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09BRIDGETOWN361	U.S. VIEWS ON THE INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY [...] (SBU) Per reftel, the Embassy relayed U.S. views on the International Renewable Energy Agency's (IRENA) mission and headquarters. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFAs) of the following countries were contacted under cover of diplomatic notes: Antigua and Barbuda (Note #0636),Barbados (Not [...]	2009-06-18 18:58:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV

09BRIDGETOWN369	EXPROPRIATION - ST. LUCIA [...] (SBU) St. Lucia has one outstanding expropriation case. ---------------------- Claimant Designation -------------------- 2. (U) Claimants A through F. --------------------- Date of Expropriation --------------------- 3. (U) The initial expropriation occurred in May 2008. The ti [...]	2009-06-19 19:04:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV XL
09BRIDGETOWN39	BRIDGETOWN CLOSING OUT OF FY 2008 BFIF PROGRAMS [...] Summary: Post conducted an ambitious business outreach program in FY 08 and BFIF funding was essential to carrying out our agenda. At the conclusion of each trip post drafted reporting cables. This is the fiscal accounting cable requested in reftel. Reftels contains most of our BFIF reporti [...]	2009-01-22 11:13:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EAGR ETRO EAID EPET EINV BB
09BRIDGETOWN41	CUBA, DEPORTEES AND SECURITY TOP AGENDA IN [...] (C) During the Ambassador's January 8 farewell call on St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, he called on the U.S. to unconditionally end its economic embargo on Cuba. PM Gonsalves spoke at length about the deep, strong ties that bind the United States and the Caribb [...]	2009-01-22 11:13:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD KCRM PGOV PREL XL ZL
09BRIDGETOWN417	ST. KITTS AND NEVIS OPPOSITION LEADERS ANTICIPATE [...] (C) Opposition leaders from the People's Action Movement (PAM) on St. Kitts are renouncing their U.S. citizenship in anticipation of possible elections in July. Using the out of control crime wave and the government's lack of action as corner stone of a PAM campaign, leaders are confident they [...]	2009-07-08 19:49:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL XL
09BRIDGETOWN438	Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean: June 2009 NAS Update [...] (SBU) The island nations that make up Embassy Bridgetown's area of responsibility - Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines continue to see a steady increase in the volume of narcotics destined for and transshipped th [...]	2009-07-20 16:54:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ECON PGOV XL
09BRIDGETOWN446	CBERA BIENNIAL SURVEY -- EASTERN CARIBBEAN [...] (U) Embassy Bridgetown provides below its responses to reftel request for information on CBERA-related investment in the Eastern Caribbean and the economic impact of CBI on these countries. Please note this response covers the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Gre [...]	2009-07-22 16:24:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON OTRA ETRD XL
09BRIDGETOWN461	POLOFF INTRODUCTORY MEETINGS HIGHLIGHT [...] (C) Summary: Recent meetings with key St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) government and non-government representatives yielded leads on SVG's orientation towards the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Shipboarding Agreement, reaction on G/TIP's Tier 2 Watchlist designation, and offered [...]	2009-07-29 19:17:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN IR XL
09BRIDGETOWN462	ANTIGUA, ST. VINCENT EAGER TO RENEW TALKS ON PSI [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 4. 2. (SBU) In separate meetings July 20 and July 23-24, senior government officials in both St. Vincent and Antigua signaled their readiness to engage with USG experts to conclude shipboarding agreements under the Proliferation Security Initiative. [...]	2009-07-29 20:05:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL XL
09BRIDGETOWN465	ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SSI SPEAKER FOSTERS DEBATE IN [...] (U) The Strategic Speaker Initiative brought solar power expert JF Scarborough to Barbados, Grenada and Dominica to talk about alternative energy. This timely topic attracted surprisingly large crowds and fostered vigorous debate within the countries on the best way to manage future alternati [...]	2009-07-30 20:29:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EINV PREL XL
09BRIDGETOWN483	DOMINICA DEBATES THE FUTURE OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY [...] (U) A recently concluded Strategic Speaker Initiative (reftel A) brought about a timely debate within Dominica on the best way to manage future alternative energy projects. In Dominica, the elephant in the room is geothermal energy, which is seen by many as a savior for the country despite th [...]	2009-08-10 14:49:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EINV PREL XL
09BRIDGETOWN487	DUE DILIGENCE ON NOMINEES FOR THE 2009 AWARD FOR [...] (U) This cable provides Embassy Bridgetown's response to reftel due diligence request concerning ACE Nominee Monroe College. Answers are keyed to reftel questions. Septel will address questions regarding Discovery Works in St. Vincent. 2. (SBU) Request for Bridgetown: Provide backgrou [...]	2009-08-11 19:57:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT BEXP ECON ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV
09BRIDGETOWN488	DUE DILIGENCE ON NOMINEES FOR THE 2009 AWARD FOR [...] (U) This is the Embassy Bridgetown response to due diligence concerning ACE Nominee Discovery Works, based in Saint Vincent. Answers are keyed to reftel questions. Septel addresses questions regarding our other nominee, Monroe College in St. Lucia. 2. (SBU) Responses to requested infor [...]	2009-08-11 20:31:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT BEXP ECON ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV
09BRIDGETOWN489	DUE DILIGENCE ON NOMINEES FOR THE 2009 AWARD FOR [...] (U) This cable provides Embassy Bridgetown's response to reftel due diligence request concerning ACE Nominee Monroe College. Answers are keyed to reftel questions. Septel will address questions regarding Discovery Works in St. Vincent. 2. (SBU) Request for Bridgetown: Provide backgrou [...]	2009-08-11 20:51:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT BEXP ECON ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV
09BRIDGETOWN500	LEADING ST. VINCENT'S OPPOSITION -- WHAT'S SECOND [...] (C) Jonathan Peters, the former Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) Ambassador to the UN and Minister of Trade under Sir James Mitchell, met with poloffs to discuss his plans to run for opposition leader in St. Vincent. This was his third trip to the Embassy in less than a year, to ask for [...]	2009-08-19 13:42:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL XL
09BRIDGETOWN514	GOOD PROGRESS AT SECOND CBSI WG MEETING [...] (U) An August 13 working group meeting between Caribbean officials and USG representatives made good progress on moving the President's security agenda for the Caribbean region forward. The two sides agreed to craft a political declaration, strategy, and action plan to frame assistance under [...]	2009-08-24 15:46:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS EAID KJUS SNAR PREL XL
09BRIDGETOWN530	LEADING ST. VINCENT'S OPPOSITION -- WHAT'S SECOND [...] (SBU) Jonathan Peters, the former Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) Ambassador to the UN and Minister of Trade under Sir James Mitchell, met with poloffs to discuss his plans to run for opposition leader in St. Vincent. This was his third trip to the Embassy in less than a year, to ask f [...]	2009-09-01 19:07:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL XL
09BRIDGETOWN555	SSI SPEAKER ELECTRIFIES EASTERN CARIBBEAN SMALL [...] (U) Strategic Speaker Chuck Mills made a series of presentations and met with government officials, local chambers of commerce and small business associations during his week-long trip to Barbados, Grenada and St. Lucia. His talk on small business development and entrepreneurship was well-re [...]	2009-09-14 20:33:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP ECON EFIN EINV XL
09BRIDGETOWN567	Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean: NAS Summer 2009 [...] (SBU) The following is a summary of law enforcement and counter-narcotics activities and training for July and August 2009 in Embassy Bridgetown's AOR. Most of the reporting period was dominated by a JIATF-S led operation, Operation Flying Fish II, which resulted in numerous contacts with drug [...]	2009-09-16 22:42:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM KJUS MASS PREL XL
09BRIDGETOWN6	CUBA, HUMAN RIGHTS, SECURITY COOPERATION AND [...] (C). During a December 19 farewell call on Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson, the Ambassador thanked Thompson for his efforts to work with us to strengthen regional security, urged him to reassess his government's approach to UN human rights resolutions, and reaffirmed U.S. support for co [...]	2009-01-05 19:22:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD KCRM PGOV PREL XL ZL
09BRIDGETOWN611	EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN EXPANDS OUTREACH TO ISLAMIC COMMUNITIES [...] (SBU) Following a successful inaugural Iftar celebration for Ramadan 2007, Embassy Bridgetown significantly expanded outreach to Eastern Caribbean Islamic communities in 2009 with Iftar events in three countries -- Barbados, St. Lucia, and St. Kitts and Nevis. All three events were well attend [...]	2009-10-05 14:40:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO KISL PHUM PREL XL
09BRIDGETOWN619	ST LUCIA IFTAR HIGHLIGHTS COMPETITION IN LOCAL [...] (C) The Iftar hosted by the Embassy in St. Lucia continued our efforts begun in Barbados in 2007 to reach out to the small but growing Muslim Community in the Eastern Caribbean. This community is appreciative of U.S. engagement. The local dynamics among Muslim groups competing for scarce re [...]	2009-10-07 15:38:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SCUL KISL SOCI XL
09BRIDGETOWN624	COMMERCIAL WORKSHOP IN GRENADA GARNERS INTEREST, [...] (U) Emboff conducted a half-day workshop in Grenada on September 24 to promote USG programs that facilitate trade and investment. This was the fourth in a series of these workshops that the Pol/Econ section at Embassy Bridgetown has held. Previous workshops included Barbados, St Lucia, and S [...]	2009-10-08 15:12:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OECS ENRG ECON ETRD XL
09BRIDGETOWN653	RELEASE OF LAST OF THE GRENADA 17 BRIEFLY SHAKES [...] (C) The release on September 5, 2009 of the last of the "Grenada 17" -- those in prison for their roles in the assassination of then-Prime Minister Maurice Bishop --, caused a brief but energetic outpouring of political vitriol in the days following the government's action. The government, n [...]	2009-10-16 21:16:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM XL
09BRIDGETOWN654	YOUNG MEN IN GRENADA NOT MAKING THE GRADE [...] (U) Throughout the Eastern Caribbean young men are in crisis. Few are pursuing higher education and many are facing difficulties finding gainful employment. By contrast, young women in the Caribbean are moving rapidly ahead of their male counterparts: nearly 70 percent of college students i [...]	2009-10-16 21:16:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI EAID PREL XL
09BRIDGETOWN655	YOUNG MEN IN GRENADA NOT MAKING THE GRADE [...] (U) Throughout the Eastern Caribbean young men are in crisis. Few are pursuing higher education and many are facing difficulties finding gainful employment. By contrast, young women in the Caribbean are moving rapidly ahead of their male counterparts: nearly 70 percent of college students i [...]	2009-10-16 21:16:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI EAID PREL XL
09BRIDGETOWN656	RELEASE OF LAST OF THE GRENADA 17 BRIEFLY SHAKES [...] (C) The release on September 5, 2009 of the last of the "Grenada 17" -- those in prison for their roles in the assassination of then-Prime Minister Maurice Bishop --, caused a brief but energetic outpouring of political vitriol in the days following the government's action. The government, n [...]	2009-10-16 21:16:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM XL
09BRIDGETOWN658	RELEASE OF LAST OF THE GRENADA 17 BRIEFLY SHAKES [...] (C) The release on September 5, 2009 of the last of the "Grenada 17" -- those in prison for their roles in the assassination of then-Prime Minister Maurice Bishop --, caused a brief but energetic outpouring of political vitriol in the days following the government's action. The government, n [...]	2009-10-16 21:16:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM XL
09BRIDGETOWN659	YOUNG MEN IN GRENADA NOT MAKING THE GRADE [...] (U) Throughout the Eastern Caribbean young men are in crisis. Few are pursuing higher education and many are facing difficulties finding gainful employment. By contrast, young women in the Caribbean are moving rapidly ahead of their male counterparts: nearly 70 percent of college students i [...]	2009-10-16 21:16:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	SOCI EAID PREL XL
09BRIDGETOWN660	SOUTHCOM ASSESSMENTS ON ST.LUCIA HOSPITAL [...] (C) The three assessments prepared by SOUTHCOM on the effects of the fire at St. Jude's hospital in St. Lucia were completed and delivered to Prime Minister King October 2. These assessments, encompassing the entire Medical infrastructure of southern St. Lucia, provided a roadmap for rebuildi [...]	2009-10-16 21:21:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID MASS PGOV PHUM PREL SL XL
09BRIDGETOWN68	CONGRATULATORY LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA FROM DOMINICA'S [...] Embassy Bridgetown received Diplomatic Note No. 211/01-224 from Dominica's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which included a letter from President Nicholas Liverpool containing a congratulatory message for President Barack Obama. The complete text of the letter follows in paragraph 2. When the or [...]	2009-02-03 14:30:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL PGOV XL
09BRIDGETOWN686	2009 TIP REPORT INTERIM ASSESSMENT: ST. VINCENT [...] (SBU) Since being placed on the Tier 2 Watchlist, the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (GOSVG) has worked cooperatively with the Embassy to ensure that the country addresses the perceived weaknesses that landed it on that list. Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves spoke to the Charge an [...]	2009-10-29 18:35:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KCRM KTIP KWMN PGOV SMIG XL
09BRIDGETOWN690	VINCENTIAN NATIONAL DAY EVENTS SHARPEN BATTLE [...] (SBU) St. Vincent's November 25 constitutional referendum was the main focus of discussion with government and NGO interlocutors, and the main point of Independence Day remarks made by Prime Minister Gonsalves, during the October 27 festivities marking the country's 30th anniversary of indepen [...]	2009-10-30 14:50:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM XL
09BRIDGETOWN712	REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD [...] (C) Response to reftel inquiries for St. Vincent and the Grenadines follows. - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? No, Barbados has not sought to advance democracy and human rights in Cuba. - Has the host coun [...]	2009-11-10 13:39:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU XL
09BRIDGETOWN73	GOB INFORMALLY POSTPONING IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW [...] SUMMARY (SBU) In a January 29 meeting arranged by the Embassy at the request of San Diego-based PriceSmart, a warehouse-style shopping club, Director of Barbados' Consumers Affairs Department (DCCA) Terry Bascombe assured PriceSmart executives and econoffs that the GOB would not follow through [...]	2009-02-04 21:56:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD OECS EINV ECON XL
09BRIDGETOWN735	GONSALVES DEFENDS TIES WITH VENEZUELA, BUT WELCOMES DEEPER [...] (C) In a three-hour marathon meeting with the Charge October 26, St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves outlined his efforts to combat drug trafficking and crime and his need for new assets and expanded U.S. support. He defended his close ties to Venezuela through ALBA and PetroCaribe, but [...]	2009-11-19 20:10:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM XL
09BRIDGETOWN737	Embassy Bridgetown Nomination for 2010 Secretary's Award for [...] With the concurrence of the U.S. Embassy Bridgetown country team, I am pleased to nominate St. Vincent and the Grenadines civil society and human rights activist Anesia Octavia Baptiste for the 2010 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Ms. Baptiste, an outspoken, effective an [...]	2009-11-23 15:28:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KPAO KWMN XL
09BRIDGETOWN739	BARBADOS COAST GUARD COMMANDER TACKLES CORRUPTION, TRAINING [...] (C) Newly installed Barbados Coast Guard Commander Sean Reece emphasized the need for further training for his units as the Coast Guard grapples with serious internal corruption issues and regional capacity deficiencies. Reece commended the close cooperation between the Coast Guard and U.S. So [...]	2009-12-04 14:46:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MOPS SNAR CH XL
09BRIDGETOWN765	Dominica's Opposition Leader Cautiously Optimistic Despite [...] (C) Dominica's main opposition United Workers Party (UWP) leader Ron Green was cautiously optimistic in a call on the Charge in Bridgetown December 11, a week ahead of December 18 General Elections. Green lamented the role that outside money was playing in the election, especially by giving th [...]	2009-12-16 19:58:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM XL
09BRIDGETOWN771	Dominica's General Election Creates a Nearly One Party State [...] (C) Roosevelt Skerrit's Dominica Labour Party (DLP) won a landslide victory, capturing 18 of the 21 constituencies, with the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) relegated to only 3 seats. The final vote tally was 61 percent for the DLP, 35 percent for the UWP and 4 percent for the remaining [...]	2009-12-22 22:45:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM OAS XL
09BRIDGETOWN773	St. Lucia Minister of Commerce Laments Government [...] (SBU) St. Lucia Commerce Minister Tessa Mangal outlined challenges facing the government in St. Lucia from poor training and lack of professional standards among civil servants in a December 4 meeting with the ChargC). Mangal expressed frustration over the lack of a customer service mentality [...]	2009-12-24 15:04:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	EINT ECON PGOV KWMN XL
09BRIDGETOWN774	ST. VINCENT REJECTS NEW CONSTITUTION: VOTERS DASH PM [...] (SBU) Vincentians voted convincingly November 25 to reject a constitutional referendum that would have significantly changed St. Vincent's structure of governance. The surprisingly sharp 56-44 percent defeat set Prime Minister Gonsalves on his heels and dashed his plans to follow the referendu [...]	2009-12-02 12:59:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM XL
09BRIDGETOWN78	ST. KITTS AND NEVIS CONTENDS FOR PER CAPITA MURDER [...] (C) The small twin island nation of St. Kitts and Nevis is number two, sandwiched between Colombia and South Africa, on the list of nations with the most murders per capita. The spike in killings, now receiving attention in the international press, has the potential to further damage a touris [...]	2009-02-05 20:11:00	Embassy Bridgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PREL XL SOCI
09BRIDGETOWN786	International Efforts Keep Drug Trafficking at Bay in [...] (SBU) A consistent presence of counter-drug assets from the international community throughout the summer had a noticeable impact on suppressing trafficking activity in the Eastern Caribbean. Most countries in the region continue to lack financial and human resources to adequately address the [...]	2009-12-04 19:38:00	Embassy Bridgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM ECON PGOV XL
09BRUSSELS1	AMBASSADOR VISITS PRAGUE TO DISCUSS CZECH EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Czech EU Presidency, which takes over on January 1, wants the new American president to meet the EU-27 heads of state in early April in Prague to discuss climate change and the Middle East. Czech FonMin Schwarzenberg is considering a trip to Washington in early February to mee [...]	2009-01-01 09:07:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN SENV EFIN ECON ETTC IR EZ
09BRUSSELS1012	INTERVIEW OF BELGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER PIETER DE CREM [...] Embassy wishes to provide Department with the text of the following interview of Belgian Defense Minister Pieter De Crem, which appeared in the Dutch-language Belgian magazine, Humo, on July 14, 2009. 2. Begin text of interview: Q: As Defense Minister, you let our country fight along in [...]	2009-07-23 15:54:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL MOPS AF BE
09BRUSSELS1023	SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE HOLBROOKE'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Brussels warmly welcomes the visit of Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Holbrooke and his meeting with newly appointed Belgian Foreign Minister Yves Leterme. Since a change of government in late 2007, Belgium has gone from regarding its military as "an [...]	2009-07-27 10:36:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MOPS EAID AF BE
09BRUSSELS1031	EU MEMBER STATES APPEAR EXCITED ABOUT NBT, EVEN IF [...] (SBU) Summary. Sweden is moving forward with preparations to move the One Big Thing (OBT) initiative, which exists between Embassy Stockholm and the Government of Sweden to promote development of green technology through R&D and business partnerships, to the EU-level. Some Member States are [...]	2009-07-28 14:43:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS1047	SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE HOLBROOKE'S JULY 28 MEETING [...] (C) Summary: Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke met on July 28 with Yves Leterme, newly appointed Foreign Minister of Belgium. Holbrooke urged the GOB to ensure that the Belgian public understands how important operations in Afghanistan are to Belgian, Euro [...]	2009-07-30 15:43:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV AF BE
09BRUSSELS1048	JULY GAERC - SWEDISH PRESIDENCY OUTLINES [...] (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers (FMs),meeting in Brussels July 27 as the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC),received an overview of Swedish Presidency priorities for the next six months. The GAERC adopted without discussion numerous decisions, to include U.S.-EU neg [...]	2009-07-30 17:50:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ECON EUN AF AL BO GG GR HR IC IR
09BRUSSELS1053	BELGIUM: SMALL IRANIAN PROTESTS REQUESTING U.S. [...] (U) Poloff met with three small groups of Iranians in front of the U.S. Embassy in Brussels on July 28, 29 and 31. Members of each group had immediate family inside Camp Ashraf and left Poloff with literature, which has been sent to the NEA/I desk. Their requests were for the U.S. to intervene [...]	2009-07-31 15:20:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PTER PGOV IZ IR BE ASEC
09BRUSSELS106	COPENHAGEN IS THE #1 ENVIRONMENTAL PRIORITY FOR [...] (U) On January 21, Czech Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Environment Martin Bursik appeared before the European Parliament's Environment Committee to discuss the priorities of the Czech Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers (running from January until June 2009). Bursik listed four [...]	2009-01-27 14:26:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY
09BRUSSELS1120	BELGIUM: CLOSER COORDINATION WITH U.S. AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary: In an August 5 meeting with Charge and Embassy political officers, the new Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department for Sub-Saharan Africa sought greater coordination and cooperation among donor countries active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He ex [...]	2009-08-12 15:29:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BE RW CG EU
09BRUSSELS1130	BELGIAN OFFICIALS DISCUSS AFGHANISTAN WITH SENATE [...] (C) Summary: On August 10, two staff members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Douglas Frantz and Fulton Armstrong, met with a delegation of Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Defense officials to discuss the challenges and opportunities shared by Belgium, the United [...]	2009-08-13 13:25:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL EAID BE AF
09BRUSSELS1164	BELGOIM: FINANCIAL SECTOR SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SHELBY (AUGUST 28-30) [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-20 16:41:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON BE
09BRUSSELS1179	BELGIUM: JOINING HANDS AGAINST FORCED MARRIAGES [...] (U) The "Joining Hands Against Forced Marriages" (JHAFM) campaign came to Brussels on 19 May 2008. This coincided with a similar Belgian initiative against forced marriage that was just starting up at the same time. Despite a SPIOR spokesman saying that the campaigns were "complimentary", [...]	2009-08-25 15:51:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR SCUL KWMN BE
09BRUSSELS1188	SCENESETTER FOR S/E HOWARD WOLPE'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Your visit will develop further the already close U.S. - Belgium strategic dialogue that has developed over the past year. MFA contacts will be excited to discuss the new Administration's developing perspective and policies on Africa, especially the Great Lakes region. Secretary Clinton [...]	2009-08-27 13:57:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EAID MOPS MARR SOCI CG BE
09BRUSSELS121	BELGIUM: THAI AMBASSADOR INFORMS CHARG OF APEC [...] The Thai Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the European Communities, Mr. Pisan Manawapat, informed the Charg on January 28 of his application that day for the position of Executive Director of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat in Singapore, a position that starts in [...]	2009-01-28 15:17:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	APEC TH
09BRUSSELS1212	USG OWNED OR OPERATED AIRCRAFT ON THE EU ETS LIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USEU EconOffs raised U.S. concerns about USG owned or operated aircraft inappropriately included on the EU list of Aircraft Operators with European Commission officials at DG Transportation and Energy (DG TREN) and DG Environment (DG ENV) on September 1. Commission officials a [...]	2009-09-04 08:57:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON SENV EUN
09BRUSSELS1228	EMBASSY BRUSSELS FOLLOW UP ON CAIRO SPEECH [...] (SBU) Summary: Post is actively engaged with Belgium's Muslim communities. Charge Bush used the occasion of the President's Cairo speech to host a special outreach luncheon on June 10 with key Muslim contacts (please see reftel). Muslims in Belgium took great interest in the President's speec [...]	2009-09-10 11:23:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON OEXC OSCI PREL SCUL SENV SOCI TNGD
09BRUSSELS1244	URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE MISSING/DETAINED AMCIT CASES [...] (C) USEU Poloff met separately on 9/15 with EU Council Secretariat and European Commission officials to seek EU assistance in urging Iran to resolve missing and detained Amcit cases. USEU Poloff requested that EU oficials raise the issue during meetings with Ianian officials and asked to be i [...]	2009-09-15 18:45:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP CASC IR
09BRUSSELS1248	BELGIAN VIEWS AND DECISION-MAKING ON [...] Summary: Policy-making on non-proliferation and disarmament issues in Belgium is concentrated in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the direction of Werner Bauwens, Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Final decisions on policy are made in consultation with Minister of Fo [...]	2009-09-16 15:27:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09BRUSSELS125	BELGIUM AND THE DRC: RELATIONS RENEWED BUT [...] (C) Summary: PolOff and PolIntern met January 28 with Belgian MFA Africa contacts to discuss the restoration of Belgium - DR Congo relations, mineral extraction issues, and the arrest of Laurent Nkunda. The PMs of Belgium and the DRC issued a statement January 24 that reestablished relations. [...]	2009-01-28 18:22:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS CG RW BE
09BRUSSELS1255	S/E WOLPE'S MEETINGS WITH BELGIAN MFA AND [...] (C) Summary: Great Lakes Special Envoy Howard Wolpe visited Brussels August 31 to September 1 to meet with Belgian MFA and Development contacts during a six nation visit to reestablish a transatlantic dialogue on Africa. The Belgians said the DRC, Rwanda, and Burundi were the top priorities o [...]	2009-09-17 16:06:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	PREL PGOV EAID EFIN MARR MOPS PHUM SOCI KWMN
09BRUSSELS1261	BELGIUM MAY NOT BE READY FOR GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-18 14:54:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER BE
09BRUSSELS1295	BELGIUM: CLIMATE CHANGE DISCUSSION WITH EU MEMBER [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-25 08:58:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	KGHG SENV ENRG TRGY EUN
09BRUSSELS1315	S/E WOLPE'S MEETINGS WITH BELGIAN MFA AND [...] (U) This is a corrected version of canceled BRUSSELS 1255. 2. (C) Summary: Great Lakes Special Envoy Howard Wolpe visited Brussels August 31 to September 1 to meet with Belgian MFA and Development contacts during a six nation visit to reestablish a transatlantic dialogue on Africa. The Bel [...]	2009-09-30 06:06:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	PREL PGOV EAID EFIN MARR MOPS PHUM SOCI KWMN
09BRUSSELS1326	EU: U.S. IMO CANDIDACY [...] (U) On September 28, EconOff spoke with Jacques Michaux and Philippe Burghelle-Vernet at the European Commission's Energy and Transport Directorate (DG-TREN) about the U.S. interest in seeking re-election to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council in Category A and followed up wi [...]	2009-10-01 09:45:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC IMO EWWT PHSA UK EUN
09BRUSSELS134	AN OVERVIEW OF CENTRAL EUROPEAN ACTIVISM IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Five years ago the EU experienced its largest expansion to date with the accession of ten new member stateseight of which were Central European post-communist statesfollowed by the entry of Bulgaria and Romania in 2007, which together comprise what is commonly known as the Cen [...]	2009-01-29 17:26:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN XG
09BRUSSELS1344	EU RULE OF LAW MISSION IN IRAQ: FUTURE PLANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Officials serving in the EU Rule of Law Mission for Iraq, EUJUST LEX, have assured us that they remain committed to expanding the EU's training and mentoring operations in Iraq. EUJUST LEX has developed plans to hold 18 additional training events both in Europe and in locations i [...]	2009-10-02 15:09:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EUN IZ MARR MOPS PHUM PINS PREL PTER SOCI
09BRUSSELS1360	BELGIAN VIEWS ON IRANIAN PROLIFERATION AND [...] (C) Summary: In a joint demarche, political officers from the United States, the United Kingdom and France urged Werner Bauwens, the Belgian MFA's Special Envoy for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, to show concern about the recently revealed clandestine uranium enrichment facility in Iran, an [...]	2009-10-09 14:28:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PREL PGOV IR BE
09BRUSSELS1404	ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The European Parliament (EP) has become increasingly influential in EU legislation and policy making; the new Lisbon Treaty, when ratified, will significantly accelerate this trend, in particular in the areas of justice and home affairs, agricultural budgets and [...]	2009-10-21 05:30:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PGOV OVIP OEXC PINR EUN
09BRUSSELS1412	CORRECTED VERSION: ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITION OF THE EUROPEAN [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY: The European Parliament (EP) has become increasingly influential in EU legislation and policy making; the new Lisbon Treaty, when ratified, will significantly accelerate this trend, in particular in the areas of justice and home affairs, agricultural budgets and [...]	2009-10-22 05:15:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PGOV OVIP OEXC PINR EUN
09BRUSSELS1425	BELGIUM'S GOALS FOR THE AFRICAN GREAT LAKES REGION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Gutman hosted a luncheon October 8 with the Belgian MFA Africa team and the Chief of Staff to Belgium's Minister for Development Cooperation to discuss Belgium's priorities in the African Great Lakes region. Regarding the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC),Belgium [...]	2009-10-23 15:55:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID SOCI CG BE
09BRUSSELS1476	EU LEADERS AGREE ON CZECH TERMS FOR SEALING TREATY OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: In order to obtain Czech President Vaclav Klaus's signature ratifying the Lisbon Treaty, EU leaders at their October 29-30 European Council meeting agreed to grant the Czech Republic an opt-out from the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, per the Czech leader's request. Czech Repu [...]	2009-10-30 15:22:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EUN
09BRUSSELS148	EMBASSY BELGIUM POINTS OF CONTACT FOR NPT-RELATED [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-02 16:23:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09BRUSSELS1494	BRUSSELS DISCUSSIONS ON DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 28 Danika Walters from State/NEA and Ricki Gold from USAID/ME met with EU officials from the Directorate General for External Relations (RELEX),EuropeAid Development Cooperation Office, and Council of the European Union's General Secretariat Unit for the Middle East to [...]	2009-11-04 14:37:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IR PREL EUN ECON
09BRUSSELS1505	EUPOL DEPLOYMENT TO U.S. PRTS -- LETTERS [...] (C) Embassy Kabul, in Reftel, raises the importance of the issue of whether the U.S. should sign letters of agreement with the European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan (EUPOL). In order to ensure that discussions on this issue in Washington and elsewhere focus on precisely what the Euro [...]	2009-11-09 12:36:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS MARR EUN NATO AF
09BRUSSELS1515	UN TERRORISM SANCTIONS: REFORM SEMINAR [...] (C) On October 15-16, Belgium sponsored a &Seminar on Strengthening the UN Targeted Sanctions through Fair and Clear Procedures8 to discuss with UNSC Members and select Member States (mostly from the EU) options for reforming the UNSCR 1267 (Al-Qaida and Taliban) sanctions regime. Many semin [...]	2009-11-10 17:20:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	BE CH EFIN ETTC EUN FR KTFN PTER SZ UK UNSC
09BRUSSELS1517	DG TREN seeks Bilateral Biofuel Discussions in the U.S. EU [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings October 15, 2009, Paul Hodson at the Energy and Transport Directorate General outlined his reasons for desiring bilateral discussions with the United States on what he called the technical aspects of biofuel legislation and which topics he thought the United States an [...]	2009-11-12 06:16:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ENRG EUN SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS1526	BELGIUM: H1N1 REPORT: NUMBER OF ESTIMATED CASES FALLS [...] On November 12, the Government of Belgium's Interministerial Influenza Commission (IIC) announced a significant drop in estimated H1N1 cases, with 29,744 estimated cases from November 2 to 8 (week 45),compared to 47,448 for the week of October 26 to November 1 (week 44). Three deaths were rep [...]	2009-11-13 17:29:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09BRUSSELS1541	EU MEMBER STATES REMAIN DIVIDED DESPITE EU COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary. Although the European Council took several steps forward in defining its efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, it failed to resolve several open issues, notably around financing. Even among the agreed conclusions, it is apparent there remains disagreement among Mem [...]	2009-11-18 14:44:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EWWT KGHG SENV TRGY
09BRUSSELS1561	EU MAKING THE "COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH" ITS [...] (C//NF) Summary: The EU's added value to international security is its ability to apply a broad range of developmental, humanitarian, civilian, and military instruments. The UN is the only other multilateral organization to do that, according to the European Commission Director for Crisis P [...]	2009-11-20 18:30:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR MOPS PREL EUN CD IZ AF SO
09BRUSSELS1562	U/S BURNS TO EU: NEED TO INCREASE THE PRESSURE ON [...] (S) Summary: On November 20, Under Secretary Burns pressed upon EU Political and Security Committee (PSC) Ambassadors a sober outlook on Iran's nuclear program and policies. We are rapidly reaching the limits of what existing pressure measures on Iran can achieve, he said. Burns noted that [...]	2009-11-20 18:38:00	USEU Brussels	SECRET	PARM PREL ECON EUN UNSC IR ETTC
09BRUSSELS1563	BELGIUM: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgium follows the EU common position regarding promotion of human rights and democracy in Cuba. GOB has not made any recent public statements nor governmental actions condemning human rights abuses in Cuba. Belgian EU Commissioner for Development De Gucht has an on-going relatio [...]	2009-11-23 06:57:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	CU ETRD ETTC PREL BE
09BRUSSELS1567	SNAPSHOTS FROM STOCKHOLM: EUROPEAN DEVELOPMENT DAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Governance, aid effectiveness, and the impacts of the global financial crisis and climate change on developing countries were the major themes of European Development Days (EDD) in Stockholm October 22-24. USAID Acting Administrator (AA) Alonzo Fulgham led the American delegatio [...]	2009-11-23 11:10:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EIND ETRD SENV EUR ECON EDEV TPHY TSPL EUN
09BRUSSELS1570	BELGIUM: SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING REQUEST FOR UPCOMING [...] (U) Summary: On July 1, 2010, Belgium will assume the presidency of the EU council. Effective USG representation with Belgium will be especially important in the fall of 2010, because the Belgians will be engaged in implementing the structures of the EU under the Lisbon Treaty. The Pol/Eco [...]	2009-11-23 14:57:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AFIN AMGT PREL BE
09BRUSSELS1580	SCENESETTER FOR BILATERAL MEETINGS WITH BELGIAN [...] (C) Summary: Madame Secretary, Embassy Brussels welcomes your visit to Brussels on December 3-4 and your meetings with the in-coming Belgian Prime Minister, Yves Leterme, and the Foreign Minister, most likely Steven Vanackere. Your visit occurs at a moment when Belgians are poised to take a leading [...]	2009-11-24 14:00:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR ECON BE AF
09BRUSSELS1581	AMBASSADOR GUTMAN'S NOVEMBER 9 MEETING WITH [...] Summary: The Ambassador paid an initial courtesy call on Charles Michel, Belgium's Minister for Development Cooperation, on November 9. Michel's ministry creates policy and oversees administration of a large part of Belgium's official development assistance to Afghanistan, Central Africa an [...]	2009-11-24 15:34:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV BE AF CG
09BRUSSELS1616	BARROSO'S NEW COMMISSION SHOULD BE GOOD [...] (SBU) Summary: EU Commission President Barroso's announced line-up of the policy portfolios for the new Commission that takes office on/about February 1 has mostly good implications for U.S. economic policy interests: -- New Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht (Belgian Foreign Minister until [...]	2009-12-01 16:25:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD ECIN EFIN EINV EAGR EIND
09BRUSSELS1629	SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE HOLBROOKE'S DECEMBER 2 [...] (C) Summary: On December 2, Richard Holbrooke discussed President Obama's newly announced Afghanistan strategy with Steven Vanackere, the Foreign Minister of Belgium. Holbrooke said the strategy involves and increase in troops and training for the Afghan army and police to enable foreign tro [...]	2009-12-03 13:38:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR AF BE
09BRUSSELS1633	DHS SECRETARY NAPOLITANO'S NOVEMBER 6 MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: DHS Secretary Napolitano met November 6 with Belgian Minister of Interior Annemie Turtelboom to promote information sharing and security. The Secretary stressed the importance of finding a solution for the Swift Terrorist Finance Tracking Program (TFTP) issue prior to December 1. [...]	2009-12-03 17:14:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV KTFN KHLS KISL BE EU
09BRUSSELS1666	SCENESETTER FOR BELGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER PIETER DE [...] (C) Summary: Belgian Defense Minister Pieter De Crem has been in office since March 2008 and is one of the United States' strongest friends in the Belgian government. Under his leadership, Belgium has returned its focus to NATO as the orienting factor in its defense policy. Now, Belgium is p [...]	2009-12-11 15:40:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR MNUC BE AF
09BRUSSELS1708	BELGIUM: COUNTRY TERRORISM REPORT 2009 [...] Embassy point of contact for this report is Political Economic Officer Aaron Jensen. Email: JensenAW@state.gov 2. Begin text of report: The Belgian government recognizes that terrorism is a serious threat. Belgian agencies identify possible terrorist threats, respond to those threats, a [...]	2009-12-21 15:29:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC BE
09BRUSSELS1719	EEB A/S FERNANDEZ IN BRUSSELS: IMPACT OF LISBON TREATY AND [...] (SBU) Summary: During discussions with EU officials and stakeholders in Brussels on December 9-10, EEB Assistant Secretary Fernandez explored the current state of, and prospects for, the transatlantic economic relationship, the future of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC),the impact of t [...]	2009-12-23 16:25:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV PREL PGOV EUN
09BRUSSELS1725	BELGIUM: SECURITY EXERCISE TESTS POLICE RESPONSE [...] (U) Information in paragraph 4 about the Belgian Design Basis Threat for the BR-2 nuclear research reactor is classified SECRET by Belgian authorities, and is transmitted here to respect that level of classification. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Belgian local and federal police and offic [...]	2009-12-24 10:38:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	ENRG KNNP TRGY TPHY EUN BE
09BRUSSELS173	BELGIUM: WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF BELGIAN [...] (U) This is a combined message from Embassy Brussels and USEU Brussels. See action request paras 7-9. Background ========== 2. (SBU) Cooperation on aviation security measures between the United States and European authorities has a long-standing history, rooted in international treati [...]	2009-02-06 17:40:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAIR BE
09BRUSSELS1737	MINISTER OF INTERIOR DEFENDS GO-SLOW ATTITUDE [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Minister of Interior Annemie Turtelboom on December 16 to discuss possible contributions to police training in Afghanistan. Turtelboom took credit for obtaining cabinet approval for sending two or three police trainers and a magistrate to the EUPOL Afghani [...]	2009-12-30 16:05:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV BE AF
09BRUSSELS1739	URGING BELGIUM TO STEP UP EFFORTS IN AFGHANISTAN [...] Summary: (C) Embassy Brussels has been conducting an intense campaign to encourage Belgium to step up its efforts to extend and increase its military commitment to Afghanistan, and to increase the level of its civilian assistance, including police trainers. This has been carried out through [...]	2009-12-31 13:14:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR EAID AF BE

09BRUSSELS1740	DEMARCHE TO EU ON AMCIT CASES IN IRAN [...] (C) On December 21, 2009, USEU Senior Consular Representative delivered ref A non-paper and talking points to Giorgio Porzio, Head of the Consular Communication Unit at the EU Council's Joint Situation Center. Porzio promised to relay the non-paper to Ambassador Maria Victoria Morera Villuen [...]	2009-12-31 14:12:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC EUN IR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER
09BRUSSELS188	YOUR MEETING WITH BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DE GUCHT [...] General Petraeus, your meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht comes at an ideal time to reinforce our efforts to secure greater Belgian participation in ISAF and increased Belgian support for Afghanistan development and reconstruction efforts. The meeting is an opportunity to r [...]	2009-02-10 13:15:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL AF BE
09BRUSSELS189	YOUR MEETING WITH BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DE GUCHT [...] (C) General Petraeus, your meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht comes at an ideal time to reinforce our efforts to secure greater Belgian participation in ISAF and increased Belgian support for Afghanistan development and reconstruction efforts. The meeting is an opportunity to [...]	2009-02-10 15:06:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL AF BE
09BRUSSELS192	BELGIUM: NO FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTION TO PROPOSED [...] (U) The Embassy has no concerns or objections regarding any foreign policy implications in the awarding of this grant that involves patients in Belgium. BUSH . [...]	2009-02-11 10:12:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	OSCI ABUD AFIN KSCA TBIO BE
09BRUSSELS198	EU'S PROPOSED COPENHAGEN STRATEGY TARGETS OECD [...] (SBU) Summary: The EU Commission's Communication proposing the EU's approach for the UN climate change negotiations recommends strong emissions reduction ommitments and funding from developed countries, but suggests only "actions" (rather than commitments) from developing countries, including t [...]	2009-02-11 15:21:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS203	BELGIANS READY TO ACCEPT EXPANSION OF AFGHAN ARMY [...] (C) Summary: On February 10 Charge discussed Belgium's reported opposition to expansion of the Afghan National Army (ANA) trust fund to cover sustainment costs with Jean-Arthur Regibeau, Director-General for Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belgium. Regibeau stated th [...]	2009-02-12 17:06:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO PINR AF BE
09BRUSSELS204	BELGIUM: SHAREHOLDERS SAY 'NO' TO FORTIS BANK [...] (SBU) Shareholders of Fortis Holding on February 12 narrowly rejected the Government of Belgium's (GOB) October 2008 purchase of Fortis Bank, once Belgium's largest and still its largest private employer (20,000),putting at risk a proposed sale of 75 percent of Fortis Bank to the French ban [...]	2009-02-12 17:29:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON BE
09BRUSSELS218	DISCUSSIONS AT U.S.-EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS [...] (U) This is an action request telegram; please see paragraph 29. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Participants at the U.S.-European Union (EU) Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Informal Meeting in Prague February 5 to 6, 2009, engaged in a wide-ranging discussion of cooperation against terr [...]	2009-02-13 17:08:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EUM CZ
09BRUSSELS223	(CORRECTED CABLE FOR ERROR IN SUBJECT LINE) EU [...] (C) Summary: As Israel undertakes the formation of a new government and plans go forward for the March 2 Cairo donors conference, several EU officials and diplomats from EU member states and non-EU interested missions (such as Egypt, Israel and Norway) have told us the importance they attach t [...]	2009-02-17 15:39:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL MARR PARM EU IS
09BRUSSELS227	CENTCOM'S GEN. PETRAEUS MEETS WITH BELGIAN FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: CENTCOM Commander David Petraeus gave Belgium's Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht a tour d'horizon of political-military challenges in the CENTCOM AOR, engaging De Gucht on Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Petraeus contrasted the situation in Iraq with that in Af [...]	2009-02-18 10:48:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	BE IR MARR MOPS PREL IQ
09BRUSSELS244	BELGIUM: 2009 TIP REPORT -- CORRECTED COPY [...] (U) POC for Brussels is Political Officer Aaron Jensen. Email: JensenAW@state.gov; Office:33-2-508-2483. 2. (U) Hours spent by Embassy Brussels preparing this report by employee: Charge Wayne Bush (FE-MC):3 hours; Political-Economic Counselor Richard Eason (FO-01): 8 hours; Political Office [...]	2009-02-20 15:55:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
09BRUSSELS246	AZERBAIJAN-TURKEY: TIME FOR ADULT SUPERVISION? [...] (SBU) On February 6, a representative of StatoilHydro, which has a production agreement with Azerbaijan for the Shah Deniz II gas, expressed concern to Econ Officer over the lack of progress on the Southern Corridor. He said that the major stumbling block remains the impasse between Azerbaijan [...]	2009-02-20 16:01:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET EUN
09BRUSSELS250	BELGIAN VIEWS ON NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY [...] (C) Summary: Belgium's main objective for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) 2010 Review Conference is making progress not only on non-proliferation but also disarmament, showing concrete results. The GOB would like to see the United States engage Iran on a bilateral basis. The USG [...]	2009-02-23 09:24:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09BRUSSELS259	EU EAGER TO WORK WITH U.S. ON CAP AND TRADE SYSTEMS [...] (SBU) Summary: EU Commission officials, industry reps, climate traders, and NGOs, are eager for a U.S. cap and trade system and anxious to share their experiences on the 2008 revision process of the EU,s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Seeking U.S. leadership on climate change, all aspire to a [...]	2009-02-23 16:21:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS261	EU ARCTIC POLICY: BRUSSELS LOOKS NORTH [...] (SBU) On February 20, Janos Herman, Policy Advisor and Deputy Political Director, DG External Relations, called on USEU's Economic Section to discuss the policy paper (i.e., communication) "The European Union and the Arctic Region" (issued in November) and the Commission's request for observer [...]	2009-02-24 10:07:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SENV EUN
09BRUSSELS267	SCENESETTER FOR ACTING A/S CARTER WITH BELGIAN MFA [...] Acting A/S Carter, your trip to Brussels comes at a time when the Belgian government is eager for dialogue with the United States on Africa. Your willingness to meet MFA Africa policy hands will help show that the U.S. takes Belgian views seriously and is willing to consider coordinating with [...]	2009-02-25 15:59:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS PREF PINS SOCI MOPS MARR
09BRUSSELS277	FEBRUARY GAERC - EU FOREIGN MINISTERS FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary: In Brussels on February 23, EU Foreign Ministers, meeting in General Affairs Council, discussed preparations for the March 19-20 European Council meeting and discussed proposals for investments in energy and infrastructure under the economic recovery plan. The External Affairs C [...]	2009-02-26 19:32:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EUN ECON AF AL BK EZ MW SR
09BRUSSELS294	YOUR MEETING WITH BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DE GUCHT [...] (C) Madame Secretary, your meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht will reinforce U.S.-Belgian cooperation on Afghanistan, on counter-terrorism, on Iran, and on Africa. Your meeting--our first cabinet-level exchange since a new government was formed under Prime Minister Herman [...]	2009-03-03 18:42:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BE
09BRUSSELS310	YOUR MEETING WITH BELGIAN PRIME MINISTER VAN ROMPUY [...] (C) Summary: Mr. Vice President, your meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Van Rompuy can reinforce U.S.-Belgian cooperation on Afghanistan, counter-terrorism, resettlement of Guantanamo detainees, Iran, Kosovo and Africa. The meeting is an opportunity to recognize Belgium's expanding contri [...]	2009-03-05 15:24:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BE
09BRUSSELS324	SCENESETTER FOR AFRICOM DEPUTY COMMANDER YATES [...] (U) Deputy to the Commander of AFRICOM Yates, your trip to Brussels comes at a time when the Belgian government is eager for dialogue with the United States on Africa. Secretary of State Clinton met with Foreign Minister De Gucht March 6, and much of what De Gucht brought up centered on Africa [...]	2009-03-11 05:07:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI MARR MOPS CG BE
09BRUSSELS327	BELGIAN MFA VIEWS ON FUTURE OF AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: CIA manager for South Asian analysis William Richardson met on March 3 with Christian Tanghe, Director for Asia, and Alain Hanssen, Director for South Asia, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Belgian officials expressed concern about the role played by Pakistan in the conflic [...]	2009-03-11 08:59:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR BE AF
09BRUSSELS371	EGYPTIANS AND PALESTINIANS MEET WITH EU TROIKA ON [...] (C) Summary: The EU Troika (Czech FM Karel Schwarzenberg, Council High Representative Javier Solana, and Commissioner Bettina Ferrero-Waldner) met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit, PA Foreign Minister el-Maliki, and the Jordanian ambassador to the EU on March 15 for dinner to disc [...]	2009-03-16 15:25:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG EUN
09BRUSSELS397	BELGIUM: CHARGE'S MEETING WITH MIN TRANSPORTATION [...] (SBU) In a March 11 meeting with the Charge and embassy officials to brief the Embassy on a recent alleged case of sabotage of two airplanes at Brussels's Zaventem airport, the Belgian Minister of Transportation and senior Belgian civair officials told the Charge that as far as they know two [...]	2009-03-19 16:12:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR BE
09BRUSSELS412	PM ADVISOR PREVIEWS AFGHAN INITIATIVES MENU WITH [...] (C) Summary: Belgian PM Herman Van Rompuy's diplomatic advisor Dirk Wouters (strictly protect) shared with Charge the menu of Afghanistan initiatives for which the PM is seeking cabinet approval this week. The list includes continuation for an additional year of most of Belgium's current mi [...]	2009-03-23 13:34:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PREL MOPS MARR BE
09BRUSSELS455	AFRICOM'S AMB YATES MEETS WITH BELGIAN MFA AND MOD [...] (C) Summary. AFRICOM's Deputy to the Commander for Civ/Mil Activities (DCMA) Mary Carlin Yates met with the Belgian MOD March 12 and MFA March 13 to share opinions and learn about Belgium's efforts in Africa. Ambassador Yates explained AFRICOM's mission and its holistic approach to supportin [...]	2009-03-30 15:12:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MOPS SOCI MNUC CG BE
09BRUSSELS456	AFRICOM DEPUTY COMMANDER YATES' MARCH 12 MEETINGS [...] (S/NF) Summary: AFRICOM Deputy to the Commander for Civ/Mil Activities (DCMA) Mary Carlin Yates received a wide variety of opinions and input March 12 during meetings with representatives of the NGO community in Brussels, a lunch with Belgian parliamentarians, and a dinner with several Africa [...]	2009-03-30 15:27:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI MARR MOPS MNUC CG BE
09BRUSSELS475	BELGIAN MFA ON NEW RESOURCES FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) The Belgian government has been considering for the past several weeks what actions it can take to support the need for an enhanced effort against the Taliban in Afghanistan, as outlined in the ref B white paper. Embassy delivered the white paper to the Belgian MFA's Office of Security Af [...]	2009-04-01 14:52:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR EAID BE
09BRUSSELS477	CONCERNS OVER SIGNS OF GROWING ANTI-SEMITISM IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The head of the umbrella organization of Jewish organizations in Belgium told the Charge and Pol/Econ Counselor on March 11 that he was concerned by signs of growing anti-Semitism in Belgium. Joel Rubinfeld, head of the Comite de Coordination d'Organisations Juives de Belgique [...]	2009-04-02 04:40:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PGOV BE
09BRUSSELS491	BELGIUM:USG CANDIDACY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-02 14:42:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BE
09BRUSSELS497	CHARGE'S VISIT TO MONS, BELGIUM [...] Summary: On March 30 Embassy Brussels Charge traveled with Embassy officers to the town of Mons in the Belgian province of Hainaut. Mons is a major town in the French-speaking Wallonia region of Brussels. The Charge met with the Governor of Hainaut Province, a city councilman of Mons, and t [...]	2009-04-03 06:33:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON ETRD EINV BE
09BRUSSELS511	BELGIUM: RESPONSE TO LACEY ACT DEMARCHE [...] Post delivered the Lacey Act demarche on December 11, 2008. On March 26, 2009, the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) informed the Embassy via email that the Government of Belgium appreciated the opportunity to comment on the implementation of the revised Lacey Act provisions, and we [...]	2009-04-06 13:48:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID EAGR ETRD EINV BTIO BE
09BRUSSELS566	THE PLIGHT OF MON810: POLITICS TRUMPS SCIENCE IN THE EU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 14, the German Ministry of Agriculture announced a ban on the cultivation and sale of Monsanto's GMO corn MON810, the only GMO varietal currently approved for cultivation in the European Union, in Germany. The German action follows the March 22 announcement by Luxembou [...]	2009-04-16 13:15:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV EFIN ELAB PGOV BE
09BRUSSELS576	UPDATED INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE [...] Per reftel, information for Embassy Brussels' Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) and Deputy TFCO is as follows: TFCO - Aaron Jensen Political Officer 322-508-2483 JensenAW@state.gov JensenAW@state.sgov.gov Deputy TFCO - Timothy Forsyth Economic Officer 322-508-2430 Fors [...]	2009-04-17 15:00:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER BE
09BRUSSELS588	SCENE-SETTER FOR A/S CARTER'S MEETING WITH BELGIAN [...] (SBU) Since your last visit to Brussels, dialogue between the U.S. and Belgium on Africa has continued. Belgian interest is currently focused on the plight of the Belgian ship taken over by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean April 17, and a Belgian doctor kidnapped in Somalia at the same time [...]	2009-04-22 13:59:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MASS CG SO SU CD RW BY BN
09BRUSSELS625	BELGIUM STILL CONSIDERING POLICE TRAINERS FOR [...] (C) Summary: The Belgian government at the cabinet level is interested in providing police trainers to Afghanistan in cooperation with the UE or NATO. However, it is running into internal opposition by the Belgian Federal Police, which would have to provide the officers to staff such a missio [...]	2009-04-30 14:45:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL EAID NATO AF BE
09BRUSSELS648	TOUR D'HORIZON WITH BELGIUM'S PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy told Charge May 5 that he was very impressed by President Obama during their recent contacts in Strasbourg and Prague, especially the President's active role at the NATO summit in forging unanimity on the selection of a new NATO Secretary [...]	2009-05-07 11:22:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN SENV PGOV ECON PINR BE
09BRUSSELS654	VLAAMS BELANG: FLANDERS' FAR RIGHT PARTY LOOKS [...] (C) Summary: The Far Right Vlaams Belang (VB) is campaigning hard in the run-up to the June 7 regional and European elections. The most notable slogans since the campaign began on March 7 are "Flemish Money in Flemish Hands" and "This is Our Land." These slogans are meant to conjure the VB's [...]	2009-05-08 15:48:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL BE
09BRUSSELS655	VLAAMS BELANG: FLANDERS' FAR RIGHT PARTY LOOKS [...] (C) Summary: The Far Right Vlaams Belang (VB) is campaigning hard in the run-up to the June 7 regional and European elections. The most notable slogans since the campaign began on March 7 are "Flemish Money in Flemish Hands" and "This is Our Land." These slogans are meant to conjure the VB's [...]	2009-05-08 15:48:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL BE
09BRUSSELS656	BELGIAN UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The National Center for Development Cooperation is an umbrella organization for Belgian francophone NGOs providing development assistance worldwide, including some working in Afghanistan. Its Director, Arnaud Zacharie, was open to the need for assistance to Afghanistan and the id [...]	2009-05-08 15:48:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV BE AF
09BRUSSELS658	BELGIAN UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: The National Center for Development Cooperation is an umbrella organization for Belgian francophone NGOs providing development assistance worldwide, including some working in Afghanistan. Its Director, Arnaud Zacharie, was open to the need for assistance to Afghanistan and the id [...]	2009-05-08 15:49:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL PGOV BE AF
09BRUSSELS679	GOB STILL WILLING TO CONSIDER RESETTLING [...] (C) Summary: Belgium remains supportive of U.S. efforts to resettle Guantanamo detainees and is willing to consider specific proposals for resettlement, according to the Prime Minister's diplomatic advisor Dirk Wouters. Wouters discounted comments by Alain Winants, Belgium's head of State Sec [...]	2009-05-13 13:16:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV BE AF
09BRUSSELS721	BELGIUM: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNSC 1718 COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Embassy political officer and economic officer separately delivered the non-paper from reftel to officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at the Government of Belgium's financial intelligence unit (CTIF) under the Ministry of Finance. The CTIF official had no immediate knowled [...]	2009-05-22 13:43:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC KNNP PREL PARM XE ZO KN BE
09BRUSSELS742	SPECIAL ENVOY DAN FRIED DISCUSSES GUANTANAMO [...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure (S/GC) Daniel Fried met with a group of Belgian officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Interior and Immigration on May 19. The group was chaired by Axel Delvoie, Deputy Director for Multilateral Affairs of the MFA. Fried inf [...]	2009-05-29 09:59:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV BE AF
09BRUSSELS748	BELGIUM: H1N1: NINTH AND TENTH CASES REPORTED; [...] Belgian health authorities announced via a May 29 press release that two new cases of H1N1 had been confirmed in Belgium, bringing the country's total number of positive cases to ten. The ninth case involves a 10-year old boy from Tervuren, a town close to Brussels, who had returned on Sunda [...]	2009-05-29 15:22:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09BRUSSELS779	BELGIUM: PKK UPDATE [...] (S) Summary: Poloff and Polintern met with MFA Counterterrorism Coordinator Thomas Baekelandt June 4 to receive an update on the PKK (DHKP/C) in Belgium prior to Deputy CT Coordinator Schlicher's scheduled trip to Brussels June 9. Poloff and Legatt also met with Belgian Federal Police Islam E [...]	2009-06-05 09:30:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	KTFN PGOV PREL PTER IZ BE
09BRUSSELS78	Working with the EU to Spur Transatlantic [...] (SBU) The United States and the European Union have the largest economic relationship in the world and remain the leaders in setting the global economic and regulatory agenda, and successfully managing this relationship will be critical as we address the economic downturn this year. U.S. and [...]	2009-01-21 14:24:00	USEU Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EIND EAGR ETTC PREL EUN
09BRUSSELS802	BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DE GUCHT'S MAY 27-28 [...] (SBU) Summary: Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht traveled to Iraq on May 27-28. While Belgium has been absent from Iraq for several years, his visit indicates a new willingness to be more active and cooperative with efforts to build security and good governance in the country. De Gucht [...]	2009-06-09 11:39:00	Embassy Brussels	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EINV EPET BE IZ
09BRUSSELS854	JUNE GAERC - GUANTANAMO, IRELAND, THE MIDDLE EAST, [...] (C) Summary: Meeting in Luxembourg on June 15, EU Foreign Ministers prepared the June 18-19 European Council summit meeting on guarantees for Ireland and financial regulation, and they addressed the Middle East, Western Balkans, and Cuba. Significantly, they announced the approval of joint US-EU jo [...]	2009-06-19 17:11:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON EUN AF BK CU HR IR IZ MD PK
09BRUSSELS865	BELGIUM'S JUSTICE MINISTRY REACTS TO 2009 TIP [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary: Poloff and Polintern delivered reftel Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to the Justice Minister's Diplomatic Advisor Ambassador Marc Van den Reeck and Trafficking in Persons Coordinator Paule Somers on June 15. Both [...]	2009-06-24 09:21:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIP KWMN KPAO PGOV PHUM PREL AE BE
09BRUSSELS868	CHARGES AGAINST FORMER GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-24 15:43:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KJUS BE
09BRUSSELS895	BELGIUM ON PKK AND CT COOPERATION [...] (S) Summary: Principal Deputy Counterterrorism Coordinator Ambassador Ronald Schlicher met June 9 with Belgian CT officials to discuss PKK, Roj-TV, and wider CT cooperation; a luncheon hosted by the Charge covered additional CT themes. Ambassador Schlicher conveyed a message from Danish CT off [...]	2009-06-30 09:15:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER KISL PINR TU IZ BE
09BRUSSELS911	EU OPTIONS FOR SOMALIA SECURITY SECTOR REFORM [...] (C//NF) Summary: We expect the EU to lay the groundwork for an EU Somalia security sector reform mission before its traditional August recess. An EU Council-European Commission paper on future options in Somalia will be discussed by EU Political and Security Committee Ambassadors on July 3. [...]	2009-07-01 18:33:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR EUN
09BRUSSELS912	WORKING WITH THE EU ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In Brussels, June 15-17, Major General Richard L. Engel, USAF (Retired),Director, Climate Change and State Stability Program, Long Range Analysis Unit, National Intelligence Council (NIC) heard from high level Europeans that: the connection between security and climate change [...]	2009-07-02 10:18:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KGHG SENV ENRG EUN
09BRUSSELS913	OUTMODED BELGIAN HELICOPTERS RUMORED TO BE HEADED [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2.(U) The Belgian press reported on July 2 that the Belgian Ministry of Defense has received five bids from private companies and European individuals to purchase 23 Alouette II helicopters. The sales are consistent with the Belgian MOD's intentio [...]	2009-07-02 12:52:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL PARM BE MA
09BRUSSELS934	GUANTANAMO: SPECIAL ENVOY FRIED,S MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: BELGIAN FOREIGN MINISTER DE GUCHT, IN A MEETING ON JUNE 30 WITH SPECIAL ENVOY FRIED, AGREED TO REVIEW SEVEN GUANTANAMO DETAINEE CASES WITH &A VIEW TO FINDING SOLUTIONS.8 FM DE GUCHT INFORMED THAT HE WOULD SEEK THE SUPPORT OF THE BELGIAN &INNER CABINET8 THE NEXT DAY (JULY 1) TO I [...]	2009-07-07 15:33:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PREF BE
09BRUSSELS945	BELGIAN FM DE GUCHT TO MOVE TO EUROPEAN COMMISSION [...] (U) Belgian media reported July 8 that Flemish Liberal (OpenVLD) Vice Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht would soon resign his posts to accept Belgian's EU commission seat being vacated by EU Commissioner for Development Louis Michel; Commissioner Michel will be sworn in as a m [...]	2009-07-08 13:34:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EU EUN BE
09BRUSSELS964	EU CLIMATE CHANGE RELATIONSHIP STRONG WITH INDIA, [...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings held with the Mission of China to the EU and the Embassy of India, Chinese and Indian counterparts confirmed what USEU EconOff learned in conversations with the European Commission (see reftel): that the EU has a robust with China is almose that beforlnp`opan [...]	2009-07-13 14:52:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09BRUSSELS970	SACEUR: JULY 15 MEETING WITH THE BELGIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Admiral Stavridis, Embassy Brussels welcomes your visit to Brussels and wishes to provide you background for your upcoming meetings with Belgian King Albert II, Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy, Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, Defense Minister Peter De Crem, and Chief of Defense General C [...]	2009-07-14 06:15:00	Embassy Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS PGOV ECON BE
09BRUSSELS976	POTENTIAL U.S.-EU COOPERATION ON JUDICIAL TRAINING [...] (C) SUMMARY: European Union standing reluctance to work with the U.S. in Iraq now seems to be evolving into eagerness to cooperate. EU officials working on the EU's integrated Rule of Law mission in Iraq, EUJUST LEX, are ready to join us in providing judicial training in Iraq. After a positiv [...]	2009-07-15 17:15:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EUN IZ PREL SOCI PHUM PINS
09BUCHAREST112	ROMANIA ACCEPTS CROATIA/ALBANIA NATO PROTOCOLS [...] (U) Mission received on February 20, a letter (under cover of Note Verbale) from Foreign Minister Diaconescu addressed to the Secretary indicating Romania's acceptance of the NATO Accession Protocols for Albania and Croatia (text copied below). Mission will pouch the original document to L/T [...]	2009-02-20 14:59:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIA MARR NATO PARM PREL RO
09BUCHAREST115	ROMANIA: ECONOMIC OFFICIALS PRIVATELY AGREE IMF [...] (C) Summary. Both the new State Secretary for budget issues at the Ministry of Finance (MOF),Gheorghe Gherghina, and the Prime Minister's new Economic Advisor, Ionut Popescu, told EconCoun this week that they believe a standby agreement with the IMF is advisable sooner rather than later, give [...]	2009-02-20 14:59:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV PREL IMF RO
09BUCHAREST153	A PERFECT STORM: CORRUPTION, RULE OF LAW, AND JUSTICE REFORMS TAKE CENTER STAGE IN ROMANIA [...] (C) Summary: An unexpected convergence of factors has recently brought matters involving the Rule of Law (ROL) and much-needed justice reforms into high relief. These include, inter alia: reports of rising criminality amidst a declining economy; scandals involving the penal system; a parliamentary [...]	2009-03-06 11:58:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS EU RO
09BUCHAREST188	ROMANIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY ON DEPLOYMENTS, [...] (C) Summary: During a meeting with Ministry of National Defense officials, the Director General for Defense Policy discussed current thinking regarding Romania's participation in its overseas deployments, reassuring the U.S. on continuity of operations. He also raised the option of providin [...]	2009-03-20 11:57:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS MCAP PREL PGOV IZ AF RO
09BUCHAREST199	ROMANIA: HIGHLIGHTING WORLD TB DAY [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-23 14:45:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO ECON SOCI PREL KPAO RO
09BUCHAREST225	RECOMMENDATION FOR SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DESIGNEE [...] (SBU) Action Request: Mission seeks Department's support for a recommendation for Secretary of Defense designee status for Romanian Land Forces LtCol. Augustin-Nicusor Pegulescu to be transferred from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center (LRMC) to Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) for prost [...]	2009-04-02 13:55:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL RO
09BUCHAREST24	ROMANIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2009 [...] Following is Embassy Bucharest's submission for the 2009 Investment Climate Statement. A. OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT ENCOURAGING INVESTMENT Romania actively seeks direct foreign investment. The Agency for Foreign Investment (ARIS),created in 2004, is designed to advertise the co [...]	2009-01-14 13:09:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR RO
09BUCHAREST243	ROMANIA'S ROMA: STILL ON THE PERIPHERY [...] (SBU) As Romania's Roma celebrate their National Day this week, the community remains on the outskirts of mainstream Romanian society in almost every respect: politically disenfranchised; lacking access to adequate education, housing and employment; and victimized by prejudicial campaigns in t [...]	2009-04-10 12:50:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST244	ROMANIA AND MOLDOVA: FOREIGN MINISTER ASKS ALLIES [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu convoked NATO and EU Ambassadors on April 9 to request more robust public expressions of support for Romania in the wake of the expulsion of the Romanian Ambassador and Press Attache from Moldova. The intent of Diaconescu's appeal was not to [...]	2009-04-10 13:06:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MO RO
09BUCHAREST25	CHARGE CALL ON NEW FOREIGN MINISTER DIACONESCU [...] (C) Newly-installed Foreign Minister Cristian Diaconescu met with Charge on January 14 to share his thoughts on those foreign policy issues Romania will emphasize during his tenure. He first focused on neighborhood concerns, including the importance of improving Romanian-Ukrainian relations. [...]	2009-01-15 05:45:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST253	ROMANIA ON SPECIFIC ASKS FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel a demarche on April 1 to MFA Director Security Policy Daniel Ionita, who said the MFA engaged the interagency coordination process nearly immediately at that time, including the Ministry of National Defense (MND) and the Office of the President (Cotroceni Palace),i [...]	2009-04-14 15:25:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF RO
09BUCHAREST255	PRESIDENT BASESCU'S MOLDOVA SPEECH: NOBODY SHOULD [...] (SBU) At a special joint parliamentary session April 14, Romanian President Traian Basescu delivered a speech on recent developments in Moldova. Basescu prefaced his remarks by noting that he had deliberately avoided responding to "provocations" over the past week that might provide a pretext [...]	2009-04-15 14:18:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MD RO
09BUCHAREST315	ROMANIA: HEALTHCARE REFORM ON THE AGENDA FOR 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Romanian healthcare system continues to suffer from neglect two decades after the fall of communism. Health statistics remain bleak, with the country occupying the worst position in the EU in terms of the frequency of cardiovascular disease, pulmonary diseases, diabetes, tub [...]	2009-05-13 07:56:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV TBIO PGOV SOCI AMED KHIV RO
09BUCHAREST370	ROMANIA: ACTIVE IN ENERGY DIPLOMACY [...] (C) Summary. According to Ministry of Economy State Secretary (SS) Tudor Serban, Romania has been engaged in active energy diplomacy efforts with Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Underpinning Romania's efforts are a desire to advance the Nabucco project and secure for Romania b [...]	2009-06-02 10:24:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EINV PREL RO
09BUCHAREST397	ROMANIA: 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (U) Summary: The United States Government is aware of eight (8) outstanding investment disputes and expropriation claims brought by United States persons or corporations that may be pending against the Government of Romania (GOR). There are no new cases since last year's report. Post recomm [...]	2009-06-15 09:17:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST475	ROMANIA TO ATTEND ITSO, NO OFFICIAL POSITIONS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-08 12:12:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ECON ECPS EFIN KTIA PREL TSPA RO
09BUCHAREST546	ROMANIA: ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND FOR ACE AWARD NOMINATION FOR [...] (U) This cable provides the additional information requested in ref B to support post's nomination of Oracle Romania for the Secretary's Award for Corporate Excellence (ref A). 2. (SBU) The Country Team continues to wholeheartedly support Oracle Romania's nomination for this prestigious aw [...]	2009-08-07 07:07:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV RO
09BUCHAREST57	SENATE PRESIDENT MIRCEA GEOANA: MY CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) Summary: Romanian Senate President Mircea Geoana said that he wanted to visit the United States at the earliest opportunity to ensure that the new Administration gets to "see us, hear the message from Bucharest, and remain focused on Romania and the region." Geoana added that he was also [...]	2009-01-28 14:19:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS RO
09BUCHAREST589	ROMANIA: ENTRY INTO FORCE OF SEISMIC MONITORING AGREEMENT [...] Post transmitted reftel text via Diplomatic Note 151/09 on August 13, 2009 to the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). The MFA replied on August 17 via Note Verbale H2-1/2646 affirming their acceptance of the Department's proposal to establish December 7, 2001 as the date of entry into [...]	2009-08-26 08:44:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KTIA RO
09BUCHAREST598	ROMANIANS SAY "MADONNA DON'T PREACH" [...] (U) Many in the crowd of 70,000 booed Madonna at her August 26 concert in Bucharest after she unexpectedly paused between songs to call on Romanians to "stop discriminating against the Romany" (sic). The crowd had cheered Roma musicians and dancers when they joined Madonna onstage. The catc [...]	2009-08-28 13:50:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM RO
09BUCHAREST606	ROMANIA'S JEWS: DYING OFF, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN [...] (SBU) As the Government of Romania prepares to inaugurate the Bucharest Holocaust Memorial October 8, Romania's Jewish community finds itself in a paradox. Anti-Semitism - though still prevalent and in some ways ingrained in Romanian society - has lost much of its virulence and overtness. At [...]	2009-09-02 14:01:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST616	ROMANIA'S JEWS: DYING OFF, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN [...] (SBU) As the Government of Romania prepares to inaugurate the Bucharest Holocaust Memorial October 8, Romania's Jewish community finds itself in a paradox. Anti-Semitism - though still prevalent and in some ways ingrained in Romanian society - has lost much of its virulence and overtness. At [...]	2009-09-08 10:56:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST64	ROMANIA WILL FINISH ITS PROCEDURES BEFORE THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-03 15:30:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR NATO PARM PREL KTIA RO
09BUCHAREST651	ROMANIA: CODEL LYNCH ITINERARY [...] (SBU) Embassy Bucharest warmly welcomes the visit of CODEL Lynch (reftel). Lead control officer for this visit is Economic Officer Justin Berg (Office: 40 21 200 3436; Mobile: 40 723 393 952; Home: 40 21 222 2660; email: BergJ@state.gov),with backup control officer Christy Brown (Office: 40 2 [...]	2009-09-24 13:22:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP AMGT AFIN ECON PREL RO
09BUCHAREST699	GICNT: ROMANIAN REACTION [...] (U) POLOFF, joined by Russian Embassy Counselor Andrey Kosilin and Russian Attache Igor Isaenko, delivered REF comments October 15 to Nineta Barbulescu, Director of the MFA Directorate for OCSE, Asymmetric Threats and Nonproliferation. Barbulesco stated that Romania would be attending the E [...]	2009-10-16 09:58:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL PTER KGIC RO
09BUCHAREST716	VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER BOC [...] (C) SUMMARY. Vice President Joseph Biden met with Interim Prime Minister Emil Boc on October 22, 2009. The Romanian Prime Minister and the Vice President discussed the motivations for the Vice President's trip to Europe and the reasons why Romania was chosen as the location for the trip's major [...]	2009-10-23 14:13:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RO
09BUCHAREST785	BLUE LANTERN BROKER INQUIRY: STEFAN MINOVICI - CASE NO. [...] (U) This message is a response to reftel request to verify the bona fides of registered broker Stefan Minovici - Case No. K-2197. 2. (SBU) POLOFF raised subject company, MIC & ASSOCIATES GRUP SRL, with Romanian authorities, including the National Export Control Agency (ANCEX) of the Minist [...]	2009-11-24 08:39:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC RO
09BUCHAREST786	ROMANIAN SUPPORT FOR ANGARSK RESERVE [...] (SBU) POLOFF delivered REF comments 23 November to Nineta Barbulescu, Director of the MFA Directorate for OCSE, Asymmetric Threats and Nonproliferation. Barbulescu expressed Romanian support for the Angarsk Reserve, but expressed concern that the Non-Aligned Movement countries continue to o [...]	2009-11-24 13:16:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY RO
09BUCHAREST802	CODEL SKELTON MEETS WITH ROMANIAN MILITARY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a 23-25 November 2009 visit to Romania, House Armed Services Committee (HASC) Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO),ranking member Howard "Buck" McKeon (R-CA) and four other HASC members met with senior leaders of the Romanian MOD and General Staff, members of the parliamentary De [...]	2009-12-03 13:26:00	Embassy Bucharest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL MARR MASS MOPS RO
09BUCHAREST809	ROMANIA ELECTIONS: BASESCU GETS THE BEST OF THE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Just three days before the December 6 Presidential runoff incumbent President Traian Basescu and Social Democratic Party (PSD) chairman Mircea Geoana met for their one and only televised debate before the second round of elections. Basescu is generally considered to have gotten [...]	2009-12-07 04:31:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI KCOR RO
09BUCHAREST824	ROMANIA ELECTIONS: SOCIAL DEMOCRATS CRY FRAUD, BUT [...] (C) Summary. The Social Democratic Party (PSD) has claimed systemic, nationwide electoral fraud and called for the annulment and re-run of the December 6 presidential runoff in which PSD candidate Mircea Geoana failed by a slim margin to unseat incumbent Traian Basescu. However, according to [...]	2009-12-10 12:12:00	Embassy Bucharest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV RO
09BUDAPEST113	HUNGARY: NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 5. 2. (U) Post provides the following responses provided by the MFA's Security and Non-proliferation Department, keyed to questions outlined in ref A, paragraph 8. 3. A. (C) What are the host government's objectives for the NPT in general, and [...]	2009-02-09 11:17:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM NPT MNUC ENGR HU
09BUDAPEST142	VISIT OF CODEL LYNCH TO BUDAPEST, MARCH 2-3, 2009 [...] (U) Embassy Budapest grants country clearance and warmly welcomes the visit of CODEL Lynch to Budapest from March 2 - 3, 2009. We look forward to your visit and would like to provide the following information in preparation for your arrival. ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CLIMATE IN HUNGARY 2. [...]	2009-02-25 13:04:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV OREP PREL EFIN OTRA HU
09BUDAPEST15	ROMA AT RISK: VICIOUS RHETORIC; VICIOUS CIRCLES [...] (SBU) Summary: A new study by the highly-respected think tank Political Capital concludes that intolerance is increasing in Hungary as long-standing prejudices are compounded by growing political frustration and economic uncertainty. The result has been an increase in extremist rhetoric and [...]	2009-01-07 13:59:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM
09BUDAPEST151	EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM 2009 (HUNGARY) [...] In response to reftel, Embassy Budapest would like to submit the following requests for Embassy Science Fellows. Current point of contact for these proposals is outgoing ESTH Hub Officer Camille Hill, HillCD2@state.gov, 36-1-475-4956. Ms. Hill will depart post May 19 and her successor, Sam Ko [...]	2009-02-27 15:03:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV TSPL TBIO EAGR ENRG ECON AMGT APER EPA
09BUDAPEST155	HUNGARY: 2009 SPECIAL 301 REPORT POST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATION: Hungary continues to make headway on its Special 301 initiatives, as well as IPR regulatory enforcement more broadly. The National Board Against Counterfeiting and Piracy (HENT) -- which acts as an overarching structure for information sharing, police and jud [...]	2009-03-02 13:10:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR EU HU
09BUDAPEST168	NEW VIOLENCE AGAINST ROMA TURNS FOCUS TO POLICE [...] (U) The string of violence against Roma continued on February 23 when two people were murdered in their home in the village of Tatarszentgyorgy in central Hungary. The victims, a 27-year-old father and his 5-year-old son, were inside when attackers threw a Molotov cocktail into the home and s [...]	2009-03-03 14:53:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM HU
09BUDAPEST180	HUNGARY REQUESTS ADDITIONAL GUANTANAMO DETAINEE [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY. MFA Senior State Secretary Marta Fekzsi told the Ambassador March 3 that the Hungarian Government continues to move forward on accepting a small number of Guantanamo detainees. Although ruling out accepting Uighurs due to [...]	2009-03-06 14:19:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV EUN HU
09BUDAPEST195	GOH MATCHES PROGRESS ON NABUCCO WITH NEXT MOVES ON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) In characteristically non-transparent fashion, Prime Minister Gyurcsany led a delegation comprised of cabinet ministers and business executives to Moscow on March 10 for a series of intergovernmental consultations and to sign [...]	2009-03-13 11:50:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PGOV RU HU
09BUDAPEST206	TRAVEL PLANS GONE AWRY - PRESIDENT SOLYOM'S VISIT [...] (U) This is Embassy Budapest/Embassy Bucharest coordinated cable. 2. (U) Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom, a staunch advocate of ethnic Hungarians living in neighboring countries, faced significant diplomatic difficulties while searching for opportunities to commemorate Hungary's 1848 revo [...]	2009-03-18 09:33:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RM HU
09BUDAPEST216	HUNGARY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON RUSSIAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-20 11:38:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS MOPS RS GG HU

09BUDAPEST217	HUNGARY WILL ATTEND AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE [...] MFA Security Policy and Non-proliferation Department Deputy Director Gabor Horvath discussed reftel with PolOff March 19. He said that Hungary representatives will be Foreign Minister Kinga Goncz, State Secretary Gabor Szentivanyi, and MFA Department for International Development Cooperation [...]	2009-03-20 11:39:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AF HU
09BUDAPEST221	HUNGARY ON EFFECTS OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS IN [...] (C) On March 17, Embassy met with Finance Ministry Director General for International Relations Zsuzsanna Varga and with Senior Advisor to the Prime Minister Dr. Joszef Szuper on March 20 to deliver reftel demarche. The Ambassador is scheduled to meet with Minister for National Development Ec [...]	2009-03-23 11:15:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON EFIN PREL HU
09BUDAPEST224	NANOTECHNOLOGY IN HUNGARY [...] (U) Summary: In February and March 2009, Post investigated Hungary,s nanotechnology capabilities through a series of meetings with experts and government officials. We found that Hungary has solid scientific expertise in certain nanotechnology areas, but lacks a national strategy for nanosci [...]	2009-03-23 16:04:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPL TNGD TPHY TBIO ETTC ETRD PREL RS HU
09BUDAPEST226	PM GYURCSANY MAYBE OUT OF OFFICE BUT NOT OUT OF [...] (U) Summary. In a surprise announcement at the Socialist Party (MSzP) Congress on March 21, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany told party members that he will step down as Prime Minister following a successful constructive-vote-of-no- confidence scheduled for April 14. Apologizing to party memb [...]	2009-03-23 16:38:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS HU
09BUDAPEST265	MOL, GOH GIRD FOR DEFENSE AGAINST RUSSIAN TAKEOVER [...] (C) Summary: While Hungary's political establishment has been singularly absorbed in the country's unfolding internal political drama, al--including top management at MOL--appear to have been caught off guard by the announcement on March 30 that Austria's OMV had sold its 21.2 percent stake in [...]	2009-04-02 15:30:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PGOV RU HU
09BUDAPEST28	SCENE-SETTER FOR THE VISIT OF DAS JUDY GARBER [...] (SBU) Over the past four months, the GoH has been reacting to a series of crises that have gripped the nation's attention, beginning with the financial market crisis in October, followed by an ongoing diplomatic row with Solvakia, transportation sector strikes in December, and now the growing [...]	2009-01-09 16:04:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON HU
09BUDAPEST281	HUNGARY: MALEV, AN EU CARRIER WITH RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 18, the nearly bankrupt Hungarian airline, Malev, received a life-saving $13.6 million cash infusion from Russian-owned bank, Vnyshekonombank (VEB). Although Hungarian representation increased slightly on the company's board of directors, this latest addition to VEB's [...]	2009-04-08 16:32:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAIR EINV EFIN RU HU
09BUDAPEST282	HUNGARY SUPPORTIVE OF USG CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN [...] PolOff delivered reftel talking points on April 7 to Krisztina Kovacs, Desk Officer in the Department of International Organizations and Human Rights at the GOH Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Kovacs said the GOH welcomed the news that the United States is interested in assuming a position o [...]	2009-04-09 08:28:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL HU
09BUDAPEST289	BLOOD, SWEAT, BUT NO TEARS: EMBASSY BUDAPEST [...] (U) Summary: Embassy Budapest rolled-up its sleeves and came out in force in support of the 2009 International Roma Day (IRD). Officers and local staff participated in three events around Hungary to mark the occasion and pay tribute to the important contributions of the Hungarian Roma communit [...]	2009-04-10 09:58:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM HU
09BUDAPEST30	HUNGARY MAKES DUE AMID GAS CRISIS; STEPS UP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GoH continues to improvise at home and abroad as it responds to the January 5 cutoff of Russian gas supplies via Ukraine. Hungary is currently tapping both its commercial and strategic gas storage reserves to the maximum extent possible while the GoH continues to tinker wit [...]	2009-01-12 06:02:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PGOV HU SR BH MK
09BUDAPEST302	HUNGARY - NEW GOVERNMENT, NEW MINISTERS [...] During remarks to Parliament prior to his election as the new Hungarian Prime Minister (reftel),Gordon Bajnai announced six new Heads of Ministries and two additional minister-level appointments. Short bios of the new ministers follow: - Minister of Foreign Affairs: Peter Balazs (replacin [...]	2009-04-16 15:36:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PINS HU
09BUDAPEST305	UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE [...] (U) Embassy Budapest's Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) is Economic Officer Steven Weston. Deputy TFCO is Economic Officer Jeffrey Jordan. Requested contact information follows: TFCO: Steven Weston Economic Officer (36-1) 475-7595 Unclassified email: westons@state.gov Clas [...]	2009-04-17 15:11:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER HU
09BUDAPEST309	HOLOCAUST DENIAL - HOLOCAUST COMMEMORATION [...] (U) Summary. As the far-right Magyar Garda crossed the line into holocaust denial, Budapest observed the 60th anniversary of the holocaust. The "March of the Living" event the evening of April 19, attended by new Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai, as well as the Charge and Parliamentarians across [...]	2009-04-20 16:05:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM PREL SOCI HU
09BUDAPEST32	ANNUAL OVERSEAS SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL (OSAC) CRIME AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-12 09:09:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT APER ASEC HU
09BUDAPEST336	HUNGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY OFFENSIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. In his intital meeting with the Charge, the new Hungarian Foreign Minister, Peter Balazs, highlighted Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai's first official international visits to the EU, NATO and Austria on April 27 as part of a "great offensive" in foreign affairs. Balazs also said h [...]	2009-05-04 15:40:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EU NATO HU
09BUDAPEST338	HUNGARIAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEXT STEP TOWARD [...] (C) Summary: Hungary's Parliament recently approved the next step towards the eventual expansion of nuclear energy in Hungary. A feasibility study and tender offer will soon be underway for the probable addition of two new 1000MW reactors at the Paks nuclear plant at a total cost of about fi [...]	2009-05-05 15:42:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PGOV TRGY BEXP BTIO KGHG US HU
09BUDAPEST360	READING BETWEEN THE CRIMES: JUSTICE MINISTER [...] (U) During a breakfast attended by EmbOffs on March 4, Justice Minister Tibor Draskovics offered insights into the current situation of increasing violent attacks against Roma people. 2. (U) According to Draskovics, four broad crime trends are at play currently in Hungary. First, there ha [...]	2009-05-14 11:32:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM HU
09BUDAPEST372	HUNGARY: COUNTRY REVIEW ON RELATIONS WITH CUBA [...] (C) PolOff met with MFA America's Department Deputy Director Norbert Konkoly on May 15 to discuss ref A. Post views Hungary as a strong supporter of democracy and human rights in Cuba. Although the GoH has joined the EU consensus on lifting the embargo, they view the U.S. approach as appropr [...]	2009-05-18 15:45:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU HU
09BUDAPEST373	EAC Meeting [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-18 15:54:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PREL HU
09BUDAPEST380	CHINESE COMPANIES SEEK MARKETS IN HUNGARY AND [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite the sharp economic downturn in Hungary this year, Chinese trade missions, economic development conferences, and other trade and investment-focused exchanges between China and Hungary are continuing at a brisk pace. As the bilateral economic relationship between the cou [...]	2009-05-26 14:32:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EINV ETRD ECON CHN HU
09BUDAPEST381	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL POE TO BUDAPEST, MAY 29-30, [...] (U) Embassy Budapest warmly welcomes the visit of CODEL Poe to Budapest from May 29-30, 2009. We look forward to your visit and would like to provide the following information in preparation for your arrival. ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CLIMATE IN HUNGARY 2. (SBU) The global financial crisis [...]	2009-05-26 14:45:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV OREP PREL EFIN OTRA HU
09BUDAPEST388	WHAT THE EP ELECTIONS MEAN FOR HUNGARY [...] (SBU) Summary. Landslide opposition victory is forecasted for Hungary's June 7 European Parliamentary (EP) elections when voters will elect 22 representatives to go to Brussels. As expected, domestic issues dominate party campaigns. With the MSzP expected to suffer a major defeat, opposition [...]	2009-05-28 14:56:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EU HU
09BUDAPEST391	HUNGARY VOTES IN SUPPORT OF KOSOVO'S WORLD BANK [...] (U) Senior Counselor Zsuzsanna Szablyar of the Hungarian Ministry of Finance International Relations Department confirmed to the Embassy that Hungary cast its ballot in support of Kosovo's World Bank Membership (including IBRD/IFC/IDA and MIGA). The Embassy was also copied on Hungary's corres [...]	2009-06-02 10:34:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	KV ECON EFIN PREL HU
09BUDAPEST4	HUNGARY RECEPTIVE TO WAY FORWARD ON THE SEPARATIST [...] (C) On December 30, DCM met with MFA Deputy Head of the 2nd European Department, Ambassador Istvan Ijgyarto, to discuss reftel points. 2. (C) Commenting on the GoH's opening of their embassy in Tbilisi a few weeks ago, Ijgyarto said they are focusing on the southern Caucasus as their vital [...]	2009-01-05 13:28:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GG RS HU
09BUDAPEST400	HUNGARY ON PAKISTAN'S DISPLACED PERSONS CRISIS [...] (U) Embassy delivered reftel demarches seeking assistance for Pakistan's growing internally displaced persons (IDP) crisis to MFA International Organizations and Human Rights Deputy Director General Istvan Lakatos and Counselor Katalin Buzas. Lakatos agreed that the situation on the ground in [...]	2009-06-03 13:32:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PHUM PREF HU
09BUDAPEST406	HUNGARY'S WORLD CUSTOMS ORGANIZATION NOMINEE [...] (U) The Embassy received a note verbale from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the candidacy of Dr. Janos Nagy, Commissioner of the Hungarian Customs and Finance Guard for the post of Deputy Secretary General of the World Customs Organization (WCO). Dr. Nagy previously served at the WC [...]	2009-06-04 05:47:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD OPDC AORC HU
09BUDAPEST410	EXTREMISTS EXCEED EXPECTATIONS IN EP ELECTIONS [...] (U) Summary. With a 36 percent turnout for the June 7 European Parliamentary (EP) elections, Hungarian voters turned even further right than expected. Although the largest opposition party FIDESZ won the majority of seats (14 of 22) as predicted, the extreme-right Jobbik party, winning 15 pe [...]	2009-06-08 14:44:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN HU
09BUDAPEST411	VIKTOR ORBAN AND FIDESZ - RANKLING SLOVAKIA [...] (SBU) Summary. FIDESZ, and especially party President Viktor Orban, have been under fire in recent weeks, both domestically and in the region over the Party's position on minorities and the representation of "ethnic Hungarian interests" in the European Parliament. In response the Slovak Nati [...]	2009-06-09 05:52:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LO HU
09BUDAPEST429	HUNGARIAN EXTREMIST HEADED TO THE EUROPEAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Two days after the extreme-right Jobbik party's surprising success in the European Parliamentary (EP) elections, lead candidate Krisztina Morvai provided further insight into her agenda at a breakfast with the international press corps. Self-confident, sometimes arrogant and [...]	2009-06-16 10:45:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EUN HU
09BUDAPEST442	HUNGARY: 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (U) In response to reftel request for input into the 2009 Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriation Claims, Embassy Budapest has no information to report on U.S. citizen expropriation claims or other qualifying investment disputes involving the Government of Hungary through June 1, 2009. [...]	2009-06-19 14:03:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	KIDE CASC EINV PGOV HU
09BUDAPEST462	HUNGARY ON INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AID AND [...] (U) Embassy delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for International Development Ambassador Denes Tamaj, as well as to officials at the Ministry of Agriculture. 2. (U) Ambassador Tamaj agreed that last year's food price crisis increased the importance and [...]	2009-06-29 13:26:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID PREL HU
09BUDAPEST463	ROMA AND JEWISH LEADERS RESPOND TO FAR RIGHT GAINS [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of the far right Jobbik party's success in the June 7 European Parliament elections, the Charge and EmbOffs met with Jewish and Roma leaders to assess their communities' reactions. Contrary to expectations, the leaders expressed only moderate concern and revealed no cl [...]	2009-06-29 14:05:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINS SOCI HU
09BUDAPEST477	WATCHING THE WATCHDOG: REFORMING HUNGARY'S [...] (C) Summary. Amidst a sea of criticism and disagreement over the restructuring of the Hungarian Financial Supervisory Authority (HFSA),HFSA Supervisory Council Chairman Istvan Farkas resigned on June 18. Ministry of Finance officials and National Bank Governor Andras Simor favor the Nationa [...]	2009-07-02 08:44:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL HU
09BUDAPEST500	MAGYAR GARDA BANNED - BUT NOT YET GONE [...] Summary. On July 2, the Budapest Court of Appeals issued a legally binding ruling banning the extreme right-wing, paramilitary Magyar Garda (MG). Jobbik President and Magyar Garda founder, Gabor Vona, said he will appeal the verdict. Responding to the ruling, MG members held an unauthorized [...]	2009-07-10 11:13:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PHUM PREL SOCI HU
09BUDAPEST507	HUNGARY ON USG REVIEW OF TRANCHE 1 AND 2 NAMES [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-14 10:11:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	KTFN EFIN PREL PTER UNSC
09BUDAPEST533	HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON JULY 27-28 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (U) MFA EU External Relations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed issues on the agenda of the July 27-28 GAERC Meeting with EmbOff on July 24. Dekany noted that the agenda will focus on three items: Iran, Georgia, and Somalia. He provided the following summary of the MFA's position on the [...]	2009-07-24 13:25:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN HU
09BUDAPEST573	LOST IN TRANSLATION: HUNGARIANS PROTEST THE SLOVAK [...] (SBU) Summary. In protest of the recently amended Slovak language law, Hungarian officials are ratcheting up their public diplomacy efforts. Responding first, representatives of all four parliamentary factions signed a joint letter raising issues of discrimination. Following an August 3 mee [...]	2009-08-07 10:16:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LO HU
09BUDAPEST603	HUNGARY ON 2009 G-8 BMENA FORUM FOR THE FUTURE [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-18 12:32:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	KMPI KPAO KDEM ECON PREL HU
09BUDAPEST613	SLOVAKIA AND HUNGARY: NO LOVE LOST [...] (U) Summary. In the wake of President Solyom's aborted trip to Slovakia, the GOH is attempting to balance national outrage with an obvious need to improve bilateral relations with its northern neighbor. A meeting between the Foreign Ministers is scheduled for this weekend and may reduce tens [...]	2009-08-25 11:41:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV LO HU
09BUDAPEST616	THE "GANG OF FOUR" ARRESTED FOR SERIAL MURDERS OF [...] (SBU) Summary. One year, 120 police officers and 100 million HUF ($500,000 USD) reward later, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested four men suspected of carrying out the unprecedented serial murders that have terrorized the Roma community. In a private brief to the Embassy's L [...]	2009-08-25 15:48:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV LO HU
09BUDAPEST626	TRANSLUCENCY INTERNATIONAL: GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Post attempts to gather data on procurement contracts won by U.S. companies reveal a surplus of regulations and lack of transparency that threaten the potential benefits of the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA). Hungary's Public Procurement Council's (PPC) procureme [...]	2009-08-31 10:46:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON KTRD KTIA HU
09BUDAPEST636	ANTI GMO, BUT NO COMMENT: HUNGARY'S REPLY TO [...] (SBU) Embassy's Commercial Section chief delivered demarche points on September 1 to Dr. Laszlo Vajda, head of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Department of EU Coordination and International Relations. Vajda is also Hungary's spokesperson for the Special Agricultu [...]	2009-09-03 13:11:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAGR EUN TBIO HU
09BUDAPEST667	FICO-BAJNAI MEETING SUCCEEDS IN LOWERING BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY. The September 10 meeting between Prime Minister Bajnai and his Slovakian counterpart Robert Fico seems to have succeeded in diminishing -- at least for now -- tensions that were roiled by the passage of a controversial Slovak language law and a heated dispute over a planned "pri [...]	2009-09-11 17:14:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM LO HU
09BUDAPEST697	HUNGARY: UNGA WALKOUT REDLINES [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-22 11:01:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA HU
09BUDAPEST715	HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON THE BURMA POLICY REVIEW [...] (SBU) PolOff met with Gyula Petho, MFA's Asia/Pacific Department Head, on September 29 to discuss reftel. Expressing appreciation for the policy review read-out, Petho stated that Hungary fully supports direct dialogue with the Burmese Government. Based on the outlined USG policy, he expects [...]	2009-09-29 16:11:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV BM HU
09BUDAPEST723	FY10 1206 FUNDS REQUEST FOR HUNGARIAN SPECIAL [...] (U) Post has submitted a request for 10.2 million USD in 1206 funding to materially increase the Hungarian Special Operations Forces (SOF) capabilities for combined operations in campaigns in key theaters worldwide, with priority on deployments to Afghanistan. The Country Team has reviewed th [...]	2009-10-02 12:51:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR MCAP NATO HU
09BUDAPEST725	PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR PAKS NUCLEAR EXPANSION [...] (C) Summary: Work on the possible expansion of Hungary's Paks Nuclear Plant proceeds apace as experts work to define Hungary's power generation needs in the coming decades and potential suppliers begin their marketing efforts. The tender is expected to occur sometime in early 2011. Political [...]	2009-10-02 15:33:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET PGOV TRGY BEXP BTIO KGHG US HU
09BUDAPEST732	HUNGARIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE: INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-07 13:51:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EWWT PHSA PREL HU
09BUDAPEST740	HUNGARIAN REQUEST TO SUPPORT CANDIDATE FOR UN [...] (U) Post received the following Note Verbale from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting support to re-elect its candidate to the post of Inspector in the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit (JIU). Full text follows. BEGIN TEXT: 13656/Adm/KUM/2009 Budapest, 08 September 2009 NOTE V [...]	2009-10-09 14:27:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC UN HU
09BUDAPEST748	CORRECTED COPY:FY10 1206 FUNDS REQUEST FOR HUNGARIAN AVIATION PARTNER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-14 13:33:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	HU MARR MCAP NATO
09BUDAPEST749	UPDATE TO FY10 1206 FUNDS REQUEST FOR HUNGARIAN [...] (U) Post has submitted a request for 10.2 million USD in 1206 funding to materially increase the Hungarian Special Operations Forces (SOF) capabilities for combined operations in campaigns in key theaters worldwide, with priority on deployments to Afghanistan. The Country Team has reviewed th [...]	2009-10-14 13:44:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR MCAP NATO HU
09BUDAPEST760	LOCAL GOVERNMENT SEIZURE OF WATER UTILITY FURTHER [...] (C) Summary: The Pecs city government has used a commercial dispute with France's Suez, the strategic investor and operator of the city's water plant, to basically expropriate the public utility. The move was orchestrated by the newly-elected Fidesz mayor and has raised serious concerns in bo [...]	2009-10-16 15:08:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KCOR FR HU
09BUDAPEST787	U.S. COMPANY LOSES OUT IN TAINTED RADIO TENDER [...] (SBU) Summary. The Hungarian Radio and Television Board (ORTT) voted October 28 to award the two national radio frequencies to bidders backed by the two largest Hungarian political parties. The decision leaves the current license holders, U.S.-based Emmis Communications' "Slager Radio," and [...]	2009-10-29 16:28:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECPS KCOR HU
09BUDAPEST791	HUNGARY TO SUPPORT US INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE [...] (C) On November 2, 2009, Embassy was informed by the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations and Human Rights Department that Hungary would support the candidacy of Ms. Lucretia Myers at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly elections for the International Civi [...]	2009-11-02 14:58:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC KJUS KUNR AORC APER PREL UNGA HU
09BUDAPEST801	HUNGARIAN SUPPORT FOR AMCIT NOMINEE TO [...] (U) Post received the following Note verbale from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the candidature of Ms. Lucretia Myers for re-election to the International Civil Service Commission (ISCS). Full text follows: BEGIN TEXT: 15024/Adm/Kum/2009 Budapest, 4. November 2009 NOTE VERBA [...]	2009-11-06 13:32:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED	KAWC KJUS KUNR AORC APER PREL UNGA HU
09BUDAPEST802	SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the visit of Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Richard Morningstar. Your November 16 visit to Budapest sends an important signal to our Hungarian allies that the U.S. continues to be fully engaged in European energy security. The Fourth Energy Forum, where you will [...]	2009-11-06 14:28:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON PGOV PREL OREP HU
09BUDAPEST819	HEATED CONFRONTATION BETWEEN ROMA AND [...] (U) Responding to a November 14 rally of the extreme-right Jobbik party and the banned Magyar Garda in the north-eastern Hungarian town of Sajobabony, local Roma attempted to break up the event, threatening the local Jobbik party chief. After a group of Roma assaulted one of the organizers, Job [...]	2009-11-16 17:16:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINS SOCI HU
09BUDAPEST831	PROPOSED NORTH KOREAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS FOR [...] (SBU) On November 12, Econoff delivered reftel points to Dr. Szilvia Balazs from the MFA's International and EU Public Law Department; Dr. Andrea Kadar, Head of Unit of the MFA's Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Strategic Issues Dept; and to Dr. Krisztina Kovacs, Head of Unit of the Ministry of [...]	2009-11-20 07:24:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP EFIN PARM ETTC UNSC HU
09BUDAPEST834	HUNGARY IN AFGHANISTAN - PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary. In a November 9 meeting with the Charge, senior MOD and MFA officers provided an in-depth review of current and future Hungarian operations in Afghanistan. In Hungary's first combat operations since the 1956 revolution, the group underscored Hungary's "unchanged commitment...bu [...]	2009-11-20 14:22:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MARR MCAP AF HU
09BUDAPEST837	HUNGARY: COUNTRY REVIEW ON RELATIONS WITH CUBA [...] (C) PolOff discussed ref with GoH MFA America's Department Director Norbert Konkoly on November 18 and with Cuba desk officer Istvan Sandor on 20 November. Sandor provided the following responses to ref questions: Promote the advancement of democracy and human rights: Hungary has been activ [...]	2009-11-20 14:50:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ETTC HU CU
09BUDAPEST851	TOO IMPORTANT TO FAIL: HUNGARY LIKELY TO REACQUIRE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hungarian government, Malev Airlines, and Budapest Airport contacts confirmed that the GOH will likely reacquire a minority stake in recently improved but still debt-laden Malev from Russia's Putin-connected Vneshekonombank (VEB). Embassy contacts characterized VEB as ill-suited [...]	2009-11-27 15:04:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAIR EINV EFIN RU HU
09BUDAPEST866	HUNGARIAN VIEWS ON USG OFFER TO EMBED CIVILIAN [...] (C) In mid-November, MOD Policy State Secretary Jozsef Bali provided PolOff copies of an unclassified cable and a draft U.S. MOU received from Hungary's Ambassador in Kabul, Sandor Matyus. Matyus' reporting cable addressed a request initiated by Embassy Kabul to embed four USG civilian perso [...]	2009-12-04 11:04:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR AF HU
09BUDAPEST871	NEW ECONOMIC REALITY FOR HUNGARY'S NORTHWEST [...] (C) Summary. Eighteen months ago, Hungary's north and northwest regions enjoyed the lowest unemployment rates and among the highest average incomes in the country. Host to a number of large export-oriented international automotive and technology companies and their suppliers, today the region [...]	2009-12-07 15:19:00	Embassy Budapest	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL HU
09BUDAPEST876	HUNGARIAN PLANS TO SUPPLEMENT AFGHANISTAN [...] (S/NF) Hungarian Prime Minister Gordon Bajnai committed to send 200 additional troops to Afghanistan during his meeting with the Vice-President in Washington December 4. A senior MOD interlocutor provided PolOff a background paper prepared for the Prime Minister's meeting with the Vice-Preside [...]	2009-12-09 17:13:00	Embassy Budapest	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF HU
09BUDAPEST887	HUNGARY: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Hungary remained a consistent and reliable counterterrorism partner in 2009. In addition to the continued leadership of a Provincial Reconstruction Team, Hungary sent 28 troops to Afghanistan as part of a new joint Operational, Mentoring, and Liaison team (OMLT). The OMLT, which is comma [...]	2009-12-14 13:19:00	Embassy Budapest	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER ASEC HU
09BUENOSAIRES1002	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-03 17:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1011	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, AUGUST [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period August 27-September 3, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be [...]	2009-09-08 20:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1017	ARGENTINA: CFK'S NEW CABINET CHIEF [...] (S) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) promotion of former Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez (AF) to Cabinet Chief puts in place someone with six years of experience working for the First Couple, first as former president Nestor Kirchner's Interior Minister and then [...]	2009-09-10 15:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL SNAR KCOR ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES1019	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-10 16:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES102	ARGENTINA: MINISTER OF JUSTICE READY TO COOPERATE [...] (U) Action request for State and DEA HQ Washington, para 18. 2. (SBU) Summary: Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez received the Ambassador January 28 in his office and answered "yes" to virtually every offer of collaboration and assistance, including new anti-terrorism training, an enhan [...]	2009-01-30 20:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR PTER EFIN KCRM ASEC KTIP AR
09BUENOSAIRES1020	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-10 16:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1022	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 7-11, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period September 7-11, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be inclu [...]	2009-09-14 15:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1030	ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT DISMAYED BY DOL LIST OF [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Victorio Taccetti convoked Charge d,Affaires on September 14 to convey the GOA,s strong objection to the DOL List of Goods Produced by Forced and Child Labor. Taccetti complained that the extensive list of Argentine products on the list [...]	2009-09-16 19:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PREL PGOV EIND PHUM SOCI AR
09BUENOSAIRES1036	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-17 11:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1039	ARGENTINA: FORMAL REQUEST FOR U.S. SIGNATURE ON CONVENTION [...] Embassy received via Diplomatic Note a letter dated September 10 from Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Taiana to Secretary Clinton in which Argentina requests U.S. support for the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances. Taiana request [...]	2009-09-17 19:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM UNGA PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES1044	MEDIA REACTION; OBAMA'S DECISION TO ABANDON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international opinion pieces are focused on President Obama's decision to abandon the missile defense shield in Europe; the impact of the Argentine broadcasting draft legislation on Washington; as well as a proposal of foreign banks to Argentina for t [...]	2009-09-18 18:26:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL
09BUENOSAIRES1047	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 14-17, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period September 14-17, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be incl [...]	2009-09-21 10:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES105	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-02 13:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINS PTER AR
09BUENOSAIRES1055	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-22 20:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1056	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-22 20:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES106	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-02 13:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1063	MEDIA REACTION: ZELAYA'S RETURN TO HONDURAS; PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Key international stories are focused on the implications of ousted President Zelaya's return to Honduras; as well as President Cristina Kirchner's first formal meeting with IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the framework of her trip to the US. 2. OPINION PIECES AND EDI [...]	2009-09-23 15:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL
09BUENOSAIRES1069	FOREIGN MINISTER TAIANA DECIPHERS ARGENTINA FOR [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Martinez presented copies of her credentials on September 18, the day of her arrival in country, to Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana. A friendly and expansive Taiana emphasized the high priority the Government of Argentina (GOA) placed on securing a meeting for President [...]	2009-09-23 19:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PARM ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES1077	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-25 16:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1078	MEDIA REACTION: UN CALL FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT; HONDURAS; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's most important international opinion pieces are focused on the UN call for nuclear disarmament; the implications of Zelaya's return to Honduras; and the status of the US-Argentine bilateral relationship. 2. OPINION PIECES AND EDITORIALS - "UN makes an historic [...]	2009-09-25 20:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL
09BUENOSAIRES1079	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 21-24, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period September 21-24, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be incl [...]	2009-09-25 20:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1080	MEDIA REACTION: ARGENTINA AT THE G20 SUMMIT; US-ARGENTINE [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Weekend international opinion pieces are mostly related to Argentina's bid to position itself for a return to international capital markets; the status of the US-Argentine bilateral relationship; Iranian President Ahmadinejad's blunt rejection of Argentine President Kirchn [...]	2009-09-28 18:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL
09BUENOSAIRES1084	Argentina: Kraft Conflict Heats Up As Police Remove Workers [...] (SBU) On Friday September 25, the government of the Province of Buenos Aires, with the support of the federal government, implemented, after much hesitation, a judge's decision and ordered the police to move into the Kraft plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. The police forcibly removed abou [...]	2009-09-30 13:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EIND ETRD ELAB PREL PGOV KSAC AR
09BUENOSAIRES1090	MEDIA REACTION: KRAFT FACTORY DISPUTE IN ARGENTINA; [...] SUMMARY STATEMENT Today's leading international stories are focused on the Argentine Government's handling of the conflict at the Kraft factory; the Honduran crisis; and expectations over a rapprochement between the IMF and the Argentine Government. 2. OPINION PIECES AND EDITORIALS - " [...]	2009-10-01 14:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL
09BUENOSAIRES1095	SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY SOLIS' VISIT TO ARGENTINA, OCTOBER 6-8 [...] (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your October 6-8 visit to Argentina. I will have been in the country a little less than three weeks when you arrive, and I am honored to have you among my first visitors. The Government of Argentina will also be extremely interested in [...]	2009-10-02 14:02:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ELAB PGOV ECON ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES1097	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, SEPTEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period September 28-October 1, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to b [...]	2009-10-02 16:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1101	ARGENTINA: A PRIMER ON ARGENTINA'S MEDIA BILL [...] (C) Summary: For decades, there has been consensus within Argentine political circles of the need to reform the 1980 media law, which dates to the military dictatorship (1976-1983). A year after President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) first announced an effort at reform, the Chamber of [...]	2009-10-02 22:01:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ETRD EINT EINV WTRO AR
09BUENOSAIRES1109	ARGENTINA: HOLDOUT PROBLEM RIPE FOR RESOLUTION, [...] (C) There has been much recent speculation in the Argentine press regarding a possible solution to the problem of the private bondholder "holdouts" from the 2005 Argentine debt restructuring. Deputy EconCouns has met with numerous financial sector contacts in the last several weeks to assess [...]	2009-10-06 21:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES1112	LEADING THE WAY TO GREEN BUILDING IN ARGENTINA [...] With green building a major focus of reducing global energy consumption and emissions, the U.S.-based LEED standard is gaining regional acceptance as a standard for green buildings. Still, reticence in some quarters about adopting U.S. standards surfaced in an Embassy-sponsored recent confere [...]	2009-10-07 17:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KGHG BEXP ECON ENRG EIND AR
09BUENOSAIRES1113	FRAUD SUMMARY - ARGENTINA [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-07 17:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC AR
09BUENOSAIRES1121	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, OCTOBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period October 2-8, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report may include tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be incl [...]	2009-10-09 16:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES1127	Argentina's President Congratulates President Obama on [...] The Argentine Foreign Ministry hand-delivered to the DCM October 10 a letter of congratulations from President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) to President Obama on his Nobel Peace Prize. The MFA advised the DCM that CFK had asked that the letter be delivered prior to her departure that [...]	2009-10-13 18:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL XR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1129	(C) ARGENTINA: CITIBANK ADVISES THAT HOLDOUT DEAL [...] (C) In an October 14 meeting with Ambassador Martinez and the DCM, President of Citibank Argentina Juan Bruchou said that an agreement between the GOA and the holdouts from the 2005 debt restructuring deal would be announced within two weeks. The target date for completion of the deal is Dec [...]	2009-10-14 20:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES1137	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, OCTOBER 9-15, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period October 9-15, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be include [...]	2009-10-19 10:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1147	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR ENCOUNTERS PROTESTERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During her first trip outside of Buenos Aires, Ambassador Martinez was forced to change the location of a speech at the National University of Cuyo due to disorderly protests by far-left groups on October 15. Public reaction has been mostly sympathetic to the Ambassador and critical [...]	2009-10-21 14:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAO ASEC PHUM SOCI KDEM AR

09BUENOSAIRES1148	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR ENCOUNTERS PROTESTERS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: During her first trip outside of Buenos Aires, Ambassador Martinez was forced to change the location of a speech at the National University of Cuyo due to disorderly protests by far-left groups on October 15. Public reaction has been mostly sympathetic to the Ambassador and cri [...]	2009-10-21 15:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAO ASEC PHUM SOCI KDEM AR
09BUENOSAIRES1155	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-23 11:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1156	AMBASSADOR MEETS ARGENTINE VP COBOS [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Vice President Julio Cobos, long estranged from the Kirchners and now the country's most popular politician and leading contender for the presidency in 2011, received the Ambassador for a warm and friendly half-hour introductory courtesy call in his Senate office Octobe [...]	2009-10-23 12:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER SNAR KTIP SENV AR
09BUENOSAIRES1157	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, OCTOBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period October 16-22, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be included [...]	2009-10-23 14:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1160	ARGENTINA: MINISTER OF JUSTICE WELCOMES LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (SBU) Argentine Minister of Justice, Security and Human Rights Julio Alak invited the Embassy Law Enforcement Working Group (LEWG) to brief him October 16 on the range of USG activities in the law enforcement area and to make suggestions regarding challenges he should address as minister. His [...]	2009-10-26 00:26:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR ASEC PTER KCRM PGOV EFIN AR
09BUENOSAIRES1165	AMBASSADOR MEETS ARGENTINE CABINET CHIEF FERNANDEZ [...] (C) Summary: In her introductory call on Argentine Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez (AF),the Ambassador thanked AF for his role in strengthening bilateral relations and expressed appreciation for GOA cooperation on law enforcement issues. AF said he had always had good relations with the Emba [...]	2009-10-27 18:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER SNAR KTIP SENV AR
09BUENOSAIRES1172	ARGENTINE MOD GARRE OFFERS A CORDIAL WELCOME TO AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Argentine Minister of Defense Nilda Garre warmly received the Ambassador October 23, immediately expressing her pleasure at being able to welcome a woman in the post of U.S. Ambassador. Garre spoke with satisfaction of U.S.-Argentine security cooperation and described her September visit [...]	2009-10-29 22:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MARR PGOV PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES1176	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, OCTOBER 22-29, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period October 22-29, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be includ [...]	2009-10-30 20:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1186	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-03 10:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1190	ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S.-COLOMBIA DCA [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-03 15:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR OPDC CO AR
09BUENOSAIRES1202	DOMINICANS WITH FRAUDULENT DOCUMENTS USE BUENOS AIRES AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At least ten Dominican nationals carrying fraudulent U.S. visas tried to use Argentina's Ezeiza International Airport to enter the United States in October 2009. Two others with fraudulent third-country passports were intercepted as well. END SUMMARY. ---------------------- [...]	2009-11-06 11:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS ASEC SMIG PE AR
09BUENOSAIRES1203	DOMINICANS WITH FRAUDULENT DOCUMENTS USE BUENOS AIRES AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At least ten Dominican nationals carrying fraudulent U.S. visas tried to use Argentina's Ezeiza International Airport to enter the United States in October 2009. Two others with fraudulent third-country passports were intercepted as well. END SUMMARY. ---------------------- [...]	2009-11-06 13:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS ASEC SMIG PE AR
09BUENOSAIRES1207	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, OCTOBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period October 30-November 5, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to b [...]	2009-11-06 20:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1208	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-09 12:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1209	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-09 12:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES121	ARGENTINA: GOA CONDEMNS ANTI-ISRAEL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Argentine Jewish community continues to express concerns over the lack of official condemnation of recent anti-Israel protests featuring anti-Semitic imagery (reftel) led by pro-Kirchner "piquetero" social activist leader Luis D'Elia. In response to these concerns, the GOA [...]	2009-02-05 11:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ASEC PTER AR
09BUENOSAIRES1212	ARGENTINE MINISTER OF JUSTICE DESCRIBES SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Ambassador's introductory courtesy call, Argentine Minister of Justice Alak welcomed USG interest in deepening cooperation on counter-narcotics, trafficking-in-persons (TIP) and other security issues. The Minister requested USG help in developing a national security plan [...]	2009-11-09 20:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER SNAR KTIP CPAS AR
09BUENOSAIRES1222	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR MEETS BUENOS AIRES MAYOR [...] (C) Summary: Buenos Aires city mayor Mauricio Macri let slip to the Ambassador that he intends to run for president in 2011. He criticized the Kirchners for the failure of their economic model, for the country's growing crime problems, and for alienating the United States. He also reiterated past c [...]	2009-11-12 20:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC AMGT AR
09BUENOSAIRES1223	AMBASSADOR RAISES PRESS FREEDOM, TIP ISSUES WITH [...] (C) Summary and introduction: In a very warm, 70-minute meeting November 11, Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti welcomed the Ambassador and said he was pleased by news of the U.S. Senate's confirmation of WHA A/S Arturo Valenzuela's nomination. The Ambassador raised trafficking [...]	2009-11-12 21:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ASEC KREC AMGT PTER ELAB KTIP AR
09BUENOSAIRES123	Argentina: Codel Costello Supports Expanding Bilat Ties, [...] (SBU) Codel Costello, a delegation of eight U.S. Representatives plus professional staff from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Civil Aviation Subcommittee, met with representatives of U.S. civil aviation companies and with senior GoA officials, including Planning Minister De Vido and [...]	2009-02-05 17:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP PREL EAIR EWWT ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES1231	ARGENTINA RECEPTIVE ON NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE GOALS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. During meetings in Buenos Aires on October 26-27, Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation Susan Burk successfully identified areas of common interest and support going in to the 2010 Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. Candid [...]	2009-11-17 19:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IAEA ENRG AR KNNP
09BUENOSAIRES1237	ARGENTINA: INFORMATION FOR COUNTRY REVIEW REGARDING TITLE [...] (U) Post answers to questions in paragraph 5 of reftel A follow. 2. (C) "Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba." Answer: No. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner visited Cuba January 18-21 and did not publicl [...]	2009-11-20 17:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETRD ETTC CU AR
09BUENOSAIRES1250	Argentina Economic and Financial Review, November 6-12, 2009 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period November 6-12, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be inclu [...]	2009-11-13 19:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1257	ARGENTINA FACES CHALLENGING AML/CFT REVIEW [...] (S/NF) The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) held a two week peer review of the Argentine anti-money laundering and counter terror finance (AML/CFT) regime. Although hoping to see some positive moves by Argentina, the FATF operational team leader is skeptical of the GoA's intentions to combat mone [...]	2009-12-01 16:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER SNAR ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KCOR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1259	(C) Argentina: Media Freedoms Under Attack? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Argentine media outlets are sounding the alarms over government changes to media licensing laws, an executive decree restricting where print media can be sold, government support for union blockades of media distribution plants, and government pressure on a private-public newsprin [...]	2009-12-01 17:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI ELAB ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES1264	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-19 18:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM AR PINR MARR
09BUENOSAIRES1268	Argentina Economic and Financial Review, November 13-19, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period November 13-19, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be incl [...]	2009-11-20 13:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES127	ARGENTINA: PLAN FOR ENGAGEMENT ON AIRCRAFT CARRIER [...] (U) This is an action request for State and Southern Command, see para 6. 2. (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires is concerned that the decision to relocate one nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (CVN) from Newport News, VA to Naval Station (NAVSTA) Mayport, FL, could be either misconstrued by Governm [...]	2009-02-05 19:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PARM PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES1271	Argentina: Kirchners Win Big on Political "Reform" Bill [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),taking advantage of her (soon-to-expire) majority in the lame-duck Congress, succeeded in getting her electoral reform bill passed without major modifications. Argentina's Senate approved 42 to 24 the bill requiring mandato [...]	2009-12-07 19:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM
09BUENOSAIRES1272	ARGENTINA: 2009-2010 International Narcotics Control [...] (U) Per reftel, Buenos Aires draft INCSR report follows, with partial changes suggested by INL Washington in response to first draft (ref. B). 2. (SBU) Argentina Part I. Summary Argentina continued to be an important transshipment route for Andean-produced cocaine during 2 [...]	2009-11-20 18:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1304	Argentina Economic and Financial Review, November 20-25 2009 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period November 20-25, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be incl [...]	2009-12-01 13:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1305	(C) Argentine MFA Shares Some Concerns About Brazilian [...] (C) Summary: Argentine MFA nuclear non-proliferation officials shared concerns about the direction of Brazilian security policy in the final years of the Lula Government during a meeting December 10. These were "yellow lights" only, but the Argentines were concerned by Brazil's outreach to Ir [...]	2009-12-24 16:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM PGOV BR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1311	(C) ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT TAKES UMBRAGE AT WHA A/S [...] (C) Summary: The GOA responded with heavy artillery to a remark WHA A/S Valenzuela made during a December 16 press roundtable. Immediately after the press roundtable, Argentine media started focusing almost exclusively on A/S Valenzuela's remark that the American business community in Argentina had [...]	2009-12-31 13:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP ECON KPAO
09BUENOSAIRES1312	ARGENTINA: B-REFERRAL VALIDATION STUDY [...] SUMMARY: In September 2009 the Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) conducted a validation study of all B-referral visa applicants issued in FY2007 and FY2008, and found the illegal overstay rate to be 0.09 percent, with only one of the 1,072 applicants overstaying. The low overstay rate shows that th [...]	2009-12-03 11:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KFRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES1318	Argentina Economic and Financial Review, November [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period November 26 - December 3, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov [...]	2009-12-04 14:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1336	Human Rights Vetting for US Training Program [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-09 19:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1338	Argentina: Well-Received Visits by Shimon Peres and Mahmoud [...] (SBU) Summary: President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) received separate visits from Israeli President Shimon Peres (November 16-18) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (November 23-24),and joined top GOA officials, and a wide range of Argentines, in offering both very warm recepti [...]	2009-12-10 15:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES1346	Argentina Economic and Financial Review, December 4-10, 2009 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period December 4-10, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be inclu [...]	2009-12-10 20:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1372	Human Rights Vetting for US Training Program [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-16 20:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1384	Argentina Economic and Financial Review, December 11-17, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period December 11-17, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be incl [...]	2009-12-21 15:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1400	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-23 19:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES1414	Scenesetter for Codel Engel Visit to Argentina, January 5-7 [...] (SBU) Mr. Chairman, on behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome you and your delegation to Argentina. I will have been in the country for about four months when you arrive, and I am honored to have you among my first Congressional visitors. The Government of Argentina is interested in [...]	2009-12-29 19:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OREP PGOV ECON ETRD ELAB PHUM PTER KTIP
09BUENOSAIRES144	ARGENTINA: PERONIST DISSIDENT DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: In his first substantive meeting with Ambassador Wayne February 5, National Deputy and Peronist dissident Felipe Sola of the Peronist Union bloc discussed his 2011 presidential aspirations, this year's midterm elections, and the merits of a single ballot system. Sola is in the A [...]	2009-02-11 20:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PINR AR
09BUENOSAIRES149	ARGENTINA: STAFFDEL LEWIS, FEBRUARY 16-18, 2008 [...] We warmly welcome Ms. Jessica Lewis, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor from the Senate Office of the Democratic Leader (SLDR),and staff. Ambassador Wayne will be on official travel during the visit, but Deputy Chief of Mission Tom Kelly will participate in the staffdel's schedule. The purpose o [...]	2009-02-12 19:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AR
09BUENOSAIRES151	ARGENTINA, SPAIN CONTAIN AEROLINEAS DISPUTE, CARRY [...] (U) This cable was coordinated with Embassy Madrid. 2. (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) survived a potentially conflictive state visit to Spain and received good press locally on her two days of events. Both she and her Spanish counterpart, President Jose Luis R [...]	2009-02-12 20:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PGOV EFIN SP AR
09BUENOSAIRES156	Argentina: Airport Landing Fee Decrease and User Fee [...] (SBU) After announcing cuts in aircraft landing fees and linked increases in airport passenger user fees in late February, the GoA has rescinded the move, reportedly at the behest of former President Nestor Kirchner. International carriers had been promised the landing fee cuts in December 200 [...]	2009-02-13 14:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES171	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-19 11:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES172	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-19 11:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES174	EX-PRESIDENT DUHALDE HANDICAPS THE NEW GENERATION [...] (C) Summary: Former Argentine president Eduardo Duhalde predicted during a meeting with the CDA that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) will complete her term, but that the Kirchners were fast being eclipsed by new faces and new ideas in Argentine politics. After venting his spleen a [...]	2009-02-20 09:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES196	ARGENTINA: MENDOZA GOVERNOR PRAISES BILATERAL COLLABORATION ON PUBLIC SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Mendoza Governor and Peronist party member Celso Jaque praised bilateral collaboration on improving security and combating drug trafficking during a February 12 meeting with Ambassador Wayne. Jaque cited crime reduction as his top priority and regarded a focus on prevention as a [...]	2009-02-25 18:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PINR AR
09BUENOSAIRES205	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-27 13:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES215	ARGENTINA: KIRCHNERS' POLITICAL SAILS GO SLACK, [...] (C) Summary: Embassy officers and visiting Staffdel Lewis encountered nearly universal opinions among Argentine analysts February 16-18 that th political good luck of former President Nestor Kirchner and his wife, current President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),is running out. These o [...]	2009-03-02 14:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL KCOR AR
09BUENOSAIRES22	Argentina: Message from Argentine Foreign Minister to [...] Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge E. Taiana sent a message of congratulations to the Secretary of State-designate. Embassy is pouching the signed original to the desk and e-mailing a scanned copy. Embassy's informal translation of the letter follows in para 2. ---------------------------- [...]	2009-01-06 19:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OVIP OPDC AR
09BUENOSAIRES220	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-03 18:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES230	Argentina G-20 Update: President Previews GoA G-20 [...] (SBU) President Kirchner, in March 1 remarks to Argentina's parliament on the upcoming G-20 meeting, confirmed that she will call for the wholesale reform of Bretton Woods institutions, including the conversion of IFIs into no-conditionality lending sources to emerging markets. She said she wi [...]	2009-03-04 19:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD EAGR PREL KSUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES231	Argentina: Production Minister Giorgi on G-20 and Bilateral [...] (SBU) Production Minister Debra Giorgi met with Ambassador February 25. The discussion included the G-20 process and related agricultural technical assistance the GoA is providing to poorer countries as well as outstanding bilateral trade frictions. Giorgi noted the significant increase in 20 [...]	2009-03-04 19:55:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECON EINV PGOV PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES232	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, FEBRUARY [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period February 16-27, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be in [...]	2009-03-04 20:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES235	ARGENTINA WELCOMES USG BACK TOTHE UNHRC [...] (SBU) Poloff raised with MFA Director General for Human Rights Silvia Fernandez ref A points on the USG's return to the UN Human Rights Council. Fernandez welcomed the news and joked "Now you can suffer with the rest of us." She suggested using her upcoming March 23 meeting in Washington wit [...]	2009-03-05 17:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNHRC AR
09BUENOSAIRES247	ARGENTINE JUDGE ORDERS ATTACHMENT OF ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) As anticipated in ref A, Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman obtained from federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba-Corral an order for the attachment of real estate property in Buenos Aires province allegedly belonging to former Iranian Embassy Cultural Attache in Argentina Mohsen Rabbani [...]	2009-03-06 22:07:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER KJUS FBI AR IR
09BUENOSAIRES249	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-09 13:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES252	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-09 18:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES253	ARGENTINA: CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TRADE AND [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, below please find post's input to reftel's request for information on Argentina's efforts to implement their international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Post requests that the Department of Labor not cite the Embassy as a source in its [...]	2009-03-09 19:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB EINV ETRD PHUM SOCI AR
09BUENOSAIRES259	ARGENTINA: CONTINUING THE DIALOGUE WITH CHINESE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Wayne met with Chinese Ambassador to Argentina Zeng Gang to review the results of Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu's February 8-12 official visit to Argentina and to take the temperature of the overall status of China's bilateral relationship with Argentina. Zeng was f [...]	2009-03-10 18:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD SENV PREL CH AR
09BUENOSAIRES261	MISSION BUENOS AIRES VIEWS ON ARGENTINA'S 2009 SPECIAL 301 [...] (SBU) In 2008, Argentine authorities responsible for providing "adequate and effective protection to intellectual property rights" made few meaningful improvements in IPR legislation, regulation and enforcement, and there remain serious weaknesses in each of these areas. Multiple law enforcem [...]	2009-03-11 14:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES269	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-12 18:05:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES284	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MARCH [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period March 2-6, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be includ [...]	2009-03-13 19:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES285	ARGENTINE PRESIDENT PROPOSES MOVING UP LEGISLATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced March 13 that she will ask Congress to change the date of this year's national legislative elections from October 25 to June 28. To do so, Congress needs to change the election law by March 28. CFK argued that [...]	2009-03-13 21:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES294	Argentina: G7-Plus Ambassadors on Economy, Protectionism [...] (SBU) Local G7-plus representatives were upbeat on the ability of crisis-tested Argentina to weather the current economic downturn, at least through 2009, but complained about growing Argentine protectionism via non-automatic license non-tariff barriers. Ambassadors also agreed on the importanc [...]	2009-03-16 21:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV PGOV PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES295	ARGENTINE GENDARMERIE COMMANDING GENERAL WELCOMES [...] (C) Summary: Argentine Gendarmeria (Border Patrol) Commanding General Hector Schenone called on the Ambassador March 4 at his request to introduce a new staff officer and to review cooperation with the USG on key issues. Schenone described the Gendarmeria's efforts to address increasing [...]	2009-03-16 21:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR MARR MASS KTIP ASEC AR
09BUENOSAIRES303	Argentina: Mission's Black History Month Celebration [...] SUMMARY. Embassy Buenos Aires hosted over 150 Argentine and embassy guests in a day-long celebration of Black History Month on March 13, 2009. The day included a traditional African-American lunch, a program including a live performance of a hit song ("International Love") by a popular Afro- [...]	2009-03-18 13:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO AR PGOV
09BUENOSAIRES304	ARGENTINA: RESPONSE TO DOL LIST OF GOODS BELIEVED TO BE [...] THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. This is an action request. See para 3. SUMMARY/COMMENT --------------- 3. (SBU) Below please find post's response to ref A's request for additional information on the Department of Labor's list of goods [...]	2009-03-18 13:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KTIP PHUM EAGR EINV ETRD SOCI AR
09BUENOSAIRES313	ARGENTINE TAX AMNESTY LAW LOOKS ACCEPTABLE ON [...] (C) The local controversy over Argentina's new tax amnesty law continues, in part due to the uproar that followed mention of the law in the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) on money laundering in Argentina (reported Reftel). The GoA dismisses concerns that the new law w [...]	2009-03-19 16:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN PTER PREL PARM MNUC KNNP AR
09BUENOSAIRES317	ARGENTINA: EMBASSY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY EVENT [...] Summary. Embassy Buenos Aires celebrated International Women's Day the week of March 8th with a variety of events and two op-eds centered around the UN theme of "women and men united to end violence against women and girls." On March 10, the Ambassador, accompanied by Buenos Aires Provincial [...]	2009-03-19 21:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KPAO PHUM PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES328	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-20 19:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES329	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-20 19:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES330	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-20 19:53:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES332	ARGENTINA: EMBASSY REQUEST FOR DOD ASSISTANCE IN GOA SEARCH [...] Summary. Embassy requests that DOD and Southern Command consider training-related activities that might assist Argentine authorities in their ongoing search for the wreckage of a Douglas C-54 Air Force plane lost on November 3, 1965, during a training flight from Howard AFB Panama to San Salva [...]	2009-03-22 17:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MASS MARR OPRC AR
09BUENOSAIRES333	ARGENTINA: NATIONAL DEPUTIES PLAN TRAVEL TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met March 19 with congressional deputy Ruperto Godoy, chairman of the Argentine Lower House's Foreign Relations Committee, to discuss plans to lead a multipartisan delegation of seven national deputies to Washington in May. Godoy stressed that they are committed [...]	2009-03-23 12:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PINR AR
09BUENOSAIRES334	ARGENTINA VIEWS SUMMIT OF AMERICAS AS CRUCIAL TO [...] (C) Summary: U.S. SOA Coordinator Ambassador Hector Morales received GOA assurances March 5 that Argentina was committed to a positive outcome in Trinidad and Tobago and would work closely with the USG to that end. Argentina's Summit Coordinator, Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti, empha [...]	2009-03-23 13:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KSUM EFIN ENRG ECON PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES337	ARGENTINA RECEPTIVE TO U.S. PROGRAMS ON SMALL ARMS [...] Summary: Argentina Minister of Justice Fernandez wrote Ambassador March 2 in response to reftel demarche to describe current GOA programs to address illicit traffic in small and light weapons and to request specific collaboration with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). Minister [...]	2009-03-23 17:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ARM MASS ETTC OAS AR
09BUENOSAIRES35	ARGENTINA'S 2008 EPHEDRINE BUBBLE MAY BE POPPED, [...] (SBU) Summary: The legal entry into Argentina of ephedrine bound for illicit uses appears to have slowed substantially by late 2008 following government decrees to sharply limit permitted trade in the chemical, though law enforcement continues to pursue up to eight metric tons of excess ephed [...]	2009-01-09 14:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PGOV PREL PHUM EFIN AR
09BUENOSAIRES350	ARGENTINA: PROPOSED AUDIOVISUAL LAW COULD CHANGE MEDIA [...] (SBU) On March 19, 2009, the Government of Argentina (GoA) announced a draft bill for a new Audiovisual Law which will affect the broadcasting, content, and multimedia industry in Argentina. The bill, if/when passed, is expected to replace the existing Broadcasting Law 22275, published by the M [...]	2009-03-26 17:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON WTRO AR
09BUENOSAIRES361	ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MARCH [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period March 9-23, 2009. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be inclu [...]	2009-03-27 20:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
09BUENOSAIRES369	Argentina: On the Road to London G-20 [...] (SBU) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK's) upbeat and cooperative participation in the March 27-28 Progressive Governance Summit in Chile should presage constructive GoA positions at the upcoming G-20 summit. GoA officials highlight CFK's "outstanding" bilaterals in San [...]	2009-03-30 22:01:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON ETRD KSUM PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES375	ARGENTINA: DEFENSE MINISTRY REQUESTS THAT U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine daily finance and business paper "Ambito Financiero" released a relatively accurate story March 31 that the Ministry of Defense had requested the U.S. Military Group vacate its offices in the Argentine MOD headquarters, "Edificio Libertador," within 45 days. That requ [...]	2009-03-31 21:48:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES378	ARGENTINA: HUD SECRETARY DONOVAN DISCUSSES HOUSING SECTOR [...] (SBU) HUD Secretary Donovan on March 27 learned about GoA housing initiatives for low- and middle-income families with Planning Minister Julio De Vido. The Minister called access to affordable shelter and the reactivation of the domestic housing construction industry a success of the two Kirchn [...]	2009-04-01 14:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND EFIN PREL PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES380	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-01 18:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES381	ARGENTINE JUSTICES TO VISIT U.S. IN MAY, HOST RULE OF LAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Argentine Supreme Court is organizing a regional conference on rule of law issues in early September, bringing together Supreme Court justices from throughout the Americas, Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti and Associate Justice Juan Carlos Maqueda told Ambassador Wayne in a [...]	2009-04-01 19:26:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KJUS PHUM KPAO AR
09BUENOSAIRES385	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-01 20:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES386	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-01 21:02:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES388	AMCHAM ARGENTINA'S EXECUTIVE BOARD DISCUSSES LOCAL [...] (U) On March 17, 2009, Ambassador Wayne met with Executive Board Members from the American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina. Present at the meeting were representatives from IBM, Dow Chemical, WalMart, Cargill, Ford, GE, and Duke Energy. The companies noted challenges they face due to the sig [...]	2009-04-01 21:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON WTRO AR
09BUENOSAIRES404	ARGENTINA PROTESTS INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] (C) Foreign Minster Jorge Taiana sent a letter to Ambassador Wayne the evening of April 3 strongly protesting our 2009 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) posted on April 2. The sharply worded message was apparently drafted by Taiana and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) late Apr [...]	2009-04-04 19:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES406	INL-FUNDED ASSISTANCE IN ARGENTINA: 2008 END-USE [...] Embassy Buenos Aires' CY-2008 End-Use Monitoring Report follows below: 2. Inventory Management EUM Program Coordinator: Theodore J. Craig, Phone number 54-11-5777-4858, email address: craigtj@state.gov Post's Narcotics Program has to date not utilized PD&S funding and has been unable [...]	2009-04-06 14:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR AFIN AR
09BUENOSAIRES409	ARGENTINA: HUD SECRETARY DONOVAN MEETS WITH BUENOS AIRES [...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan and Ambassador Wayne met with Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri, Vice-Mayor Gabriela Michetti, and urban planning officials on March 26 and 27. Macri and Michetti presented an ambitious plan to tackle the city's gr [...]	2009-04-07 10:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND EFIN PREL PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES411	Argentina: Reply from the Radical Civic Union (UCR) to [...] President of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) National Convention Hipolito Solari-Yrigoyen hand-delivered a letter to the Embassy on April 6 in response to President Obama's April 2 letter (ref A) expressing condolences over the death of former Argentine President and UCR member Raul Alfonsin (re [...]	2009-04-07 15:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OPDC AR
09BUENOSAIRES415	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-07 20:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES417	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-08 17:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES422	ARGENTINA: HEALTH MINISTER THANKS AMBASSADOR FOR SPEEDY [...] Following Health Minister Gabriela Ocana's urgent request to Ambassador on April 7 for USG assistance (reftel),post undertook to locate the two large-scale fumigation machines (thermal foggers) that the Health Ministry needed to combat the spread of dengue. FCS contacted a U.S. supplier of t [...]	2009-04-09 16:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES424	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-09 17:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES43	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-12 18:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR

09BUENOSAIRES436	Argentine Central Bank Joins Government in Objecting to [...] (SBU) In an April 6 letter to the Ambassador, Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado objected to Post's characterization in the latest Investment Climate Statement of BCRA policies' contribution to rising inflation (text provided below). During a subsequent telephone conversatio [...]	2009-04-14 14:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES445	ARGENTINA: MFA CONCERNED ABOUT DOL-FUNDED RESEARCH [...] (SBU) MFA North America Director Antonio Trombetta expressed concern to CDA April 14 about the DOL's intention to include Argentina in a multi-country study on the incidence of forced and child labor. (Note: DOL informed the GOA in January that Argentina was one of the eight countries to be [...]	2009-04-15 19:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KTIP PHUM EAGR EINV ETRD SOCI AR
09BUENOSAIRES450	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-16 21:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES457	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-20 20:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES47	SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. However, post requests that the Argentine goods [...]	2009-01-15 20:04:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PHUM EAGR EIND ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES471	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-24 13:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES472	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-24 13:18:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES475	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-24 13:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES485	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-27 17:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES486	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-27 17:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES49	SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (C) Embassy Buenos Aires appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. However, post requests that the Argentine goods l [...]	2009-01-16 12:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM EAGR EIND ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES498	ARGENTINE FM TAIANA ON MOD EVICTION AND OTHER [...] (C) Summary: In response to the Ambassador's April 22 letter asking Argentine FM Taiana to intervene with the MOD to help find suitable office space for the Military Group in advance of its eviction from MOD headquarters (ref A),Taiana said he had spoken with MOD Nilda Garre and suggested the [...]	2009-04-30 13:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR ASEC KSUM PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES499	Argentina: International Donor Community [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador hosted a roundtable coffee with the international donor community to discuss the impact of the global economic crisis on international assistance to Argentina. The roundtable was co-organized with the Argentine Network for International Cooperation (RACI) and the [...]	2009-04-30 21:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID ECON SOCI PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES5	ARGENTINA: MAYOR OF LA PLATA SEEKS CLOSER [...] (SBU) Summary: The Mayor of Buenos Aires province's capital city of La Plata, Pablo Bruera, told Ambassador Wayne on December 15 that he hoped to improve public services to attract greater foreign investment. He applauded the arrival of U.S.-based software development company Accenture, which [...]	2009-01-02 15:22:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EINV AR
09BUENOSAIRES50	SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT DOL'S DRAFT LIST OF GOODS [...] (C) Embassy Buenos Aires appreciates the opportunity to comment on the Department of Labor's draft list of goods from countries that DOL has reason to believe are produced by forced labor or child labor in violation of international standards. However, post requests that the Argentine goods l [...]	2009-01-16 12:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM EAGR EIND ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES500	ARGENTINA: "SALTENOS" WELCOME AMBASSADOR'S APRIL [...] (SBU) Ambassador Wayne made his third visit to Argentina's northwestern province of Salta on April 28. The province is gearing up for national congressional mid-term elections on June 28, with three of its seven deputy seats in play; the province's shifting coalitions partially reflect major n [...]	2009-04-30 21:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SNAR KTIP AR
09BUENOSAIRES501	ARGENTINA HOSTS OAS TIP CONFERENCE; [...] (U) Summary. The Argentine government recently hosted the Organization of American States (OAS) Second Meeting of National Authorities on Trafficking in Persons (TIP),which included representatives from governments, international organizations and civil society organizations. As head of t [...]	2009-04-30 21:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN KTIP PHUM PREL KCRM SMIG AR
09BUENOSAIRES502	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-04 13:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES503	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-04 13:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES504	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-04 13:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES509	Argentina Hosts Lugo and Morales for Signing of Final Act [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina hosted Paraguayan President Lugo and Bolivian President Morales for an April 27 ceremony to deliver the Final Record of the border commission in execution of the 1938 Peace Treaty between the two countries. The Ambassador attended as representative of one of the six g [...]	2009-05-04 17:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS PA BL AR
09BUENOSAIRES513	ARGENTINE MOD GARRE OFFERS TEMPORARY SOLUTION FOR [...] (C) Following up on Argentine FM Taiana's suggestion (reftel),the Ambassador called MOD Garre, who indicated she had just signed a response to the Ambassador's March 31 letter regarding the MOD eviction of the Military Group from MOD headquarters and two other facilities. 2. (C) Garre said [...]	2009-05-04 21:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PGOV ASEC AMGT PHUM KPAO AR
09BUENOSAIRES514	ARGENTINA: ANTI-KIRCHNER BRIEFING DELIVERED TO [...] (C) Jorge O'Reilly (PROTECT),a top advisor to Argentina's Cabinet Chief Sergio Massa, offered a blunt critique of Argentina's economy and GoA policies during an April 21 meeting with foreign institutional investors. Speaking in the Casa Rosada, he predicted a sharp recession in 2009, with co [...]	2009-05-04 21:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD EFIN PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES520	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-05 16:58:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES521	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-05 16:59:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES523	ARGENTINA LEANS TOWARDS VOTING TO ABSTAIN ON [...] (C) Summary. Econoff joined German, French, and UK colleagues April 29 in delivering Ref A points on Kosovo's IMF and World Bank membership to Jose Mina, Director of the Argentine MFA's Central and Eastern Europe Office. Mina strongly argued against Kosovo's membership in the IFIs, but agree [...]	2009-05-05 18:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL AR KV
09BUENOSAIRES526	ARGENTINA'S PIQUETEROS: THE KIRCHNERS' KEY PROTEST ARM Classified By: CDA Tom Kelly for reasons 1.4 (b) & (d). [...] (SBU) Summary/Introduction: After being largely co-opted by the government of former President Nestor Kirchner (NK),some Argentine social protest groups, the ""piqueteros,"" have begun to distance themselves from current President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) government. They remain a [...]	2009-05-05 21:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ELAB KDEM ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES530	ARGENTINA: GOA SUPPORTIVE OF AUSTRALIAN PROPOSAL ON IMO [...] (SBU) Counselor Javier Figueroa of the Argentine MFA's Office of the Legal Advisor expressed support for the Australian proposal on ship recycling in the International Maritime Organization (IMO),following the delivery of reftel demarche presented jointly by Econoff and Nick McCaffrey, First S [...]	2009-05-06 18:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIDN ETRD EWWT IMO KTIA PREL SENV AR
09BUENOSAIRES538	ARGENTINA ELECTIONS: NO KIRCHNER COATTAILS IN [...] (C) Summary: Argentina's northern province of Salta, a picturesque, agriculturally productive regional center bordering Bolivia, offers another demonstration of Argentina's confusion of competing Peronists and temporary alliances in the run-up to national mid-terms on June 28. With only three [...]	2009-05-07 16:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES548	Glyphosate Herbicide, a Catalyst for Argentine Politics [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's pro-government press has been waging a campaign against the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto's widely used Roundup herbicide, which appears to be driven more by local politics than health concerns. The press campaign started with reports in the l [...]	2009-05-07 20:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR SNAR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM TBIO AR
09BUENOSAIRES549	UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON THE INDEPENDENCE OF [...] (SBU) Action Request: The Ambassador received from Leandro Despouy, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers a May 4 letter (in English) requesting the USG support the candidacy of Amcit Reed Brody to replace him. Text of letter follows in para 2. Embassy requests [...]	2009-05-07 21:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL AR
09BUENOSAIRES553	TFFLU01: H1N1 Influenza Outbreak and Argentina: SITREP #2 [...] (U) Summary: The first confirmed case of Influenza A (H1N1) in Argentina - a traveler who had returned from Mexico on April 25 - was confirmed by health authorities on May 7. The Ministry of Health (MOH) has installed thermal scanners at all international airports. The GoA's suspension of di [...]	2009-05-08 23:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU CASC AEMR AMED ASEC KSAF PREL PINR AMGT
09BUENOSAIRES557	Argentina: Logistical Challenges in Convening [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: The GOA's decision in mid- March to move up the legislative elections by four months (ref A) has raised concerns among local observers that some organizational requirements, such as voter registration and the identification and manning of polling places, may not be sa [...]	2009-05-11 19:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES561	Argentina: Candidates Announced; Former President [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Former president Nestor Kirchner (NK) and his former vice president Daniel Scioli will head the ruling coalition's (FpV) ticket for congressional seats representing the electoral plum of Buenos Aires province, where the Kirchners have set their hopes on winning e [...]	2009-05-12 14:02:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES568	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-13 13:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES57	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-20 11:24:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES579	TFFLU01: H1N1 Influenza Outbreak and Argentina: SITREP #3 [...] (U) Summary: Argentina has only one confirmed case of Influenza A (H1N1) to date, while 88 are still under study. The Ministry of Health requested information from Post about four Americans who may have been on a flight from Mexico that carried a "suspected" H1N1 case. Post was able to track [...]	2009-05-18 10:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU CASC AEMR AMED KSAF KFLO AR
09BUENOSAIRES585	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-18 15:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES592	ARGENTINA: AMIA SPECIAL PROSECUTOR READY TO [...] (C) Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman called on the Ambassador May 19 to notify us that the following day he would ask Judge Rodolfo Canicoba-Corral to indict a new suspect in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA). Nisman described his painstaking effort to establ [...]	2009-05-19 22:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ASEC MASS PHUM SNAR KJUS IR LE AR
09BUENOSAIRES594	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-19 23:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES597	ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL THOMPSON VISIT [...] (U) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your May 28-30 visit to Argentina, which occurs one week before I leave post for my next assignment, in which I will oversee U.S. non-military assistance to Afghanistan. We propose to schedule meetings for you with Argentina's Minister o [...]	2009-05-21 13:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM OREP ECON PTER MASS ASEC AR
09BUENOSAIRES598	(C) ANTONINI-WILSON BANKRUPTCY CASE NAMES [...] (C) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, former President Nestor Kirchner and Planning Minister Julio De Vido were named as "interested parties" in an April 15 voluntary personal Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing in Florida of "Suitcase scandal" principal Alejandro Antonini-Wilson (A-W). A sup [...]	2009-05-21 13:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR KCOR KJUS PGOV CJAN KFRD VZ AR
09BUENOSAIRES599	ARGENTINA: 15 ARRESTED FOR ANTI-SEMITIC VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine police have arrested 15 persons for their involvement in a violent attack on a Buenos Aires city celebration May 17 marking the 61st anniversary of the founding of Israel. The attack left five persons injured, including two federal police officers. On May 18, two sy [...]	2009-05-21 13:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PREL ASEC AR
09BUENOSAIRES602	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR THANKS MOJ FOR LAW [...] (C) Summary. On May 20, the Ambassador paid a farewell call on Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez and thanked him for the Ministry of Justice's (MoJ) collaboration in promoting human rights and addressing international crime, including drug trafficking, trafficking in persons (TIP),m [...]	2009-05-21 22:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIP SNAR PTER EFIN KCRM AR
09BUENOSAIRES612	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-26 18:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES614	ARGENTINA: INFORMATION FOR COUNTRY REVIEW [...] (SBU) Post responses to questions in para 5 of ref A follow: 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? Answer: No. The GOA has not taken public or private actions in the past year to promote the advancement of [...]	2009-05-26 20:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ETTC CU AR
09BUENOSAIRES620	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-27 21:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES621	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-27 21:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES622	ARGENTINA: CODEL THOMPSON, MAY 28-30, 2009 [...] The Ambassador warmly welcomes Representative Bennie G. Thompson and the congressional delegation he is leading to Argentina. The purpose of the trip is to examine counterterrorism cooperation, emerging threats, maritime security, and Department of Homeland Security operations. See ref B for [...]	2009-05-28 11:19:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AR
09BUENOSAIRES626	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR THANKS SUPREME COURT CHIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador paid a farewell call, May 26, on Supreme Court Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti, commending the Court for its efforts to strengthen the judicial system and to improve its functioning and access for the country's most vulnerable sectors. The Chief Justice had rec [...]	2009-05-28 21:22:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KJUS SNAR PHUM AR
09BUENOSAIRES627	Argentina: GoA Pension Fund Gives Credits to General Motors [...] (SBU) The GOA's national pension fund (ANSES) will provide GM Argentina up to US$ 70 million in credits to support the company's production of its new "Viva" compact car. The Viva will incorporate Brazilian parts and be targeted for export to other Latin American markets. President Cristina F [...]	2009-05-28 21:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EIND ELTN ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES628	IAEA DG RACE: JAPANESE REQUEST APPROACHING CFK VIA [...] (C) The head of the Japanese Embassy's political section in Buenos Aires, First Secretary Kenya Uno, called on polcouns May 26 and said Ambassador Yukiya Amano, Japanese candidate for Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, had visited Buenos Aires and met with Argentine FM [...]	2009-05-28 21:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP AORC IAEA PARM AR
09BUENOSAIRES631	ARGENTINA: SUPREME COURT OPENS THE DOOR FOR AMIA [...] (SBU) On May 27, Argentina's Supreme Court ordered the reopening of the investigation into the so-called "local connection" involved in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA). The court ruled 4 to 2 that Carlos Telleldin, who was previously acquitted, should be tri [...]	2009-05-29 15:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ASEC MASS PHUM SNAR KJUS IR LE AR
09BUENOSAIRES632	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON CFK [...] (C) Summary and introduction: During his one-on-one May 27 farewell call on Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),the Ambassador orally delivered a message from the President of appreciation for Argentine cooperation at the recent summits (para 5). CFK thanked the Ambassad [...]	2009-05-29 17:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES641	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADORâ€™S FAREWELL CALL ON FM TAIANA [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Argentine FM Jorge Taiana told the Ambassador, during the latter's May 28 farewell call, that the GOA had no intention of following Venezuela's lead on expropriations. Taiana expressed concern about the visit of a team from the FAA and the prospect (which has since rec [...]	2009-06-02 14:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAIR MASS SENV AMGT VZ AR
09BUENOSAIRES643	ARGENTINA: BUENOS AIRES GOVERNOR'S OFFICE THANKS [...] (C) Summary: Secretary General to the Buenos Aires Governor's Office Jose Scioli (JS) visited Ambassador Wayne May 29 to extend the appreciation of his brother, Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli, for the Embassy's close collaboration. JS is a chief adviser to Governor Scioli, Argentina's fo [...]	2009-06-02 17:40:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES644	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US SECURITY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-02 20:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES647	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-03 17:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES648	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-03 17:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES649	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-03 17:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES65	ARGENTINA: ANNUAL OVERSEAS SECURITY ADVISORY [...] (SBU) Overall Crime and Safety Situation. A. Crime Threat Levels. Crime is a serious problem in Argentina, but one that can be managed with common sense precautions. Street crime has become common and increasingly more violent, and often is perpetrated with a firearm or other deadly wea [...]	2009-01-21 15:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC AR CASC
09BUENOSAIRES653	ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL ON VP COBOS [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador engaged with Vice President Julio Cobos during a June 1 farewell call at his Senate President office on improvements in bilateral cooperation over the past three years, Argentina's upcoming congressional elections, and the importance of a strong education system. Co [...]	2009-06-04 17:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES654	ARGENTINA: ARGENTINA: LES WAGE LEVELS CONTINUE TO [...] (U) This document is sensitive but unclassified. It should not be disseminated outside of USG channels or in any public forum without the written concurrence of the originator. It should not be posted on the internet. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) With the Argentine economy slowing [...]	2009-06-04 19:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN AMGT AFSN APER ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES655	ARGENTINA: CAMPAIGNING K STYLE [...] (SBU) Summary: With congressional midterm elections less than a month away, campaign season is in full swing throughout Argentina. In Buenos Aires province, the key electoral district in the June 28 race, principal candidates of the three main electoral forces -- the Kirchner-allied ruling Vi [...]	2009-06-04 20:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES656	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-04 20:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES658	ARGENTINA: CODEL Thompson Advances Bilateral Homeland [...] (U) Summary: The May 28-30 visit of CODEL Bennie Thompson to Argentina helped to advance bilateral cooperation on port and other infrastructure security issues, as well as positively demonstrate broad USG interest in bilateral cooperation with Argentina. Representatives Thompson (Chairman, Home [...]	2009-06-04 20:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL PGOV PTER SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES665	ARGENTINA: U.S. ELECTRONICS FIRMS FACE GOA TAX MEASURES [...] (SBU) The GoA has proposed a legislative initiative that aims to promote domestic assembly of computer and telecom electronics and create jobs in Argentina's southern Tierra del Fuego (TdF) province by raising taxes on products imported or manufactured elsewhere in Argentina. President Cristin [...]	2009-06-07 19:34:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EIND ELTN ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES666	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-09 11:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES669	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-09 16:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES67	CANADIAN AMBASSADOR ON ARGENTINE SUMMITRY, NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) A January 14 discussion between Ambassador Wayne and Canadian Ambassador Tim Martin covered Argentina's poor preparation for regional summits and the G-20, as well as Canada's nuclear energy and mining agenda with Argentina. 2. (SBU) Brazil's regional agenda and the Summit of the Amer [...]	2009-01-21 20:21:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN KSUM PREL CA AR
09BUENOSAIRES68	ARGENTINA: TECHINT CEO ON VENEZUELA [...] (C) On January 16, Ambassador had breakfast with Paolo Rocca, CEO of Argentine multinational Techint. The two reviewed Techint,s current problems with the Government of Argentina (GoA) over rescheduling debt payments of the regulated Argentine natural gas pipeline company TGN; over Techint's p [...]	2009-01-21 20:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EPET ELAB EINV VZ AR
09BUENOSAIRES684	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-11 20:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES686	ARGENTINA: INPUT FOR LABOR SECRETARY SOLIS MEETING IN [...] THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Summary and Introduction: Labor Secretary Solis' upcoming June 15 meeting with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) represents an opportunity to assure the Argentine government (GOA) tha [...]	2009-06-11 20:49:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB KTIP SOCI AR
09BUENOSAIRES693	ARGENTINA: CFK ANNOUNCES CUBA HAS AUTHORIZED [...] (SBU) Argentine media are reporting that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced June 12 that Cuban authorities issued a passport to dissident neurosurgeon Hilda Molina and are allowing her to leave the island. For 15 years, Molina had been seeking permission to travel to Arg [...]	2009-06-12 22:25:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CU AR
09BUENOSAIRES70	ARGENTINE REACTION TO PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-22 16:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES700	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-17 17:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES701	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-17 17:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES702	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-17 17:30:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES706	SUBJECT: (C) ARGENTINA: FOREIGN MINISTER "VERY [...] (C) Summary. On the instructions of Argentine FM Jorge Taiana, MFA Chief of Staff Alberto D'Alotto called CDA June 17 to express the GOA's irritation with the State Department's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report which placed Argentina on the Tier 2 Watch List. D'Alotto said Taiana was "ver [...]	2009-06-17 22:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KTIP KCRM ELAB PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC
09BUENOSAIRES71	Buenos Aires Inaugural Reception Attracts Argentine Elite, [...] SUMMARY: An Inauguration Reception held at Ambassador Wayne's residence in Buenos Aires on January 20 brought substantial praise from both participants and the Argentine press. The over 200 key Argentine contacts attending the event in the midst of summer holidays; thus were treated to a Pow [...]	2009-01-22 17:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES712	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-19 18:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES722	ARGENTINA: PRO UNION'S MULTIMILLION DOLLAR CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary: With less than one week remaining before the June 28 congressional elections, most polls continue to show the Kirchner-allied Victory Front (FpV) and the Peronist dissident slate, PRO Union, in a statistical dead heat in this race's key electoral district, Buenos Aires province. T [...]	2009-06-22 16:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES734	ARGENTINA SEEKS U.S PARTICIPATION AT FIFTH HEMISPHERIC [...] (SBU) This is an action request for WHA/PDA and USDOC/USFCS/OIO/WH. Please see para 5 for request. 2. (SBU) CDA Kelly attended a June 22 MFA briefing for all Western Hemisphere missions on the Fifth Hemispheric Summit of Mayors and Local Officials to be held, September 2-4 in Mar del Plata, [...]	2009-06-24 14:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM KSUM EAID KPAO BEXP AR
09BUENOSAIRES739	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-25 14:09:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES740	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-25 14:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINS PTER AR
09BUENOSAIRES741	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-25 14:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES747	Argentina: Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri [...] Post received a June 22 letter from Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri to President Obama applauding the President's efforts to promote the Middle East Peace process and pledging to do his part to promote peace between Argentina's large Jewish and Muslim communities. Macri, a businessman [...]	2009-06-26 18:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OPDC KPAO PTER PBTS XF AR
09BUENOSAIRES77	Argentina: Message from Argentine Foreign Minister to [...] Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge E. Taiana sent January 22 a new message of congratulations to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on taking office, following up on the (ref A) letter he sent on her nomination. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed the Embassy that it sent to Washington the [...]	2009-01-23 18:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OVIP OPDC AR
09BUENOSAIRES773	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-02 14:03:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES775	(C) ARGENTINA: EMBASSY RECOMMENDS THANKING FM [...] (U) Action Request for Department in paragraph three. 2. (C) Following the decision by the GOA on July 1 (ref B) to offer an abstention in the fifth round of voting for IAEA DG candidate Amano, Political Counselor received a call July 2 from Japanese Embassy First Secretary Kenya Uno to expr [...]	2009-07-02 20:08:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP IAEA AR
09BUENOSAIRES783	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-06 17:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES784	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-06 17:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES787	ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK RETURNS EMPTY-HANDED FROM [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) returned to Buenos Aires July 6 from a 60-hour trip that took her to Washington and El Salvador in a failed attempt to restore Manuel Zelaya to the presidency of Honduras. In El Salvador, CFK argued that she was on a missi [...]	2009-07-06 21:51:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM OAS HO AR
09BUENOSAIRES790	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-07 19:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES794	ARGENTINA: PROFILING KEY KIRCHNER-ALLIED PIQUETERO LEADERS REF: (A) BUENOS AIRES 0526 (B) 08 BUENOS AIRES 1550 AND PREVIOUS (C) 08 BUENOS AIRES 1715 (D) BUENOS AIRES 0315 (E) BUENOS AIRES 0750 AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite sharing the same goals -- job creation, social inclusion, and state intervention in the economy -- the leaders of Argentina's social activist movements, known as ""piqueteros,"" differ on how to achieve those objectives. Indeed, former President Nestor Kirchner's efforts t [...]	2009-07-07 21:35:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PHUM SOCI ASEC PTER AR
09BUENOSAIRES795	Argentina: Keeping Score on the Pollsters [...] (SBU) Summary: Most Argentine polling firms did not foresee former President Nestor Kirchner and his Victory Front (FpV) slate's second-place finish in the June 28 election in Buenos Aires province. Only four polling firms (Poliarquia, Giacobbe, Isonomia, and Management and Fit) accurately pr [...]	2009-07-07 21:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES802	ARGENTINA: CABINET SHUFFLE UNLIKELY TO AUGUR MAJOR [...] (C) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) shuffled her Cabinet on July 7 a week after her party's defeat in a mid-term vote, but the personnel moves do not bring much new blood to the administration. CFK named feisty Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez as her new [...]	2009-07-08 20:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR ECON SNAR MASS AR
09BUENOSAIRES806	ARGENTINA: H1N1 EPICENTER OF THE WORLD [...] SUMMARY: A Mexican H1N1 expert believes that Argentina is now the epicenter of the worldwide H1N1 pandemic. To aggressively counteract the disease's spread, a consortium of Argentine health experts and officials agree to standardize treatment with oseltamivir. In preparation, hundreds of th [...]	2009-07-08 22:20:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AMED ELAB AR
09BUENOSAIRES811	ARGENTINA: FIRST AND SECOND QUARTER INL REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina experienced increased drug trafficking pressure during the first six months of 2009, with the apparently expanding use of small aircraft to traffic cocaine and marijuana across the country's northern borders. Cargoes are quickly offloaded at clandestine strips and dist [...]	2009-07-13 11:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL AFIN KCRM PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES816	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-13 20:39:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR

09BUENOSAIRES819	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-14 13:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES824	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-14 19:12:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES844	ARGENTINA: SECOND LARGEST NUMBER OF H1N1- [...] (U) SUMMARY: With 2,485 confirmed cases and 137 deaths, Argentina is now second only to the United States in the number of fatalities attributed to the H1N1 influenza outbreak. A USG donation of 120,000 treatment units of Tamiflu to Argentina was well-received, with the new Health Minister s [...]	2009-07-17 20:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SOCI PGOV PREL AMED ELAB CASC AR
09BUENOSAIRES846	2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION [...] (SBU) The United States Government is aware of sixteen (16) claims against the Government of Argentina (GOA),one of which was resolved during 2007 but whose award has not been implemented by the GOA yet (Claimant C),and two others that were resolved during 2008 and 2009 (Claimant I and Claim [...]	2009-07-20 18:45:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV KIDE ECON PGOV PREL OPIC AR
09BUENOSAIRES853	(S/NF) ARGENTINA: WILL CRISTINA FINISH HER TERM? [...] (S/NF) Summary/Introduction. The devastating setback dealt by Argentine voters to the government in the June 28 mid-term elections has restored to respectability last year's fashionable political forecast -- that Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) will not reach the end of her term as President i [...]	2009-07-22 16:47:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	SECRET	PGOV ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES857	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-22 21:02:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES86	Argentina - Scenesetter for Codel Costello [...] (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina January 30 - February 1. We have arranged meetings for your Transportation Committee delegation with U.S. private sector civil aviation representatives and have requested meetings with senior Government of Argent [...]	2009-01-26 20:36:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OVIP CODEL ECON PREL BEXP AR
09BUENOSAIRES861	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-23 16:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINS PTER AR
09BUENOSAIRES862	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-23 19:56:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES863	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-23 19:57:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES869	ARGENTINA: JEWISH COMMUNITY STILL SEEKS JUSTICE 15 [...] (C) Summary: The Argentine Jewish community commemorated the fifteenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) with a small, informal gathering on July 18. The CDA attended the gathering, as did Chief Cabinet Minister Anibal Fernandez, who afterwa [...]	2009-07-24 22:22:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PTER PREL PGOV KJUS KTIP SNAR KCRM AR
09BUENOSAIRES87	Argentina: Pan American Energy on Bolivian Nationalization [...] (SBU) Dennis Keleher, CFO of Pan American Energy, called Ambassador January 26 to inform him that no/no U.S. citizens were involved in the January 23 Bolivian government take-over of Empresa Petrolera Chaco SA (Chaco). He said only one UK national had been present at the takeover, that all oth [...]	2009-01-27 09:42:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EPET ETRD EINV AR BL
09BUENOSAIRES870	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-27 20:33:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES871	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-28 20:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES876	ARGENTINA: ISRAELI FM VISITS ARGENTINA AND [...] (C) Summary: In what the Israeli Foreign Ministry called an effort to counter "Iran's heightened activity in South America," Israeli FM Avigdor Lieberman visited Argentina July 23-26 during the first trip to South America by an Israeli FM in over two decades. Argentina was the second stop on [...]	2009-07-29 21:15:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS IR AR
09BUENOSAIRES899	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - Hostage [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-04 20:13:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES900	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-05 12:23:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES907	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - MILITARY [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-06 14:50:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES909	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - MILITARY [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-07 12:31:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES912	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-07 20:41:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES92	ARGENTINA: ARGENTINES PLAY UP AMBASSADOR-INTERIOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOA heavily advertised the January 22 meeting of Ambassador Wayne and Interior Minister Randazzo, billing it as a GOA "gesture" to the USG which was widely interpreted as an effort to balance President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's trip to Cuba and Venezuela (reftels) an [...]	2009-01-28 17:10:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES921	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-11 20:14:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES924	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-12 13:52:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES925	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-12 14:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES926	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - TRAFFICKING [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-12 20:43:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINS PTER AR
09BUENOSAIRES939	ARGENTINA: SECOND DIPNOTE ON TRANSIT OF MAKIN [...] (U) Action Request for Department, see para 5. 2. (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires received a second diplomatic note from the GOA dated August 13 regarding the transit of the Amphibious Assault Ship Makin Island LHD8 through the Strait of Magellan. An Embassy translation of the note follows: [...]	2009-08-14 21:06:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PBTS PHSA MARR PGOV AR
09BUENOSAIRES941	ARGENTINA: DUE DILIGENCE ON THREE ACE AWARD NOMINEES [...] (SBU) Mission Buenos Aires is in the midst of a multi-year strategy to improve the image of the United States in Argentina to combat this country's high levels of anti-Americanism -- among the highest in the Western Hemisphere. A key component of post's public diplomacy outreach is to draw Arg [...]	2009-08-18 10:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV EIND ELTN ETRD AR
09BUENOSAIRES942	Argentina: GOA Steals the Ball, May Take over Soccer [...] (SBU) On August 11, the Argentine Football (soccer) Association (AFA) unilaterally canceled its contract with satellite TV broadcasters (TSC) -- a consortium which includes U.S. firm DirecTV and possibly some other U.S. investors -- amid rumors that the GoA was poised to offer up to US$165 mill [...]	2009-08-18 10:54:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EFIN ECON PGOV KPAO AR
09BUENOSAIRES944	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - LATIN [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-18 20:27:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES96	Argentina's Minister of Health - Crusader against [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Wayne and Health Minister Maria Graciela Ocana discussed her Ministry's efforts to fight corruption within Argentina's public health system, the importance of drug rehabilitation programs, and prospects for future collaboration on health issues during a meeting on Janu [...]	2009-01-29 19:00:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SOCI TBIO ECON AR
09BUENOSAIRES964	ARGENTINA ENTHUSIASTIC AND RESPONSIVE ON [...] (C) Summary: A delegation led by White House Special Assistant and WMD Coordinator Gary Samore visited Argentina for consultations on August 10, generating significant goodwill and enthusiasm among Argentine interlocutors to continue bilateral consultations and cooperation on key nuclear arms [...]	2009-08-24 20:37:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PTER ENRG ETTC TRGY SENV AR
09BUENOSAIRES966	ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT JOINS JEWISH COMMUNITY IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Argentina on August 21 condemned Iranian President Ahmadinejad's August 19 nomination of Ahmad Vahidi as Minister of Defense, labeling the selection an "insult to Argentine justice and to the victims of the brutal terrorists attack against the Argentine Jewish [...]	2009-08-25 14:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM ETTC ENRG IR AR
09BUENOSAIRES968	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - SEARCH AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-25 19:28:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES969	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - Career [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-25 19:29:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES975	ARGENTINA: CODEL GRANGER, AUGUST 30-SEPTEMBER 2 [...] The Charge d'Affaires, Tom Kelly, warmly welcomes Representative Kay Granger and the delegation she is leading to Argentina August 30 - September 2. Per reftel, the purpose of the trip is to examine Department of Justice office operations in Buenos Aires and consult with the Government of Arg [...]	2009-08-26 15:46:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN SNAR PTER KTIP AR
09BUENOSAIRES977	ARGENTINA: PROSECUTOR GENERAL SEEKS TO DEEPEN LAW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a productive meeting with CDA on August 20, Argentine Prosecutor General Esteban Righi expressed interest in expanding and deepening bilateral law enforcement cooperation on a wide range of areas including extradition, human trafficking, money laundering, terrorism finance and [...]	2009-08-26 16:38:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KTIP SNAR PTER EFIN KCRM KFRD ASEC ELAB
09BUENOSAIRES978	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAM - LATIN [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-26 19:44:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER SNAR AR
09BUENOSAIRES984	DAS MCMULLEN BRIEFS ARGENTINE OFFICIALS ON [...] (C) Summary: WHA DAS Christopher McMullen visited Buenos Aires August 26-27 to brief Argentine authorities on the USG's Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) with Colombia ahead of the August 28 UNASUR conference hosted by Argentina in Bariloche. He had excellent meetings with Cabinet Chief Min [...]	2009-08-28 22:16:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS SNAR PTER PARM PGOV CO AR
09BUENOSAIRES988	ARGENTINA'S CORDOBA GOVERNOR ON THE KIRCHNERS, [...] (C) Summary: Cordoba province Governor and Peronist dissident Juan Schiaretti engaged with the CDA on Argentina's First Couple, 2011 presidential candidates, and the province's budgetary woes. Schiaretti said that former President and First Spouse Nestor Kirchner (NK) sees a divided opposition as g [...]	2009-08-31 23:11:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAGR AR
09BUENOSAIRES997	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR US TRAINING PROGRAMS [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-02 16:17:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PINR PTER MARR AR
09BUENOSAIRES999	TALES FROM BARILOCHE: ARGENTINA HOSTS A SUCCESSFUL [...] (C) Summary and introduction: The August 28 summit meeting in Bariloche of South American Union (UNASUR) leaders is getting puzzled, mixed reviews. After seven hours of a rambling, inconclusive discussion (on live television) of the U.S.-Colombian Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) and other [...]	2009-09-02 21:22:00	Embassy Buenos Aires	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SNAR MASS AR
09BUJUMBURA103	SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-02 05:03:00	Embassy Bujumbura	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER BY
09BUJUMBURA301	BURUNDI -- VIEWS OF A DEPARTING AMBASSADOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: After three years as Ambassador to Burundi, I am convinced that this small, poverty-stricken, conflict-ridden nation has the potential to fulfill its promise as a durable African success story. Despite the just-resolved 15-year civil conflict, lack of infrastructure, deep-roote [...]	2009-06-30 15:28:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	BY CH LY MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL RW SU
09BUJUMBURA339	MINISTER OF INTERIOR PLAYS WITH ELECTORAL CODE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 9, Minister of the Interior Eduard Nduwimana, believed to be "President Nkurunziza's man," set off a political firestorm by presenting to the Council of Ministers a different draft Electoral Code than the consensus version prepared during a June round-table of political p [...]	2009-07-17 12:39:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BY
09BUJUMBURA392	SECOND VICE PRESIDENT SEES STABILITY, PRIVATE [...] (C) Summary: Second Vice President Gabriel Ntisezerana said that security would be the basis for any economic growth and development in Burundi, during an August 11 courtesy call by Charge and DCM. Ntisezerana was concerned that many demobilized FNL combatants knew nothing but fighting, and c [...]	2009-08-12 06:25:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS ETRD EINV BY
09BUJUMBURA394	MSD LEADER SINDUHIJE REQUESTS "TEMPORARY ASYLUM" [...] (C) Summary: Aspiring Presidential candidate Alexis Sinduhije called on DCM at her residence August 11 to request that he be allowed to stay in US embassy housing for a few days to avoid anticipated political harassment. As there was no life threatening situation, DCM listened to him and pers [...]	2009-08-12 16:00:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM BY
09BUJUMBURA414	CONSULTATIONS ON TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE UNDERWAY; [...] (C) Summary: Burundi has started broad based popular consultations for a Transitional Justice mechanism to deal with the events of years of conflict. While consultations are will be completed at year's end, we are detecting concerns about launching a Truth and Reconciliation Commission or si [...]	2009-08-18 17:12:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	BY KAWC PHUM PREL
09BUJUMBURA419	FNL: OUT OF THE BUSH, BUT BANDITRY BLOOMS [...] SUMMARY. There is an overwhelming consensus among political and security observers in Burundi that the Forces Nationales de Liberation's (FNL) days of fighting in the bush are truly over. Further, observers in Burundi find no evidence of an organized FNL splinter group existing that is ready [...]	2009-08-20 15:41:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM ASEC PGOV PINS BY
09BUJUMBURA464	MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY EXPRESSES NEEDS FOR [...] Summary: On 1 September, the Burundian Ministry of Public Security (MSP) held a presentation of its goals and estimated requirements for security in the upcoming 2010 elections. The Ministry stated it would need between $7.5 and $12.5 million to provide effective security. End summary. [...]	2009-09-09 14:45:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED	BY MAS PGOV
09BUJUMBURA508	AFTERMATH OF SOMALIA DEATHS: BURUNDI WILL STAY IN [...] (C) Summary. With all attention in Bujumbura centered on the funerals of the twelve soldiers killed in Somalia September 17, the event has generated discussion about whether Burundi should remain in AMISOM. At this time, the answer here is yes. Most calls are for an expansion of AMISOM's ma [...]	2009-09-21 13:53:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MOPS AU BY SO
09BUJUMBURA550	RUSSIAN BUSINESS PRESENCE IN BURUNDI [C-CI9-01825] [...] (C) Please see following responses to questions posed reftel: A. (C) There is no Russian trade representative in Burundi. B. (C) There are no major Russian companies operating in Burundi. C. (C) NA; please see response to C. D. (C) Russian investment in Burundi is very limite [...]	2009-10-08 10:42:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR BBSR ECON EINV BY
09BUJUMBURA60	BURUNDI: UN FIELD COVERAGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN's Human Rights operation in Burundi consists of two administratively separate but operationally integrated missions: the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) and United Nations Integrated Bureau in Burundi (BINUB). Forty UN human rights employees are he [...]	2009-02-03 09:35:00	Embassy Bujumbura	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM USUN BY
09BUJUMBURA689	NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT/PORTAL DETECTION AT [...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reference A that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in nuclear and/or radiological materials. The report was generated by the Defense Attache (DATT) after a walk-in, Nawab Chakaa [...]	2009-12-17 10:43:00	Embassy Bujumbura	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC BY KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PINR PTER
09BUSSELS1666	SCENESETTER FOR BELGIAN DEFENSE MINISTER PIETER DE [...] (C) Summary: Belgian Defense Minister Pieter De Crem has been in office since March 2008 and is one of the United States' strongest friends in the Belgian government. Under his leadership, Belgium has returned its focus to NATO as the orienting factor in its defense policy. Now, Belgium is p [...]	2009-12-11 15:40:00	Embassy Brussels	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR MNUC BE AF
09CAIRO1012	SPLM'S CAIRO OFFICE HEAD ADDRESSES ISSUES IN EGYPT [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-03 10:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF SU EG
09CAIRO102	EGYPT: REQUESTING GOE SEIZURE OF M/V MONCHEGORSK [...] (S/NF) Summary: Ambassador met with Chief of the Foreign Minister's Cabinet Ambassador Wafaa Bassim on January 21 to request the GoE's assistance in preventing the passage through Egyptian waters of the M/V Monchegorsk, a Cypriot-flagged merchant vessel which is carrying ammunition, explosive [...]	2009-01-21 12:23:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER MOPS EG
09CAIRO1023	RESPONSE IN EGYPT TO THE PRESIDENT'S JUNE 4 ADDRESS TO THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Egyptian audiences were deeply affected by the charisma and sincerity of the President, as well as his deep knowledge of Islam. The persistent theme was the desire to see action as a next step. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) President Obama's speech to the Muslim world, "A New Beginning [...]	2009-06-05 12:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAO EG
09CAIRO104	GAZA EVACUEES DESCRIBE "ORDEAL," ASSERT WAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Three Palestinian-American familes evacuated from Gaza into Egypt on January 19 described for us their "horrifying ordeal" trying to survive Israeli attacks. They recounted the emotional trauma both they and their children experienced in the face of "primitive" living condition [...]	2009-01-21 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM PGOV PTER KPAL CASC IS EG XF
09CAIRO1158	EGYPT - FOLLOW-UP TO THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH PART I- WAY [...] (SBU) Key Points: -- The President's historic June 4speech in Cairo converges with efforts at post and initial discussions with the government of Egypt to refocus Economic Support Fund priorities toward poverty eradication, with special emphasis on improving education and access to opportunity [...]	2009-06-22 13:50:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO118	ASSESSMENT OF EGYPT'S REGIONAL ROLE IN THE WAKE OF [...] (S/NF) The serious intra-Arab rifts exposed by the Gaza crisis also highlighted both the extent and limitations of Egypt's role in leading the moderate Arab position. The Gaza crisis was only the most recent, and significant, event to expose the polarization of Egypt and Saudi Arabia at one en [...]	2009-01-23 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO119	SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY MITCHELL'S JANUARY 26 VISIT TO CAIRO REF: CAIRO 118 (ASSESSMENT POST-GAZA) Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey Reasons: 1.4 (B) and (D) [...] (S/NF) Summary and Introduction: Senator Mitchell, welcome to Egypt. Your visit will be, we hope, the first in a regular process of dialogue and consultation with senior Egyptians on what they consider to be the primary regional political issue -- the Arab-Israeli conflict, particularly the Palesti [...]	2009-01-23 19:54:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO1199	2009 SECTION 527 REPORT FOR EGYPT [...] (SBU) The following report is provided in response to reftel request for information on investment disputes and expropriation claims: 2. (SBU) The United States Government is aware of four (4) claims of U.S.persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Egypt (GOE): Â [...]	2009-06-28 05:19:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV EG
09CAIRO1218	AVIAN INFLUENZA REMAINS MOST THE DANGEROUS THREAT [...] (SBU) Key issue: -- The real threat to Egypt is not swine flu (H1N1),but avian influenza (AI, or H5N1),now endemic in poultry flocks in Egypt and infecting people at an increasing rate, and the possibility it could change, with or without help from H1N1, into a virus that easily jumps from [...]	2009-06-29 14:46:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO EAID PGOV EG
09CAIRO1220	U.S.-EGYPT STRATEGIC DIALOGUE OF JUNE 7 [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-30 03:51:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PTER SCUL PHUM SU SO IR AF PK SY
09CAIRO1227	EGYPT'S NEW AMBASSADOR TO IRAQ: SHARIF SHAHIN [...] (C) Ambassador met newly named Egyptian ambassador to Iraq, Sharif Shahin, on June 25. Shahin recently completed his first ambassadorial tour to Zambia and appeared enthusiastic about his appointment to Baghdad. His previous tours of duty included Lebanon (during the last years of the civil war and [...]	2009-06-30 13:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EG IZ
09CAIRO1261	U.S.-EGYPT STRATEGIC DIALOGUE: STRUCTURAL PROPOSALS [...] (C) Key Points: -- The recent launch of a strategic dialogue (reftels) promises a more regular exchange with Egypt on a number of common areas of concern in the region and globally. -- The formal, government-to-government nature of the dialogue does not lend itself to productive exchanges relating [...]	2009-07-02 13:32:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EG
09CAIRO1266	RUMORS OF THE DISSOLUTION OF EGYPT'S PARLIAMENT [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-06 05:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
09CAIRO1370	MFA READOUT ON IRAQI FM ZEBARI VISIT [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-16 05:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IZ EG
09CAIRO1371	UPDATE ON U.S.-EGYPT AIR MARSHALS AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) KEY POINTS --Over the past year, the USG has worked with GOE interlocutors to conclude an Inflight Security Officers agreement with Egypt. The agreement, once finalized, will allow armed U.S. Federal Air Marshals to travel on board U.S. flights to and from Egypt. --The Egyptian Min [...]	2009-07-16 08:25:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR PREL PTER ASEC EG
09CAIRO1377	COUNTER SMUGGLING UPDATE: EGYPT INCREASES EFFORTS [...] Key Points: -- (S/NF) Egypt has increased efforts to combat arms smuggling to Gaza, with a focus on stopping arms from entering Egypt from Sudan and the Red Sea. The Egyptians also report success at interdicting illicit funds destined for Gaza. -- (S/NF) The Egyptian military has increased its pres [...]	2009-07-16 14:45:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM MASS IS KPAL EG
09CAIRO138	EGYPT ENTERS THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF HIGH [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Five Egyptian research organizations are planning to build Biosafety Level Three (BSL-3) laboratories in which they can work with indigenous or exotic agents like Rift Valley Fever and strains of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI). Three of the groups, VSVRI, th [...]	2009-01-27 09:03:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PARM PGOV ECON KFLU KSTH KSCA EAGR EG
09CAIRO1410	ARAB LEAGUE COS FOLLOW-UP ON US-ARAB COOPERATION; [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-22 10:12:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL SCUL EG
09CAIRO1415	EGYPT: FOLLOW-UP TO THE CAIRO SPEECH [...] (U) Even before Air Force One departed on June 4, Embassy Cairo began wide-ranging consultations with Egyptian civil-society, private sector, and government leaders focused on implementing President Obama's ideas. Egyptians are proud and excited that the President chose Cairo as the speech ven [...]	2009-07-22 14:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO1416	USG-FUNDED SMALL BUSINESS PROJECT FOR WOMEN IN THE [...] KEY POINTS -- (U) On July 20, we visited the USG-funded kiosk project, which aims to provide a small business livelihood for low-income women in a poor, agricultural section of the Nile Delta Governorate of Menufiya, approximately 75 miles north of Cairo. -- (U) The USD 43,000 ESF grant [...]	2009-07-22 14:38:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KDEM ECON SOCI EG
09CAIRO142	AYMAN NOUR LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-27 10:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1428	EGYPT PROVIDES INFORMATION IN OPPOSITION TO [...] (S/NF) Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Assistant Minister and Co-ordinator for Counterterrorism Ashraf Mohsen, in a July 19 meeting, restated Egypt's opposition to the proposed removal of Egyptian citizen Hani al-Sabai from the UNSCR 1267 consolidated list (refs A and B). Mohsen [...]	2009-07-26 12:32:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN PREL PTER KTFN UNSC EG UK
09CAIRO1467	RAMPING UP PRESSURE ON THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD IN [...] Key Points: -- (C) High profile arrests of members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) have continued to pick up speed since May. Most recently, three MB-affiliated bloggers critical of government tactics against the MB, including the wave of arrests, have been detained themselves. -- (C) MB attempts [...]	2009-07-30 14:39:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM KTER KJUS EG
09CAIRO1493	MB PARLIAMENTARY LEADER ON INCREASED GOE [...] KEY POINTS -- (S) Muslim Brotherhood (MB) MP and leader of the MB bloc in the People's Assembly (PA) Dr. Mohammed Saad Katatni said pressure on the MB has increased in the lead-up to the 2010 parliamentary elections, and is greater than before the 2005 and 2008 elections. He called the rece [...]	2009-08-03 13:14:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO1559	PDAS COUNTRYMAN MEETS WITH MOD OFFICIALS TO [...] Key Points: -- (C) On August 2, PM PDAS Tom Countryman led an interagency visit to Cairo to discuss recent potential violations of the Government of Egypt,s (GOE) end-use, retransfer, and security obligations involving U.S.-provided defense articles and defense services with the Ministry of [...]	2009-08-11 11:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS ETTC PARM EG
09CAIRO163	DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN NORTH SINAI [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-01 05:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL ECON PTER SNAR EAID EAGR EG IS
09CAIRO1691	INVITATION TO ATTEND OCTOBER WORKSHOP in ALGIERS, ALGERIA - [...] This message contains action requests. Please see paragraphs 4-6. 2. The Cairo based offices of the U.S. Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) and the Department of Justice, Office of International Affairs (OIA),will jointly coordinate the delivery of a workshop in Algiers on [...]	2009-08-30 14:44:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN KTFN SNAR XF
09CAIRO17	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 5 [...] (S) On January 5, Egyptian military officials briefed defense attaches on the situation in Gaza. The Egyptian military reports that the Egyptian-Gaza border remains stable, with no breaches since December 28. Egyptian border guards successfully prevented subsequent attempts to breach the bor [...]	2009-01-05 14:41:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM EG IS
09CAIRO1723	EGYPTIAN ISLAMIST MEETS WITH STAFFDEL HOGREFE [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-03 14:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL EG
09CAIRO173	EGYPT'S 53RD BIRD FLU VICTIM [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Egypt's 53rd human avian influenza (AI) victim-a two-year-old girl from Shebin El-Kom, the capital of the Menoufiya Governorate- has recovered. Twenty-four of the 25 Egyptian pre-teens struck with bird flu here have now survived, including all 22 of those under age t [...]	2009-02-01 13:55:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG
09CAIRO1767	AMBASSADOR HOSTS EGYPTIAN RELIGIOUS INTELLECTUALS [...] (U) Summary: On August 12, the Ambassador hosted a lunch for intellectual leaders from Egypt,s Muslim community, as follow-up to President Obama,s June 2009 Cairo speech. Spirited discussion took place on how to facilitate continued dialogue. Guests stressed the need to engage the American [...]	2009-09-13 13:52:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KISL KPAO EG
09CAIRO1778	MFA DIPNOTE AGREEING TO CONTINUE POLICE TRAINING [...] This is an action request; please see para 4. 2. On September 14, we received a diplomatic note from the MFA agreeing to continue USG-funded police training consistent with the terms of our April 21 dipnote (refs C, D). 3. Begin text of MFA dipnote (informal MFA and embassy translation) [...]	2009-09-14 16:35:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR EG
09CAIRO1793	TRADE MINISTER INTENT ON EXPANDING US-EGYPT TRADE TIES [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-15 14:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL PGOV EG
09CAIRO1818	TIP PROSECUTOR TALKS ABOUT THE COMPREHENSIVE TRAFFICKING LAW REF: CAIRO 1758 Classified By: Minister Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs Donald A. Blome for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-17 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN KJUS SOCI EG
09CAIRO1842	EGYPT AND THE IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE [...] (C) Embassy Cairo commends the efforts of US Mission Vienna to engage Egypt and Israel on the Middle East Safeguards (MES) text at the IAEA GC meetings in Vienna, described in ref a and b, and the positive outcome achieved on that resolution. We believe it represents in part a new approach from the [...]	2009-09-24 12:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP PARM EG
09CAIRO1848	EMBASSY RAISES HAASSMENT OF EGYPTIAN CONVERTS WTH MFA [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-24 14:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF EG
09CAIRO1851	AFRICAN AFFAIRS DISCUSSIONS AT THE ARAB LEAGUE [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-24 14:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU SO MR EG
09CAIRO1857	ENGAGING AYMAN NOUR [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-27 14:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
09CAIRO1858	EGYPT ELECTIONS WORKING GROUP, STEP ONE REACHING [...] (C) Key Issues: -- Egypt's 2010 parliamentary and 2011 presidential elections come at a time of increased scrutiny following other high-profile and flawed elections in the region. -- In order to ensure comprehensive engagement on upcoming elections in Egypt, Embassy Cairo has initiated an Elections [...]	2009-09-27 14:47:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM EG
09CAIRO1893	REPORTS OF DIVISIONS WITHIN THE MB FOLLOWING THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-01 16:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KISL EG
09CAIRO1912	CORRECTED COPY - UNESCO VOTE INCITES PRESS, GOE READY TO MOVE ON REF: A. PARIS 1301 B. CAIRO 1804 CAIRO 00001912 001.3 OF 002 Classified By: Ambassador Margaret Scobey for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-05 14:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNESCO SCUL EG
09CAIRO1917	PETROLEUM MINISTER SEEKS U.S. INVESTMENT IN GAS [...] (C) Key Points: -- Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy wants major U.S. oil companies to invest in five deepwater natural gas exploration blocks off Egypt's Mediterranean coast, according to a senior MOP official. -- Fahmy plans to travel to the U.S. in November 2009 and hopes to brief senior U.S. oi [...]	2009-10-05 16:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON BEXP EPET ENRG EINV EG
09CAIRO1925	UPDATE: PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS MINISTER ON [...] (C) Key Points: -- Minister of State for Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Moufid Shehab confirmed that the new counter-terrorism law would be submitted to parliament by March 2010 in order to go into effect before the Emergency Law expires in May 2010. However, internal disagreements r [...]	2009-10-08 16:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PRGOV PTER KIRF KDEM EG
09CAIRO1945	Cooperation and Coordination Busts Fraud Ring [...] (SBU) Summary: The Cairo Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU),the Egyptian State Security Investigative Services (SSIS) and the Greek Embassy in Cairo worked together to identify a major fraud ring involved in obtaining Schengen visas for mala fide travelers. The ring used fake US visas and bogus suppo [...]	2009-10-13 14:58:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS CMGT ASEC SMIG EG
09CAIRO1993	UNHCR CAIRO DISCUSSES REFUGEE CHALLENGES [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-20 13:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF SU IZ SO ER IS EG
09CAIRO205	LESSONS LEARNED FROM EMBASSY CAIRO'S EVACUATION OF AMERICAN [...] Summary: Embassy Cairo evacuated four families with American citizens and family members entitled to immigrant visas, and assisted in the evacuation of over 100 foreign nationals on January 19, 2009. The evacuation went smoothly and lessons learned follow. End Summary. 2. On January 19, 2 [...]	2009-02-04 15:12:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC PREL PTER ASEC KPAL EG

09CAIRO207	FRAUD TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES CONTINUE TO DISMANTLE NETWORK OF [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable highlights the effective fraud tools and techniques that have uncovered the network of fraudulent birth registrations reported in refs (A) and (B). The Fraud Prevention Manager (FPM) and A/RSO-I continue to use a wide variety of fraud resources to not only identify ad [...]	2009-02-04 15:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS CMGT CASC KOCI ASEC PHUM SMIG EG
09CAIRO2072	NAVCENT DISCUSSES SUEZ CANAL TRANSIT PROCEDURES [...] (C) Key Points -- During a September 29 meeting, NAVCENT Deputy Commander Rear Admiral Cropper and Assistant Minister of Defense Major General al-Assar discussed Suez Canal transit procedures for U.S. naval vessels as part of an ongoing dialogue following the March 2008 Global Patriot incident. -- [...]	2009-11-01 15:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MASS MARR EWWT EG
09CAIRO2172	SCENESETTER FOR U/S HORMATS MEETING WITH MINISTER [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-19 08:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAID ETRD PGOV PREL EG
09CAIRO2176	EGYPT'S MUFTI ON NIQAB CONTROVERSY [...] Key Points -- (C) In a November 9 meeting with the Ambassador, Egypt's Grand Mufti Ali Gom'aa said that while the niqab (full-facial veil) is not a requirement in Islam, women should have the right to wear it if they chose. -- (C) Commenting on sectarian strife in Egypt, the Mufti said that formal [...]	2009-11-19 10:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL SOCI KIRF KPAO KWMN EG
09CAIRO2178	COPTIC CHOIR BOYS UNCOVERED AS INTENDING IMMIGRANTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Cairo Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) uncovered a scheme to have young men pose as Coptic choir boys in order to be issued visas for travel to the United States. The applicants used bogus letters from churches in Egypt and the United States to facilitate the fraud. Egyptian State [...]	2009-11-19 11:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD KIRF CVIS CMGT KOCI ASEC PHUM SMIG EG
09CAIRO2223	POST NOMINATION FOR THE 2010 SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR [...] KEY POINTS -- (U) Nehad Aboul Komsan, Embassy Cairo's nominee for the Secretary's International Women of Courage Award, deserves USG commendation for her tireless campaigning on behalf of women's rights in Egypt. -- (U) Aboul Komsan's efforts as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Egyp [...]	2009-12-01 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO EG
09CAIRO2229	EGYPTIAN QURANIST DETAINED, RELEASED [...] Key Points: -- (SBU) On November 18, security officials at Cairo International Airport detained Abdel Latif Mohamed Saied, a member of the heterodox Islamic Quranist movement, when he attempted to board a flight for Khartoum. -- (C) On November 24, Embassy Cairo raised Saied's detention with Deputy [...]	2009-12-02 14:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL EG
09CAIRO2237	EGYPT 2010 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE [...] (U) Per reftel, below is the text of Embassy Cairo's 2010 National Trade Estimate for Egypt, also emailed as requested to USTR in a Microsoft Word document. 2. (U) Begin text: EGYPT TRADE SUMMARY The U.S. goods trade surplus with Egypt was $3.6 billion in 2008, an increase of $690 m [...]	2009-12-03 13:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ENRG PGOV EG
09CAIRO2263	EGYPT: 2009 TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (U) Per reftel A, the following is Embassy Cairo's interim assessment of the GoE's efforts to combat trafficking in persons in 2009. ------------------------- Law Enforcement Activity ------------------------- 2. (SBU) Since May 2009, there have been a number of high profile prosecut [...]	2009-12-07 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM SMIG KTIP EG
09CAIRO229	STATE SECURITY DETAINS EGYPTIAN-GERMAN BLOGGER AND GAZA ACTIVIST REF: A. 09 CAIRO 79 B. 08 CAIRO 2431 C. 08 CAIRO 862 D. 08 CAIRO 797 Classified By: ECPO Mincouns William R. Stewart for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d). [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-09 15:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAL GE EG
09CAIRO2298	EGYPT: MB INTERNAL CLASHES CONTINUE [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-15 14:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS PTER EG
09CAIRO2308	EGYPT: CAN KIFAYA REGAIN LOST MOMENTUM? [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-17 12:41:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM EG
09CAIRO231	SCENESETTER FOR REQUESTED EGYPTIAN FM ABOUL GHEIT [...] (S/NF) Madame Secretary, Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit has been looking forward to meeting you since your nomination was first announced. The Egyptian leadership, including President Mubarak, are encouraged by the Administration's immediate attention to the Middle East and your and the Preside [...]	2009-02-09 16:10:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL KPAL EG IS QA IR SY
09CAIRO2312	ISRAELIS NOT UPBEAT ON PROSPECTS FOR BILATERAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-17 14:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN EINV PGOV PREL EG IS
09CAIRO2315	EGYPT: 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] Egypt is an ally on counter-terrorism issues. The Egyptian and U.S. governments maintained a robust dialogue on a broad range of counter-terrorism and law enforcement issues in 2009 and exchanged information on a variety of terrorism, security, and law enforcement matters during the course of [...]	2009-12-17 15:07:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PINS PREL AEMR EG
09CAIRO2396	100 GAZA MARCHERS EN ROUTE RAFAH [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-30 14:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CASC ASEC EG
09CAIRO2400	ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT, EMBASSY CAIRO OUTREACH [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Embassy Cairo's interagency entrepreneurship team has organized a series of activities to engage local partners in entrepreneurship and build momentum for the White House Summit next year. ------------------------ Roundtables and Outreach ------------------------ 2. (S [...]	2009-12-30 15:21:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EAID PREL PGOV SOCI EG
09CAIRO2403	REPORTS OF CANADA-EGYPT FTA TALKS INACCURATE [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-30 15:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EG ENIV ETRD PGOV
09CAIRO2404	EGYPT-U.S. JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR [...] (C) Main Points: -- During upcoming JSCNEC meetings in Cairo GOE wants a tight focus, both in agenda and in delegation composition, on technical issues related to Egypt's expanding civil nuclear power development. -- GOE flagged several civil nuclear issues as already the subject of GOE consultatio [...]	2009-12-30 15:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC EG EU IAEA KNNP PREL RS TRGY UN
09CAIRO242	STATE SECURITY RESPONDS TO DRAFT LETTER ON POLICE [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-10 15:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EG
09CAIRO25	BECHTEL WINS NUCLEAR TENDER; ELECTRICITY MINISTER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with Minister of Electricity and Energy Dr. Hassan Younes and the Chairman of the Nuclear Power Plants Authority (NPPA) Dr. Yassin Ibrahim on December 31 to discuss Egypt's plans to develop a civilian nuclear energy program. GOE awarded a $188 million consulting [...]	2009-01-06 14:01:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KNNP ECON ETRD EAID EG
09CAIRO255	GOE RELEASES EGYPTIAN-GERMAN BLOGGER, CRACKS DOWN [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-11 14:43:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM GE EG
09CAIRO265	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LIEBERMAN'S VISIT TO CAIRO [...] (SBU) Senator Lieberman, welcome to Egypt. Your visit comes at a pivotal time for Egypt and the region. A ceasefire is almost in place between Israel and Hamas, which the Egyptians are seeking to cement. The U.S., European countries, and regional governments are searching for ways to put in p [...]	2009-02-12 14:37:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PGOV OREP KPAL EG IS
09CAIRO267	UNHCR UPDATES ON REFUGEE SITUATION IN CAIRO [...] (C) Summary: We attended the Cairo Office of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees' (UNHCR) multilateral meeting on February 4 to discuss refugee developments and UNHCR's plans for 2009. UNHCR partners, NGO's, and western embassies also participated. Following the meeting, UNHCR Re [...]	2009-02-12 15:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM PGOV ECON ELAB SU ER ET SO
09CAIRO269	CALL IN TO EMBASSY REPORTS POSSIBLE SUICIDE BOMBER REF: RSO CAIRO SPOT REPORT 02/16/2009 Classified By: BILL A. MILLER, RSO, REASONS: 1.4 (B)(C)(D) [...] (S) On 2/16/09 at approximately XXXXXXXXXXXX local time, the RSO Office received a telephone threat from a caller identified as XXXXXXXXXXXX. Speaking in Arabic, the caller reported that he was worried about his friend XXXXXXXXXXXX as he has been befriended by Pakistanis who have convinced him to c [...]	2009-02-16 14:52:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	ASEC PTER
09CAIRO321	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING SUPPORT FOR DURBAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-22 15:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC EG
09CAIRO323	PARLIAMENTARY SPEAKER ON UPCOMING LEGISLATION [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-23 12:31:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KISL IR EG
09CAIRO336	FEBRUARY 22 EXPLOSION AT KHAN EL-KHALILI MARKET [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 22, at approximately 7:00 p.m. local time, an explosion went off near the Khan el-Khalili market in Cairo,s old city, close to the El Hussain Mosque. Although the market is normally a heavily trafficked tourist area, many shops are closed on Sundays and there were re [...]	2009-02-24 14:30:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	KWBG AEMR ASEC CASC OTRA OVIP PTER
09CAIRO347	SCENESETTER FOR THE MARCH 2 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MUBARAK [...] (C) Madame Secretary, welcome to Egypt and the March 2nd Gaza Reconstruction Conference in Sharm El-Sheik. President Mubarak is very pleased you are coming and will meet you at 8:30 a.m. on March 2, prior to the start of the conference. He may also host you and the other conference participant [...]	2009-02-25 17:54:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL KPAL EAID MASS QA IR SY EG IS XF
09CAIRO353	A NEW APPROACH TO EGYPTÂ´S ESF [...] (S) Summary and Key points: --A robust economic assistance program for Egypt serves long-term U.S. interests: it balances a relationship otherwise defined solely on security grounds, it demonstrates U.S. interest in the welfare of average Egyptians, and it creates a bridge to assure access to futu [...]	2009-02-26 12:14:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	EAID PREL KDEM EG
09CAIRO36	EMBASSY MEETS WITH ERITREAN COMMUNITY LEADERS IN [...] Summary: The Embassy met with Eritrean community leaders in Cairo on January 4 to discuss the increased flow of Eritrean migrants, the plight of Eritreans in Egypt, and the recent Egyptian refoulement of Eritrean migrants. Eritrean leaders estimate there are 10,000 Eritreans living in Cairo. [...]	2009-01-08 15:56:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PHUM PGOV PREF ER EG
09CAIRO378	GOVERNMENT OF EGYPT'S UPDATE ON REFUGEES [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian MFA Refugee Office Director Tarek Maaty told us on February 9 that the disagreement over the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' call to open the Gaza borders had passed (reftel). He said that a senior UNHCR official will come to Cairo to work on a combined vision for refu [...]	2009-03-03 11:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM PREL ER SO SU EG
09CAIRO386	CAIRO SUBMISSION FOR THE NINTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING [...] (U) This cable contains U.S. Embassy Cairo's response to Trafficking in Persons (TIP) contribution requirements (reftel A). The following text contains responses to paragraphs 23-29 in the original tasking cable. 2. (U) THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION: -- A. The available sources of informat [...]	2009-03-04 14:32:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	KTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
09CAIRO393	AYMAN NOUR DISCUSSES HIS RELEASE, FUTURE [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On February 26, poloff met with former presidential candidate and opposition party leader Ayman Nour, who was released from an Egyptian prison on February 18, and his wife, Gameela Ismail. -- (C) Before Nour arrived, Ismail told poloff that on the day of his release, [...]	2009-03-05 14:04:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO404	EMBASSY CAIRO DELIVERS DEMARCHE ON GOVERNMENT OF [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche on the Government of Sudan's (GOS) decision to expel NGOs to Hisham Youssef, Chief of Staff of the Arab League, and to Ahmed Abu Zeid, Egyptian MFA Cabinet Advisor on African Affairs on March 8. Youssef told us that the Arab League (AL) shares our concerns ab [...]	2009-03-08 15:11:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO SU EG
09CAIRO418	RACHID REVIEWS UPCOMING TRIP TO WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) KEY ISSUES: -- Minister of Trade Rachid will spend March 22-25 in Washington with the goals of restarting a bilateral economic and trade dialogue and re-engaging with U.S. business. -- Rachid believes the Washington trip may be an occasion for a public roll-out of the recently agre [...]	2009-03-11 14:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EINV PREL EG
09CAIRO428	MAHALLA ONE YEAR AFTER THE STRIKE [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) On March 10, we visited Misr Spinning & Weaving Company in the Egyptian Nile Delta city of Mahalla, the largest manufacturing company in Egypt and a hotbed of labor activism. The factory's workers staged a wildcat strike in April 2008, sparking violent riots in Mahalla ( [...]	2009-03-12 13:59:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON PGOV PREL KDEM EG
09CAIRO444	EGYPT: TRADE MINISTER IN WASHINGTON NEXT WEEK [...] (SBU) Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Rachid will visit Washington March 22-25. He plans meetings with Administration officials, representatives from business organizations, and members of Congress. He will not be traveling with a business delegation. Rachid is a key reformer [...]	2009-03-16 09:06:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EAGR EFIN PREL EG
09CAIRO451	INTERIOR MINISTER ON KHAN BOMBING, GAZA SMUGGLING [...] (S) KEY POINTS -- (S) On March 12, Interior Minister Habib Al-Adly told the Ambassador that evidence indicates "one or two" individuals were responsible for the February 22 Khan Al-Khalili market bombing. He said the MOI believes the individuals were not linked to any organized group, but r [...]	2009-03-16 11:02:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM KPAL ASEC SU EG
09CAIRO462	EGYPT: ADDITIONAL CONCERNS REGARDING DRAFT LIST OF [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-17 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI EG
09CAIRO463	AMBASSADOR PRESSES FOREIGN MINISTER ON FREEDOM OF [...] (C) On March 14, the Ambassador spoke to Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit regarding Egypt's tabling of a freedom of expression resolution at the current session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). She urged Egypt to withdraw its text to allow Canada to a run a resolution at the June session of [...]	2009-03-17 15:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UN EU UK EG
09CAIRO470	DARFURI LEADERS IN CAIRO SUPPORT ICC ARREST [...] Key Points -- (C) We met with Cairo office representatives from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA)-Minni Minawi, SLA-Unity, The Sons of the Fur (who have strong ties to SLA-Abdel Wahid al-Nur),and the Darfuri Arab Democratic Popular Front (DPF) on March [...]	2009-03-18 15:53:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PREF KPKO PHUM KICR KISL EAID QA LY ER
09CAIRO477	EGYPTIAN CONVERT STRUGGLES FOR ACCEPTANCE [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-19 14:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF KISL SOCI EG
09CAIRO478	END-USE ISSUES IN EGYPT [...] Key Points: -- (S/NF) Since 2006, the Department has reported to Congress five separate potential violations of Egypt's end-use, re-transfer, and security obligations. -- (S/NF) Three of those cases - the Medical Center, Metrology Lab Case, and Synchrolift - involved potential end use vi [...]	2009-03-19 15:40:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM ETTC MASS EG
09CAIRO529	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCONNELL'S VISIT TO CAIRO [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Senator McConnell, welcome to Egypt. Your visit comes as Egypt continues its efforts to mediate a permanent cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, to facilitate intra-Palestinian negotiations to form a new, interim government, and to stop the smuggling of arms into Gaza. The U.S., [...]	2009-03-26 14:32:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP MCCONNELL PGOV ECON KPAL EG IS
09CAIRO561	FOREIGN WORKERS IN EGYPT [...] (C) KEY POINTS - As part of our ongoing monitoring of labor conditions in Egypt, particularly in the Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs),we discussed the issue of foreign workers with diplomats from a number of Southeast Asian embassies. - Diplomats from Southeast Asian countries estimate [...]	2009-04-02 09:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EAID EFIN EINV PGOV PREL EG BG IN
09CAIRO568	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL TAUSCHER'S VISIT TO CAIRO [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Representative Tauscher, welcome to Egypt. Your visit comes as Egypt continues its efforts to mediate a permanent cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, to facilitate intra-Palestinian negotiations to form a new, interim government, and to stop the smuggling of arms into Gaza. The [...]	2009-04-02 15:38:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP TAUSCHER PGOV ECON KPAL EG IS
09CAIRO570	EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT ON ERITREAN AND SUDANESE [...] (C) Key Points -- There are 118 Eritreans in Aswan in detention, who will be accepted for resettlement by Canada if they pass the required consular and medical examinations (reftels A-C). However the Government of Egypt (GOE) refuses to make them available for processing in Cairo. This cou [...]	2009-04-02 16:03:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV ER SU EG
09CAIRO600	UPDATE ON CASE OF FRAUDULENT BIRTH REGISTRATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Working with the Canadian Embassy in Cairo, the Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) has identified at least five cases from the Canadians that fit the profile of the confirmed baby trafficking cases described in reftels. In addition, the FPU has uncovered one additional case from the no [...]	2009-04-08 07:33:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT CVIS EG KFRD KOCI PHUM SMIG
09CAIRO618	CODEL TAUSCHER"S APRIL 9 MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) Key Points: -- Israel: Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit said that Egypt has a long-standing relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and can work with him, in contrast to new Israeli Foreign Minister Leiberman, whom Aboul Gheit labeled a "problem." --Aboul Gheit does not see [...]	2009-04-12 15:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KPAL KNNP IS IR EG QA
09CAIRO626	SOUTH SUDAN LIAISON OFFICE ON ICC AND CPA [...] (C) Key Points -- According to Government of South Sudan (GOSS) officials, the GOSS expected an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Bashir and has encouraged him to work with the ICC and not ignore the warrant. -- Bashir has turned the ICC arrest warrant into a fight with the West. The [...]	2009-04-13 09:07:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV KISL SU EG
09CAIRO63	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 13 [...] (S) According to Ministry of Defense sources, on January 12, an unexploded Israeli bomb landed in an open field on the Egyptian side of the border. No injuries were reported. The Egyptians informed the Israelis, who offered to send a team to safely dismantle the bomb and noted that it was "U [...]	2009-01-13 13:55:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM CASC EG IS
09CAIRO634	DARFURI ARAB LEADERS IN CAIRO CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) Key Points -- Osama El Hassan, Secretary General of the Sudanese Democratic Popular Front (DPF) and Siddique Ander, Chairman of the DPF, told us on April 1 that Darfuri Arabs are fearful of being targeted by the Darfuri Rebel groups as retribution for "past crimes," even though most Darf [...]	2009-04-14 05:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL PTER SU CD IR EG
09CAIRO639	DARFURI WOMEN REFUGEE LEADERS DESCRIBE [...] (C) Key Points -- We met with two Darfuri women chosen to represent the views of Darfuri refugee women to the U.S. Embassy. They told us that they held protests at UNHCR's Cairo office demanding better housing allowances, medical care, and resettlement options. -- Both women said they we [...]	2009-04-14 11:18:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL SOCI KWMN SU EG
09CAIRO68	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 14 [...] (S) According to MoD sources, the Rafah border area has been relatively quiet today, with no collateral damage on the Egyptian side, and no reports of Palestinian firing on Egyptian Border Guard Forces. -------------- Demonstrations -------------- 2. (SBU) Contacts reported that on Janu [...]	2009-01-14 13:20:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM CASC EG IS
09CAIRO694	POLICE PROGRAM DIPNOTE DELIVERED TO THE MFA [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-23 15:33:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR EG
09CAIRO726	EGYPT: AID AND RECONCILIATION IN GAZA [...] (C) Key Points -- We met with the Director of the World Food Program's warehouse in El Arish on April 8, and with an American doctor, returning after 3 months in Gaza and the West Bank, on April 22. Both stressed that Gazans are still in dire need of food and medical supplies. No reconstruc [...]	2009-04-29 10:21:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL KWBG IS PA EG
09CAIRO737	VISIT OF SOMALI PRESIDENT SHAYKH SHARIF TO EGYPT [...] (C) Key Points: -- Ismail Hussein, DCM at the Somali Embassy in Cairo, told us on April 23 that he was pleased with substantive discussions on Egyptian support for the Somali Government and how to fight piracy during the April 22 meeting between Somali President Shaykh Sharif Shaykh Ahmed an [...]	2009-04-29 13:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KCRM EWWT MOPS MARR KJUS SO EG
09CAIRO747	ADMIRAL MULLEN'S MEETINGS WITH FIELD MARSHAL [...] Key Points: - (S/NF) During an April 21 meeting with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen, Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi noted the strong Egypt-U.S. military relationship and looked forward to increased cooperation with the new U.S. Africa Command. - ( [...]	2009-04-30 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MASS MOPS PARM KPAL IS IR SO EG PTER
09CAIRO748	GOE REMINDS PROMINENT HUMAN RIGHTS NGO THAT IT [...] KEY POINTS: -- (SBU) A prominent independent human rights NGO, the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) received a letter April 27 from The Ministry of Social Solidarity (MOSS) reminding it that MOSS is authorized to dissolve EOHR for receiving unauthorized foreign funding. EOHR is [...]	2009-04-30 16:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG
09CAIRO765	EGYPT: RECENT FLU NEWS [...] (U) Key Points-- There have been a number of developments on both the H1N1 ("Swine" flu) and H5N1 (Avian Influenza or AI) fronts: --(SBU) While the GOE's pig slaughter campaign (septel) has diverted resources and public attention from GOE efforts at pandemic preparedness, the GOE has taken [...]	2009-05-05 10:23:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PGOV EAGR EG
09CAIRO771	EGYPT'S WAR ON FLUQPIG FARMERS CLASH WITH CULL TEAMS [...] (SBU) Key Points: -- There have been reports of sporadic clashes between pig farmers and GOE culling team as the pig cull in Egypt enters its second week. There is a heavy police presence in the Mokkattum area on Cairo's east side, home to many of the country's backyard pig farms. -- D [...]	2009-05-06 11:13:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO EAGR PGOV ECON KFLU KSTH KSCA KISL KIRF EG
09CAIRO772	EGYPTIAN MFA ON VISIT OF SHAYKH SHARIF, PIRACY [...] (C) Key Points: -- The Egyptian MFA said that Somali President Shaykh Sharif Shaykh Ahmed asked for Egyptian support for his government and the Somali joint forces. Egypt agreed to supply uniforms for the forces and is ready to provide training for troops and trainers. -- The Government [...]	2009-05-06 11:13:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRM MARR MOPS EWWT SO EG
09CAIRO81	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP: JANUARY 15 [...] (SBU) Gilad visits; leaves disappointed. Demonstrations in support of Gaza continue throughout Egypt. Public opinion is strongly pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli; Israeli pilgrims are barred from a holy site. Embassy consular officers prepare for a potential evacuation of American citizens an [...]	2009-01-15 15:54:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	KPAL PGOV PREL PHUM CASC EAID MOPS EG IS
09CAIRO826	EGYPTIAN MFA REACTS TO VISIT OF S/E GRATION [...] (C) Key Points: -- Egyptian MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs told us on May 4 that the visit of S/E for Sudan, General J. Scott Gration, was a very good opportunity for Government of Egypt (GOE) and the USG to exchange views on Sudan (reftel). -- Abu Zeid agreed with S/E Gration's c [...]	2009-05-14 08:46:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU QA EG
09CAIRO827	MEETING WITH SLA UNITY DEPUTY HARIR [...] Key Points: -- SLA Unity Deputy Chairman and Foreign Affairs Representative Sharif Abdalla Harir (protect) said that SLA Unity members that signed the Tripoli, Libya Agreement, in April, were not authorized to do so by the 51-man council, or Chairman Abdallah Yahya. -- Harir met with Just [...]	2009-05-14 08:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU CD QA EG
09CAIRO829	EGYPT TO HOST FIFTH ROUND OF INTRA-PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Key points: -- The Egyptians will host the fifth round of negotiations between the Palestinian factions beginning May 16 in Cairo. MFA Director for Palestinian Affairs Yasser Osman told us May 13 that he was not optimistic an agreement will be reached on a consensus PA government or majo [...]	2009-05-14 10:15:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
09CAIRO872	FULL EAC MEETING, MAY 18, 2009 [...] (C/NF) The acting DCM convened a full Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting in response to ref A, to review potential security implications for USG interests in Egypt resulting from the possible release of photographs of detainees, and to discuss the impending release of Egyptian wage revi [...]	2009-05-19 12:05:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	AEMR ASEC CASC KWBG PTER EG
09CAIRO876	$14 MILLION IN ADDED COSTS TO TANK CO-PRODUCTION [...] (U) This is an action message. See para 2 for action requested. 2. (S/NF) Action request: Delays in USG approval of Egypt's outstanding LOR for M1A1 co-production have forced a slowdown of Increment 10's production rate and added approximately $14 million to total costs. All future delay [...]	2009-05-19 16:54:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL MASS MOPS ETTC EG
09CAIRO888	MFA ON SYRIA, LEBANON AND YEMEM [...] (C) Key points: -- SYRIA: MFA Cabinet Advisor Mahmoud Afifi told us May 18 that the tenor of Egyptian-Syrian relations has improved recently, and that Damascus appears to be taking a less obstreperous posture toward Egyptians efforts at Palestinian reconciliation. -- LEBANON: Afifi said t [...]	2009-05-20 15:14:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SY YE LE EG
09CAIRO892	AMBASSADOR RAISES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, BLOGGERS AND [...] KEY POINTS -- (C) In a May 20 meeting with Interior Minister Habib Al-Adly, the Ambassador raised identity documents for Baha'is, and urged the release of a Coptic priest jailed for performing the wedding of a Christian convert who allegedly held forged identity documents. -- (C) The Ambassador u [...]	2009-05-21 12:20:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KIRF CASC EG
09CAIRO939	REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR IRAQ/VIABILITY OF [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-26 09:48:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PGOV PREL TBIO IZ EG
09CAIRO946	EGYPT'S QIZ: NO AGREEMENT ON REDUCTION IN ISRAELI [...] (C) Key issues: --At the May 25 QIZ meeting, the Israeli and Egyptian delegations disagreed over results of a one-on-one meeting May 11 between trade ministers in Sharm El Sheikh, with the Egyptian side insisting a reduction in Israeli content to 8% had been agreed, and the Israelis insisting it ha [...]	2009-05-27 15:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL IS EG
09CAIRO983	EMBASSY CAIRO RESPONSE TO FY 2009 JULIA TAFT [...] (U) Embassy Cairo is pleased to propose the following three projects, for funding by the FY 2009 Julia Taft Refugee Fund, to assist the refugee communitites in Cairo. The total amount of funding for the three projects is USD 19,350. The delivery of refugee assistance in Cairo's urban setting i [...]	2009-05-31 08:08:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL EG
09CANBERRA1005	AUSTRALIA DECIDING ON VOTE FOR DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] We provided to Australia the information on candidate Thomas McInerney for the office of Director General of International Development Law Organization per reftel. According to Ben Milton, Director of the International Law Section at Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, his se [...]	2009-11-13 06:33:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON PREL
09CANBERRA1016	AUSTRALIAN MESSAGES TO KARZAI WILL MIRROR THOSE OF [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Australia agrees with the U.S. approach to engaging Afghanistan. Australia is already in the process of finalizing its own message, which is very similar to that laid out in the referenced cable. Pushing for merit-based appointments is a particular concern. Australian offic [...]	2009-11-19 05:57:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL AF AS
09CANBERRA1020	CORRECTED COPY - BLUE LANTERN: BROKER INQUIRY K-2203 [...] (SBU) U.S. Embassy pol/econ section spoke with PETER PAWSEY of ROTOR AND WING SERVICES LTD (RAWS) at P.O. BOX 6262, CAIRNS, QLD on September 22, 2009 to confirm the company's registration as a broker for defense goods or services. Pawsey told us that the company had registered in the past but [...]	2009-11-20 05:05:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC AS
09CANBERRA1060	AUSTRALIA TERMINATES ANTIDUMPING INVESTIGATION ON [...] On November 25 Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (CBPS) informed Embassy that it has terminated an investigation into alleged dumping of linear low density polyethelyne (LLDP) from the U.S. and Canada. The decision was also published in the November 25 edition of national newsp [...]	2009-12-01 00:11:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD AS
09CANBERRA1072	AUSTRALIAN DUMPING INVESTIGATION: SILICONE [...] (U) In a letter dated November 23, Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (CBPS) informed Embassy that it has made a preliminary affirmative determination into the alleged dumping of silicone emulsion concrete admixture (SECA) produced in the U.S. and exported to Australia (reftel). [...]	2009-12-03 03:33:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD AS
09CANBERRA1081	AUSTRALIA: FAA COMPLETES ASSESSMENT, NEXT STEPS [...] (C/NF) Summary: The FAA team concluded their audit (reftels) and gave a brief assessment of preliminary findings. While the team recognized improvements on previous shortcomings and commended many areas, a few problems remain. Australian officials seem committed to overcoming the shortcomin [...]	2009-12-07 05:33:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR AS
09CANBERRA109	NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT): CONTACT [...] In the Government of Australia, primary points of contact for all NPT matters are: -- John Sullivan, Assistant Secretary, Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch, International Security Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; and -- Chris King, Acting Director, Arms Control [...]	2009-02-02 08:35:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT AS
09CANBERRA1103	SPECIAL ENVOY: CIVILIANS TO AFGHANISTAN STILL A [...] (C/NF) Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Ric Smith told us that the Australian government has yet to agree upon specific numbers for the recently announced expansion of its civilian effort in Afghanistan. Smith, who seemed less enthusiastic and engaged than in past meetings, said tha [...]	2009-12-16 06:34:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINS AF AS
09CANBERRA1124	AUSTRALIA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) The text of the report follows. The stakeholders at post, RSO, Legatt, and DEA have cleared the text. The embassy point of contact is Virgil Strohmeyer, strohmeyervb@state.gov. Australia Australia continued to play a leadership role in the fight against terrorism through multilater [...]	2009-12-23 21:09:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PINS PREL AEMR AS
09CANBERRA120	AUSTRALIAN AND DUTCH FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS AFGHANISTAN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Netherlands Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen and Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith shared views on future engagement in Afghanistan in meetings January 18-21 in Australia. Both Ministers shared the view that more than one year after significant meetings in Bucharest [...]	2009-02-04 06:28:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR PREL AS
09CANBERRA121	AUSTRALIAN QUESTION ON IRAQI WMD SCIENTIST [...] (U) This is an action request for ISN/CTR. Please see para 5 below. 2. (S) Gerry McGuire, Director for Counter-Proliferation, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, called in Deputy POLCOUNS on February 4 to discuss Dr. Ali Abdulrahman Abdullah Al-Za'ag, the former biological weapon scie [...]	2009-02-04 06:45:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET	PTER PINR PINS PARM PREL AS IZ
09CANBERRA134	WILDFIRE DEATHS STUN AUSTRALIA [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request. Unprecedented wildfire deaths in Victoria (reftel) on February 7-8 have led to a suspension of Parliament, an outpouring of public grief, and a request for U. S. assistance. With 130 deaths and the destruction of hundreds of households, and the very real pos [...]	2009-02-09 07:35:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV AS
09CANBERRA138	PRIME MINISTER REIGNS OVER FOREIGN AFFAIRS [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Since becoming Prime Minister in December 2007, Kevin Rudd has appropriated control of foreign-policy formulation and decision-making, leaving his Foreign Minister to perform mundane, ceremonial duties and relegating the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to a backw [...]	2009-02-11 07:28:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV AS
09CANBERRA162	FOREIGN MINISTER SMITH'S OFFER OF ASSISTANCE TO [...] (C/NF) Summary: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade First Assistant Secretary for South and East Asia, the Middle East and Africa Deborah Stokes told Polcouns on February 18 that Foreign Minister Stephen Smith's offer of assistance to Pakistan in its struggle against Taliban insurgents i [...]	2009-02-18 05:47:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AF EAID MARR PK PREL
09CANBERRA164	DUTCH PRESS FOR MORE AUSTRALIAN AID IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C/NF) In meetings January 18-21 with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, Netherlands Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen requested Australia to provide a civilian political advisor in Tarin Kowt, and to increase assistance to Oruzgan Province, including send [...]	2009-02-18 06:58:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MARR PREL AS
09CANBERRA178	AFGHANISTAN-PAKISTAN POLICY REVIEW: AUSTRALIAN NSA [...] (C) At the direction of Prime Minister Rudd, National Security Adviser Duncan Lewis plans to visit Washington the week of March 2 with instructions to personally deliver Australia's submission to the Afghanistan-Pakistan review by weeks's end, as indicated in Ref A. Embassy recommends Departm [...]	2009-02-20 06:09:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR AS
09CANBERRA204	CANBERRA - SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE [...] (U) This response has been coordinated and cleared by the EAC. The following responses are keyed to the questions listed in the reftel and cover all constituent posts in Australia. POLITICAL VIOLENCE I.(SBU) Demonstrations A. Yes. There are significant Greek, Malaysian, Lebanese, Ser [...]	2009-03-02 00:09:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC PTER
09CANBERRA247	ALLEGATIONS CONCERNING USAID CONTRACTOR [...] (SBU) Post has been contacted by Peter Farrell, General Manager of Australian Medicines Handbook Pty Ltd (AMH),concerning what he calls an "apparent case of intellectual property theft." Farrell alleges that PHRplus, now called HealthSystems 20/20, which he describes as "an agency of USAID", [...]	2009-03-13 04:00:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREK KIPR AS
09CANBERRA254	AUSTRALIA SUPPORTIVE ON ADB SAFEGUARD REVIEW [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-16 03:50:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON ADB AS
09CANBERRA256	AUSTRALIAN FM SMITH TO ATTEND AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Foreign Minister Stephen Smith's staff have confirmed he will participate in the Netherlands-hosted International Conference on Afghanistan in The Hague on March 31. 2. (C/NF) According to the Dutch Embassy, however, as late as Friday afternoon, March 13, FM Smith was considering tur [...]	2009-03-16 08:06:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR MOPS EAID AS
09CANBERRA262	HCOC: AUSTRALIA ON ANNUAL DECLARATION "INREACH", [...] (SBU) We approached Gerry McGuire, Director, Counter-Proliferation Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on March 16 to solicit Australia's help in encouraging timely submission of annual declarations from Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferaton (HCOC) subscrib [...]	2009-03-17 06:50:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC TSPA PREL ETTC KSCA AS
09CANBERRA267	PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C/NF) Econcouns delivered reftel demarche jointly March 18 with Pakistani Deputy High Commissioner Tawasar Khan to DFAT First Assistant Secretary for South and West Asia, the Middle East and Africa Deborah Stokes. The Japanese Embassy had already approached the Australians last week and did n [...]	2009-03-18 06:15:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID ECON EFIN PREL AS
09CANBERRA272	SHARM AL-SHEIKH FOLLOW-UP - AUSTRALIA STILL [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-19 23:49:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER AS
09CANBERRA278	CANDIDATE FOR AFGHAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION EMERGES [...] (SBU) Abdul Khaliq Fazal advised Embassy of his plan to run in Afghanistan's August Presidential election. Mr. Fazal has a heart condition and is currently awaiting his doctor's permission to travel to Afghanistan to contest the election. 2. (SBU) According to his curriculum vitae, Mr. Faz [...]	2009-03-20 06:17:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL AF AS
09CANBERRA281	AUSTRALIA TRADE POLICY UPDATE: BEEF DECISION CLOSE? [...] (SBU/NF) Summary: We are hearing rumors of possible movement on Australia,s ban on imports of US beef. The GOA is "disappointed" at the delay in Trans-Pacific Partnership. Australia signed an FTA with the ASEAN countries and New Zealand that has been positively received, and covers 21% of A [...]	2009-03-23 03:50:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR ASEAN AS
09CANBERRA283	CONTENTIOUS PAST FOR AFGHAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) Additional information has emerged regarding Abdul Khaliq Fazal, an Afghan Presidential candidate from Melbourne, Australia that may raise questions about his viability. In a 2002 interview with Fazal, then the Minister of Public Works for Afghanistan, a reporter from the Australian Br [...]	2009-03-23 06:04:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL AS

09CANBERRA286	GICNT: AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO SEOUL GI WORKSHOP, [...] Embassy Poloff and Republic of Korea Embassy Political Counsellor Youngsik Park met with Australian Assistant Secretary for Counter-Terrorism Paul Foley, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),on March 18 to hear Australia's response to reftel invitations to Global Initiative to Comb [...]	2009-03-23 09:07:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	KGIC MNUC PARM PREL PTER KS AS
09CANBERRA298	SUBJECT: PAPER SCORE'S PM'S "SECRET" MEETING WITH [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: "The Australian" newspaper has criticized Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's "secret" talks with Chinese Communist Party propaganda chief Li Changcum, on March 21. Officials in the Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet have told the Embassy that Rudd and Li discussed the need for coor [...]	2009-03-24 06:45:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AS CS PREL
09CANBERRA32	PACIFIC WORKING GROUP DECEMBER MEETING [...] (U) The Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD) Pacific Island Working Group (PWG) meeting was hosted by Australia on December 1 in Canberra. Australian delegation: Richard Rowe, First Assistant Secretary, Pacific Division Ravi Kewalram, Assistant Secretary, Pacific Regional and New Zealand [...]	2009-01-09 06:31:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	AS EAID FJ JA PREL
09CANBERRA321	GICNT: AUSTRALIAN PARTICIPATION AT SEOUL; PLANNING [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para 4 below. 2. (SBU) Further to information in Ref A regarding GOA participation in two Seoul-hosted events under the auspices of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT),the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) furnis [...]	2009-03-30 06:41:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KGIC MNUC PARM PREL PTER AS
09CANBERRA325	CORRECTED COPY: GICNT: AUSTRALIAN PARTICIPATION AT [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para 4 below. 2. (SBU) Further to information in Ref A regarding GOA participation in two Seoul-hosted events under the auspices of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT),the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) furnis [...]	2009-03-31 02:08:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KGIC MNUC PARM PREL PTER AS
09CANBERRA326	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE: URGING IRAN TO RELEASE DETAINED AMERICAN, MS SABERI [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-31 06:26:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL AS EZ IN IR NO NZ TU VT EUN PHUM
09CANBERRA336	AUSTRALIAN DEPSEC DENIES DSD INVESTIGATED DEFENSE [...] (C/NF) In a message he wanted to pass to the the USG, particularly the U.S. intelligence community, the Australian Deputy Secretary of Defense responsible for intelligence and security summoned emboffs to his office March 31 to emphatically deny recent press reports suggesting that the Defence [...]	2009-04-03 03:30:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR PINS MARR PGOV PREL AS
09CANBERRA34	GAZA: AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE MAKES ISRAELI [...] (C/NF) Israeli Ambassador Yuval Rotem is very satisfied with the Australian response to the fighting in Gaza. Australian Government statements, including vacationing PM Kevin Rudd's January 5 remarks, have emphasized the need for an end to HAMAS rocket attacks on Israel and halting arms shipm [...]	2009-01-09 08:03:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IS AS
09CANBERRA345	DIVISIONS BETWEEN GOA AND RESERVE BANK OF [...] (U) This is joint ConGen Sydney and Embassy Canberra cable. Summary ------- 2. (C/NF) The Reserve Bank of Australia has acted aggressively over the last six months to address deteriorating economic conditions by slashing the cash rate from 7.25 percent to 3.25 percent. Prime Ministe [...]	2009-04-06 07:28:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ECON AS
09CANBERRA346	FOREIGN OPERATING RIGHTS REQUEST: AUSTRALIAN POC [...] (SBU) Embassy Canberra Assistant Air Attache LTC Michael Kram, who is Embassy Canberra's POC on reftel foreign operating rights request, contacted the Australian Department of Defence (ADOD) Australian Defence Space Coordination Office (DSCO) to engage in preliminary discussions on the planned [...]	2009-04-06 07:35:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OTRA AA
09CANBERRA35	REQUEST FOR PM ATTENDANCE AT SYDNEY MEETING [...] (U) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Embassy requests PM/RSAT participation in the March 16-17 meeting of the Australia - U.S. Ministerial (AUSMIN) Defence Acquisition Committee/Acquisition, Technology and Development Working Group (ADAC/ATDWG) in Sydney. End Summary and Action Request. 2. (U [...]	2009-01-12 05:47:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS PREL AS
09CANBERRA357	GOA ANNOUNCES IT WILL BUILD BROADBAND NETWORK [...] (SBU) Summary: Today PM Kevin Rudd in a surprise move announced that the GOA would set up a company to build the National Broadband Network, at a cost of up to A$43 billion (US$30 billion),rejecting all five commercial tenders. The GOA will allow up to 49% private equity in the new company i [...]	2009-04-07 08:34:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS ECON AS
09CANBERRA358	GOA ANNOUNCES IT WILL BUILD BROADBAND NETWORK [...] (SBU) Summary: Today PM Kevin Rudd in a surprise move announced that the GOA would set up a company to build the National Broadband Network, at a cost of up to A$43 billion (US$30 billion),rejecting all five commercial tenders. The GOA will allow up to 49% private equity in the new company i [...]	2009-04-07 21:52:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS ECON AS
09CANBERRA360	FOREIGN OPERATING RIGHTS REQUEST: PROJECT CROK [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see para 3 below. 2. (SBU) Further to Ref A, our Australian Department of Defence interlocutors mentioned to us the GOA had received a letter from a senior USG official relating to Project Crok that included a request to deploy teams to Australia in s [...]	2009-04-08 07:18:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OTRA MARR AS
09CANBERRA365	AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR IN TEHRAN DEMARCHES IRANIAN [...] (S/NF) The Australian ambassador in Tehran demarched Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Akhmondzadeh on April 7 on behalf of Ms Saberi. Akhomdzadeh, just back from The Hague, expressed surprise to learn that Saberi had not yet been released. The Australian Embassy believes that the GOI indictmen [...]	2009-04-09 06:43:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL CASC EZ IN IR NO NZ TU VT
09CANBERRA369	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE CONCERNING PAKISTAN DONORS [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy along with Japanese and Pakistani Embassies delivered demarche on the upcoming donors conference for Pakistan. GOA confirms it will double its commitment to Pakistan, but details remain to be worked out. Demarche was delayed by Japanese Embassy desire to wait for lett [...]	2009-04-09 07:56:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK AS
09CANBERRA376	DFAT READOUT OF FM SMITH'S DISCUSSIONS IN CHINA [...] (C/NF) Summary: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) North Asia First Assistant Secretary Graham Fletcher told Polcouns on April 8 that Foreign Minister Stephen Smith's talks with Chinese officials on his recent trip to that country went well. He noted that the March 24-27 visit [...]	2009-04-14 03:04:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AS CH JA KN PK PREL
09CANBERRA382	GICNT: RUSSIA DELIVERS DEMARCHE TO AUSTRALIA ON [...] (SBU) Roman Voloshchenao, a Russian Embassy political officer who apparently had received reftel demarche instructions before the four-day Easter holiday, notified us by telephone on April 14 he had arranged to deliver reftel points to James Nachipo, head of the Department of Foreign Affairs a [...]	2009-04-14 08:04:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PTER MNUC KNNP PREL AS
09CANBERRA394	ASYLUM SEEKER DEATHS HIGHLIGHT BORDER SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The deaths of three Afghans in a recent boat explosion off Australia's northwest coast highlight a larger debate over the effects of Prime Minister Rudd's policies on treatment of asylum seekers. Border protection is becoming a higher profile political issue due to a rise in [...]	2009-04-17 09:59:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL AF AS
09CANBERRA402	SCENE SETTER-CDR GEN D. MCNABB VISIT TO AUSTRALIA [...] (C/NF) Australia is the closest of our five treaty allies in the Asia-Pacific region and has deployed forces with the United States in every major military engagement since World War I, including most recently in Afghanistan and Iraq. Relations intensified dramatically in the wake of the 9/11 [...]	2009-04-22 01:57:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET	PREL OTRA AS
09CANBERRA407	AUSTRALIAN PM RUDD "VERY HAPPY" WITH G20 MEETING [...] (S/NF) Summary: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is "very happy" with the outcome of the G-20 meeting in London. He sees U.S. action on toxic banking assets as a major step forward and appreciates U.S. efforts to ensure a positive outcome in London. Rudd praised the President for offering to host [...]	2009-04-24 01:51:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON EFIN ETRD PREL AS
09CANBERRA41	AUSTRALIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) The text of the report follows. The embassy POC is Virgil Strohmeyer, strohmeyervb@state.gov. Australia continues to maintain a regional leadership position in the fight against terrorism. Australia's trilateral cooperation with Japan and the United States addressed terrorist threats in [...]	2009-01-13 06:02:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC
09CANBERRA413	U/S BURNS' AUSTRALIAN BILATERAL, APRIL 21, 2009 [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Burns held a bilateral meeting with Michael L'Estrange, Secretary of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on the margins of the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue Senior Officials Meeting (TSD SOM),in Canberra on April 21, 2009. They discussed the str [...]	2009-04-28 00:04:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP MARR PARM PGOV EAID AS
09CANBERRA419	MGSF01 AUSTRALIA H1N1 SITREP APRIL 29 2009 [...] (SBU) The following is the latest SITREP covering Australia's response to the H1N1 outbreak. 2. (SBU) Government Response: The GOA increased its pandemic response phase to DELAY under the Australian Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza (AHMPPI - available at www.flupandemic.gov.au) [...]	2009-04-29 07:27:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09CANBERRA443	AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR RECOVERING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Australian dollar has fluctuated markedly over the past 6 months. After dropping nearly 40% between July and October 2008, it has recovered now to US$.75, a seven-month high. The recent appreciation of the Australian dollar suggests a return of some confidence in the global [...]	2009-05-07 22:41:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON AS
09CANBERRA451	REMOVAL OF ANTI-AMERICAN SLOGANS FROM TEHRAN'S [...] (S/NF) Summary: The Australian Embassy in Tehran reports that no anti-American murals have been removed and believe it unlikely that city official responsible for beautification has the authority to remove or change them. End summary 2. (S/NF) May 12, Justin Whyatt of the Middle East section [...]	2009-05-13 07:14:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR IR AS
09CANBERRA459	AUSTRALIA THANKED FOR SABERI INTERVENTION [...] (SUB) On May 15, post forwarded a letter to the Foreign Minister, Stephen Smith, signed by the Charg d'Affaires,Daniel A. Clune, thanking the Australian government for its help in the Saberi case and seeking additional assistance in the cases of AMCITS Robert Levinson and Esha Momeni. 2. [...]	2009-05-15 07:14:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	IR AS JA PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER CASC
09CANBERRA460	AUSTRALIA FULLY SUPPORTS THE US-PHILIPPINES ARF [...] (U) Summary: Australia will attend and participate in US-Philippines ARF Workshop on Biological Threat Protection. End summary 2. (U) On May 15, Henry Fox, Director of the Strategic Policy Section, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),told poloff that he had received [...]	2009-05-15 07:20:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	AS PARM PREL TBIO ARF
09CANBERRA464	Australian Health Care - An Overview [...] (SBU) Australia's mixed public and private health care system achieves some of the best health outcomes in the OECD despite healthcare spending comprising less than 10% of GDP. Australia is second in the OECD for life expectancy at birth and 16th in percentage of GDP spent on healthcare. Aust [...]	2009-05-17 22:21:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV SOCI AS
09CANBERRA47	LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW - AUSTRALIA [...] (U) Cuba is not a front-burner issue in Australia. It is far from Australia and there are few political, economic, or cultural ties. 2. (C) Following is keyed to reftel questions. - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights i [...]	2009-01-15 06:12:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL AS
09CANBERRA474	READOUT OF AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE WHITE PAPER [...] (S/NF) Summary: Australian Defence Deputy Secretary Michael Pezzullo invited emboffs to hear a readout of Beijing's reaction to his April 27 briefing on Australia's Defence White Paper in advance of its May 2 public release. He said he used the opportunity specifically to disavow recent Aust [...]	2009-05-19 06:40:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET	PGOV PREL MOPS CH AS
09CANBERRA482	MESSAGE DELIVERED ON WTO/INCREASING TRANSPARENCY [...] (SBU) Econoff with officers from the Japanese Embassy and the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office in Australia on May 21 delivered reftel demarche to Dominic Trindad, Assistant Secretary for Trade Policy and Industrials Branch at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Trindade said t [...]	2009-05-21 01:22:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ETRD AS
09CANBERRA497	AUSTRALIA INITIATES ANTIDUMPING INVESTIGATION ON [...] On May 28 Australian Customs and Border Protection Service informed Embassy that it has initiated an investigation into alleged dumping of linear low density polyethelyne (LLDP) from the US and Canada; the decision was also published in the May 28 edition of national newspaper The Australian. [...]	2009-05-28 05:45:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD AS
09CANBERRA50	SHORTAGE OF MEDICAL ISOTOPES - REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) Embassy Canberra contacted the Canadian Embassy in Canberra January 6 (following Canadian Embassy's reopening following its New Years holiday closure) to discuss reftel request for a joint approach to the GOA concerning the shortage of medical isotopes. The Canadian diplomat said she ha [...]	2009-01-16 02:03:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KSCA AS
09CANBERRA503	GICNT: AUSTRALIAN QUERIES ON OUTREACH, PLENARY AND [...] (U) This is an action request for ISN/WMDT -- please see para 8 below. 2. (SBU) James Nachipo, Director for Counter-Terrorism Coordination, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),invited poloff to DFAT on May 29 to convey some questions and seek assistance on GICNT issues. Mohan [...]	2009-05-29 07:15:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PTER MNUC KNNP PREL AS
09CANBERRA511	GFC, H1N1, AND OPEN SKIES, OH MY! A LOOK AT [...] (SBU) Summary. The Australian civil aviation industry has not escaped the economic slowdown brought on by the intensified global financial crisis. Qantas remains the heavyweight in the Australian aviation arena, but its share of the domestic market is slipping and is now down to around 60%. [...]	2009-06-01 06:46:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ECON AS
09CANBERRA517	AUSTRALIA ON UN INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE [...] This is an action request. Please see para 4 below. 2. PolOff met with Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade United Nations and Commonwealth Section Director Lee Kerr on June 3 to request Australian support of UN International Civil Service Commission U.S. candidate Lucretia Myers, per [...]	2009-06-03 06:32:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC APER KUNR PREL UNGA AS
09CANBERRA526	DEFENSE WHITE PAPER AND MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Australian Defense Department Michael Pezzullo told Charge, DATT and Polcouns that the language on missile defense (MD) in the GOA's Defense White Paper includes a nod to the governing Australia Labor Party's (ALP) left wing, but in reality will allow the GOA to continue its [...]	2009-06-04 07:45:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	AS MCAP PGOV PREL
09CANBERRA529	CORRECTED COPY - DEFENSE WHITE PAPER AND MISSILE [...] (S/NF) CORRECTED COPY - Changed Text in para 1 line 1 and para 2 line 1. Summary: Australian Defense Department Deputy Secretary Michael Pezzullo told Charge, DATT and Polcouns that the language on missile defense (MD) in the GOA's Defense White Paper includes a nod to the governing Austra [...]	2009-06-05 03:33:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	AS MCAP PGOV PREL
09CANBERRA53	TERRORISM FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF DESIGNATION [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel prenotification January 16 to Peter Scott, Director for Sanctions and Transnational Crimes, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Scott thanked us for the advance word and per usual, said he would contact embassy if Australia had any information on the four ind [...]	2009-01-16 04:25:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET	EFIN ETTC PINR PREL PTER IR AS
09CANBERRA533	SPECIAL ENVOY MEETS GOA ON UIGHUR DETAINEES [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Deputy National Security Advisor Angus Campbell, Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure Daniel Fried asked Australia to resettle some of the Uighur detainees in Guantanamo. Campbell listened politely, but because the ultimate decision rests with Prime Minister [...]	2009-06-05 07:32:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	KDRG PHUM PINR PTER AS
09CANBERRA536	IAEA: AUSTRALIA OPEN TO WELL-JUSTIFIED BUDGET [...] (SBU) Australia is open to considering an increase in the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) budget providing the IAEA Secretariat is able to adequately justify the increase. The GOA requested clarification whether the U.S. budget proposal was for an across-the-board increase or appl [...]	2009-06-05 10:18:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC ENRG IAEA PREL KNNP AS
09CANBERRA55	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON EXTENSION OF [...] (SBU) On January 16, Poloff delivered U.S. talking points on the extension of the Mandate of the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) to Jeannie Henderson, Director for Burma at the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and to Jillian Ray, filling in for Sue Nelson, her equivalent at Aus [...]	2009-01-16 04:40:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD EAID PHUM BM AS
09CANBERRA57	SCENE SETTER FOR CDR USN SEVENTH FLEET VADM J. [...] (C/NF) Australia is the closest of our five treaty allies in the Asia-Pacific region and has deployed forces with the United States in every major military engagement since World War I, including most recently in Afghanistan and Iraq. Relations intensified dramatically in the wake of the 9/11 [...]	2009-01-16 05:25:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OTRA AS
09CANBERRA570	AUSTRALIA H1N1 SITREP JUNE 18, 2009 [...] (SBU) The following is the latest SITREP covering Australia's response to the H1N1 outbreak. 2. (SBU) Government Response: On June 17th, the GOA announced a new pandemic response phase - PROTECT - and all jurisdictions are moving to PROTECT level. Key changes include: - Recognizing the [...]	2009-06-18 07:04:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09CANBERRA571	NEW NEGOTIATOR UPDATES ON FTA TALKS [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Australia's lead negotiator is optimistic about the prospects for rapid progress on an FTA with the ROK following the completion of the first round of discussions in May. Agriculture will be the biggest sticking point, but each country's agreement with the United States provid [...]	2009-06-18 07:55:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETRD ECON PREL CH KS JP AS
09CANBERRA587	FOREIGN MINISTRY READOUT OF REPORTS FROM EHERAN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) officials told poloff on June 24 that the Australian Embassy in Tehran is reporting that any possibility of a compromise government has been removed by the hard stances of both Moussavi and Khamenei. The embassy also has reporte [...]	2009-06-25 04:14:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET//NOFORN	AS IR PGOV PREL
09CANBERRA593	AUSTRALIA H1N1 SITREP JUNE 26, 2009 [...] (SBU) The following is the latest SITREP covering Australia's response to the H1N1 outbreak. 2. (SBU) Government Response: Australia remains in its "Protect" posture (ref F) despite continued growth in case numbers. The first confirmed deaths in Australia are all still considered to be in h [...]	2009-06-26 07:04:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09CANBERRA61	SCENE SETTER FOR CDR USN SEVENTH FLEET VADM J. [...] (C/NF) Australia is the closest of our five treaty allies in the Asia-Pacific region and has deployed forces with the United States in every major military engagement since World War I, including most recently in Afghanistan and Iraq. Relations intensified dramatically in the wake of the 9/11 [...]	2009-01-19 23:23:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET	PREL OTRA AS
09CANBERRA626	SECRETARY'S CONDOLENCES DELIVERED TO FM SMITH [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-08 05:15:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL AS
09CANBERRA628	LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW - AUSTRALIA [...] (U) Cuba is not a front-burner issue in Australia. It is far from Australia and there are few political, economic, or cultural ties. 2. (C) Following is keyed to reftel questions. - Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights i [...]	2009-07-08 06:18:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL AS
09CANBERRA630	GOA MULLS CHANGES TO LNG LEASES, IMPACT ON U.S. [...] (C/NF) Summary: Energy and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson is concerned about possible complaints about Australian energy policy by major U.S. energy companies. Ferguson wants to reassure the U.S. that he seeks cooperative work on any conflicts before they become bilateral irritants. The [...]	2009-07-08 07:04:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG ETRD ECON AS
09CANBERRA636	64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ATTENDEE LIST REQUESTED [...] (U) Lee Kerr, Director of the United Nations and Commonwealth Section, International Organisations Branch, International Legal Division of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Embassy on July 9 that the makeup of Australia's attendees list to the 64th UNGA is not yet avai [...]	2009-07-10 01:06:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	KSEP PREL OTRA OVIP CVIS UNGA
09CANBERRA640	AUSTRALIA INFORMED OF THE FUTURE OF MANAS [...] (U) On July 10, embassy informed Damien Miller, Director of the Afghanistan Section in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) of the agreement to continue using Manas airbase to supply ISAF troops in Afghanistan. 2. (U) Mr. Miller stated that the GOA is very pleased th [...]	2009-07-10 06:53:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF AS
09CANBERRA650	AUSTRALIANS RESPOND TO US READ-OUT ON US-RUSSIA [...] (SBU) In response to our earlier demarche (ref A) on the outcome of the U.S.-Russia Presidential Summit, Michael O'Bryne, Executive Officer, Northern, Central and Eastern Europe Section told the Embassy on July 14 that the GOA's overall response is positive. O'Bryne expressed pleasure that th [...]	2009-07-15 02:57:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	RS PGOV PREL AS
09CANBERRA674	ASSISTING AFGHANISTAN BEYOND THE ELECTION - [...] (C/NF) Summary: Foreign Ministry and AusAID officials have expressed support for the new U.S. whole-of-government strategy for Afghanistan. They noted that, under current planning, DFAT is dispatching two diplomats to Khandahar and Tarin Khowt for localized coordination and is requesting U. [...]	2009-07-22 06:48:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AS MARR MOPS PREL
09CANBERRA675	TEXT OF MOUS BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND IRAQ [...] (C/NF) START SUMMARY: On July 17, Lloyd Brodrick (protect),Director of the Iraq Section at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade provided to the Embassy the texts of six MOUs signed by Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, during her visit to Baghdad on June 27. The texts were signed i [...]	2009-07-22 06:58:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MOPS PREL MARR IZ AS
09CANBERRA681	Australians Moonstruck over Apollo 11 Anniversary [...] (U) SUMMARY: The 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing generated much excitement and good will throughout Australia, but especially in the Canberra region, where tracking stations 40 years ago played a crucial role in broadcasting the video images of Neil Armstrong's first steps onto the l [...]	2009-07-27 05:25:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA KPAO PGOV AS
09CANBERRA684	ANTIDUMPING INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS TO VERIFICATION STAGE [...] Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (CBPS) informed Embassy that it's investigation into alleged dumping of linear low density polyethylene (LLDP) from the US and Canada (Reftel) has progressed to the verification stage. CBPS will carry out "on-the-spot verification" of informati [...]	2009-07-27 07:19:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD AS
09CANBERRA698	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO THE PRESIDENT'S REQUEST FOR [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-31 06:50:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UN AS
09CANBERRA720	AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL [...] (C/NF) August 4, John Quinn, Assistant Secretary for Strategic Issues and Intelligence Branch of the International Security Division, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) readily agreed to pass on the request to add one further presentation, which was previously given in B [...]	2009-08-06 02:18:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA AS
09CANBERRA734	ANTIDUMPING INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS TO VERIFICATION STAGE [...] Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (CBPS) informed Embassy that it's investigation into alleged dumping of linear low density polyethylene (LLDP) from the US and Canada (Reftel) has progressed to the verification stage. CBPS will carry out "on-the-spot verification" of informati [...]	2009-08-11 03:13:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD AS
09CANBERRA735	ANTIDUMPING INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS TO VERIFICATION STAGE [...] Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (CBPS) informed Embassy that it's investigation into alleged dumping of linear low density polyethylene (LLDP) from the US and Canada (Reftel) has progressed to the verification stage. CBPS will carry out "on-the-spot verification" of informati [...]	2009-08-11 03:13:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD AS
09CANBERRA738	NEW DUMPING APPLICATION: SILICONE EMULSION [...] (U) In a letter dated July 29, Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (CBPS) informed Embassy it had received an application, dated July 22, requesting that the Minister for Home Affairs publish a dumping duty notice regarding silicone emulsion concrete admixture produced in the U.S [...]	2009-08-12 04:59:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON AS
09CANBERRA79	AUSTRALIA EXTENDS BAN ON SHORT SELLING FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Australia has extended the ban on short-selling financial stocks until March 6, due to volatility in bank stocks internationally. Australian banks support the decision. Concern is growing about the ability of Australian companies to raise funds on international markets; the GO [...]	2009-01-22 05:13:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON AS
09CANBERRA793	GICNT: GOA INFORMED THAT UNODC IS OBSERVER [...] (U) The embassy has informed Mohan Mathews, Counter-Terrorism Branch, International Security Division, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) that the United Nations' Office on Drugs and Crime has joined three other international organizations (IAEA, EU and INTERPOL) as off [...]	2009-08-27 06:27:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL PTER KGIC AS
09CANBERRA802	RESPONSE TO REPORTING REQUEST - NPT REVIEW [...] (SBU) Australia is a strong partner with the U.S. and the multilateral community in working to prevent nuclear proliferation. As an NPT signatory, the GOA takes a multi-dimensional approach to nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. The GOA is a major supporter of the Nuclear Non-Prolifer [...]	2009-08-31 21:59:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09CANBERRA832	SECRETARY CLINTON LETTER DELIVERED TO FM SMITH [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-10 05:25:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL IS
09CANBERRA852	PRIME MINISTER RUDD TO LEAD AUSTRALIAN FODP DELEGATION [...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: Jane Lambert, Director of the Pakistan, Bangladesh and Central Asia branch at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) requested additional information on the Border Trust Fund. She noted that the GOA remains unclear on the Trust's scope and sought clarification [...]	2009-09-17 07:55:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON PK
09CANBERRA855	AUSTRALIA-ROK-INDONESIA TRILATERAL DISCUSSION [...] (C/NF) An inaugural trilateral held in Canberra on September 9 between Australia, the ROK and Indonesia resulted in a vehicle still in search of an idea. While the concept has strong support from the heads of government, the trilateral discussion was wide ranging and did not produce substantiv [...]	2009-09-18 07:36:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KS ID AS
09CANBERRA864	TALKING POINTS DELIVERED ON MISSILE DEFENSE DECISION [...] (C) On September 18, the Australian government received the talking points from State 96550, the President's European-based missile defense decision. The non-paper was delivered to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, specifically: Jennifer Rawson, First Assistant Secretary, Internatio [...]	2009-09-18 08:21:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET	MARR PREL
09CANBERRA879	MTCR: AUSTRALIA REQUESTS COPY OF PAPER: INTANGIBLE [...] (C) Embassy Canberra requests a copy of the interagency cleared paper "Intangible Technology Transfers: Foreign National Vetting" for delivery to Gerry McGuire, Director of the Counter-Proliferation Section of the Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch of Australia's Department of Forei [...]	2009-09-23 06:17:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR AS
09CANBERRA891	AUSTRALIA RECEIVES GICNT UPDATE [...] (U) On September 29, the embassy informed Mohan Mathews, Counter-Terrorism Branch, International Security Division, Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) that the Nov 2009 Exercise Planning Group of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT),to be held in B [...]	2009-09-29 07:30:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL PTER KGIC AS
09CANBERRA892	AUSTRALIA SUPPORTS NEW BURMA APPROACH [...] (C/NF) Summary: Australia supports the Burma Policy Review Conclusions and is conducting its own review of Burma policy. Brendon Hammer, First Assistant Secretary for Southeast Asia at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, reacted very positively to the Burma Policy Review Conclusions ( [...]	2009-09-29 07:47:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM AS
09CANBERRA899	AUSTRALIA WILL SUPPORT US CANDIDACY AT IMO COUNCIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Australia will support the U.S. candidate for the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Council. GOA nominated a candidate under Category "C" membership and has requested U.S. support. GOA requests clarification on reftel paragraph 7. End summary. 2. (SBU) Econoff del [...]	2009-09-30 05:43:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC IMO EWWT PHSA AS
09CANBERRA905	MTCR: AUSTRALIA REQUESTS COPY OF PAPER: ENHANCING [...] (S) Embassy Canberra requests a copy of the interagency cleared paper "Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Scud B Missile System" for delivery to Gerry McGuire, Director of the Counter-Proliferation Section of the Arms Control and Counter-Proliferation Branch of Australia's Department of Foreig [...]	2009-10-01 07:01:00	Embassy Canberra	SECRET	MTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR AS
09CANBERRA920	CLIMATE CHANGE LEGISLATION: INDUSTRY MOSTLY [...] (C/NF) Summary: Recent discussions with Australian companies and civil society groups suggest they largely accept that the government will succeed in passing climate change legislation this year (Ref A). While most interested parties appear to believe that the Carbon Pollution Reduction Schem [...]	2009-10-09 07:17:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV ECON ETRD AS
09CANBERRA951	SECRETARY CLINTON LETTER TO FOREIGN MINISTER SMITH [...] (C/NF) Econoff delivered the Secretary's letter on whale conservation to Foreign Minister Smith's Deputy Chief of Staff, Andrew Dempster, on October 23. Dempster said that the government is reviewing the proposed changes to international whale conservation efforts and will consider Australia [...]	2009-10-23 06:16:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	SENV OPDC PREL AS
09CANBERRA954	-CORRECTED COPY - AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO STATE 102905 ON UNSCR [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-26 04:02:00	Embassy Canberra	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN AS
09CANBERRA973	BLUE LANTERN: BROKER INQUIRY K-0926 [...] (SBU) U.S. Embassy pol/econ section spoke with PETER PAWSEY of ROTOR AND WING SERVICES LTD (RAWS) at P.O. BOX 6262, CAIRNS, QLD on September 22, 2009 to confirm the company's registration as a broker for defense goods or services. Pawsey told us that the company had registered in the past but [...]	2009-10-30 03:34:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC AS
09CANBERRA989	BLUE LANTERN: BROKER INQUIRY K-2322 [...] (SBU) U.S. Embassy Political/Economic Office spoke with RONALD GILBERT, managing director of PROLOGUE CONSULTING PTY LTD by phone on October 30, 2009. The following information is intended to answer questions in reftel: -- Confirm that this entity is in the business of brokering defense art [...]	2009-11-06 02:09:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC AS
09CANBERRA991	BLUE LANTERN: BROKER INQUIRY K-1505 [...] (SBU) U.S. Embassy Political/Economic Office spoke with RICHARD FRANCIS, managing director of NIOA DEFENCE PTY LTD by phone on October 30, 2009. NIOA was reviewed in depth by the Department in October-November 2007 and, following a temporary suspension of export licenses, resumed importing fir [...]	2009-11-06 03:51:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC AS
09CANBERRA992	BLUE LANTERN: BROKER INQUIRY K-0926 [...] (SBU) U.S. Embassy Political/Economic Office spoke with LAWRENCE KOSTER managing director of GLOBAL DEFENCE SOLUTIONS PTY LTD by phone on October 30, 2009. Econoff conducted a site visit to GDS in July 2007 (ref B). Koster confirmed that since that time the company has not changed its focus o [...]	2009-11-06 03:53:00	Embassy Canberra	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC AS
09CAPETOWN128	GLOBAL CONDITIONS MORE LIKELY TO IMPACT SOUTH AFRICAN [...] (U) Summary. The Port Elizabeth Regional Chamber of Commerce organized a briefing on April 21, to discuss the impact of the global economic crisis and the implications of a Jacob Zuma presidency on the country's economic policy. Keynote speaker Econometrix Chief Economist Dr. Azar Jammine not [...]	2009-05-27 14:48:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EFIN EIND ETRD ENRG PGOV SF
09CAPETOWN56	SOUTH AFRICA IS HYDROCARBON POOR, BUT HAS BIG PLANS FOR [...] (SBU) This cable is not for Internet distribution. This cable is a collaboration between Embassy Pretoria and Consulate General Cape Town. Summary. South Africa has limited reserves of crude oil and natural gas and imports 70 percent of its requirements, which are for the most part refined l [...]	2009-03-12 12:33:00	Consulate Cape Town	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG EMIN EINV EIND ETRD ELAB SF
09CARACAS1005	CHARGE'S JULY 31 MEETING WITH MFA CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (C) Summary: Charge d'Affaires (CDA) met July 31 at his request with Temir Porras, the chief of staff for Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro to discuss the return of Ambassador Duddy. Porras said that the Ambassador had no reason to be concerned about a second expulsion, despite the tensions w [...]	2009-07-31 21:46:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS1013	34 RADIO/TV STATIONS SILENCED, MEDIA CRIME LAW [...] (C) Summary: During the weekend of August 1-2, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) shuttered 32 independent and/or opposition radio stations and two TV stations across the country. One day prior to the closings the GBRV released the names of 35 largely pro-Governme [...]	2009-08-03 22:52:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1029	THERE'S TROUBLE BREWING: VENEZUELAN COFFEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Government intervention in Cafe Madrid and Fama de America, two of Venezuela's leading coffee processors, began the weekend of August 1-2 for alleged violation of government production and supply regulations. Minister of Agriculture and Lands Elias Jaua stated that non-complian [...]	2009-08-07 10:08:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR ETRD VE PGOV
09CARACAS103	ECONOMIC TIES WITH IRAN GROWING SLOWLY [...] (C) Summary. Emboffs met with a local businessman to discuss his possible involvement in the establishment of a Venezuelan-Iranian Chamber of Commerce. In the private sector, expatriate Iranians cautiously build enterprises within Venezuela, ever wary of the political and economic pitfalls of doing [...]	2009-01-26 21:44:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE
09CARACAS1034	VENEZUELA'S LEADING UNIVERSITY FACES GBRV PRESSURE [...] (C) Summary: Rector of Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) Dr. Cecilia Garcia Arocha and senior university administrators met the PAO on August 5 and discussed the proposed Education Law in the National Assembly and the serious political pressure faced by the country's most renowned, and s [...]	2009-08-07 22:02:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPAO VE
09CARACAS1059	VENEZUELA'S AGENDA FOR THE AFRICA - SOUTH AMERICA SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: Venezuela is hosting an Africa - South America heads of state summit on Margarita Island in September 2009. A chaotic July 20-23 coordination meeting in Caracas for South American and African representatives suggests Venezuela is planning to use its position as host to ram through a co [...]	2009-08-13 15:55:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
09CARACAS1062	GBRV SHIFTS AXIS OF TRADE, TELLS OBAMA TO BUY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent decisions by the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) to halt imports of Colombian beef and suspend sales of reduced-price gasoline to Colombia suggest that the GBRV is determined to reduce bilateral trade. On August 11, President Chavez and Argentine [...]	2009-08-13 16:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET
09CARACAS1090	CANADIAN-VENEZUELAN RELATIONS AT A LOW POINT [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Ambassador Duddy August 18, Canadian Ambassador to Venezuela Perry Calderwood said that Canada's bilateral relations with Venezuela were as bad as they had ever been. In addition to disrupting Canada's Diplomatic pouches, not issuing license plates, and making i [...]	2009-08-19 18:56:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1114	DOLLARIZATION OF LE STAFF SALARIES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post requests Department permission to pay LE Staff in US dollars. Venezuela's rising inflation and fixed official exchange rate have eroded the purchasing power of LE staff. The continued decline in the standard of living of LE Staff has hurt morale, increased attrition, and c [...]	2009-08-21 21:38:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	AFIN
09CARACAS1115	RAMPANT CRIME IN VENEZUELA - CHAVEZ'S ACHILLES [...] (C) SUMMARY. With a murder rate of 130 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, Caracas is generally considered the most dangerous city in Latin America, if not the world. Over 90 percent of homicides in Venezuela go unpunished, and recent polling suggests more Venezuelans may be starting to lay t [...]	2009-08-24 14:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI ECON VE
09CARACAS1116	VENEZUELA: ENSCO DRILLING RIG UPDATE [...] (C) Bill Chaddick ENSCO Chief Operating Officer, updated Petroleum AttachQ on ENSCO's situation in Venezuela on August 20. Chaddick (strictly protect throughout) stated that the U.S. drilling rig company received an unexpected mixed USD and Bolivar payment on July 23 ($11.2 million and 631,00 [...]	2009-08-24 15:36:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE
09CARACAS1119	GBRV ISSUES ARREST WARRANT FOR FORMER ARAGUA [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for a capture order August 24 for the former Governor of Aragua State, Didalco Bolivar, on corruption charges. Bolivar, who is the Deputy Secretary General of the oppositi [...]	2009-08-24 22:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS1131	VENEZUELA: NEW PETROCHEMICALS LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Venezuela passed a limited-scope Petrochemicals Law in July that covers basic and intermediate sector activities. It permits the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) to enter into mixed companies with the private sector and attempts to preclude private company recourse to inte [...]	2009-08-27 13:48:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON CU VE
09CARACAS1132	GBRV POLICE TARGET USAID/OTI-FUNDED DEMOCRACY [...] (S) Summary: Action request in para 7 below. On August 26, police officers from the Scientific, Penal and Criminal Investigations Corps (CICPC) presented citations requiring XXXXXXXXXXXX to appear on September 1 before the police. XXXXXXXXXXXX is a contractor for USAID/OTI in Caracas. XXXXXXXXXXXX [...]	2009-08-27 23:10:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL CASC VE
09CARACAS1154	GBRV MINISTER LIKENS PFIZER TO THE DEVIL, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 27, Pfizer representatives told EconOffs that negotiations with the Ministry of Health for the sale of a pharmaceutical plant in Valencia have stalled following the July 31 appointment of Carlos Rotondaro as Health Minister. Pfizer has been unable to meet with Ministr [...]	2009-09-03 17:22:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET

09CARACAS1180	THOUSANDS MARCH IN CARACAS FOR "NO MORE CHAVEZ" [...] (C) Summary: As many as ten thousand marchers took to the streets September 5 to protest against President Chavez, exceeding public expectations of the anticipated turnout. The protest came two weeks after the large opposition march against the recently passed Education Law (ref A) and a day [...]	2009-09-08 22:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS1181	THE CUBANS IN VENEZUELA'S PORTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Post has comfirmed that a wholly Venezuelan government-owned company, Bolipuertos, is now charged with the management of Venezuela's ports. Cuba's ASPORT has a 49 percent share in Puertos del Alba, a separate company, which will reportedly be focused on business development. Contac [...]	2009-09-09 12:24:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV ETRD EINV MARR CU VE
09CARACAS1194	OPPOSITION PARTY "PODEMOS" ASKS FOR U.S. [...] (C) Summary: At the Podemos party's request, the Ambassador met September 9 with National Assembly (AN) Deputies Ricardo Gutierrez, Juan Jose Molina, and Ismael Garcia. They argued that the 2010 AN elections were the "last chance for democracy" in Venezuela in light of President Chavez's dismantlin [...]	2009-09-14 11:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS1195	OPPOSITION PARTY "PODEMOS" ASKS FOR U.S. [...] (C) Summary: At the Podemos party's request, the Ambassador met September 9 with National Assembly (AN) Deputies Ricardo Gutierrez, Juan Jose Molina, and Ismael Garcia. They argued that the 2010 AN elections were the "last chance for democracy" in Venezuela in light of President Chavez's d [...]	2009-09-14 11:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS1201	GLOBOVISION TV PLAYS WITH FIRE; BURNED A 6TH TIME [...] (C) Summary: On September 7, CONATEL, the Venezuelan government's telecommunications regulatory commission, opened a sixth administrative proceeding against Globovision Television, this time for its September 3 broadcast of text messages from viewers warning of a coup and calling for people to resi [...]	2009-09-15 17:27:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1207	CHAVEZ DEMANDS OBAMA EXPLAIN DCA TO UNASUR [...] (SBU) Speaking in Madrid on September 11, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez repeated the suggestion, first raised by Brazilian President Da Silva at the August 28 UNASUR summit in Argentina, that President Obama publicly explain the purpose of the Defense Cooperation Agreement with Colombia. [...]	2009-09-15 21:13:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER PREL VE CO
09CARACAS1231	CARABOBO GOVERNOR CALLS VENEZUELA A DICTATORSHIP [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his meeting with the Ambassador on September 16, opposition Governor of Carabobo State, Henrique Salas Feo, highlighted the deterioration of Carabobo's economy and problems following the nationalization of Venezuela's main port, Puerto Cabello. He observed that disagreement [...]	2009-09-18 20:59:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ELAB PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1262	HR DEFENDERS WARN OF AUTHORITARIANISM, ARBITRARY [...] (C) Summary: During a September 24 breakfast hosted by Embassy Caracas' human rights officer, Venezuelan human rights defenders expressed profound concern to 22 Caracas based diplomats about the increasingly limited democratic space within the country. They expressed concern about the disc [...]	2009-09-29 15:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL VE
09CARACAS1269	STUDENT-LED HUNGER STRIKE BROADENS APPEAL; FOCUSES [...] (C) Summary: As of September 29, a student-led hunger strike entered its 7th day, expanding from an initial group of 33 protesters in front of the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Caracas to upwards of 160 students, unionists, journalists, and prisoners in severa [...]	2009-09-30 21:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1280	RESPONSE: MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AUTHORIZATIONS [...] The Embassy Caracas officer in charge of marine scientific research authorizations is Veronica Millares (Sept 2009 - Mar 2010). Ms. Millares, back up is Economic Counselor Darnall Steuart. 2. To request an authorization, OPA must submit relevant documents to Embassy Caracas for submissi [...]	2009-10-02 17:45:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT KRVC TPHY VE
09CARACAS1281	GBRV USES ANTI-TRADE MEASURES TO PUNISH COLOMBIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following President Chavez's July 28 announcement to freeze relations with Colombia, trade experts and business leaders in both countries downplayed the threat to bilateral trade and predicted that Chavez would not damage a mutually beneficial commercial relationship. But recent [...]	2009-10-02 18:57:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET
09CARACAS1287	GOVERNMENT FURTHER REDUCES SPACE FOR INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan government has announced that radio stations will be required to broadcast 3.5 hours/day of government-selected programs and another 2 hours/day of nationally-produced programming. The new rules would also essentially end syndicated radio programming. The gover [...]	2009-10-05 20:23:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1292	STUDENT HUNGER STRIKES ENDED, BUT APPEALS FOR OAS [...] (SBU) Summary: Student protests calling for a visit by the Commission on Human Rights (CIDH) of the Organization of American States (OAS) continue. However, an October 3 march was poorly attended and ended with students "mooning" National Guard troops. On October 5, 15 students in the bor [...]	2009-10-06 21:09:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1296	VENEZUELA: THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPING URANIUM RESERVES [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-07 19:33:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG IR KNNP VE
09CARACAS1333	VENEZUELA: AMBASSADOR VIEWS ECONOMIC SITUATION IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador traveled to the State of Zulia October 4-7 and met with a range of political, private sector, and business leaders. This cable highlights the economic messages delivered to him by the business community. It reinforces reftels that point to decreased private sector inves [...]	2009-10-15 21:59:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS1334	GBRV EXPROPRIATES ONE OF CHAVEZ'S FAVORITE HOTELS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 14, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) assumed formal control of the Margarita Hilton Hotel and Suites Hotel complex after President Chavez complained that the owners were enriching themselves at the expense of the local tourism industry. The Marga [...]	2009-10-16 10:59:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV KPOL VE
09CARACAS1338	VENEZUELA: ENSCO BRIEFS AMBASSADOR ON STATUS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ensco executives remain optimistic that the U.S. drilling company will recover the offshore platform seized by PDVSA in January 2009 and hopes amicably to resolve the situation leaving open the possibility of future cooperation. The company does not want the USG to raise its spe [...]	2009-10-16 18:58:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS135	CARACAS SYNAGOGUE ATTACKED, CHAVEZ BLAMES [...] (C) Summary. A group of unidentified armed gunmen vandalized a prominent Caracas synagogue during the late night-early morning hours of January 30-31. The intruders appeared to have planned the attack well, defeating the synagogue's security system and subduing two contract guards. They not [...]	2009-02-02 21:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL ASEC VE IS
09CARACAS1351	VIEW FROM THE BARRIOS: CARITAS EXPLAINS CHAVEZ [...] (C) Summary: Yaneth Marquez (protect),the Andean regional director of the Catholic charity Caritas, described to PolCouns on October 15 the political perspective of people in Venezuela's poorest areas where Caritas works. Marquez said the standard of living of Venezuela's poor had increased [...]	2009-10-20 16:53:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1353	POLITICAL NOTES ON AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO WESTERN [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador traveled to Venezuela's western states of Zulia and Falcon October 4-8 and met with a range of political leaders. Complaints of Colombian guerrillas operating openly in Zulia and reduced budgets were widespread. Pablo Perez, the opposition governor of Zulia, sai [...]	2009-10-20 19:29:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER SNAR VE CO
09CARACAS1355	AA ASKED TO HEAD NEW US-VENEZUELA BUSINESS GROUP [...] (C) SUMMARY: American Airlines Senior Vice President for Latin American Peter Dolara informed the Ambassador that he had been approached by the Venezuelan Ambassador to the U.S. concerning a proposal to help form a new bilateral business organization to promote a positive image of Venezuela. [...]	2009-10-21 19:38:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC CVIS EAIR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL PTER SNAR
09CARACAS1373	CHAVEZ EXPROPRIATES TWO SUGAR MILLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 21, in a state television broadcast, Agriculture and Lands Minister Elias Jaua announced the 90 day occupation and planned expropriation of two sugar mills in western Venezuela. Jaua accused Central Azucarero Venezuela of illegally halting production and Central Azu [...]	2009-10-26 15:41:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON EINV ENRG ETRD VE
09CARACAS1374	BARRIO ADENTRO IN CRISIS: CHAVEZ TO STRENGTHEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to growing public criticism of Venezuela's health care system, including a well-publicized letter of protest from five former health ministers, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) has intensified efforts to revitalize Barrio Adentro, its fla [...]	2009-10-26 15:42:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EAID EFIN ELAB KTIP VE
09CARACAS1386	US AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH GOVERNMENT ORCHESTRATED [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador was greeted with government orchestrated resistance and/or protests during trips to the western states of Zulia, Falcon, Merida and Trujillo. During October 4-8 visits to Zulia, a pro-Government media blog criticized the Ambassador's trip to the opposition control [...]	2009-10-29 21:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CO VE
09CARACAS1392	EMBASSY CARACAS: QUADRENNIAL DIPLOMACY AND [...] Name and contact information for point of contact for the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) at Embassy Caracas: Maxwell J. Hamilton Economic Officer 58-212-907-8527 hamiltonmj@state.gov DUDDY [...]	2009-10-30 20:58:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT VE
09CARACAS1401	VENEZUELA'S JEWISH COMMUNITY SEES "DARK HORIZON" [...] (C) Summary: In an October 28 breakfast meeting with the Confederacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Venezolanas (CAIV) Board of Directors, XXXXXXXXXXXX, said he privately encouraged Brazilian senators to allow Venezuela to join MERCOSUR. At the same time, Jewish community leaders told PolCouns th [...]	2009-11-02 21:11:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS1406	POLITICAL NOTES ON AMBASSADOR'S TRIP TO ANDEAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador traveled to two cities in Western Venezuela, Merida and Valera, from October 24-28, making additional stops in Carabobo, Portuguesa and the Andean highlands of the country. Among the highlights of the trip were the inauguration of the new round of the 2009/10 v [...]	2009-11-03 16:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
09CARACAS1417	CHARGING OPPOSITION LEADERS AS SPIES, [...] (C) Summary: Over the past week, President Chavez and his supporters have stepped up attacks against two opposition governors, Cesar Perez Vivas (Tachira) and Henrique Capriles Radonski (Miranda). Chavez is blaming Perez Vivas for several highly-publicized violent incidents along the Colombian bord [...]	2009-11-05 19:24:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS1443	CHAVEZ LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR CONFRONTATION [...] (SE) Summary: On November 8, President Chavez called on Venezuelans to "prepare for war" due to the threat posed by Colombia and the United States. Chavez again hammered the Colombian government for "shamelessly delivering its sovereignty to the U.S." through the recently signed U.S.-Colombia [...]	2009-11-10 11:11:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET	PREL PINS MARR MCAP MOPS VZ
09CARACAS1444	GBRV STRATEGY ON COLOMBIA-DCA DISPUTE BECOMING [...] (SE) Summary: Following President Chavez's November 8 urging that the Venezuelan public "prepare for war" to defend the country against anticipated Colombian-U.S. cross-border aggression (Ref A),the Venezuelan government (GBRV) and its local allies issued a series of supportive and similarly [...]	2009-11-10 20:46:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET	PREL PINS MARR MCAP MOPS VE
09CARACAS1447	VENEZUELA'S STANDARDS REGIME IN DISARRAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The status of Venezuela's standards regime is uncertain after a June 2009 resolution abolished the relationship between the principal, non-profit industry standards setting entity, the Fund for Standardization and Quality (FONDONORMA),and the Government of the Bolivarian Republ [...]	2009-11-12 10:20:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ECIN EIND EINT EINV ETRD VE
09CARACAS1463	VENEZUELA: CADIVI RULES CHANGE FOR TRAVELERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Venezuela's foreign currency board, known by its Spanish acronym CADIVI, is changing the rules by which travelers can access foreign exchange at the official rate when using local credit cards abroad. The new regulation has not yet been published, but CADIVI's president has sa [...]	2009-11-17 15:23:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN VE CVIS
09CARACAS1467	BILATERAL TRADE FALLS OVER 50 PERCENT [...] (SBU) On November 17, the local press widely published an announcement from the Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VENAMCHAM) that bilateral trade between Venezuela and the US had declined by over 50 percent in the first nine months of 2009, compared to the same period [...]	2009-11-17 22:42:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON VE
09CARACAS1485	Colombian Guerrillas Reportedly Met with GRBV Officials in [...] (S) Investigative journalist Nelson Bocaranda (strictly protect) told the Ambassador on November 16 that a reliable source had told him that Colombian guerrilla leaders had been in Caracas the previous week to meet with senior Venezuelan government officials to plan a possible provocati [...]	2009-11-20 20:43:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER VE CO
09CARACAS1487	VENEZUELA: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-20 20:51:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	CU ECON EINV EPET ETRD ETTC HURI PREL VE
09CARACAS1489	Students Occupy Embassies; Plan Second Hunger Strike [...] (C) On November 19 student activist Julio Rivas told Polcouns and Human Rights Officer that students would convene a demonstration in Caracas on November 21 in which they would announce their initiation of a second round of political actions, to include a hunger strike by about 50 student [...]	2009-11-20 20:59:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM VE
09CARACAS1507	CHAVEZ GIVES IRANIAN LEADER WARM WELCOME; SIGNS MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: President Hugo Chavez provided a warm welcome to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his November 24-26 visit to Venezuela, declaring he and his Iranian counterpart were , "together to the end." The Iranian's visit attracted small protests from student, Venezu [...]	2009-11-27 21:36:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL IR VE KISL
09CARACAS151	CHAVEZ DECLARES SUDDEN HOLIDAY TO HONOR HIMSELF [...] (C) Summary. President Chavez declared on February 1 that February 2 would be a holiday to celebrate his ten years in power. The Venezuelan president's surprise was late, and the vague announcement of this last minute holiday created considerable confusion at businesses, schools, and other i [...]	2009-02-04 21:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ELAB VE
09CARACAS1517	Ambassadors Discuss Expulsion of Colombian Miners/Colombian [...] (C) Summary: On December 1, Ambassador met with Colombian Ambassador to Venezuela Maria Luisa Chiappe at the residence of Mexican Embassy Political Counselor Maria Elena Alcaraz, at the former's request. Ambassador Chiappe confirmed reports that late last week approximately 500 miners - m [...]	2009-12-02 18:09:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF CO VE
09CARACAS1523	RE: Second Student Led Hunger Strike at Risk of Fizzling Out [...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after the November 21 announcement by student activist Julio Rivas of a second student-led hunger strike to demand a visit by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (CIDH),the number of students participating in the hunger strike has dropped from its pea [...]	2009-12-03 22:11:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM VE
09CARACAS1525	VENEZUELA: IRAN SANCTIONS ACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a public speech on November 25, President Chavez touted the implementation of 129 joint projects with Iranian cooperation and called the Government of Iran (GOI) a "strategic ally." The same day, the Venezuelan Government (GBRV) signed an additional 45 agreements with Iran to [...]	2009-12-04 13:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL EPET VE
09CARACAS1529	COLOMBIANS IN VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Summary: Forty years of civil war in Colombia have created a unique situation where four generations of refugees, totaling an estimated 6 million people, call Venezuela home. Colombian expatriates are integrated at every level of Venezuelan society, from casual day laborers to pro [...]	2009-12-04 22:11:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV PTER CO VE IOM
09CARACAS1569	Sorting Out the Cedeno Story [...] (C) Summary. The December 10 release of imprisoned banker Eligio Cedeno and the immediate detention of Judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni, who ordered his release, have merged two issues: corruption by Chavez insiders and the politicization of Venezuela's judicial system. Embassy recommends a principled po [...]	2009-12-17 23:56:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE
09CARACAS1589	Chavez Calls for Cedeno's Extradition and 35-Year Sentence for the Judge [...] (C) During a December 21 broadcast, President Chavez announced that fugitive banker Eligio Cedeno had been detained in the United States and asked the relevant government ministries to quickly put together the necessary documentation for an extradition request to the United States (see reftel for b [...]	2009-12-22 21:27:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV VE
09CARACAS159	REFERENDUM UPDATE - ONE WEEK OUT [...] (C) Summary: With just over a week to go before the February 15 constitutional referendum to remove official term limits, credible local polling indicates that support for President Chavez's "Yes" campaign has drawn slightly ahead of the "No." The Government of Bolivarin Republic of Venezue [...]	2009-02-06 17:37:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS1597	Dueling Expectations regarding Cedeno's Return [...] (U) During a December 22 press conference to discuss the results of Copenhagen-15, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said that all the documentation required under the U.S.-Venezuela Extradition Treaty to request fugitive banker Eligio Cedeno's return had been provided to the United States so that Ce [...]	2009-12-23 20:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV VE
09CARACAS1599	CHAVEZ PROMOTES TRANSITION TO SOCIALIST ECONOMY, THREATENS [...] (SBU) On December 22, President Chavez inaugurated a chain of government-run retail stores called the Corporation of Socialist Markets (COMERSO). "We're going to defeat speculation. Private individuals can still sell, but they'll have to compete with us and with a people that is now fully awa [...]	2009-12-29 22:50:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KIPR EINV ETRD EIND EINT ECIN CH VE
09CARACAS160	STATE TV AIRS TELCON WITH POLOFF - ALLEGES PLOT [...] (U) Action message -- See Para 6. 2. (SBU) Venezolana de Television (VTV),the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (GBRV's) free-to-air state TV station, aired on January 27 a January 9 telephone conversation between the secretary of opposition activist Enrique Mendoza and [...]	2009-02-06 18:11:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC VE
09CARACAS182	AUSTRIANS REQUEST INFORMATION ON VENEZUELA-FARC [...] (U) This is an Action Request - See Para. 4. 2. (C) During a February 5 courtesy call on the Charge, Austrian Ambassador to Venezuela Thomas Schuller-Gotzburg said the Venezuelan National Guard is seeking to purchase weapons from Austria. Schuller-Gotzburg inquired whether we had informa [...]	2009-02-10 20:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MCAP VE CO
09CARACAS183	FEBRUARY 15 TERM LIMITS REFERENDUM: BY THE NUMBERS [...] No summary [...]	2009-02-10 21:59:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS184	GBRV DETAINS 11 PERSONS FOR ATTACK ON SYNAGOGUE [...] (C) Summary: Venezuelan authorities arrested eleven persons over the February 7-8 weekend in response to the January 31 Caracas synagogue attack (Ref A). Five officers and a sub-inspector in the Caracas Metropolitan Police Force, as well as a detective from Venezuela's national criminal po [...]	2009-02-10 22:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC VE IS
09CARACAS212	VENEZUELA'S 2009 TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) Per reftel, post submits the following information for inclusion in the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report for Venezuela. Political Officer Douglas Fisk is Embassy's point of contact. Telephone: 58-212-907-8052; fax 58-212-907-8033; Email: FiskDA@state.gov Forty hours were de [...]	2009-02-13 21:33:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KTIP KWMN
09CARACAS213	RECYCLE AND REUSE: VENEZUELAN TOILET PAPER SHORTAGE [...] (U) The following message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. In the ramp up to the February 15 referendum, toilet paper is the latest consumer product shortage. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic (GBRV),through its consumer protection age [...]	2009-02-17 11:26:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV ELAB PGOV PREL VE
09CARACAS216	VENEZUELANS APPROVE ELIMINATION OF TERM LIMITS, [...] (C) Summary. The National Electoral Council (CNE) announced February 15 that Venezuelan voters approved a proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate term limits, 54.85 percent to 45.15 percent. The result, coming on the heels of the "Yes" camp's state-funded and sometimes violent campaig [...]	2009-02-17 13:25:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS222	GBRV EXPELS EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARIAN OVER CRITICAL [...] (C) Summary. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) forcibly expelled European Parliament member Luis Herrero February 13 after Herrero criticized both President Chavez and the Venezuelan electoral system. National Electoral Council (CNE) President Tibisay Lucena called [...]	2009-02-17 21:49:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SP VE
09CARACAS238	VENEZUELA: UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (U) This cable responds to reftel request for current information on child labor as well as government efforts to address the problem. Venezuelan law protects children from exploitation in the workplace, but enforcement is often lacking. The Ministry of Labor and the National Institute for [...]	2009-02-20 20:09:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI VE
09CARACAS252	VENEZUELAN DENIAL OF VISAS TO KEY MISSION PERSONNEL [...] (S) Venezuela's continued reluctance to issue visas to new personnel assigned to Caracas will, if not resolved, bring us to a mission critical situation. We are facing an almost complete turnover of the country team in summer 2009 with no certainty that their replacements will be granted vi [...]	2009-02-26 16:30:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET	PREL AMGT APER VE
09CARACAS257	THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION ADVANCES: WHAT'S NEXT? [...] (C) Summary. After winning public approval for the elimination of term limits, President Chavez publicly declared his intention to accelerate his Bolivarian Revolution which will almost certainly concentrate even more power in his hands. Chavez has not yet revealed how he intends to do so, b [...]	2009-02-27 18:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
09CARACAS269	VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT IGNORES USG OVERTURES ON AVIATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Venezuelan private sector organization advocated strongly for the Venezuelan civil aviation authority (INAC) to support the issuance of visas for F AA inspectors and to meet with the Embassy to discuss visa matters. The Venezuelan govemment (GBRV) has not acceded to either request. [...]	2009-03-03 15:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAIR VE
09CARACAS279	VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO "EXPROPRIATE" A [...] (C) On March 4, Chavez directed the Minister to "begin the process of expropriating Cargill." The President of Cargill Venezuela Roberto Moro (protect) told Post this morning that he was on his way to a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture Elias Jaua. Moro reported tha he believes thus f [...]	2009-03-05 16:54:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE
09CARACAS28	BRV REITERATES THERE'S NO FARC IN VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) According to press reports, FARC Supreme leader Alfonso Cano AKA Guillermo Leon Saenz inadvertently revealed the names of seven senior FARC operatives in Venezuela in a communique that vowed a new offensive against Colombian police and military units following setbacks during 2008. Cano [...]	2009-01-08 21:27:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL PTER VE CO
09CARACAS280	VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT THREATENS TO "EXPROPRIATE" A [...] (C) On March 4, Chavez directed the Minister to "begin the process of expropriating Cargill." The President of Cargill Venezuela Roberto Moro (protect) told Post this morning that he was on his way to a meeting with the Minister of Agriculture Elias Jaua. Moro reported that he believes thus [...]	2009-03-05 18:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE
09CARACAS281	ANTI-SEMITISM UPDATE - TENSIONS ABOUND ONE MONTH [...] (C) Summary: Anti-Semitism continues to be a problem in Venezuela despite the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela's (GBRV's) pledge to address this issue in the wake of the January 31 attack on the Caracas synagogue. On February 26, unknown assailants threw a small explosive [...]	2009-03-05 18:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VE
09CARACAS283	DON'T CALL US, WE'LL CALL YOU: VENEZUELA'S ANIMAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: One of President Chavez' July 2008 decrees mandated the reorganization of Venezuela's animal and plant health authority, SASA, into a new organization called INSAI (the National Institute for Agricultural Health). This has now taken operational effect with the first action, for [...]	2009-03-05 18:34:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR ETRD PGOV VE
09CARACAS287	VENEZUELA: LATEST CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (C) Summary. On March 3, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) announced a cabinet reshuffling, including the transformation of five existing ministries and the abolition of three ministries. The only new face in the cabinet is Eduardo Saman, a hard line Chavista and [...]	2009-03-05 21:48:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE
09CARACAS305	VENEZUELA: CARGILL EXPECTS PLANT TO BE NATIONALIZED [...] (C) Cargill Venezuela's Director of International Relations Ramon Sosa (protect) told the Agriculture Attache on March 9 that it is only a matter of time before the Venezuelan government nationalizes Cargill's rice processing plant. Sosa reported that in a March 8 meeting with Minister of Agr [...]	2009-03-10 21:05:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE
09CARACAS307	VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT "HITS THE ACCELERATOR" ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) has dramatically increased its intervention in the Venezuelan economy in the weeks following President Chavez's successful February 15 bid to abolish presidential term limits. As the price of oil remains low, the GBRV [...]	2009-03-10 21:37:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR VE
09CARACAS310	IT PAYS TO TRAVEL - HIGH VISA DEMAND IN VENEZUELA [...] No summary [...]	2009-03-12 21:26:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS CASC ECON SOCI VE
09CARACAS32	ANTI-ISRAELI ACTIONS IN CARACAS [...] (SBU) Approximately 1,000 PSUV activists and associated leftist supporters held a brief January 8 march in Caracas to protest Israel's invasion of the Gaza strip and the USG's supposed role. That same day, some 15 masked vandals spray painted pro-Palestinian graffiti on the perimeter wall of t [...]	2009-01-09 21:00:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE IS
09CARACAS323	CHAVEZ INVITES RUSSIAN BOMBERS TO VISIT, NOT STAY. [...] (SBU) During the March 15 broadcast of his regular Sunday television program "Alo, Presidente," Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) President Hugo Chavez denied offering La Orchila island as a permanent base to Russian strategic bombers. Interrupting his discussion on de [...]	2009-03-16 22:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MCAP RU VE
09CARACAS338	SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS: CHARGE'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary: Charge met Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) Ambassador to Venezuela Razi Ali March 17 to discuss the upcoming Summit of the Americas (SOA). Charge raised both the need to avoid any potential incidents with the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) given the volume [...]	2009-03-18 21:09:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KSUM MASS TD VE
09CARACAS355	CODEL DELAHUNT MEETINGS WITH CHAVEZ AND FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: After a briefing by the Charge', Congressman Delahunt discussed bilateral relations alone with Foreign Ministry (MFA) officials and ALBA Bank President and former Ambassador to the United States Bernie Alvarez on March 19. He also met alone with President Chavez and Minister o [...]	2009-03-20 20:58:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR OVIP AMGT VE
09CARACAS356	FOREIGN MINISTRY PROMISES TO RESOLVE [...] (C) Summary: On the margins of the March 19 visit of Congressman William Delahunt, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Chief of Staff Temir Porras promised -- again -- to resolve persistent administrative issues impeding Embassy operations. Porras spoke directly with the Charge March 18 and [...]	2009-03-20 21:07:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AMGT VE
09CARACAS378	PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE - FEBRUARY/MARCH 2009 [...] (C) Summary: Following multiple attacks against journalists in January 2009 (Reftel),Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) threats against the freedom of press continued in February and March. President Chavez recently ordered his governors and mayors to "draw a map of [...]	2009-03-25 13:15:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
09CARACAS388	VENEZUELA ISSUES ALMOST ALL PENDING DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Summary. USG protests against harassment of Embassy operations have spurred some MFA action. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) recently issued visas to almost all pending PCS employees, several TDY visas, and pledged to resume issuing all TDY visas. The Venezuelan government also ag [...]	2009-03-25 22:42:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET	PREL PGOV EAID MCAP AMGT VE
09CARACAS404	REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO HELP STRENGTHEN [...] (C) Summary: As President Chavez concentrates even more power in his presidency, and closes off space for democratic dialogue, Embassy's USAID/OTI programs in support of democracy and civil society are vital to preserving and strengthening remaining democratic institutions and practices in Venezuel [...]	2009-03-27 18:44:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID VE
09CARACAS407	VENEZUELAN AVIATION UPDATE: NATIONALIZATIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a possible violation of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation, the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuelan (GBRV) has grounded all foreign-registered private aircraft, 95 percent of which are US-registered. The GBRV informed the Embassy via diplomat [...]	2009-03-27 21:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAIR VE
09CARACAS418	CHAVEZ GOES AFTER OPPOSITION LEADER ROSALES [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) continues to go after emblematic targets among the democratic opposition, including Maracaibo Mayor and 2006 opposition presidential candidate Manuel Rosales. As of March 31, rumors abound regarding whether Rosales, who is b [...]	2009-03-31 21:42:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS422	CHAVEZ AS HE SEES HIMSELF - THE REVOLUTIONARY [...] (C) Summary: President Chavez claims that he wants to improve relations with the new U.S. administration (Reftel),but his intolerance for what he perceives as criticism and his radical worldview continue to pose major hurdles to bettering bilateral relations. His perennial (mis)treatment [...]	2009-04-01 19:59:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR PTER VE
09CARACAS44	CHAVEZ THREATENS TO EXPEL CHARGE' D'AFFAIRES [...] (S) Summary. President Chavez threatened to expel Charge' Caulfield if the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) can prove that he met recently with opposition leaders in Puerto Rico. State media outlets accuse the Charge' of meeting with Globovision Director Ravell and l [...]	2009-01-14 15:06:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET	PREL PGOV VE
09CARACAS442	CUBAN MEDICAL PERSONNEL FLEE VENEZUELA [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Caracas notes a significant number of Cuban medical personnel applying to be paroled into the United States under the Significant Public Benefit Parole (SPBP) for Cuban Medical Professionals outside of Cuba (CMPP). During Consular Section interviews in March, Cuban Medical [...]	2009-04-06 21:49:00	Embassy Caracas	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PREL KTIP VE CU
09CARACAS454	INFLATION AND A FIXED EXCHANGE RATE INCREASINGLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Budgetary pressures stemming from Venezuela's unorthodox economic policies have strained Post's operations and will almost certainly pose stark choices for Post and the Department in the coming year. Inflation is high and growing, and the official exchange rate has been fixed [...]	2009-04-08 21:35:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ABUD AFIN AMGT CMGT APER ECON EFIN VE
09CARACAS471	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY POISED TO SILENCE INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Summary. The National Assembly is reportedly poised to pass a revived version of the 2006 Law on International Cooperation. If promulgated in its current form, the law would severely limit the ability of foreign donors to support development, human rights, counternarcotics, and pro-dem [...]	2009-04-16 12:06:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR PREF VE
09CARACAS478	VENEZUELAN PLANNING FOR SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) engaged post on the subjects of an UNASUR-Obama meeting at the Summit of the Americas (SOA),and de-confliction of the air space near Venezuela in support of the SOA. However, the working level GBRV interlocutors di [...]	2009-04-16 21:24:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV VE
09CARACAS486	GBRV STEPS UP PRESSURE ON THE CATHOLIC CHURCH [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan Catholic Conference of Bishops (CEV) issued a highly critical April 6 communique warning that Venezuela's democratic system is "at risk of collapse". In response, President Chavez (using parallels from liberation theology) insinuated on Easter Sunday in his nati [...]	2009-04-17 16:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF KDEM VE VT
09CARACAS495	CHAVEZ IN TOKYO: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Chavez's April 5-7 visit to Tokyo followed the Bolivarian model - heavy on theater and light on substance. Shifting from the negative rhetoric against the U.S. displayed on previous stops in Iran and Qatar, Chavez hit more positive notes in Japan. While media reports i [...]	2009-04-20 13:10:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS51	VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT MAY RAISE VAT, ALREADY OWES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Press reports indicate that the Venezuelan government may move to increase the Value Added Tax (VAT) in an attempt to raise revenue as oil prices remain low. Meanwhile, the Venezuelan government is currently sitting on VAT refunds of over USD 300,000 for the US Embassy; Post's a [...]	2009-01-15 15:12:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD AMGT FMGT VE
09CARACAS535	VENEZUELA CLAIMS PREPAREDNESS ON SWINE FLU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Venezuela's Health Ministry reported there are no actual or suspected cases of swine flu in Venezuela, and that local health authorities stand ready to screen incoming travelers from the United States and Mexico. No actions have been taken to restrict agricultural products fro [...]	2009-04-27 22:21:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR AMED SOCI VE
09CARACAS540	GRV RECALLS AMBASSADOR FROM PERU AND WELCOMES [...] (C) Summary. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) ordered its ambassador home from Peru on April 27 to protest the Peruvian government's decision to grant opposition leader Manuel Rosales asylum. On the same day, Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro welcomed a senior Pal [...]	2009-04-29 18:05:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PE VE
09CARACAS546	PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE - APRIL 2009 [...] (C) Summary: The Government of the Bolivaran Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) continued to put pressure on the independent media during April. President Chavez used the occasion of the anniversary of the April 2002 failed military coup to lambaste both the United States and opposition-oriented [...]	2009-04-30 20:05:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL VE PGOV
09CARACAS583	INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY WORKING QUIETLY TO STOP [...] (C) Summary: The international diplomatic community is quietly questioning the Venezuelan government about the proposed law restricting international financing of NGOs. Several European Union (EU) ambassadors are not convinced that the law will pass, at least not in its most aggressive form. Nor do [...]	2009-05-11 11:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM SNAR PREF VE
09CARACAS614	U.S. COMPANIES COULD LOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS AS [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. companies stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, if not more than one billion dollars, as the backlog at CADIVI grows. The government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) maintains currency controls, and CADIVI is the GBRV agency that determines who rec [...]	2009-05-18 17:17:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN VE
09CARACAS62	CHARGE'S MEETING WITH FM MADURO - JANUARY 15 [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro called in Charge January 15 at President Chavez's request to ask him for an explanation of his recent visit to Puerto Rico. Maduro noted that the Government of the BolivarianRepublic of Venezuela (GBRV) viewed with concern the "strange coincidence" betwe [...]	2009-01-16 16:02:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV VE
09CARACAS67	MOROCCO CLOSING EMBASSY DUE TO CHAVEZ'S POLISARIO [...] (SBU) Summary. Morocco announced its plans to close its Caracas embassy and relocate to the Dominican Republic via a terse January 15 press release carried widely in the Venezuelan media. The Moroccans cited Venezuela's "growing hostility" to Moroccan territorial integrity and recent measure [...]	2009-01-16 21:30:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL VE MO
09CARACAS693	VENEZUELA HARASSES CLASSIFIED POUCH TRANSFERS [...] (C) Summary: The Venezuelan Protocol Director phoned Charge on June 4 to detail new procedures that compromise the ability of the Embassy to receive classified escorted diplomatic pouches. Despite claiming to be just "tidying up" procedures, this action represents renewed efforts to harass [...]	2009-06-05 16:18:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL AOPR AREP VE
09CARACAS70	CHAVEZ BREAKS RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL/JEWISH [...] (C) Summary. The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) officially broke diplomatic relations with Israel on January 14. Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro announced the rupture in diplomatic relations via a communique disseminated via state media that simultaneously condemne [...]	2009-01-16 21:43:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC VE IS
09CARACAS707	VENEZUELA: UPDATE ON TIDEWATER VESSELS AND [...] (C) U.S. oil service firm Tidewater Senior Vice President Gerry Kehoe and Country Representative Mikael Jakobs (strictly protect throughout) on June 4 told Petroleum AttachQ (PetAtt) and visiting Washington energy analyst that Tidewater plans to send its two U.S.-flagged oil support vessels wi [...]	2009-06-09 10:58:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS750	TEN TENETS OF CHAVISMO [...] This message is the end of tour analysis of the political situation in Venezuela by Embassy Deputy Political Counselor Dan Lawton. 2. (C) Summary. Despite President Chavez's professed allegiance to socialism, his political project lacks any consistent ideology. Instead, the Venezuelan president e [...]	2009-06-16 13:23:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS764	CHAVISTAS PROTEST AGAINST MIRANDA GOVERNOR, [...] (C) Summary: The Charge d'Affaires (CDA) called off a planned visit June 17 to Miranda State after learning of preparations for a United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) protest the same day in front of the opposition Governor's mansion. Embassy had notified the Ministry of Foreign Affa [...]	2009-06-18 22:35:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KIRF VE
09CARACAS768	VENEZUELA: CONTINUES TO COURT JAPANESE INTEREST [...] (C) During a June 15 Japanese embassy-hosted farewell dinner in honor of A/DCM and PolCon, Japanese Ambassador Shuji Shimokoji discussed bilateral relations with Venezuela, Minister Ramirez's travel to Tokyo, and the new Venezuelan petrochemical law. He stated that Prime Minister Aso placed a [...]	2009-06-22 19:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE

09CARACAS778	VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT'S NATIONALIZATIONS CONTINUE: [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Venezuelan government continues to centralize power over the country's ports under the Diosdado Cabello-led Ministry of Public Works and Housing with its seizure of privately owned port warehouse operations. On June 10, the Ministry announced that, within 30 days, the governm [...]	2009-06-22 20:45:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EINV EAGR MARR VE
09CARACAS779	TIP REPORT "AN OBSTACLE TO NORMALIZING RELATIONS" [...] (C) Embassy Caracas delivered an advance copy of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 16, as requested in Reftel. No Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) official has responded directly to the Embassy regarding the report. [...]	2009-06-22 20:49:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KTIP VE
09CARACAS79	FM'S CHIEF OF STAFF PROMISES ACTION ON RECIPROCITY [...] (C) Summary. Chief of Staff to the Foreign Minister Temir Porras met with the Charge January 19 to "turn the page" on ongoing MFA-imposed administrative impediments to normal diplomatic relations, provided the USG reciprocates in the United States. Porras pledged to issue and renew visas for [...]	2009-01-20 21:26:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AMGT MCAP SNAR VE
09CARACAS800	VENEZUELA: 180 CONFIRMED CASES OF H1N1 [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 25, official Venezuelan news agency ABN announced the number of confirmed H1N1 cases in the country had risen to one hundred and eighty. One Consular Section Locally Engaged Staff is suspected to have had H1N1 but test results were inconclusive. Post has sufficient s [...]	2009-06-26 21:21:00	Embassy Caracas	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMED ASEC CASC KPAO KSAF TBIO KFIU KSTH VE
09CARACAS809	CHAVEZ BLASTS HONDURAN COUPSTERS, BLAMES UNITED [...] (C) Summary: In typical style, Chavez sought June 28 to claim his share of the limelight in the aftermath of the coup that overthrew fellow leftist leader Manuel Zelaya of Honduras. Chavez likened the situation to the unsuccessful Venezuelan coup attempt against him in 2002 and pledged that [...]	2009-06-29 16:48:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS817	VENEZUELA: RECENT EXPROPRIATIONS' IMPACT ON THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent oil service sector expropriations in Venezuela targeted two diverse groups: (1) water injection and natural gas compression operations related to crude oil production; and (2) launch operators on Lake Maracaibo that had organized and threatened to strike over PDVSA's arrears [...]	2009-07-01 12:43:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS854	VENEZUELA: AMERICAN OIL AND SERVICE COMPANIES [...] (C) Summary: Executives representing U.S. companies involved in Venezuela's oil sector briefed the Ambassador on the status of the industry, highlighting problems all face in securing payments from PDVSA; difficulties maintaining positive relationships with PDVSA, the Ministry for Energy and P [...]	2009-07-07 21:48:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS858	CHAVISTAS FEELING BOXED IN BY THE SECRETARY'S [...] (C) Summary: Chavistas may be feeling that the calls for a stronger US response regarding the coup in Honduras may have backfired and diminished the possibility of a Venezuelan-led resolution to the current situation. The announcement by Secretary Clinton that Costa Rican President Oscar A [...]	2009-07-08 21:39:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS860	VENEZUELAN INTEREST IN RESURRECTING MOU WITH US [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: This is an action request. PDVSA board members have twice proposed reactivating the bilateral MOU on energy cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Post recommends that the DOE and other Washington agencies authorize the Ambassador to press for p [...]	2009-07-09 10:55:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EINV ENRG ECON VE
09CARACAS863	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY US [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador and Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) attended a breakfast July 9 hosted by the National Assembly (AN)'s Interparliamentary Friendship Group at the offices of AN First Vice President Saul Ortega. Francisco Torrealba, who is president of the group, and Calixto Ortega [...]	2009-07-09 18:29:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM VE
09CARACAS864	MIXED SIGNALS AT RETURN OF AMBASSADOR [...] (C) Summary. US Ambassador Patrick Duddy returned to Venezuela July 1, following a nearly ten month expulsion and the 2008 recall of Hugo Chavez's Ambassador in Washington. On July 2, Ambassador Duddy hosted the annual Independence Day celebrations at the US Embassy in Caracas. Despite off [...]	2009-07-09 18:54:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CASC PGOV ASEC VE
09CARACAS887	NEW MEASURES PROPOSED TO ELIMINATE INDEPENDENT [...] (C) Summary: Pressure and attacks against the independent media have continued during the first-half of July. Government Minister Diasdado Cabello told lawmakers that any draft legislation on media social responsibility should include provisions to limit radio networks, restrict joint prog [...]	2009-07-13 20:13:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS967	THREATS AGAINST INDEPENDENT MEDIA CONTINUE IN JULY [...] (C) Summary: As of the second half of July, pressure continues against independent media in Venezuela. New charges were brought against opposition-oriented Globovision station owner, Guillermo Zuloaga, for "conspiracy to commit a crime." A judge barred Zuloaga from leaving the country but [...]	2009-07-27 20:14:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE
09CARACAS980	VENEZUELA CONDITIONS NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS ON [...] (C) Summary: In a July 21 press release from the Foreign Ministry the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) said that normalization of relations between Venezuela and the U.S. was conditional on the cessation of criticism, referring specifically to official reports releas [...]	2009-07-28 20:19:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM SNAR VE
09CARACAS983	ANNOUNCEMENT OF COLOMBIAN FOLS PROMPTS CHAVEZ TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the announcement of U. S. Forward Operating Locations in Colombia, President Hugo Chavez openly labeled the United States as "the enemy" in a July 23 speech to military officers. In an attempt to intimidate Colombia, Chavez on July 20, ordered a "review" of relatio [...]	2009-07-28 22:16:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER CO VE
09CARACAS99	PRESS FREEDOM UPDATE: MULTIPLE ATTACKS AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: Supporters of the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (GBRV) continue to try to intimidate journalists who are critical of the GBRV and government officials. There have been numerous attacks on local journalists during the first three weeks of 2009, including what [...]	2009-01-23 22:13:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE
09CARACAS990	AMBASSADOR'S FUTURE CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-30 19:03:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL VE
09CARACAS994	CHAVEZ FREEZES RELATIONS WITH COLOMBIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following President Chavez's July 28 announcement to "freeze" relations with Colombia, an Embassy contact within the Agriculture and Lands Ministry reported that she had been tasked to identify Colombian imports suitable for substitution and to compile a list of Colombian busine [...]	2009-07-30 22:12:00	Embassy Caracas	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN EIND EINV ELAB EMIN ENRG EPET
09CASABLANCA10	MOROCCO, INDIA, PHOSPHATES AND BEYOND [...] (SBU) Summary: Morocco exports about 50 percent of its production of phosphoric acid to India, a dual-use item used extensively to produce fertilizer for the country's agricultural sector and a potential source for uranium. The value of Morocco's exports to India totaled USD 1.4 billion in the [...]	2009-01-14 15:03:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	AG AMCHAMS ECON EIND ETRD MNUC MO PGOV PREL
09CASABLANCA11	MOROCCO - 2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-21 13:17:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD EFIN ELAB OPIC KTDB PGOV MO
09CASABLANCA112	VISAS VIPER FOR MAY 2009 REPORTING PERIOD [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met June 8, 2009. The meeting was chaired by Charge with A/DCM, CG, CONS, LEGATT, DHS, DAO, RSO, POL, ECON and PD in attendance. 2. The Visas Viper Committee would like to submit the following names o [...]	2009-06-08 17:15:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA12	2008 MOROCCO UPDATE OF THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] Summary: This message provides requested updates for the Department of Labor's annual report on the Worst Forms of Child Labor and Morocco's commitment to combat and eliminate them. It updates information provided by Post in 2007 and years prior, concerning Morocco's child labor laws and regu [...]	2009-01-21 17:18:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB EIND EAID PHUM SOCI KWMN MO
09CASABLANCA131	VISAS VIPER FOR JUNE 2009 REPORTING PERIOD [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met July 6, 2009. The meeting was chaired by Charge with A/DCM, ACG/CONS, LEGATT, DHS, DAO, RSO, POL, ECON and PD in attendance. 2. The Visas Viper Committee discussed the arrest of five members of a [...]	2009-07-08 09:41:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA140	VISAS VIPER FOR JUNE 2009 REPORTING PERIOD (UPDATE) [...] As reported previously (Casablanca 0131),members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met July 6, 2000 and discussed the arrest of members of the terrorist cell Salafiya Jihadia. 2. Legatt office provided the following submissions. All are Moro [...]	2009-07-15 15:42:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA159	VISAS VIPER FOR JULY 2009 REPORTING PERIOD [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met August 3, 2009. The meeting was chaired by Charge with A/DCM/PD, CG, CONS, LEGATT, DHS, DAO, RSO, RAO, POL, ECON, and USAID in attendance. 2. The Visas Viper Committee had nothing to report for Jul [...]	2009-08-07 09:24:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA160	VIOLENCE AT UNHCR HIGHLIGHTS MOROCCO,S REFUGEE [...] (SBU) Moroccan police clashed with sub-Saharan refugees after a two-week long sit-in at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) headquarters in Rabat, resulting in five arrests and numerous injuries including a senior police officer. The five detained refugees were initially [...]	2009-08-07 12:29:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREF
09CASABLANCA165	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MARSHALL [...] 1. (SBU) Summary: Representative Mashall, Consulate Casablanca warmly welcomes you nd your delegation to Morocco. Politically and eonomically, Morocco is a country "on the move," eeply engaged in reform and development, albeit nevenly. Morocco has averaged over 5 percent anual growth in r [...]	2009-08-14 16:58:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP PREL ECON PGOV SOCI MO
09CASABLANCA168	PALACE PREVENTS ISLAMIST PARTY FROM TAKING [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-19 12:31:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	MO PGOV PHUM
09CASABLANCA177	VISAS VIPER FOR AUGUST 2009 REPORTING PERIOD [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met September 8, 2009. The meeting was chaired by Acting DCM/PD with ACG/CONS, LEGATT, DHS, RAO, DAO, RSO, ECON and USAID in attendance. 2. The Visas Viper Committee does not have anything to report at [...]	2009-09-08 16:05:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA19	VISAS VIPER FOR JANUARY 2009 REPORTING PERIOD [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met February 2, 2009. The meeting was chaired by Charge with A/DCM, RAO, LEGATT, CONS, DHS, DAO, RSO, POL, ECON, FCS, and PD in attendance. 2. The Visas Viper Committee did not have any submissions for [...]	2009-02-05 14:22:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA193	VISAS VIPER FOR SEPTEMBER 2009 REPORTING PERIOD [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met October 7, 2009. The meeting was chaired by DCM with CG, CONS, LEGATT, DHS, RAO, DAO, RSO, POL, ECON, PD and USAID in attendance. 2. The Visas Viper Committee discussed the September arrest of 24 [...]	2009-10-08 12:05:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA197	VISAS VIPER FOR SEPTEMBER 2009 REPORTING PERIOD UPDATE [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met October 7, 2009. The meeting was chaired by DCM with CG, CONS, LEGATT, DHS, RAO, DAO, RSO, POL, ECON, PD and USAID in attendance. 2. The Visas Viper Committee would like to submit the following na [...]	2009-10-20 16:56:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA2	VISAS VIPER FOR DECEMBER 2008 REPORTING PERIOD [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met January 5, 2009. The meeting was chaired by DCM with RAO, LEGATT, CONS, DHS, DAO, RSO, POL, ECON, FCS, and PD in attendance. 2. The Visas Viper Committee approved the following cases submitted by [...]	2009-01-05 16:51:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA216	WESTERN SAHARA: CONFIDENCE BUILDING MEASURES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The UN-administered Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) in Western Sahara have thus far fallen short in achieving their underlying political goal of pushing the parties to interact regularly and build a relationship for future negotiations. The CBMs, however, have provided a vit [...]	2009-11-30 10:25:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PGOV SMIG PREL PHUM MO AG
09CASABLANCA217	MOROCCAN JEWISH LEADER REPORTS ON LIVNI VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The President of Morocco's Jewish Community characterized the recent visit of Tzipi Livni to Morocco as a "positive development" and claimed that given the right circumstances, Morocco is ready to take additional steps to publicly engage with Israel in support of the peace process [...]	2009-11-30 18:14:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL MO IS
09CASABLANCA224	VISAS VIPER FOR NOVEMBER 2009 REPORTING PERIOD [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met December 7, 2009. The meeting was chaired by DCM with CG, CONS, RAO, LEGATT, DHS, DAO, RSO, POL, USAID and PD in attendance. 2. There are no submissions for the November 2009 reporting period. [...]	2009-12-08 09:19:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA26	MOROCCO-RUSSIA ECONOMIC RELATIONS: ENERGY, [...] (SBU) Morocco's economic relationship with Russia, initially concentrated almost exclusively in the energy sector, has widened dramatically in recent years. Bilateral trade is flourishing in the agriculture and phosphate sectors, joining longstanding Moroccan reliance on Russia for petroleum [...]	2009-02-12 13:44:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	AG ECON EIND ETRD MO PGOV PREL RS
09CASABLANCA27	MOROCCO: 2009 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) This cable responds to action request (Ref A) for updated information on the Moroccan government's efforts to combat trafficking in persons from April 2008 to February 2009. ------------------------- OVERVIEW: Plus Ca Change... ------------------------- 2. (SBU) The Government of M [...]	2009-02-13 14:57:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KTIP PREF ELAB SMIG KCRM KWMN MO
09CASABLANCA40	VISAS VIPER FOR FEBRUARY 2009 REPORTING PERIOD [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met March 2, 2009. The meeting was chaired by Charge with A/DCM, RAO, LEGATT, DHS, DAO, RSO, POL, and ECON. 2. The Visas Viper Committee did not have any submissions for the month of February 2009. [...]	2009-03-10 13:43:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA47	MOROCCO/IRAN: THE PHANTOM SHIA MENACE [...] (C) Summary: One of Morocco's top experts on Islam discounted the government of Morocco's (GOM) explanation that the Iranian Shia menace was a proximate cause of the breakdown in relations between the two countries. Whatever Iran's alleged proselytizing activities may have borne, the penetra [...]	2009-03-23 19:46:00	Consulate Casablanca	SECRET	PREL PGOV KISL KTER MO AG IR
09CASABLANCA66	VISAS VIPER FOR MARCH 2009 REPORTING PERIOD [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met April 6, 2009. The meeting was chaired by Charge with CG, CONS, RAO, LEGATT, DHS, DAO, RSO, POL, PD and FCS. 2. The Visas Viper Committee did not have any submissions for the month of March 2009. [...]	2009-04-07 17:35:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA85	VISAS VIPER FOR APRIL 2009 REPORTING PERIOD [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met May 5, 2009. The meeting was chaired by Charge with A/DCM, CG, CONS, RAO, LEGATT, DHS, DAO, RSO, POL, ECON and PD in attendance. 2. The Visas Viper Committee did not have any submissions for the m [...]	2009-05-05 11:26:00	Consulate Casablanca	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO
09CASABLANCA90	ISLAMISTS CALL FOR DIALOGUE WITH SALAFIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of the 2003 Casablanca suicide bombings the government of Morocco (GOM) detained and prosecuted thousands of suspected Islamic extremists. The creation of a concentrated Salafist population in the prisons has presented the GOM with new challenges including the b [...]	2009-05-11 18:12:00	Consulate Casablanca	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PINS KISL PHUM MO
09CHENGDU157	SW CHINA: JUNE FOURTH DISSIDENT, U.S. LPR ZHOU YONGJUN [...] (SBU) Summary: US LPR Zhou Yongjun, who was reportedly seized by PRC mainland authorities in Hong Kong in September 2008 and subsequently detained in Guangzhou and Sichuan, will go on trial in Suining, Sichuan on August 21. Zhou's lawyers at the Beijing "Mo Shaoping Law Firm" legal opinio [...]	2009-08-19 09:58:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PHUM PGOV CH
09CHENGDU165	HUMAN TRAFFICKING REMAINS SERIOUS IN YUNNAN PROVINCE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Yunnan faces more serious human trafficking issues than other Chinese provinces, particularly cross-border trafficking of women for forced marriages and children for ille [...]	2009-08-25 08:07:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KWMN PHUM SMIG PGOV CH
09CHENGDU169	YUNNAN: CHINA'S MAIN COUNTERNARCOTICS BATTLEFIELD SEES [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Narcotics control is making progress in Yunnan Province, the heart of Chinese drug trafficking, a senior provincial official told Consul General, but interdicting imp [...]	2009-08-26 05:39:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM PGOV PREL CH
09CHENGDU189	TIBET: MANY INTERNATIONAL NGOS FORCED OUT SINCE 3/08 [...] (U) This is the second of two reports on the current situation faced by international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) in the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR),following Chengdu 184. This cable was coordinated with Embassy Beijing. 2. (SBU) Summary: Since March 2008, TAR officials [...]	2009-09-14 08:04:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI CH
09CHENGDU195	SW CHINA: TIBETAN HIGH SCHOOLERS ARRIVE IN SICHUAN HAN [...] (C) Summary: An Aba Prefecture plan to send many Tibetan middle school graduates to Sichuan high schools has been delayed a year, an ethnic Tibetan former middle school teacher from Aba Prefecture in western Sichuan Province said. The plan overall has more students than originally planned, wi [...]	2009-09-17 03:11:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
09CHENGDU198	GETTING TRADE FLOWING: A PHASED APPROACH TO BEEF [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. What's at "Steak": A Billion Dollars in U.S. Exports in Short Order --------------------------------------------- -------------- -------- 2. (U) At a recent meeting with Ambassador in Chengdu, AmCit Steven Allemang pleaded [...]	2009-09-21 07:28:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR EINV ECON PREL CH
09CHENGDU203	PRC-BURMA BORDER: CHINESE ACADEMICS SAY PRC INFLUENCE [...] (C) Summary: Chinese officials from both the central government and Yunnan Province are directly involved in current negotiations between the Government of Burma (GOB) and the leadership of ethnic minority "ceasefire groups" in northern Burma, according to a Kunming-based scholar. Other Chines [...]	2009-09-25 08:40:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV BM CH
09CHENGDU206	BURMA: YUNNAN LOCALS ON THE BORDER SITUATION [...] (SBU) Summary: A range of local Kunming residents, including jade sellers and travel agencies with ongoing business along the border, expressed uncertainty regarding long-term security in border areas following the August conflict in Kokang. A larger jade operation in Kunming, and local seller [...]	2009-09-28 08:56:00	Consulate Chengdu	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV PREF BM CH
09CHENGDU228	TIBETAN MONKS SAY VOA BROADCASTS ARE INFORMATION LIFELINE [...] (S) Summary: Chengdu ethnic Tibetan LES (strictly protect) in early October spent a week at Labrang Monastery in Gansu Province, visiting family and senior monks -- including the chief religious tutor to the Beijing-recognized 11th Panchen Lama. The tutor did not have a picture of the young P [...]	2009-10-15 09:20:00	Consulate Chengdu	SECRET	PHUM SOCI VOA CH
09CHENGDU283	TIBET: NEPAL SEEKS INCREASED PRC TRADE/AID/TRANSPORT LINKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Nepal seeks to be a transit point between India and China and hopes to see increased development assistance and investment from the PRC, Nepalese Consul General in Lhasa told CG recently during a visit to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR). Nepal seeks lower content requirement [...]	2009-12-02 07:46:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EAID EINV ELTN SOCI NP CH
09CHENGDU309	VIETNAM CONSUL IN KUNMING FEARS HANOI MIGHT BE LEFT BEHIND [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The development of highway links between Yunnan province and Vietnam is moving slowly on the Vietnam side, a Vietnam Consul in Kunming told Consular Officer. This sl [...]	2009-12-16 02:06:00	Consulate Chengdu	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV EAGR PREL CH VM
09CHENNAI157	Over Half of Tibetan Visitors from India Overstay Visas [...] (SBU) Summary. Mission India recently conducted a validation study of the 496 B1/B2 tourist visas granted in CY-2007 and CY-2008 to stateless individuals carrying Indian-issued identity papers. All butQ of those applicants was Tibetan. Over half of these travelers appear to be potential overs [...]	2009-05-26 23:17:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS ASEC PHUM PREL PREF IN
09CHENNAI306	India Biannual Fraud Update [...] India-wide consular operations are among the busiest in the world. In FY-2008, Mission India processed more than 756,000 non-immigrant visa applications and 27,000 immigrant visa applications. While the majority of applicants from India are bona fide travelers and migrants, the volume of frau [...]	2009-10-13 01:10:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC IN
09CHENNAI77	India Semi-Annual Fraud Update [...] India-wide consular operations are among the busiest in the world. In FY-2008, Mission India processed more than 756,000 non-immigrant visa applications and 27,000 immigrant visa applications. The majority of applicants from India are bona fide travelers and migrants. Despite a relatively lo [...]	2009-03-13 07:37:00	Consulate Chennai	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC IN
09CHIANGMAI10	IN NORTH, PRO-THAKSIN VOTE DROPS SHARPLY AS VOTES FOR [...] (U) In January 11 by-elections in two northern constituencies, the Democrat Party (DP),the largest party in the new governing coalition, garnered over 40,000 more votes than it did in the 2007 national elections in the same two districts. Despite this increase, the pro-Thaksin Puea Thai Par [...]	2009-01-15 09:19:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM TH
09CHIANGMAI101	EXPERT ON BURMESE ECONOMY SPEAKS ON MICROFINANCE [...] Dr. Sean Turnell, a leading expert on Burmese economics, spoke at Payap University, Chiang Mai on July 2, providing attendees a basic foundation for understanding Burma's current economic situation. Dr. Turnell briefly explained Burma's chaotic past, the evolution of its financial system, a [...]	2009-07-15 05:26:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ECON EFIN EINV ETTC PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
09CHIANGMAI103	HMONG IN NORTHERN THAILAND ARE ASSIMILATING AND NETWORKING [...] (U) Over the past twenty years, the Hmong in northern Thailand have accepted a sedentary lifestyle and continue to assimilate into Thai society. Today, there are many agricultural Hmong communities in northern Thailand where trade in handicrafts and other products is growing. These Thai-Hm [...]	2009-07-17 01:56:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ECIN ECPS EINT EIND ELAB ETRD EINV PHUM
09CHIANGMAI107	BURMA: FIGHTERS DEFECT TO KNU; OFFENSIVE UNLIKELY FOR NOW [...] (C) Contrary to what the Karen National Union (KNU -- an armed resistance group operating along the Thai-Burma border) reported last week, Thai authorities assert that a renewed offensive by the Burmese regime and its proxy -- the DKBA (Democratic Karen Buddhist Army) is unlikely in the immedi [...]	2009-07-22 06:18:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS BM TH
09CHIANGMAI109	IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN: HILL TRIBES, ENVIRONMENTALISM, [...] (SBU) In northern Thailand, differing opinions of environmental cause and effect have led to highly charged debates about forest management policies, often pitting "conservationists" against agriculturally-dependent ethnic hill tribe minorities and their supporters. The Royal Forest Departm [...]	2009-07-24 09:55:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR EAID ELAB SENV TH
09CHIANGMAI11	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: STALLED PEACE DIALOGUE AWAITS SIGNAL [...] (S) Mark Tamthai, former RTG point-man for secret talks with southern insurgents, has expressed cautious optimism that the peace dialogue might be resumed under the new Democrat Party-led government. He told CG January 14 that PM Abhisit has asked if he would be willing to resume his former r [...]	2009-01-22 05:35:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH MY ID
09CHIANGMAI114	GOING "GREEN" TO EARN GREEN: CONSERVATION POLICIES USED TO [...] (SBU) In the past, the Thai Royal Forest Department (RFD) has encouraged and, sometimes forced, upland dwellers to resettle outside of highly valued national parks and protected forests. Recently, NGOs have begun to worry that carbon trading initiatives designed to slow climate change will [...]	2009-07-30 02:48:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR EAID ELAB SENV TH
09CHIANGMAI115	LAND CRUNCH AND AGRIBUSINESSES HURT HIGHLAND AGRICULTURE AND [...] (SBU) Agriculturally-dependent hill tribe people, as well as other upland farmers, face increasing pressures stemming from a general shortage of available agricultural land, problematic development policies, and the growth of agribusinesses in northern Thailand. In recent years, development p [...]	2009-08-03 02:23:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR EAID ELAB SENV TH
09CHIANGMAI118	NORTHERN REDSHIRTS, MPS MARK THAKSIN'S BIRTHDAY [...] (U) At well-attended events in three northern provinces organized by several different redshirt groups on July 26, supporters of fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin celebrated his 60th birthday flanked by leading MPs of the opposition Phuea Thai Party - the successor to Thaksin's Thai Rak T [...]	2009-08-03 08:56:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI TH
09CHIANGMAI130	SHAN STATE UPDATE: BURMA ARMY COULD TARGET SHAN FIGHTERS [...] (C) Several ethnic Wa troops reportedly supported the Kokang in the latter's fighting against the Burma Army (BA) August 27-29, according to a knowledgeable expatriate source based in Chiang Mai. The fighting displaced approximately 50,000 people, according to his sources. Our contact also sa [...]	2009-09-09 08:04:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PREF BM CH TH
09CHIANGMAI132	REDSHIRTS, YELLOWSHIRTS DOWNPLAY RECONCILIATION CALL [...] (SBU) According to both anti-government redshirt and anti-Thaksin yellowshirt groups based in Chiang Mai, the joint private sector-academic community's call for political reconciliation to facilitate economic recovery issued in August was "misdirected" and does not carry any weight. While bot [...]	2009-09-18 07:18:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PHUM TH
09CHIANGMAI138	RED-SHIRTS, YELLOW-SHIRTS BEGIN DIALOGUE [...] (C) Spurred on by a U.S. speaker program that focused on the role of opposition political parties and non-party actors (Ref B),members of red-shirt and yellow-shirt groups in Chiang Mai held an initial meeting on September 23 to iron out some differences and search for common ground. Though [...]	2009-09-29 09:51:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI KDEM PROP TH
09CHIANGMAI145	SOUTHERN THAILAND: PM PUSHES SECRET DIALOGUE, BUT IT WON'T [...] (S) The recently renewed secret peace dialogue between the RTG and southern insurgents is - despite strong support from PM Abhisit - making little progress, according to sources involved in the talks. The two biggest confidence-building measures on the table - investigation of the June 8 mosq [...]	2009-10-07 04:19:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR PTER TH
09CHIANGMAI151	BURMA: MORE REACTION TO USG POLICY REVIEW [...] (C) Former Thai Ambassador to Burma Poksak Nilibul told P/E Chief on October 5 he welcomed U.S. engagement, but opined that regardless of what policy the U.S. adopted, the Burmese regime would always have the upper hand. The U.S. should work collectively with ASEAN and other interested player [...]	2009-10-13 09:48:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM TH
09CHIANGMAI152	G/TIP VISIT HIGHLIGHTS STRENGHTS AND WEAKNESSES OF ANTI-TIP [...] (SBU) A G/TIP fact-finding mission to Northern Thailand reaffirmed that NGO's and Thai Government Agencies are working to stem the flow of trafficking in persons cases, though a number of problems remain. Burmese migrants are wary of the consequences of a newly developed migrant worker regist [...]	2009-10-14 05:20:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KTIP KWMN PGOV TH
09CHIANGMAI166	BURMA: NATIONALITY VERIFICATION ON-GOING AT NORTHERN-MOST [...] (SBU) Thai Government and business contacts in Chiang Rai Province told us during an October 19-20 visit that the nationality verification process for Burmese workers is proceeding smoothly at the Mae Sai-Tachilek center, although at a slow pace. Problems they cited that are keeping the proc [...]	2009-11-06 09:22:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ELAB SMIG KTIP BM TH
09CHIANGMAI167	THAI INTELLIGENCE KEEPS WARY EYE ON BURMA BORDER [...] (C) Thai intelligence service "Burma Watchers" in northern Thailand do not believe conflict is imminent between the Burma Army and United Wa State Army (UWSA). In their view, the Wa's military and economic strength, the degree of support the Wa enjoy from China, and the regime's hope that it [...]	2009-11-06 10:50:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SNAR PINR PREF BM
09CHIANGMAI171	SOUTHERN THAILAND: SKEPTICAL ARMY LEADERSHIP STEPPING [...] (S) PM Abhisit appears to be bringing a skeptical Thai military leadership more fully on board with his policy to resume a secret dialogue with insurgents as a means to resolve the long-running ethnic Malay Muslim insurgency in the country's deep south. At an Abhisit-chaired November 2 meetin [...]	2009-11-13 07:08:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM PTER TH MY
09CHIANGMAI173	NORTHERN RED-YELLOW DIALOGUE EXPANDS TO INCLUDE GOVERNMENT, [...] (SBU) The low-key dialogue launched in recent months by local red-shirt and yellow-shirt groups, aimed at lowering the political temperature in Chiang Mai, continues to gain legs. Spurred on by positive media coverage and the constructive roles in the process played by academics and business [...]	2009-11-19 08:08:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TH
09CHIANGMAI178	PM'S PLANNED NOV. 29 VISIT GALVANIZES RED-SHIRTS TO ACT IN [...] (C) In the wake of anti-government red-shirt rhetoric tantamount to death threats against Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, red-shirts and supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin are gearing up for a potential showdown with security forces in Chiang Mai during Prime Minister Abhisit's plan [...]	2009-11-25 11:10:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM CASC ASEC TH
09CHIANGMAI179	AMBASSADOR PROMOTES U.S.-THAI BUSINESS RELATIONS IN NORTHERN [...] (SBU) The Ambassador promoted U.S.-Thai economic relations during a November 18 visit to Chiang Mai. His program included meetings with local government, press, and private industry. At his call on the Provincial Governor, the topics discussed included the need to further IPR protection i [...]	2009-12-01 07:52:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EINV PREL TH
09CHIANGMAI18	TOUGHER TIMES AHEAD FOR PRO-THAKSIN FORCES IN NORTH [...] (SBU) Despite reports from multiple sources of a decline in their support base, pro-Thaksin "redshirt" groups in northern Thailand continue to intimidate officials and supporters of the present government, even when they travel to northern Thailand on personal business. In the latest spate of [...]	2009-02-02 08:33:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM PROP TH
09CHIANGMAI184	SOUTHERN THAILAND: READOUT ON ABHISIT-NAJIB, LOCAL [...] (S) During a joint visit to southern Thailand by the Thai and Malaysian Prime Ministers, PM Abhisit reportedly raised with PM Najib - indirectly - RTG concern over official Malaysian pressure on Malaysia-based insurgent leaders involved in secret peace talks with the RTG. In a post-Najib-visi [...]	2009-12-21 06:24:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR PTER TH MY
09CHIANGMAI23	SOUTHERN INSURGENCY: SECRET DIALOGUE INCHES FORWARD IN FACE [...] (S) Mark Tamthai, former RTG point-man for secret talks with southern insurgents, is nervously ambivalent about the recent renewal of the discussion channel. He told CG February 10 that the resumption lacks a formal mandate from the RTG Cabinet, and instead proceeds unofficially under encoura [...]	2009-02-12 18:25:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL TH PTER
09CHIANGMAI28	AMBASSADOR HIGHLIGHTS U.S. "SOFT POWER" IN VISIT TO NORTHERN [...] (U) The Ambassador's February 17-20 visit to four northern provinces highlighted the array of "soft power" tools the USG brings to bear in its 175-year-old relationship with Thailand. After opening the visit by participating in the closing ceremony of the 28th annual Cobra Gold military exerci [...]	2009-02-26 07:39:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF PHUM ECON SCUL KPAO TH
09CHIANGMAI30	PROVINCIAL AUTHORITIES CLAMP DOWN ON MIGRANT WORKERS [...] (C) According to Chiang Mai's Vice Governor, the strict enforcement of rules governing migrant workers that he initiated in the Province in the wake of the February 7 rape and murder of a local university student (Reftel),which aims to ensure that all migrant workers are "in the system," will [...]	2009-02-27 09:58:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB SMIG KJUS TH BM
09CHIANGMAI32	REDS SPOIL TWO RALLIES, CANCEL ONE OF THEIR OWN [...] (SBU) The last two weeks of February saw a flurry of activity by pro-Thaksin "redshirt" groups in two northern provinces. The leading Rak Chiang Mai 51 (RCM51) group disrupted the rallies of two apolitical groups (corn farmers and gay activists),and redshirts cancelled a rally due to infigh [...]	2009-03-05 06:43:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS TH
09CHIANGMAI33	FRANCE KEEPS CLOSE DIPLOMATIC LINKS WITH MEKONG REGION [...] (U) Summary: Public and non-profit links between France and member countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) underscore the close diplomatic links that France maintains on the Indochina peninsula. The GOF supports research projects that raise awareness about key Mekong regional issues i [...]	2009-03-05 09:12:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ECIN ELTN ETRD SENV TSPL PREL CH LA BM CB
09CHIANGMAI39	HOLLYWOOD, BOLLYWOOD...CNX-WOOD? U.S. FIRM LAYS PLANS FOR [...] U.S.-based Creative Kingdom International (CKI) has announced unofficial plans to establish a "movie city" near Chiang Mai, with the aim of developing the area as a filmmaking and entertainment production center in Asia. After five years of slowly and quietly expanding its investment in Chiang [...]	2009-03-19 02:08:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EINV EINT BTIO SCUL TH
09CHIANGMAI4	UPPER NORTH: THAKSIN'S HEARTLAND MAY MOBILIZE IF ECONOMY [...] (C) Local political leaders and experts from Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai provinces say that a deeper polarization of "yellow shirts" and "red shirts" in the upper north may result if the new Democrat-led government is short-lived, Thaksin remains active politically from overseas, and economic con [...]	2009-01-07 09:20:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV EAGR KDEM TH
09CHIANGMAI42	RAIDS NET FIVE SUSPECTED HUMAN TRAFFICKERS; TWO VICTIMS [...] (SBU) Coordinated raids at two Chiang Mai karaoke bars on February 18 led to the arrest of five suspected traffickers and the rescue of two victims -- minors who were allegedly forced into prostitution. The suspects remain in custody while the police collect evidence and assemble witnesses. [...]	2009-03-24 11:26:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP SMIG KWMN KJUS PHUM PGOV PREL TH BM CH
09CHIANGMAI45	BURMA-KNU: THAI MEDIATION EFFORTS STARTING IN EARNEST [...] (C) Thailand's offer to serve as an intermediary between the Burmese regime and the Karen National Union (KNU),which have been waging low-level conflict for over 50 years, will start in earnest on April 6 with a meeting between Thai FM Kasit and top KNU leaders. According to our contact, in [...]	2009-04-03 08:47:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM TH
09CHIANGMAI49	BURMA-KNU: KNU SEEKS PRECONDITIONS FOR TALKS [...] (C) Despite the Burmese regime's offer reported in Ref A for unconditional talks with the Karen National Union (KNU),which has been waging a conflict against the regime for over 50 years, the KNU placed several conditions on its participation in future talks with the regime during its April 6 [...]	2009-04-10 07:31:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM TH
09CHIANGMAI57	GMS: POOR INFRASTRUCTURE, BORDER INEFFICIENCIES FORM ROAD [...] (SBU) This is the first in a series of reports on the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) issued by Consulate General Chiang Mai and Embassy Vientiane. Econ staff of both posts traveled together by road from the China-Lao border to the Lao-Thai border to collect the information reported in these ca [...]	2009-04-23 07:39:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	ELTN ECON ECIN ETTC EWWT ETRD CH LA TH
09CHIANGMAI58	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: INSURGENT LEADERS PRESS AHEAD ON PLAN TO [...] (S) Mark Tamthai, former RTG point-man for secret talks with southern insurgents, reports that militant leaders continue to meet among themselves to flesh out a proposal they aim to present as a basis for resuming direct dialogue with the RTG. He told CG April 28 that this effort, now broadene [...]	2009-04-29 02:42:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH
09CHIANGMAI59	COMMUNITY RADIO STATIONS REMAIN OPEN; REDSHIRT LEADERS TURN [...] (SBU) Though raided on April 17 and ordered to cease politically-charged broadcasts that could incite violence by the Provincial Government, pro-redshirt community radio stations in Chiang Mai continue to broadcast under the terms of an MOU negotiated with Provincial authorities. In a separat [...]	2009-04-30 03:34:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SCUL PROP ECPS SOCI TH
09CHIANGMAI60	STATE DEPT GRANTEE HIGHLIGHTS RISKS OF TRAFFICKING TO [...] (SBU) Consulate staff spent the night in a hill tribe village April 7-8 to monitor an NGO's implementation of a $20,000 grant it had received from the Department's Women's Issues Fund to conduct anti-trafficking-in-persons campaigns. Village authorities and the NGO have different views of the [...]	2009-04-30 09:45:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIP KWMN PHUM TH
09CHIANGMAI61	BURMA: KNU ON PEACE TALKS, POLITICAL GOALS, BORDER [...] (C) The Karen National Union (KNU),which has been in a protracted military conflict with the Burmese regime, has two preconditions for peace talks with the GoB: the talks must be held in a third country, and the KNU must negotiate with a regime leader. The KNU wants to see the establishment [...]	2009-05-01 03:30:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PHUM BM TH
09CHIANGMAI67	GMS: SOUTHEAST ASIA'S BACKDOORS TO TRADE WITH CHINA [...] (U) This is the third in a series of cables from Consulate General Chiang Mai and Embassy Vientiane on the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). These cables have been coordinated with Consulate General Chengdu. ------------------- Summary and Comment ------------------- 2. (C) S [...]	2009-05-19 10:06:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECIN ELTN ETTC PREL CH LA BM VM TH
09CHIANGMAI71	BURMA: ETHNIC ARMED GROUPS RETHINKING STRATEGY IN WAKE OF [...] (C) In the wake of a rumored GoB plan for armed ethnic ceasefire groups to integrate into Burma's security forces as border guards or hand in their weapons altogether, several groups are reportedly contemplating whether to comply. The United Wa State Army is reportedly exploring the option of [...]	2009-06-04 01:33:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS MARR PINR PINS SNAR BM TH
09CHIANGMAI74	WHILE THAILAND BEGS FOR FDI, NORTHERN INVESTORS VOICE [...] Amid a downward trend of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Thailand and the northern region in particular, the Board of Investment (BOI) expressed Thailand's thirst for a new wave of foreign capital by highlighting a range of incentives for new investment to an audience of foreign business own [...]	2009-06-04 07:52:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV BTIO EIND ECON TH
09CHIANGMAI76	JUNTA-LED OFFENSIVE DRIVES ETHNIC KAREN INTO THAILAND [...] (C) An offensive launched by the Burma Army in early June against the anti-regime Karen National Union (KNU) has driven at least 3,000 ethnic Karen across the border into Thailand. The attack, led by the Burma Army and the pro-junta Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA, a KNU rival),is repor [...]	2009-06-08 10:20:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF MOPS TH BM
09CHIANGMAI80	FIGHTING WANING; DISPLACES 4,000 [...] (C) As fighting between the anti-Burmese regime Karen National Union (KNU) and combined forces of its rival Karen Democratic Buddhist Army (DKBA) and Burma Army wanes, the humanitarian consequences are becoming clearer. Approximately 4,000 displaced persons have fled into Thailand, and are in [...]	2009-06-18 09:42:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF MOPS BM TH

09CHIANGMAI89	SOUTHERN VIOLENCE: POSSIBLE RESUMPTION OF SECRET DIALOGUE [...] (S) Mark Tamthai, former RTG point-man for secret talks with southern insurgents, sees a potential silver lining in the recent surge in violence in southern Thailand following the June 8 mosque killings and subsequent reprisals. He told CG June 24 that the uptick in violence and the military' [...]	2009-06-25 09:06:00	Consulate Chiang Mai	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER TH

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