2008-02-25 10:43:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR TS |
| 08TUNIS194 | A/S WELCH'S TOUR D'HORIZON WITH MINISTER OF [...] (S) In the course of several hours of interactions between NEA A/S Welch and Foreign Minister Abdallah on February 28, Welch conveyed the latest US thinking on Lebanon, Syria, the proposed Arab League summit, Iraq, Iran, the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and Kosovo, among other topics. [...] | 2008-03-03 17:00:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER IR IZ SY LE SE XI |
| 08TUNIS211 | TUNISIA TIFA COUNCIL MEETING: A MOMENT OF [...] (SBU) Embassy Tunis warmly welcomes the US delegation to the TIFA Council, March 10 - 11. The TIFA Council follows a series of recent bilateral economic events and represents an opportunity to translate GOT statements of interest into concrete action. Despite the positive official GDP growth [...] | 2008-03-06 17:39:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV KIPR TS |
| 08TUNIS235 | AUSTRIANS REPORTEDLY TAKEN HOSTAGE IN TUNISIA: [...] (C) In a March 11 telephone conversation with the Ambassador, the Austrian Ambassador reported that GOT officials had said the Tunisian military continues to conduct air and land search operations for the two Austrian tourists whom al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb claimed to have t [...] | 2008-03-11 17:10:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC PREL TS |
| 08TUNIS257 | THE MFA'S CONTROL ISSUES [...] (S/NF) Although the Tunisian MFA is titularly responsible for coordinating bilateral cooperation, under the leadership of FM Abdallah, the Ministry has become controlling to the point of being obstructionist. Almost every demarche, program, travel or other diplomatic activity must be requeste [...] | 2008-03-13 15:51:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS312 | PRESIDENT BEN ALI TO ATTEND ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT [...] (S) On March 27, Tunis Africa Press (TAP) agency carried an official announcement that President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali will attend the Arab League Summit in Syria on March 29 - 30. The announcement represents a turnaround from earlier statements by President Ben Ali and Foreign Minister Ab [...] | 2008-03-27 17:33:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPAL LE TS |
| 08TUNIS315 | WHY TUNISIA NEEDS US FMF [...] (C/NF) On March 10, al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) announced it had kidnapped two Austrian tourists in Tunisia's southern desert region. While it remains unclear if the tourists were abducted on Tunisian soil, the threat of al-Qaeda to Tunisia is real and growing. It can [...] | 2008-03-28 11:48:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MASS PTER MARR PGOV PREL TS |
| 08TUNIS328 | TUNISIAN INSURANCE SECTOR LIBERALIZED, IN THEORY [...] (SBU) New legislation liberalizing the Tunisian insurance sector now permits 100 percent foreign ownership of insurance companies. However, President of the General Commission for Insurance Abdellatif Chabaane told American International Group, Inc. (AIG) Assistant Vice President for the Middl [...] | 2008-04-02 09:08:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV TS |
| 08TUNIS337 | OPPOSITION REJECTS PROPOSED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY [...] (C) Leaders of Tunisia's two most credible independent opposition parties told the Ambassador on March 28 that President Ben Ali's March 21 announcement regarding candidacy requirements (Ref A) was specifically designed to exclude his strongest opponents from running for president in 2009. N [...] | 2008-04-04 07:18:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS365 | REAL ESTATE IN TUNISIA: AS GOOD AS GOLD? [...] (C) As Tunis' crane-filled skyline attests, real estate development is alive and well in Tunisia. While the announcement of numerous multi-billion dollar Gulf real estate projects has been dominating the headlines, the majority of real estate development represents smaller investments by Tuni [...] | 2008-04-14 10:21:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EINV EFIN ETRD TS |
| 08TUNIS39 | SO CLOSE, YET SO FAR AWAY: TUNISIAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH) President Mokhtar Trifi on January 8 told PolOffs that while discussions with GOT officials had initially left him optimistic about prospects for resolving the almost eight year-long standoff between the GOT and the LTDH, the GOT has failed to deliver [...] | 2008-01-11 16:45:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS394 | MINING REGION CALM BUT SURROUNDED [...] (C) Summary. Following months of protests, which erupted into violent confrontations between residents and security forces in early April, the southwestern mining town of Redeyef appeared calm during EmbOffs' April 18 visit. Residents reported that while large scale protests are unlikely to c [...] | 2008-04-22 06:39:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM ELAB PGOV KDEM TS |
| 08TUNIS408 | PART II: BAD NEWS FOR TUNISIAN PRESS: OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Since March, the distribution of five editions of al-Mowqif has been blocked, putting the paper in a financially precarious situation. Opposition Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) leaders held a press conference on April 16 to announce that the editors of its Arabic-weekly al-Mowqif [...] | 2008-04-24 08:47:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS440 | HIGHER COMMISSION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: INDEPENDENT, [...] (C) During a May 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Higher Commission for Human Rights and Fundamental Liberties (HCHR) President Moncer Rouissi outlined the progress of new legislation giving the HCHR greater independence. The changes, however, look good on paper but may end up being mostly co [...] | 2008-05-02 16:08:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS448 | SCENESETTER FOR US-TUNISIA JOINT MILITARY [...] (S) Tunisian military officials, including Minister of National Defense Kamel Morjane, are looking forward to the twenty-third US-Tunisia Joint Military Commission (JMC) meetings in Washington on May 12-14. The Government of Tunisia is proud of our long history of strong military cooperation [...] | 2008-05-06 17:13:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MASS PREL PTER EAID TS |
| 08TUNIS54 | FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES: TUNISIAN OPPOSITION PARTY [...] (C) Secretary General of the opposition Popular Unity Party (PUP) Mohamed Bouchicha acknowledged to the Ambassador Jan. 15 the need to improve freedom of expression and association, but said progress should be made "without interference" by foreigners. Bouchicha added that solutions would b [...] | 2008-01-17 14:44:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS569 | ANNUAL JEWISH PILGRIMAGE PROCEEDS PEACEFULLY [...] (C) Summary: From May 22-23, between five and six thousand Jewish pilgrims visited the island of Djerba as part of an annual pilgrimage. The center of the pilgrimage is the El-Ghriba synagogue, the oldest synagogue in North Africa. The event was characterized by a visible police presence a [...] | 2008-05-28 15:46:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF KDEM KPAO IS TS |
| 08TUNIS580 | TUNISIA CONTINUES TO EXPAND INTERNET CENSORSHIP [...] (C) While publicly promoting the internet as an economic tool, the Government of Tunisia is privately blocking an increasing portion of the web. Officially, only sites that promote violence or pornography are blocked in Tunisia, but in practice, sites with content critical of the GOT, such a [...] | 2008-05-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS598 | EU ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT DEMONSTRATES BENEFITS OF [...] (SBU) With the first phase of the EU Association Agreement in effect, both the EU and the GOT are largely satisfied with the results. On January 1, Tunisia eliminated tariffs on manufactured goods -- one year ahead of schedule. Aside from the protracted negotiations on processed agricultural [...] | 2008-06-04 15:17:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ECIN XG TS |
| 08TUNIS615 | VIOLENT PROTESTS IN SOUTHERN MINING REGION LEAVE [...] (C) One person was shot and killed and several others were injured in violent protests in Redeyef on June 6. Two quite different narratives have emerged about the events: the official version, put out by GOT sources in a communique, stipulates that protesters instigated the violence by throwi [...] | 2008-06-09 18:25:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINS TS |
| 08TUNIS668 | LABOR NEGOTIATIONS INCH FORWARD [...] (SBU) On June 11, the latest effort to restart stalled labor negotiations between the General Union of Tunisian Workers (UGTT) and the Tunisian Union for Industry, Commerce, and Handicrafts (UTICA -- Tunisia's employers' union) got underway. After a series of 35 meetings over the last three m [...] | 2008-06-20 10:53:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB ECON TS |
| 08TUNIS679 | CORRUPTION IN TUNISIA: WHAT'S YOURS IS MINE [...] (S) According to Transparency International's annual survey and Embassy contacts' observations, corruption in Tunisia is getting worse. Whether it's cash, services, land, property, or yes, even your yacht, President Ben Ali's family is rumored to covet it and reportedly gets what it wants. Bey [...] | 2008-06-23 13:55:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET | ECON KCOR PGOV EINV EFIN SOCI TS |
| 08TUNIS69 | TUNISIA: 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Tunisia's 2008 Investment Climate Statement. Topics covered include: Paragraph -- Topic 2 -- Openness to Foreign Investment 12 -- Conversion and Transfer Policies 17 -- Expropriation and Compensation 18 -- Dispute Settlement 21 -- Performance Requirements and Incentives 30 -- Right to Pri [...] | 2008-01-23 13:44:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR TS |
| 08TUNIS691 | FOOD AND ENERGY SUBSIDIES PUT PRESSURE ON GOT [...] (C) With the recent spike in world commodity prices, the GOT's subsidy bill has ballooned, straining public finances. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has praised Tunisia's prudent fiscal management, which has kept budget deficits low, even with subsidies. Yet, as subsidies for energy and [...] | 2008-06-26 14:22:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV EFIN PGOV EAGR TS |
| 08TUNIS7 | Civil Society Success: Finally Hitting the Target at the [...] (SBU) This year's BMENA Parallel Civil Society Forum (PCSF - ref a) - an annual event that prepares civil society participation in the annual Forum for the Future ministerial meeting - was a significant improvement over its predecessors. Last year's parallel forum in Jordan was particularly we [...] | 2008-01-03 09:22:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KMPI GE PREL PGOV YM |
| 08TUNIS75 | 2006/2007 TERROR CELL IN TUNISIA: WHAT HAPPENED [...] (S/NF) A new narrative is emerging about the chain of events culminating in the December 2006/January 2007 disruption by Tunisian security forces of a terror cell in the southern suburbs of Tunis (Reftels). The new information derives from the public "Soliman trial," in which 30 Tunisians wer [...] | 2008-01-24 15:52:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER SOCI PINR TS |
| 08TUNIS769 | YOUTH IN TUNISIA: DREAMING ABOUT A FUTURE FAR FROM [...] (SBU) For all the advantages Tunisia seems to offer, Tunisian youth are leaving the country at a significant rate -- both legally and illegally. A recent study revealed that 41 percent of Tunisian youth hope to leave Tunisia. They leave in search of more money, better jobs, excitement, and o [...] | 2008-07-11 15:47:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | SOCI ELAB ECON PGOV SMIG TS |
| 08TUNIS78 | EXTREMISM IN TUNISIA: FERTILE GROUND? [...] (S) This is the first cable of a two part series on extremism in Tunisia; it addresses the forces behind increasing popular support for violent ideologies. Tunisia's general trend toward increased religious identification and conservatism has been marked over the past year by a relative incre [...] | 2008-01-25 11:05:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET | PTER PGOV KISL SOCI PREL KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS789 | MIXED TUNISIAN REACTION TO SARKOZY'S "CLUB MED" [...] (C) Even while Tunisia harbors aspirations to host the headquarters of the Sarkozy-backed Union for the Mediterranean (UPM),the domestic reaction to the July 13 launch of this new entity has been mixed. From the beginning, the GOT has been supportive of the initiative, but among the busine [...] | 2008-07-17 15:00:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EU TS |
| 08TUNIS79 | EXTREMISM IN TUNISIA: GETTING AT THE ROOTS [...] (S) This is the second cable of a two part series on extremism in Tunisia; it addresses GOT efforts to combat rising extremism, what threat it represents, and how the USG should respond. The GOT regularly points out that it has been fighting terrorism since the 1980s and note it has invested [...] | 2008-01-25 11:07:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET | PTER PGOV KISL SOCI PREL KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS790 | MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT AND INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) A July 10 meeting for US, UK, and Canadian Ambassadors, respective Chambers of Commerce and businesses hosted by the Ministry of Development and International Cooperation (MDIC) allowed for a healthy exchange about the Tunisian investment climate: -- All three ambassadors noted that the [...] | 2008-07-17 15:20:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON ETRD KIPR TS |
| 08TUNIS851 | PROMULGATION OF LAW RESTRICTING ELIGIBILITY OF [...] (C) President Ben Ali on July 28 approved a law changing the criteria for presidential candidates. Among those potential candidates who will now be excluded by the new eligibility requirements are Nejib Chebbi, the announced candidate of the opposition Progressive Democratic Party. Politici [...] | 2008-07-29 15:10:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS879 | WHAT'S NEXT FOR THE RCD?: RULING PARTY WRAPS UP [...] (C) The ruling Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD) held its congress, which takes place once every five years, from July 30 - August 2. The most notable development came on July 30, when President Ben Ali announced he would seek re-election for a fifth five year term in 2009. The RCD also [...] | 2008-08-05 11:20:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TS |
| 08TUNIS894 | GOVERNORS CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON YOUTH, JOBS [...] (SBU) At a July 22-23 meeting of Tunisia's 24 governors, GOT officials promised to increase recruitment of Tunisians with college degrees, with a goal of creating more than 200,000 private and public sector jobs for university graduates over the next five years. Also announced was the creati [...] | 2008-08-07 14:39:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | ELAB PGOV PINS TS |
| 08TUNIS926 | FUN WHILE IT LASTED - FACEBOOK BLOCKED FROM TUNISIA [...] (SBU) Summary. As of August 18, access to popular social networking web site Facebook has been blocked from Tunisia. Facebook joins the long list of political, human rights and social networking web sites blocked by the Tunisian authorities. End summary. 2. (SBU) Beginning on the evenin [...] | 2008-08-19 14:57:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO OEXC PHUM SCUL TS |
| 08TUNIS965 | TUNISIA DOES NOT ACCEPT THE MAURITANIAN COUP BUT [...] (C) The Ambassador raised the Mauritanian military coup during his August 29 meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdelwaheb Abdallah stressing the strong and growing opposition to it. The Minister,s said the GOT responded immediately through the Arab Maghreb Union. he also cited Tunisia [...] | 2008-08-29 18:01:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KEDM TS |
| 08TUNIS975 | TUNISIA: NINETEEN CONVICTED IN TERRORISM TRIALS [...] (C) Nineteen Tunisians have been convicted of varying degrees of involvement in terror planning in two separate trials in the past two weeks. One of the defense attorneys who represented clients in both cases offered his assessment that a few of those convicted had indeed intended to carry ou [...] | 2008-09-02 15:55:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET//NOFORN | PTER ASEC PREL TS |
| 08TUNIS986 | BEN ALI RESHUFFLES TUNISIA'S CABINET - PARTIALLY [...] (U) On August 30, President Ben Ali partially reshuffled his cabinet. The changes affect the Education, Agriculture, and Cultural Ministries among others. Rumors persist that more changes may be coming. Comments begin in paragraph 3, and biographic data on the new Ministers is in paragraph [...] | 2008-09-03 14:25:00 | Embassy Tunis | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR TS |
| 08TUNIS992 | TUNIS: BEN OMAR'S FAMILY REPORTS PSYCHOLOGICAL [...] (S) Summary: Family members of transferred Guantanamo detainee Abdallah Ben Omar report he is physically fine, but weak. He faces threats, however, about his family from Ministry of Interior officials who have shown him doctored photos in which security personnel appear to be beating his so [...] | 2008-09-04 15:48:00 | Embassy Tunis | SECRET | PREL PTER PHUM KDRG TS |
| 08ULAANBAATAR11 | Trains, Planes and Congressional Exchanges: Ambassador [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 4, the Ambassador paid an initial courtesy call on new Minister of Roads, Transportation and Tourism R. Rash. During the cordial hour-long meeting, Rash emphasized the importance of the rail sector to the country's economy and the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) C [...] | 2008-01-08 06:58:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN EAIR PREL ETRD SOCI MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR116 | IMF: 17% INFLATION THREATENS MONGOLIA'S ECONOMIC STABILITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the IMF Article IV Consultation mission that visited Ulaanbaatar last week, Mongolia's macroeconomic stability is threatened by rapidly rising inflation, measured at 17% in January and climbing. Prices are being pushed upward by increased government spending, rapid [...] | 2008-03-17 01:44:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV ETRD EINV MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR118 | MPs Buying Votes by Nationalizing Mongolia's "Strategic" [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Mongolia's Parliament and Prime Minister S. Bayar's administration have, in post's view and that of western mining firms, embraced a decidedly anti-business set of mining amendments, likely to be passed during an upcoming recess session of Parliament. The amendments are po [...] | 2008-03-19 23:49:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL EAID ECON EFIN PGOV MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR136 | MONGOLIA'S OPPOSITION PARTY STALLS PARLIAMENT'S MINING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recess session of Mongolia's Parliament on key amendments to the Law on Mineral Resources was over almost as soon as it began on March 25, with the opposition Democratic Party (DP) effectively postponing debate. Minutes after the start of the session, the (DP) chief of the Sta [...] | 2008-03-27 07:12:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EINV PREL ECON EFIN PGOV MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR138 | BABY STEPS FOR MONGOLIA'S FIU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Mongolia's (GOM) effort to establish an effective Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU),as required under the nation's first Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism legislation (AML/CFT) passed in July 2006, has been slow going, but there hav [...] | 2008-03-28 04:50:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PTER ECON PREL SCUL SNAR KPAO MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR150 | MONGOLIA'S OPPOSITION PARTY LEADER EVALUATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Democratic Party Chairman Ts. Elbegdorj, the head of Mongolia's biggest opposition force, told the Ambassador on April 1 that differences remain within his party over how best to develop Mongolia's mineral resources, despite a March 12 announcement by Elbegdorj and Prime Minister [...] | 2008-04-04 03:38:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EMIN ECON MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR159 | (C) MFA, GIA REPS SAY MONGOLIA WON'T DEPORT DPRK [...] (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Senior officials of Mongolia's General Intelligence Agency (GIA) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),in separate early-April meetings, offered somewhat divergent views on a number of DPRK refugee-related issues, but both denied that the Mongolian Government has cha [...] | 2008-04-11 08:48:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | SECRET | PREF SMIG PREL KMCA PHUM PINR MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR17 | For Mongolia's Green Party, Hope Springs Eternal [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mongolia's Green Party hopes for a political resurrection in upcoming parliamentary elections, after more than 15 years of disappointments. The party's new co-chair, successful businessman Dr. D. Enkhbat, feels the Greens could finally benefit from widespread anger at the major [...] | 2008-01-14 06:55:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID SOCI SENV MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR170 | PREPARATIONS PROCEEDING FOR MONGOLIAN PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) Mongolia's General Election Commission (GEC) indicated on April 21 that its preparations for the June 29 Parliamentary elections are coming along smoothly, and announced that registered voters can now look up their registration information at the Commission's website. Post confirmed that [...] | 2008-04-21 08:29:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR174 | MONGOLIA'S KHENTII PROVINCE: ONE FOR THE ROAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mongolia's eastern Khentii province, proud birthplace of Chinggis Khan, is developing rapidly, with new hotels and restaurants, plans to become a tourist destination, and a soon-to-be-completed road linking the provincial capital, Undurhkaan, with Ulaanbaatar. Electrification ha [...] | 2008-04-23 08:34:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM ENRG KWMN MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR177 | IN MONGOLIA, THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST HIGH FOOD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sharply rising prices for staple foods prompted approximately 4,000 demonstrators to take to the streets April 18 in the heart of Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar. Led by the National Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions, protestors demanded 40-50% price cuts for bread and flo [...] | 2008-04-24 08:19:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM EAGR MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR182 | UNHCR REP: MONGOLIA WILL NOT/NOT FORCE REFUGEES [...] (C) SUMMARY: UNHCR's Regional Rep for China and Mongolia, Veerapong Vongvarotai, visited the Embassy on April 24 and said UNHCR has appealed to the South Korean Government to reconsider its refusal to admit three North Korean refugees currently in Mongolia. Veerapong said it is "not possible" [...] | 2008-04-25 08:11:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF SMIG PHUM PREL PGOV ECON EAID SOCI MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR2 | Mongolia's Coal: Dispelling That Old Black Magic [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A few Mongolian officials claim that Mongolia's coal deposits stretch west to east in an unbroken (and unsubstantiated) 170-billion ton belt of untapped hydrocarbon wonder. However, Western firms actively prospecting for both thermal and coking coal argue that Mongolia's coal re [...] | 2008-01-02 06:40:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN PREL ELTN ETRD MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR202 | JAPANESE EMBOFFS EXCHANGE VIEWS ON RECENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japanese DCM Kobayashi met with the Charge on May 1 for an exchange of views across the full array of Mongolian domestic and bilateral issues. On Mongolia,s June 29 Parliamentary elections, Japan believes that the post-election Parliament will look a lot like it does at present. [...] | 2008-05-01 09:14:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG KCOR ECON MG JP KN KS |
| 08ULAANBAATAR205 | IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY [...] (SBU) 1. SUMMARY: Prices of Mongolia's chief staples have risen more than 33% over the last year, with flour spiking nearly 45% year-on-year. As most of these staples are imported, Mongolia has suffered from inflation related to rising energy and related transport costs. Other factors exacerb [...] | 2008-05-02 07:57:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV SOCI EAID ETRD ECON PREL MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR219 | MONGOLIA'S ACTIVE CAMPAIGN SEASON OPENS "OFFICIALLY"; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The campaign season formally opened on May 14 for Mongolia's Parliamentary elections, and the independent General Election Commission (GEC) confirmed that the elections would be held on June 29. Up for grabs are all 76 seats in Parliament; a close contest is expected between the [...] | 2008-05-14 10:32:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR221 | MONGOLIAN PM'S PLAN TO LOWER GAS PRICES BACKFIRES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: In an effort to bolster his party's prospects in the run-up to June 29 Parliamentary elections, Mongolian Prime Minister Bayar embraced a plan to keep gas prices under control by allowing a Russian oil giant to set up 100 gas stations throughout Mongolia. The plan ha [...] | 2008-05-16 01:26:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EINV PREL ECON EFIN PGOV KPKO MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR226 | MONGOLIAN MILITARY WELCOMES RUSSIAN HARDWARE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the latest sign of closer relations between Mongolia and Russia, the Mongolian Armed Forces have reorganized their Peace Support Battalion (PSB) structure to reflect the planned arrival, starting in 2009, of at least 40 Russian BRT-80 armored personnel carriers. The diesel-pow [...] | 2008-05-19 02:46:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | MASS PREL KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV ECON MG RU |
| 08ULAANBAATAR227 | EMBASSY SUPPORTS PEABODY IN MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENT, PM; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Visiting Peabody Energy President for Northeast Asia, accompanied by the Charge and Peabody reps, met separately with Prime Minister Bayar on May 8 and President Enkhbayar on May 9. They underscored Peabody's continued interest in doing business in Mongolia and delivered draft r [...] | 2008-05-19 09:20:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EINV PREL ECON EFIN PGOV MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR234 | MONGOLIA LAUNCHES FOOD SAFETY INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Calling 2008 the "Year of Food Supply and Safety," the Mongolian Government has launched a new program to improve food-handling procedures, raise awareness of food-quality issues, and decrease the country's dependence on imported food. The program, which comes in response to sky [...] | 2008-05-22 08:48:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV PGOV EAGR SOCI MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR243 | OPPOSITION LEADER ELBEGDORG TO PEABODY ENERGY: NO POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Peabody Energy's President for Northeast Asia, Mr. Tahir Tayeb, along with Peabody reps and Econoff, met on May 9 with the leader of Mongolia's opposition Democratic Party, Ts. Elbegdorj, and shared a copy of Peabody's draft study of recommendations for a framework for the development of [...] | 2008-05-27 22:40:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EINV PREL ECON EFIN PGOV MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR264 | MONGOLIA ADDS NEW AIR CORRIDORS, CASHES IN ON AMPLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mongolia's Civil Aviation Authority (MCAA) has added three new air corridors and entry/exit points to accommodate 30% annual increases in air traffic and the expected 40% spike in flyovers during the Beijing Olympics. Approximately 200 flights pass over Mongolia each day (30 ori [...] | 2008-06-04 21:49:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PGOV ECON AMGT MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR276 | FINANCE MINISTER OUTLINES INFLATION GOALS, TACTICS; DONORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 15, Finance Minister Ulaan outlined the Government of Mongolia's (GOM) assessment of the growing inflation problem, Mongolia's worst since 1996. He outlined the GOM's responses to higher petroleum, meat, and flour prices. The following week, in response to a GOM request, [...] | 2008-06-11 00:27:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV ETRD EINV MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR282 | NGO Reports 1/3 of Mongolia's Urban Households Lack Access [...] SUMMARY: A recent Mercy Corps study has found that one third of Mongolia's urban households are "food insecure," meaning they do not have access to enough sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs. Poverty and unemployment are key contributing factors. Residents of prov [...] | 2008-06-12 09:15:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR PGOV SOCI EAID ETRD ECON PREL MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR285 | OUT OF STEPPE: DISABLED MONGOLIANS STRUGGLE TO INTEGRATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Disabled Mongolians face serious obstacles to full participation in society, despite advances in special education and societal awareness. Many of these obstacles are infrastructure-related. The elation that many disabled Mongolians felt in August 2007, when Parliament passed n [...] | 2008-06-13 01:47:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM EAID SOCI PGOV KOCI KGLB AMED SCUL ECON MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR309 | EMBASSY'S FIRST EVER SHOWING AT MONGOLIAN TRADE FAIR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy Ulaanbaatar's Commercial Section has for the first time participated in a major Mongolian trade show. The Embassy's booth displayed promotional materials and brochures from over 40 American firms, mostly related to construction. Local construction companies asked about im [...] | 2008-06-23 00:22:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BEXP PGOV ETRD EINV MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR310 | MONGOLIA'S DECISION CYCLE ON TIMING FOR POST-UNSCR [...] (S) As requested in reftels, the Ambassador, DCM, E/P Chief, and DATT have approached counter-parts in the Government of Mongolia (GOM),to include the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' State Secretary and the Acting Director General for the Americas, Middle East, and Africa, the Foreign Policy Ad [...] | 2008-06-23 04:58:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | SECRET | MARR PREL IZ MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR32 | MRPR CABINET MINISTERS REQUIRED TO SIGN ETHICS AGREEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: With Parliamentary elections scheduled for June and public concern running high over corruption, the ruling Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) has announced that all MPRP Cabinet and Vice Ministers signed an ethics agreement on January 17. The agreement ob [...] | 2008-01-24 03:26:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCOR ECON MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR322 | VOTING GOES SMOOTHLY IN MONGOLIAQS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Voting in MongoliaQs Parliamentary elections went smoothly and ended on schedule at 10 pm on Sunday, June 29; election authorities then started the lengthy process of vote-counting. Preliminary returns were not expected to be available until well into June 30, at the earliest. [...] | 2008-06-30 00:54:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR33 | UNHCR PLANS TWO NEW DPRK SHELTERS IN MONGOLIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the request of Mongolia's Border Force, UNHCR is planning to establish two new shelters in eastern Mongolia for DPRK refugees, UNHCR Senior Regional Protection Officer Nai Jit Lam told us on January 23. Lam said the two shelters will each cost around $35,000, contain 25 to 30 [...] | 2008-01-24 03:30:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KREF EAID PHUM MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR340 | June Elections Could Jeopardize Recent Reforms of [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-10 08:55:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON EFIN PGOV EPET MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR341 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT ENKHBAYAR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador called on President Enkhbayar on July 10 to deliver President Bush,s national day message (reftel) and to seek President Enkhbayar,s views regarding recent political upheaval in Mongolia and the planned duration of Mongolia,s 10th troop rotation in Iraq. Enkhbayar [...] | 2008-07-10 09:29:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON MARR IZ MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR355 | Candidate Profile: On the Campaign Trail--The Mongol Way [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Advisor to the Minister of Industry and Trade, S.Otgonbat (strictly protect) shared his experience as a campaign manager for J. Enkbayar, an upstart Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) businessman in his 30's and a candidate in Mongolia's remote southwestern [...] | 2008-07-21 00:17:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PHUM KCOR PGOV KMCA SOCI MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR360 | MONGOLIA'S EASTERN-STEPPE GRASSLANDS FACE CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On a visit to Mongolia's eastern steppe grasslands from July 18-21, the Ambassador met with conservationists, government officials and local residents, and heard concerns about the threats to the local habitat and its inhabitants. Temperate grasslands constitute a globally impor [...] | 2008-07-23 08:20:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EMIN ENRG PGOV ECON EFIN EPET MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR362 | Mongolian Uranium Deposit Update [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Western Prospector Group (WP) CEO Eric Bohren (protect) discussed uranium mining issues in Mongolia with Emboffs on July 10 and discussed his company's near-term plans and the uranium mining business. Bohren made clear that Western Prospector, a Vancouver-based firm, remains int [...] | 2008-07-25 02:00:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL KNNP SENV EMIN EINV KIDE MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR381 | DISAGREEMENT CRESTS BETWEEN MONGOLIAN PARTIES OVER [...] (SBU) Over five weeks have passed since violent protests left five dead and hundreds injured, landed nearly 200 protesters in detention without being charged, and burned the HQ of the Mongolian People,s Revolutionary Party (MPRP). The political situation has not moved far beyond allegations st [...] | 2008-08-07 10:20:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCOR EMIN SOCI MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR396 | AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE FOLLOWING BIRD DEATHS IN MONGOLIA [...] (U) SUMMARY. Tissue samples from dead wild birds in northern and western Mongolia have tested negative for the H5 strain of Avian Influenza (AI). Initial testing following a suspicious bird die-off yielded a suspect sample, but further testing by the Mongolian State Central Veterinary Laborat [...] | 2008-08-20 08:48:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO CASC EAID PGOV SENV KFLU MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR500 | U.S. SUPPORT FOR FIGHTING FLU IN MONGOLIA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Mongolia's recent national influenza workshop demonstrated that U.S. support for both a Mongolian influenza surveillance network and an assessment of the country's pandemic readiness is helping the government address several needs. On the surveillance front, U.S. funding has allo [...] | 2008-11-10 00:40:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR521 | Global Financial Meltdown Dissolves Mongolian Resistance to [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The global financial crisis and steep declines in commodity prices are threatening Mongolia's aspirations to become a mining power. However, the crisis might be helping the new government and parliament overcome the crippling inertia that has afflicted them from 2006 up through [...] | 2008-12-01 03:19:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV PREL ETRD EMIN ENRG MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR524 | U.S. DOE IS SECURING MONGOLIA'S BORDERS [...] (U) SUMMARY. U.S. Department of Energy-provided radiation detection portals are now operational at Ulaanbaatar's international airport, as well as at Mongolia's borders with Russia (rail at Sukhbaatar and vehicle at Altanbulag) and China (rail and vehicle at Zamiin-Uud). A November 14 inaugur [...] | 2008-12-03 02:23:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PREL EAID MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR536 | MONGOLIA'S FINANCIAL SYSTEM STILL STANDING AFTER A [...] (C) SUMMARY. Mongolia's financial system has been rocked in recent days by a rapid decline in the local currency's value and the subsequent insolvency of its fourth largest bank. Some quick moves by the central bank to maintain the dollar supply and largely calm, even-handed responses by the [...] | 2008-12-12 08:54:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PREL MG PGOV |
| 08ULAANBAATAR63 | FORWARD MOVEMENT ON GSP ISSUES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After almost two years of prodding by Post and USTR, Mongolia looks set to implement a GSP Handicrafts agreement that will allow duty-free export to the U.S. of two Mongolian hand-made items. (The five items previously covered by the agreement have become MFN duty-free). Now t [...] | 2008-02-04 08:11:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL EAID ECON EFIN PGOV MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR64 | MONGOLIAN WOMEN SEETHING OVER QUOTA ELIMINATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Women's activists have filed a complaint with Mongolia's Constitutional Court following Parliament's scrapping of a requirement that at least 30 percent of any party's candidates for national elections be women. The complaint, filed on January 31, argues that in eliminating the [...] | 2008-02-05 00:28:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN PGOV SOCI MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR68 | 2007 Mining Sector Wrap Up: One Step Forward, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: MongoliaQs mining sector took a wild ride in 2007 as alarming setbacks overshadowed promising advances made earlier in the year. Major achievements included a deal on a stability agreement with Ivanhoe/Rio Tinto to develop the promising Oyu Tolgoi copper mine, and the appointme [...] | 2008-02-06 01:49:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN PREL SENV ELTN ETRD CA MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR7 | Ambassador Pays Initial Call on Prime Minister Bayar [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During the Ambassador's initial official courtesy call January 4 on Prime Minister Bayar, Bayar said he hoped to make already excellent U.S.-Mongolian relations even better. He reiterated President Enkhbayar's invitation to President Bush to visit Mongolia, and he reconfirmed Mo [...] | 2008-01-04 08:51:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR ETRD SOCI MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR72 | SOUTH GOBI SUFFERS POWER, HEAT OUTAGE AMID BITTER COLD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The failure of two transmission lines from the sole power plant in the southern Mongolian province of Omnogovi left around 35,000 residents without heat or electricity from February 4 through 7, as outside temperatures plummeted to -30F. A team of electricians from Ulaanbaatar [...] | 2008-02-07 09:15:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EMIN PREL SENV OVIP MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR8 | Ambassador Calls on Chief Cabinet Secretary N. Enkhbold [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador paid an initial courtesy call January 7 on Chief Cabinet Secretary N. Enkhbold, who, until recently, served as Mongolia's Foreign Minister. The Ambassador thanked Enkhbold for the Government of Mongolia's (GOM) recent decision to send a 9th full troop rotation to [...] | 2008-01-08 00:35:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR ETRD SOCI MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR81 | ROK, CHINA EYE EXPANDED AIR LINKS WITH MONGOLIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a February 13 courtesy call on the Ambassador, the new CEO of Mongolia-based EZnis Airways revealed that the South Korean Government and China's Civil Aviation Authority have made informal inquires to the Mongolian Government regarding the possible expansion of air service [...] | 2008-02-15 00:40:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PGOV ECON MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR89 | FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES 6 PARTY TALKS, IRAQ, KOSOVO, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: FM Oyun told the Ambassador over dinner February 22 that Russia and the other six party talks (6PT) members had responded favorably to Mongolia's proposal to host the next 6PT Peace and Security Working Group (PSWG) meeting. Regarding the recent announcement that the Government [...] | 2008-02-25 01:29:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON MARR PGOV MG IQ |
| 08ULAANBAATAR9 | Ambassador Pays Initial Call on Ulaanbaatar Mayor Bilegt [...] (U) The Ambassador, during his January 7 courtesy call on newly appointed Ulaanbaatar Governor and Mayor Bilegt, congratulated Bilegt and passed to him White House photos taken when Bilegt, then Head of the President's Office, accompanied President Enkhbayar on his summit visit to the U.S. in O [...] | 2008-01-08 00:37:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SENV EAID MG |
| 08ULAANBAATAR90 | THEY'RE BA-ACK! RUSSIANS RE-ENGAGE MONGOLIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russia has recently focused renewed attention on the Russia-Mongolia relationship. Russia recently offered to equip Mongolia with around $120 million worth of military hardware, possibly including pushing Mongolia to take two MiG-29 fighter jets.. Less conspicuous, but no less [...] | 2008-02-25 08:33:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON MARR ETRD EMIN EPET PBTS EAID KIDE KCOR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA129 | IAEA/IRAN: EU-3 PREPARED TO SPONSOR A BOARD [...] (S) At a UK hosted-meeting on February 26, like-minded COMs (P3 1, Canada, Australia and Japan) agreed to pursue a Board of Governor's resolution on Iran assuming adoption of a UNSCR on Friday, February 29. The EU-3 agreed to prepare a draft. In order to mitigate any risk of interfering with [...] | 2008-02-27 13:24:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | KNPP PARM IAEA IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA140 | IAEA/GC: ARAB LEAGUE SEEKS DIALOGUE ON ISRAELI [...] (C) Arab League representative Wael Al-Assad met with like-minded Missions (EU-3, U.S., Australia, Norway, Japan) on February 21 to discuss the General Conference (GC) resolution on the "Israeli Nuclear Threat" (INT). Al-Assad appealed for dialogue with those Missions that had successfully opp [...] | 2008-02-28 15:27:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA KNPP AORC IS EG |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA154 | IAEA/IRAN/BOG: CUBA AND IRAN VS. THE REST OF THE [...] (C) The March 5 Board of Governors deliberations on Iran's nuclear program stepped up pressure on Iran to comply with UNSC and Board requirements, and to address weaponization activities cited by the Director General. The DG delivered a typically balanced opening statement, regretting that Ira [...] | 2008-03-07 07:56:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | KNPP IAEA AORC PARM IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA165 | IAEA: WEOG STONEWALLS ON ISRAEL,S MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Following up on the effort during the U.S. WEOG Chairmanship last fall (Ref B) to extend membership to Israel, the Australian Chair relayed a formal request from Israel to the group. In a February 19 WEOG meeting, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain and Finland raised reserv [...] | 2008-03-14 08:57:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC IAEA KNPP IS |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA185 | IAEA/IRAN: P5+1 CONSIDER "WHAT NEXT?" [...] (C) At a U.S. hosted meeting of P5 1 Ambassadors on March 26, the EU-3 shared their assessments of the March Board and considered next steps on Iran in the lead up to the June Board. Ambassador Schulte underlined the need to support the Secretariat's investigation of past weaponization activit [...] | 2008-03-27 17:33:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | PARM AROC IAEA KNNP IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA215 | IAEA: HAYWARD DELEGATION TOUR D,HORIZON WITH SENIOR AGENCY OFFICIALS Classified By: Ambassador Gregory L. Schulte for reasons 1.4 b,d and h Summary -------- [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-16 10:30:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM AORC IAEA KNPP IR KN |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA240 | IAEA/IRAN: FRANCE PUSHES P5+1 FOR AN EXPERTS [...] (C) Summary: At a French-hosted meeting April 22, P5 1 COMs exchanged views on Iran developments post-Shanghai and expectations for forthcoming Iran-IAEA discussions on weaponization. The UK, Germany and U.S. were skeptical of this latest development while Russia and China predictably highli [...] | 2008-04-25 13:41:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM AORC KNPP IAEA IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA264 | IAEA/SYRIA: THE CASE OF THE MISSING REACTOR [...] (S) The Syria Al-Kibar nuclear-reactor storm passed quickly over Vienna the week of April 21 when the USG made public information about the reactor and the Israeli attack, and briefed the IAEA Secretariat on our information. Syria immediately circulated a letter to Arab Group members denying [...] | 2008-05-08 15:32:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | IAEA AROC ENRG KNNP MNUC TRGY SY IS |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA271 | IAEA/IRAN: ACTING U/S ROOD DISCUSSES A POSSIBLE [...] (S) Over lunch with P5 1 Ambassadors May 6, Acting U/S Rood pressed for a Board resolution on Iran in June. The EU-3 agreed that Board and UNSC actions were complimentary and not mutually exclusive; the UK was particularly frustrated by the lack of Board action. EU-3 members joined the Actin [...] | 2008-05-13 06:32:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | PARM AORC KNPP IAEA IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA274 | IAEA/IRAN: BUSHEHR SAFETY ISSUES; POSSIBLE DELAY [...] (U) This cable contains recommendations and guidance requests. See paras 15 and 16. ------- Summary ------- 2. (S) IAEA safety officials have been reviewing the Russian-drafted Safety Analysis Report (SAR) on Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). Although they are being very ti [...] | 2008-05-13 14:29:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | ENRG KNNP IAEA UNVIE RS IR OSCE |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA283 | IAEA/IRAN: ACTING U/S ROOD DISCUSSIONS WITH DG AND [...] (S) Acting U/S for Arms Control and International Security John Rood discussed the state-of-play on Iran May 6 with IAEA Director General ElBaradei and Safeguards DDG Olli Heinonen. ElBaradei stressed the need for a face saving measure on suspension and said the P5 1, minus the U.S., should del [...] | 2008-05-19 07:34:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | PARM AORC KNPP IAEA IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA284 | IAEA: U/S ROOD TOUR D,HORIZON WITH DG ELBARADEI [...] (C) In a series of meetings with IAEA Director General ElBaradei and Secretariat officials May 6, Acting U/S for Arms Control and International Security John Rood discussed priority issues on the U.S. agenda: nuclear safeguards in the DPRK and India; reliable access to nuclear fuel (RANF) and [...] | 2008-05-19 08:23:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | AORC PARM ENRG TRGY KNPP KN |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA290 | IAEA/SYRIA: SETTING THE STAGE FOR THE JUNE BOARD [...] (S) During a series of technical briefings on Syria May 16 and 19, following up on discussions during his Washington consultations, Ambassador Schulte canvassed Board member views on discussion of Syria in the June Board. Ambassador Schulte outlined U.S. objectives for the Board: to spotlight [...] | 2008-05-20 18:09:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | PARM MNUC AORC KNPP SY IS |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA31 | IAEA/IRAN: TIME TO KILL THE WORK PLAN? [...] (C) Summary: Like-minded Ambassadors and Charges (P3 1, Australia, Canada, Japan) took stock of the DG's weekend trip to Tehran and the status of the work plan in a January 15 Australian-hosted meeting. All agreed that the DG had not made any breakthrough on key issues (disclosure of the past [...] | 2008-01-17 15:05:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | IAEA KNPP PARM IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA343 | IAEA/GC: ONE MIDDLE EAST, TWO RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) Both Egypt and the Arab League have circulated their respective draft IAEA General Conference resolutions (paras 27-28). The revised Egyptian text purports to be based on consensus UNGA language and incorporates some of the French-proposed amendments rejected last year, but is still not a [...] | 2008-06-13 08:33:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC PARM AORC KNPP IS EG |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA37 | IAEA/IRAN: DG TELLS STEINMEIER IRAN NOT READY TO [...] (S) Summary: DG ElBaradei did most of the talking in his January 17 meeting with German FM Steinmeier and made a hard sell against passage of a punitive UNSCR, which he argued would empower hardliners in Iran. Steinmeier pushed back and also made strong public comments underscoring the intern [...] | 2008-01-18 15:56:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | PARM KNPP AORC IAEA IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA373 | IAEA: U/S BURNS DISCUSSIONS WITH DG ELBARADEI [...] (S) Summary: IAEA DG ElBaradei told U/S Burns June 23 that he would encourage Iran to take advantage of the P5 1 offer. ElBaradei focused almost exclusively on the freeze element of the P5 1 way forward paper, in the hope that it would help re-start negotiations. U/S Burns cautioned that th [...] | 2008-07-03 13:23:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | AORC PARM MNUC TGRY KNPP KN SY IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA377 | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING NORWAY'S [...] (C) Ambassador Schulte passed on the U.S. talking points to the Norwegians regarding their proposal for safety training in Iran and received a positive response. IAEA is moving ahead with plans for the program which includes training, workshops and on-the-job rotations in other countries for [...] | 2008-07-08 07:39:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG KNNP IAEA RS IR OSCE |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA392 | INDIA/IAEA SAFEGUARDS - GETTING TO YES IN THE BOARD [...] (C) Mission has been seeking expeditious consideration of the India-IAEA Safeguards Agreement, which we now expect to come before the Board on August 1 (reftel). Like-minded allies advise that successful Board approval and next steps to make the initiative a reality will require a multi-facete [...] | 2008-07-14 08:02:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY IN |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA395 | IAEA: DG CONCERNED ABOUT INDIA AGREEMENT; SEEKS [...] (S) SUMMARY: Responding to ref A demarche, IAEA DG ElBaradei assured Ambassador Schulte on July 14 that he will continue to support the India safeguards agreement and hoped for consensus at the August 1 Board of Governors but indicated Pakistan could be problematic. He urged the U.S. to high [...] | 2008-07-14 15:43:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | AORC PARM MNUC TGRY KNPP KN SY IR IN |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA413 | WASSENAAR ARRANGEMENT: MAY 29 OUTREACH MEETING WITH ISRAEL [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 29, the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) held an Outreach meeting with Israel, on the margins of the May 26-28 General Working Group meeting. Officials from Israel's Ministries of Defense (MOD),Foreign Affairs (MFA),and Industry, Trade, and Labor (MOITAL) participated in t [...] | 2008-07-22 14:18:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KSTC PARM PREL IS |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA417 | IAEA SHARES COST ESTIMATE FOR INDIA SAFEGUARDS [...] (C) Summary: The IAEA Secretariat has shared with us on a confidential basis their estimates for the near term costs of implementing safeguards in India as part of the US-India nuclear deal, which could total Euro 19 million by 2016. Speaking with DCM on July 23, Deputy Director General Heinon [...] | 2008-07-24 12:58:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG IAEA KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY ETTC IN |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA430 | IAEA/BOARD: PAKISTAN WILL NOT BLOCK INDIA [...] (S) Summary: Speaking on instructions, Pakistani Ambassador Shahbaz advised Ambassador Schulte on July 30 that Pakistan would not call for a vote or block Board approval of the India agreement. Ambassador Schulte repeatedly pressed him to withdraw his letter on the India agreement but Shahbaz [...] | 2008-07-30 13:10:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | ENRG IAEA KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY ETTC IN PK |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA445 | IAEA/SYRIA: AS KAZAKHS DAWDLE, AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Kazakhstan is still not prepared to challenge Syria's candidacy for the open MESA seat on the Board of Governors (2008-2010) absent a "100 percent" guarantee of victory, Kazakh Ambassador Abdrakhmanov told Ambassador Schulte August 6. He continued to stress Arab support for Syria, despite [...] | 2008-08-07 15:34:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP PREL AORC IAEA KZ AF SY |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA448 | IAEA/SAL: PLUTONIUM "EXPLOSION" AT THE NUCLEAR LAB [...] (C) Summary. A contamination incident occurred at the IAEA's Safeguards Analytic Laboratory in Seibersdorf on August 3, in which five plutonium reference solution vials exploded due to a buildup of gases, primarily hydrogen. The vials, which were 15 years old, built up gases to an estimate [...] | 2008-08-08 13:49:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA453 | IAEA/BOG: MESA REBUFFS KAZAKHSTAN; AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Acting on instructions, Kazakhstan sought to present its candidacy for the 2008-2010 open MESA seat on the Board of Governors to Indian MESA Chair Kumar, but was rebuffed by Kumar who disputed Kazakhstan's eligibility and bona fides as a MESA group member. The IAEA Statute is silent on MES [...] | 2008-08-14 06:15:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP PREL AORC IAEA KZ AF SY |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA454 | IAEA/BOG: MESA REBUFFS KAZAKHSTAN; AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Acting on instructions, Kazakhstan sought to present its candidacy for the 2008-2010 open MESA seat on the Board of Governors to Indian MESA Chair Kumar, but was rebuffed by Kumar who disputed Kazakhstan's eligibility and bona fides as a MESA group member. The IAEA Statute is silent on MES [...] | 2008-08-14 06:15:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP PREL AORC IAEA KZ AF SY |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA459 | IAEA/INDIA: ENCOURAGING SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS [...] (C) Summary. In an August 14 meeting with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director of External Relations and Policy Coordination (EXPO) Vilmos Cserveny, Ambassador Schulte raised the need for India and the IAEA to achieve "substantial progress" toward concluding an Additional Prot [...] | 2008-08-14 15:20:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC IAEA IN KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA461 | IAEA/BOG: THREE, POSSIBLY FOUR, MESA SEAT [...] (SBU) Summary: Iran announced its candidacy for an IAEA Board of Governors seat 2008-2010 during a regional group meeting August 14 that also addressed the Syrian and Afghan candidacies. Arab members of the Middle East/South Asia (MESA) group, nine of the current 15 members, continued to ba [...] | 2008-08-18 15:31:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP PREL AORC IAEA KZ AF SY IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA488 | IAEA/DG: ELBARADEI (FOR NOW) WILL NOT SEEK A NEW [...] (U) According to an official memorandum circulated by the Chairman of the Board of Governors on the Appointment of the Director General (GOV/2008/44) and posted on September 5, IAEA Director General ElBaradei will not/not seek a further term of office upon the expiration of his current term on [...] | 2008-09-05 12:12:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AORC IAEA KNNP ENRG TRGY |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA494 | SUBJ: IAEA/BOG: SEEKING AN IRAN RESOLUTION IN [...] (S) Another negative IAEA Director General's report on Iran, as expected in advance of the September Board, will strengthen the argument for further censure of Iran for its failure to cooperate with the ongoing IAEA investigation, in particular the IAEA effort to pursue evidence of military/we [...] | 2008-09-10 13:20:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | AORC KNNP IAEA IR CA |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA504 | TALIBAN TO BAN OPIUM IN AFGHANISTAN?? [...] (C) Ambassador delivered Ref A talking points on eradication to UNODC Executive Director Antonio Costa on September 11. He urged Costa to clarify publicly UNODC's continuing support for a balanced, comprehensive eradication policy in Afghanistan. Ambassador also highlighted USG support to a [...] | 2008-09-12 14:42:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR PREL NATO PTER AF UN |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA511 | IAEA/IRAN: P5+1 WILL TAKE CUES FROM POLDIRS ON [...] (C) In a German-hosted P5 1 Ambassadors meeting on September 16, no members of the group were instructed as to a possible Iran resolution at next week's IAEA Board meeting, and all awaited the scheduled September 19 5 1 Political Directors meeting for guidance. While Germany appealed for a Bo [...] | 2008-09-16 17:36:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | AORC IAEA KNNP IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA513 | UNCITRAL WORKING GROUP REVISES MODEL LAW ON PROCUREMENT [...] (U) The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group I (Procurement) met in Vienna September 8-12, 2008 to discuss proposed reforms to the UNCITRAL model procurement law. For the past several years, the Working Group on Procurement has been engaged in an effor [...] | 2008-09-18 11:06:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AORC EAID EINV ETRD KCRM KUNR UNCITRAL AU UN |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA523 | VIENNA'S FRIENDS OF AFGHANISTAN ON COMPACT AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-25 11:48:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | AF AS AU CA EAID FR IT KCRM NL NO PREL |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA545 | IAEA/BOG: OCTOBER SESSION APPROVES DG ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-09 11:29:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC IAEA KNPP MNUC PREL UN |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA55 | IAEA/IRAN: ISRAEL IN THE DOG HOUSE WITH DG, [...] (S) Israeli Ambassador Michaeli informed Nuclear Counselor January 30 that the GOI is in a "bad situation" with the DG. ElBaradei is refusing to meet with any representative of the current Israeli government with the exception of Michaeli, following an unauthorized remark on the part of an Isra [...] | 2008-01-31 09:57:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | IAEA KNPP AORC PARM IR IS |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA583 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES ELBARADEI ON EARLY REPORT ON [...] (S) In an October 31 meeting with IAEA Director General Mohammed ElBaradei, Ambassador Schulte reiterated the U.S. request for a written report to the IAEA Board of Governors, under a Syria-specific verification agenda item, detailing the Agency's ongoing investigation into Syrian clandestine [...] | 2008-11-03 06:52:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | KNNP IAEA AORC IR SY KN |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA584 | IAEA TECHNICAL COOPERATION: IRAN, SYRIA, BURMA [...] (C) On October 28, the IAEA officially released the documentation for the 2009-2011 Technical Cooperation cycle in advance of the November Technical Assistance Cooperation Committee (TACC) and Board of Governors meetings. All documentation released on the IAEA's GOVATOM restricted distributio [...] | 2008-11-03 06:52:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY AORC IR SY BM |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA589 | WASSENAAR ARRANGEMENT: GENERAL WORKING GROUP [...] (C) Summary: Discussions at the October meeting of the Wassenaar Arrangement's (WA) General Working Group (GWG) were limited. Russia's video presentation on arms sales to Georgia was the only controversial issue discussed; Ukraine and the U.S. spoke in response. The U.S. proposal to conduct [...] | 2008-11-07 16:07:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KSTC PARM |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA590 | ANSWERING THE MAIL ON SUPPORT TO IAEA SAMPLE [...] (S) Summary and Recommendation: The IAEA is proceeding toward expansion of the Clean Laboratory at the Safeguards Analytical Laboratories (SAL) in Seibersdorf to house an Ultra-High Sensitivity (UHS-SIMS) mass spectrometer. The Japanese Government has agreed to fund the UHS-SIMS machine, and [...] | 2008-11-07 16:45:00 | UNVIE | SECRET//NOFORN | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA604 | IAEA/TC: STATUS UPDATE ON PROPOSED SYRIA NUCLEAR [...] (S) The IAEA Department of Safeguards recently circulated a confidential internal memo (strictly protect) outlining Safeguards Department concerns with the Syrian technical cooperation (TC) project proposal entitled "Conducting a Technical and Economic Feasibility Study and Site Selection for [...] | 2008-11-14 16:39:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY AORC SY |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA611 | IAEA/TC: LIKE-MINDED MOVE TOWARD CONSENSUS ON [...] (S) SUMMARY: On November 18, Mission met with like-minded counterparts to discuss the Agency's request to approve a Syrian technical cooperation (TC) project SYR/0/020 Conducting a Technical and Economic Feasibility Study and Site Selection for a Nuclear Power Plant during the November 24-2 [...] | 2008-11-19 12:15:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY AORC SY |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA616 | IAEA/SYRIA/IRAN: PRE-BOARD ENGAGEMENT WITH BOARD [...] (SBU) Ambassador Schulte hosted consultations with 16 Board members (Russia, China, Algeria, Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, Finland, Germany, India, Iraq, Ireland, Lithuania, Mexico, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland) on November 20 to solicit views on the Iran and Syria reports and next ste [...] | 2008-11-20 17:27:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA PREL KNNP TRGY SY IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA622 | UNIDO: POTENTIAL PARTNER ON CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT REFORMS [...] (U) The UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has implemented a substantial reform over the last decade that has improved its efficiency and relevance, making it a potential partner for the U.S. on issues like climate change and energy as well as a useful exemplar for the reform of ot [...] | 2008-11-25 13:36:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND ENRG EAID UNIDO UNDP UNEP AORC KUNR KGHG |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA628 | IAEA/IRAN: TECHNICAL BRIEFING LARGELY REPEATS [...] (SBU) On November 21, Ops B Director Herman Nackaerts provided Member States a technical briefing on the Director General's (DG) report on Iran that largely repeated the same points covered in the report. Nackaerts provided an overview of Iran's enrichment- and heavy water-related activiti [...] | 2008-12-01 14:51:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP AORC IAEA IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA637 | IAEA/IRAN: BOARD OF GOVERNORS CALLS FOR IRANIAN [...] (SBU) The November 27, 2008, IAEA Board of Governors discussion of Iran largely focused on Iran's failures to abide by the UNSC and Board resolutions and Iran's lack of cooperation with the IAEA on issues associated with "possible military dimensions" (PMD). In addition to the core like-min [...] | 2008-12-03 15:18:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP AORC IAEA IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA639 | IAEA: NOVEMBER 2008 BOARD WRAP-UP [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-04 14:07:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY IR KN SY |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA64 | IAEA/IRAN: MAINTAINING PRESSURE ON IRAN AT THE [...] (S) Our principal goal for the Iran agenda item at the March 3-7 Board is, as it has been for the last two years, to support dual-track strategy and, in particular, the Security Council process. Since the Board passed a resolution on February 4, 2006, referring the file to the UNSC, we have no [...] | 2008-02-05 16:39:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | IAEA KNPP AORC IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA643 | IAEA/DG RACE: MINTY,S CAMPAIGN PITCH TO WEOG [...] (C) Meeting with Western European and Others Group (WEOG) Ambassadors, at his request, on December 1, South African Governor Abdul Minty fielded a wide range of pointed questions on Agency priorities as a prospective candidate for IAEA Director General. Minty informed WEOG members that his Mi [...] | 2008-12-05 14:16:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL PARM IAEA KNPP JA AR SF |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA647 | INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUCLEAR ENERGY IN IRAN [...] (C) Per an IAEA readout, the recent two-day nuclear power conference displayed negligible international involvement in Iran's nuclear sector (apart from Russia) and cannot have failed to reflect to the Iranian government the limitations on its relations with the Agency. IAEA official Christer [...] | 2008-12-09 16:27:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | ENGR KNNP IAEA RS IR |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA648 | IAEA: DG DISCUSSES SYRIA AND IRAN WITH ACTING U/S [...] (C) IAEA Director General ElBaradei advised Acting U/S for Arms Control and International Security John Rood in a November 20 meeting that the IAEA had received "the maximum it could get" from Iran absent a political opening, and encouraged P5 1 engagement with Iran on a freeze-for-a-freeze to [...] | 2008-12-10 12:29:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | PARM MNUC KNNP IAEA AORC IR SY |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA660 | INCOMING CZECH EU PRESIDENCY SIGNALS ENTHUSIASM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-18 15:45:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PARM MNUC KNNP ETTC KSTC SNAR KCOR IR SY |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA663 | NUCLEAR SAFETY: U.S. DEL REPORT ON THE THIRD ORGANIZATIONAL [...] (SBU) Confrontation and procedural machinations marred the October 2008 Organizational Meeting on the Joint Convention. The meeting's main purpose was to elect officers for the May 2009 Third Review Meeting of the Contracting Parties. The U.S. candidate for presidency of the Third Review Meet [...] | 2008-12-19 16:04:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP AORC |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA664 | GENEVA GROUP MOVES TO IMPLEMENT IAEA RULES ON [...] (SBU) Summary: This is a guidance request (see paragraph 7). Geneva Group members have reached consensus to request the IAEA Secretariat to report in writing on the financial implications of resolutions introduced for consideration by the Board or General Conference. Such reporting conforms [...] | 2008-12-22 07:27:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IAEA AORC KNNP TRGY UN PREL SZ |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA668 | UNCAC WORKING GROUP MEETINGS: REVIEWING IMPLEMENTATION [...] SUMMARY: The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) hosted two intergovernmental expert working group meetings during the week of December 15 to promote implementation of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). During the meeting of the Review of Implementation Working Group on December 15 [...] | 2008-12-23 15:56:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KCOR UNODC UN AU |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA83 | IDENTIFYING SENIOR AMCITS AT IAEA AND OTHER [...] (C) Per ref A, Mission has identified senior level positions (Director-level and above) at the IAEA and other international organizations in Vienna that are critical to U.S. interests. At the IAEA, AmCits hold the senior-most of six Deputy Director General (DDG) positions, and three of 19 ava [...] | 2008-02-12 16:18:00 | UNVIE | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC APER IAEA |
| 08UNVIEVIENNA98 | IAEA/IRAN: LIKE-MINDED READY TO DRAFT A BOARD [...] (S) Summary: At a Canadian-hosted meeting February 14 like-minded COMs (P3 1, Canada, Australia, Japan) agreed to work discretely on a Board resolution on Iran, with experts scheduled to meet February 20. Canadian Ambassador Gervais-Vidricaire made a strong case for the Board to reassert its [...] | 2008-02-15 16:54:00 | UNVIE | SECRET | PARM KNPP AORC IAEA IR |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS1475 | DRL DAS BARKS-RUGGLES AND IO ACTING DAS REES EU [...] (C) Summary: DRL DAS Erica Barks-Ruggles and IO Acting DAS Grover Joseph Rees met September 1 in Brussels with the EU Working Party on Human Rights (COHOM) Troika as part of ongoing consultations. The EU-hosted meetings were led by Jacques Pellet, French MFA Deputy Director for Human Rights [...] | 2008-09-23 15:49:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EU |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS1716 | EU INFORMAL DEFMIN MEETING, DEAUVILLE, AND EU [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Finnish Defense Counselor (protect) discussed with USEU Defense Advisor the October 1 EU's Informal Defense Ministers' Meeting at Deauville, and a UK-France-Germany proposal for an EU crisis management and planning capability. On capabilities, the French presidency views its [...] | 2008-11-10 06:15:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR MOPS MCAP EUN FI |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS1946 | EU COUNCIL ASKS FOR INTEL-SHARING ON SOMALIA [...] (C) On December 22, the USEU Ambassador received a letter dated December 19 from the EU Council Secretariat's Director for Defense Issues, Claude-France Arnould. The letter requests the USG to share intelligence information with the EU in support of the EU-led Operation Atalanta, which is d [...] | 2008-12-23 06:11:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER XA XW SO EUN |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS1949 | EULEX COMMITTEE OF CONTRIBUTORS PRAISES SUCCESSFUL [...] (C) Summary: EULEX Head of Mission Yves de Kermabon briefed the Committee of Contributors on December 19 in Brussels, describing a successful deployment throughout Kosovo, the importance of close interaction with other international actors, and the challenges of implementing customs and cou [...] | 2008-12-23 10:45:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | KPAO PREL UNMIK PGOV EUN SR KV |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS224 | DEPLOYMENT OF EU FORCE TO CHAD HANGS IN BALANCE [...] (C) Summary: France is fully committed to deploying the EU military force to Chad/CAR (EUFOR) and appears to have the backing of HiRep Solana, the Slovenian Presidency, and others, according to contacts at the EU and various member state PermReps. But Austria and Sweden are in creasingly hes [...] | 2008-02-08 18:16:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF ESDP CD EUN |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS248 | P3 DISCUSSES 1540 COMMITTEE FEBRUARY 5 [...] (U) Summary. UK hosted a P3 discussion on continuation of the 1540 Committee on February 5 in response to REF A demarche at its EU Mission with U.S. 1540 Coordinator and French MFA reps. Both UK and Fance expressed their appreciation for the U.S in taking the lead to draft essential eleen [...] | 2008-02-13 16:30:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC KPAO UNSC UK FR |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS314 | OMV ARGUES FOR ACCESS TO IRANIAN GAS FOR NABUCCO [...] (C) Summary. In a February 21 meeting with Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza and Econ Officer, OMV CEO Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer argued that the Nabucco project is at a critical stage, with his most important concern being gas supplies. Ruttenstorfer la [...] | 2008-02-29 10:56:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU RS IR |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS325 | LIECHTENSTEIN SET TO JOIN SCHENGEN AREA [...] In addition to discussions of the Visa Waiver Program and the question of the MOU with the Czech Republic (SEPTEL),EU Interior ministers in the February 28 JHA Council gave their backing to Liechtenstein's entry into the Schengen area in spite of the tax fraud scandal now affecting the princi [...] | 2008-03-04 09:26:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL PREF SMIG KCRM EUN |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS378 | U.S.-EU TROIKA MEETING ON LATIN AMERICA [...] (C) SUMMARY. WHA PDAS Craig Kelly participated in the March 5 U.S.-EU troika meeting on Latin America in Brussels. PDAS Kelly updated participants on the Colombia/Ecuador situation and the EU delegation noted that Colombian VP Santos would be meeting with EU HiRep Solana the evening of March [...] | 2008-03-11 14:05:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV XK XL XM UEU |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS446 | EU CONSIDERS OPTIONS FOR ENGAGING IN IRAQ [...] (U) SUMMARY: European Union Council, Commission and Parliament officials told NEA DAS for Iraq Lawrence Butler, during meetings in Brussels on February 27 and 29, that the EU is actively exploring options for engaging in Iraq. Council officials confirmed EU HiRep Solana's interest in visiting [...] | 2008-03-26 08:51:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IZ XF EUN |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS716 | EU NON-PAPER REQUESTING PARTICIPATION IN PSI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 11:14:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MNUC PREL KNNP EUN |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS748 | U.S.-EU CONSULTATIONS ON WESTERN BALKANS ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: EUR/SCE Director Chris Hoh discussed Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and the EU's enlargement process with EU and member state officials during the May 7 U.S.-EU troika consultations on Western Balkans (COWEB) and during separate meetings on the margins. On Kosov [...] | 2008-05-19 07:30:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EAID EUN ZL |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS859 | Second Meeting of the U.S.-EU Transatlantic [...] Summary: The May 13 U.S.-EU Transatlantic Economic Council: -- discussed in a principals-only lunch policy issues related to Russia and protectionism (reported septel); -- agreed that EU Commission would follow through on its November 2007 commitment to remove a major impediment to EU i [...] | 2008-06-06 13:39:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND EINV EFIN EAGR ENRG |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS872 | CSTC-A COMMANDER DISCUSSIONS WITH EU PERMREPS: [...] (C) Summary: In a presentation to EU permrep officials in Brussels on May 23, MG Robert W. Cone, Commander of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A),provided a wide-ranging briefing on the challenges confronting the international effort to create a modern Afghan police fo [...] | 2008-06-10 06:28:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM PGOV NATO BO EUN GG IR MARR MOPS |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS882 | CSTC-A COMMANDER DISCUSSIONS WITH EU PERMREPS: [...] (C) Summary: In a presentation to EU permrep officials in Brussels on May 23, MG Robert W. Cone, Commander of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A),provided a wide-ranging briefing on the challenges confronting the international effort to create a modern Afghan police fo [...] | 2008-06-11 13:15:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM PGOV NATO BO EUN GG IR MARR MOPS |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS930 | NORDICS SEEK DIRECTION FOR NATO-EU INITIATIVE [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: Finnish PSC PermRep and Norwegian EU Ambassador approached Charge on June 18 to seek U.S. views on NATO-EU relations, which they are concerned could further deteriorate if there are no organized efforts to improve the present dynamic. Five Nordic countries -- some members of [...] | 2008-06-18 18:16:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PARM MARR EUN NATO |
| 08USEUBRUSSELS960 | THE UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN: BOLD INITIATIVE, [...] (U) Summary: The EU's Union for the Mediterranean, originally proposed by French President Sarkozy, will launch on July 13 with an official summit in Paris. The project has been diluted to address other EU Member States' concerns, and many details about the endeavor remain unclear. It also fa [...] | 2008-06-25 05:09:00 | USEU Brussels | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL |
| 08USNATO102 | NATO/VCC: MARCH 7 VCC MEETING [...] (C) Summary. In addition to the usual exchange of information on VDOC and CFE activities conducted and planned, the VCC meeting was generally successful. No Ally volunteered to notify a CFE inspection in Russia in March, so the U.S. did so. However, the IS Chair urged Allies to reconsider a [...] | 2008-03-20 17:40:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KCFE PARM PREL NATO |
| 08USNATO103 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - MARCH 19, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: Chairman of the Military Committee Henault briefed the military chain of command's poppy assessment. In the operations update, IMS Assistant Director for Operations MG Li Gobbi briefed on the increased ability of Opposing Militant Forces [...] | 2008-03-20 18:11:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO121 | NATO'S BUCHAREST SUMMIT DECLARATION, CABLE 1 OF 2 [...] (U) Due to the length of the communique, this is cable 1 of 2. 2. (C) SUMMARY: As reflected in the Bucharest Declaration (see para 3),the April 3-4 NATO Summit in Bucharest advanced U.S. policy objectives on a variety of fronts. NATO Heads of State and Government reaffirmed their strong s [...] | 2008-04-08 17:59:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PREL |
| 08USNATO122 | NATO'S BUCHAREST SUMMIT DECLARATION, CABLE 2 OF 2 [...] (U) Due to the length of the communique, this is cable 2 of 2. 2. (C) SUMMARY, repeated from Cable 1 of 2: As reflected in the Bucharest Declaration (see para 3),the April 3-4 NATO Summit in Bucharest advanced U.S. policy objectives on a variety of fronts. NATO Heads of State and Governme [...] | 2008-04-08 17:59:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PREL |
| 08USNATO130 | READOUT OF NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING - APRIL [...] (C) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: The NATO IS was tasked to lay out how ISAF,s &internal plan8 agreed at Bucharest will be implemented. Chairman of the Military Committee (CMC) General Henault announced the opening of a Border Coordination Center in Nangarhar. SHAPE anticipa [...] | 2008-04-14 05:20:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO140 | UN SRSG EIDE SHARES INITIAL THOUGHTS WITH NAC AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan Kai Eide told NATO and ISAF SIPDIS Ambassadors in a joint NAC meeting April 16 that the June 12 international donors' conference in Paris must leave no doubt about international commitment to the development and [...] | 2008-04-17 17:52:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF |
| 08USNATO141 | APRIL 15 VCC AND VCC EXPERTS, MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary. At the Experts, Meeting, 17 topics for discussion and exchange of views for implementation issues in VD99 were identified and discussion papers will be prepared for future meetings. The VCC itself was mostly routine, although a conflict between the U.S. intent to conduct a VD99 [...] | 2008-04-18 12:55:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KCFE PARM PREL NATO |
| 08USNATO143 | ALLIES SUPPORT U.S. REQUEST FOR NATO MILITARY [...] (C) SUMMARY: At an April 22, NATO Permanent Representatives coffee, Ambassador Nuland raised the issue of the Oslo process aiming to ban cluster munitions (CMs) and its potential for criminalizing military interoperability among NATO Allies. She stressed that the U.S. shares the humanitaria [...] | 2008-04-23 07:06:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MOPS NATO PARM PREL |
| 08USNATO15 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - JANUARY 9, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: The SYG reported that President Musharraf may come to NATO on his upcoming visit to Brussels, and the NAC will visit Afghanistan February 19-21. He urged Allies to nominate candidates for the unfilled NATO Senior Civilian Representative s [...] | 2008-01-10 17:18:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO151 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - APRIL 30, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that Karzai urged caution in judging the Kabul security situation following the April 27 assassination attempt. IMS Assistant Director for Operations Li Gobbi stated that Pakistani "peace deal [...] | 2008-04-30 18:14:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO160 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - MAY 7, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: The Secretary General announced his choice of an Italian as the new NATO Senior Civilian Representative. The IMS reported it hopes to have consolidated Bucharest force generation review from SHAPE by May 13. The ANSF are leading approxima [...] | 2008-05-08 14:30:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO171 | NATO: MAY 6, 2008 HLTF MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the May 6 HLTF, Allies agreed that for now the optimum course for addressing CFE issues with Russia is to adhere to the positions set out in the March 28 NAC statement and the Bucharest Summit Declaration. Allies should remain patient, demonstrating unity and resolve, while w [...] | 2008-05-15 11:15:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM KCFE NATO RS OSCE |
| 08USNATO181 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - MAY 21, 2008 [...] (S/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: The SYG noted that a draft report by UN Human Rights Rapporteur Alston was critical of international forces and ISAF in Afghanistan, but NATO was providing Alston with more information to make the final report more balanced. The SHAPE Ope [...] | 2008-05-22 15:24:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO200 | ISAF COMMANDER MCNEILL PRAISES ALLIED UNITY, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Former COMISAF General Dan K. McNeill, who turned over ISAF command to General David McKiernan on June 3, commended Allied unity and investment in Afghanistan during his June 4 farewell address to the NAC and ISAF Partners. Nevertheless, he reminded Allies that NATO's failure t [...] | 2008-06-06 15:46:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF PK |
| 08USNATO208 | USD(P) EDELMAN BRIEFS ON AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman used his June 5 meeting with NATO PermReps and a separate session with NATO SYG de Hoop Scheffer to brief on his May 27-June 5 visit to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Lebanon and to urge Allies to contribute more to Afghan police trainin [...] | 2008-06-18 13:26:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF PK |
| 08USNATO21 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - JANUARY 16, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Please note a typo in the Afghanistan portion of last week's notes. The corrected sentence should read: "UNAMA assesses that the areas of Badghis province that were the site of recent fighting are now stable enough for relief agencies to operate." 2. (S/NF) Summary from the NAC Meet [...] | 2008-01-16 16:57:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO210 | NATO: JUNE 9 MEETING OF VCC EXPERTS [...] (C) Summary: At the Experts, Meeting, the U.S. obtained all of the goals specified in Reference A. These discussions will continue on July 8 with new versions of the discussion papers transformed into shorter proposed NATO agreed papers to be distributed by the International Staff. At the [...] | 2008-06-18 13:27:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KCFE PARM PREL NATO |
| 08USNATO213 | NATO-GEORGIA NAC JUNE 18: FM TKESHELASHVILI [...] (C) Georgian FM Tkeshelashvili exchanged views with NATO PermReps June 18 on Georgia's democratic transition and its tensions with Russia. She acknowledged that the May 21 Parliamentary elections had not been perfect, but said they had avoided the worst shortcomings that observers had identif [...] | 2008-06-19 11:28:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL NATO GG |
| 08USNATO215 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT JUNE 18 2008 [...] (S) SUMMARY: -- The NAC exchange of views with Georgian FM Tkeshelashvili reported septel, USNATO 00213. -- Farewell to Ambassador Nuland: Secretary General Hoop de Scheffer (SYG) gave an emotional and affectionate tribute to Ambassador Nuland, in this, her last NAC after two tours at NAT [...] | 2008-06-20 16:55:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO217 | APRIL 16-17 NAC VISIT TO UKRAINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During its June 16-17 visit to Ukraine, the North Atlantic Council found a Ukrainian leadership team--President, Prime Minister, and Speaker of the Rada, as well as the Foreign and Defense Ministers--united on achieving a positive decision on Kyiv's application to join NATO's Memb [...] | 2008-06-24 14:26:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL PGOV UP |
| 08USNATO224 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT JUNE 25, 2008 [...] (S) SUMMARY: -- Afghanistan: SHAPE briefed on recent events in Kandahar and Arghandab, emphasizing the role of the ANA and the fact that Arghandab was clearly a tactical and logistical win for the ANA. Responding to the briefing, Charge Olson emphasized the importance of the ANA and suggest [...] | 2008-06-27 13:40:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO229 | NATO: FRIENDS OF KOSOVO PROPOSAL UNVEILED [...] (C) The Belgian Permanent Representative to NATO at a July 1 lunch meeting of NATO Permanent Representatives formally introduced the "Friends of Kosovo" concept of bringing together representatives of nations and international organizations involved in Kosovo in an informal setting in order t [...] | 2008-07-01 15:50:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PGOV PREL KV MOPS |
| 08USNATO233 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - JULY 2, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: The SYG welcomed the new Chairman of the Military Committee (CMC) Admiral Giampaolo De Paola (Italy),and stated that the NAC would benefit from military advice from SHAPE on military preparations for the upcoming Afghanistan voter registr [...] | 2008-07-03 16:53:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO236 | JUNE 24, 2008 HLTF: ALLIES UNANIMOUS ON CONTINUING [...] (C) SUMMARY. At the June 24 HLTF meeting and meetings on the margins, Allies agreed to continue NATO,s current approach to dealing with the impasse brought on by the Russian Federation,s suspension of implementation of (i.e. compliance with) the CFE Treaty by: -- continuing Allies, unaltere [...] | 2008-07-07 07:26:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KCFE NATO PARM PREL OSCE RS |
| 08USNATO239 | RUSSIA OFFERS PESSIMISTIC VIEWS OF AFGHANISTAN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov informed the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) during its June 25 meeting that although Afghanistan is a more civil place than in 2001, the mission in Afghanistan was failing and that much more needed to be done in the areas of counter-narco [...] | 2008-07-10 07:37:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL PGOV MOPS AADP RS AF KV UP |
| 08USNATO241 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - JULY 9, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: The Chairman of the Military Committee (CMC) provided an update of the EUPOL mission which currently has 166 personnel deployed to Afghanistan to assist the Afghan National Police. The SYG stated that there had been a number of additional [...] | 2008-07-10 16:02:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO248 | NATO: JULY 8 MEETING OF VCC EXPERTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the July 8 Experts, Meeting each of the papers on the agenda was basically approved with a few tweaks, and in accord with U.S. guidance. The IS Staff will prepare revisions for all of these papers and circulate them for further discussion as needed at the next meeting on Se [...] | 2008-07-15 11:35:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KCFE PARM PREL NATO |
| 08USNATO25 | D/NIO BRIEFS NATO ALLIES ON STATE OF PLAY IN [...] (S) SUMMARY: On 18 January, John Dister, the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for South Asia, briefed NATO PermReps in a Secretary General's (SYG) Coffee format. Mr. Dister's presentation focused on three themes requested by the SYG: Pakistan stability; Pakistan's impact on Afghanistan; a [...] | 2008-01-18 16:18:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR NATO PINR PREL PTER PK AF |
| 08USNATO252 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - JULY 16, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: Much of the Council's discussion focused on the situation in Afghanistan in relation to its neighbors. D/CMC Eikenberry stated that the Indian Embassy bombing will not affect the transfer of security responsibility for Kabul city to the AN [...] | 2008-07-17 14:39:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO253 | FRENCH OFFICIAL JOUYET BRIEFS NATO ON PLANS FOR EU [...] (C) SUMMARY. French Secretary of State for European Affairs Jeanne-Pierre Jouyet briefed the NAC on July 16 on "Priorities Of the French EU Presidency," referring frequently to France's October 2007 non-paper on NATO/EU relations and the July 7 high-level seminar in Paris on the subject. Jou [...] | 2008-07-18 11:09:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NATO EU |
| 08USNATO258 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - JULY 22, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Farewell to the Permanent Representative from France: In his farewell address to the NAC, departing French PermRep Richard Duque said the greatest threat facing the Alliance was the danger of being pulled into disunity, particularly on the issue of Russia whe [...] | 2008-07-23 17:08:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO265 | A/S FRIED WARNS NATO SYG, PERM REPS OF DANGER OF UN, EU DELAY IN KOSOVO AND OF POLITICAL DRIFT IN GEORGIAN-ABKHAZ CONFLICT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-25 15:45:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS NATO EZ GG KV MK PL RS UNMIK |
| 08USNATO268 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - JULY 30, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: Briefing on his recent visit to Afghanistan, NATO Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer expressed concerns with suggestions by Afghan President Karzai that upcoming elections may not be held due to security concerns in the south and east of t [...] | 2008-08-01 08:43:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO270 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - AUGUST 6, 2008 [...] (S/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: The International Military Staff (IMS) reported that that Significant Activities (SIGACTS) were at the highest levels since ISAF began operations, which they attributed to seasonal increases, ISAF operations in RC-South and RC-East, and op [...] | 2008-08-07 09:43:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO271 | NATO SECRETARY GENERAL'S DEPARTURE DATE [...] (SBU) On August 4, post received from Danish Perm Rep Poulsen-Hansen, the Dean of the North Atlantic Council, a copy of a letter he sent to the NATO Secretary-General (SYG) confirming that the SYG has proposed, and the Perm Reps accepted, that the SYG's term will end on July 31, 2009. A copy [...] | 2008-08-07 09:44:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NATO |
| 08USNATO279 | GEORGIA REQUESTS FORMAL NATO CONSULTATIONS NEXT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-10 11:44:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL NATO GG |
| 08USNATO281 | NATO ALLIES LACK COHESION DURING FIRST MEETING ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the August 11 NATO Political Committee meeting on the fighting in Georgia, Allies unanimously deplored the Aug 8-11 developments but differed on how these events should affect NATO's relations with Russia. The Balts and Poland would like to suspend the NATO-Russia Council, but Germa [...] | 2008-08-11 18:30:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR NATO MOPS PINR GG RS |
| 08USNATO283 | NATO: ALLIES REAFFIRM GEORGIAN SOVEREIGNTY; OFFER [...] (C) SUMMERY: At an August 12 North Atlantic Council meeting with Georgia, Georgian Permanent Representative to NATO Beshidze (substituting for the Georgian FM who at the last minute could not attend) characterized the Russian action as open aggression and occupation of a sovereign, democratic [...] | 2008-08-12 19:04:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL |
| 08USNATO284 | TFGG01: NATO ALLIES STILL DIVIDED ON GEORGIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The North Atlantic Council (NAC) met August 12 in emergency session to discuss a NAC statement on the Georgia crisis and to discuss whether to agree to Russias request for a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC). Although Allies agreed in principle to begin drafting a formal stateme [...] | 2008-08-12 19:26:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREF PREL |
| 08USNATO285 | RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR DECRIES HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In an August 11 letter to the NATO Deputy Secretary General (see para 2 for full text),Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitri Rogozin accused the Georgian army of creating an ongoing humanitarian disaster in South Ossetia. Specifically, he asserted that the Georgian army killed 2 [...] | 2008-08-13 09:54:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO PREL MOPS GG RS |
| 08USNATO289 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT: AUGUST 13, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary: NATO Foreign Ministerial: Perm Reps welcomed the U.S. proposal to hold a NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels August 19 to discuss the implications of events in Georgia for NATO and the NATO-Russia relationship. Other topics were: --Afghanistan: SHAPE reported the IED [...] | 2008-08-14 17:43:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO291 | TFGG01: AMBASSADOR VOLKER'S MEETING WITH GEORGIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 18:09:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO MOPS PINR GG RS |
| 08USNATO299 | READOUT: AUGUST 20 NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING [...] (C/NF) Summary: At the North Atlantic Council (NAC) meeting on Wednesday, August 20, Allies extensively discussed the new NATO-Georgia Commission (NGC) and the appropriate course to take regarding relations with Russia. Deputy Secretary General (DSYG) Bisogniero observed that the NATO minist [...] | 2008-08-22 17:46:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO30 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - JANUARY 23, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: Chairman of the Military Committee (CMC) Henault stated that 70 percent of ISAF significant events in 2007 occurred in 40 districts, largely in RC-South and RC-East, and urged nations to provide forces to deal with this reality. SHAPE bri [...] | 2008-01-24 17:22:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO309 | RFG: NATO-RUSSIA: A PROPOSED WAY FORWARD [...] (S) This is a request for guidance for a September 2 NATO PermReps informal discussion of the way ahead on NATO-Russia. See paragraph 13. 2. (S) SUMMARY: On September 2, NATO PermReps will discuss how to take forward the August 19 Foreign Ministerial decision that it is not "business as us [...] | 2008-08-28 18:55:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET | PREL NATO MOPS RS GG |
| 08USNATO31 | CORRECTED COPY: NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - [...] (C/NF) The purpose of this corrected copy is to add additional addressees. The substance of the cable remains the same. 2. (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: Chairman of the Military Committee (CMC) Henault stated that 70 percent of ISAF significant events in 2007 occu [...] | 2008-01-25 08:50:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO314 | RUSSIA THROWS ITS WEIGHT AROUND IN THE EAPC [...] (C) Summary: The EAPCs first meeting after the summer break featured Georgian protests about Russian action and a Russian response made memorable by a claim that, if the Russian response had been proportionate, "Tbilisi would now lie in ruins." Russia announced it has withdrawn from the PfP SOFA. T [...] | 2008-09-02 17:12:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR NATO MOPS PREF GG RU UP SP BO SR |
| 08USNATO317 | READOUT: SEPTEMBER 3 NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY FROM THE NAC: -- AFGHANISTAN: The SYG reviewed his September 1 phone conversation with President Karzai, who said civilian casualties were now "beyond the tolerance and comprehension of the Afghan people." The SYG said he underscored that NATO is making every effort to avo [...] | 2008-09-04 16:42:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO32 | PM GRUEVSKI DISCUSSES MACEDONIA'S NATO ACCESSION [...] (C) Prime Minister Gruevski discussed Macedonia's progress toward NATO accession with NATO PermReps on January 23, concluding Macedonia's ninth MAP cycle. He cited recent strides toward domestic political consensus, minority representation, decentralization, judicial reform, police reform, a [...] | 2008-01-25 17:34:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MARR MK |
| 08USNATO320 | AFGHAN MOD WARDAK PUSHES ANA EXPANSION AT NAC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Afghan Defense Minister Wardak briefed the NAC with ISAF contributors on September 4 on the current security situation in Afghanistan, the rationale for expanding the Afghan National Army (ANA) and methods to reduce civilian casualties. He portrayed the security situation as [...] | 2008-09-05 16:49:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR NATO PGOV PREL SNAR AF UN |
| 08USNATO321 | UNODC CHIEF COSTA BRIEFS THE NAC ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: UN Under-Secretary-General Antonio Costa, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),briefed NATO Allies, partners, EU representatives and the World Bank on September 3 on UNODC's 2008 Afghanistan Opium Survey report. Costa reported that poppy cultivation d [...] | 2008-09-05 17:22:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON MARR NATO PGOV PREL SNAR UN AF |
| 08USNATO326 | SENATOR LUGAR DISCUSSES RUSSIA/GEORGIA WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senator Lugar and staff had a series of productive meetings with the NATO Secretary General, SACEUR, the principal NATO supporters of Georgia, the German Permanent Representative to NATO, and a dinner that included notable EU, NATO, and bilateral dignitaries. The Senator stres [...] | 2008-09-11 10:59:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS GG RS |
| 08USNATO328 | ALLIES SEND A UNIFIED MESSAGE TO RUSSIA IN EAPC [...] (S/NF) Summary: At the September 8 meeting of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC),Georgia and Russia traded accusations about who was to blame for the conflict between them. In rare form, Russian Ambassador Rogozin accused the Georgian Mission of organizing protests and threatenin [...] | 2008-09-12 09:19:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL MOPS GG RS |
| 08USNATO338 | NAC MEETING WITH AZERBAIJAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: During his comments to the North Atlantic Council (NAC),Azerbaijan Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov extolled his country's priorities of continued integration into Euro-Atlantic structures, increased practical cooperation with Euro-Atlantic partners, participation in Partnershi [...] | 2008-09-18 16:11:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO PGOV PINR AF AJ GG |
| 08USNATO343 | NATO SENIOR DEFENSE GROUP ON PROLIFERATION (DGP) [...] (C) The NATO Senior Defence Group on Proliferation (DGP) Steering Committee met at NATO HQ on September 5. The meeting was chaired by Ms. Laura Gross of the US (OSD) and Mr. Knut Jahr of the Norwegian MOD. The Chair greeted Albania and Croatia as new members of the DGP with NATO Invitee status [...] | 2008-09-24 11:32:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP MNUC NATO PARM PREL |
| 08USNATO347 | READOUT: SEPTEMBER 24 NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- AFGHANISTAN: The Chief of the Military Committee (CMC) updated the Council with details on the Autumn ISAF Periodic Mission Review including a &mixed evaluation8 on progress in Afghanistan and proposed recommendations. The SHAPE Deputy Chief of Staf [...] | 2008-09-25 13:01:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO35 | NATO/VCC: JANUARY 22 VCC AND VCC EXPERTS, MEETINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Experts agreed and the VCC approved the text for the common understanding of Annex A, Section V, Paragraph 5 of the Final Document of the First CFE Review Conference as suggested by the U.S. in Ref A. The understanding will be forwarded to the JCG-T in Vienna. END SUMMARY [...] | 2008-01-28 16:50:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM KCFE NATO RS OSCE |
| 08USNATO352 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL VISIT TO TBILISI [...] (C) Summary: The North Atlantic Council (NAC) visited Georgia September 15-16 to take stock following Russia's invasion of Georgia, to reaffirm support for Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and to strengthen NATO-Georgia relations (including by inaugurating the NATO-Georgia Comm [...] | 2008-09-30 17:49:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO MOPS PREF GG RU |
| 08USNATO353 | UNAMA HEAD KAI EIDE DISTANCES HIMSELF FROM NATO [...] (U) SUMMARY: During a September 29 briefing to NATO Perm Reps, UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Kai Eide painted a gloomy picture of the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, which he said was detracting international attention away from development agenda. He criticized [...] | 2008-10-01 12:29:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO354 | A/S BOUCHER NATO VISIT, 17 SEP 08 [...] (U) SUMMARY: During September 14 meetings at NATO, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher told NATO Perm Reps that NATO and the Afghans need to be more effective in holding territory, particularly with strengthened Afghan police, provincial and local governme [...] | 2008-10-01 12:58:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR NATO PGOV PREL SNAR UN AF |
| 08USNATO357 | RUSSIAN SUPPORT FOR AFGHANISTAN: SORTING THE WHEAT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Russian officials have expressed a willingness to continue cooperation with NATO for Afghanistan (reftels) despite inconsistencies in the Russian message, but have also said all bets on cooperation are off if Georgia is offered NATO membership. Russian Ambassador to NATO Rogoz [...] | 2008-10-03 11:16:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | NATO PREL MOPS GG RS |
| 08USNATO358 | READOUT: OCTOBER 1 NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- EXCHANGE OF VIEWS WITH SERBIAN MINISTER OF DEFENSE SUTANOVAC: Reported septel. -- AFGHANISTAN: The Operations brief noted insurgent activities were high despite the Ramadan holidays. MG Li Gobbi, Assistant Director of the Ops Division, briefed on [...] | 2008-10-03 11:39:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO367 | READOUT: OCTOBER 8 NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 12:28:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO371 | NATO-RUSSIA WAY FOWARD: READOUT OF OCTOBER 14 SPC [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Allies delivered their initial responses to the IS-drafted policy paper "NATO-Russia Relations in the Aftermath of the Georgia Crisis." At its base, the document's language of "targeted conditionality" and "selective engagement" and emphasis on unity pleased most Allies. Fran [...] | 2008-10-15 17:13:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL NATO PGOV KCFE RS |
| 08USNATO372 | MACEDONIAN PM: CURRENT NIMETZ PROPOSAL WILL NOT [...] (C/NF) Summary: Macedonian Prime Minister Gruevski told Ambassador Volker on October 15 that he has problems accepting the current Nimetz ideas for solving the name issue as a basis for negotiation. He said the Nimetz proposal would only improve marginally during a negotiation process, and n [...] | 2008-10-15 18:07:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR NATO MK |
| 08USNATO373 | MACEDONIA PRESENTS ITS ANNUAL NATIONAL PLAN AT NATO [...] (C/NF) Summary: Macedonia presented its Annual National Program for 2008-2009 to NATO Allies for comment on October 6. Greece was less critical than it could have been, but several Allies admonished Macedonia for portraying Greece, in its ANP summary (signed by PM Gruevski),as the lone hold [...] | 2008-10-15 18:08:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR NATO MK |
| 08USNATO380 | NATO ENGAGES IN NEW FORUM ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an effort to facilitate increased regional dialogue on Afghanistan, Secretary General (SYG) Jaap de Hoop Scheffer presided over the first meeting of NATO Permanent Representatives with the NATO representatives from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan a [...] | 2008-10-17 13:12:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR NATO PGOV PREL AF KZ KG TI TX UZ |
| 08USNATO394 | READOUT: 22 OCTOBER NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- AFGHANISTAN: The SYG announced he would soon provide a new strategic communications plan for Afghanistan since there were too many NATO persons doing interviews, and doing them badly, over the last few weeks. The SYG also said he would convene a smal [...] | 2008-10-23 16:38:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO398 | OCTOBER 16 HLTF: ALLIES COMMITTED TO A UNIFIED AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. At the October 16 NATO High Level Task Force (HLTF) meeting and meetings on the margins, Allies discussed potential next steps on CFE (based largely on U.S. ideas presented at the September 11 HLTF, and a Czech paper distributed just prior to this HLTF meeting) and addressed how [...] | 2008-10-24 14:42:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE PARM PREL |
| 08USNATO404 | USNATO TODAY: READOUT FROM 29 OCTOBER NORTH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 12:31:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL NATO AF |
| 08USNATO406 | RESULTS FROM 23 OCTOBER 2008 VCC AND EXPERTS [...] (C) Summary. During the 23 October VCC and Experts Meetings, the IS requested that Allies resubmit their 2009 bids for Vienna Document (VD) 1999 evaluation visits and inspections by 28 October in accordance with newly agreed procedures in the revised draft Implementation Coordination working [...] | 2008-10-31 12:32:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL NATO |
| 08USNATO407 | READOUT: GENERAL OBERING'S 28 OCTOBER MISSILE [...] (SBU) Summary: Lieutenant General (Lt Gen) Obering, the director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA),stopped in Brussels October 28 to address NATO Perm Reps on his way to Warsaw and Prague. He updated Allies regarding missile defense (MD) and introduced his successor, Major General (soon t [...] | 2008-10-31 17:33:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL PARM MARR CZ PL MNUC |
| 08USNATO41 | KREMLIN KEEPS AMB ROGOZIN ON A SHORT LEASH IN HIS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Russian nationalist politician-turned-diplomat Dmitri Rogozin launched into a lengthy litany of Russian grievances on missile defense (MD),NATO enlargement, CFE, and Kosovo at his first NATO-Russia Council meeting on January 30, albeit in a more measured tone than in his recent [...] | 2008-02-04 11:12:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MARR RU |
| 08USNATO419 | READOUT: AMR MOUSSA'S 6 NOVEMBER DISCUSSION WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 6, Mr. Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the League of Arab States, held a broad exchange of views with the North Atlantic Council at NATO HQ. Striking a conciliatory tone early on as he read from his prepared text, Moussa lauded the election of President-elect Obama, [...] | 2008-11-10 13:54:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PARM PREL AL XI XF |
| 08USNATO429 | READOUT NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING NOVEMBER [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- AFGHANISTAN: SHAPE Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations Major General Wright reported an increase in security events, continued ISAF operations to support voter registration, and noted indications opposing militant forces (OMF) intend to continue a hi [...] | 2008-11-13 16:07:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AF NATO PREL |
| 08USNATO433 | NATO SENIOR DEFENCE GROUP ON PROLIFERATION (DGP) [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Steering Committee of the Senior Defense Group on Proliferation (DGP) met at NATO Headquarters on October 29. The meeting was co-chaired by Ms. Laura Gross of the U.S. (OSD(GSA)) and Mr. Knut Jahr of MoD Norway. Major items discussed during the meeting included the drafting [...] | 2008-11-17 13:37:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP MNUC NATO PARM PREL |
| 08USNATO436 | READOUT NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING NOVEMBER [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- AFGHANISTAN: Deputy Secretary General (D/SYG) Claudio Bisogniero chaired the NAC and announced that the Secretary General will soon issue a &roadmap8 to the April 2009 Summit for Afghanistan, outlining ways for the Council to have strategic discussions [...] | 2008-11-21 13:53:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AF NATO PREL |
| 08USNATO442 | NOVEMBER 21 HLTF: ALLIES AGREE TO CFE LANGUAGE FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY. At the November 21 NATO High Level Task Force (HLTF) meeting, Allies agreed on CFE language for the upcoming NATO Ministerial communique and how to deploy agreed language at subsequent key dates in December. The text (agreed via silence procedure on November 24) is closely based [...] | 2008-11-26 18:30:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE NATO PARM PREL |
| 08USNATO453 | ALLIES FIND BRIEFING ON AFGHANISTAN NIE “GLOOMY,†[...] (S/REL NATO) Summary. National Intelligence Officer (NiO) for South Asia, Dr. Peter Lavoy, briefed NATO Permanent Representatives on the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) for Afghanistan on November 25. He said the NIE describes a grim situation in Afghanistan and predicts that negative trends w [...] | 2008-12-05 08:31:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR NATO PTER PINR AF PK IN |
| 08USNATO456 | NATO POST-MINISTERIAL COMMUNIQUE READOUT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-08 10:04:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL NATO MARR ECON PGOV UN XG XA AF GG UP |
| 08USNATO460 | READOUT NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING DECEMBER [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- AFGHANISTAN: The Secretary General (SYG) said election support was a time critical issue with Afghan elections taking place as early as May 2009. He received NAC approval to task the Military Committee to provide advice on a NATO Election Support Forc [...] | 2008-12-11 16:03:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | AF NATO PREL |
| 08USNATO468 | ALLIES VOICE CONCERNS OVER LEGAL STATUS OF NTM-I [...] (C) Summary: During the December 17, 2008 North Atlantic Council (NAC) meeting, Allies expressed serious concern about the possibility of a lapse in the authorization and legal protections for the NATO Training Mission - Iraq (NTM-I). They also expressed concerns that the draft law approved b [...] | 2008-12-17 18:03:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MOPS IZ ES RO AS EN UK |
| 08USNATO471 | THE DECEMBER 3, 2008 NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL [...] (U) Participants: U.S. Ambassador Kurt Volker EUR A/S Dan Fried EUR PDAS Ries Damon Wilson, NSC NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer NATO COUNTRIES Albania: FM Lulzim Basha Belgium: FM Karel De Gucht Bulgaria: FM Ivailo Kalfin Canada: AMB Robert McRae Croatia: FM Gordan [...] | 2008-12-17 19:46:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL NATO PGOV MOPS KV AF |
| 08USNATO472 | READOUT NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL MEETING DECEMBER [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- AFGHANISTAN: The Secretary General (SYG) obtained North Atlantic Council (NAC) agreement to task NATO Military Authorities to provide rapid military advice on elections support prior to the next Council discussion on January 7. He asked for cooperati [...] | 2008-12-18 16:14:00 | Mission USNATO | SECRET//NOFORN | AF NATO PREL |
| 08USNATO473 | UPDATE ON NATO AIR SURVEILLANCE AND TRAINING [...] (C) In November, the financial crisis in Iceland and the ensuing dispute between Iceland and the UK threw into question NATO air surveillance and training missions in Iceland. The UK was scheduled to fill the December 5 ) 21, 2008 rotation, but after a period of negotiation, the UK ultimatel [...] | 2008-12-19 08:51:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS NATO PGOV PREF PREL IC |
| 08USNATO48 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - FEBRUARY 6, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: The Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board (JCMB) is meeting this week in Japan at the Political Director level. Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (CMC) General Henault reported on additional Afghan National Police in Musa Qala, in [...] | 2008-02-07 18:10:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO50 | SINGAPORE,S EVOLVING COOPERATION WITH NATO, THEIR [...] (C/NF) Summary: Singapore,s DCM in Brussels confirmed Singapore is considering an increased yet modest contribution to ISAF in the summer months of 2008. He has also been asking cautious questions about what opportunities could derive from deeper Singapore-NATO cooperation. He implied inform [...] | 2008-02-08 15:30:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PGOV MARR PREL SN AF |
| 08USNATO55 | NATO: JANUARY 31TH HLTF MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY. NATO Allies used the January 31 HLTF to reaffirm and refine their strategy for a unified NATO response to Russia,s decision to suspend implementation of CFE. Allies see themselves united behind a substantive approach (the parallel actions plan) and accompanying diplomatic game [...] | 2008-02-12 16:20:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM KCFE NATO RS OSCE |
| 08USNATO58 | NATO SENIOR DEFENSE GROUP ON PROLIFERATION (DGP) [...] (C) The Steering Committee for the NATO Senior Defense Committee on Proliferation (DGP) met at NATO HQ on January 16, 2008 and was jointly chaired by Ms Laura Gross (OSD/GSA) and Mr. Pawel Durys (MoD Poland). 2. (C) The Steering Committee received a briefing by the U.S. on plans for prov [...] | 2008-02-14 12:49:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP MNUC NATO PARM PREL |
| 08USNATO60 | NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL READOUT - FEBRUARY 13, 2008 [...] (C/NF) Summary from the NAC Meeting: -- Afghanistan: Chairman of the Military Committee General Ray Henault briefed that ISAF is seeking to diversify its fuel supply away from reliance on Pakistani transit. SHAPE Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations MG Rudy Wright described a dramatic drop [...] | 2008-02-14 19:43:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | NATO PREL AF |
| 08USNATO88 | NATO: FEBRUARY 28TH HLTF AND NRC (ACE) MEETINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the February 28 HLTF, Allies agreed on key themes for the NATO-Russia Council Arms Control Experts (NRC (ACE)) meeting that followed the HLTF, and more generally for engaging Russia in the run-up to Bucharest. All who spoke stressed the need for a continued unified message; re [...] | 2008-03-07 15:04:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PARM KCFE NATO RS OSCE |
| 08USNATO9 | UN AND NATO SECGENS DISCUSS AFGHANISTAN SENIOR [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche orally to NATO SYG on January 4. Charge delivered Terms of Reference on January 7. 2. (C) Separately, UNSYG Ban Ki Moon telephoned NATO SYG Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on January 4 to discuss the proposed Terms of Reference for the Senior International C [...] | 2008-01-07 15:43:00 | Mission USNATO | CONFIDENTIAL | IO PREL NATO AF |
| 08USOSCE106 | FSC APRIL 16: U.S. REPLIES TO RUSSIA ON DEFENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. responded in the Forum for Security Cooperation on April 16 to Russia's attacks a week earlier on the President's decision that Kosovo was eligible for defense cooperation. The U.S. reminded delegations that the arms embargo against Yugoslavia had been lifted by UN dec [...] | 2008-04-21 06:07:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE RS XG |
| 08USOSCE110 | CFE/JCG: APRIL 22 PLENARY - VIGOROUS DEBATE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-23 17:02:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL |
| 08USOSCE111 | FSC APRIL 23: RUSSIANS BRANDISH "BLACKLIST" OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Russia protested it did not want to be a mentor to participating States who may have violated the Vienna Document timelines for requesting inspections or evaluations, but other delegations asked the CPC to broaden the scope of the inquiry into violations. Several states have c [...] | 2008-04-24 15:52:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE XG |
| 08USOSCE112 | RAPID REACTION FORCES PROPOSALS: THE STATE OF PLAY [...] (C) Summary: Russia on April 22 seemed to accept that the Quad Allies need a few more weeks to come up with a concrete response to its proposal for an information exchange on rapid reaction forces. Meanwhile, Britain, France, and Germany insist that the U.S justify its contention that Germany [...] | 2008-04-25 08:50:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE RS XG |
| 08USOSCE118 | CFE: APRIL 29 JCG PLENARY, ALLIES REFUTE RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: At the April 29 Joint Consultative Group (JCG),Dr. Szabolcs Osvat of the Hungarian MOD provided an academic-style briefing to the JCG on the topic of "Stationing and Temporary Deployment During CFE Adaptation and Beyond, 1996-1999." Inter alia, the brief noted how the CFE F [...] | 2008-04-30 18:47:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS |
| 08USOSCE120 | FSC APRIL 30: FSC DEFERS TO UNOMIG TO INVESTIGATE [...] (SBU) Summary: At the request of the Finnish Chairman-in-Office under the OSCE's "Bucharest mechanism," the Forum for Security Cooperation held initial discussions of the August 20 UAV incident in Abkhazia. The EU and several of its members deferred to UNOMIG--as it had the "main responsibili [...] | 2008-05-02 16:02:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MOPS OSCE KCFE GG RS XG |
| 08USOSCE122 | OSCE/FSC: US INTERVENTON AT MAY 7 FSC ON GEORGIA [...] (SBU) The is a request for guidance. See paragraphs 2-4 for background and paragraph 5 and 6 for request. 2. (C) Background: Georgian representatives explained to USDEL how allies and other concerned states could support Georgia's planned intervention on the April 20 UAV incident at t [...] | 2008-05-05 16:26:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE XG |
| 08USOSCE125 | FSC MAY 7: RUSSIA AND GEORGIA RETURN TO UAV [...] (SBU) Summary: Georgia and Russia at the May 7 Forum for Security Cooperation resumed trading accusations on the April 20 UAV incident, Georgia insisting that a Russian fighter shot down the Georgian "interior ministry" drone with a missile as it over-flew Abkhazia. Georgia responded to Russi [...] | 2008-05-09 07:50:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE GG RS XG |
| 08USOSCE129 | CFE: MAY 13 JCG PLENARY: GERMAN PRESENTATION ON [...] (SBU) Summary: As part of the continuing "focused dialogue," at the May 13 JCG (Joint Consultative Group) Germany presented an update to its October 30, 2007 presentation on the topic of "CFE Limitations in Transition: Security Concerns and Current Force Level Trends." Using available CFE, [...] | 2008-05-14 16:50:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS |
| 08USOSCE130 | FSC MAY 14: RUSSIA TABLES ANOTHER REVISED VD99 [...] (SBU) Summary: During the May 14 Forum for Security Cooperation, Russia announced a revision of its 2007 draft decision to define the "specified area" of Vienna Document inspections, now limiting the area to 25,000 square kilometers. Russia also revised its proposal for a chair's statement on [...] | 2008-05-15 11:34:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE XG |
| 08USOSCE136 | FSC MAY 21: GEORGIA WILL WAIT FOR UNOMIG REPORT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Georgia told the FSC on May 21 it would defer release of the findings of the independent group of investigators of the April 20 UAV incident until the UNOMIG fact-finding team reports. Georgia did announce that the independent experts--from the three Baltic states and the U.S.- [...] | 2008-05-23 10:15:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PARM PREL OSCE KCFE GG RS XG |
| 08USOSCE144 | FSC MAY 28 - GEORGIA INVOKES VD99 CHAPTER III OVER [...] (SBU) Summary: Georgia announced in the May 28 Forum for Security Cooperation it would invoke the Vienna Document Chapter III risk reduction mechanism to call on Russia to explain its actions as described in the recently released UNOMIG investigation of the April 20 UAV incident. Russia rejo [...] | 2008-05-30 14:43:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE GG MW RS XG |
| 08USOSCE145 | DAYTON ARTICLE IV - CONTACT GROUP BRAINSTORMS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 15, the Contact Group (CG),absent Italy and UK, met in Vienna with the OSCE Personal Representative (PR) for Dayton Article IV at his request to informally exchange views on the future of the Dayton Article IV regime. Most agreed with Periotto's assessment and there we [...] | 2008-05-30 15:08:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE BK HR MW SR |
| 08USOSCE148 | GEORGIA/RUSSIA/OSCE: RUSSIA STONEWALLS AT VIENNA [...] (SBU) Summary: To address tensions between Georgia and Russia, the Finnish CiO convened three back-to-back meetings in Vienna on June 4 at the request of both Georgia and Russia. This was the first ever invocation of the Vienna Document 1999(VD99) Chapter III Risk Reduction mechanism. In a [...] | 2008-06-04 15:25:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM OSCE PREL GG RU |
| 08USOSCE150 | FSC-PC JUNE 4: CYBER SECURITY AND PREPARATION FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Estonian defense minister and other speakers discussed cyber security and the need for the OSCE to remain involved in coordinating the efforts of participating States (pS) in responding to emerging threats to information and communication systems. Speakers extolled the Cou [...] | 2008-06-06 12:43:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE KCIP EN FI XG |
| 08USOSCE156 | OSCE FSC/PC: RUSSIA AND GEORGIA AGAIN EXCHANGE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of three Joint FSC-PC meetings held on June 11 in response to requests by Georgia and Russia to further address tensions based on recent events in Abkhazia, both sides traded now familiar accusations on Abkhazia. Russia categorically denied its involvement in the [...] | 2008-06-12 09:37:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE XG GG RU |
| 08USOSCE158 | FSC JUNE 11: RUSSIA PROMISES FOLLOW-UP TO MEDVEDEV [...] (SBU) Summary: Russia announced it would provide amplifying details to President Medvedev's call during a recent speech in Germany for a "legally binding instrument on European security." The Russian proposed chair's statement on enforcing the time lines for requesting Vienna Document inspe [...] | 2008-06-12 13:23:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE RS XG |
| 08USOSCE160 | CFE/JCG: JUNE 10, 2008 PLENARY AND RELATED MEETINGS [...] (SBU) Summary. During the June 10 JCG Plenary under Kazakh Chairmanship, Belgium briefly described its ratification procedures noting the process would take 6-12 months. Then Azerbaijan and Armenia exchanged a series of interventions in which Armenia did not answer direct questions posed by [...] | 2008-06-12 16:15:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL |
| 08USOSCE163 | CFE/JCG: JUNE 17, 2008 PLENARY - RUSSIA AWAITS [...] (SBU) Summary. During the June 17 JCG Plenary under Kazakh Chairmanship, Turkey (Begec),supported by the U.S., Germany, the UK and Netherlands, raised the issue of Russia's latest inspection refusal. Russia (Solomenko) underscored there was no need to offer any explanations as they are well [...] | 2008-06-18 14:20:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL |
| 08USOSCE166 | FSC JUNE 25: LITTLE CONTROVERSY IN PRIVATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Austrian Brigadier Feichtinger described the increasing importance of private military/security companies as a "worrisome development" that challenges the democratic control of the armed forces and the state's monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. The U.S., in response, [...] | 2008-06-26 16:16:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE MCAP MOPS XG |
| 08USOSCE171 | ASRC WORKING SESSION II, JULY 2: ARMS CONTROL AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The keynote speakers at the 2008 Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC) arms control and CSBMs working session expressed concern over the CFE impasse caused by Russia's suspension. Alyson Bailes said the underlying cause was a "globalization of the security agendas" of the e [...] | 2008-07-03 17:13:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE XG |
| 08USOSCE176 | FSC JULY 9: U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY PRESENTATION [...] (SBU) Summary: During the July 9 Forum for Security Cooperation, Russia (Ulyanov) read a Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) statement that sharply criticized the recent U.S.-Czech Missile Defense (MD) agreement. The U.S. did not respond. In Security dialogue, U.S. Assistant Secretary [...] | 2008-07-15 11:29:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL XG |
| 08USOSCE185 | OSCE,S ANNUAL SECURITY REVIEW CONFERENCE - [...] (SBU) Summary: Delegations and speakers alike called for the OSCE to move from symbolic words to concrete action during this year's Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC),held July 1-2 in Vienna. NATO SACEUR General Craddock called on the international community to do more in Afghanistan a [...] | 2008-07-18 13:51:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE XG |
| 08USOSCE187 | OSCE/FSC: JULY 16, CZECHS - U.S. COUNTER RUSSIA ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The Czech Republic and the U.S. responded strongly to last week's intervention by Russia that inaccurately portrayed the U.S.-Czech agreement on missile defense radar. Drawing on material from President Medvedev's July 15 speech to the Russian MFA, Russia replied with claims t [...] | 2008-07-18 14:56:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL XG FSC |
| 08USOSCE194 | OSCE/FSC: 23 JULY PLENARY: NAVAL CSBMS--ALLIES [...] (SBU) Summary: The final meeting of the OSCE,s Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC) of the winter/spring session included a presentation by Ireland on the Convention on Cluster Munitions (Dublin agreement). Russia Also led a discussion under Security Dialogue on its Naval CSBM proposal. Bri [...] | 2008-07-24 16:22:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE XG |
| 08USOSCE195 | CFE/JCG - END OF WINTER/SPRING ROUND: RUSSIAN VIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the course of the JCG's January-July session with 20 weekly meetings, Allies led by the U.S. repeatedly criticized Russia's instances of noncompliance, underscored the importance of Russia negotiating seriously on the basis of the parallel actions package, called on Russia [...] | 2008-07-24 19:35:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL |
| 08USOSCE204 | DAYTON ARTICLE IV ON EX-YUGOSLAVIA ARMS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sixth Review Conference for Dayton Article IV implementation was held in Vienna on 3-4 July 2008. The conference went very smoothly -- there were no contentious issues between Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. Indeed, the main area of discussion centered on ways th [...] | 2008-08-07 13:35:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | BK KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS SR |
| 08USOSCE212 | OSCE/FSC SEPTEMBER 10: RUSSIA WILL FOCUS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The Forum for Security Cooperation began its autumn round on September 10 with an exchange of charges and counter-charges between Georgia and Russia. Georgia reports that large numbers of Russian forces remain on its territory, including South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and are engag [...] | 2008-09-11 14:30:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS GG XG |
| 08USOSCE221 | FSC SEPTEMBER 17: RUSSIA AND GEORGIA CONTINUE FEUD [...] (SBU) Summary: At the September 17, FSC Russia and Georgia reprised their running feud over culpability for starting the August war. Russia presented an amateurish video purporting to show Georgia's responsibility for starting the conflict and evidence of Georgian attacks on civilian targets [...] | 2008-09-22 06:06:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG |
| 08USOSCE226 | OPEN SKIES SEPTEMBER 23 PLENARY: RUSSIA CITES [...] (SBU) Summary. Russia confirmed it had lifted all restricted airspace associated with its conflict with Georgia while asserting that the restrictions were enacted in the first place strictly on the basis of flight safety. All affected States Parties, save Germany, strongly censured Russia, n [...] | 2008-09-25 06:21:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE |
| 08USOSCE227 | OPEN SKIES SEPTEMBER 23 PLENARY: RUSSIA CITES [...] (SBU) Summary. Russia confirmed it had lifted all restricted airspace associated with its conflict with Georgia while asserting that the restrictions were enacted in the first place strictly on the basis of flight safety. All affected States Parties, save Germany, strongly censured Russia, n [...] | 2008-09-25 06:21:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE |
| 08USOSCE228 | FSC SEPTEMBER 24: GEORGIA-RUSSIA DUSTUP CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Georgia gave a lengthy description in the OSCE Forum for Security Cooperation today of Russian transgressions, dating back to the breakup of the Soviet Union and culminating in its continued occupation of Georgian territories. Russia's relatively brief response blamed the "crim [...] | 2008-09-26 14:32:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG |
| 08USOSCE233 | FSC:RUSSIA BLASTS U.S. ON CSBM POLICY, U.S. AND [...] (SBU) Summary. Russia criticized what it called the "depraved" U.S. policy of linking all Russian initiatives in the FSC to "unrelated and secondary issues" such as Georgia and CFE. The U.S. position is "unreasonable," and "demonstrates that Washington has lost all interest in arms control." [...] | 2008-10-02 14:21:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG |
| 08USOSCE235 | CFE: ANTONOV FAILS TO DIVIDE ALLIES AT VIENNA LUNCH [...] (C) Summary. The Russian chief arms control delegate, Mikhail Ulyanov, hosted a lunch on October 2 in honor of the head of the Russian MFA arms control and disarmament division, Anatoliy Antonov. The lunch was billed as an effort to put forward Russian views on the current state of arms cont [...] | 2008-10-06 11:56:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG |
| 08USOSCE240 | CFE/JCG: OCTOBER 7 PLENARY MORE OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: During the October 7 JCG Plenary, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic, supported by Romania, France, the United States, Turkey, Portugal, Italy, and Germany, protested Russia,s latest refusals to allow inspections and called on Russia to resume implementation [...] | 2008-10-09 06:27:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL |
| 08USOSCE243 | FSC OCTOBER 8: USCG COMMANDANT ON INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Russia and Georgia again traded innuendo and accusations at the October 8 Forum for Security Cooperation. Russia said "some" were still trying to aggravate the situation in South Ossetia and provoke new military action, citing the October 3 car bomb attack, which killed several [...] | 2008-10-10 08:11:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS GG XG |
| 08USOSCE245 | OPEN SKIES: 2009 QUOTA DISTRIBUTION/DECONFLICTION [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 9-10 USDEL participated in the 2009 active quota distribution meeting and led the deconfliction discussion for observation flights over Belarus/Russian Federation and Ukraine. The U. S. asked for and received 14 active quotas over Belarus/Russian Federation and 1 a [...] | 2008-10-14 14:15:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE |
| 08USOSCE247 | CFE/JCG: OCTOBER 14 -- GEORGIA CALLS OUT RUSSIA, [...] (SBU) Summary: At October 14 JCG, Georgia accused Russia of violating core principles of the CFE Treaty (non-use of force, host nation consent) and non-compliance with Treaty provisions. In a surprisingly lengthy give and take (which included seven different interventions by Russia),the U [...] | 2008-10-15 06:24:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL |
| 08USOSCE249 | FSC OCTOBER 15: RUSSIA SAYS SOUTH OSSETIA/ABKHAZIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Russian deputy director for export controls and nonproliferation Petr Litavrin told Georgia he had no official information about arms transfers to separatists in South Ossetia and Abkhazia prior to the outbreak of war in August. However, he added, Russia can provide information [...] | 2008-10-16 15:09:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG |
| 08USOSCE259 | OPEN SKIES 27 OCTOBER: U.S. GETS 15TH MISSION [...] (SBU) Summary: At the 27 October Plenary, the Open Skies Consultative Commission (OSCC) adopted a decision to increase the U.S. number of active missions over Russia from 14 to a record number of 15 for 2008. The OSCC also adopted the Decision on the Distribution of Active Quotas for Obser [...] | 2008-10-28 15:23:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OSCE PARM PREL |
| 08USOSCE263 | CFE/JCG: GEORGIA/RUSSIA SPAR OVER ISTANBUL, ALLIES [...] (SBU) Summary: At the October 28 JCG, Georgia delivered a long statement detailing para by para Russia's failure to fulfill many of its Istanbul commitments. Russia denied the accusations, accused Georgia of the same, and declared Gudauta was no longer an issue since it now belongs to Abkh [...] | 2008-10-30 15:00:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS |
| 08USOSCE265 | CFE/JCG: GEORGIA/RUSSIA SPAR OVER ISTANBUL [...] (SBU) Summary: During the November 4 JCG, Russia rebutted Georgia's October 28 JCG statement in which Georgia detailed Russia's failure to fulfill its Istanbul Commitments. Georgia responded to Russia's rebuttal, reiterating many of the points it made during previous JCG meetings. Germany [...] | 2008-11-05 14:18:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL |
| 08USOSCE270 | OSCE/FSC NOVEMBER 5: PLENARY DISCUSSES UNPOA; [...] (SBU) Summary: During the November 5 FSC Plenary the Republic of Macedonia criticized Greece for a 28 October military parade in Thessaloniki and said it had evidence that slogans against the Republic of Macedonia were chanted by Greek armed forces. Decision No. 11/08 introducing best prac [...] | 2008-11-07 16:23:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG |
| 08USOSCE271 | DAYTON ART. IV: 41ST SRCC A COOPERATIVE SUCCESS [...] (U) Summary: The 41st Dayton Article IV Sub-Regional Consultative Commission (SRCC) met October 14-15 in Montenegro and included the signing of key amendments to the agreement that formally integrated Montenegro into the treaty as an independent state party. Four decisions were taken, which i [...] | 2008-11-11 14:17:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE ZL |
| 08USOSCE274 | FSC NOVEMBER 12: RUSSIA WANTS TO KEEP UNSCR 1540 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Forum for Security Cooperation on November 12 adopted decisions for an information exchange on end-user certificates, endorsement of a guide to disposition of melange (rocket fuel oxidizer),and the forwarding of a draft Ministerial Council decision on small arms, light wea [...] | 2008-11-13 15:04:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE PINR RS XG |
| 08USOSCE275 | OPEN SKIES: NOVEMBER 10 INFORMALS: UPHILL ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The Open Skies Consultative Commission (OSCC) Plenary met in informal session on November 10 to discuss the draft letter from the OSCC Chairperson to the Ministerial Council. The Informal Working Group on Rules and Procedures (IWGRP) followed the informal Plenary and continue [...] | 2008-11-13 15:15:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE |
| 08USOSCE278 | CFE/JCG: RUSSIA AGAIN ASSERTS IT HAS A LEGAL BASIS [...] (SBU) Summary: At the November 18 JCG, Italy, Poland, and the United States called out Russia for refusing their recent requests for CFE inspections. There was broad support for the Italian, Polish, and U.S. statements as several delegations voiced concern that Russia's continued noncompli [...] | 2008-11-18 17:18:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL |
| 08USOSCE284 | OPEN SKIES: A GOOD MONTH FOR NOVEMBER, INCLUDING [...] (SBU) Summary: The Open Skies Consultative Commission (OSCC) plenary on November 24 agreed on a letter from the OSCC Chairperson to the Ministerial Council summarizing the past year. The Russian-chaired Working Group on Rules and Procedures (IWGRP) agreed on a draft decision on "alternative [...] | 2008-11-25 14:36:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE |
| 08USOSCE290 | SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY: HELSINKI OSCE [...] (SBU) Madame Secretary, we look forward to seeing you at the OSCE Ministerial Council meeting in Helsinki. FM Stubb has succeeded in attracting a record number of ministers to this OSCE meeting, and hopes to rally the Organization in a renewal of the Q&Spirit of Helsinki.Q8 Following closely [...] | 2008-11-28 08:53:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM OSCE OVIP PHUM PREL PROG |
| 08USOSCE291 | FSC NOVEMBER 26: GEORGIA JOINS CONSENSUS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Georgia reluctantly joined consensus on a draft Ministerial decision that summarizes the FSC's 2008 work and tasks it to submit progress reports to the 2009 Ministerial. At issue was a reference to the Georgia-Russia conflict in August 2008, which Russia wanted described as the [...] | 2008-11-28 13:39:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS XG |
| 08USOSCE293 | FSC DECEMBER 10: UNSCR 1540 COMMITTEE CHAIR [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Jorge Urbina, chair of the UNSCR 1540 Committee, told the FSC its members were in the vanguard of states implementing the resolution, which calls on all states to prevent the proliferation of WMD and their delivery systems to non-state actors. Urbina said the Best P [...] | 2008-12-11 15:01:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KCFE OSCE RS CY XG |
| 08USOSCE298 | CFE/JCG DECEMBER 9 PLENARY: LEGAL ANALYSIS [...] (C) Summary: At the December 9 Joint Consultative Group (JCG) plenary, the U.S. provided a legal analysis refuting Russia,s repeated assertions that it has a legal basis for its "suspension" of the CFE Treaty. This was important to clear the air on this issue after repeated Russian challenge [...] | 2008-12-12 16:38:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS |
| 08USOSCE31 | OSCE REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE: DEFENDING KOSOVO CDI [...] (U) This is a request for guidance. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Summary: Following a coordinated declaration of independence (CDI) by Kosovo, Serbia will likely use the OSCE as an important venue to lay out its case before world opinion on why it believes its territorial integrity has been [...] | 2008-02-06 17:00:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PGOV PREL KV SR |
| 08USOSCE313 | CFE/JCG: DECEMBER 16 PLENARY - LACK OF RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: At the December 16 Joint Consultative Group (JCG) plenary, Poland, on behalf of the NATO states, strongly regretted Russia's lack of participation in the CFE Treaty's mandatory information exchange on December 15. The joint statement highlighted the willingness of NATO states to [...] | 2008-12-17 14:27:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS |
| 08USOSCE315 | CFE/JCG: FALL END-OF-ROUND: GEORGIA CRISIS; [...] (C) Summary: The autumn session of the Joint Consultative Group was dominated by fallout from Russia,s invasion of Georgia and Russia,s continued non-compliance with its CFE Treaty obligations (i.e., refusal of inspections and failure to provide information exchange data). Russia continue [...] | 2008-12-18 11:23:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS |
| 08USOSCE67 | CFE: MARCH 11 JCG PLENARY; CANADA ANNOUNCES THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. At the March 11 JCG Plenary, the last before the spring break, Canada briefed on its new treaty ratification practice and procedure. Russia rambled-on about numerous issues to include the "Parallel Actions Package," the NRC (ACE) meeting of 28 February, why Russia ratified th [...] | 2008-03-11 17:39:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL |
| 08USOSCE70 | VIENNA DOCUMENT 1999: CFE SUSPENSION CASTS LONG [...] (SBU) Summary: Discussion of future challenges and opportunities in the implementation of the Vienna Document 1999 was overshadowed at times by concern over the impasse created by Russia's suspension of its CFE commitments. Although most national representatives and several of the speakers cal [...] | 2008-03-18 09:59:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE XG |
| 08USOSCE71 | TRANSNISTRIA CONFLICT: THREE PLUS TWO INCHES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Finnish chairmanship succeeded March 13 in winning approval from the 3 2 group for the OSCE mediator to approach Moldovan and Transnistrian authorities to encourage them to establish issue-related working groups at the technical level. The Finnish special envoy for unre [...] | 2008-03-18 11:20:00 | Mission USOSCE | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE MD |
| 08USOSCE91 | FSC: APRIL 9 - RUSSIA JUMPS QUEUE TO BLAST ANY [...] (SBU) Summary: Russia opened the Forum for Security Cooperation spring-summer session even before the new chair had a chance to speak by attacking the U.S. for its announcement that Kosovo, as an independent country, was now eligible for defense assistance. Russia described this as an illegal [...] | 2008-04-11 08:58:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL OSCE KCFE KV RS XG |
| 08USOSCE98 | CFE: APRIL 15 JCG PLENARY, RUSSIA SAYS TOI WORK IS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the April 15 Joint Consultative Group (JCG),Germany and Russia exchanged opposing views stemming from Russia,s refusal to accept Germany's April 8 inspection notice. Belarus said that despite the 28 March NAC statement,s positive tone, it does not solve the problems rela [...] | 2008-04-16 16:28:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCFE OSCE PARM PREL |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1001 | UN DEMOCRACY FUND (UNDEF): OCT. 23 ADVISORY BOARD [...] Summary: The UNDEF Advisory Board met Oct. 23 and as expected decided to proceed with a third round of projects. Applications will be accepted Nov. 10-Dec. 30. Regarding procedures, UN officials told the Board the Secretary-General wants the Permanent Missions of countries where UNDEF is fun [...] | 2008-11-01 00:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KDEM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1006 | UNGA PANEL ON FINANCIAL CRISIS CALLS FOR REFORMS; [...] (U) Summary: Columbia University's Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, chair of the President of the General Assembly's (PGA) new task force on the international financial system, harshly criticized U.S. financial policies and the U.S. Government's response to the financial crisis at an October 30 "Interacti [...] | 2008-11-03 23:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID PREL IMF UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1007 | KOSOVO: SERBIAN FM JEREMIC CONFIDANT OF EULEX DEAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-03 23:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC UNMIK SR |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1008 | AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD AND JAPANESE PERM REP DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: Japanese Perm Rep Takasu told Ambassador Khalilzad October 31 that Japan would like to take the lead on Timor Leste and Afghanistan in the new Security Council term beginning in January, as well as chair the Peacekeeping Working Group. Japan is reluctant to chair the 1737 (Iran) [...] | 2008-11-04 00:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA UNSC KUNR AF TT JA IR BM PK |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1042 | UPDATE ON SAUDI INTERFAITH DIALOGUE STATEMENT [...] (SBU) Post met with the Saudi Mission to discuss changes to the Saudi draft statement about the interfaith religious dialogue that will to be discussed during the General Assembly (GA) plenary on November 12-13 (reftel). The resulting text, which incorporates virtually all of the USG changes, [...] | 2008-11-07 22:59:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNEP KISL SA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1049 | SAUDIS AND PGA ON REVISED STATEMENT FOR INTERFAITH [...] (C) In a November 9 meeting, Ambassador Khalilzad and Saudi FM Prince Saud discussed a revised draft statement (see text and action request in paragraph 5) that reflects changes requested by the EU. (Comment: The statement appears to retain all the elements specifically requested by the Depa [...] | 2008-11-10 17:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNEP KISL SA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1062 | UN ON DRC: GIVE TROOPS, PRESSURE KAGAME; 85 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN Under-Secretary-General Le Roy on November 11 called on the Security Council to approve rapidly the UN request for more MONUC troops. He warned MONUC was "all alone" in the east and reinforcements were desperately needed to defend Goma and protect civilians. Le Roy said Co [...] | 2008-11-13 00:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO CG RW |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1065 | UNSC REFORM: OPEN-ENDED WORKING GROUP MEETS; PGA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the first meeting of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) during the 63rd UNGA session, the President of the General Assembly (PGA) reiterated his October 10 letter to the membership about launching intergovernmental negotiations November 21, though he had previously indicate [...] | 2008-11-13 23:01:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UNGA KUNR IN BR IT JP GM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1076 | IRAN UN AMBASSADOR PROTESTS VISA DELAY/DENIAL AT [...] (U) Action request - See paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) At the October 31, 2008, meeting of the UN Committee on Relations with the Host Country, the Committee quickly adopted its annual report, including the recommendations and conclusions (previously faxed to IO/UNP). The Iran Mission's Deputy Perm [...] | 2008-11-17 22:26:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | OFDP CVIS PREL IR |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1077 | SECURITY COUNCIL DEBATES UNAMI/MNF-I [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Security Council received a quarterly briefing on November 14 from Staffan de Mistura, head of the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI),and from Ambassador Khalilzad, on behalf of MNF-I. Iraqi PR Bayati also addressed the Council. All participants, including members of the [...] | 2008-11-17 22:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ UNSC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK109 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: OLA AND LEBANESE NEARING [...] (SBU) UN Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Larry Johnson advised Amb. Wallace on February 6 that the Lebanese Government is provisionally amenable to the new proposal described in ref A for compensating the Lebanese judges for the risk associated with their service to the Special [...] | 2008-02-06 23:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1094 | UNGA/C-6: THE SIXTH (LEGAL) COMMITTEE DEBATES THE [...] Summary: The 63rd UNGA Sixth Committee held part one of a three-part debate on the Report of the International Law Commission (ILC) (A/63/10) October 27-28. Part one's topics included: Chapters 1-3, "Introductory Chapters;" Chapter 4, "Shared Natural Resources;" Chapter 5, "Effects of armed [...] | 2008-11-19 22:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1098 | COUNTER TERRORISM - UN DISBANDS WORKING GROUP ON [...] Summary. At a November 20 meeting, convened to discuss a proposal to establish a pilot information and Referral Center on Policies to Counter the Appeal of Terrorism at the UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) in Turin, Italy, UN Assistant Secretary General Robert Or [...] | 2008-11-20 22:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UNGA AA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1105 | ZIMBABWE AT THE UN: POWER SHARING STALLED, COUNTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UN A/SYG Menkerios told the Security Council on November 20 Zimbabwe's power sharing negotiations were stalled. He warned of dire humanitarian and economic crises, and said the control of the police was the most pressing issue. South Africa, Russia, China, and Viet Nam suppor [...] | 2008-11-21 23:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ZI ZU |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1112 | UNGA/C-6: UNGA'S SIXTH (LEGAL) COMMITTEE ADOPTS 14 [...] Summary: The 63rd UNGA's Sixth Committee held its final meeting November 14. The Committee on Relations with the Host Country presented its report. During the meeting, the Sixth Committee adopted by consensus 14 draft resolutions. End Summary. REPORT OF THE HOST COMMITTEE --------------- [...] | 2008-11-26 13:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1113 | MEMBER STATES CONTINUE CRITICISM OF THE [...] SUMMARY. A second discussion on the two-percent savings exercise took place in the Fifth Committee on Nov. 17 under the agenda item "accountability" during informal consultations. The Controller, Jun Yamazaki, was present to answer questions posed to him regarding the exercise. Mr. Yamazaki [...] | 2008-11-26 14:40:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD AFIN AORC KUNR UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1114 | UN INTERNAL JUSTICE SYSTEM UNDER THE GAVEL [...] Summary: On November 20, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) discussed mechanisms for resolving staff employment grievances. The Committee received reports from Under Secretary-General for Management Angela Kane (A/62/748, A/62/782, A/63/314, and A [...] | 2008-11-26 15:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KUNR |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1129 | MONUC AT UN: GIVE US CLEAR DIRECTIONS FOR DRC-AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SRSG Alan Doss asked the Security Council on November 26 for clear operational guidelines for MONUC, especially regarding use of force. He also said a temporary stabilization force is sorely needed as we await the additional MONUC troops the Council recently authorized. He sa [...] | 2008-12-03 00:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO UNSC XA BY CG |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1130 | ICC’S OCAMPO: BASHIR ARREST WARRANT IN JANUARY OR [...] (C) SUMMARY: ICC Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo on December 2 spoke with Ambassador Wolff at the UN on the situation in Sudan. Ocampo said the arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir would be issued in January or February. He said Arab leaders were frustrated with Bashir, and French President Sarkoz [...] | 2008-12-03 21:13:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SU AX CG UG |
| 08USUNNEWYORK114 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 07 [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Updates on UNAMID TCC deployments including police units; helicopter update; contractor issues and the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). END SUMMARY 3. (C) UNAMID Deployment: --Egypt: The heavy transport un [...] | 2008-02-07 23:09:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU NSC UNSC KPKO MOPS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1140 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE TAKES ACTION ON RELIGIOUS [...] On November 25, the UN General Assembly Third Committee passed the following draft resolutions by consensus: A/C.3/63/L.34/Revision 1, entitled "Elimination of all forms of intolerance and of discrimination based on religion or belief;" A/C.3/63/L.39/Revision 1, entitled "Protection of human r [...] | 2008-12-05 14:54:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF AORC UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1146 | SOMALIA: PKO POSSIBLE; MORE WORK NEEDED [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C/NF) Summary: In response to reftel A instructions, USUN consulted with the UK and other interested delegations on December 4 and 5 on the possibility of quickly rehatting the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) as a UN pea [...] | 2008-12-06 00:20:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM KPKO UNSC SO |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1172 | UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE CONCLUDES WORK BY ADOPTING [...] SUMMARY: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) Second Committee concluded its work by adopting 15 draft resolutions - 14 by consensus and one by vote - on December 11. As instructed, the United States called for a vote and voted against the resolution entitled, "Toward a New International Economic [...] | 2008-12-15 23:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV EFIN UNGA CU |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1173 | 63RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC [...] (U) This cable was prepared by Ambassador Joan Plaisted, who served as Senior Area Adviser for East Asia and the Pacific to the 63rd United Nations General Assembly. 2. (U) To achieve U.S. objectives for the 63rd UN General Assembly (UNGA) session, East Asian and Pacific Islands support was [...] | 2008-12-16 00:34:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | BP BX CB CH ECON FJ FM ID JA KR KS LA MG |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1175 | ARAB PERFORMANCE AT THE 63RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) ARAB PERFORMANCE AT THE 63RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY WAS A MIXED BAG, WITH DIFFERENTIATED VOTING ON SOME KEY ISSUES. EGYPT MAINTAINED ITS USUAL ACTIVISM IN SHAPING AND DEFENDING UNHELPFUL G-77, OIC, AND NON-ALIGNED POSITIONS. SYRIA ENGAGED IN ITS USUAL RHETORIC AND POLARIZING TACTICS, AND ALGE [...] | 2008-12-16 19:33:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA PHUM XF EG |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1180 | BURUNDI AT THE UN: CONSENSUS TO RENEW BINUB; SOUTH [...] (SBU) The United Nations Integrated Office in Burundi (BINUB) was before the Security Council on December 11. The Burundian PermRep told the Council the names of an independent electoral commission will be announced "in the coming days," a critical step for the organization of 2010 elections. [...] | 2008-12-17 19:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO BY ZF |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1182 | UNGA: FIFTH COMMITTEE DISCUSSES FINANCING [...] Summary: On December 15 the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) began discussions of financing the international criminal tribunals. African and European representatives endorsed the Secretariat's calls for additional funding. The French delegate (on b [...] | 2008-12-17 21:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KWCI RW YI |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1184 | UN SECRETARIAT CONSIDERS CHANGES TO GEORGIA MISSION [...] (C) SUMMARY. The UN Secretariat is leaning toward recommending an enhanced mandate for the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) when the SYG releases his periodic report in February 2009. The report will likely recommend a small peacekeeping mission for Georgia/Abkhazia of about 700 troops [...] | 2008-12-18 23:33:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC RS GG |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1192 | UNGA: REPORT ON AFRICAN DELEGATIONS AT THE 63RD [...] (U) Gerald Scott is again serving as Senior Advisor for Africa at USUN during the regular session of the General Assembly. These are his personal reflections on African participation as the regular session draws to a close. (Note that while in the UN context the African Group includes the st [...] | 2008-12-19 21:06:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINR PINS ECON XW XY ZF ZU |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1194 | BURMA STATE OF PLAY AT THE UN [...] (C) During a P-3 meeting with Ambassador DiCarlo on December 18, UK and French Permanent Representatives voiced strong concern about pressing for an arms embargo resolution in the Security Council. UK PR Sawers said an embargo would likely result in a double veto by Russia and China, which wo [...] | 2008-12-19 23:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1197 | UNGA: WESTERN HEMISPHERE DELEGATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable reviews the activities of Western Hemisphere delegations at the 63rd Session of the UN General Assembly. At the opening of the Session, twenty-five heads of state from the Western Hemisphere participated in the General Debate. Incoming President of the General Assembly [...] | 2008-12-22 18:26:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA XK XL XM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1198 | UNGA 63: DEALING WITH WESTERN EUROPE [...] (U) This cable was prepared by Robert J. Smolik who served as Senior Area Advisor for Western European Affairs to the 63rd United Nations General Assembly. 2. (C) During the fall session of the 63rd UNGA, EU and European Free Trade Association states generally aligned with U.S. objectiv [...] | 2008-12-23 19:27:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA US XG XH XT ZB |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1200 | UNGA: UNSC REFORM: LOW-KEY PLENARY DEBATE GIVEN [...] (SBU) Summary: The General Assembly met November 18-20 to discuss Security Council expansion, as well as the annual Report on the Security Council (reported ref A). Given the November 11 and 17 meetings of the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) (ref B),the plenary debate on Council expansion wa [...] | 2008-12-23 19:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNGA UNSC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1202 | SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS DFI PROTECTIONS FOR IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 22 the Security Council unanimously passed resolution 1859, providing for a one-year extension of protections for Iraqi assets, including the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) and a Security Council review of all resolutions pertaining to Iraq since the adoption of re [...] | 2008-12-23 21:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC IZ |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1203 | CHISSANO TO UN: KONY WON'T GO TO ICC; TO U.S.: TRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UN Security Council issued a Presidential Statement on December 22 condemning the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) attacks and LRA rebel leader Joseph Kony's failure to sign the Final Peace Agreement. Special Envoy Chissano told the Council on December 17 that Kony would "rathe [...] | 2008-12-23 21:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO CG UG SU XA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK1209 | COPY OF LETTER SENT TO AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD FROM [...] (SBU) Ambassador Khalilzad received the following letter from the Grand Conference of the Afghans Organizing Committee, forwarded to him by Hekmatyar's son-in-law, Mr. Jarir. The text of the correspondence is included below. 2. (SBU) Begin text: Dear Excellency, Some time ago Mr. Jari [...] | 2008-12-31 21:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL AF |
| 08USUNNEWYORK123 | CDG MINUS COUNTRIES UNITED IN CONCERN ABOUT KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary: The Coordinating and Drafting Group Minus Russia (CDG-1) on February 8 discussed the run-up to a Kosovo declaration of independence (DI) and its aftermath. There was agreement that there should be no pretext provided for Russian efforts to de-legitimize Kosovo's independence. The [...] | 2008-02-11 16:05:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNSC YI |
| 08USUNNEWYORK127 | LEBANON: RISING CONCERN ABOUT UNSCR 1701 [...] (C) Summary. Over the past week, the Israeli Mission, Secretariat officials, and departing UN Special Coordinator SIPDIS for Lebanon Geir Pedersen have expressed concern to USUN about increasing risks to the implementation of UNSCR 1701 as attention in Lebanon has largely been focused on th [...] | 2008-02-11 22:16:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPKO UNSC SY IS LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK140 | UNSC CALLS FOR INCREASED ACCOUNTABILITY ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. SRSG for Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) Radhika Coomaraswamy on February 12 urged the Council to implement targeted measures against persistent violators against children. She also called for the Council to add rape/sexual violence as a trigger to list a country in the ann [...] | 2008-02-14 14:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PGOV PHUM PREF UNSC BM FR |
| 08USUNNEWYORK147 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 14 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN Darfur Integrated Operations Team (IOT) informed USUN that the Egyptian Contingency Owned Equipment for the heavy transport unit was released from the Port of Sudan on February. The UN will convene a bidders conference February 16-22 for companies to replace PA&E. DPKO [...] | 2008-02-14 21:34:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU NSC UNSC KPKO MOPS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK151 | CLIMATE CHANGE: UNGA TO KEEP BUSY TEMPO [...] (U) The General Assembly's February 11-13 thematic debate on climate change highlighted the role of the UN system in responding to the global challenges and potential solutions to that problem. Several delegations directed comments, both good and bad, at the U.S., with island states providing [...] | 2008-02-15 19:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ECON UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK152 | UNAMI EXPANSION PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the January visit to Baghdad of UN Under Secretary for Safety and Security David Veness, the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) has been given permission to raise its international staff ceiling to 140, which means an increase of 19 professional staff. [...] | 2008-02-15 21:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC IZ |
| 08USUNNEWYORK155 | FM JEREMIC ARGUES BEFORE 76 UN MEMBER STATES THAT [...] (SBU) Summary. The Security Council met in a private session on February 14 at the request of Russia and Serbia to discuss Kosovo. Sixty-one non-Council members attended as observers. Serbian FM Jeremic, after failing in a last-minute attempt to convince the U.S. to agree to televise the sess [...] | 2008-02-16 00:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC UNMIK |
| 08USUNNEWYORK162 | PRESIDENT TADIC PROTESTS "HISTORIC INJUSTICE" OF [...] (SBU) Summary. In a public meeting of the Security Council on February 18, SYG Ban said the situation on the ground in Kosovo remained calm following of the February 17 declaration of independence. Ban said he would continue to view UNSCR 1244 as the basis for UNMIK's operations, but may be re [...] | 2008-02-20 22:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNMIK YI UNSC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK166 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 21 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Darfur Integrated Operations Team (IOT) reported that the Egyptian heavy transport unit is scheduled to arrive in Darfur by March 31. The advance party of the Ethiopian infantry battalion will deploy between March 24 and April 4. In anticipation of the April 1 termination of [...] | 2008-02-21 21:37:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU NSC UNSC KPKO MOPS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK171 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE DISCUSSES [...] BEGIN SUMMARY AND COMMENT: UN Office of Legal Affairs consultant Robin Vincent briefed the Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon on February 19 and 21 concerning proposals for refurbishing the future Tribunal building and for compensating Tribunal staff. Describing measu [...] | 2008-02-22 21:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK173 | P-3 PUSHES DPKO TO FIELD A MORE ROBUST UNMIK [...] (C) SUMMARY. P-3 deputy permanent representatives told U/SYG Guehenno on February 22 that UNMIK and KFOR need to robustly deter violence and Serbian efforts to establish de facto partition of Kosovo during the transition period. DPKO agreed to bar Serbian minister Samardzic from entering Koso [...] | 2008-02-22 22:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UNMIKI YI |
| 08USUNNEWYORK176 | ICELANDIC PRESIDENT GRIMSSON PITCHES CANDIDACY FOR [...] (SBU) On February 22, Icelandic President Grimsson told Ambassador Khalilzad that he had been "personally engaged" since last year in Iceland's race against Austria and Turkey for a seat on the Security Council in 2009-2010. Grimsson said Iceland had been offering potential supporters coopera [...] | 2008-02-25 22:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC IC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK188 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 28 [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Darfur Integrated Operations Team (IOT) reported that the Egyptian infantry battalion advance party will complete deployment into Darfur by March 15. The main body of the Ethiopian infantry battalion is scheduled to arrive at the Port of Sudan on March 29. DPKO will recon [...] | 2008-02-28 21:07:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU NSC UNSC KPKO MOPS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK193 | USUN: STRATEGY FOR MORE EFFECTIVE PEACEKEEPING [...] Sensitive but unclassified - entire text. This is an Action Cable; please see paragraphs 9 and 11. 2. SUMMARY AND COMMENT: UN peacekeeping effectiveness has diminished in the wake of proliferating deployments into increasingly challenging geographic, security and political environments. [...] | 2008-02-29 20:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS UNSC KPKO |
| 08USUNNEWYORK196 | SECOND OIC REQUEST FOR DIPLOMATIC STATUS IN NEW [...] During a brief meeting on February 28, Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Permanent Observer to the UN Ambassador Abdul Wahab handed Ambassador Khalilzad a letter in which he reiterates and expands upon an earlier request (see reftel) that his UN observer office be granted diplomati [...] | 2008-03-03 21:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP OIC UN |
| 08USUNNEWYORK211 | TIME TO EUTHANIZE UNMEE [...] (C) SUMMARY. United Nations Undersecretaries Pascoe and Guehenno separately told Ambassador Wolff on March 4 that UNMEE will complete the relocation home of most personnel by mid-March, leaving in place a residual force to watch over the mission's heavy equipment until it can be redeployed. A [...] | 2008-03-07 13:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ER ET KPAL MOPS PREL UNSC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK222 | LEBANON: COUNCIL DIVISIONS HARDEN ON UNSCR 1701 [...] (SBU) Summary. During closed UNSC consultations on March 10, senior UN Secretariat officials reported that the continuing Lebanese political crisis had blocked meaningful progress on UNSCR 1701 implementation. They praised continued UNIFIL-LAF cooperation; noted the significant increase in I [...] | 2008-03-11 15:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KPKO UNSC SY IS LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK224 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: APPOINTING AND PROTECTING [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: As the UN continues to prepare for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon to begin functioning, a series of issues remain concerning the appointment of the 11 judges who will serve on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. The Secretary-General selected the judges last fall but, to p [...] | 2008-03-11 19:14:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK236 | UN OFFICE IN BELGRADE FEARS NATO WILL BE MIA IN [...] (C) Summary: In a March 12 meeting with Ambassador Wolff, the UN Office in Belgrade's Acting Director Richard Wilcox said that Belgrade believes it will control northern Kosovo and is looking for a deal with the EU on Serb enclaves in the rest of Kosovo. Ambassador Wolff responded that Belgrad [...] | 2008-03-14 20:49:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNMIK KV YI UNSC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK242 | UNSC QUALIFIED ANGER AT ERITREA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 13 U/SYG Guehenno told the Security Council that UNMEE has completed the relocation of personnel and equipment from the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) to Asmara. Guehenno listed several incidents that he described as Eritrean attempts to "humiliate" UNMEE during the ev [...] | 2008-03-17 19:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC KPAL ET ER MOPS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK243 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 21 [...] (C) SUMMARY: USUN and the Canadian Permanent Mission co-chaired the first working-level meeting of the "Friends of UNAMID" on March 13. Discussion focused on how members of the group can work in partnership with the UN to help identify and remove impediments to UNAMID deployment. On the marg [...] | 2008-03-18 15:26:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU NSC UNSC KPKO MOPS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK246 | UN - FIFTH COMMITTEE BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF BAN'S [...] Summary: The Fifth Committee of the General Assembly, on March 17th, began its consideration of Secretary-General Ban's proposal to strengthen the Department of Political Affairs (DPA) (A/62/521 and Corr.1). U-SYG Barcena of the Department of Management introduced the report (see paragraph [...] | 2008-03-18 17:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK255 | USUN CONCERNED WITH UN ACTIONS IN ALGIERS PRIOR TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-20 10:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK256 | NEED FOR DECISION ON APPROACH TO UN BUDGET [...] (C) This is a guidance request - see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: The Secretariat has presented UN Member States with additional budget items ("add-ons") to the 2008-2009 biennium budget adopted in December 2007. A small number of these add-ons are expected to be decided by the membership th [...] | 2008-03-20 19:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR ACABQ AMGT UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK258 | UNSC REFORM: GERMAN-LED GROUP TABLES PROPOSAL IN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a March 18 meeting of the German-led Over-Arching Process on UNSC reform, Cyprus presented a proposal on behalf of a small drafting group that it hoped could serve as a basis for the inter-governmental negotiations on Council expansion set to take place in 2008. The prop [...] | 2008-03-20 23:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV KUNR UNSC GM JA IT BR IN PK |
| 08USUNNEWYORK268 | GAMBARI ADMITS NO PROGRESS IN BURMA BUT CALLS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In both the Group of Friends meeting and during his briefing to the Security Council on March 18, UN Special Adviser Gambari admitted that his recent visit to Burma did not result in "an immediate, tangible outcome" but reported that the Burmese regime, Aung Sun Suu Kyi (ASSK),[...] | 2008-03-25 14:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNSC BM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK280 | RANCOROUS UNSC MONTHLY MIDDLE EAST DEBATE MAKES [...] (SBU) Summary. SYG Ban Ki-Moon made an unusual appearance during the UNSC's monthly Middle East debate on March 25 to beseech the parties and the international community -- including the Security Council -- to support the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations aimed at reaching an agreement by the [...] | 2008-03-28 15:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPKO KPAL KWBG UNSC SY IR LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK285 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: BROAD SUPPORT IN COUNCIL BUT [...] (SBU) Summary. UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel delivered a largely technical briefing to the Security Council on March 28 about the SYG's efforts to set up the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) per UNSCR 1757. Recalling all the steps that have been taken since the SYG's last report in Septem [...] | 2008-03-28 23:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK298 | GUEHENNO SAYS DPKO WILL LIMIT SAMARDZIC TRAVEL TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Quint mission representatives delivered to UN U/SYG Guehenno demarche points (ref) on Kosovo transition issues. Guehenno said any dialogue UNMIK conducts needs to include key stakeholders and that DPKO takes preventing violence seriously, but called for practical engagement in [...] | 2008-04-03 16:45:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNMIK YI UNSC KV |
| 08USUNNEWYORK30 | SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN KI-MOON MEETS WITH SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: During a lunch January 10 with Security Council Ambassadors, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon discussed Sudan, Burma, Kosovo, and several other issues. On the margins of the meeting, Ban,s deputy chief of staff Kim Won Soon said South Korea is willing to provide helicopter pilots to [...] | 2008-01-11 22:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK301 | UPDATE ON UN ACTIVITIES IN IRAQ; UN REQUESTS U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: USUN and UKUN met April 3 with the UN,s Iraq team to discuss substantive and logistical issues involving the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI). The UN pressed for USG approval to assign a U.S. military advisor to the UNAMI team; the UN is actively looking to expand its pres [...] | 2008-04-04 16:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ |
| 08USUNNEWYORK302 | UN WESTERN SAHARAH REPORT WILL INCLUDE ENVOY'S [...] (C) Summary: The UN has confirmed that the Secretary-General's upcoming report on the Western Sahara SIPDIS will include a realistic assessment of the state of play by Personal Envoy Peter Van Walsum, including his determination that neither a referendum with independence as an option nor [...] | 2008-04-04 20:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PBTS UNSC MO WI |
| 08USUNNEWYORK303 | 1540: RUSSIANS SHOW NO FLEXIBILITY ON RESOLUTION [...] (C) Amb. Wolff raised U.S. objectives (consistent with ref A) for the resolution to renew the mandate of the Security Council Committee established by resolution 1540 (2004) with Russian Deputy PermRep Constantin Dolgov on April 3. Dolgov responded that he has firm instructions from "high l [...] | 2008-04-04 21:43:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP |
| 08USUNNEWYORK308 | NEW YORK STILL IN DISARRAY ON KOSOVO END GAME [...] (C) SUMMARY. In the aftermath of the February 19 and March 17 violence in Kosovo, UN component parts (DPKO, UNMIK, OLA) have been warily eyeing one another and approaching the UN-EU transition with different perspectives. Quint missions collectively have had little strategic guidance to offer [...] | 2008-04-04 23:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNMIK UNSC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK31 | GUEHENNO ON DARFUR: UNAMID SO FAR IS REHATTED AMIS [...] (C) SUMMARY. UN U/SYG Guehenno presented a previously scheduled briefing on Darfur to the Security Council on January 9 and used the occasion to strongly criticize Sudanese military forces for the ambush of a UNAMID convoy on January 7 that left one driver seriously injured and damaged several [...] | 2008-01-12 00:31:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SU |
| 08USUNNEWYORK310 | PGA KERIM REQUESTS U.S. VIEWS ON INTERMEDIARY [...] (U) This is an action request for Department guidance before the April 10 OEWG session. Please see para 6. 2. (U) Summary. President of the General Assembly (PGA) Serdjam Kerim requested a meeting with Amb Khalilzad on April 4 to discuss UNSC reform. Noting that he had received several p [...] | 2008-04-07 14:40:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNSC GM JA IT BR IN PK |
| 08USUNNEWYORK311 | UN/LIBERIA SANCTIONS: LIBERIA SEEKS END TO [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: USUN PolOff met with Liberian PermRep Milton Barnes on March 12 at his request to discuss Liberia's view of the way forward on the Liberia sanctions regime. Barnes said Liberia is seeking to remove individuals from the sanctions list and to terminate the mandate [...] | 2008-04-07 22:40:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI |
| 08USUNNEWYORK319 | LEBANON: FRENCH THREATEN TO CIRCULATE SHORT 1701 [...] (C) The French held expert-level consultations on April 7 on their draft UNSC Presidential Statement (PRST) on resolution 1701 (reftel). Libya, South Africa, China, and Panama objected to the draft statement but expressed a willingness to consider a shortened version that simply reiterates su [...] | 2008-04-09 00:53:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER KPKO UNSC SY LE IS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK337 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 11 [...] (C) SUMMARY. At a 3 April Friends of UNAMID meeting, Max Kerley, Director of Logistics for Force Generation Service, addressed self-sustainment issues previously raised by Special Envoy Williamson. Kerley outlined a plan that would allow for TCCs to deploy without achieving the level of self-s [...] | 2008-04-11 21:05:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU NSC UNSC KPKO MOPS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK34 | 63RD UNGA PRESIDENCY: GRULAC INACTION WOULD LIKELY [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary: Although many in the GRULAC remain uncomfortable with the prospect of Nicaraguan Miguel D'Escoto as their candidate (and defacto winner) for the presidency of the 63rd General Assembly (PGA),no one within the group, at least [...] | 2008-01-14 21:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK340 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEETS TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: USUN Legal Adviser Willson and USUN/MR participated in an April 9 meeting of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) Management Committee to discuss how best to provide retirement, death and disability benefits to Tribunal employees, as required under Dutch law, including the poss [...] | 2008-04-11 22:15:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK341 | CHILD OF TIMOR LESTE PERMREP REPORTS ABUSE [...] On April 8, 2008, the school teacher of the six year-old son of Timor Leste's PermRep, HE Ambassador Nelson Santos, noticed marks indicating abuse. In response to the teacher's inquiries about the marks, the child stated his father had hit him with a belt. The teacher reported this to the Ne [...] | 2008-04-11 22:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UN TT PREL |
| 08USUNNEWYORK343 | UNSC REFORM: MOSTLY PROCESS AND LITTLE SUBSTANCE [...] (SBU) Summary and comment. President of the General Assembly (PGA) Serdjam Kerim convened the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on April 10 to discuss the four proposals he received as a basis for inter-governmental negotiations (IGN) on UNSC reform -- the Cypriot paper, Italian letter, African [...] | 2008-04-11 22:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KUNR UNSC BR IN JA GR |
| 08USUNNEWYORK353 | GAMBARI UPDATES P-3 ON BURMA [...] (C) The P-3 sought an update April 14 from Special Advisor Gambari on his effort to return to Burma to press for a free and fair referendum (reftel). In a meeting with P-3 Deputy PermReps, Gambari said that as of April 14, the Burmese had not responded to his proposal to travel to Burma or to [...] | 2008-04-16 19:18:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK356 | RUSSIAN UN PERMREP CHURKIN CRITICIZES GEORGIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: In April 14 Security Council consultations on the Secretary-General's quarterly report on the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG),A/SYG Edmund Mulet reported that the situation in UNOMIG's area of responsibility has remained generally calm with the exception of recent incid [...] | 2008-04-17 00:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNSC GG |
| 08USUNNEWYORK357 | CAMEROON COUNSELOR'S FAMILY: VISA AND STATUS [...] (U) Entire text is sensitive but unclassified. 2. (U) USUN seeks Department's views in this complicated case. 3.(SBU) USUN met April 15 with Cameroon Mission Counselor Nganje Kinge Monono and his wife, Priscilla Jemea Misodi Nganje Kinge, who seek USUN assistance. Reftel describes in deta [...] | 2008-04-17 14:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OFDP PREL KREC CM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK361 | MBEKI WANTS PRESIDENT BUSH TO KNOW HE IS TRYING ON [...] (C) On the margins of the April 16 High Level Meeting of the UN Security Council on Africa (reported septel),South African (SAG) President Thabo Mbeki pulled aside Ambassador Khalilzad and asked him to convey a message to President Bush. Mbeki said he was concerned the President might think [...] | 2008-04-17 19:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC SF ZI |
| 08USUNNEWYORK366 | COSTA RICA PLACES HOLD ON OIL FOR FOOD LETTER [...] (SBU) On March 28, the Russian Presidency of the Security Council circulated a draft response to the Secretary-General on closing down the Oil for Food program (OFF). The draft was derived from a Department-drafted nonpaper, and enjoyed the support of the P5. On April 1, Costa Rica placed a h [...] | 2008-04-18 21:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ CS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK371 | UNSC HOLDS FIRST POST-INDEPENDENCE KOSOVO MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) Joachim Rucker told Ambassador SIPDIS Khalilzad on April 21 he hopes for deployment of EULEX and the International Civilian Office (ICO) by June. Rucker later told the full Security Council that UNMIK will continue to op [...] | 2008-04-23 18:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UNMIK UNSC YI |
| 08USUNNEWYORK372 | SUDAN ENVOY INSISTS KHARTOUM READY TO MAKE DEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. Sudanese Special Envoy Ismail told Ambassador Khalilzad on April 18 that Sudanese President Bashir is interested in reaching a package settlement of outstanding issues with the USG and international community that would include a roadmap for resolving Darfur-related issues, mediat [...] | 2008-04-23 23:04:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR SU |
| 08USUNNEWYORK373 | UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: LEGACY PROJECT [...] SUMMARY: Former U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone Joe Melrose (Ret.),currently serving as a consultant to the Sierra Leone Special Court on legacy issues, briefed members of the Special Court Management Committee on April 22 regarding possible uses of the Court facilities in Freetown once the [...] | 2008-04-24 15:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK375 | STRATEGY ON UN HARMONIZATION AND SPECIAL [...] (C) This is an action request. See para 8. 2. (C) Summary: USUN proposes to employ a two-track approach to reaching an agreement on harmonization of conditions of service for UN field staff. One track is to seek concurrence of member states, particularly the G-77, on the harmonizat [...] | 2008-04-24 22:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | KUNR ACABQ AMGT UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK38 | MANHASSET III: ALGERIAN READOUT [...] (C) Summary: In a January 10 meeting, the Algerian delegation to Manhasset III told NEA/DAS Gordon Gray and NEA/I Chris Ross that the Moroccans had arrived with and had maintained a negative attitude, that positions of both sides had hardened and yet Personal Envoy van Walsum, asserting his au [...] | 2008-01-15 21:25:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI |
| 08USUNNEWYORK384 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: BUILDING PROPOSAL APPROVED [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: On April 29, the Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) approved the proposal for building a courtroom and holding cells and otherwise refurbishing and equipping the AIVD Building, which the Dutch government is providing to house the STL. The Comm [...] | 2008-04-30 14:42:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK388 | CORRESPONDENCE FOR THE PRESIDENT: MILLENNIUM [...] USUN received via fax on April 30 a letter dated 25 April 2008 from UNSYG Ban Ki-Moon and President of the General Asembly Dr. Srgjan Kerim to President Bush. The letter invites the President to a September 25, 2008 high-level event on the Millenium Development Goals. Text of letter follows [...] | 2008-05-01 19:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON PREL UN |
| 08USUNNEWYORK404 | SECURITY COUNCIL INTEREST IN ZIMBABWE GROWING [...] (C) SUMMARY. UN Under Secretary-General Pascoe briefed Security Council members on April 29 on the situation in Zimbabwe, describing a pre-election period marked by threats of violence from government officials, a relatively open and fair elections process, and a post-election surge in governm [...] | 2008-05-05 21:30:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ZM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK411 | RWANDANS READY TO REINFORCE UNDERSTRENGHT UNAMID [...] (C) SUMMARY: UN/Government of Rwanda (GOR) negotiations for the participation of three Rwandan troop battalions in Darfur went smoothly Monday, May 5th, paving the way for the deployment of new Rwandan soldiers and equipment to the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) in 2008. The negotiated Memora [...] | 2008-05-08 21:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPKO AF SU |
| 08USUNNEWYORK413 | UNITED NATIONS - ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE - AD [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: An Ad Hoc Committee of the General Assembly, made up of Sixth (Legal) Committee experts, met April 10-18, 21, and 24 to consider the legal aspects of the reform of the system of justice. The Committee focused on draft statutes for the UN Dispute Tribunal (UNDT) and the UN Appe [...] | 2008-05-09 00:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APER PREL UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK424 | UN/COTE D'IVOIRE: BRIEFINGS BY SRSG CHOI AND [...] (C) Summary: SRSG for Cote d'Ivoire Choi briefed the Security Council on April 28 on political developments in Cote d'Ivoire since January, noting that the Ivorian parties and the international community were making a serious commitment to facilitate upcoming elections on November 30, which ha [...] | 2008-05-12 18:29:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | CDI ETTC PGOV PREL UNSC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK44 | UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: FINANCIAL [...] SUMMARY: USUN and other members of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee met January 15 to discuss ongoing challenges facing the Court, including uncertainties over the source of adequate voluntary contributions to sustain Court activity throughout 2008 and continued tensions b [...] | 2008-01-17 15:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK477 | U/SYG HOLMES ON PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN ARMED [...] (SBU) Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes briefed the Security Council May 27 on the subject of the protection of civilians in armed conflict. In addition to members of the Security Council, 21 other member states participated in the public discussion. Most voiced sup [...] | 2008-05-29 23:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF PREL SOCI UNSC XA UN PGOV |
| 08USUNNEWYORK478 | MIDDLE EAST: UNSC MEMBERS WELCOME REGIONAL PEACE [...] (SBU) Summary. The UN Security Council held its monthly Middle East meeting on May 28. UNSCO Robert Serry briefed in a public session, and Council members subsequently discussed the issue in closed consultations. Serry welcomed "fragile" progress on the Israeli-Syrian, Lebanese, and Israeli [...] | 2008-05-29 23:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KWBG KPAL SY LE IS PA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK482 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL HOLDS SPECIAL SESSION ON [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 30 the UN Security Council held a special session on the UN Observer Mission in Georgia's (UNOMIG) report on the shootdown of a Georgian UAV on April 20. Georgian Permrep Alasania stated that he had come to discuss a direct threat to the sovereignty and territorial inte [...] | 2008-05-30 23:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL GG UNSC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK486 | UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: FRENCH REACTION TO [...] (C) USUN met with UK and French counterparts on June 1 to discuss their positions on reftel US proposal to seek sanctions in the Sudan Sanctions Committee on Khalil Ibrahim, Daoussa Deby Itno, Ahmad Muhammed Harun, and Awad Ibn Auf. According to UK PolOff David Whineray, London will support ou [...] | 2008-06-03 01:14:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU EFIN KTFN PTER |
| 08USUNNEWYORK487 | UN SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOON, NYC MAYOR [...] SUMMARY: New York City Mayor Bloomberg hosted UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and USUN Ambassador Khalilzad on May 19th at Gracie Mansion to discuss security issues related to the $1.9 billion UN renovation project known as the Capital Master Plan (CMP). During the meeting Mayor Bloomberg ind [...] | 2008-06-03 16:10:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK490 | REASSESSING U.S. POSTURE AND TACTICS TOWARD THE CPC [...] SUMMARY: With the start of the 48th session of the Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC) scheduled for June 9, USUN believes the time is appropriate to reassess our current posture toward CPC with a view to determining what steps, if any, we can take to make CPC a more effective enti [...] | 2008-06-03 20:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UUNR UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK510 | SRSG ZERIHOUN BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON UNFICYP [...] (SBU) Summary: UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) SRSG Taye-Brook Zerihoun reported to the Security Council on June 9 on recent developments on Cyprus. He said that since the election of President Christofias in February there is a new spirit of cooperation on the island and Christofia [...] | 2008-06-10 21:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CY UNSC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK511 | LEBANON: IDF GENERALS BRIEF UNSC MEMBERS ON [...] (SBU) IDF Generals Yossi Baidatz and Yossi Heymann briefed UNSC delegations June 5 on Israel's assessment of the situation in south Lebanon and the performance of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) peacekeepers. They said Hizballah had fully re-armed in south Lebanon since summe [...] | 2008-06-10 22:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KPKO UNSC SY LE IS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK516 | UN ECOSOC COMMITTEE ON NGOS: THE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Summary and action request: On June 6 ECOSOC's NGO Committee, acting at the behest of the Cuban delegation, rejected an application for consultative status from a New York-based NGO called the Human Rights Foundation. The Cuban delegate called one of the Foundation's board members, former Cu [...] | 2008-06-11 16:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CU PHUM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK524 | ZEBARI BELIEVES MALIKI HAS TURNED AGAINST SOFA, [...] (S) Following the mid-year Security Council review of the MNF-I and DFI mandates June 13, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari spoke privately to Amb Khalilzad on the margins of a lunch with Security Council PermReps. Zebari shared his assessment that Prime Minister Maliki no longer seeks [...] | 2008-06-13 22:52:00 | USUN New York | SECRET | PREL PARM PGOV UNSC IZ |
| 08USUNNEWYORK525 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: PROGRESS CONTINUES [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: Work to set up the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) continues to progress, with the Management Committee's adoption of financial regulations and rules for the STL and the conclusion of the lease agreement for the building in The Hague that will house the STL. With new [...] | 2008-06-16 14:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK530 | UN BRIEFING NOTE ON FIELD OPERATIONS JUNE 4 - 10, 2008. [...] On June 13, Security Council President Khalilzad (United States) transmitted the following Briefing Note to the Security Council on UN field operations covering the period of June 4-10, 2008. 2. Begin text of briefing note: Africa --Burundi (BINUB): On 9 June, Government and FNL delega [...] | 2008-06-16 20:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC MOPS KPKO |
| 08USUNNEWYORK531 | SETTLEMENTS: ARAB GROUP SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT OR [...] (C) Summary. An Arab Group delegation consisting of representatives from Mauritania, Iraq, the Palestinian Observer Mission, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the Arab League requested a meeting with Amb Khalilzad on June 16 to formally present a draft resolution -- initiated by Saudi Arabia an [...] | 2008-06-16 23:41:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK535 | LAKHDAR BRAHIMI BRIEFS AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD ON THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Lakhdar Brahimi, Chairman of the Independent Panel on Safety and Security of United Nations Personnel and Premises, briefed Ambassador Khalilzad June 9 on the major findings of the Panel's just-completed report that was prepared in the aftermath of the December 2007 bombing of a U [...] | 2008-06-17 17:34:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC KUNR PREL UNGA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK536 | BURKINABE PRESIDENT COMPAORE ON CURRENT UNSC ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: AMB Khalilzed met Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore June 10 to discuss current issues facing the UN Security Council. Khalilzad asked Burkina Faso to support the U.S. initiative on sexual violence in situations of armed conflict. Khalilzad told Compaore that Burkina Faso could [...] | 2008-06-18 00:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ZI SU KDEM UNSC IV |
| 08USUNNEWYORK541 | ARRIA FORMULA MEETING ON WOMEN, PEACE, AND SECURITY [...] (U) Summary: As part of a US-led initiative to bring more attention to the problem of sexual violence in armed conflict, the UK hosted a meeting on June 11 to bring together members of the Security Council, NGO representatives and UN officials to discuss the role of peacekeepers in protecting [...] | 2008-06-19 16:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI UNSC KWMN |
| 08USUNNEWYORK553 | UN VIEWS ON SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) UN DPKO U/SYG Guehenno shared a downbeat report on his recent trip to Afghanistan and the UN perspective on the outcome of the recent Paris Conference in a June 19 meeting with PermReps from key coalition countries. In comparison to his last visit in 2005, Guehenno described a sense of [...] | 2008-06-24 17:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC AF |
| 08USUNNEWYORK558 | UN PLANS TO LET GO WESTERN SAHARA ENVOY VAN WALSUM [...] (C) UN DPA U/SYG Lynn Pascoe provided Amb Wolff June 24 with an update on the UN approach to the Western Sahara. Pascoe said he had collaborated with the SYG's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Peter Van Walsum, on a memo of options now before SYG Ban. Pascoe said the memo proposed three al [...] | 2008-06-24 21:28:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC AG MO WS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK559 | SYG BAN AND UNSC MEMBERS DISCUSS SOMALIA, SUDAN, [...] (SBU) Summary. As President of the UN Security Council for June, Amb Khalilzad hosted SYG Ban Ki-Moon for the monthly lunch with UNSC Ambassadors on June 23, for a discussion that focused mostly on Zimbabwe, Somalia, Sudan, and Burma. Based on his conversations with African leaders, Ban said [...] | 2008-06-24 23:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV PTER KPKO KHUM SU BM AF |
| 08USUNNEWYORK56 | TADIC: "WE ARE NOT GIVING UP ON KOSOVO" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Serbian President Tadic warned Ambassador Khalilzad on January 16 that independence for Kosovo could turn Serbia against integration with Europe. Tadic said he is trying to reach a compromise with Kosovo Albanians on final status within a context of substantial autonomy and sug [...] | 2008-01-18 20:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC UNMIK KV TV YI |
| 08USUNNEWYORK567 | UNSC ICTR/ICTY WORKING GROUP DISCUSSES EXTENSIONS [...] (U) Summary: The UN Security Council Working Group (WG) on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) met June 25 to discuss draft elements of a UNSC resolution on residual issues and the extensions for sever [...] | 2008-06-27 14:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK577 | USUN/UKUN/UN TRILATERAL MEETING ON IRAQ [...] (SBU) On June 26, UN Team Leader for Iraq Darko Mocibob met with USUN and UKUN for a regularly scheduled trilateral meeting on Iraq. Mocibob provided updates on UNAMI security, logistics and mandate issues. On the UN's long-term compound, Mocibob confirmed that Iraq had formally approved the [...] | 2008-06-30 20:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREM UNSC IZ |
| 08USUNNEWYORK580 | ALGERIA COMPLAINS TO UN COMMITTEE OVER AIRPORT [...] This is an action request for the Department - please see paragraph 2. 2. Youcef Yousfi, Algeria's Ambassador to the UN, has written the Chairman of the UN's Committee on Relations with the Host Country to complain that Algerian diplomats accredited to the UN are singled out for additiona [...] | 2008-06-30 21:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP PREL AG UN |
| 08USUNNEWYORK581 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE CONTINUES [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: The Management Committee for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) continued to discuss the draft staffing proposal for the STL at its fourteenth meeting on June 26. While agreeing that the Committee should approve the staffing proposal as soon as possible, many members s [...] | 2008-07-01 00:02:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK595 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: ARABS PUT TEXT IN BLUE FOR VOTE [...] (SBU) Following the July 2 UNSC experts meeting on the Arab draft resolution condemning Israeli settlements (reftel),the Arab Group decided on July 3 to put their draft text in blue on July 7 and call for a vote latest on July 11. The Arabs also decided to keep the focus of the resolution on [...] | 2008-07-03 23:24:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER KWBG KPAL UNSC PA IS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK6 | UPDATE ON DARFUR PEACEKEEPING DEPLOYMENT FOR 3 [...] (C) SUMMARY. The scheduled Transfer of Authority (TOA) from AMIS command to UNAMID command took place as scheduled on December 31. On December 27, Acting UN Military Advisor Major General Five briefed the P-5 on the results of the High Ranking Operational and Technical Advisory Team (HROTAT) [...] | 2008-01-03 20:10:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO MOPS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK610 | RUSSIA THREATENS ZIMBABWE VETO, P-3 DISCUSS [...] (C) Amb Khalilzad discussed the Arab settlements UNSCR with British and French PermReps on July 9. After previously saying they would offer only weak amendments to the preambular Arab text, the French said they now had clearance from Paris to present additional operative paragraphs as well th [...] | 2008-07-09 17:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC ZI RS IS PA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK614 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: ARABS NOW UNSURE IF THEY HAVE [...] (SBU) Libya convened a UNSC experts meeting on July 9 to solicit comments on its draft resolution condemning Israeli settlements. France spoke first, emphasizing that the Council has a unique opportunity to adopt a comprehensive resolution on the Middle East peace process, and that experts sh [...] | 2008-07-10 02:17:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KWBG KPAL UNSC IS PA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK617 | DPKO BRACES FOR ICC INDICTMENTS; CHINA THREATENS [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 9. 2. (C) SUMMARY: In a series of P5 and P3 meetings on July 10, UN Secretariat officials expressed concern for the implications of pending ICC indictments, which reportedly included Sudanese President Bashir, for peacekeeping operations ( [...] | 2008-07-11 00:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO UNSC SU |
| 08USUNNEWYORK621 | UN: RUSSIA, CHINA VETO ZIMBABWE SANCTIONS [...] (U) On July 11 Russia and China vetoed the adoption of the U.S.-authored draft Security Council resolution that would have imposed a comprehensive arms embargo on Zimbabwe and subjected fourteen senior members of the Zimbabwean government most responsible for the campaign of violence against t [...] | 2008-07-12 02:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ETTC UNSC ZI |
| 08USUNNEWYORK626 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: FRENCH MAY GO WOBBLY [...] (C) French PR Ripert called Amb Khalilzad on July 14 to discuss the way ahead on the Arab draft resolution condemning Israeli settlement expansion. Having successfully delayed action on the resolution until after the Euro-Med summit, which concluded on July 14, Ripert said he now had to give [...] | 2008-07-14 23:55:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK630 | CHINA, RUSSIA OUTLINE THINKING ON ZIMBABWE, SUDAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Chinese PermRep Wang told P-5 counterparts this morning that Beijing had instructed him to veto last weekend's Security Council resolution on Zimbabwe after South African President Mbeki called Chinese President Hu to complain that the U.S. and UK were actively discouraging the Zi [...] | 2008-07-16 01:21:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV SO SU ZM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK646 | SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: ARABS LIKELY TO CONCEDE DEFEAT [...] (C) Arab Group Ambassadors met on July 18 to discuss the revised comprehensive resolution on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that USUN shared with them on July 16 (ref B). (Note: This revised draft contained more language on settlements than USUN's original elements but retained strong langua [...] | 2008-07-19 00:59:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK650 | UN/SOMALIA: FRANCE OPPOSES AL-SHABAAB LISTING [...] (C) On July 16, the French UN mission conveyed to USUN that France is not in favor of listing the Somali organization "al-Shabaab" under UNSCR 1267 (Terrorism/Al-Qaeda sanctions) (ref A and B). Acting on instructions from Paris, the mission explained that France's opposition is based on its [...] | 2008-07-22 16:22:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
| 08USUNNEWYORK662 | FRIENDS GROUP EXPRESSES BROAD SUPPORT FOR UN'S [...] (C) Summary: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hosted a meeting of the Friends of Burma on July 23, in advance of a July 24 briefing on Burma in the Security Council, and in advance of Special Envoy Gambari's planned mid-August visit to Burma. The SYG urged broad support for Gambari's mission as [...] | 2008-07-24 18:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL UNSC BM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK664 | SOMALIA: BROAD SUPPORT FOR NEW TARGETED SANCTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a July 24 meeting of the UN Sanctions Committee for Somalia, members voiced broad support for imposing new targeted sanctions against individuals and entities who undermine the peace process in Somalia. Visiting SRSG Ahmedou Ould-Abdullah told the committee such targeted measur [...] | 2008-07-25 14:44:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
| 08USUNNEWYORK668 | SECURITY COUNCIL LOOKS TO GET ACTIVE ON SOMALIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In consultations on July 23, several Security Council members echoed the U.S.'s call for a more detailed briefing from DPKO on peacekeeping scenarios by August 15. Council members voiced concern over the size, mandate and composition of a potential force, and the options presen [...] | 2008-07-25 22:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO |
| 08USUNNEWYORK669 | SWISS COUNTER-TERRORISM "PROCESS" CHALLENGES U.S. [...] (U) Summary. In November 2007, Costa Rica, Japan, Slovakia, Switzerland and Turkey launched a series of meetings described as the "International Process on Global Counter-terrorism Co-operation (Process)" (reftel). On July 24, they circulated a final document which states that the purpose of [...] | 2008-07-25 22:54:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UN SZ |
| 08USUNNEWYORK693 | SUDAN "VERY HAPPY" WITH UNAMID EXTENSION; U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 31, the Security Council renewed the mandate for the UN/AU peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) for an additional 12 months by a vote of 14-0 with the U.S. abstaining. Intense consultations preceded the 9:45 PM vote, ending when the UK rejected the possibility of a 5-da [...] | 2008-08-01 22:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MOPS KPKO SU |
| 08USUNNEWYORK695 | PACIFIC ISLANDS ELABORATE ON DRAFT GA RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Eight Pacific states described in a July 31 meeting with USUN their desire for Security Council engagement on climate change, specifically to acknowledge its linkage to peace and security. They recognize the risks involved, but believe the upside worth it given that traditional UN fora [...] | 2008-08-01 22:55:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGHG UNSC UNGA SENV AORC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK7 | UN - GA ADOPTS STRATEGY TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO [...] A working group of the General Assembly concluded its week-long session on December 7, 2007 by adopting the UN Comprehensive Strategy on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) by UN Staff and Related Personnel (including members of peacekeeping contingents) ( [...] | 2008-01-03 20:28:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR PHUM PREL UNGA KPKO |
| 08USUNNEWYORK70 | UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: PROSECUTOR RAPP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sierra Leone Special Court Chief Prosecutor Stephen Rapp (American),in New York for press briefings, meetings with UN officials, and non-Court business, met January 22 with members of the Special Court Management Committee, including USUN. Rapp reported that the prosecution w [...] | 2008-01-23 15:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA |
| 08USUNNEWYORK722 | UN/IRAN SANCTIONS: BANK SEPAH DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) USUN delivered ref A demarche on August 11 to Cui Wei, attach at the Chinese Mission to the UN, about China's recent authorization of payments from Bank Sepah of Iran (ref B). USUN requested that China provide more information about these transactions, including the types of contract or [...] | 2008-08-11 20:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM IR UNSC MNUC ETTC KNNP |
| 08USUNNEWYORK738 | UNIFIL: GENERAL GRAZIANO CONCERNED ABOUT RECENT [...] (C) Summary: UNIFIL Force Commander Major General Graziano told Ambassador Khalilzad August 14 that he prefers a simple, technical roll-over of UNIFIL's mandate since it will take a few months to assess how Lebanon's new political realities may impact UNIFIL's mandate. He expressed concern o [...] | 2008-08-15 22:46:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER MCAP KPKO LE IS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK757 | ABKHAZ/OSSETIAN PARTICIPATION IN UNSC MEETING ON [...] (C) Russian Ambassador Churkin has proposed holding a Security Council session in Europe, as was done years ago by the General Assembly for Yassar Arafat, if the United States refuses to provide visas to representatives of Abkhaz and South Ossetian separatists to appear at a future meeting of [...] | 2008-08-21 20:12:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC RU GG |
| 08USUNNEWYORK760 | TFGG01: RUSSIA TESTS UNSC WATERS ON GEORGIA, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian PermRep Churkin hastily called for Security Council consultations on Georgia this afternoon during which he announced that he was formally putting Russia's draft resolution before the Council "into blue," a procedural move that would allow but not require a vote on the res [...] | 2008-08-22 03:03:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG RU UNSC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK768 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL REFORM: PGA STILL TRYING TO [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 22, General Assembly President Kerim gathered together Perm Reps from Japan, the UK, Pakistan, Egypt, Djibouti, and the U.S. for a discussion of compromise language for the report of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Security Council expansion to the General Asse [...] | 2008-08-26 14:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR UNSC IN BR PK IT JP GM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK777 | DPKO RESPONDS ON UNIFIL SALUTE OF HIZBALLAH [...] (SBU) PolOff and SMCOff met August 21 with UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) Asia and Middle East Division Officer-in-Charge Mary Eliza Kimball and Middle East Team Leader Susan Allee to raise the points from ref A on the UNIFIL contingent's July 17 salute of Hizballah and Palest [...] | 2008-08-27 14:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER ASEC KPKO UNSC LE SY IS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK791 | SOMALIA: DPKO BRIEFING NARROWS OPTIONS ON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In Security Council consultations on Somalia on August 26, the U.S. push for accelerated planning for a UN peacekeeping operation (PKO) by rehatting AMISOM units was supported by Italy and African members but explici [...] | 2008-09-02 22:43:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM MARR MOPS KPKO UNSC SO |
| 08USUNNEWYORK793 | REQUEST FOR ICJ ADVISORY OPINION RE INDEPENDENCE [...] The Serbian Mission, August 15, submitted a request for a new item on the agenda of the 63rd General Assembly in order to seek an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice concerning the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo. The letter, and an explanatory memo, have [...] | 2008-09-03 17:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ICTY UNGA ICJ |
| 08USUNNEWYORK794 | RE-ENERGIZING THE FRIENDS OF UNAMID [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 14. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Recent meetings of the &Friends of UNAMID8 (FoU),co-chaired by the United States and Canada have focused on: 1) following up on UN Under Secretary General (U/SYG) Susanna Malcorra's July 2 list of requests, especially for air [...] | 2008-09-03 21:32:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | AF PGOV PREL KPKO SU |
| 08USUNNEWYORK796 | UNSC REFORM: OPEN-ENDED WORKING GROUP DEEPLY [...] (U) The Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Security Council reform met September 2 to discuss the draft report and decision that must be sent to the General Assembly for adoption before the end of the 62nd session (Sept. 12). The debate illustrated the continuing divide between the Group of [...] | 2008-09-04 22:54:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNSC IN BR PK IT JP GM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK801 | RUSSIA REGROUPING ON ABKHAZ/OSSETIAN PARTICIPATION [...] (C) Summary: In closed consultations on August 28, the Security Council decided to hold a public meeting as requested by Georgia and decided not to invite South Ossetian and Abkhaz representatives to participate in it as requested by Russia. Several Council members said inviting the separatis [...] | 2008-09-05 16:48:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL GG RS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK809 | UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS: U.S. ISOLATED ON NEW NAMES [...] (C) SUMMARY: USUN convened a P3 meeting on September 4 to discuss the U.S. proposal to submit to the Sudan Sanctions Committee four new names for targeted sanctions. France remains opposed to the entire U.S. approach, believing that new sanctions would undermine ongoing dialogue processes an [...] | 2008-09-08 23:45:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
| 08USUNNEWYORK814 | 9/24 ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS MINISTERIAL MEETING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4 below. 2. (U) Ambassador Khalilzad has been invited to attend the ministerial level meeting on September 24 of the Alliance of Civilizations Group of Friends. Details about the September 24 meeting, its agenda and objections, can be fo [...] | 2008-09-10 22:52:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL KIRF KISL SP TU |
| 08USUNNEWYORK821 | GEORGIA, KOSOVO: UN P3 PERMREPS CONSIDER NEXT STEPS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-15 13:35:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC UNGA GG RS SR KV |
| 08USUNNEWYORK822 | UN TO RATIONALIZE ITS WOMEN'S AFFAIRS MECHANISMS [...] (SBU) Summary. The high-level panel on UN System-Wide Coherence underlined, in its 2004 report, the need for reform in the gender sector, and the Member States have agreed that the UN's approach to gender/women needs to be rationalized and strengthened. Deputy Secretary-General Migiro present [...] | 2008-09-15 20:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI EAID KWMN UN |
| 08USUNNEWYORK835 | GEORGIA/RUSSIA: RUSSIA OFFERS UNOMIG EXTENSION FOR [...] Decides to extend the mandate of UNOMIG for a new period terminating on 15 April 2009; 2. Decides to remain actively seized of the matter. End Text. Khalilzad [...] | 2008-09-18 17:51:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RS |
| 08USUNNEWYORK840 | UNSC REFORM: GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSES CONSENSUS [...] (SBU) Summary: The final, acrimonious negotiations September 15 over the end-of-session report and draft decision by the Open-ended Working Group (OEWG) on Security Council expansion were only resolved with a last minute negotiation on the floor of the General Assembly, prior to closing the [...] | 2008-09-18 21:28:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KUNR UNSC IN BR PK IT JP GM |
| 08USUNNEWYORK851 | UNSC: MIDDLE EAST CONSULTATIONS FOCUS MORE ON UN [...] (SBU) In another low key set of consultations on the Middle East on September 18, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry's briefing was the main focus. He lauded the "gradual but systematic process of Palestinian self-empowerment" in the West Bank and later said t [...] | 2008-09-20 00:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA LE |
| 08USUNNEWYORK871 | UN GENERAL DEBATE CONTINUES: FOOD CRISIS, [...] SUMMARY: During the afternoon meeting of the 63rd UN General Assembly on September 24, the General Debate focused on the food crisis, climate change and the increasing price of energy, with many noting a need for a more modern, efficient United Nations. The leaders of developing countries ca [...] | 2008-09-29 14:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON UNGA HO EN MI CY CO LG NR |
| 08USUNNEWYORK872 | CORRUPTION ALLEGATIONS DOMINATE KHMER ROUGE TRIALS [...] (C) Summary. On September 24, USUN attended a meeting of the steering committee of the UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNAKRT). While all participants praised the progress made by the UN special expert David Tolbert and the recently appointed Deputy Director (UNAKRT Administration [...] | 2008-09-29 14:57:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KJUS PREL PHUM CB |
| 08USUNNEWYORK875 | UNSC MEETS AT SAUDI/ARAB LEAGUE REQUEST [...] (SBU) The UN Security Council met September 26 in response to the request by Saudi Arabia on behalf of the Arab League to discuss Israeli settlement activity. The Saudi FM spoke first and accused Israel of intransigence and a lack of good faith in dealing with the settlements issue. Arab Le [...] | 2008-09-29 17:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA LE SY IR |
| 08USUNNEWYORK876 | EXTENSION OF TERM OF OFFICE OF YUGOSLAV TRIBUNAL [...] Security Council on September 29 adopted resolution 1837 which extended the terms of office of judges and ad litem of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The extensions will facilitate the effective implementation of the completion strategy for the Tribunal. 2. As instr [...] | 2008-09-29 20:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ICTY PHUM PREL |
| 08USUNNEWYORK887 | UN GENERAL DEBATE: FOCUS ON ISRAEL/PALESTINE, [...] SUMMARY: During the September 27 morning plenary meeting of the UNGA General Debate, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Egypt, Mali, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Syria, Oman, Kazakhstan, Algeria, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE),Gambia, Niger and Romania spoke. Saudi Arabia distributed its Fore [...] | 2008-09-30 20:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS AORC UNGA VM PP PE EG SA ML |
| 08USUNNEWYORK897 | SYG BAN'S SEPTEMBER 25 HIGH-LEVEL EVENT ON THE FOOD CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary. Discussion of the global food price crisis dominated UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's September 25 high-level event on food security and climate change. Ban committed to providing leadership on the food crisis through the High-Level Task Force process, and stated that policy [...] | 2008-10-01 20:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON EFIN ENRG SENV UN |
| 08USUNNEWYORK90 | MEETING WITH CUBANS ON MISSION SECURITY [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified - please protect accordingly. 2. Following a meeting of the UN's Committee on Relations with the Host Country called by Cuba (septel) to complain that the host country was not taking the Cuban Mission's security concerns seriously enough, NYC Com [...] | 2008-01-31 15:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP ASEC CU UN |
| 08USUNNEWYORK908 | UN/DRC SANCTIONS: MOVING ON SECOND GROUP OF FDLR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (C) On October 1, representatives from the U.S., France, UK and Belgium UN missions reviewed progress on designating members of the FDLR rebel group for targeted sanctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Sanctions Commi [...] | 2008-10-03 20:47:00 | USUN New York | CONFIDENTIAL | DRC PREL UNSC PGOV ETTC |
| 08USUNNEWYORK91 | UN HOST COUNTRY COMMITTEE: AIRPORT PARKING FEES; [...] Summary: Security incidents and removal of NYPD presence from a fixed security post at the Cuban Mission, exemptions from New York State gasoline taxes and the unwelcomed and sudden decision by the Port Authority of NY and NJ (PANYNJ) to charge parking fees to diplomatic vehicles at area ai [...] | 2008-01-31 21:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UN CU |